Were all enjoying the subtlety of the music chosen by our producers on this sunday morning. Good morning, everybody. Bianna and ron both off today. But were very happy to have Sharyn Alfonsi and linsey joining us on her birthday, we might add. Happy birthday. Some sad breaking news. Former senator George Mcgovern has died at the age of 90. Mcgovern was a liberal icon. He ran for president in 1972. He lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon. Were going to take a look back at his long career in politics this morning. Also, we are just 16 days until the election. One day until the third and final president ial debate. This morning, so many questions. How will this big headline about iran play in the debate . And can this faceoff shift the dynamic in what appears to be an extremely tight race . The timing so interesting on that one. Well get to that in just a few minutes. Well begin, though, with that breaking news. The former senator and president ial candidate George Mcgovern die d today at the age of 90. Family and lifelong friends and he was surrounded by relatives and lifelong friends and George Stephanopoulos looks back at his life dedicated to public service. I will haunt the senseless bombing of indochina on inaugural day. He was the first senator to oppose the vietnam war. Calling it a policy of moral debacle and political defeat. That cause would go to the democratic nomination for president in 1972. Truth and candor rather than deception and manipulation. Were going to give Richard Nixon the retirement he so richly deserves. Voters didnt see it that way. Mcgovern lost one of the biggest electoral landslides in American History carrying over massachusetts. He grew up in a tiny prairie town in south dakota. A liberal icon from a republican family. Met his wife eleanor at a High School Debate tournament where she won. Mcgovern went on to become a decorated Fighter Pilot in world war ii, served in congress and found his National Voice leading the antiwar charge in his race for the white house. To stand with your convictions, i ask you not to despair. Reporter mcgovern stayed in the senate until a 1980 defeat. And four years later made another run for president but didnt get past the early primaries. There were tragedies in his personal life, too, losing son stephen and daughter teresa to alcoholism. I loved her, and she knew that. She never doubted that for a minute. Im grateful for that. Reporter mcgovern spent his later years writing and working on one of his lifelong passions, ending world hunger. George mcgovern was 90. And we have another developing story this morning, that potential october surprise. The New York Times reporting that iran is making moves with holding oneonone talks with the white house. Abcs david kerley is at the white house this morning. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, sharyn. This could be a case of semantics or an overstatement of the situation. It comes an interesting time. Just hours before the last president ial debate, which will cover foreign affairs. That would be after the election according to the times. Tommy vietor saying its not true that the United States and iran have agreed to oneonone talks. The white house was quick to state thats not true. But other sources are saying that iranians have indicated that theyre ready to talk. It comes four months after that last round of talk involving a larger group. The u. S. Has said that it is willing to meet oneonone with the iranians to get them to promise not to build a Nuclear Weapon and not to enrich uranium. Sharyn . What would likely have to have first . Reporter this is all all about sanctions and enriching uranium. And the president and the west believe that the sanctions are punishing iran. Thats why they may want to come to the table. The president will not loosen sanctions unless iran stops enriching uranium and they can prove it. They can verify that theyre not enriching uranium for a Nuclear Weapon. And, david, as you mentioned, the timing of this is so curious, the weekend before this final president ial debates. Reporter hours before, and thats why the white house is so quick in its denial last night that this report by the New York Times was completely correct. There are other newspapers that are quoting diplomatic sources. I think the white house wants to say, listen, this is not coming from us. But youre going to hear a lot about this in the debate tomorrow night and itll be interesting to see if the president confirms some of this, how information he actually gives about where we do stand. Were talking about iran getting rid of their Nuclear Weapon. It is going to be a fascinating debate tomorrow night. Sharyn. Yea, a good october surprise. Thanks so much, david kerley. Reporter you bet. As we said, this news comes 16 days before the election and one day before the final debate. Which will focus on Foreign Policy. Youre looking at a live shot now of the debate site in boca raton, florida, where the two men who sometimes appear to not like each other that much will once again step into the arena, its your voice, your vote. Lets bring in the host of abcs this week, also the host of gma, a man who barely sleeps and always works, George Stephanopoulos. What do you make of the timing of this . Is it real and will it affect the debate. Its hard to know what to make of it. On one hand, you have the New York Times saying that Administration Officials saying that iran has agreed. The white house is saying no. First you have to take that in account. What youre looking at is the idea that iran believes that its in their interest to get this out, if the initial report is true. Now, i think the most important thing, the most important factor right now is how will this play in the debate . As david pointed out, itll be interesting to see if president obama confirms any of the details. Perhaps even more important, how does mitt romney respond . On the one hand, he would want to appear open to doing anything to prevent a war over Irans Nuclear program. On the other hand, israel is through their ambassador has already signaled theyre not open to these direct talks right now and mitt romney all through this campaign has tried to align himself very closely with the government of israel. These debates this year have been huge. As you know, i mean, weve had tens of millions watching and the first one especially affected the dynamic in the race. Do we expect the third one to be given as impactful . Hard to imagine it would have much impact as the first debate. Which changed the dynamic of the race. There are fewer voters that play right now. Because of early voting. Exactly right, and the subject is Foreign Policy, which voters tend to not care about as much in their voting. On the other hand, this race is so close right now that everything matters. Everything can turn this can turn this race, and finally this is the last chance that both men have to speak to this many voters still likely to be tens of millions of voters watching tomorrow night. Yeah, i would imagine a lot of people will tune in because to put it in sort of a crass way has become reality tv. These two are really at each others throats. No question about it, although i would wonder coming off the ferocity of last tuesdays debate if both men try to tone it down. We saw it at that dinner thursday night. Here theyll talk about Foreign Policy and mitt romney in the last few days has been trying to give a more moderate presence, have a more moderate tone emphasized by partisanship. I wouldnt be surprised if he looks for ways tomorrow to emphasize where he agrees with president obama on Foreign Policy. Who is under more pressure going into the third debate . Who needs to have a bigger night . Thats a tough question. Very, very tough question. Mitt romney still seems to have some momentum still coming out of that first debate. On the other hand, president obama has the advantage in these key battleground states where this race is going to be won or lost. I think both men are under pressure to avoid one thing above all, no huge mistake. If they get through the night with no huge mistake, they both go out to their turnout machine. We should say george has a big show. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel who used to work in the white house is coming on and so is florida senator marco rubio and also this reminder join george and diane sawyer for full coverage of the final president ial debate tomorrow night at 9 00 eastern. All right. Now were going to check the mornings other top stories. Abcs linsey davis this morning. Good morning, linsey. Good morning again, sharyn, dan. Good morning, everyone. Topping the news the fbi is hunting for the person who called in a bomb threat to a plane scheduled to leave l. A. International airport. The londonbound United Airlines flight was taken to an isolated part of the airport and searched. Nothing suspicious found and the plane was cleared. The toll from that deadly meningitis outbreak has climbed yet again. Two more people have died from the outbreak linked to those steroid shots for back pain bringing the total number of deaths to 23. There are now 284 illnesses in 16 states. Tensions and security are high in lebanon today for the funeral of the nations assassinated intelligence chief. Fridays car bombing that also killed seven other people is being linked to the civil war in neighboring syria. With violence on the rise in lebanon, many there are now afraid of being drawn into the civil war. And to the uk now. Hundreds of people protesting Government Spending cuts clashed with police in london saturday. The group broke away from a larger peaceful protest attempting to storm stores owned by Multinational Companies claiming theyre avoiding taxes. Several people were arrested. And finally, one College Football fan is lucky to still be in one piece today. Take a look at this guy. He runs out onto the football field during yesterdays Florida State miami game right in the middle of a play, and somehow he avoids getting steamrolled by a player. The referee ruled he had no impact on the play so let it stand. New meaning to the words, no harm, no foul. He started the tailgate early i have a feeling. The most heated moment in last weeks debate when barack obama and mitt romney got in one anothers face. But now as election day approaches, gas prices are about to take a big plunge. A happy uturn for drivers who have been paying 4 bucks a gallon in some spots. Abcs Mark Greenblatt is at a gas station here in new york city this morning. Mark, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you, dan. And gas prices arent just going down, but theyre going down fast. Here this morning in new york, the price for a regular unleaded gallon of gas is around 4. 15. Within a couple of weeks its expected to be somewhere in the 3s. At long last, gas prices look like theyre finally plunging. And experts predict soon every gallon could cost 50 cents less than the peak price of nearly 3. 90 a gallon earlier this month. A good thing . Its a great thing. 50 cents is significant. Reporter for drivers with an eye on the holidays, its not a moment too soon. Starting to come down, thank goodness. Reporter from montana to florida to minnesota, prices are finally headed in the right direction, down. With the National Average already falling 17 cents this month to 3. 69. And gasbuddy. Com forecasts a peak tumbling to 3. 35 within a few weeks. The supply is expected to begin increasing coupled with an expected drop in demand which were already seeing equals lower prices. Reporter one reason, problems with Oil Refineries on the west coast and in the midwest has begun to soften. In a season where drivers drive less. But in hardest hit california, consumers dont want to wait three weeks for even more relief following a summer of dramatic price spikes there where they saw gas prices above 5 a gallon. But theres good news for those in california, if theres not a major world event, were told, that prices could drop as much as 1 for california drivers. Now to what may be the craziest story of the morning. Take a look at this hidden camera video of a guy vandalizing cars, homes and lawns. The people who live in this neighborhood say they rigged up the cameras to prove that the damage is all tied to one man embroil ed in a nasty feud. John muller is on the story. Reporter good morning, dan. Call it the latest installment in the neighbor from hell series. We have seen these stories before, and this one comes from miami complete with surveillance cameras and plenty of strange behavior. One man is under arrest charged with criminal mischief and stalking. They call him the neighbor from hell. Members of this miami neighborhood say this Surveillance Footage is proof that Mitchell Igelko has been terrorizing them for your years. Hes an angry guy and he tries to intimidate you. Reporter here cameras allegedly capture him throwing what looks like an egg at someones house. In this video neighbors say igelko is sprinkling nails on someones driveway. I was getting flat tires, not only myself but everybody in my neighbor. Reporter late this week igelko was charged with criminal mischief and stalking. We have Property Damage and psychological damage. Reporter neighbors allege hid oneyear reign of terror began when he started feuding with bob and kelly after they hired another company to do some work. Others were bullied too so they joined target. Watch here at what appears to be wick width squirted from this white truck. The next day where it was sprayed was killed. Neighbors say that igelko was behind it. I see a lot of jet stream of toxic liquid getting into my grass. So i doublechecked with my camera, and i got the proof right there. Reporter and there was more. Here an unidentified person throws a rock through a car window. In another, unknown men spray gasoline on a car, and watch here as a boat bursts into flames. Frightened neighbors accusing igelko of hiring others to do his dirty work. Police are still investigating those incidents and igelko has not been charged. Igelkos lawyers say that this is nothing more than an ongoing neighbor dispute. And igelko himself has been victimized by vandals. To suggest that my client would vandalize his own home, break his own screens, burn his own grass, throw eggs on his own car is absolutely preposterous. Mitchell egelko has not entered any plea yet. His attorney also tells abc just ic t they havent reviewed those videos yet, and as soon as the state turns the videos over, theyll be in a better position to answer questions and miami police are also looking over those tapes as well. Dan and sharyn. This cant help home value. Can you imagine . No, it certainly cannot. Thank you, john muller. Time for the weather. Over to ginger zee. Hey, ginger, good morning, again. Good morning. We have tremendous pictures coming in from the seattle area. Thats a waterspout. And, yes, they only get about one to two a year. So it is relatively rare. Really nice photos. Gloria took this one. This is north of seattle. This is right in the puget sound and near everett, as well. One more to show you, a little bit darker view. All of these coming from our great affiliate there komo. So what else comes with it . An unsettled weather gives you those water spouts. But it also comes on shore. Rain aen heavy winds, 30 to 50mileperhour gusts. Not just for the seattle area. Down through portland and parts of the rockies there, im sorry, Northern California mountains i should say, the sierras there, the seasons first snow for some. So mount shasta has that Northern Area in that six plus range. So big snow is coming in but this is the time of year we expect that. You know what would be a little crazy is how warm it is yesterday in lubbock, a record 93. Today 91. Dallas will be close to 90. Shreveport up there in the upper 80s. Summer not over in some spots. Here in the northeast its looking average or slightly above with sunshine coming back out for many and one more thing before i leave you, we are watching the potential for Tropical Storm sandy to develop. The Eastern Caribbean would be in that chance of being a little unsettled. Well be watching this, of course. Hurricane season goes till the the first picture that i have to the first picture that i have to share with you is from kansas and we see the beautiful sunset there with the Wind Turbines in the background. We want to thank you so much for sending these in. And from virginia, it was just like youd hang it on a wall. Thats blue ridge parkway. I want that in my house. If you want to send it to me. ginger, underscore, zee. I think my grandma had that in her house, ginger. Oh, wow. Its getting tense in here. All right. Lets change the subject. Thanks, dan. News of the weird. The story of a guy in pennsylvania who said that his rv was attacked and the perp was bigfoot. He claims it was a tall hairy beast throwing rocks and according to this man, its not his first Close Encounter wil sasquatch. Linseys back with this bizarre story. Of course, it wasnt. Happy birthday, linsey. This is what we give you for your birthday. I appreciate it, again. Its one thing to claim to have seen bigfoot once, its quite another to have claimed to have spotted him several times. Three times is a charm for this central pennsylvania man who says hes been looking for the mythical creature his whole life. This time he says he got a little too close for comfort. Police in central pennsylvania are investigating an alleged vandal in these woods,