Attacks. At least five ukrainian cities targeted by missile strikes, with president zelenskyy here in the u. S. Urgent manhunt. The search for a murder suspect after he was mistakingly released from an indiana jail. Fentanyl in america. Police searching for the husband of the day care owner where a 1yearold died from exposure to the drug. He was caught on camera fleeing the scene. Alex murdaugh in court, and expected to plead guilty to federal fraud crimes, and the new developments in his fight for a new murder trial. Opening arguments for the two Colorado Police officers charged in the death of elijah mcclain, who died following an encounter with police while walking home from a store. Chat gpt. It is coming. Why best selling authors are suing the Company Behind chat gpt. Deja vu . Ticket master turmoil strikes again. Why some of Olivia Rodriguez fans are fired up with her tour in such high demand. One on one with Kerry Washington. Are you ready . My first look at my interview with the scandal star. I was shocked. So private throughout her career, why shes now making her life an open book. Dancing in september and this baseball fan dancing in the stands after an impressive onehanded home run catch. Do you remember announcer live in times square, this is good morning america. What did you say, michael . Im glad he threw the ball back and not the baby. [ laughter ] throw away the wrong thing. Holding the trash in your hand. Good morning, america. It is a busy tuesday morning. Lets take a live look right now capitol hill. Members of congress are set to meet again today as the clock ticks down on the possible Government Shutdown. Much more from capitol hill. We begin with the crisis at our southern border. The Biden Administration will send Defense Department personnel to the border. One small texas city issued an Emergency Declaration after migrants flooded the town, overwhelming resources. Matt gutman joins us with more. Reporter as migrant crossings continue to spike along the border, its got local officials very frustrated. As one county supervisor told me in san diego, its time for the federal government to step up. Overnight the Biden Administration saying its taking new action to handle situations like this. Thousands of migrants arriving daily at the u. S. Southwest border. This group just a small part of the roughly 7,000 people local Officials Say have crossed into the small town of eagle pass, texas. Now the administration said its sending a surge of active Duty Department of defense personnel to the border including 800 active duty members in addition to the 2,500 already deployed to assist customs and border protection. This as the number of migrant crossings has spiked in recent weeks. This train carrying hundreds of migrants arriving just south of el paso, texas. They braved the journey just one day after officials had temporarily shut down those trains after a half dozen Migrant Deaths were reported. With so many migrants arriving to the border, ngos and local resources are strained, forcing Border Patrol to release thousand of migrants on to the streets here in san diego county. This man from colombia gets emotional when we asked him what he was thinking. He is here now. That was his goal. But he had to leave his family behind. Reporter every migrant we spoke to here looking for a better life, but they are making life harder for local officials. Overburdened and underfunded, many local border communities on the front lines of immigration, a federal issue. Some with a message for washington politicians. This isnt a political situation. This is not a left or right issue. This is an immigration system that has failed. Reporter on the campaign trail, candidates are weighing in. Shortly before announcing his new energy policy, Florida Governor ron desantis sat down with our linsey davis in midland, texas. The governor suggesting it may be necessary to send the military to the border. As commander in chief, you have to defend your people and you have to ensure territorial integrity of your country. Right now we have drug cartels controlling parts of our border more so than our u. S. Government. That will change when i become president. Well make sure were defending the country. Reporter as for why were seeing this spike, its a mixture of the easing of peak summer temperatures, an increase in human smuggling activity and the simple fact that there are already a Record Number of migrants already on the move in this part of the world. George . Okay, matt. Thanks. Lets get more from salina wang. Late night at the white house, salina. Reporter george, the white house has been saying that President Biden is doing everything he can to address the migrant crisis but this has been a tough issue. Even his fellow democrats have been criticizing him for not doing more. This announcement is part of bidens broader efforts to create legal path ways for migrants to stay and work here. His administration is blaming congress for the lack of action, george. The president meeting with president zelenskyy today . Reporter george, this meeting could not come at a more critical time. Ukraines counter offensive has been slower than expected and russia has been reaching out to iran and north korea for more weapons. That is why this morning u. S. Officials telling abc news President Biden will announce hundreds of millions in more military aid to ukraine. But President Biden is asking for 24 billion more from congress. Hes hoping zelenskyys personal pleas to lawmakers, especially skeptical republicans, will convince them to approve more. This morning zelenskyy making that tough sell on capitol hill and then coming to the white house to meet with President Biden. His message is that ukraines success hinges on american support. George . Thank very much. Robin . With ukraines president here in the u. S. , overnight at least five ukrainian cities were targeted by Russian Missile strikes. Tom soufiburridge is on the scene of one of the devastating attacks with more details. Good morning, tom. Reporter good morning, robin. Russia launching a wave of missile strikes across ukraine like here. That building up there was a hotel. Look how the missile has launched. You can hear and see how they are still searching through the rubble, making sure none of the guests were inside at the time. Look at the devastation around me. Officials saying a missile here was shot down. Russia firing a total of 43 missiles. Ukraines air force saying it shot down 36 of them. The kremlin reverting to its tactic of targeting Ukrainian Energy sites. Overnight a major ukrainian attack on russian occupied cri crimea striking a Russian Air Force base. All that as president zelenskyy gears up for key meetings in the u. S. Michael . Tom, thank you very much for that. Going to turn to the urgent man hunt for a murder suspect who was mistakingly released from an indiana jail last week. Trevor ault is tracking the latest. Good morning, trevor. Reporter good morning, michael. Were a week removed from that man hunt from Danilo Cavalcante. He escaped with that daring crab walk sideways up a wall. This new man hunt is for a murder suspect who simply walked out the door, as Officials Say he was released by accident. Overnight an urgent search for accused murder suspect kevin mason, accidentally set free by authorities. He was on the run for nearly two years and he was in custody for a short 48 hours. Reporter investigators say the 28yearold walked out of jail on his own eight days ago, all because of a clerical error. Mason was arrested september 11th charged in connection with a killing in june 2021 in minneapolis. He was finally apprehended, nearly two years after the murder, but served just two days behind bars before his accidental release. He was picked up by his girlfriend from the adult detention center. His conversation to her was, im walking away and i will meet you. She picked him up. By the time we picked up on her, he wasnt with her. Reporter the sheriff points to staffing shortages as a possible cause of the error that led to masons release. Were short staffed. Theyre underpaid. Thats not an excuse, but its a fact. Reporter it comes in the wake of a two week man hunt that gripped the nation. We take responsibility for what happened here. We take it seriously. Everybody was put in harms way. Reporter officials at Chester County prison in pennsylvania, where Danilo Cavalcante broke out in august say theyve now taken significant steps to shore up their security. We are planning numerous safety enhancements. Most of which come with technology, including drones, detection methods. We are going to take this facility, make it state of the art. Reporter the active warden at Chester County prison say they have added more razor wire and government mesh. Over that gap in the roof that cavalcante climbed up to escape. Staffing is all an issue there, too. Theyre operating at only about 60 staffing capacity. Robin . Thats a major issue. Thank you. Now to the growing fentanyl crisis. Authorities are searching for the husband of a day care owner where a 1yearold died from exposure to the drug. Our Senior Investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky joins us with the latest. Good morning, aaron. Reporter robin, good morning. Americas fentanyl crisis is taking on a terrifying new dimension. Lethal amounts in close proximity to children and the hunt is on for a suspected drug trafficker who left fentanyl on play mats. This morning the urgent search for the husband of the bronx day care owner facing murder and Drug Trafficking charges in connection with the shocking death of a 1yearold exposed to fentanyl. Police said they found a kilo of the drug stored on play mats. Authorities say the owners husband was caught on video fleeing the day care before Emergency Personnel arrived carrying two heavy shopping bags out a back alley. Investigators say they recovered thousands of encrypted messages including some in which the day care owner warns her husband Law Enforcement was asking questions about him. All of that happened while the children, the babies, were suffering from the effects of fentanyl poisoning and in desperate need of help. Reporter and this morning five people are charged in another case that police say brought fentanyl frighteningly close to a child, this time at a home in queens, where police say they found an arsenal in the basement including a semiautomatic rifle and several loaded handguns and potentially lethal amounts of fentanyl across the hall of a bedroom of a 10yearold. Fatal doses of illegal narcotics where a child is sleeping is completely unacceptable. Reporter the 10yearold has been removed from the home in the bronx. The two people in custody are due in court today. Both cases, george, illustrate how this crisis is putting at risk not only users, but children who come into contact with fentanyl. George . It is just horrible. Okay, aaron. Thank you very much. Now to attorney general garland on capitol hill pushing back again republicans who accuse the Justice Department of political bias. Chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the story. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning. It was a contentious hearing with House Republicans claiming that doj is a pawn of the white house. We had a normally mild mannered attorney general who was not having it and who came prepared for a verbal fight. Republicans on the attack for more than five hours. The fix is in. Theres one investigation protecting President Biden. Theres another one attacking president trump. Reporter the attorney general rejecting claims of a politicized Justice Department, pushing back hard. Our job is not to take orders from the president , from congress or from anyone else about who or what the criminally investigations. Reporter much of it centered on President Bidens son hunter. And whether hes getting preferential treatment, despite the fact that hunter biden is being investigated by david weiss, a u. S. Attorney appointed by president trump. What stage are we in . Are we in the beginning stage, the middle stage, the end stage, the keep hiding the ball stage . Reporter the hearing at times testy and personal. At one point a republican congressman accusing garland of targeting catholics unfairly. Garlands family has faced antisemitism, deeply offended. The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd. Reporter democrats defending garland saying the house gop was simply trying to help former president trump, whos been indicted twice by a doj special counsel. Aside from the politics, hunter biden now facing the reality of an indictment and upcoming trial. Wednesday a federal judge ruled biden must appear in court for his arraignment despite his attorneys request that the appearance be virtual. The judge saying biden must be treated like any other defendant. Michael . All right, pierre. Thank you very much. Gonna turn now to the latest on a potential Government Shutdown. Still no deal on a spending bill to keep the government running as the clock ticks down to a deadline. Senior Congressional Correspondent rachel scott is tracking it all for us on capitol hill. Good morning, rachel. Reporter good morning. Still no deal with just ten days to go. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is floating a new proposal but he is still facing stiff opposition from democrats in the senate and even members of his own party. Overnight, House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy emerging from a tense two hour meeting insisting republicans are inching towards a proposal to avoid a Government Shutdown. Were very close there. I feel i have got a little more movement to go there. Reporter sources tell abc news mccarthys new plan would fund the government for 30 days, with some spending cuts, establish a Debt Commission an enact Stricter Border policies. How positive are you that you will avert a Government Shutdown . I dont know if you ever played sports. Did you quit before the game was over . Im going to stay with it and solve the problem. Reporter thats a nonstarter in the senate, where democrats are in control. Were one half of one third of the Decision Making process. But we act as though we can impose our will on the entire congress and we just simply cant do that. Reporter it may not even be enough to satisfy mccarthys far right critics in the house. Do you believe senator mccarthy is an effective leader . No. Obviously. Were eight months into his speakership and were stuck in the mud. Reporter if congress does not act in the next ten days, more than 4 million government workers could go unpaid. We should exhaust all options before heading to a shutdown. Reporter as mccarthy fights to keep republicans together, former speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying, this is no way to run congress. Nothing is playing out except chaos. Reporter and with time running out, some democrats and republicans are trying to Work Together on a bipartisan solution, but its unclear what will win over those hard right conservatives in the house. They will need their vote to avoid the shutdown. Robin . They will. All right. Rachel, thank you. Were going to turn to the latest on the hollywood writers strike. Negotiations are resuming between the union and studios with hope for many workers that there is an end in sight. Zoreen shaw has more from los angeles. Good morning. Reporter good morning, robin. There could be an end in sight to part of the historic hollywood threat that has up ended the Entertainment Industry and halted nearly all movie and tv productions. Hollywood writers and studios are reportedly close to an agreement to end the strike that started back in may. The wga alliance of Motion Picture producers releasing a joint statement saying that the two groups met yesterday and would meet again today. Talks yesterday were described as encouraging. Still the Writers Union sent a letter to members saying they wanted writers to continue showing up to the picket lines. Writers and actors are looking for better residual pay and higher wages for streaming shows and protection of their likeness from ai. There is still no word on the negotiations on the actors strike. It is the First Time Since the 1960s that both the actors and Writers Unions had been on strike at the same time. Just a massive Ripple Effect on Many Industries here. Guys . It truly is. As you said, it is encouraging. At least its encouraging. Without a doubt. Coming up Alex Murdaugh due in court on federal fraud crimes plus new allegations about the murder of his wife an son i