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00:00Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air, the U.S. bracing for a potential Category
00:053 hurricane, the state of emergency already. Also breaking tonight, the emergency response
00:10underway right now, a toxic leak, thousands evacuating. There is concern at this hour
00:15over a potential explosion. And former football star Brett Favre revealing a stunning diagnosis
00:21tonight.
00:22First this evening, Tropical Storm Helene gaining strength as it closes in on Florida.
00:26Breaking warnings and watches in place tonight, expected to hit as a Category 3. Mandatory
00:31evacuations, multiple states in the path of this system. Ginger Zee with the latest track.
00:36Also breaking as we come on, the images coming in now, a toxic and flammable chemical leaking
00:41outside Cincinnati. Thousands evacuating, authorities moments ago saying they are concerned
00:46over the potential for an explosion now. Many being urged to close doors and windows and
00:51to seal them if you can.
00:53With President Biden before world leaders at the U.N. today, tonight, Israel launching
00:57a new wave of deadly airstrikes on Beirut. The Israeli military saying a top Hezbollah
01:02commander was killed in a targeted missile attack. Tens of thousands of people trying
01:07to escape. What the president said about the escalating crisis, Ian Paddle in Beirut.
01:13Election Day, 42 days away now. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the economy and on immigration.
01:19Under President Trump in Georgia, Vice President Harris headed to Pennsylvania and then to
01:24the border. Tonight, Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre's stunning reveal while on Capitol
01:29Hill. His very personal battle, his diagnosis. Overseas, an American woman is believed to
01:34be the first person to ever use what's called a suicide pod in Switzerland. A criminal investigation
01:41now underway tonight. The 64 year old woman from the Midwest reportedly had suffered from
01:46an autoimmune condition in Kansas City tonight. The daring rescue. Twenty three stories up.
01:53Also 12 members of a university lacrosse team tonight seriously injured several hospitalized
01:58after a workout conducted by a Navy SEAL. What the workout included the earth about
02:03to get a second mini moon in New York City tonight, who Sean Diddy Combs is now sharing
02:08space with behind bars. The fireworks on Capitol Hill over the cost of those popular weight
02:13loss drugs. Why are they so expensive? How the CEO answered at America's Strong Tonight,
02:19the grandmother hiking. She lost her footing. Who found her and rescued her on that trail?
02:25It's remarkable. From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with
02:36David Muir. Good evening. We begin tonight with two breaking stories. This toxic leak.
02:41Is evacuating outside Cincinnati at this hour. There is concern over the potential
02:45for an explosion now. The image is coming in just moments ago, but first bracing for
02:49what could become a category three hurricane states of emergency already up tonight. Hurricane
02:54warnings and watches in Florida and now Georgia as well. Tropical Storm Helene gaining strength
02:59at this hour and bearing down, expected to become a major category three hurricane with
03:04115 mile an hour winds up to a foot of rain, possible a dangerous storm surge and flooding
03:10well inland. Storm clouds gathering on the beaches of Cancun, Mexico, ahead of Helene's
03:14arrival there, expected to make landfall here in the U.S. on Thursday. Tonight, mandatory
03:19evacuations already underway. Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee back with us tonight, leading us
03:23off with the latest track of this. Hi, Ginger. Hey, David, this storm should be a hurricane
03:28by tomorrow. Once it's in the Gulf, it is going to rapidly intensify, head toward the
03:32coast, make landfall Thursday night somewhere in the eastern panhandle or the Big Bend of
03:36Florida. Either way, major impacts well beyond that cone, and that's why we have widespread
03:41warnings, including the warning from Apalachicola to Tallahassee, Cedar Key, Crystal River.
03:46Tampa Bay is in that hurricane watch. Savannah, Georgia, even with a tropical storm watch.
03:51Let's talk about the number one loss of life and property. That is storm surge. 10 to 15
03:55feet. Steinhatchee, Cedar Key, Crystal River, six to 10 feet. That's a lot of water for
04:00those low lying areas. Four to eight feet around Tampa Bay causes big problems down
04:04to Sarasota. And then talk about the wind and timing. So the wind will start to pick
04:08up, especially Thursday. It's Thursday night when we see landfall on this model. Perry
04:12has a 120 mile per hour gust. Then this thing cruises overnight by 7 a.m. It's in western
04:19North Carolina with a 70 mile per hour gust at Asheville. It's not just the winds that
04:22will knock down power lines and trees all the way up into southern Appalachia, but that
04:26significant risk of flash flooding. Greenville, South Carolina is in there too. David. Ginger
04:30Zee, you'll have the latest on GMA first thing in the morning. Thank you. In the meantime,
04:34to the emergency unfolding outside Cincinnati, as I mentioned at this hour, the toxic and
04:38flammable chemical leak from a train in Ohio authorities just before we came on the air
04:42here tonight, saying they are now concerned over the potential for an explosion in the
04:46hours ahead. They are hosing hoses, dousing the train. Thousands of families have been
04:50urged to leave the area. Homes and schools evacuated and residents who are staying have
04:55been told to stay indoors and to try to seal their windows if they can. Geo Benitez with
04:59the images coming in now. Tonight, the alarming scene, you can smell a train spewing a toxic
05:07chemical cloud into the air, sparking urgent evacuations in Ohio. Firefighters racing to
05:13the town of Cleves, about 30 minutes west of Cincinnati, spraying water on the railcars.
05:18The company that owns the train, saying one of its railcars was venting styrene,
05:23a colorless, flammable and highly volatile liquid used to make plastics and rubber.
05:30About 3000 people near the scene urged to leave the area immediately. Schools put on
05:35lockdown and evacuated. Residents told to stay inside and seal off doors and windows
05:41with the heat up of the material in the car that there is potential for an explosion.
05:47It comes more than a year after a devastating train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio,
05:51that caused a hazardous chemical fire to burn for days, leading to a massive cleanup.
05:57And David, of course, as you mentioned, authorities tonight are very concerned
06:01about a potential explosion. That's why this is such a big deal. And as you can imagine,
06:05environmental agencies are responding right now to that scene, David.
06:09Geo Benitez covering this for us, Geo, thank you. Now to the escalating war between Israel
06:13and Hezbollah with President Biden before world leaders at the U.N. today, the crisis escalating
06:18overseas. Israel launching a new round of airstrikes on Lebanon, saying they've now
06:22killed another top Hezbollah leader. Hezbollah firing back, some rockets actually getting
06:27through Israel's Iron Dome defenses. President Biden today in his final U.N. address as president
06:32calling for an end to the escalation, saying a diplomatic solution is still possible.
06:38Our chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell in Beirut again tonight.
06:42Tonight, intense fire between Israel and Hezbollah. World leaders fearing a broader
06:47regional conflict with unimaginable consequences. The chaos and fear here on the streets of
06:53Beirut seen in videos circulating online. Israel saying it took out a top Hezbollah commander.
06:58Over the last 24 hours, Israel firing 2,000 missiles and bombs on what it says are Hezbollah
07:04targets. Casualties amounting, according to Lebanese officials, over 500 are dead,
07:09including children and over 1,800 injured. So many parts of the country left smoldering in ruin,
07:16residents running for their lives. These videos given to ABC News document the terrifying journey
07:22of one young woman. Cheer. Explosions everywhere. This time yesterday morning,
07:27this school was completely empty. But in a matter of hours, thousands and thousands of people
07:31flooded here from the south. Now it's at capacity. We met one family here who made that same
07:37terrifying journey, traveling for 20 hours, two parents and their five children. Baby Mohammed
07:43is just eight months old. Hassan, who didn't want to show his face, says there was a lot of panic,
07:48his children crying in terror as he says rockets kept landing around them as they tried to get out.
07:54President Biden at the U.N. saying the world is now at an inflection point.
07:58Full scale war is not in anyone's interest. Even if the situation has escalated,
08:03a diplomatic solution is still possible. David, a senior U.S. official telling our Martha Raddatz
08:08that there's going to be another big round of attacks with Hezbollah trying to move
08:12long range missiles around and Israel mobilizing some ground forces for raids.
08:16David Ian Panel, our thanks to you and to Martha for that reporting. Our team in the Middle East,
08:21thank you. President Biden, after addressing world leaders at the U.N., will sit down exclusively with
08:25the hosts of The View here on ABC tomorrow. His first interview since that debate in June that
08:30led to his ending his bid for reelection. That's tomorrow, 11 a.m. Eastern, right here on ABC.
08:35Meanwhile, in the race for the White House, 42 days to go until the election. Donald Trump and
08:39Kamala Harris on the economy and on immigration this week. Former President Trump in Georgia,
08:44Vice President Harris headed to Pennsylvania and then to the border in Arizona. And the new
08:49polling tonight, several new national polls showing Kamala Harris with a slight edge over Donald Trump,
08:53but within the margin of error. And in the key battleground states, several states with Donald
08:58Trump with a slight edge, others with Kamala Harris with the edge. This is a very close race.
09:03Here's Rachel Scott. Tonight in battleground Georgia, former President Donald Trump zeroing
09:09in on the top issue for voters, the economy, promising that if he wins, the U.S. will scoop
09:14up manufacturing jobs from other countries. We're going to take their factories. American
09:18workers will no longer be worried about losing your jobs to foreign nations. Instead,
09:23foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America. Trump says he'll bring
09:29business back home by slashing taxes and regulations and by imposing sweeping tariffs
09:34on foreign imports, something Vice President Kamala Harris says will drive up prices on
09:38everything from groceries to gas to medicine. Many economists agree with her. And today,
09:43the Senate's top Republican says he does, too. I'm not a fan of tariffs. They raise the prices for
09:51American consumers. The vice president's team pointing to the more than 700000 manufacturing
09:56jobs created during the Biden Harris administration. Harris today leaning into what's become
10:01a defining issue for her campaign, abortion, saying she wants to abolish the Senate filibuster
10:06to restore reproductive rights as they existed under Roe versus Wade with a simple majority vote
10:12instead of the two thirds vote now required. I've been very clear. I think we should eliminate
10:16the filibuster for Roe and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually
10:23put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom. Trump has boasted about nominating three
10:29of the Supreme Court justices who overturn Roe versus Wade, keenly aware he's paid a political
10:34price with female voters. The former president now making an all out appeal to the women who
10:39are concerned about abortion rights. I am your protector. I want to be your protector. As
10:43president, I have to be your protector. You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared.
10:49You will no longer be in danger. You're not going to be in danger any longer.
10:54You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today.
11:01You will be protected and I will be your protector. Women.
11:12Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free.
11:22You will no longer be thinking about abortion. It's all they talk about abortion.
11:27But tonight, a Harris campaign spokeswoman with a blunt response
11:31after ripping away our reproductive freedom. Now he's trying to tell us how to think.
11:35So let's bring in Rachel Scott here with us. A rare moment in studio in New York. Instead of on
11:39the campaign trail, we so appreciate your long hours on the campaign trail. So we've got former
11:43President Trump in Georgia on the economy. We've got Vice President Harris going to Pennsylvania
11:48on the economy, and then she's going to Arizona to the border. Both of these candidates keenly
11:52aware that immigration and the economy are top issues to voters. So first, Harris will be
11:56delivering that speech on the economy in Pittsburgh, and then she travels to battleground
12:00Arizona with a visit to our southern border. She's expected to tout the Biden administration's
12:05executive action that led to a significant drop in the number of migrants crossing the border.
12:10She's also expected to say that she would sign that bipartisan border bill into law that Donald
12:14Trump urged Republicans to reject, David, if she's elected. All right, Rachel Scott here with us in
12:18New York. Rachel, great to have you. We continue now with the news tonight into Capitol Hill now,
12:22where Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre revealed his very personal battle today,
12:26his Parkinson's diagnosis. Here on that, Trevor Ault.
12:30Tonight, stunning news from controversial NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre,
12:34revealing he's battling Parkinson's disease. I've recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's.
12:40This is also a cause dear to my heart. The 54-year-old former quarterback sharing the
12:45diagnosis today during testimony on Capitol Hill about welfare reform and accountability.
12:50Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes parts of the brain to
12:54deteriorate, affecting movement and cognition. Favre's 20-year career possibly made him more
13:00susceptible to the disease. Hundreds, probably thousands of concussions, including this career
13:06ending one in 2010. It's one of the few times I kind of went blank there for a while in my career.
13:12In general, repeated hits to the head are linked to neurodegenerative diseases. Concussions and
13:18even sub-concussive hits can alter brain structure and chemistry. And a new study
13:23shows one in three former NFL players surveyed believe they have the neurodegenerative disease
13:29CTE. Favre sharing his experience on the football field in the new documentary Concussed.
13:35I can't tell you how many times my head hits turf and stars or fireworks or whatever went off.
13:43I didn't think that was a concussion. It's hard to even put a number on
13:47how many of those I have. David, the average age of onset of Parkinson's is the early to mid-60s,
13:52and Brett Favre is just 54. Though we should note some people are diagnosed with early onset
13:57Parkinson's in their 50s, regardless of their career. David, Trevor Roll. Tonight, Trevor,
14:02thank you. Overseas tonight into an investigation involving suicide, which is legal in Switzerland.
14:07Tonight here, the case of an American woman believed to be the first person to use what's
14:12called a suicide pod in Switzerland. The 64-year-old woman from the Midwest
14:17reportedly suffered from an autoimmune condition. Here tonight, James Longman.
14:22A criminal investigation is underway tonight after the first known death of an American woman
14:27in a so-called suicide pod in Switzerland. The woman is described as a 64-year-old from
14:32the Midwest who had an autoimmune condition. Police say she died in a forest near the German
14:37border, where the capsule called the Sarko pod was placed. It's the first time it's ever been used,
14:43and it allows a person to release nitrogen gas into the chamber at the touch of a button.
14:49That removes all the oxygen, and it causes the person to fall asleep and then suffocate.
14:54Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland, but only without external assistance. Multiple arrests
15:00have been made in this case for incitement and the aiding and abetting of suicide.
15:05The inventor of the capsule is Australian physician Philip Nitschke,
15:08a known advocate of the right to die movement. There are some people who don't approve of the
15:12idea of assisted suicide at all. They would never approve of it. They're not my beliefs,
15:16and they're not the beliefs of many people who decide they want to control their deaths.
15:22David, the capsule has now been seized by police. Anyone found guilty of these charges
15:26could face up to five years in prison. David? James Longman reporting from London tonight,
15:31James. Thank you. Back here in the U.S. to Capitol Hill, lawmakers are asking why Americans
15:35are being forced to pay so much for those game-changing weight loss drugs that treat
15:39diabetes and obesity. The CEO of Novo Nordisk, that Danish company that makes Ozempic and Mugovi
15:45in the hot seat today, he was asked to lower the price of these life-saving medicines.
15:49Mugovi costs Americans $1,300 a month, five times more than it costs in Canada,
15:5414 times more expensive than it costs in the U.K.
15:57If you don't act, 40,000 people a year could die. Is this acceptable to you?
16:03Senator, any prospects of patients not getting access to the medicine they need,
16:09I think, is terrifying. And we have to solve this challenge together.
16:18The CEO not promising to cut the price, but saying he is open to talking about lower prices.
16:24When we come back here tonight in New York City,
16:26who Sean Diddy Combs is now sharing space with behind bars.
16:30Also tonight, 12 members of the University of La Crosse team seriously injured, several,
16:34in fact, hospitalized after a workout conducted by a Navy SEAL.
16:38And tonight, the Earth is about to get a second mini-moon in a moment.
16:43Tonight in New York City, Sean Diddy Combs is now sharing jail space with FTX founder Sam
16:48Bankman Freed. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges of being held
16:52without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He's been moved into the same unit
16:57with Freed, who was convicted of stealing billions from clients at his cryptocurrency exchange.
17:02Tonight, authorities say 12 La Crosse players from Tufts University were injured during a
17:06workout with a Navy SEAL. Some have been hospitalized. They're being treated for
17:09what's called RobDo, a potentially life-threatening condition triggered by intensive, excessive
17:14exercise, causing muscles to disintegrate. Three players remain hospitalized. The school says the
17:19supervised 45-minute workout was led by a graduate who recently completed Navy SEAL training.
17:25When we come back tonight, the Daring Rescue, 23 stories up, and you'll see it.
17:31To the index tonight, a Daring Rescue, 23 stories up in Kansas City, Missouri. Look at this. A
17:35window washer stranded at one Kansas City place. His harness had stopped working. A glassworker
17:40helping firefighters remove a...