Plus, stepping down. New details about the sex scandal dethroning one of the most powerful evangelical leaders. Caught on camera, the dramatic moment these people are saved at sea. Impressive skills. The pintsized players taking the internet by storm. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. We begin with that breaking news from wisconsin. Dramatic images coming in as protests turn violent after the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Police in riot gear are facing off with protesters in kenosha for a second night. Several vehicles and buildings have been set on fire including the Wisconsin Department of corrections and a furniture store. And this morning were learning new details about the shooting including why the officers were not wearing body cameras. Overnight, chaos on the streets of kenosha, wisconsin. Multiple buildings set on fire including a Wisconsin Department of corrections building. At the citys courthouse a dump truck set on fire. And Water Bottles hurled at officers in riot gear who then fired tear gas at the crowds. The unrest coming after the Police Shooting of a black man on sunday. Video shows three kenosha officers following blake, one of them with his gun drawn grabbing blakes shirt as he opens the car door and then opening fire. Let me be clear. This was not an accident. This wasnt bad police work. This felt like some sort of vendetta being taken out on a member of our community. Reporter the officers were not wearing body cameras. The mayor says cameras are in the citys budget for 2022. Civil rights Attorney Benjamin Crump tweeting, quote, if it werent for a neighbors video, the Police Shooting of jacob blake wouldve vanished and no officers would be held accountable. A man named ray recorded the video. He says Police Arrived after several women started arguing. Before taking the video, he says blake and three officers were wrestling. According to ray one officer tased blake telling him to drop the knife. Ray says he then started recording as blake walked around the car. The police might say he was resisting arrest but he wasnt attacking the police. They were telling him, drop the knife. I didnt see a knife in his hand. Reporter now a new video surfacing overnight showing a different angle of the shooting. Blake is seen on the ground appearing to fight with officers before getting up and Walking Around the drivers side of the car where he is shot. Mom, you have to get back. Reporter investigators have not said whether blake had a knife or any other weapon. In the meantime, the shooting now getting reaction from major sports stars like Aaron Rodgers and lebron james. Frankly its just [ bleep ] up in our community, and i know people get tired of hearing me say it but we are scared as black people in america. Black men, black women, black kids, we are terrified. Reporter and Milwaukee Bucks guard george hill not wanting to talk basketball after the teams big win. I dont think we should even be talking about basketball today. We should talk about the blake family and whats going on. Like i said, its devastating, and basketball shouldnt even be on our mind right now. Were thankful for the win, but none of this really matters today. Two of the officers are now on administrative leave pending an investigation. Blake was listed in stable condition overnight. His uncle says blake was breaking up a fight before that shooting. Now the other big story this morning, tropical laura is gaining strength. Its expected to be at least a category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall along the texas louisiana coast tomorrow night. Up to 15 inches of rain are possible, and the storm surge could top ten feet. Nursing homes in galveston are being evacuated, and a hurricane watch was just has just been issued for houston. Red cross Officials Say theyre working to have shelters available as they face the double threat of a hurricane during a pandemic. This morning, bracing for the worst. This is going to be a very large, very powerful storm. Reporter laura building speed and strength as it barrels toward the gulf coast. Youre talking about winds, sustained winds 100 miles an hour to 110 miles per hour. Reporter the storm visible from the International Space station. On its current track, we can anticipate Tropical Storm winds all the way from baton rouge to houston. Reporter officials in texas, louisiana and mississippi urging millions to prepare for hi fwiwe. Run from storm surge. Reporter in louisiana, walls of sandbags are growing ahead of the storm. Lines of boats, trailers and cars lining up behind flood barriers, and as abcs rob marciano tells us, new orleans has added a new precaution. There is this wall. New since katrina is just east of the city and protects it from any sort of storm surge. It is massive, 26 feet high and nearly 2 miles across. Reporter offshore oil and Gas Companies are evacuating employees from facilities and stopping production. A move that may drive up prices. And in texas, areas are under mandatory evacuations starting today. Were looking at, you know, a fourfoot tide. Just a fourfoot tide hits the seawall. Reporter now that the threat is dissipated, for many the preparations feel run of the mill. One thing here in louisiana we know how to do is shop for a storm. Reporter but officials warn anyone in the storms path to stay vigilant. This is not harvey. This is not imelda. This is not alison. This is laura. Every storm is different. An Important Message there. And well take a closer look at the forecast in less than five minutes. Now to the Republican National convention. President trump and some of his prominent supporters began making their case last night for his reelection while slamming democrats claiming they want to Defund Police and impose socialism on the country. Abcs ines de la cuetara has the highlights. Ines, good morning. Reporter good morning, kenneth and mona. Like the democrats last week, much of the convention was scaled back thanks to covid19. Overnight, the Republican Party uniting behind President Trump. This president has a record of strength and success. The former Vice President has a record of weakness and failure. Reporter the rnc kicking off with a mix of live speeches and virtual content and a speaker lineup that included close Trump Associates and family. Biden has promised to take that money back out of your pocket and keep it in the swamp. That makes sense, though, considering joe biden is basically the loch ness monster of the swamp. Reporter republicans also taking the chance to paint the president s 2020 opponents in the Democratic Party as far left. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia. Reporter President Trump expected to make an appearance every day of the convention making a surprise speech on monday after formally becoming his partys nominee. What theyre doing is using covid to steal an election. Theyre using covid to defraud the american people, all of our people, of a fair and free election. Reporter but the biden camp calling day one a parade of dark and divisive fearmongering designed to distract from the president s failure on the pandemic and the economic fallout releasing this new ad. We need a team thats up to the task. Reporter and tonight the big speaker will be First Lady Melania Trump who will deliver her speech from the white house rose garden. Kenneth and mona. Ines, thank you for that report. Next a legal victory for teachers in florida who oppose returning to the classroom during the pandemic. A judge has sided with teachers saying the state has overlooked safety concerns while demanding schools reopen. The state is expected to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, teachers are getting creative. Some classroom desks have been turned into cubicles with plexiglas. Other teachers are using shower curtains. Colleges campuses are seeing a rise in covid19 infections. The university of alabama is reporting more than 530 cases. Local bars have been shut down until september 8th. And the university of Southern California is now reporting a, quote, Alarming Number of cases in offcampus housing. Meanwhile, in maine, at least 53 coronavirus cases have now been traced to a wedding reception. And one person has now died. San franciscos airport has become the First American airport to use rapid covid testing for employees. The test provides results in 15 minutes. Meanwhile, airports in new york city are preparing to launch coronavirus testing sites for arriving travelers, but those could still be weeks away. More lightning strikes in california have sparked at least a dozen new wildfires since sunday. 1. 4 million acres have now burned. 7,000 fires have been reported so far compared to this time last year when fewer than 500 were reported. Time now for a look at your Tuesday Morning weather. Good morning, mona and kenneth. While marco is no longer much of a threat our far greater concern is Tropical Storm laura entering the gulf of mexico likely to become a hurricane tuesday and make landfall possibly as a category 2 hurricane on wednesday night into early thursday morning in southwestern louisiana. There could be areas just east of the point of landfall that see not only more than 100mileperhour wind gusts but also a six to tenfoot storm surge and very heavy rain. Mona and kenneth, back to you. Coming up, a big change in the fast food industry. The decision kfc has made. But first the breaking news overnight, the powerful evangelical leader Jerry Falwell jr. Resigning because of a sex scandal. His new statement this morning. And the shocking story from michigan, a woman is declared dead but is then found alive at the funeral home. What weve learned. Back now with breaking news overnight about Jerry Falwell jr. , one of the nations most powerful evangelical leaders, has stepped down as president of Liberty University amid a sex scandal. His decision came less than a day after news of an alleged affair involving falwell, his wife and a former pool attendant has surfaced. She claims she was being extorted and comes weeks after this picture of falwell with his wifes assistant surfaced online each showing their underwear. He appears to be holding an alcoholic drink. Liberty university forbids alcohol use. Overnight falwell told abc news, i was never called to be a pastor. My calling was to use my legal and business expertise to make Liberty University the evangelical version of notre dame. Some of us are called to be preachers. That wasnt mine. His wife says her husband is resigning to protect the universitys reputation. We turn now to the woman found alive at a funeral home hours after being declared dead. Workers were shocked when they found her breathing. Abcs andrea fujii has the details. Reporter Timesha Beauchamps bright eyes looked right back at the detroit funeral home employee who had just unzipped her body bag. Jeffrey fieger, the family attorney, saying in an interview they were about to embalm her which is most frightening. Had she not had her eyes open they would have begun draining her blood. Over the weekend paramedics declared 20yearold timesha dead. Her family had called 911 because timesha was unresponsive. The fire chief said she was not breathing and paramedics were not able to revive her. Hours later, staff at the funeral home realized mistake. Fieger calling it one of peoples worst nightmares adding the 1 1 2hour wait going to the funeral home instead of the hospital was critical to timeshas recovery. This morning, timesha is in Critical Condition and on a ventilator. Its still unclear what led up to the 911 call, but foul play is not suspected. Emergency personnel insist they followed the right protocols. Officials say timeshas undisclosed medical history played a role in her body being released without further forensic investigation. The city is now investigating. Kenneth, mona. Andrea, thank you. Coming up, teachers and students frustrated with a zoom outage on the first day of school. Also ahead, the First Official case of someone getting infected with the coronavirus twice and what it could teach us. Ve merged. Now tmobile has thousands more locations across the country. More towers and more coverage than ever before. Tmobile is americas largest 5g network. 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Now, researchers have done a genomic sequencing of the virus and they found that he was infected with a similar but slightly different variation of covid19, not necessarily a different strain, but it does show that you are able to get reinfected, but it is important to know that if you are infected and recover, you may have enough antibodies not to get violently sick again from covid19, but you may still be able to spread it to others. And theres a new study on people who wear their mask halfway meaning that they cover their mouth but not necessarily their nose. Whats the takeaway from that study . Well, this is a pet peeve of mine. I always want to just take that mask and pull it up because people dont realize that our nose has a lot of receptors, more so than we have in our lungs and our lower respiratory tract, so youre at a high risk of catching the virus if the virus enters your nose. This is a surprising headline. The cdc has dropped its recommendation for travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon returning from trips overseas or out of the state. What are your thoughts on that . Well, now, remember this was a recommendation, not a mandate. If youre coming from a hot spot i would still try to quarantine for 14 days. In the northeast here there is still mandatory quarantine. It depends on where youre actually traveling. Lastly, abc news has obtained video of a saliva test for covid thats being used in the nba before its released to the public. How significant could that test be . This is very exciting, mona, because this is something that is very cheap. It can be done faster, and we can really ramp up testing to a broad audience and get really a handle of where the virus is and try to isolate people as much as we can. Our thanks to dr. Ali. A big announcement in the nfl. The Miami Dolphins are allowing 13,000 fans to attend their home opener at Hard Rock Stadium in miami gardens. 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Now at 4 27, following the wildfire emergency. Firefighters reaching a critical point and containing what is already historic and tedly blazes up and down the state. The latest map to give you a sense of how large these lightning complex fires continue to grow here in the bay area. Altogether, they are approaching a combined 800,000 acres of burned homes, forests and hillside terrain. Heres the very latest on the size and containment of each individual fire which is the fire that cal fire is grouping together by region. The scu and lnu sitting at the second and Third Largest fires in state history. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. So much to get to this morning, but we want to get right to meteorologist mike nicco with a look at the weather conditions were expecting for today. Mike . Fog mixing in with our smoke this morning and thats creating even lower visibility than what normally would happen with the fog. Really along the coast and our coastal valleys and also a sign that there is cleaner air trying to mix in as the marine layer about 1,100 to 1,200 feet deep. Thats why you can see around the bay and up into san rafael right now the air is moderate but you can head down to san jose and livermore and concord. We have sensitive groups to unhealthy for all of us and that goes up to napa and fairfield and even all the way up into lake counties and mendicino counties. I should say unhealthy air here. Temperatures from mid to upper 60s along the coast andal 1 in fremont and then some 80s in the north pay and south bay and some 90s in the east bay valleys. More on how long this smoke will stick around coming up. Kumasi . Once again, were waiting for an update from cal fire on how firefighters are preparing for an intense day ahead in the complex fire. Bordering santa cruz and San Mateo County. Cal fire says a majority of them are in the Santa Cruz Mountains like you can see here in bonny doon. Look athi new video. One home after another reduced to ashes on empire grade. Only the brick chimneys remain at most of these sites. Definitely tough to see that. At this hour the complex has torched more than 78,000 acres. Its just 13 contained. Abc7 News ReporterJulian Glover live from scots valley waiting for this mornings news conference. Monday was a day of small winds as the czu Incident Commander put it, they were able to take advantage of the favorable weather conditions to be able to attack the fire by air. Something theyve been limited in being able to do so far. But, of course, we know this fire has destroyed so many homes as you mentioned and has already claimed the life of one person. Now, cal fire, again, was able to do some of the airdrops and sky7 caught video of them doing some of those airdrops as visibility improved. Crews were also busy shoring up containment lines to the north end of the fire in San Mateo County and south of the city of santa cruz as the marine layer, once again, helped extinguish some flames along the coast. Homes burnt to the ground in bonny doon and a group of locals who are grabbing hoses and renewsing to leave houses behind. No fire trucks and no one is helping us and we refuse to let peoples houses burn to the ground. Our local knowlee,