Giuliani, allegedly involved in efforts to investigate joe biden taken into custody while trying to leave the country as the president delivers vicious attacks on his democratic rivals overnight at his first rally since the start of the impeachment inquiry. Breaking news, missile attack. An Iranian Oil Tanker struck off the coast of saudi arabia. The explosion, the latest amid heightened tensions between tehran and the u. S. Horrifying crash. Boxing champion errol spence jr. Losing control speeding into oncoming traffic. Flipping his ferrari over. The latest on his condition this morning. Abc news exclusive. Ronan farrow here live with new details from his bombshell book. The Rape Allegation against matt lauer, his claim that nbc news told him to pause all reporting on movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The interview only on gma this morning. And unstoppable. Simone biles dropping the mic, the unbeatable gymnast soaring to new heights. Unbelievable capturing a record fifth world allaround title and even surprising herself. The greatest every time you see simone biles, you just have to shake your head. Good morning, america. Hope you all are doing well this friday. Big show this morning, including the First Television interview with ronan farrow here live in the studio, of course, the author of that compelling new book, catch and kill, with those explosive allegations about matt lauer and Harvey Weinstein. That interview coming up. That is a huge story. We are going to begin with that growing fire emergency in california. Multiple blazes breaking out across the state, fastmoving fires shutting down major highways and destroying homes. Looking live at the kabc chopper flyi over los angeles county, and matt gutman is on the ground in porter ranch, california bringing us the story. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning. This is incredibly dangerous. I want you to see this fire down below. Its engulfed this entire valley. Weve been here for about 25 minutes and seen hundreds of acres consumed in this entire area. Thats the san fernando valley. Millions of people live there. The wind blowing at 30 miles an hour. And watch the embers being whipped around. All around us there are fires in the hillsides being completely engulfed by this wind and the embers that are going up, and just minutes ago we saw Police Officers going door to door telling people to get out and get out now. The scene this morning apocalyptic. Firefighters rolling in, many engulfed in curtains of smoke. Their hoses not enough to douse this inferno. The hellscapes fueled by winds gusting up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Watch how quickly the wind whips this smoke on to a major freeway, gridlocking rushhour traffic as thousands were forced to evacuate. This family cutting it close. Cant even see. Lets get the hell out of here. What you dont want to do is get trapped in Something Like this. Reporter narrowly escaping the encroaching flames. Overnight we went into that trailer park where so many homes were still ablaze. Sounds like a machine gun is going off in there. Those pops . Thats ammunition inside the house. Firefighters here are absolutely overwhelmed. Theyre trying to prevent this fire from spreading farther and save these other homes just across the way. Police later declaring it a crime scene. It may be hard to make out what that was, but it was somebodys car. This was their truck. This was a trailer, and behind me was an entire neighborhood, all gone. Children at a nearby school sheltering in place cowering as the windstorm brought the fire dangerously close. Jack bradley spiriting his daughters out of there. I take off on foot because im not taking no for an answer. Im getting into the school. Got my daughter, got a couple other kids with her that i know and got them out of there. Reporter massive destruction despite unprecedented precautions. Utility companies shutting off the power to millions in california ahead of that critical fire weather. But that trailer park fire started when a trash truck caught fire. The trash load was dumped off to the side of the road, ignited the vegetation and then obviously the fire spread from there. Reporter because this fire has been moving so quickly and you can see those embers just in a tornado behind me, firefighters and police just havent been able to assess the damage. Right now theyre still going door to door. You can see them right behind us, but they havent been able to assess how many homes are destroyed and whether or not any people have been harmed in this, but clearly this will go on for some time. This isnt going away any time on. Matt, you mentioned the wind which makes it very hard to fight these fires. Could you elaborate on the wind conditions out there . Reporter you know, i dont have an exact number of how fast they are, but the way the wind is swirling, michael, down in this canyon and through these ridgetops, its got to be 35, 40 miles an hour, and theres nothing that firefighters can do to stop that. These embers are going miles into the air and, again, everywhere in that direction completely consumed by smoke, a curtain of smoke. Im standing in fire. Should probably get out of that. Everywhere in that direction are hope homes. So were bound to see more homes catch fire, and hopefully nobody will get hurt in this and everybody is evacuated. Just, excuse me, like they were asked to. We dont need you to get hurt either. Take care. Dont stand in fire. That is always key. Thank you, matt gutman. George . We will stay on the story. The latest on the impeachment investigation and the arrest of two associates of President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Theyre men he was working with to investigate joe biden in ukraine and were taken into custody as they were trying to leave the country with oneway tickets. Our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has all the details. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, good morning. There are serious questions for the president s attorney who also happens to be one of his most vocal allies. Those arrests are placing white house scrutiny on Rudy Giulianis investigation and serious questions about the company that giuliani has been keeping. Theyve been described as associates of the president s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, men allegedly deeply involved in giulianis efforts to investigate the dealings of joe bidens son in ukraine, moving through the corridors of power seen here with the president at the white house, at a table with his son don junior and in this photograph with giuliani. But this morning the two men born in the former soviet union are accused of secretly and illegally funneling foreign money into american politics. The defendants broke the law to gain political influence while avoiding disclosure of who was actually making the donations and where the money was coming from. Reporter lev parnas, originally from ukraine, and igor fruman, born in belarus, are in alexandrias jail arrested by the fbi at Dulles International airport outside washington trying to leave the country. They were about to board an International Flight with oneway tickets. Reporter some of the alleged Illegal Campaign contributions coming from russia with more than 300,000 from the men going to a Political ActionCommittee SupportingPresident Trump. The president saying while he took those photographs, he doesnt know the men. I dont know. Maybe they were clients of rudy. Youd have to ask rudy. I just dont know. Reporter prosecutors say the men were not only scheming to use foreign money to influence election, will you they were also trying to get the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, fired from her post. The other person who wanted yovanovitch out, Rudy Giuliani, who has said he was frustrated by her efforts to block his investigation of Vice President biden. Yovanovitch was eventually removed from ukraine. Shes the ambassador specifically mentioned in the call between the president and the ukrainian president. Trump calling her bad news and cryptically adding, shes going to go through some things. George . Shes scheduled to be speaking to the House Committee this morning and so far the state department not blocking her. Reporter thats right. Shes scheduled to appear. She could be blocked at the last minute by the state department, george. We just dont know yet. Pierre thomas, thanks very much. Cecelia . Another big day on capitol hill. President trump is using this impeachment to fire up his supporters. Overnight the president holding his first rally since that inquiry began. His sharpest attacks and some vulgarities levied against his democratic rival joe biden. Take a listen. He was never considered a good senator. He was only a good Vice President because he understood how to kiss Barack Obamas [ muted ]. [ cheers and applause ] all right. So lets bring in our chief White House CorrespondentJonathan Karl at the white house. Jon, polls show a majority of americans now support impeachment. The president seems to be feeling the heat there. Reporter cecilia, it was quite a performance last night. The president spoke about this impeachment inquiry in almost apocalyptic terms saying that democrats and the radical left were trying to destroy american democracy and looked at his supporters and said what they were trying to do is erase your vote like it never existed. You played one clip from how he went after joe biden but went on and on in deeply personal ways talking about biden and his son hunter using the kind of language that most people would not let their children use. The white house said its not going to comply with the investigation on capitol hill. That is not stopping democrats from issuing subpoenas, including to the energy secretary. What i count 11 different among subpoenas in the past week to state department officials. Perry, they want to talk to him and get information about his dealings with ukraine. The question now is how hard will the Administration Work to block the testimony of various officials. As pierre mentioned, ambassador yovanovitch who is a central figure expected to testify this morning. We dont know if there will be an effort to block here. Thanks, jon. George . Lets bring in dan abrams for more on this and take a step back coming up on the third week since the story broke and have subpoenas to so Many Administration officials, the impeachment investigation proceeding, but now this criminal investigation as welcomed with the arrest of Rudy Giuliani associates. These are two associates who were effectively Rudy Giulianis boots on the ground in ukraine and theyre now indicted on the very crime that congress is investigating in the very place that congress is investigating. Campaign finance violations in ukraine. So thats what theyre charged with. Rudy giuliani has got to be nervous here because the investigation is ongoing. Thats what the u. S. Attorney said yesterday and Rudy Giuliani used to have his job. Absolutely and, look, also the fact that the last lunch these guys had was with Rudy Giuliani. They were not planning on unsealing this indictment, the u. S. Attorney wasnt. They felt they had to do it suddenly because they felt that these guys were leaving the country with oneway tickets and they needed to do it now and needed to do it fast. So the question becomes did someone tip them off about the possibility of an indictment . You also had one report that Rudy Giuliani was also going to vienna the next day which is where these two gentlemen were going. Absolutely. So there are all these factors that have to be examined here. And, you know, theyre going to both be following the money and theyre going to be following the political favors, meaning who wanted what and why did they want it . You look at this indictment, and it tells you what theyre accused of. It tells you the efforts to try to influence politicians including a 325,000 donation. Where did that money come from . Right. Where did the money come from . Why were they hiding it and going to such Great Lengths to hide that money and circumvent the Campaign Finance laws . So these are all questions that are going to be examined and theyre not the sort of questions that Rudy Giuliani wants to be associated with. And examine both in criminal forms and in congress. Exactly. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Now to the escalating tensions in syria and the assault by the turkish military. There are unconfirmed reports of hundreds of kurdish fighters already killed. Thousands trying to escape the growing warfare with kurdish fighters as the Trump Administration denies allowing the attack to happen. Ian pannell is on the ground in syria with the latest. Good morning, ian. Reporter yeah, good morning, michael. From Northern Syria and just look at the scene. Were seeing people piled high with their belongings, families fleeing the front line which is just down the road. This region isnt on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, its now in the middle of one as turkey ramps up its aerial and land bombardments of civilian areas. Overnight the turkish assault on Northern Syria escalating. Booming explosions heard through the night. Turkish air strikes and artillery fire aimed at the kurds. Turkishbacked militias seen firing their way into syrian villages and turkey saying the incursion will not stop until socalled terrorists are neutralized. Those suffering the most are the people who call it home, tens of thousands on the move trying to escape. We met this woman and her family stranded by the side of the road trying to flee. She says they left after seeing people including children targeted in turkish strikes. [ speaking Foreign Language ] she asks, why did the americans flee . A passing pickup truck, their only way out. We watched her and her family escape and with nowhere else to go they say theyll sleep in the desert. Some Kurdish People blaming President Trump who they feel gave the turks permission for the attack by ordering u. S. Troops out of the area. The president now suggesting he might use economic sanctions in an effort to mediate a new deal. I mean, just look at the scenes here. Youve got this truck piled high with women, with children. They dont know where on earth theyre going to go. Weve been talking to some of the refugees and what theyre saying, why isnt america helping us . Its only in the civilians in the area. Please america come to our assistance. One man adding we used to be allies against isis. What happened . Cecel cecelia . They certainly have so many questions there. Okay, ian, thank you. Five people have been hospitalized after being stabbed at a Shopping Center in manchester england. A man has been taken into custody. A man was seen running around with a knife lunging al people. Were going to switch gears uncomparable simone biles making history at the world gymnastic championships and rewrote the record book twice this week capturing a fifth world allaround title and grabbing her 22nd career medal. I dont know how you pick it up from here, t. J. Im going to say, have at it. She said look for me she would sound arrogant. Im so good, i dont know how i do it. Shes in awe of herself and shes won every competition since 2013 and guys, its not enclose. Yep, that was a little mic drop from simone biles at the end of her floor routine and why not . Unbelievable. Reporter the history books are already littered with her name. The new one, the biles two on floor twisting double. Reporter made history again at the World Championships. Double twisting double back. The height just takes your breath away. Reporter it wasnt even close. From vault to uneven, beam to floor. Her 16th World Championship gold medal, 22nd world medal in all. Reporter the reigning olympic champ was unbeatable and earned a fifth allaround world title. How can that be easy for anyone . It is for her. Reporter the 48 giant won by 2. 1 points, a blowout by gymnastic standards and largest margin of victory in her career. Sometimes i wonder how i do it. I feel like its not me. I wish i could have an outofbody experience to witness it because sometimes i think im going crazy. I dont know how i did that. Reporter biles is hoping to carry this momentum into next year for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she could make history again by becoming the first woman in half a century to win backtoback olympic allaround gold medals. Anybody else that would sound arrogant. Its cute and accurate when she says were out of superlatives. She has not lost since 2013 an allaround competition, up to 21 straight now that shes done. Its just unreel. If anything deserves a mic drop it is her. For sure. Thanks, t. J. A lot more coming up including ronan farrow. He is here live off his explosive new book catch and kill. New details on those Rape Allegations against matt lauer and his claim that evers told to pause his investigation by nbc news. Thats all coming up. Lets go back to ginger now. In california those winds, the high wind warning goes until at least 3 00 p. M. You have offshore winds. The humidity around 5 , extreme fire danger all the way to just east of san diego. Also a blizzard warning, dont travel, especially i94 up there.