It. Well, i didnt downplay it. I actually in many ways i upplayed it in terms of action. My action was very strong. Recordsetting fires. More than 5 million acres now burned in the west. Dramatic new video of how fast the enormous flames took over. Firefighters racing through the about that toxic air blanketing cities like portland. Now the most polluted air in the world. Fighting for justice. Say her name. [ chanting Breonna Taylor ] Breonna Taylors family reaching a historic 12 million settlement with the city of louisville after she was killed by police in her own home. What her mother is saying as the demand for the officers involved to be charged grow louder. Apple game changers. The tech giant Apple Unveils the tch that can track blood oxygen levels and can keep track of your kids. Stunning defeat. Jimmy butler and the unstoppable heat shutting down boston in an overtime thriller. The nug ai overnit d setting up an epicamed the lakers. We certainly do say good morning, america. Great to be with you on this wednesday morning. George, i know youre just getting back from philly. Big night with the town hall with the president. That was a different kind of forum taking questions from voters who havent yet made up their mind. Some supported him in the past and this is not something hes done very, very often and you saw the questioners really revealed whats on the minds of i think a lot of voters out there in the country right now. T coming up. Right now to that breaking news. Hurricane sally has made landfall as a powerful category 2 hurricane lashing alabama and florida, winds up to 105 miles an hour. Lets take a live look at pensacola. You see the winds whipping through, the rain ripping through, hurricaneforce winds, 86 miles an hour. Getting hit pretty hard and the storm leaving 375,000 people in the region without power this morning and its moving very slowly at three Miles Per Hour causing a lifethreatening flash flooding emergency in florida and alabama. Ginger is tracking the latest in mobile, alabama, this morning. Repte ing, ginger. Still getting blasted here in mobile and this is the left side of the storm. Look behind me, thats the mobile river with white caps. That north wind has been pushing it out into mobile bay where theyre actually seeing antisurge. The storm made landfall earlier as a category 2 and sat there spinning as a category 2. Its still moving to the northeast and that eye is where the gulf shore spent a lot of time this morning, where it made landfall, and thats 16 years after ivan back in 2004. The wind gusts have been upwards of 100 Miles Per Hour. 74 was the last one we had in mobile, but my goodness, tornado watch is also something were watching this morning and that flash flood emergency. This morning, Hurricane Sally crushing the gulf coast. More than two feet of rain already in the florida panhandle. Add at least winds of 80 Miles Per Hour and you have mayhem. Rattling this gas station awning, ripping down this stairwell in orange beach, alabama. The police there telling people to move to Higher Ground if they can saying that the conditions have stopped them from responding to emergency calls. Lifethreatening storm surge hitting the state. This is bad. Reporter pensacola, florida, on the northeast side, the dirty side of the storm. This car trapped in the water near downtown. A flash flood emergency issued for parts of florida and alabama. Thats a lake in my neighbors yard. Reporter sally just making landfall as it slowly inches into the shore with recordshattering rainfall and flooding. Watch this moment when the power goes out in gulf shores, alabama. More than 250,000 people without power already. There will become a point in time during the storm that we would not be able to respond. Reporter powerful winds breaking this barge loose, slamming it into that bridge which is now closed. A couple who chose to stay put in their beachfront home showing how dire the situation is. Violent waves crashing steps away from their porch. We literally have water coming in the windows and the door and hes having to hold the door shut to keep it from blowing open. Reporter although everybody focuses on the wind, i cannot emphasize enough with this prolonged water falling from the sky and pushing at the florida panhandle, im really concerned about that lifethreatening flash flooding. Look at the emergency that includes pensacola, destin, panama city, youre all in those outer bands. Not only could you see tornados but an additional 20 inches of rain. The path of this storm, hurricanes do not like friction so it becomes a Tropical Storm later this afternoon and then by tonight and tomorrow it moves into north georgia, dropping more than half a foot of rain possible. We are, ginger. As you said, this is far from over. Want you and everyone to take care. We go from you to hard hit florida, the monster storm wreaking havoc in pensacola where we find rob. Good morning, rob. Hey, good morning, robin. We are in the thick of it right now. The right side of Hurricane Sallys eye wall, and its been like this for hours on end. We lost power to our total about six hours ago. Just to get here from our hotel we had to walk through waist deep water. You can see its up to my knees here. This is main street pensacola, whats usually a busy intersection, a ghost town filled with water and raging rapids. The winds have been ripping through here. We have lights that are down. We have a tree thats down on the other side of the roadway. Weve seen all sorts of debris floating down this area, parts of utility poles as well. The Police Department saying there are too many roads to list that are closed because of flooding and debris. The Sheriffs Department saying theyre sheltering in place until its safe to go out which is probably going to be quite some time. Weve seen at least five feet of storm surge. The winds are starting to shift but with the slowmoving nature of this system, this water is not going to drain any time quickly. Robin . It is moving slowly. Rob, please take care. Our thanks to you and to ginger and we will have much more on Hurricane Sally throughout the morning. Now, lets go back to george. They were in rough conditions there. We turn to our town hall last night with President Trump. He took questions from a mixed group of voters in pennsylvania, many who supported him in 2016. All were still making up their minds at the start of the town meeting last night and we covered the big issues from covid to health care, the economy and race. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is in philadelphia with the highlights. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, george, good morning to you. Yeah, these were really tough questions from uncommitted voters in this crucial battleground. Some say they made up their minds after what they heard last night. Overnight President Trump facetoface with those uncommitted voters. Why did you throw Vulnerable People like me under the bus . Why dont you wear a mask more often. Pandeming of thend let me finisr enspbity to you downplay a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm lowincome families and minority communities . Yeah, well, i didnt downplay it. I actually in many ways i upplayed it in terms of action. Reporter this is the opposite of what he said in a recorded conversation with bob woodward. I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes. Because i dont want to create a panic. Reporter the president also contradicting what even his own Health Experts say, still insisting covid will just disappear. Its going to disappear. Not if we dont take action. Correct . It is going to disappear. Will it go away without the vaccine . Sure, over a period of time, sure, with time. And many deaths. And youll develop like a herd mentality. Were rounding the corner and i believe that strongly. As you know dr. Fauci disagrees with that. But a lot agree with me. Reporter when pressed about masks why dont you support a mandate for National Mask wearing . Reporter he instead criticized joe biden. A good question, you ask like joe biden, they said, were going to do a National Mandate on masks. Hes called on all governors to have them. Its a state responsibility. He never did it. Reporter even though biden has no such authority. And as the country approaches thnef nearly 200,000 americans dead so you regret nothing . No, i think we did a great job. Reporter the president also on the defensive over health care. Mr. President , i was born with a disease called sar koid oesz and i was considered unsurable. I want to know what it is youre going to do to ensure that people like me who work hard, we do everything were supposed to, can stay insured. Were going to be doing a Health Care Plan very strongly and protect people with preexisting conditions. I will say this, they will not do that. Mr. President they have socialized i have to stop you. I just have to stop you. Number one, joe biden ran against medicare for all in th primies but much more peopl ng buy insurance. You fought to repeal obamacare. Youre arguing youre arguing the Supreme Court right now to strike it down. That would do away with preexisting conditions. No. Youve promised so we can do new health care. Youve been promising a new Health Care Plan. I interviewed you in june of last year and you said it would come in two weeks. You told Chris Wallace this summer it would come in three weeks. You promised an executive order. I have it already. Youll have new health care and the preexisting conditions aspect of it will always be in my plan and ive said that loud and clear. But you havent come up with it. Reporter and this pastor born and raised in philadelphia taking this moment of racial reckoning directly to the president and not letting up. Youve coined the phrase make America Great again. When has america been great for africanamericans in the ghetto of america . Are you aware how tone deaf that comes off to africanamerican communities . Well, i can say this, we have tremendous africanamerican support. You probably have seen it in the polls. Were doing extremely well. I mean, your statement is though make it great again. These things have historically been happening for africanamericans in the ghettos and we have not been seeing a change. Because you say again, we need to see when was that great because that pushes us back to a time in which we cannot identify with such greatness and i mean youve said Everything Else about choking and Everything Else but you have yet to address and acknowledge theres been a race problem in america. If you go well, i ho theres not a race problem. I can tell you theres none with me because i have Great Respect for all races, for everybody. Reporter when it was over, we followed up to ask the question. I got to ask, who are you voting for . Do you know . Man, well, ill say it wont be trump. Ill say that, you know, weigh my options, still undecided. As of right now if i had to vote tomorrow absolutely it would be for mr. Trump. He showed that human side to him and thats really what i was looking for. Reporter well, joe biden certainly was quick to fire back especially at that suggestion that he didnt himself implement a National Mask mandate. He tweeted saying to be clear, i am not currently president but we can change that in november. So now, george, we look ahead to the first debate later this month. Joe biden says he started preparing. President trump, george, he says he thinks his best practice is his day job. Okay, cecilia, thanks very much. Lets get more from jon karl. Jon, maybe that town meeting was a form of debate prep for President Trump, an unusual forum for him. Reporter this is something we almost never see, george, President Trump interacting with voters who are not his most loyal and enthusiastic supporters. To his credit, he did not do what he often does when he faces tough questions from reporters in the briefing rooms, he did not lose his cool. He listened. He engaged. That said, he did almost nothing to talk about his vision for a second term and nothing to overcome what is his biggest weakness in this race, and that is his handling of the pandemic. In fact, as you heard in cecilias piece, he once again suggests that it will just go away even without a vaccine. That is not going to overcome the doubts that a lot of voters have about how serious he is taking this. Jon, we have brandnew polls out from two key states. Reporter yeah, this is on one hand not good news for the Trump Campaign and terrible news for the Trump Campaign. First wisconsin, hes down six points. Thats a state he won last time, pretty much needs to win this time, and minnesota which he lost last time, he is down 16 points. That is the Trump Campaigns number one target to pick up a state that he did not win last time. And the bottom line, george, is ive been trki statewide polls, in every battleground state that the campaigns say that they will that will determine the election donald trump is either tied or losing. He is playing defense everywhere. Hes done it before and won but a tough place to be as an incumbent. Jon karl, thanks very much. Michael. Now to those devastating wildfires, burning nearly 5 million acres along the west already this year. With thick, toxic smoke. I portland, oregon, with the worst air quality in the world. Kaylee hartung has the latest. Time to move the hose line up reporter this dramatic video recorded on a firefighters helmet capturing how fast the creek fire overwhelmed crews in california earlier this month. Enormous flames engulfing homes and cars melting in the street as whipping winds and thick clouds of smoke plague overnight those walls of fire still moving. A ring doorbell camera capturing when it rages through the forest and closes in on this home. In oregon, toxic air blankets the state. You can see the destruction this wildfire left behind me. Look around me. The smoke hanging so thick, this is the most polluted air in the world. The state already says one in ten visits to the emergency room are related to this air quality. Did those numbers line up with what youre seeing here . Absolutely. Weve seen an increase in respiratory illness, particularly in people predisposed to it. Reporter so the air quality index, it works sort of like a thermometer and runs from zero to 500 degrees. Anything above 300 is considered hazardous and as we have traveled across the state of oregon we have seen readings off the charts upwards of 600. The warning remains here to stay indoors. Michael. Hopefully people heed that warning there, kaylee, thank you so much. Robin. We sure hope that they will, michael. Thank you. Now to that big night in the nba bubble. The Denver Nuggets pulling off a stunning victory. They beat the l. A. Clippers, epic game seven and now theyre getting ready for that big showdown with lebron james and the l. A. Lakers. T. J. Holmes, you got more for us. Reporter look, theres another sports curse people dont talk about as much. Its called the clippers curse and it reared its ugly head again last night in the worst of ways. The los angeles clippers, a heavy favorite to win the nba title, blew a 31 lead to the nuggets and lost by 15 last night and in losing to the underdog nuggets they have missed out on a chance to make it to the conference finals for the first time in the teams 50year history. And they missed out on a chance for the battle of l. A. Everybody was looking forward to. Would have been clippers versus lakers, aint happening. The nuggets now in winning, they are the first team in nba history to come back from 31 down in the same playoffs. Now, everybody has given the clippers, the business. They have a history of blowing it in the playoffs including Magic Johnson saying they choked and look aths ee l s lo the lakers magic. Rise above that, magic. Come on, magic. Even though new york will always be for the giants and not the jets but anyway i want you to keep going. I want to see the clippers and the lakers, man. Aint happening. Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets. We are following a lot of other headlines this morning including the historic settlement reached in the Breonna Taylor case. Well tell you what her family is saying now. A deadly elevator accident. A woman killed while loading boxes in her building, the investigation this morning, but first back to ginger in mobile, alabama. Reporter michael, obviously weve been gusting here more than 80 mileperhour winds but those winds will stretch 125 miles outside the center. Even montgomery could see a gust of 44, birmingham close to 30. This is not a storm just for the coast. We are aegoing to keep an eye on that track and the lifethreatening flash flooding but lets get to the rainy cities sponsored by walgreens. Were still talking about basketball. All right. You guys stay there. Well be right back. Ere. Well be right back. Eliminate w, and youre going to find yourself where you need to be. The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends, because we are always on the way. Heres to the duers. To all the people who realize they can du more with less asthma thanks to dupixent, the addon treatment for specific types of moderatetosevere asthma. Dupixent isnt for sudden breathing problems. It can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. Its not a steroid but can help reduce ormina oral stoids dupixent can cause serious allergic reactions including anaphylaxis. Get help right away if you have rash, shortness of breath, chest pain, tingling or numbness in your limbs. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection and dont change or stop your asthma treatments, including s