Plus, the ballot battle brewing. Colorados secretary of state filing a lawsuit against the u. S. Postal service saying voters are being misled. Shes with us live right here this morning. Arrest investigation. A sheriff deputy in georgia caught on camera repeatedly punching a man during an arrest. How the incident escalated into this scene, and what his family and the department are saying about it. And twotime champ. Naomi osakas historic comefrombehind victory at the u. S. Open, raising her game and raising consciousness. Good morning. As millions of americans wake up to another morning of smoke and fear from those massive wildfires, President Trump is planning to travel to california for a briefing on that situation. Heres a look at what hell find tomorrow. More than two dozen people have died, dozens more are missing, approximately 5 million acres burned in three states. The former Vice President joe biden, meanwhile, issuing a statement denouncing the president for, as biden put it, denying the reality of climate change. The fires have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes, and the smoke is a Health Hazard to millions on the west coast. Just check out seattle. The space needle obscured by the orange haze. Well have the latest on the fires in just a moment. But first, the new tropical threat heading for the u. S. Gulf coast, sally expected to strengthen and then slow down before it hits land, and mandatory evacuations are taking areas around the citys levee system. Rob marciano is in pensacola, florida, with much more on all of it. Rob, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, whit. We are now in the peak of the hurricane season, the time of year where storms can pop up close to land and develop quickly. Thats exactly what Tropical Storm sally has done. Its 250 miles away from me and this beach, and will be developing rapidly over the gulf of mexico. Here it is on the radar. Southwest coast of florida, including the keys, are being hammered by heavy rain, over 9 inches of rain falling. Key west, flooding there, and not vertically stacked with that classic hurricane look just yet, but when the waters underneath continue to be warm as they are, were looking for strengthening here today and then tomorrow, becoming a category 1 storm potentially making a landfall as a category 2 near the mouth of the mississippi, that would include new orleans through bi o bilock loxi, and then slowing down. Thats a problem t surge. Very susceptible to storm surge. With this slow movement, rainfall will be a huge problem as well. Well ta throughout the show. Dan . Rob marciano covering yet another hurricane. Stay safe out there, my friend. Well talk to you coming up soon on the show. But well move on now to the wildfires, as we mentioned President Trump will be visiting california tomorrow for a briefing on this unfolding disaster, and abcs will carr is right there in oroville where the air quality is being described as hazardous. Will, good morning to you. Reporter and dan, hazardous is the technical term. I would call it choking. Thats why im going to leave my mask on. This smoke has come from fires that hke this. You can imagine the homeowner coming through trying to spray down their property and it was too late. They had to get out. You can see whats left. Their home burned to the ground here as these fires continue to burn. Thisorames and smothengmo arest the deadly fires have claimed at least 25 lives so far with dozens more missing. In california, helicopters are hitting the fires from the air along with 16,000 firefighters on the ground. For weeks those on the front lines had battled the extreme heat and brutal elements, the fires have turned some 2. 8 million acres there to ash. In idaho, the bear creek fire left nothing but scorched deb s debris, charred cars and this eerie scene of what once was a gas station. In oregon, at least 1,000 homes have been destroyed in the towns of phoenix and nearby talon. Mary joyner talks about the last moments she shared with her aunt before the flames took her life. Oh, she was crying and yelling at me to come get her. I go, i cant. I cant come get you. They wont let me in. Reporter on top of her tragic loss, the fire took marys Cherished Memories as well. My pictures. G, all my familymyhf baby pictures of all my kids. I have a new granddaughter that i adore. I lost all my pictures of her. Just everything. Reporter from above los angeles, smoke is choking the air. The fires from hundreds of miles away are polluting the skies, creating unhealthy air quality conditions for millions. Check out the view out of the window of that thick smoke. It looks like the fog of the beaches off the Los Angeles County. Smoke from the flames traveling east, to reno, nevada, and as far north as canada, as while cities like portland and seattle have some of the worst air qualities in the world right now. Check out the sky in vancouver with that orange haze making it hard to see anything at all. The devastation on the west coast will now prompt a visit from President Trump to california on monday. Ahead of the president s trip, were in a red flag warning through the end of the weekend here in northern california. Eva, keep in mind, were still t help but tnk of thosellthk youch. Now to the breaking news overnight. Two Los Angeles County sheriff officers critically wounded in an ambush, shot pointblank through their patrol car window. Abcs zohreen shah joins with more. Good morning, zohreen. Reporter good morning, eva. This morning the suspect who ambushed two los angeles deputies in compton last night is still on the run. Surveillance video shows a man dressed in black walking toward the deputy car holding out a gun, shooting multiple times and running off. The deputies were parked sitting inside their vehicle. It would appear to be a welllit area near the Compton Metro station, very close to their own sheriff station. They were alert enough right after the shooting to radio in their own help. Their department tweeting both are still fighting for their lives. They are in critical condition. Those deputies were identified as a 31yearold mother of a 6yearold and 24yearold man. They were both sworn in 14 months ago according to the sheriff. Now the president has tweeted about the incident and the fbi is also offering its help with finding the suspect. Whit . Alarming story. All right, zohreen, thank you. Now to politics, the fires, mailin voting and of course the coronavirus all now flash points in the campaign. According to a new abc news ipsos poll, only 35 asked approve of President Trumps handling over the pandemic. 65 disapprove. For the latest on the campaign, lets go to abcs andrew dymburt. In washington, d. C. Andrew, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, whit. Its really been a busy few days for the trump team here trying to clean up some of the president s remarks from the coronavirus to mailin voting. Meanwhile, his opponent joe biden unloading on the president , accusing him of lying to the American People. This weekend, President Trump heads out to nevada, holding another signature inperson rally with no social distancing and few in the crowd wearing masks. The democrats are trying to rig this election because its the only way theyre going to win. Reporter its a sharp la crowds his events reg bidena due to coronav recently started more public appearances. The democratic nominee wasting little time attacking trump, calling his events reckless rallies. The Biden Campaign also responding to a new politico report alleging that trumps officials are interfering with cdc reports stating the administration has put political optics ahead of safety. I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes. Because i dont want to create a panic. Reporter biden blasting trump for this interview with bob woodward. He said he just didnt want to worry people. Meantime, were approaching 190,000 dead. Reporter tmpryg to clarify those remarks by inar waron and Prime Minister w churchill in the fight against nazi germany. He also spoke with calmness. He said we have to show calmness. Reporter as the race for the white house hits the homestretch, trumps facing backlash on his message on mailin voting. After tweeting, urging voters in the critical state of North Carolina, to follow up on polling sites even after mailing in their votes. The twitter flagging his tweet for violating its civic integrity policy. The North Carolina attorney general josh stein pointing out, voting twice would be a felony. While urging voters to not do what the president directs. Now voters in North Carolina can track their ballots online. As for those allegations of cdc interference, a spokesperson for the department of health and Human Services says that pandemic policy is driven by science. Eva . Thank you. The government facing a challenge on another front. Colorados secretary of state announcing her office filed suit against the u. S. Postal service. This is over a mailer she says contains misleading information. Jennif jennifer griswald joins us live. Good morning to you. Lets start first, overnight, a federal judge responded to your lawsuit, temporarily barring the u. S. Postal service from continuing to send this mailer. What about the mailer has you so concerned . Thank you for having me on. Thats exactly right, you know, as secretary of state its my job to make sure that coloradans have the right voting information. And there were two things on the mailer that were inconsistent with voting in colorado. First, the mailer urged people to request a mail ballot. In colorado, we send a mail ballot to all registered voters and we actually asked voters to stop returning them through the mail eight days before election day, and instead take them to a drop box, and the mailer had inconsistent messaging on that also. Many people have already received these mails, isnt the cat already out of the bag . What are you hoping will happen here . Well, its very unfortunate. We were alerted that the mailer would go out on friday. So we just learned about it, we filed a lawsuit friday night. We havent had confirmation yet that every coloradan received the mailer. But i do think its important, again, as secretary of state, just to make sure that coloradans and other voters situated in the same situation have good voting information, and in colorado we believe in easy access. You just register to vote and then youre sent a mail ballot and you can return it to a drop box, by the mail or go vote in person, and we want to miake sue that message gets out to coloradans. Lets talk about the president s tweet we just heard in andrews piece, to the people of North Carolina to quote, make sure your ballot counts, sign it and send in early, go to the polling your location, to see if it was counted. If not, vote. You actually responded to the president tweeting, this is encouraging voter fraud, and i will refer you for prosecution if warranted. Are you concerned about voter fraud and the validity of this election . Well, i have total confidence in our election in colorado. Were considered the safest state to cast a ballot in today, and we also have one of the most successful elections in the nation especially during a pandemic. Eva, i want to share with you that my moms a nurse and shes been working to save lives on a covid unit. Vote by mail which we do in colorado is like wearing mask. It allows for accessible elections and it allows for social distancing during a pandemic. Im fully confident in our elections in colorado. But its shocking in 2020 to have to inform the president and last week, it was informing the u. S. Attorney general, that it is illegal to vote two times, and i really encourage him to stop urging americans to commit voter fraud. We have a good system, and folks should really rely on secretaries of state for election news. Much. Dan, over to you. Eva, thanks. Theres so much going on. Lets bring in our chief anchor George Stephanopoulos whos going to be hosting this week later this morning. Good morning, sir. Were hearing so much about mailin voting, we just heard democrats upset about the Republican Leadership of the u. S. Postal service and then, President Trump overnight again saying that this is going to be a lighted election. We all those of us that are watching, we all want a free election, and fair election. How do we sort through these competing claims . Lets talk about voter fraud, in every piece of evidence shows theres no widespread evidence of voter fraud. Every once in a while you see some kind of fraud. But for both mail voting and inperson voting, but its infy any tes mall. But what the real concern is, because theres going to be so much more mailing vote this year, that voters can be disenfranchised. Because their votes dont get to the poing plac i eye not cote appropriately. The other thing that we have to watch for this election, because a lot of the early votes, mail votes wont be counted until after the polls closed, you could have this disparity where say, President Trump is leading in some states in inperson voting, but all of the mail vote is out, that would not be counted for several days and show that he didnt win. A state. That would lead the president to say, thats not fair. Thats the concern of a rigged election and the perception of a rigged election. It could not only be an election night, but an election weekend. Also could be an election week with a lot of discontent and mistrust. Let me ask you more in the present moment here, whit mentioned this earlier. Theres this new abc news ipsos poll out this morning showing the president s approval handling of covid19 at 35 , more data here, twothirds of the country say the president acted too slowly. They distrust what hes been saying about the virus. How can the president change this dynamic, and how important is it to him . Thats the question, only seven weeks left until the election and it seems like these views of how the president handled the pandemic are kind of built in right now, and theyre getting worse not better because of the revelations we saw last week in the bob woodward book. But what the president has to hope for in the coming weeks is that progress is made towards a vaccine, that the number of cases do come down, the death toll continues to come down. At the same time, dan, we are only days away from that death toll hitting 200,000 americans. A grim, grim number. George, thank you very much. Really appreciate it coming in on a sunday morning. Tune in later this morning to this week. George will be talking a about the wildfires with the governor of washington and win of the u. S. Senators from oregon. Plus, senior advisers from the trump and Biden Campaigns will be talking about the latest in the president ial race and on tuesday night, at 9 00 p. M. , george is going to moderate a town hall where uncommitted voters will have a chance to pose questions directly to President Trump. George, thanks again. Whit, over to you. Turning now to more on the coronavirus pandemic, medical professionals looking with concern at the approaching flu season and the possibility of a dangerous new wave of covid19 cases, those two things colliding at the same time. Abcs trevor ault has more. Reporter this morning, healthcare workers across the country gearing up for a potential second brutal wave of covid19. Waiting for a big surprise and were preparing ourselves. Reporter in chicago, more than 800 nurses on strike at university of illinois hospital demanding patient limits and more ppe. Day care operators have ratios, right . You cant have more than eight or nine infants. Dog kennels have ratios. Why cant hospitals have ratios . Reporter in nearby dupage county, the rate of infections quadrupling since the start of summer, in part because of younger people infecting older family members. With an outbreak erupting at Michigan State university, every local student now being told to quarantine. County Health Officer calling it an urgent situation, but elsewhere, parents are feeling the crunch. Its just been a heartwrenching decision trying to find the balance between the two. Reporter britain brinley mosley is a hospice nurse, but with her kids classes moved online she has to cut back her hours and her children are still suffering emotionally. I feel like its safer for them to be in school. Reporter while in queens, new york, middle School Teachers at i. S. 230 wont go in the building, opting instead to teach outside after a fellow instructor became infected. And with at least 22 teachers testing positive across the city, the Teachers Union in new york city now threatening to delay the start of the school year. Were going to keep their children and their families safe. Were going to keep ourselves safe as well. Reporter and dr. Anthony fauci says hes at least somewhat hopeful with vaccinations and Health Measures in place, a lot of americans might be able to avoid the flu this year. We know some summer camps that avoided covid19, and said illnesses were down across the board. That was at least some hope of that happening across the board. Dan . Nice to see some mentions of hope on this morning. Trevor, thank you very much. Lets get it back to rob whos on the ground in pensacola, florida, tracking sally. Rob, good morning once again. Good morning, dan. Its turning out to be a beautiful morning on the north coast of the gulf of mexico. Just to our south and east, its really been a wet one. These are pictures out of key west. These are street flooded with over 9 inches of rainfall there. Miami beach also seeing wind and rain from what was a tropical depression, now a Tropical Storm, sally. Now in the gulf of mexico, and now we expect it to strengthen even more with those warm waters. Heres one of our model runs and how slowly we think its going to approach the mouth of the mississippi river, and thats never a good thing for storm surge, for wind obviously and for rainfall, and this is just one of our models. It may not be done with the area. So wednesday, mayb