The desperate search for those two suspects. Our friend and colleague Elizabeth Vargas opens up about her long battle with alcoholism. The only thing that will make you feel better is more alcohol. The 20 20 anchor reveals what fueled her drinking and how she took back control of her life. And good morning, america. Boy, that interview, Elizabeth Vargas with diane sawyer is so raw and real and a lot of hope in there. We are very proud of her. This is a disease that affects millions. She came out and very forthcoming about it and i think its going to help a lot of people. First we begin with the race for the white house. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton sitting down to answer questions about leadership and the military. Their answers and attacks giving a preview to the upcoming debates. Clintons Campaign Manager robby mook is here. Hell talk to george live in a moment but first Abcs Cecilia Vega is on the campaign trail in charlotte, north carolina, with the latest. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. That first debate now a little more than two weeks away, but overnight both sides facing off over what it takes to be commander in chief and the one thing that both of these candidates can agree on, neither side is ready for the job. It was the first time they shared a stage and though never on it at the same time, donald trump and Hillary Clinton went headtohead on National Security. The republican candidate blasting American Military leaders. I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. Reporter and openly discussing the classified intelligence briefing he received as a candidate. There was one thing that shocked me, what i did learn is that our leadership, barack obama, did not follow what our experts and our truly when they call it intelligence, its there for a reason, what our experts said to do. Reporter in the nbc forum overnight clinton making this promise about americas role in the middle east. We are not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again and were not putting Ground Troops into syria. Were going to defeat isis without committing american Ground Troops. Reporter while trump would not reveal his plan. If i win, i dont want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. Reporter what there was no shortage of, attacks. Clinton saying her vote for the iraq war was a mistake while slamming trumps shifting position. The decision to go to war in iraq was a mistake. Now, my opponent was for the war in iraq. He says he wasnt. You can go back and look at the record. I was against the war in iraq because i said it was going to totally destabilize the middle east. Reporter thats not what trump said in an interview in 2002. Are you for invading iraq. Yeah, i guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly. Reporter another mistake she admitted to, those emails. It was a mistake to have a personal account. I would certainly not do it again. I make no excuses. Reporter while trump defended a controversial tweet about sexual assaults in the military. In 2013 trump writing only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together . Asked about it overnight, trump wouldnt back down. Well, it is it is a correct tweet and by the way, since then its gotten worse. Not to kick them out. Part of the problem right now is nobody gets prosecuted. Reporter this morning president obama is weighing in from overseas saying trump is not ready for the oval office. I dont think the guys qualified to be president of the United States. And every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. Reporter well, you heard it there. The president is in laos and he is really blasting donald trump. This morning he said the republican candidate has, quote, either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas. George. Not holding back at all, cecilia, thanks very much. Lets talk to Hillary Clintons Campaign Manager robby mook right now. Robby, thanks for joining us this morning. Were you hurricane with how the forum went last night . Absolutely. This was an opportunity for voters to see the difference between these two candidates and what they saw was that Hillary Clinton both has a real command of the issues but also the experience and the judgment to be our commander in chief and what we saw from donald trump was that he is simply unfit for the job. He insults at our generals. He said that men and women were not capable of serving together in our military. He showered praise again on Vladimir Putin despite matt lauer walking through all of the all of the regrettable things that hes done. So i think voters really saw that difference and saw only one candidate was prepared to be commander in chief and thats Hillary Clinton. Heres what Reince Priebus said. Angry, defensive, no smile, you uncomfortable. Upset that she was caught sending our secrets. This is what is so incredible and challenging for the republicans, the fact that the only criticism they could have for Hillary Clinton is that she didnt smile enough at a very serious forum on our veterans, on our National Security and on the job of commander in chief. Just tells you everything you need to know. Donald trump simply didnt come prepared and hes not going to be prepared to serve as president and that was abun dpaptsly clear. Hillary clinton lost the coin toss so she went first and donald trump went second. Let me give you a chance to respond to a couple of things. The intelligence briefing he got showed barack obama did not follow what his experts told him to do and could tell from the body language they were not happy. Your response . Well, first of all its concerning that donald trump was, you know, was potentially sharing information that he learned in his briefing. I mean, but what was really scary, george, was he keeps talking about the secret plan that he has to defeat isis. Well, it was clear last night, theres really no plan at all, and thats whats scary is, first of all, he doesnt seem to have the judgment or temperament to make good digs as commander in chief but he doesnt have any plans and he certainly didnt have command of the issues or the questions that he was being asked. Hillary clinton said last night she would never again put Ground Troops in iraq but there are Ground Troops in iraq. Well, i think what she was referring to there specifically was the volume of troops that had been there before. But, again, Hillary Clinton is actually released a plan, a detailed plan on how to defeat isis. Donald trump has said he has one. Hes keeping it secret. But, again, last night it was clear there just isnt a plan and hes trying to hide from that and he lashed out at our nations generals when he was asked for details. So, again, theres no plan there. And donald trump has shown us yet again he is unfit to serve. Robby mook, thanks for joining us today. Thanks so much. All right, george, lets bring in jon karl on this discussion about the forum last night. Its evident how the president , what he feels about what he saw last night. Yeah. Did we learn anything new about the candidates, were where they stand on certain positions. Look, the first thing is this was a rough night for Hillary Clinton, robin. I mean 13 minutes of questioning was on her emails. And despite what robby mook said there, you could tell she was irritated by this. She was legalistic, she was defensive. Donald trump got off relatively easy, seemed confident. Seemed at ease, but he was let off relatively easy although i think he will have things to pay for. He praised putin again in pretty glowing terms and, you know, he went on to attack the generals, the seen officers in the military. Not only did he do that, lou unprecedented is it for a candidate to share classified information from an intelligence briefing. That was bizarre. Did he reveal too much. Ive been covering president ial elections for a long time. Ive never seen a president ial candidate talk about one of those briefings. He didnt reveal any qualified information but implied they were on his side. It was strange thats the thing. These Intelligence Briefings are done by intelligence professional, not political people at all, not policy people at all. They dont weigh in on policy. Thats why it was sort of surprising to hear him characterize what they were saying in that way. Yeah, they cant defend themselves and implies they were basically on his side and cant speak about this at all. Big difference from a debate. They did go backtoback. Each it will be more interesting to say, i guess its coming up on september 26th which issues each chooses to pick up on. When the opponent goes and whether they decide to jump in. I think that what it showed is both have a lot of prepwork to do before the next debate. Hillary clinton needs to be able to handle these tough she still doesnt have a good answer on emails and donald trump will not get off so easy in the next debris. You think with Hillary Clinton because she hasnt had any press conferences or that time huge. For two reason, robin, first of all, its less practice, less back and forth. Went 270 days without a press conference. Not a lot of tough interviews. If she had been doing that the questions would have been asked and matt lauer would have maybe felt less of a need to hammer over and over again on emails and would be more at ease with the questions. Jon karl, thank you. Do more press conferences. Yes. Of course, thats going to be it. Practice, practice, practice. What they need to do. Now to that flooding in the midwest. Well turn it over to ginger who is going to tell us whats left of the former Tropical Storm newton and its messing up the south and ginger is here with that. We are learning that tucson had almost a months worth of rain in just one day as the remnants of what was newton passed over. Didnt make history as that Tropical Storm but some got up to a half foot and spewing that ongoing flash flooding. Thats from milwaukee, wist, a lot picking up 3, 4, 5 inches quickly and this morning you can see it on the satellite image as that pools up. Chicago back to kansas city really ruckus morning. That moisture going to pool and, again, thats why we see flood watches south of davenport, east of wichita. The next story is right here. New york city, philadelphia, dover, all in a heat advisory. Itll feel close to 100. Look at some of those heat indices, 106 in dover. That is hot. O. , ginger, thanks. A shooting sparking outrage in chicago where Surveillance Video shows a gunman attacking a 71yearold man there watering his lawn. Abcs alex perez is in chicago with the latest. This comes after chicagos deadliest month in decades. Reporter yeah, thats right, george. This morning were trying to figure out what exactly investigators are looking at here. Now, what weve learned from investigators who are following this case is that the 71yearold man was minding his own business when suddenly he was fighting for his life. This morning, Chicago Police on the hunt for the brazen suspects that took down this Senior Citizen and then shot him. The entire ordeal captured on tape by a neighbors surveillancecamera. He was out watering his front lawn tuesday when two men ride past him on bicycles and moments later one of those men returns wrestling him to the ground and shooting him in the abdomen then rivaling through his pockets and stealing his wallet. Its absolutely ridiculous. Youre not even safe in your own yard. Reporter injured laguardia gets himself to a neighbors front door and calls for help. The unbelievable video another sign of the recordbreaking violence plaguing some parts of chicago. In 2016 nearly 3,000 shootings so far. More than 500 murders. More than new york and los angeles combined. Its not a police issue. Its a society issue. You know, improve otherished neighborhoods, people without hope do these kind of things. You show me a man who doesnt have hope and ill show you a man who picks up a gun and ready to do anything. Reporter theyre hoping this video leads to an arrest. If you can identify your child on there, do the right thing before you get the knock on the door. Reporter laguardia is doing better and his wife says hes in fair condition. Thanks very much. You spent time with nba star dwyane wade. His cousin was gunned down recently. Taking her kids to school. Right there on the street. And he says, hes going to do what he needs to do and others need to do to take back their community. He is going back home and says it reminds him what it was like growing up back in the 90s when there was a lot of violence of as well. The most important thing he needs, he nis, is mentors. There are gang wars going on. They have to find a way to get a ham on it. For the young men and women. They need those mentors. They need hope. Amy is here with the rest of todays top headlines. A highway shooting in arizona. Tough story. A woman has died after being shot while just driving down the highway in phoenix. Police say she called 911 to say she was being chased by a truck, dispatchers then heard three shots, no arrests have been made yet. Police say there is no apparent link to a serial shooting in that area blamed for seven recent killings. Some disturbing video from southern california. A police was seen using his baton to repeatedly hit a suspect on the ground. Police say moments earlier that Supreme Court tried to began the officers gun inside a store in marietta and the investigation is under way. Surveillance video showing the moment a murder suspect in las vegas twisted and broke through his handcuffs after being left alone in a Police Interrogation room just last week, he then climbed through the ceiling to escape. It took police 25 minutes to realize he was gone and finally captured tuesday. An asteroid the size of a school bus passed by earth. The space rock buzzed the planet wednesday at 18,000 miles an hour and scientists discovered it only two days earlier. This comes as nasa launches a rocket today sending a robot to another asteroid to collect dust in hopes of finding clues to the origins of life. And soccer star Megan Rapinoe didnt get a chance to protest the national anthem. They played the anthem while the players were still in their locker room. She took a knee during a recent game to join nfl quarterback Colin Kaepernicks protest for minority rights. And it was a messy morning commute around wilmington, delawa delaware, after this truck overturned spilling thousands of pennies. It headed to the u. S. Mint in philadelphia when it overturned and finally, trying to sell an Office Building shaped like a giant picnic basket apparently is no picnic. Take a look. Yep, thats an actual building. These are the headquarters of surprisingly a Basket Company in ohio. It cost 32 million to build this back in the 90s but the company is so desperate to sell it they lowered the sale price to just 5 million but no takers and been on the market for over a year. Maybe if they took the hams off. Im thinking the same thing. Maybe. The lands got to be worth 5 million. Maybe a little bit longer. All right, guys. To the latest on ryan lochte and reports this morning that the embattled olympian will be suspended for ten months following what happened in rio. Abcs ryan smith joins us now with the latest. Reporter good morning. The suspension means the 32yearold swimmer is out for next years World Championships the others are facing bans of several month, as well. Officials from the usoc, United StatesOlympic Committee have yet to publicly comment but an announcement is believed to be coming later this afternoon. The 12time medalist apologizing for exaggerating a story that he was robbed at gunpoint creating an international incident. If he wants to continue competing, his next world championship, 2019 when he is 35 years old. Thats going to be a tough one to do, robin. We have to wait to see if that happens. Thank you very much. Everyone kind of suspected Something Like this had to happen. Ginger, whats going on in arizona . We talked about that flooding rain and funnel cloud that this is near flagstaff, of course, the circulating energy in the atmosphere is moving north. We have the cold front this is where well see the strong storms in front of the cold front. Notice theres a new low coming at you, its center in parts of the dakotas, it will slide by near kansas and wichita look out for damaging winds this is for tomorrow, hail and isolated tornado. Local weather, but first we have to get to the hot cities brought to you by macys. Reporter good morning, everyone, im meteorologist karen rogers, weve got a hot one today. Lets go outside and look live on sky6 live hd. What a gorgeous shot look he the sunshine at the commodor barry bridge. We have lots of sun mixing with clouds today. 72 degrees, the high today 96. Heat advisory in effect because it will feel like 101 in philadelphia. Tomorrow, 94. 96 on saturday, better on sunday. Cool. Then itll eventually your motherinlaw doing well . Shes doing well. Thanks for asking. If you were here yesterday, youd get it. 20 20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas opening up about her struggle with alcoholism talking with our diane sawyer. How close did you come to dying . Elizabeth revealing the crushing insecurity and anxiety that fueled her drinking. Her brave and honest interview with diane ahead. Scandal at the u. S. Open. Serena williams goes for a