Time at the white house. Have you ever lied to the American People . I dont think so. His combative relationship working with the press and if hed do it again only on gma. The terrifying moment at yankees stadium. A young girl in the stands slammed by a 105mileperhour ball. Panic on the players faces. Top athletes in tears. Now the batter who hit that ball sending an urgent message this morning. And we do say good morning, america. That little girl was rushed to the hospital but thankfully, thankfully she is doing okay at this hour. It is a very busy thursday morning. Were following multiple breaking stories. The entire island of puerto rico in the dark after Hurricane Maria. The governor was even out doing his best to help people rescuing people. They need as much help as they can get. There is an urgent serve under way for schoolchildren who are still trapped in the rubble from that earthquake. That is a live look at it right now in mexico city. A desperate effort to free a young girl and the classmates who may be trapped with her. Crews have been working all day through the night, 36 hours straight so far. Our Senior National correspondent matt gutman on the scene in mexico city. Good morning, magnitude. Reporter hey, good morning, george. I want to give you a sense of whats going on. This used to be the courtyard of the school. It was shaped in a uth and that pile the center of everybodys attention right now. Show you whats going on here, there are welders, there are carpenter, obviously professional rescuers, everybody laser focused on trying to get that little girl out of there. This morning, rescuers are tunneling ever closer to that entombed 12yearold and at least two others. How many people do you think are inside still . We dont know yet. Probably, probably there are more people there. Reporter crews using infrared cameras to scan the debris and something much more basic. Their voices. Rescuers make contact with her. They talk with her. They heard her voice. Yes, yes, the rescue teams heard her voice. Reporter every few minutes whilss and calls for silencio, or silence. As they try to talk to her. Once in a while cheers rising in the crowd. Even teachers reportedly on hand to calm the children inside. Amid the frantic effort to rescue the children from the trapped building, what really brings everything home is where they deposited all the childrens belongings here, book bag, notebooks and toys. Everyone hoping for a repeat of this rescue. Neighbors plucking kids from the debris dusty and screaming but alive. 21 other children and four teachers died here. Over 200 killed in mexico in that 7. 1 magnitude quake on tuesday. But as the army of rescuers burrow towards those trapped overnight, a moment of panic. Somethings happening here, they say. The air suddenly filling with dust. A rescuer says the back part of the building is collapsing. Experts say those trapped in the rubble can usually survive for a week, maybe more. Helping raise their chances for survival access to water, oxygen and the temperature in that space. Now, this is still a very precarious situation for all of the workers here. One of the reasons you dont see anybody on that pile right now is because just moments ago there was a warning that it subside and shifted a bit so there is a concern that either the people inside could be hurt or the rescue workers and just overnight we had seismic warnings. Everybody in this courtyard had to be cleared out. I want to give you a sense of how precarious it is. See that building. That is whats left of the school being propped up by wood and steel beams. There was concern that that might also come down. So still loots of concern here. Not only for the people inside but the workers here. George. Matt, presumably its taking so long because that building is so fragile right now. Reporter thats right. Basically what theyve been trying to do is build it from the outside in. Thats why you see so many carpenters and can see welders. Trying to prop it up so they can tunnel through and you see that building up there. Thats how high it used to be. It used to be three stories so think of condensed threestory building basically pure concrete and the problem is what they want to do is try to get those children out and want to get them out alive so dug three holes in the building. Not just about getting them out but getting them out safely and without hurting them any more than theyve already been injured, george. Since theyve been able to dig holes are they able to pump oxygen down there, water, food, anything like that . Reporter theyve been trying to get oxygen, water. They cant get food down there. The spaces are just far too tight and still too dangerous but know for a fact that little girl is still alive and apparently told rescuers here who just told us that shes just tired right now. My. My goodness. The issue is it was cold outside and rained and so that also limits the time that officials and workers here have to rescue her so really the race is on right now to get to her but safely and efficiently, george. Obviously without hurting anybody else. Matt gutman, thanks very much. You can see theyre doing everything they can. Hurricane maria also causing mass devastation. Emergency officials in puerto rico say the island has been destroyed. The storm knocking out power everywhere. More than two feet of rain sparking Major Concerns about flash flooding. Rob is on the ground there for us again this morning. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, robin. The winds have finally died down in san juan but as you can see the damages has been done, fallen tree, utility poes, you name it. Debris all over thety and not just the wind, the torrential rains just engulfing this city. Those this morning have finally come to an end. Overnight, the island of puerto rico submerged. After receiving more than 30 inches of rain and just 24 hours. Hurricane maria laying waste to this once tropical paradise. Roads now deserted. Signs that life here has come to a complete standstill. The catastrophic winds and downpours cutting off this island of 3. 5 million people. The governor and National Guard going door to door this morning trying to rescue those whose homes are at risk. Intense flash floods pouring into small towns like this raging current sweeping through thetown of guaynabo. And a sea of darkness. Nightfall here in puerto rico where 100 of the island is off the power grid. Anybody with lights on has the luxury of a backup generator. The office of Emergency Management telling abc News Telecommunications have collapsed. 12,000 evacuees remain in shelters this morning. Outside dangerous dangling traffic lights threaten the safety of those below. In san juan theres fallen debris all over the roads. The winds taking down these big old trees in old san juan and balcony railings coming crashing down onto these cobblestone streets. This gas station almost unrecognizable. And the damage here to infrastructure is significant. 100 of the island without power. Communications extremely difficult. Survival mode will be tough not just today but in the weeks going forward. Robin. Got to keep that in mind, rob, thank you. Absolutely. Survival mode is tough. Were also hearing about incredible stories of survival from people directly hit by Hurricane Maria and abcs Victor Oquendo, hes also in san juan. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael. This is just about what every street in san juan looks like, massive downed trees, debris everywhere. So many hopes damaged by Hurricane Maria and for those who live in the more vulnerable areas surviving this category 4 wasnt easy. This morning, in the wake of maria, harrowing account of survival begin to surface. Ramon caldera and his family rode out this category 4 monster in guaynabo. Most homes didnt follow any building codes when they were built. And are extremely vulnerable to powerful storms. Their family of five hiding in a kitchen avoiding this near death hit. Good thing no one was here. Yeah, i was worried. You were worried . Yeah, and my sister was screaming like that. Reporter the power pole is down, downed power leans and underneath that is a transformer. Just east of san juan christie and her husband visiting from nashville riding out the storm with their 13monthold baby. We got a call this morning around 3 00 a. M. To go ahead and evacuate our rooms because the wind had picked up so much. Reporter the winds upwards of 150 Miles Per Hour, their room flooded. We dont have power. We dont have water. Reporter less than 100 miles away, the island of st. Croix also in marias crosshairs. Search and rescue teams are out and continue to work. For those in a safe place conditions are so dangerous that officials want them to stay put for the time being. Michael. Thank you, still got to be careful. Good advice there. Now, lets go to ginger for a look at where the storm is now and where its heading. Good morning. Good morning to you, robin. Flash Flood Warning for the entire island of puerto rico as this thing pulls away. Dominican republic seeing gusts from punta kana to the west of 60 plus Miles Per Hour and the eye there, a little ragged but it is regaining strength and nothing to stop it for the next 24 to 48 hours as it skirts to the north of the turks and caicos and have them in a hurricane warning and certainly southern bahamas and then it gets to go north and thats a good thing away from florida and away from georgia. You should start seeing the kickup of surf for North Carolina and south carolina. As far as what happens after, this is the steering factor. This bermuda high will retreat a bit. A good thing and will help that jet stream you see that dip in the arrows theyve got there push this to the east. We could see high surf and impacts could be what we saw like with the last hurricane but well talk about what happens postjose and post maria next week. We move on to President Trump. Hes gearing up for his final day of diplomacy in new york. North korea is responding to the president s combative United Nations speech where trump threatened to destroy north korea. Their foreign minister dismissed the president s speech as the sound of a dog barking and iran slammed it and trump made a decision whether to pull out of the nuclear deal but will not say what it is yet and in washington, the Russian Investigation is intensifying. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked the white house for documents about the firings of james comey and Michael Flynn and the Oval Office Meeting between the president and top russian diplomats. Lets get more on that from our chief White House Correspondent jon karl. Mueller really tightening the noose focusing directly on the white house. The clearest indication his investigation is going inside the white house and looking at the actions of President Trump himself. You remember the president has said over and over again im not under investigation. Now it sure looks like he is. The firing of mueller, i mean the firing of comey, the firing of flynn, also the blatantly false statement that press Secretary Sean Spicer put out the day that comey was fired explaining why he was fired. All of that is what hes looking to. The president clearly under investigation right now. Meantime, we know his former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort has really been in the crosshairs of Robert Mueller and now we also know that thousands potentially of emails have been turned over to mueller. Yeah, blockbuster story in the Washington Post on in that shows among many other things that manafort was offering to set up a briefing on the campaign with one of russias richest oligarchs, interesting response from bloomberg from ty cobb, the president s lawyer, it is truly shocking if manafort was trying to profit on his ties to trump and that he would never have tolerated no evidence the briefing actually happened. No evidence that briefing happened but with manafort youve seen efforts by the president to distance himself from the former Campaign Manager going several months back but they appear to be in contact later in the year into the presidency. The key thing, the big question, george is whether or not mueller is trying to flip manafort. Trying to get him to give evidence against the president. We will see. Jon karl, thanks very much. We will see. Now to that effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The senate plans to vote on a republicanled bill next week but as time runs out questions are growing about whether the bill has the votes to pass. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is following it all for us on capitol hill. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. Republicans are feeling good this morning. Hopeful they may finally pull this one off. The president says this bill has a good chance and the republican leader intends to hold a vote next week but the vote tally up here on the hill, well, it tells a different story. Republicans can afford to lose just two votes already senator rand paul says hes a no and several other key republicans are wavering concerned about the impacts of this bill and the way its being rushed through. Theres so many questions. You know this about this bill including will people with preexisting conditions will they be protected . Do we know that with the bill . Reporter the president and Republican Leaders insist the bill includes coverage for people with preexisting conditions. And there is language about this in the bill but it includes no guarantees. So some people with preexisting conditions could end up paying more. Look, this bill overhauls oakla obamacare by ending sub ski dis and medicaid extension giving states more flexibility but less federal funding to get it done. We still dont know how Many Americans could stand to lose coverage under the plan or how premiums could be impacted. Still unknown, mary, thank you. It would leave it up to the stays which means they could impose lifetime limits and not have the coverage that was now guaranteed under the federal law so it is a big, big change right there. We move on to another cabinet secretary for President Trump facing questions about his flights. Health secretary tom price chartered five private jets just last week and our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega in washington with more and, cecilia, on this front, this is official government travel which means its paid for by the taxpayers unless the secretary tries to find a way to reimburse the government. It raked up tens of thousands of dollars and not just the Health Secretary here but three members of the Trump Administration are now under scrutiny for their travel. Health secretary tom price this morning facing tough questions about why he needed to fly on private jets to conduct official government business. The American People need to know that their tax dollars are being spent wisely. Reporter a fiscal conservative and former member of congress who once tweeted congress doesnt need to have private jets. But according to politico price took an unpress dented five different flights on privately chartered planes last week alone and the organizations he visited tell abc news, they did not foot the bill. One of those trips, a short 30minute ride to philadelphia, 10,000 round trip on a private plane compared to about 700 on a commercial flight and less than 300 on the train. Its just not right. Its juice not right. Reporter democrats now calling for an investigation. Is tens of thousands of dollars in spending on private planes a good example of spending government money . Its not a good example of spending money. Its something we need to investigate and an example of wasteful spending in my mind. Reporter price makes for the third member of the administration whose travel is under scrutiny. Environmental Protection Agency investigators are looking into secretary Scott Pruitts frequent trips to his home state of oklahoma, taxpayers footing the bill and the Treasury Department is reviewing secretary Steve Mnuchins flight to kentucky on a government jet, a trip where he and his wife viewed the eclipse. Mnuchin also requested a government plane to fly him and his new bride on their overseas summer honeymoon but withdrew that request after being told it would look bad. So, as for Health Secretary prices private jet travel, the white house is not commenting but a health and Human ServiceDepartment Spokesperson says he has a demanding schedule and say theyre trying to maximize his time and while they do check commercial travel available, quote, commercial travel is not always feasible, they say . Well see if they get more questions on that. Cecilia, thanks very much. Michael. Were going to go to ginger with more Hurricane Maria and how it could affect the east coast, good morning, ginger. Good morning to you. You know, we look for storm surge and hear those number, domi looks like it will be in the five to ten range up to North Carolina as we go into the weekend. Local weather in 30 second, first, though, the chilly cities brought to you by mazda. Reporter we are dry this morning across the region, but, as we take a look outside theres a fair amount of the clouds