Go. Come on. The Good Samaritans helping get families to safety as those wicked flames close in. Terror takedown. The new discoveries from that daring raid to take out the leader of isis. The prisoners captured and the hero dog who helped corner the worlds most wanted terrorist. The College Student now charged with manslaughter accused of driving her boyfriend to take his life. What prosecutors say her more than 40,000 Text Messages reveal. Abc news exclusive. The balloon boy ten years later. The family behind the infamous hoax that captivated the country now speaking out only on gma this morning. He did the monster mash fright night in the ballroom. The tricks, the treats and shocking elimination. The fan favorite sent packing, going out in style. Were behind the scenes with it all. Good morning, america. It is great to have you with us on this tuesday morning. Happy tuesday to everybody, and it is a busy one here. Weve got a lot of news to get to this morning. Out west of course they are facing those devastating wildfires across california. Firefighters battling the flames, racing to contain the blaze before the biggest santa ana wind event of the year moves in just a few hours from now. Thats in california and the impeachment battle is heading into a new phase on capitol hill this morning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has set the first formal vote on impeachment. Investigators will hear for the first time from a white house official on that trump phone call with ukraines leader. The decorated army colonel will testify that he twice warned about inappropriate pressure to investigate the president s political rivals. Mary bruce starts us off. Reporter good morning. His name is Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman, a decorated war veteran, served in the army for more than two decades, describes himself as a patriot and says it was a sense of duty and obligation that he felt the need to go to his superiors with his concerns about what he was hearing not once but twice. This morning on capitol hill a key witness who listened in on the call at the center of this impeachment inquiry will tell investigators he was so concerned about by what he heard, he feared it would undermine u. S. National security. Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a decorated combat veteran and top ukraine expert on the National Security council, hes the First White House official to testify who heard the phone call between President Trump and ukrainian president zelensky when trump demanded ukraine investigate his political rival, joe biden. According to his Opening Statement obtained by abc news, vindman will tell investigators i did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen, and i was worried about the implications for the u. S. Governments support of ukraine. Vindman was also troubled by comments made by gordon sondland, the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union and a key figure in this ukraine investigation. Vindman will testify that during a meeting in the weeks before that call sondland started to speak about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure a meeting with the president. I stated to ambassador sondland that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate biden and his son had nothing to do with National Security. Vindman reported both his concerns about sondland and what he heard on the call to his superior, saying he was acting out of a sense of duty. Colonel vindman insisting it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country. Irrespective of party or politics. Vindman said it was his priority to keep the u. S. Relationship with ukraine on track and said he was directed by his superiors, including then National Security adviser john bolton, to draft a memo that thought to restart the millions of dollars in security aid being withheld from ukraine but vindman says the president refused to sign it. George . That is coming up this morning, mary. Meantime, house Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after weeks of pressure, has now said there will be a formal house vote to lay out the procedure for impeachment. Reporter this vote on thursday will outline what comes next including the procedures for public hearings. Now, unlike in the past, it is likely that staff lawyers, not just committee members, will be doing some of the questioning. This vote will also outline what rights the white house has in this process. Republicans of course for weeks have been insisting that this investigation go public, that there are open hearings. This move now is in part an attempt by democrats to try and pressure on republicans in a box. The goal is now a final vote by christmas . Reporter george, it seems that we are on track to see those public hearings beginning next month. Okay, mary bruce, thanks very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Were going to turn now to those dangerous wildfires blazing out west. Firefighters are trying to gain ground and contain the hundreds of fires burning before the biggest santa ana wind event of the year moves in. Our Senior Correspondent matt gutman is in los angeles with the very latest. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, michael. Hard to imagine but this house has been on fire for over 24 hours hours. You can see the firefighters trying to punch holes inside the house to get water in there. You can see its already stting to collapse and of course this is halloween, you can see the decorations out. All of that stuff is fuel. Now, firefighters managed to save most of this neighborhood but i want to give you a sense of the scale of the destruction here in this part of brentwood. You can see firefighters in there. Theyre actually still working to put out a hot spot inside. I want to give you a sense of how hot this fire burned here. Nothing left of this house except for the stone walls surrounding the house. Now, the fire has laid down some overnight but theres a lot of work left to be done. Overnight, firefighters battling fatigue and those hot spots. They had to make some tough decisions on which houses they were able to protect. Reporter 25,000 los angeles residents under evacuation orders, some given as little as 15 minutes to leave their homes. It was a neighbor who rang the doorbell and said we got to evacuate, we got to get out right this minute. Reporter l. A. s mayor Eric Garcetti telling us some of the largest most spaced out homes in l. A. , the canyons in between are the ones that are really intense. Reporter the getty fire started near the famed museum right off the normally crammed 405 freeway, then racing towards some of the most expensive real estate in the country. With the fire crawling uphill, the sky glowing that eerie orange. Living on one of the hardest hit streets, lebron james tweeted that he and his family were evacuated in the middle of the night. Arnold schwarzenegger also getting out, tweeting that the firefighters are the true action heros. Mount st. Marys university, an island in a sea of fire. Students reuniting with their parents. It was pretty scary. 2 30 in the morning you dont expect a phone call from your daughter at school. Reporter we accompanied those exhausted crews to remote fire lines in what now looks like a moonscape around brentwood, relief coming from above. Helicopters are pounding this fire from the air and on the ground. They have these firefighters here trying to cut lines because this part of los angeles is so incredibly remote. In northern california, fire crews gaining some ground on the massive kincade fire, up to 15 containment now. And were seeing dramatic new images this morning of another fire just outside sacramento, a Good Samaritan helping cars escape, directing vehicles through this torn open fence. Those cars escaping from the highway, driven through the separated fence onto a dirt field, fleeing as the flames burn behind them. I just spoke to the commissioner here who said that over the next 12 hours to 18 hours the worst winds, not this year but of the past couple of years, are expected. He said there is a real potential for disaster here in los angeles. Thats the reason that those 25,000 people are going to remain evacuated. Cecilia . So tough to hear. Okay, matt, thank you. And those firefighters on the front lines will get a slight break today but it will not last very long. Rob marcia is in los angeles with more. Rob, youve been talking to these crews. The conditions are just brutal for them. Reporter its been a rough couple of weeks here in california, cecilia, for these firefighters. Now they have a fire inside the city of los angeles which means more people, more structures they need to protect. They are heroes, but theyre humans. Theyre battling fatigue and this is tough, dangerous work. They have to get snippets of sleep wherever they can and not in some cushy hotel room. But in a parking lot of the ucla campus. They want to get a hand on this fire before tonight comes. I talked the assistant fire chief who said it may look the fires out but it could easily get explosive. Cecelia . They are true heros and we are wishing them well. Rob, thank you. Lets head to ginger with more on the santa ana winds moving in. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, cecelia. Its really the position of this High Pressure system which by the way brought record cold from Salt Lake City to denver. Today is going to be the worst day for northern california. You can see gusts 30 to 60 Miles Per Hour sacramento to redding but tomorrow is really when it settles in. Its after midnight tonight for Southern California. Heres whats been happening, its all about the wind shift so weve had these onshore winds today. This morning, ive already seen in Southern California some of the relative humidity numbers in that, say, 30 to 65 which is very high compared to whats going to happen tonight when the wind shifts. You see them turn orange . Thats when theyre going to come from east to west over those mountain ranges. The relative humidity is going to fall out the bottom, 3 to 10 . When they come through the mountain passes, san gabriel, Santa Ana Mountain passes, you compress air, you speed it up, up to 80mileperhour gusts. George. Okay, ginger, thanks very much. Were learning new details on the raid that took down isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. The other terrorists captured, the intelligence uncovered and the military dog who helped track down baghdadi himself. Our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz tracking it. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning. George. This morning, the u. S. Has two of baghdadis men in detention and two isis intelligence all taken from the scene of that dramatic raid that left dead the leader of the Group Responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of this generation. All that remains of baghdadis secret hideaway, a pile of rubble. U. S. Cruise missiles, bombs and dronelaunched hellfire missiles leveling this structure after the armys elite Delta Force Raid left the isis leader dead. He was a sick and depraved man and now hes dead. Hes dead. Hes dead as a doornail. And he didnt die bravely either, i will tell you that. Reporter baghdadi cornered by the commandos in an underground tunnel with this military dog, a Belgian Malinois, in pursuit. The photo, declassified and tweeted by President Trump. Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and three children and slightly wounding the dog. President trump claiming baghdadi was whimpering and crying in the tunnel, even though that was not seen in the situation room where the National Security team watched live feeds of the raid with the president. I know the president had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members, but i dont know what the source of that was. But i assume it was talking directly to the unit and unit members. You havent talked to any unit members who have described that to you . I have not talked to unit members, no, thats correct. Reporter baghdadis remains are now at sea, buried, said chairman millie, appropriately after positive dna identification, but the delta force also managed to pull intelligence from the rubble during the two hours on site and prisoners. There were two adult males taken off the objective alive. They are in our custody. Reporter men that could provide Vital Information about the future of isis now that the leader is dead. And we have also learned that isis suffered another blow shortly after the baghdadi raid. One of his righthand men, his spokesman, was killed in an air strike. Michael . Thank you so much, martha. And now to the urgent search for that missing alabama College Student. Police releasing a new clue, Surveillance Video of 19yearold Aniah Blanchard the night she disappeared. Steve osunsami has the very latest. Reporter Alabama Police this morning are sharing this security video from a Convenience Store that shows this missing College Student shortly before she vanished. 19yearold Aniah Blanchard is seen here wednesday, october 23rd, just minutes before shes seen driving away in her dark suv. She hasnt been seen since, and authorities are hoping someone sees or remembers something helpful in the video. Blanchards father is a minister in birmingham and says his daughters disappearance is out of character. She would never just not contact somebody and let them know what shes doing. Reporter agents with the fbi, the u. S. Marshal service and Homeland Security are all helping with the search. Authorities found her suv but no sign of the young woman. About 50 miles away from her home in the parking lot of this apartment complex in montgomery, alabama, the front right side was covered in scratches and dents. She was a very organized young lady. She would get up in the morning real early and she would go to bed kind of early. Reporter blanchard is also the stepdaughter of professional fighter walt harris with the ufc. The heavyweight champ went on social media platforms begging for help. The missing young woman was a student at Southern Union state community college. Friends of this missing young woman who saw her the night she disappeared say that nothing appeared wrong. Okay, steve, thank you. We turn to the fallout from the resignation of House Democrat katie hill. Shes fighting for her reputation after resigning in the face of an ethics investigation into her relationship with a staffer, sparking a debate now about double standards. Abcs linsey davis has the story. Reporter questions are swling this morning in the wake of the resignation of first term congresswoman katie hill. The 32yearold from californias 25th district was facing an ethics investigation into allegations she had a relationship with a member of her congressional staff, an allegation she denies, though hill does admit to a sexual relationship with a campaign staffer. Im hurt. Im angry. The path that i saw so clearly for myself is no longer there. Reporter hill, whos in the midst of a nasty divorce, released a statement over the weekend announcing her resignation, calling her husband abusive and accusing him of leaking naked pictures of her that were later posted online. On monday, she pledged to battle revenge porn in this video to her supporters. I will fight to ensure that no one else has to live through what i just experienced. Some people call this electronic assault, digital exploitation. Others call it revenge porn. As the victim of it, i call it one of the worst things that we can do to our sisters and daughters. Reporter some are now calling her resignation a double standard. Overnight, 2020 president ial contender Kamala Harris told Buzzfeed News that she, quote, respected hills decision to resign but said lets also speak the truth that men and women are not held to the same standards, adding, i mean, look at whos in the white house. Some are also pointing to representative duncan hunter, the california congressman remained in Office Despite the allegation that he used taxpayer dollars. Now hunter has pleaded not guilty. We reached out to hill for hills husband for comment but have not heard back. Thank you, linsey. Were going to turn now to do or die night on the baseball field. The Houston Astros are just one win away from taking home their second world series title ever. Theyre up three games to two against the Washington Nationals and theyre playing tonights game in texas but with a little twist. Neither team has won a home game yet during the series. Remember this nationals fan who went viral on sunday nights game, with this catch, sacrificing his chest. He was not going to mess up those beers to get the ball. Bud light, they liked what they saw, and they are sending him to tonights game in houston. Well deserved. Thats all it takes, right . Take one for the team. We are following a lot of other stories this morning including that shocking suicide by a College Student in boston. Why his girlfriend is now facing charges. Well talk about what the more than 40,000 Text Messages reveal. And the hero dogs help take down terrorists. Weve got an inside look. But first lets head back to ginger. This is crazy video in montana, more tha