People racing to escape the brunt of the powerful storm and sheltering in close quarters amid the coronavirus. Dangerous delta now taking aim at hard hit louisiana. Covid longhaulers. The patients under the radar and why they cant seem to escape the virus grip. Plus, a first look at the new technology in schools that could make going back to the classroom safer. Will it help detect signs of covid in the race against the virus . The terrifying moments caught on camera when a 9yearold was abducted after getting off the school bus. How the little girl made it home. Oh, my god. King james and Anthony Davis powering through tyler herro and taking down the miami heat. Lebron and the lakers now just one win away from the ring. Plus, seattle taking the wnba finals by storm. Mvp breanna stewart, yep, stewie leading the charge with fourtime champ sue bird for a stunning sweep. And celebrating the ultimate guitar hero. Panama tributes pouring in for rock legend Eddie Van Halen. His speedy, sizzling skills influenced generations of rock superstars, they are honoring the guitar virtuoso this morning. Aint like it shiny machine hot shoes good morning, america. You were rocking out this morning. A little Eddie Van Halen right there. Its good to be with robin and george of course, on this wednesday morning as it is great to be with you as well. Were celebrating that incredible rock legend this morning, Eddie Van Halen. Lenny kravitz writing, eddie was a musical innovator. And heaven will be electric. And johnny nash passing away as well, we can see clearly now. And now we are going to take a live look at the debate stage in Salt Lake City. Vice president pence and senator Kamala Harris getting ready to face off tonight, with the spotlight on the covid crisis in washington. The number linked to the president continues to climb including 24 and Stephen Miller. All but one of the military chiefs have gone into quarantine. Covid is still spreading in congress. Its a chaotic situation in our Nations Capital right now. Senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega starts us off. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter george, good morning to you. The white house has become a hotbed of infection. As for President Trump, his doctor says that he is showing no new symptoms and continues to improve. We havent seen him since he left walter reed but he has been as active as ever on twitter. This morning, the covid outbreak spreading through the white house has reached the pentagon and now almost the entire joint chiefs of staff, including the militarys most senior general mark milley and other top officers are in quarantine after being exposed to the coast guards number two officer, admiral charles ray. Its unclear exactly how ray contracted the virus, but he did attend a white house event for gold star families a week and a half ago. The pentagon insists there is no change to the operational readiness or Mission Capability of the u. S. Armed forces. Former director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper says it puts the country at risk. This is an ideal time for adversaries, particularly and adversary intelligence services, to look for ways to further confuse us, to distract us. Reporter this, as the number of people testing positive who have been near the president or at the white house in recent days spiked to 24. The latest name, Senior AdviserStephen Miller who was part of a debate prep session with the president last week. Six out of nine people present now testing positive. Dont be afraid of it. Reporter as President Trump continues to downplay the severity of the virus, the white house has become a hotbed of infection. His military aide who calls the socalled nuclear football, a president ial valet who serves his meals, plus two more staffers in the press Office Testing positive. Aides insist resident staff wear full ppe and those who have direct contact with the first family are tested daily. There inside the white house and in isolation the president also sending shock waves through the economy using twitter to announce he abruptly ended talks with democrats on an economic stimulus bill meant to deliver much needed aid to americans struggling in the pandemic. The market immediately tanking. President trump accused House Speaker nancy pelosi of not negotiating in good faith. Pelosi fired right back saying, clearly the white house is in complete disarray. Now, President Trump said that he wants his party to focus on approving judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court rather than this economic stimulus, but this abrupt move angered even some in his own party. Susan collins of maine called this a huge mistake. His position became more confusing overnight as he suggested that he might willing to sign a bill for another round of checks for americans, but democrats have said they dont want to do this in a piecemeal way. George, theyre looking to do this as a broad economic recovery package. All over the map and part of the tweet storm. About 40 tweets he sent out over a twohour period last night on all kinds of subjects. All over the map and by our count over the course of the day, 65 some odd tweets, everything from Hillary Clinton to russia, blasting his own fda, now, you know, weve covered this president for a long time, hes someone who craves the spotlight. He just is in isolation. That could be at play here, but, george, joe biden responded by telling the president , get off twitter. Get off twitter. That was late last night. Okay, cecilia, thanks very much. This all comes as the virus is surging in the u. S. 32 states reporting increases in case, more than 210,000 americans have died. 31,000 people are currently hospitalized and we have just heard from dr. Anthony fauci who said the number of deaths could climb to up to 400,000 if people in this country do not do what we need to do. Well have much more on this in our next half hour, robin. We will, george. But now to tonights Vice President ial debate taking place at the university of utah under those extraordinary circumstances. With 27 days to go until the final votes, an estimated nearly 5 million americans already taking advantage of early voting options to cast their ballots. Our mary bruce has the very latest. Shes there in Salt Lake City for us. Good morning, mary. Reporter robin, good morning. Well, this is it. The only matchup between senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence and theres new urgency to this debate tonight. With the president s diagnosis and with joe biden possibly set to become the nations oldest president americans are looking to have some confidence, some reassurance that the Vice President can step in if needed, and already the coronavirus is front and center on tonights debate stage. Kamala harris and mike pence now just hours away from their first faceoff. Were looking very much forward to the Vice President ial debate. Reporter but this morning, new questions about the Vice President s safety after white house adviser Stephen Miller tested positive. His wife, katie miller, is pences Communications Director. She was traveling with him in utah, but after her husbands diagnosis, she was abruptly sent home. Shes tested negative the past two days. The white house insists the Vice President is safe to debate. His doctors saying pence has not been in close contact with anyone who has tested positive and is encouraged to go about his normal activities and does not need to quarantine, but pence was seen here at what is now being called a superspreader event. That rose garden ceremony sitting right in front of senator mike lee who shortly after tested positive. The harris team is not satisfied demanding more safety precautions at tonights debate. The candidates will now be at a greater distance, more than 12 feet apart, but the harris team also wants these plexiglas barriers to remain in place. Initially, the pence team mocked the request saying, if senator harris wants to use a fortress around herself, have at it, but overnight changing their tone saying, if such a barrier is critical for the harris team, then were not going to let it stand in the way. And the hurdles for this debate pale in comparison to the charges for next weeks president ial debate. The president still covid positive, is promising his supporters at that debate in miami, but overnight, joe biden drawing a line saying that there will be no debate until after the president tests negative, and is rid of this virus. The debate host telling us, this is all up in the air. Everything depends on the president s health. Robin . It certainly does, and mary, you know less than a month to go until the election, and now top intelligence officials are now trying to boost americans confidence when it comes to election day . Reporter leaders in the Intelligence Community are joining forces releasing a video trying to assure americans that they can be confident that the 2020 election will be conducted safely and securely, and also urging americans to be patient as the election may not be called on november 3rd. It, of course, is a sharp contrast with the message coming from the president who has been trying to sow doubt, spreading false claims that this election is going to be fraudulent, robin. Quite a contrast, yes, and i know its going to be a long day for you, mary. Were going to have full coverage of the Vice President ial debate tonight. George is going to be anchoring with our Political Team starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, michael . Looking forward to that. Now to that qanon crackdown, facebook banning pages devoted to the Conspiracy Movement and the fbi warning about a potential domestic terror threat. Rebecca jarvis joins us now with more. Good morning, rebecca. Reporter good morning to you, michael. This is one of the most drastic policy changes facebook has made in its history. The social network banning any pages, accounts, instagram accounts and pages linked to this group, qanon. This is a movement that ultimately at its core believes a cabal of satan worshiping child sex trafficking politicians and alist celebrities are trying to selectry overthrow President Trump. Its grown in its popularity on social media during the pandemic. You have a number of Republican People running for public office, who have expressed support, the president has said that while he doesnt know much about the group, he appreciates the fact that they appear to support him and now the fbi has recently deemed qanon as a potential terrorist threat. Facebook earlier this summer tried to introduce measures that would stop some of the spread that deemed some of the most violent measures coming out of qanon of videos expressing violence. Now theyre taking this new step hoping to squash it. They believe they are linked to different forms of realworld harm. They say this will take time and theyll continue to do this in the coming days and weeks. But users, individuals who postabout qanon, theyll be able to continue that, michael, this did not stop those users from making those all right, rebecca jarvis. Thank you so much. George . Thank you, michael. The latest on hurricane delta slammed into mexico and made landfall moments ago as a category 2 hurricane and Victor Oquendo has the latest. Reporter overnight, hurricane delta slamming into mexico. The storm intensified from a tropical depression to a category 4 hurricane in just over 36 hours. Winds reaching 145 Miles Per Hour yesterday taking aim at the popular resort towns of cancun and cozumel. Mass evacuations taking place ahead of the storms landfall. Very crowded. People running, screaming. Reporter residents boarding up preparing for the storm, a group of workers seen here securing this small plane tying it down. The airport packed with people hoping to catch one of the last flights out before it was shut down. Just said get me on any flight to the u. S. Reporter dawn becker and her daughters made it there but were told to turn around. A whole bunch of us got into taxis. We got to the airport and they told us, nope, you cant stay overnight here. Reporter vacationers stuck without a flight home, are forced to ride out the hurricane in shelters including ben bars and his girlfriend erin silvers. Once they arrived, they found lounge chairs from the pool turned into makeshift beds. They were picking up the chairs. We just thought they would get washed away and were sleeping on them now. Reporter tens of thousands of guests had to evacuate their hotels including our team. A very long morning ahead for everyone in the eastern tip of mexico as hurricane delta bears down. Michael. Thank you so much. That storm is far from over. Its now taking aim at the u. S. And we go to ginger who has more for us this morning. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, michael. It was a 106mileperhour gust already recorded as it made landfall as a cat 2 on the yucatan peninsula there. It will move across the yucatan and that land is going to shred it a bit so you will see it weaken more and then reintensify when it goes into the super warm waters of the gulf of mexico. It has plenty of time to reinvigorate itself and head straight toward the gulf coast. I think anyone from galveston and lake charles, cameron, port arthur needs to be on alert for impacts. However, right here, morgan city, lafayette, all of you need to be on alert for this to come very close to you, especially that bad side. Landfall friday, robin, and i want to show you that High Pressure is whats driving it. I want to show you this map. Its kind of unbelievable to think. We have had nine landfalling storms already this season. Delta will be the tenth which we have never done in recorded history. Ill be headed back to the gulf coast, robin. Unbelievable is the word. Thank you so much, ginger. Now, lets hoop it up and well start with the nba finals. Lebron james and Anthony Davis charging ahead leading the lakers one game closer to the title, and l. A. Bouncing back from the loss in game three against the heat. T. J. , bring us those highlights. Okay, robin. Lebron james took a nap before the game yesterday, and then he woke up with an epiphany, and he sent the message to all his teammates. He said, this game is a must win. Thats all i need to say. And then the game started, and it was clear he was not done sending a message. The lakers bounce back after that disappointing loss in game three and are back in control of these nba finals. Reporter the lakers hanging tough and hanging on, depending on their dynamic duo of Anthony Davis and lebron james to seal a pivotal win in game four of the nba finals. James drives, goes inside and throws it down. Felt like a finals game. Felt like both teams were desperate understanding the situation they put themselves in. Reporter both teams battled back and forth, then deep into the fourth quarter, the lakers prized offseason signing, Anthony Davis, reminded everybody why he was so prized. Anthony davis from downtown reporter not only did the allstar forward drill that three to seal it for l. A. , he also shut down the heat on the defensive end. Blocked by davis me and a. D. , we hold each other to a standard no one else can hold us to. We have to do things to help our team win. He did that tonight. He was spectacular. Reporter heat allstar bam adebayo who missed game three with a neck injury, returned to the court, but his 15 points were not enough. James against butler, oneonone reporter and l. A. Was able to hold heat allstar jimmy butler to 22 points after his 40point tripledouble in game three. The lakers now a game away from bringing a title back to l. A. For the First Time Since 2010. A tough loss for jimmy butler. Reporter the heat now facing a 31 series deficit, but they have some recent inspiration. The only team to ever overcome a 31 series deficit in the finals, the cavaliers in 2016. The difference that 31 comeback, that other team that came back from 31 down had lebron on it so its a little difference this time, the miami heat, boy, they have it. They fight, though. They do. They fight. They do not give up. Okay. T. J. , seattle storm. Yes. Wnba, game five. Well, im sorry. Game five of the nba finals. Yes, thats coming up tomorrow. Okay. My bad. Wnba. I was jumping in because we have to congratulate the seattle storm. Breanna stewart leading the team. That sweep over las vegas, they beat the aces, 9259, to win their fourth wnba championship. Veteran superstar sue bird has been there for all four trophies and three different decades and the other half of the sports power couple, megan rapinoe, was there in the bubble to see birds spectacular championship. The team celebrating and had confetti, they had the champagne showers, and no one had a bigger smile on their face than stewie, 26 points in the game, unanimous pick for the finals mvp. Congratulations to the storm. Congratulations to them. Coming up, tributes pouring in for Eddie Van Halen. Were going to have a lot more on that coming up this morning. Also this morning, a closer look at covids undertheradar patients. The socalled longhaulers at home with severe symptoms. But first, lets go back to ginger. And well get you to the sunny cities sponsored by peloton. Good morning. Welcome to wednesday. Im abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. The cooling trend a