>>> HE'S FAMILY. TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, I CAN IMAGINE NO PLACE THAT I WOULD BE LESS COMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW THAN SITTING HERE IN FRONT OF YOU. SHARING THESE COMMENTS. >> TO BE CLEAR, I BLAME LARRY NASSAR AND I ALSO BLAME AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED AND PERPETRATED HIS ABUSE. >> EMOTIONAL, GUT-WRENCHING TESTIMONY ON CAPITOL HILL FROM SOME OF AMERICA'S TOP ATHLETES. OLYMPIC GYMNAST SIMONE BILES, ALY RAISMAN, McKAY LLA MARONEY TAKING THE STAND. THEY ARE AMONG THE MORE THAN 150 WOMEN AND GIRLS WHO SAY USA GYMNASTICS AND MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM OVER TWO DECADES. MARONEY WITH A BLISTERING STATEMENT ACCUSING THE FBI OF MISHANDLING THE INVESTIGATION, LYING AND IGNORING THEIR CLAIMS, SAYING THEY HAD LEGAL, LEGITIMATE EVIDENCE OF CHILD ABUSE AND DID NOTHING. SENATORS BLASTING THE FBI TODAY FOR THEIR HANDLING OF THE CASE AND DEMANDING ACTION. WHAT THE FBI DIRECTOR IS SAYING TONIGHT ABOUT AGENTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THAT INVESTIGATION AND WHAT COMES NEXT. RACHEL SCOTT ON CAPITOL HILL TONIGHT. >>> THE MAJOR FLOOD CONCERNS AN EYE FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA, THE REMNANTS OF NICHOLAS STALLED OVER HARD-HIT LOUISIANA, STILL REELING AFTER HURRICANE IDA, NEW ORLEANS BRACING FOR MORE DANGEROUS FLOODING. OUR VICTOR OKENDO AND ROB MARCIANO STANDING BY. >>> THE FDA AND ITS DATA REVIEW, WILL AMERICANS NEED A THIRD SHOT? AN INDEPENDENT PANEL MEETING TOMORROW TO DECIDE WHETHER TO AUTHORIZE BOOSTERS. TONIGHT, WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY ABOUT WHEN AMERICANS MAY NEED THAT THIRD SHOT AND WHEN MIGHT CHILDREN UNDER 12 BE ABLE TO GET VACCINATED? >>> THE BATTLE OVER VACCINE MANDATES AS PRESIDENT BIDEN LEANS ON BUSINESSES TO HELP GET THE UNVACCINATED TO TAKE THE SHOT. SOME EMPLOYEES PUSHING BACK. WE'LL EXAMINE HOW FAR THE GOVERNMENT CAN GO IN MANDATING VACCINES. >>> ONE DAY AFTER A NEW BOOK REVEALS EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR GENERAL MARK MILLEY DEFENDING HIS CALLS WITH CHINA, A FORMER TOP PENTAGON OFFICIAL TELLING ABC NEWS ABOUT A COORDINATED EFFORT TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY. DOES PRESIDENT BIDEN STILL HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIS GENERAL? JONATHAN CARL STANDING BY WITH NEW REPORTING. >>> AND TONIGHT, WE'RE GIVING YOU A FRONT ROW SEAT TO HISTORY WITHOUT A SINGLE PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUT ON BOARD. THE SPACEX LAUNCH BLASTING FOUR CIVILIANS OUT OF THIS WORLD. >>> AND GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, I'M KEIRA PHILLIPS IN FOR LINDSEY DAVIS. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. TODAY WAS A PAINFUL REMINDER THAT SOMETIMES THERE IS DAMAGE THAT JUST CAN'T BE UNDONE. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF DOZENS OF TOP GYMNASTS BY FORMER OLYMPIC TEAM DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR AND THE YEARS OF SILENCE BY USA GYMNASTICS AND THE FBI. OLYMPIC GREATS SIMONE BILES, ALY RAISMAN, McKAYLA MARONEY AND COLLEGE GYMNAST MAGGIE NICHOLS ALL APPEARED BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TODAY SAYING THEY WERE BETRAYED BY THE FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AND BY THE LEADERS OF THE SPORT THEY LOVED. THE GREATEST GYMNAST ON THE PLANET, SIMONE BILES, SMPOKE TODAY OF AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED A MONSTER TO VICTIMIZE HER AND SO MANY OTHERS. FBI DIRECTOR CHRIS WRAY WASN'T THERE TO ARGUE WITH THESE BRAVE SURVIVORS AND HE OFFERED HIS APOLOGY. SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? ABC'S CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT, RACHEL SCOTT, LEADS US OFF FROM CAPITOL HILL. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, FOUR OF THE GREATEST ATHLETES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GYMNASTICS DEMANDING JUSTICE, TELLING CHRISTMAS THEY WERE BETRAYED BY THE FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY TEAM DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR. >> I DON'T WANT ANOTHER YOUNG GYMNAST, OLYMPIC ATHLETE OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO EXPERIENCE THE HORROR THAT I AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE ENDURED BEFORE, DURING, AND CONTINUING TO THIS DAY IN THE WAKE OF THE LARRY NASSAR ABUSE. TO BE CLEAR -- I'M SORRY. >> TAKE YOUR TIME. >> TO BE CLEAR, I BLAME LARRY NASSAR, AND I ALSO BLAME AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED AND PERPETRATED HIS ABUSE. >> IN SACRIFICING MY CHILDHOOD FOR THE CHANCE TO COMPETE FOR THE UNITED STATES, I AM HAUNTED BY THE FACT THAT EVEN AFTER REPORTING MY ABUSE, SO MANY WOMEN AND GIRLS HAD TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF LARRY NASSAR. USA GYMNASTICS AND THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE HAVE ALL BETRAYED ME AND THOSE WHO WERE ABUSED BY LARRY NASSAR AFTER I REPORTED. >> GOLD MEDALLIST ALY RAISMAN ACCUSING THE FBI OF LYING AND DRAGGING ITS FEET FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. >> OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT HAS BECOME PAINFULLY CLEAR HOW A SURVIVOR'S HEALING IS AFFECTED BY THE HANDLING OF THEIR ABUSE. AND IT DISGUSTS ME THAT WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR THE MOST BASIC ANSWERS AND ACCOUNTABILITY OVER SIX YEARS LATER. IT TOOK OVER 14 MONTHS FOR THE FBI TO CONTACT ME, DESPITE MY MANY REQUESTS TO BE INTERVIEWED BY THEM. NASSAR FOUND MORE THAN 100 NEW VICTIMS TO MOLEST. IT WAS LIKE SERVING INNOCENT CHILDREN UP TO A PEDOPHILE ON A SILVER PLATTER. >> HER TEAMMATE, McKAY LA DESCRIBES TELLING TEAMMATES HOW NASSAR STARTED ABUSING HER WHEN SHE WAS JUST 13. >> I TOLD THE FBI ABOUT TOKYO, THE DAY HE GAVE ME A SLEEPING PILL FOR THE PLANE RIDE. THAT EVENING, I WAS NAKED, COMPLETELY ALONE, WITH HIM ON TOP OF ME MOLESTING ME FOR HOURS. I TOLD THEM I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE THAT NIGHT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY THAT HE WOULD LET ME GO. BUT HE DID. I TOLD THEM I WALKED THE HALLS OF TOKYO HOTEL AT 2:00 A.M. AT ONLY 15 YEARS OLD. I BEGAN CRYING AT THE MEMORY OVER THE PHONE, AND THERE WAS JUST DEAD SILENCE. I WAS SO SHOCKED AT THE AGENT'S SILENCE AND DISREGARD FOR MY TRAUMA, AFTER THAT MINUTE OF SILENCE, HE ASKED, IS THAT ALL? THOSE WORDS IN ITSELF WAS ONE OF THE WORST MOMENTS OF THIS ENTIRE PROCESS FOR ME. TO HAVE MY ABUSE BE MINIMIZED AND DISREGARDED BY THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TOROTECT ME JUST TO FEEL LIKE MY ABUSE WAS NOT ENOUGH. BUT THE TRUTH IS, MY ABUSE WAS ENOUGH, AND THEY WANTED TO COVER IT UP. >> Reporter: MARONEY ACCUSING THE FBI OF COVERING UP HER CLAIMS TO PROTECT NASSAR. >> WHY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WHOSE JOB IS TO PROTECT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS? THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. TODAY, I ASK YOU ALL TO HEAR MY VOICE. I ASK YOU, PLEASE, DO ALL THAT IS IN YOUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR IGNORING MY INITIAL REPORT. >> Reporter: NASSAR WILL LIKELY SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON. ONE OF THE FBI AGENTS ON THE CASE HAS RETIRED. THE OTHER ONE, RECENTLY FIRED. TODAY, DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY PERSONALLY APOLOGIZING TO THE WOMEN. >> I'M DEEPLY AND PROFOUNDLY SORRY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. I'M SORRY THAT SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE LET YOU DOWN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND I'M ESPECIALLY SORRY THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE AT THE FBI WHO HAD THEIR OWN CHANCE TO STOP THIS MONSTER BACK IN 2015 AND FAILED. >> WRAY THEN MAKING THIS PLEDGE. >> I AM AND MY ENTIRE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM ARE GOING TO MAKE DAMN SURE EVERYBODY AT THE FBI REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED HERE. IN HEARTBREAKING DETAIL. >> REALLY GUT-WRENCHING TESTIMONY THERE ON CAPITOL HILL. RACHEL SCOTT JOINING US NOW. RACHEL, WE HEARD THAT APOLOGY FROM WRAY, BUT THESE WOMEN WANT MORE THAN JUST AN APOLOGY. >> Reporter: EXACTLY RIGHT, KEIRA. THEY WANT ACTION HERE. SO MUCH OF TODAY'S HEARING WAS ALSO FOCUSED ON ACCOUNTABILITY, AND WE HEARD FROM THESE WOMEN TALK ABOUT HOW THE FBI HANDLED THIS AND THE WAY THAT IT STILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS THEM, THAT THEY HAVE PTSD, THAT THEY ARE EXHAUSTED LEAVING THE CAPITOL TODAY AFTER SPEAKING UP AND SHARING THEIR STORIES. THEY HOPE THAT TODAY IS ENOUGH, BUT THEY DO WANT MORE ACTION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. >> SO, RACHEL, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Reporter: WELL, THAT IS THE TOP OF THE MIND FOR A LOT OF THE GYMNASTS HERE TODAY. THEY WERE PRESSING LAWMAKERS ON WHAT EXACTLY DOES COME NEXT. ONE THING THAT WAS NOTABLE TODAY IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DID NOT HAVE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL COME TO THIS HEARING. THEY WERE INVITED BY TWO OF THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. THEY DENIED THAT, NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHY, AND MANY OF THE GYMNASTS LEAVING TODAY WERE FURIOUS THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO SEND ANYONE ELSE, INCLUDING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO LISTEN AND HEAR THEIR STORIES. THEY SAID IT'S ALMOST AS IF THEY SEEM LIKE THEY JUST DIDN'T CARE. >> WELL, BACK TO THE SURVIVORS, YOU CAUGHT UP, ACTUALLY, WITH ALY RAISMAN AND HER MOTHER, LYNN, SHORTLY AFTER THE TESTIMONY TODAY. THIS WAS OFF CAMERA, SO WHAT DID THEY TELL YOU? >> Reporter: YEAH, I DID. IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE THEY LEFT THE CAPITOL, AND YOU REALLY GOT A SENSE JUST OF HOW BIG OF A TOLL THIS HAS PUT ON ALL OF THESE WOMEN, BUT INCLUDING ALY RAISMAN, WHO TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS EXHAUSTED LEAVING HERE TODAY, THAT SHE FELT LIKE LEAVING OUT OF THAT HEARING THAT SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF SHE COULD WALK OUT. IT IS JUST REALLY CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED, THE COURAGE THAT THESE WOMEN HAD TO COME HERE TO THE CAPITOL TO SHARE THEIR STORIES, BUT AGAIN, THEY REITERATED THIS MESSAGE THAT THEY DO WANT ACTION HERE, THAT THESE APOLOGIES, THAT THE WORDS CONVEYED BY THE SENATORS TODAY WILL MEAN NOTHING IF THERE IS NOT ACTION FOLLOWED UP. >> WELL, THEIR WORDS DEFINITELY MEANT SOMETHING. RACHEL SCOTT, THANK YOU. >>> NOW TO THE PANDEMIC AND THE PUSH FOR VACCINE BOOSTER SHOTS. PFIZER TODAY RELEASING DATA MAKING THEIR CASE FOR BOOSTER SHOTS SIX MONTHS AFTER A SECOND DOSE. THAT DATA WILL BE REVIEWED BY AN FDA COMMITTEE ON FRIDAY BEFORE A FINAL RECOMMENDATION ON WHETHER AMERICANS COULD GET BOOSTER SHOTS AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK. ABC'S WHIT JOHNSON HAS THE LATEST. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE FDA RELEASING DATA FROM PFIZER'S BOOSTER TRIALS AS THE COMPANY MAKES THE CASE THAT AMERICANS WILL NEED A THIRD SHOT. PFIZER RECOMMENDING THAT EXTRA DOSE FOR THOSE 16 AND OLDER ABOUT 6 MONTHS AFTER RECEIVING THEIR SECOND DOSE. >> BIG PICTURE, BOOSTING IS IMPORTANT, BOOSTING IS NECESSARY. >> Reporter: PFIZER ALSO SUGGESTING THE REDUCTION IN VACCINE PROTECTION IS LIKELY NOT DUE TO THE DELTA VARIANT BUT INSTEAD VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS DECREASES WITH INCREASING TIME SINCE BEING FULLY VACCINATED. THE DATA SHOWING VACCINE EFFICACY AGAINST SYMPTOMATIC DISEASE WAS 96% A WEEK AFTER THE SECOND DOSE BUT THEN DROPPED TO NEARLY 84% AFTER FOUR MONTHS. >> THERE'S NO MEDICAL DOWNSIDE BECAUSE THE SAFETY PROFILES OF THESE VACCINES ARE INCREDIBLY GOOD. AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT TO WAIT FOR THE FDA AND THEN CDC TO REALLY LEARN THE BEST TIMING AND DOSAGE THAT THEY RECOMMEND. >> Reporter: AN FDA PANEL'S EXPECTED TO DECIDE FRIDAY WHETHER TO RECOMMEND PFIZER BOOSTER SHOTS FOLLOWED BY A REVIEW OF MODERNA BOOSTERS A WEEK OR TWO LATER. AND TODAY, MODERNA POINTING TO NEW DATA SHOWING PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED ITS VACCINE WILL ALSO NEED A THIRD DOSE AFTER SIX MONTHS. >> IT'S NOT THE KIND OF THING THAT YOU WANT TO MISS BY SIX MONTHS. YOU'D RATHER BE A LITTLE TOO EARLY THAN A LITTLE TOO LATE BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, LIVES ARE AT STAKE. >> Reporter: THE COMPANY SAYS PROTECTION FROM THE FIRST TWO MODERNA SHOTS APPEARS TO BE THE STRONGEST AMONG THE THREE VACCINES. AND UNLIKE PFIZER, MODERNA'S BOOSTER SHOT WILL BE A HALF DOSE, WHICH THE COMPANY SAYS PROVIDES MORE THAN ENOUGH PROTECTION. STILL, THE DEBATE HEATING UP OVER WHETHER BOOSTER SHOTS ARE NEEDED FOR EVERYONE. >> YES, WE SHOULD PROBABLY BOOST PEOPLE WHO NEED IT IN THAT HIGH-RISK CATEGORY, IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE, VERY, VERY OLD, BUT FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE, DO WE REALLY HAVE THE SCIENCE AND DATA TO SAY WHAT'S SAFE? FOR A THIRD DOSE OR NOT. >> Reporter: BUT DR. ANTHONY FAUCI ARGUING THAT BOOSTERS COULD HELP SLOW TRANSMISSION AND REDUCE THE RISE OF BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS. >> WHIT JOHNSON JOINS ME NOW. SO, WHIT, THIS FDA COMMITTEE WILL REVIEW THAT PFIZER DATA AT A HEARING THIS FRIDAY. SO, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AND HOW SOON COULD BOOSTERS BE AVAILABLE IF THEY ARE APPROVED? >> Reporter: AND WE'RE NOW LEARNING THERE COULD ACTUALLY BE A DELAY IN THIS PROCESS. THE FINAL STEP HAS TO GO THROUGH A CDC PANEL, AND THEY'RE NOT MEETING UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY, SO BOOSTERS LIKELY WON'T BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE END OF NEXT WEEK AT THE EARLIEST, BUT IF APPROVED, THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THEY'LL BE READY TO GO AND ROLL OUT THOSE SHOTS AT 80,000 LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL BE FOLLOWING IT. WHIT JOHNSON, THANKS. >>> AND NEW FLOODING FEARS IN PARTS OF LOUISIANA WHILE AT THE SAME TIME STILL TRIES TO RECOVER SINCE BEING BATTERED BY HURRICANE IDA JUST WEEKS AGO. OUR VICTOR OKENDO IS THERE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, NICHOLAS ADDING INSULT TO INJURY FOR THE THOUSANDS OF LOUISIANA FAMILIES STILL TRYING TO RECOVER FROM IDA. >> IT'S A LITTLE OVERWHELMING. >> Reporter: WEST OF NEW ORLEANS, MELISSA AND CRAIG PERRIER HAVE BEEN OUT OF THEIR HOME SINCE IDA HIT. THEY RETURNED WITH THEIR 7-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER, CAMILLE TODAY TO FIND NICHOLAS HAD TORN THE BLUE TARP OFF THEIR ROOP. IDA DESTROYED YOUR HOUSE, YOU COME BACK TO IT AND NOW ANOTHER STORM LEFT YOU WITH SOME WATER INSIDE AGAIN. >> AND ALL WE WERE GOING TO SAVE IS NOW ALL RUINED SO WE HAVE TO RIP ALL THIS OUT NOW. >> Reporter: THE NEARLY STATIONARY STORM COULD BRING UP TO FIVE MORE INCHES OF RAIN HERE. FAMILIES ALREADY FORCED TO PART WITH SO MANY PIECES OF THEIR LIVES NOW STRUGGLING TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET. >> WE THOUGHT WE WERE REALLY AHEAD OF THINGS AND NOW TO JUST KEEP GETTING KNOCKED DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, WE'RE NOT AHEAD. >> VICTOR, THANKS. LET'S GET TO OUR ROB MARCIANO NOW. TIME THIS OUT FOR US. WHAT COMMUNITIES NEED TO BE ON ALERT TONIGHT ABOUT POSSIBLE FLOODING? >> Reporter: THIS THING HAS JUST HIT THE BRAKES, SO NICHOLAS OR WHAT'S LEFT OF NICHOLAS IS GOING TO HAVE TO WRING ITSELF OUT OVER TIME BEFORE WE START TO SEE THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS BEGIN TO WANE. YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CENTER OF IT IS RIGHT NOW. IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME SPOT IT WAS LAST NIGHT, RIGHT AROUND JENNINGS, LOUISIANA, EVERYWHERE EAST OF THERE IS IN THAT FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL AT LEAST TOMORROW NIGHT. WE HAD WARNINGS AROUND PENSACOLA AND A NUMBER OF RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD STAGE AS WELL. 3 TO 6 IRNCHES WILL BE A PROBLE THROUGH TOMORROW. OF COURSE WE'RE NOT DONE WITH THE TROPICS YET. WE'RE IN THE HEART OF HURRICANE SEASON. WE'VE GOT TWO OTHER DISTURBANCES OUT THERE, ONE WAY OUT THERE, HAS A REALLY GOOD CHANCE OF BECOMING A TROPICAL STORM IF NOT A HURRICANE. AND THEN THE ONE CLOSER TO BERMUDA AND THE TURKS AND CAICOS, THAT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE NUDGED OUT TO SEA. WE HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT'S POSTED FOR MUCH OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH UPSTATE NEW YORK AND THROUGH THE HEART OF NEW ENGLAND WHERE WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL DOZENS OF REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN THERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS, I THINK, WILL PERSIST THROUGH THESE AREAS AND EVEN THROUGH THE NEW YORK AND I-95 CORRIDOR. SUMMER-LIKE FEET HAS BEEN FUELING THIS. I KNOW YOU FELT THIS YOURSELF. IT WILL ONLY BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TOMORROW. >> GOOD. YEAH, WE WILL WANT THE COOL WINDS FOR SURE. ROB, THANKS. >>> WELL, TURNING NOW TO THOSE EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS ALL REVEALED IN A NEW BOOK CENTERED AROUND THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY. SOME OF THOSE ALLEGATIONS CENTERED AROUND CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS, GENERAL MARK MILLEY, AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH CHINA. MILLIE NOT ONLY DEFENDING HIMSELF BUT FACING PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL AISLE FOR HIS CALLS TO ASSURE CHINA THAT THE U.S. WOULD NOT ATTACK THEM. WE LEARNED TODAY THAT HE WASN'T THE ONLY TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL MAKING THOSE CALLS, THOUGH. HERE'S ABC'S CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, JONATHAN CARL. >> Reporter: PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY EXPRESSED GREAT CONFIDENCE IN AMERICA'S TOP GENERAL, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN MARK MILLEY. >> I HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN GENERAL MILLEY. >> Reporter: BUT MILLEY IS FACING SEVERE CRITICISM, EVEN CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION OVER REVELATIONS IN A NEW BOOK THAT HE SOUGHT TO UNDERMINE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S AUTHORITY, EVEN REACHING OUT TO CHINA AMID THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT TRUMP'S INCENDIARY RHETORIC AROUND COVID TO SAY HE WOULD TELL THEM IF THE UNITED STATES WERE TO LAUNCH A MILITARY STRIKE. BECAUSE HE WAS FEARFUL TRUMP COULD DO SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF HIS PRESIDENCY. TODAY, A SPOKESPERSON FOR GENERAL MILLEY CONFIRMED SOME OF THE MAJOR EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK BY BOB WOODWARD AND ROBERT COSTA. HIS CALLS WITH THE CHINESE AND OTHERS IN OCTOBER AND JANUARY, MILLEY'S SPOKESPERSON SAID, WERE IN KEEPING WITH HIS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CONVEYING REASSURANCE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN STRATEGIC STABILITY. BUT THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY. ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED THAT IT WASN'T JUST MILLEY WHO REACHED OUT TO CHINA. IN FACT, A FORMER SENIOR PENTAGON OFFICIAL TELLS ABC THE FIRST CONTACT CAME FROM TRUMP'S FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY, MARK ESPER, WHO CONVEYED A MESSAGE SAYING THE UNITED STATES HAD NO INTENTION TO ATTACK. IT'S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS SAYING THAT MILLEY SHOULD RESIGN. LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER, STAR WITNESS IN TRUMP'S FIRST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, IS SAYING IF THE STORY IS TRUE, MILLEY MUST GO. >> IF THE SENIOR MOST MILITARY OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACTED WITHOUT ANY OVERSIGHT, WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY, I FIND THAT DEEPLY TROUBLING. >> Reporter: IT IS DONALD TRUMP WHO CHOSE MILLEY TO BE THE JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN BUT NOW HE IS SAYING MILLEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON. >> IF IT IS ACTUALLY TRUE, WHICH IS HARD TO BELIEVE, THAT HE WOULD HAVE CALLED CHINA AND DONE THESE THINGS AND WAS WILLING TO ADVISE THEM OF AN ATTACK OR IN ADVANCE OF AN ATTACK, THAT'S TREASON. >> JONATHAN CARL JOINING US NOW. JOHN, GENERAL MILLEY WILL LIKELY FACE TOUGH QUESTIONS WHEN HE'S SCHEDULED TO TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL LATER THIS MONTH. WHAT KIND OF PRESSURE DO YOU THINK HE'S UNDER RIGHT NOW? >> Reporter: WELL, THIS WILL BE A FIERY HEARING. IT IS SEPTEMBER 28th. IT WAS PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED, HE WAS ALREADY EXPECTED TO FACE SOME VERY TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MESSY WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN AND WHETHER OR NOT HE BEARS SOME RESPONSIBILITY, BUT NOW HE IS GOING TO FACE QUESTIONS PRIMARILY FROM REPUBLICANS BUT I DON'T THINK EXCLUSIVELY FROM REPUBLICANS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT HE UNDERMINED CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY AND YOU ARE STARTING TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, MORE CALLS, AGAIN, CALLS NOT JUST FROM REPUBLICANS BUT PRIMARILY FROM REPUBLICANS FOR HIM TO RESIGN. >> WELL, AND ALSO, JOHN, I MEAN, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS IT THAT FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY ESPER WAS ALSO IN TOUCH WITH CHINA? >> Reporter: WELL, THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT, I BELIEVE, AND IT WAS NOT IN WOODWARD'S BOOK. WOODWARD -- IF YOU'RE JUST READING THEIR ACCOUNT, YOU GOT THE SENSE THAT MILLEY WAS ACTING ON HIS OWN, YOU KNOW, ONE TOP GENERAL THERE TO TRY TO UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENT, GO DIRECTLY IN A SECRET BACK CHANNEL TO THE CHINESE. IN FACT, WHAT I HAVE LEARNED, ACCORDING TO A VERY SENIOR FORMER DEFENSE OFFICIAL, THAT THE FIRST CONTACT WAS NOT MILLEY BUT IT WAS THEN DEFENSE SECRETARY MARK ESPER, WHO ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE MILLEY MADE HIS NOW FAMOUS CALL TO THE CHINESE GENERAL, REACHED OUT TO THE CHINESE DEFENSE MINISTRY WITH A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD NO INTENTION TO ATTACK CHINA, HAVE ANY KIND OF A CONFRONTATION WITH CHINA. THAT MESSAGE WAS SENT BY SECRETARY ESPER BECAUSE THEY HAD INTELLIGENCE THAT THE CHINESE WERE CONCERNED, WERE CONCERNED THAT TRUMP MIGHT DO SOMETHING RASH IN THE FINAL DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS MILLEY NOT ACTING ON HIS OWN BUT ACTUALLY ACTING IN AWKWARD NATION WITH THE PERSON WHO WAS, AT THE TIME, THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, MARK ESPER. >> AS YOU KNOW, WHEN THESE BOOKS COME OUT, LIKE YOUR BOOKS AS WELL, THESE THINGS CONTINUE TO HAVE FALLOUT AND WE'LL FOLLOW IT ALL. JONATHAN CARL, THANKS. >> BELIEVE ME, THERE'S A LOT MORE TO COME. >> NO DOUBT. 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the US marshals as band cover >> HOW DO YOU EVADE CAPTURE FOR 25 YEARS IN HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> JOIN THE SEARCH, FOLLOWING THE U.S. MARSHALS AS THEY UNCOVER NEW LEADS. CAN YOU HELP CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? LISTEN AND JOIN THE ALL NEW HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >>> PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY HOSTED CEOs AND BUSINESS LEADERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO CONTINUE HIS PUSH FOR VACCINE MANDATES FOR BUSINESSES WITH MORE THAN 100 EMPLOYEES, ANNOUNCED AS PART OF HIS PLAN TO TRY TO CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF THE DELTA VARIANT BUT HE'S GETTING PUSHBACK FROM SEVERAL RED STATES AND FROM SOME WORKERS WHO SAY THEY SHOULDN'T BE FORCED TO TAKE THE SHOT TO KEEP THEIR JOBS. SO, HOW FAR CAN THE GOVERNMENT GO ON MANDATES AND WHAT RIGHTS DO WORKERS ACTUALLY HAVE? HERE'S ABC'S DEIRDRE BOLTON. >> MY JOB AS PRESIDENT IS TO PROTECT ALL AMERICANS. >> Reporter: PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCING A SWEEPING NEW PLAN TO FIGHT COVID-19 LAST WEEK. >> I'M ANNOUNCING THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR IS DEVELOPING AN EMERGENCY RULE TO REQUIRE ALL EMPLOYERS WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYEES THAT TOGETHER EMPLOY OVER 80 MILLION WORKERS TO ENSURE THEIR WORKFORCES ARE OR SHOW A NEGATIVE TEST AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. >> Reporter: ENLISTING BUSINESSES. THIS AFTER THE FDA FULLY APPROVED THE PFIZER BIONTECH VACCINE IN LATE AUGUST. >> SOME OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES ARE ALREADY REQUIRING THIS. UNITED AIRLINES, DISNEY, TYSON FOOD, AND EVEN FOX NEWS. THE BOTTOM LINE, WE'RE GOING TO PROTECT VACCINATED WORKERS FROM UNVACCINATED COWORKERS. >> FLORIDA CAN IMPLEMENT SAFETY MEASURES TO PROTECT ORDINARY EMPLOYERS AND IN THIS CASE, THE AGENCY JUST NEEDS TO FIND THAT THERE IS A GRAVE DANGER TO EMPLOYEES, WHICH IS PRETTY EASY TO DEMONSTRATE, GIVEN THE SEVERITY OF THE DELTA VARIANT. >> Reporter: THE MOVE COMES AS THE DELTA VARIANT HAS COMPLICATED THE RETURN FROM REMOTE WORK TO THE OFFICE FOR MANY EMPLOYERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> I THINK THE BIGGEST SHIFT THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN 2021 IS BUSINESSES PLANNING FOR A FUTURE THAT WAS PREDICTABLE AND DEPENDABLE IN WHICH CASE THEY COULD TELL YOU, HEY, YOU'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO WORK IN SEPTEMBER. ALL THE COMPANIES WHO HAVE COME OUT AND DONE THAT, MANY OF THEM HAVE HAVE HAD TO BACK PEDAL. >> Reporter: SOME STATES ARE PUSHING BACK ON BIDEN'S PLAN. ARIZONA HAS ALREADY FILED THE FIRST LAWSUIT AGAINST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OVER THE NEW VACCINE REQUIREMENTS, BUT EXPERTS SAY THAT EFFORT WILL LIKELY HAVE LITTLE IMPACT. >> THESE POLICIES ARE QUITE TARGETED. HE'S USING HIS PARTICULAR AUTHORITY THAT IS WITHIN HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO THE MOST THAT HE CAN WITHOUT OVERSTEPPING HIS AUTHORITY. >> Reporter: MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS AGREE WITH THE NEED FOR VACCINE MANDATES. IN A RECENT ABC NEWS/"WASHINGTON POST" POLL TAKEN BEFORE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT, 52% OF ADULTS SUPPORT BUSINESSES MANDATING VACCINES FOR EMPLOYEES. BUT FOR SOME OF THE 24% OF AMERICAN ADULTS WHO ARE UNVACCINATED, THE IDEA OF THEIR EMPLOYER TELLING THEM TO GET THE JAB IS A STEP TOO FAR. >> NO VACCINE MANDATE. >> Reporter: IN NEW YORK CITY, JOHN HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN. >> I WANT EVERYBODY TO HOLD THE LINE. THIS IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SITUATION ALTOGETHER. FORCED MANDATE FOR TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT ON SOMETHING THAT IS STILL VERY NEW, 18 MONTHS OF DATA. >> Reporter: JOHN SAYS HE ISN'T CONVINCED THE VACCINES HAVE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO PROVE THEIR SAFETY. >> THIS COULD VERY WELL BE SOMETHING THAT DEVELOPS -- MAKES YOUR GENETICS DEVELOP CANCER IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS. WE DON'T KNOW, AND IT'S UP TO YOU TO TAKE THAT RISK, AND AGAIN, I DON'T STOP PEOPLE FROM TAKING THAT RISK. IT'S A RISK I DON'T PERSONALLY WANT TO TAKE. >> Reporter: WHILE THE FDA DOES WARN THAT, QUOTE, INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE ABOUT POTENTIAL LONG-TERM HEALTH OUTCOMES OF THE APPROVED PFIZER VACCINE, HEALTH EXPERTS SAY THERE HAVE BEEN NO MAJOR SAFETY SIGNALS TO RAISE CONCERNS. >> WE KNOW THAT IN THE HISTORY OF VACCINES, WE HAVE NOT SEEN SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF A VACCINE BEYOND 6 TO 8 WEEKS OF ITS ROLLOUT AND THAT'S IN THE HISTORY OF ALL VACCINES. VACCINES REALLY HELP YOUR BODY DEVELOP AN IMMUNE RESPONSE, AND THAT HELPS TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST FUTURE ASSAULTS AGAINST COVID-19. >> Reporter: HOSPITALS WERE SOME OF THE FIRST WORKPLACES IN THE COUNTRY TO REQUIRE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS AND SOME OF THE FIRST TO FACE PUSHBACK FROM HESITANT EMPLOYEES. IN JUNE, 178 EMPLOYEES OF HOUSTON METHODIST WERE SUSPENDED FOR FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THEIR VACCINE POLICY. 153 ENDED UP BEING TERMINATED. SOME OF THEM SUING THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM. THAT LITIGATION, STILL ONGOING. JOHN MATLAND IN NEW YORK STARTED A GROUP CHAT FOR OTHER HEALTHCARE WORKERS LIKE HIM. IT HAS MORE THAN 1,000 MEMBERS NATIONWIDE AND COUNTING. >> THIS GROUP HAS DISCUSSED THEIR POINT OF VIEW, THE AMOUNT OF ANXIETY THAT WE'RE ALL DEALING WITH, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW, AFTER ALL OF THIS, BEING ON THE FRONT LINES, WITH THE SCIENCE STILL DEVELOPING, THEY'RE GETTING KICKED OUT AFTER 30 YEARS. PEOPLE ARE GETTING THROWN AWAY LIKE THEY DON'T COUNT. >> IT IS VERY MUCH WITHIN AN EMPLOYER'S RIGHT AS AN EMPLOYER TO MANDATE VACCINATION OR TESTING AS LONG AS THERE ARE SPECIFIC EXCEPTIONS BEING MADE FOR MEDICAL OR RELIGIOUS OBJECTIONS. >> Reporter: ONLY 16% OF UNVACCINATED WORKERS SAY THEY WOULD COMPLY WITH A WORKPLACE VACCINE REQUIREMENT. 72% SAY THEY'D WALK OFF THE JOB. >> MANY PEOPLE SEE IT AS SOME WAY -- AN OPTION TO BE FORCED TO BE VACCINATED, WHEN IN REALITY, IT'S REALLY JUST A FORCE TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO GET VACCINATED. >> Reporter: BUT WORKERS LIKE JOHN SAY THEY BELIEVE THE SAME LIFE-SAVING PPE THAT PROTECTED THE EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE ENOUGH MOVING FORWARD. >> PPE IN RELATIVITY TO DEALING WITH PATIENTS SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO HOLD UP AND STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID. BREAK ROOMS, EVERYTHING ELSE, WHETHER YOU GET IT IN THE BREAKROOM OR YOU GET IT AT THE LOCAL 7 ELEVEN, DOESN'T MATTER. >> PPE IS DEFINITELY SUBSTANTIAL BUT UNLIKE A VACCINE, PPE HAS TO COME OFF AT SOME TIME. PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE POINT OF A MANDATE IS TO HAVE A DECISION WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO ACCEPT THAT HIGHER RISK. >> Reporter: SHORTLY AFTER OUR INTERVIEW, JOHN WAS FIRED FROM NORTH WELL HEALTH STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOR AN ALLEGED TRESPASSING INCIDENT DURING A PROTEST AGAINST VACCINE REQUIREMENTS. HE DENIES THE ALLEGATION AND IS CONTESTING HIS TERMINATION. THE HOSPITAL ISSUING A STATEMENT TO ABC NEWS READING, IN PART, "MATLAND WAS SUSPENDED ON AUGUST 19th IN RELATION TO AN INCIDENT WHICH POSED A SERIOUS RISK TO OUR PATIENTS AND STAFF. AFTER A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION, HE WAS TERMINATED AS A RESULT OF THE FINDINGS." THE DETAILS OF MATLAND'S TERMINATION ARE CONFIDENTIAL. HOWEVER, WE CAN CONFIRM THE GROUNDS OF HIS TERMINATION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS COMPLIANCE WITH THE VACCINE MANDATE. SIUH CONTINUES TO RESPECT PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD IN A PEACEFUL AND CIVIL MANNER. WHILE THE RETURN TO THE OFFICE IN THIS NEW WORLD WILL HAVE ITS CHALLENGES, EXPERTS SAY IT COULD PROVIDE NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYEES. >> WE'RE CERTAINLY MOVING INTO AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A LOT MORE SAY ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTS THEY WORK IN AND THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WORK. >> Reporter: AS FOR JOHN, HE SAYS HE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IS HIS FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND REMAINS ADAMANT THAT HE WON'T TAKE THE VACCINE UNTIL HE FEELS READY, IF THAT DAY EVER COMES. >> IF IT COMES DOWN TO IT, IF IT'S, GET VACCINATED OR CHANGE CAREERS OR LOOK FOR A NEW CAREER OR FIND OUT HOW TO SURVIVE, YES, I'M GOING TO TAKE IT THE WHOLE WAY. I'M GOING TO GIVE UP MY JOB. I'M GOING TO GIVE UP MY PROFESSION. I FIND GREAT PEACE IN STANDING UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN AND I FIND THAT IF THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO FOR ME, I'M GOING TO BE JUST FINE. >> Reporter: FOR ABC NEWS, DEIDRE BOLTON IN NEW YORK. >>> STILL AHEAD HERE ON PRIME, ANOTHER LIVE LOOK AT THE HISTORIC LAUNCH PAD 39-A THAT'S ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY ONCE AGAIN. THE SPACEX ROCKET SET TO BLAST OFF WITHIN MINUTES. >>> SCATHING REPORT FROM STATE OFFICIALS LOOKING INTO HOW THE AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT HANDLED THE ELIJAH McCLAIN CASE. >>> BUT FIRST, OUR TWEET OF THE DAY FROM "WICKED." "BROADWAY IS BACK, BABY." AND THE CROWD LOVED IT. >>> THIS IS WHAT BEING LIVE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. ING INGSING >> NOT AFRAID TO GO THERE. >> MY QUESTION, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? >> BREAKING NEWS, LIVE EVENTS. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT. >> LIFT OFF. >> STREAMING STRAIGHT TO YOU ANY TIME ANYWHERE. >> YOU JUST MET ONE FRIEND RIGHT HERE. >> YOU'RE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >>> ADMIT IT. THESE DAYS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> SEEMS TO CHANGE JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY. >> WHAT IS IT THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? NEED TO KNOW? >> TO HELP YOU NOT JUST GET THROUGH YOUR DAY. >> BUT TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT. FEEL SMARTER. >> FEEL BETTER. >> FEEL HAPPIER. >> WELL, HOW ABOUT A THIRD HOUR OF "GOOD MORNING AMERICA"? >> "GMA3," WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, NOW STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >>> A SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY TODAY ABOUT THE FBI'S HANDLING OF THE SEXUAL ABUSE CASE AGAINST FORMER USA GYMNASTICS TEAM DOCTOR, LARRY NASSAR. >> BEING HERE TODAY IS TAKING EVERYTHING I HAVE. >> ALY RAISMAN, SIMONE BILES, MAKAYLA MARONEY AND MAGGIE NICHOLS TOLD SENATORS IN PAINFUL DETAIL HOW THEY WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED BY FORMER USA GYMNASTICS DOCTOR, LARRY NASSAR, AND THEY BLASTED THE FBI FOR FAILING TO STOP THE ABUSE. >> TO BE CLEAR, I BLAME LARRY NASSAR. AND I ALSO BLAME AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED AND PERPETRATED HIS ABUSE. >> FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY WHO WAS NOT IN CHARGE OF THE AGENCY DURING THE INVESTIGATION SAID HE'S HEARTSICK AND FURIOUS. >> I'M ESPECIALLY SORRY THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE AT THE FBI WHO HAD THEIR OWN CHANCE TO STOP THIS MONSTER BACK IN 2015. >> LET'S GO. >> I HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN GENERAL MILLEY. >> A NEW BOOK TITLED "PERIL" DETAILS THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY AFTER THE ELECTION, CLAIMING THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, MARK MILLEY, SECRETLY REACHED OUT TO THE TOP GENERAL? CHINA OVER CONCERNS THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MIGHT LAUNCH A MILITARY STRIKE AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION. A FORMER TOP PENTAGON OFFICIAL TELLS ABC NEWS THE PHONE CALL WAS NOT SECRET. >>> THE SUPREME COURT OF MINNESOTA OVERTURNING A THIRD-DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION AGAINST A FORMER POLICE OFFICER. THAT DECISION COULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS ON THE CONVICTION OF DEREK CHAUVIN IN THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. >> MOHAMED WAS CONVICTED OF THIRD-DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF JUSTINE, BUT NO THE MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT HAS THROWN OUT THAT CONVICTION, SAYING THAT THE CHARGE REQUIRES THE DEFENDANT TO HAVE ACTED WITH A DEPRAVED MIND, BUT THAT CANNOT BE THE CASE IF THE ACTIONS WERE DIRECTED AT A SPECIFIC PERSON. THE DECISION COULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON DEREK CHAUVIN, ANOTHER FORMER POLICE OFFICER, AS HE WAS CONVICTED OF THE SAME CRIME IN THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. HOWEVER, EVEN IF CHAUVIN'S THIRD-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE IS ALSO TOSSED, CHAUVIN IS STILL CONVICTED OF A HIGHER SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE. >>> CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE. HE PREVAILED IN THE STATE'S RECALL ELECTION. MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS VOTING NO TO THE RECALL. ABC NEWS MAKING THE PROJECTION BASED ON EXIT POLLS AND VOTE ANALYSIS. >> WE SAID YES TO SCIENCE. WE SAID YES TO VACCINES. WE SAID YES TO ENDING THIS PANDEMIC. >> UP UNTIL THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST LARRY ELDER AND NEWSOM WERE POLLING NECK AND NECK. LATE TUESDAY NIGHT, ELDER FINALLY CONCEDING. >> WE MAY HAVE LOST THE BATTLE, BUT WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WAR. >> COLORADO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS RELEASED A SCATHING REPORT ACCUSING THE AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT OF RACIAL BIAS. THE STATE A.G. INVESTIGATING THE POLICE-RELATED DEATH OF ELIJAH McCLAIN, THE YOUNG BLACK MAN WAS CONFRONTED BY OFFICERS WHILE WALKING HOME LAST YEAR, POLICE PLACING HIM IN A CHOKE HOLD, PARAMEDICS INJECTING HIM WITH K KETAMINE. THE A.G. ACCUSING THE DEPARTMENT OF HAVING A LONG HISTORY OF UNLAWFUL EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR. >>> AND THE U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION NOW SAYS IT'S PROPOSING THE SAME CONTRACT FOR BOTH THE MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SENIOR NATIONAL TEAMS. THIS COMES AFTER YEARS OF PROTESTS OVER THE PAY THE WOMEN HAVE BEEN GETTING. >> RIGHT NOW, THE SPECIFICS ARE UNCLEAR. THE FEDERATION ADDING THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DIFFERENCE IN FIFA PRIZE MONEY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN NEEDS TO BE EQUALIZED. SOMETHING THEY'RE NOT IN CHARGE OF. THE WOMEN'S TEAM HAS FAR OUTPERFORMED THE MEN'S, BECOMING WORLD CHAMPIONS IN 2019 A FEW MONTHS AFTER FILING A LAWSUIT OVER GENDER PAY DISCRIMINATION. THE U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM PLAYERS ASSOCIATION SAID THIS NEW PROPOSAL WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A PUBLICITY STUNT. >>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, WE ARE INTERRUPTING PRIME TO BRING YOU SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE OF TONIGHT'S HISTORIC SPACEX LAUNCH FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA. YOU ARE LOOKING AT A LIVE PICTURE NOW OF THE FALCON 9 ROCKET ON THE LAUNCH PAD WITH A COUNTDOWN TO LIFTOFF NOW SCHEDULED FOR 8:02 P.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME, JUST ABOUT A HALF HOUR FROM NOW. THE ROCKET WILL PROPEL A SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE INTO SPACE, THE FIRST ALL CIVILIAN MISSION TO GO INTO ORBIT AND ONE THEY'RE CALLING INSPIRATION 4. BILLIONAIRE JARED ISAACMAN IS FLIGHT COMMANDER, AND HE'S PAYING FOR THE TRIP. ISAACMAN HAS ALREADY COMMITTED $100 MILLION TO THE ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL TO FIGHT PEDIATRIC CANCER, AND HE'S USING THIS PRIVATE SPACE MISSION TO RAISE EVEN MORE MONEY FOR THAT CAUSE. HE HAS THREE CREW MEMBERS, INCLUDING DR. PROCTER, WHO WON AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEST FOR HER SEAT AND WILL BE THE FOURTH BLACK FEMALE EVER TO LAUNCH INTO SPACE. HALEY ARCENEAUX, A PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVOR WHO WORKS AT ST. JUDE'S AND CHRIS, WHO HIS DONATION TO THE HOSPITAL PUT HIM IN A LOTTERY TO JOIN THE CREW. AND HE WON. EACH OF THEM HAS AN INCREDIBLE STORY. NONE ARE PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUTS AND THE PLAN IS TO SPEND THREE DAYS IN ORBIT BEFORE SPLASHING DOWN IN THE ATLANTIC. WE HAVE IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF THIS LAUNCH, BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN, WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO ABC NEWS TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT GIO BENITEZ WITH MORE ON HOW WE EVEN GOT TO THIS POINT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, SPACEX MINUTES AWAY FROM POTENTIALLY LAUNCHING AN ALL CIVILIAN CREW INTO ORBIT, WHAT COULD BE ITS MOST GROUNDBREAKING LAUNCH YET. FOUR CIVILIANS NOW PREPARING TO LAUNCH. THE PLAN TO ORBIT THE EARTH WITH NO PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD, GOING FARTHER THAN ANY OTHER PRIVATE CITIZEN HAS EVER GONE FOR THREE DAYS. >> SPACEX WAS FOUNDED ON THE BELIEF THAT A FUTURE WHERE HUMANITY'S OUT EXPLORING THE STARS IS MORE EXCITING THAN A LIFE WHERE WE'RE NOT. >> Reporter: THE MISSION FUNDED BY JARED ISAACMAN, A 38-YEAR-OLD BILLIONAIRE WHO BOUGHT FOUR SEATS, WHICH TYPICALLY SELL AT $55 MILLION EACH FOR AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT, GIVING THREE AWAY TO FUND-RAISE FOR ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. GETTING A SEAT, ENGINEER AND AIR FORCE VET CHRIS, GEOSCIENCE PROFESSOR DR. PROCTER, AND HAILEY ARCENEAUX. AS A CHILD, SHE WAS A PATIENT AT ST. JUDE. NOW SHE WORKS THERE. >> THE FACT THAT I'M GOING TO BE THE YOUNGEST AMERICAN IN SPACE REALLY IS JUST ABSOLUTELY MIND-BLOWING TO ME. >> Reporter: AND DR. PROCTER WILL BECOME JUST THE FOURTH BLACK AMERICAN WOMAN TO GO TO SPACE. >> I HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY ACCOMPLISH MY DREAM BUT ALSO INSPIRE AND INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION. >> LIFTOFF. >> Reporter: THIS LAUNCH JUST MONTHS AFTER THESE HIGH-STAKES FLIGHTS. >> AND I'VE BEEN TO SPACE. EXCUSE US, EXCUSE US. >> THREE, TWO, ONE, RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE. >> VIRGIN GALACTIC'S RICHARD BRANSON, THE FIRST TO LAUNCH HIS OWN SPACESHIP TO THE EDGE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. >> WHAT DID YOU HEAR? WHAT DID YOU FEEL WHEN THAT ROCKET IGNITED? >> YOU COULD HEAR THE ROAR OF THE ROCKET PINNED INTO YOUR SEAT. YOU'RE GOING STRAIGHT UP, GOING FROM 0 TO 3,000 MILES AN HOUR IN 7 OR 8 SECONDS. >> Reporter: JEFF BEZOS LIFTING OFF A WEEK LATER WITH HIS COMPANY, BLUE ORIGIN. THESE BILLIONAIRE SPACE FLIGHTS ARE NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY AND CRITICISM. BEYOND THE SPECTACLE, SOME QUESTION ITS TIMING AND SAFETY. >> WHEN YOU HEAR THAT CRITICISM FROM FOLKS WHO SAY THESE ARE JUST JOYRIDES FOR VERY RICH PEOPLE, WHAT DO YOU SAY? >> WELL, I WOULD SAY THAT IF I GO RIGHT BACK TO WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I STARTED WITH $200 AND THAT $200 HAS NOW BUILT A SPACE COMPANY, HAS EMPLOYED HUNDREDS OF WONDERFUL ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS, AND THAT TECHNOLOGY WILL HELP TRANSFORM THE EARTH. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, SPACEX'S FLIGHT IS RISKY. SPACEX, WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY ANOTHER BILLIONAIRE, ELON MUSK, HAS NEVER SENT ITS TRUE DRAGON THIS FAR INTO SPACE. 360 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH'S SURFACE, WAY FARTHER THAN BRANSON AND BEZOS, AND EVEN THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. BUT DESPITE THESE CONCERNS, EXPERTS SAY THE SPACEX PROGRAM STANDS ALONE AMONG ITS PEERS. >> WHAT ELON MUSK HAS DONE IS TO CREATE THIS NEW STARSHIP ROCKET IN THE FALCON 9 ROCKETS THAT HE'S DOING NOW TO HAVE A VERY RELIABLE WAY TO GET THINGS INTO SPACE VERY CHEAPLY AND THAT IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL. >> Reporter: TO GET READY FOR WEIGHTLESSNESS, THE SPACEX CREW BOARDED THE ZERO G PLANE HERE ON EARTH AND SO DID WE. THIS IS HOW ASTRONAUTS TRAIN. >> WOW. >> Reporter: ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE, I WEIGH 175 POUNDS. UP HERE, ZERO. ZERO G INVITING US ON AS PILOTS FLY THE PLANE IN SPECIFIC MANEUVERS TO REPLICATE THE MICROGRAVITY OF SPACE. >> THAT FEELING OF BEING IN ZERO GRAVITY IS SO UNIQUE AND UNDESCRIBABLE. AND YOU DON'T WANT THAT FIRST E YOU KNOW, IN SPACE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. YOU'LL BE DISORIENTED. >> AND OUR GIO BENITEZ JOINING US LIVE FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. LOOKS LIKE YOU HAD A PRETTY GOOD TIME WITH THE TRAINING. A LITTLE JEALOUS THAT YOU'RE NOT THERE ABOARD THAT ROCKET? >> Reporter: I MEAN, LISTEN, LET'S MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS -- THIS IS THE FIRST. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE THIS ALL-CIVILIAN FLIGHT WITHOUT ANY ASTRONAUT ON BOARD GOING THIS FAR INTO SPACE, OKAY? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 360 MILES, AS YOU SAW IN THAT PIECE. AND KEIRA, RIGHT NOW, WE ARE N NNOW T-MINUS 20 MINUTES TO LAUNCH. THE SKIES ARE CLEAR BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FORECAST FOR THREE DAYS FROM NOW, WHEN THAT SHIP HAS TO RETURN AND SPLASH DOWN, THE WEATHER HAS TO BE JUST RIGHT FOR THAT SO THEY'RE LOOKING AT BOTH OF THOSE BEFORE THEY LAUNCH THIS SHIP. BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS IS LOOKING VERY GOOD, THAT T-MINUS 19 MINUTES, WE ARE STILL A GO FOR LAUNCH. >> NOW, IN YOUR PIECE, YOU ACTUALLY MENTIONED THE RISK THAT THOSE FOUR ARE GOING TO FACE, GIO. YOU KNOW, AS EXCITING AS THIS IS, AS HISTORIC AS THIS IS, THERE ARE RISKS INVOLVED, AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FOUR CIVILIANS. THEY ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUTS. >> Reporter: YEAH, I MEAN, THIS IS ON AUTOPILOT, KEIRA, THIS SPACESHIP, THE CREW DRAGON IS ESSENTIALLY ON AUTOPILOT. IT HAS NEVER GONE AS FAR AS IT'S ABOUT TO GO. THIS IS FARTHER THAN THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THAT'S 250, 260 MILES FROM THE PLANET. NOW THIS IS GOING 100 MILES PAST THAT, 360 MILES. IT HASN'T BEEN TESTED TO THAT. WE ARE GOING TO BE SEEING THAT NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME. SO, THAT OBVIOUSLY IS A VERY REAL RISK. SPACEX KNOWS IT. THE CREW KNOWS IT. AND THEY ARE REALLY, IN FACT, JARED ISAACMAN, THE COMMANDER, HE WAS BASICALLY SAYING, I WISH WE COULD GO FARTHER. AND HE WAS REALLY PUSHING THAT, AND AT ONE POINT, SPACEX EMPLOYEES WERE SAYING, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO PUSH THE LIMIT HERE, BUT AT THE END, THEY DID THEIR RISK ASSESSMENT AND THEY DECIDED THAT THEY CAN GET TO THAT LEVEL AND THAT DISTANCE, THAT APOGEE, AS THEY CALL IT. THE OTHER THING IS THERE'S A SORT OF MOON ROOF NOW AND THIS IS TYPICALLY WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE THE DOCKING MECHANISM TO DOCK THE SPACESHIP THERE AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. IT DOES NOT HAVE THAT ANYMORE. NOW IT HAS THAT MOON ROOF, THIS DOME, THIS COUPULA AND THAT'S GOING TO ALLOW THEM TO SEE THE EARTH IN AN INCREDIBLE WAY BUT THAT HAS ALSO NOT BEEN TESTED IN SPACE. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME FOR THAT AS WELL. >> ALL RIGHT, GIO, YOU ARE COVERING THE COUNTDOWN LIVE FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR US. WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO A LOT THROUGHOUT THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME TO THE SET, MIKE, A RETIRED NASA ASTRONAUT WHO FLEW TO SPACE IN TWO MISSIONS, CONDUCTED MULTIPLE SPACE WALKS, AND BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO ACTUALLY SEND A TWEET FROM ORBIT. HE'S GOING TO BE WITH US THROUGHOUT OUR COVERAGE, HELPING MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL. MIKE, IT IS SO GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US. >> MY PLEASURE. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. >> YEAH, AND YOU AND I WERE TALKING, WE'RE WATCHING THESE LIVE PICTURES, OKAY, PUT US IN THE MINDSET. BRING US INSIDE THE ROCKET. TELL US WHAT'S GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU ARE, WHAT, T-MINUS, MY GOSH -- >> PRETTY CLOSE. >> LESS THAN 20 MINUTES. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, RIGHT? WE ARE REALLY CLOSE. >> FOR ME, IT WAS SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT I'D GET A CHANCE TO DO, EVEN AFTER I WAS SELECTED AS AN ASTRONAUT, EVEN AFTER THE INITIAL TRAINING, SIX YEARS OF TRAINING WHEN I DID MY FIRST FLIGHT AND YOU'RE SITTING THERE IN THE LAUNCH PAD, STILL WONDERING, IS THIS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN? AM I IMAGINING THIS? IT'S A SURREAL EXPERIENCE. AND YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, WHAT YOUR PROCEDURES ARE IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, PLAYING A LITTLE ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS WITH YOUR BUDDY NEXT TO YOU AND JUST TRYING TO -- AND HOPING. BECAUSE YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW UNTIL THE ROCKET LIGHTS, YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GO ANYWHERE THAT DAY BUT IT LOOKS PRETTY GOOD TODAY. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THESE FOUR AND ABOUT THIS MISSION? LOOK, YOU WERE A TRAINED ASTRONAUT. YOU KNOW, YOU ARE SUPER HUMAN IN A WAY, BUT ALL THE TRAINING YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH -- >> YOU DON'T KNOW ME WELL ENOUGH. >> I KNOW PEOPLE THAT KNOW YOU. THESE ARE CIVILIANS. THESE ARE PEOPLE LIKE US, RIGHT? HOW REMARKABLE IS THIS TO YOU? >> WELL, THE COMMANDER, JARED, WHO'S SPRINGING FOR ALL THIS, IS A VERY ACCOMPLISHED PILOT. WHAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO AS A CIVILIAN FLYING HIGH-PERFORMANCE JET AIRCRAFT, HE IS USED TO FOLLOWING PROCEDURES, HE KNOWS ABOUT SAFETY. I THINK HE'S A GOOD PERSON TO LEAD THIS CREW. BUT I REALLY THINK IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE VEHICLE, TO THE SPACECRAFT. WHEN WE FLEW THE SPACE SHUTTLE, IT WAS REALLY MANUALLY INTENSIVE. THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FLEW THAT SPACESHIP AS COMMANDERS AND PILOTS, OUR ASTRONAUT PILOTS HAD THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF TRAINING FOR THE ONE LANDING THEY WERE GOING TO DO AT THIS SPACE SHUTTLE. IT WAS SO INTENSE, HUMAN INTENSIVE, THE TRAINING WAS SO MUCH FOR EMERGENCIES, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THAT WAS WHAT TOOK UP A LOT OF OUR TIME. THIS SPACECRAFT, AS GIO SAID IN HIS PIECE, IT'S REALLY HIGHLY AUTOMATED AND WE'RE ABLE TO NOW SEND PEOPLE WITH SOME BASIC TRAINING, WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE, TO SPACE INSIDE OF THIS VEHICLE, BECAUSE OF THE AUTOMATION. 1970s TECHNOLOGY WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE, YOU KNOW, 21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY. >> WE'VE COME A LONG WAY. >> WE'VE COME A LONG WAY AND THIS IS THE BENEFIT. EVEN MY ASTRONAUT COLLEAGUES WHO ARE STILL THERE, THE GROUP THAT JUST WENT UP A FEW MONTHS AGO, THEIR TRAINING FLOW IS MUCH LESS WITH THIS VEHICLE THAN ANYTHING CLOSE TO WHAT WE HAD WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE BECAUSE OF THE AUTOMATION INVOLVED. >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ANIMATION THAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU. IT ACTUALLY SHOWS THE INSPIRATION FOR PLAN THERE TO GO FURTHER INTO SPACE THAN RICHARD BRANSON WITH VIRGIN GALACTIC, FURTHER THAN JEFF BEZOS WITH BLUE ORIGIN, EVEN BEYOND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. HOW MUCH DOES THAT RAISE THE STAKES HERE, DO YOU THINK? >> IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, MY MISSIONS TO THE HUBBLE WAS AROUND THAT ALTITUDE. I'M GOING TO GO CHECK THE NUMBERS TO SEE IF THEY'RE GETTING HIGHER THAN US BUT I THINK THEY MIGHT BEAT US BY A COUPLE MILES. >> REALLY? >> WE WERE UP BETWEEN 350 AND 360. WHAT IT DOES IS A COUPLE THINGS, AS FAR AS WHAT YOU CAN SEE, YOU CAN SEE THE CURVATURE OF THE PLANET MORE AND THAT IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE. BUT FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, WHAT I'M INTERESTED TO MAYBE LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IF WE CAN IS THE MARGIN THAT YOU HAVE. GOING THAT HIGH WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE, IT DIDN'T GIVE US ENOUGH -- AS MUCH MARGIN GOING TO THE LOWER ALTITUDE. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU NEED TO HAVE FUEL TO COME HOME WITH. IF YOU HAD A LEAK, IF YOU HAD A PERFORMANCE ISSUE, YOU WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM GOING TO THE HIGHER ALTITUDE AND COMING BACK. I'M SURE THEY'RE NOT PUTTING THESE PEOPLE AT RISK. SO MAYBE THEIR MARGIN IS MUCH HIGHER THAN THAT. THEY ACTUALLY CAN GO MUCH HIGHER. IF YOU HAVE A LEAK OR PERFORMANCE ISSUE AND YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO COME BACK FROM THAT ALTITUDE, THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM. WE HAD SOME PROCEDURES IN OUR CZ CHECKLIST, LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE THIS AND THEY SAID, YOU COULDN'T RECOVER FROM THEM. IF YOU HAD THESE FAILURES, YOU COULD STILL COME HOME. GOING TO HUBBLE, WE COULDN'T RECOVER FROM A FEW OF THOSE THINGS. >> THAT'S A REALITY CHECK. >> THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS FOR US SO WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS AND THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT GETTING HIM THERE TO THAT HIGHER ALTITUDE, YOU GET A MUCH BETTER VIEW AND IT'S WORTH IT TO GET UP THERE AND I'M SURE THEY PACKED IN SOME MARGIN. I'M JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH. >> YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITH US THROUGH THE NIGHT. >> I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. >> DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE. >> GOOD STUFF. >> WELL, I WANT TO ALSO BRING IN NADIA DRAKE, SPACE REPORTER FOR NATGEO, JOINS US NOW FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE. TELL US ABOUT THESE FOUR CIVILIANS READY TO GO IN SPACE. LET'S START WITH OUR FLIGHT COMMANDER, 38-YEAR-OLD BILLIONAIRE, SELF-DESCRIBED SPACE GEEK JARED ISAACMAN. PRETTY REMARKABLE HUMAN BEING EVEN AS MASS POINTS OUT HERE TO US AND WHAT HE IS DOING, NOT ONLY JUST FOR SPACE EXPLORATION BUT ALSO JUST THE HUMANITARIAN MISSION THAT HE HAS TAKEN UP HERE WITH THE $100 MILLION CHECK HE'S GIVING TO ST. JUDE'S AND CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO MATCH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. SO, JARRETT ISAACMAN IS A BILLIONAIRE AND HE DID CHARTER THIS ENTIRE SPACE FLIGHT, BUT WHAT'S REMARKABLE TO ME IS THAT INSTEAD OF CHOOSING TO FLY WITH HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY, HE CHOSE TO GIVE AWAY THOSE OTHER THREE SEATS TO TOTAL STRANGERS. AND SO, ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE, WHO'S GOING TO BE ON THE FLIGHT, AND FILLING ONE OF THOSE STATES IS HAILEY ARCENEAUX. SHE WAS A PATIENT AT ST. JUDE'S WHEN SHE WAS A KID AND DIAGNOSED WITH BONE CANCER AND AS A RESULT OF THAT BONE CANCER, SHE NOW HAS A TITANIUM ROD IN HER LEG, MAKING HER THE FIRST PERSON TO FLY TO SPACE WITH A PROSTHESIS. ANOTHER THING THAT'S REMARKABLE TO ME ABOUT THIS MISSION IS THAT THREE OF THE PASSENGERS, HALEY AND THE OTHER TWO WHO WERE CHOSEN, DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY WERE GOING TO SPACE AS RECENTLY AS SIX MONTHS AGO. AND WHAT A SIX MONTHS IT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THEM. >> NOW, STAY WITH ME, NADIA, BECAUSE I WANT TO STAY ON THAT NOTE OF HAILEY ARCENEAUX BECAUSE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON I GOT TO CATCH UP WITH SOMEONE WHO KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THIS LAUNCH MEANS FROM A PHILANTHROPIC STANDPOINT AND FOR ST. JUDE. TAKE A LISTEN. >> TONIGHT'S LAUNCH ISN'T JUST ABOUT SPACE TRAVEL. IT'S ABOUT SAVING LIVES. INSPIRATION 4'S COMMANDER, JARED ISAACMAN, HAS MADE IT CLEAR THIS BLASTOFF TO ORBIT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE FOR ALL OF US CIVILIANS, BUT IT'S ALSO A HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO RAISE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. AND RICK KNOWS FIRSTHAND WHAT A FUND-RAISING MISSION LIKE THIS CAN DO. HE'S THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE ORGANIZATION TASKED TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE HOSPITAL. RICK, WHAT AN INCREDIBLE PARTNERSHIP THAT YOU HAVE WITH JARED AND HIS CREW. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? >> LOOK, JARED IS JUST AN AMAZING INDIVIDUAL, A HUMANITARIAN AND A PHILANTHROPYIST. JARED REACHED OUT TO US, HE HAD BEEN A SUPPORTER AND HIS COMPANY, SHIFT 4, BUT HE REACHED OUT TO US AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO BE GOING TO -- INTO SPACE, BUT I WANT THERE TO BE PURPOSE BEHIND THIS MISSION. AND I WANT TO SUPPORT A CAUSE. AND WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT HOW OUR MISSION OF FINDING CURES AND SAVING CHILDREN'S LIVES AND THE FACT THAT WE'RE WILLING TO TACKLE THE IMPOSSIBLE LINED UP WITH HIS MISSION. >> SO HE SAYS HE WANTS TO RAISE $200 MILLION. HE'S WRITING THE FIRST CHECK FOR $100 MILLION. JUST PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE HOW UNIQUE IS THIS FOR YOU? HOW BIG IS THIS FOR YOU? HAS ANYONE EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS FOR YOU? >> WELL, THIS IS THE LARGEST SINGLE COMMITMENT THAT WE HAVE EVER RECEIVED FROM AN INDIVIDUAL IN OUR ALMOST 60-YEAR HISTORY. AND YOU KNOW, THAT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PUTS US WELL ON OUR WAY TO OUR GOAL OF $200 MILLION AND I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT WE'VE ALSO NOW RECEIVED TOTAL COMMITMENTS OF OVER $130 MILLION TO SUPPORT OUR LIFE-SAVING MISSION THAT INCLUDES THE FACT THAT NO FAMILY EVER RECEIVES A BILL FROM US, NOT FOR THE COST OF TREATMENT, TRAVEL, HOUSING OR FOOD, BECAUSE ALL WE WANT MOM AND DAD TO WORRY ABOUT IS HELPING THEIR CHILD SURVIVE A CATASTROPHIC DISEASE. >> AMEN TO THAT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? WHAT A PERFECT SEGUE. ON THIS SPACEX FLIGHT, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER REPRESENTING HOPE, ONE OF THE FOUR PILLARS OF THIS MISSION, 29-YEAR-OLD HAILEY ARCENEAUX, A PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVOR, NOW A PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT AT ST. JUDE, THE HOSPITAL THAT SAVED HER LIFE AND SOMEONE YOU KNOW PERSONALLY. YOUR BACK STORY HERE IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. TAKE IT BACK TO YOUR DAD. >> OH, KEIRA, THANK YOU FOR ASKING. HALEY WAS A PATIENT WHEN MY FATHER WAS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE FUND-RAISING AND AWARENESS ORGANIZATION FOR ST. JUDE, SO BOTH MY DAD AND I AND OUR FAMILY GOT TO KNOW HER ON HER CANCER JOURNEY, AND YOU KNOW, SHE IS A TRUE INSPIRATION TO ME. SHE BECAME A PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT AND NOW SHE HAS HER DREAM JOB. SHE'S GIVING BACK TO THE VERY MISSION THAT SAVED HER LIFE. BECAUSE SHE IS A PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVOR, YOU KNOW, SHE'S GOT A PROSTHETIC DEVICE. SHE'S PROVING TO EVERYONE THAT YOU CAN -- THE SKY'S NOT THE LIMIT FOR ANYBODY. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. CANCER DOES NOT NEED TO DEFINE A PERSON'S JOURNEY IN LIFE. SHE IS INSPIRING SO MANY FAMILIES AND I HAVE HAD SO MANY FAMILIES AT ST. JUDE EVEN TODAY THAT HAVE SAID THAT THEY'RE DEEPLY MOVED AND MOTIVATED AND EXCITED BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE IS DOING HERE TODAY. SHE'S PROVING THAT ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. >> AND I HAVE SEEN THE VIDEO BACK WHEN SHE KNEW SHE HAD BEAT CANCER AS A LITTLE GIRL AND SHE WAS TOURING THROUGH THAT HOSPITAL, TALKING TO KIDS, TALKING TO FAMILIES. SHE WAS A GOODWILL AMBASSADOR AND NOW SHE'S WORKING THERE. IT'S INCREDIBLE, AND NOW SHE'S TEAMED UP WITH JARED ISAACMAN, THIS BILLIONAIRE, WHO'S CHARTING THIS FLIGHT. HE'S COMMITTED $100 MILLION ALREADY TO ST. JUDE, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT. TELL ME THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT OF THAT CHECK THAT HE IS WRITING AND JUST, AS YOU MENTIONED, THE MONEY THAT'S NOW FOLLOWED. >> WELL, KEIRA, WE JUST ANNOUNCED, ST. JUDE JUST ANNOUNCED AN $11.5 BILLION EXPANSION OF OUR MISSION. THIS IS A BRAND-NEW STRATEGIC PLAN WHERE WE SEEK TO FIND CURES FOR SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT KARNS TO CURE. SO, JARED'S FUNDS ARE GOING TO BE USED TO SUPPORT THAT EXPANSION OF OUR MISSION, THAT $11.5 BILLION INVESTMENT WHERE GOD WILLING WE CAN INCREASE THE SURVIVAL RATES FOR SOME OF THE MOST CHALLENGING CANCERS AND BRING HOPE TO KIDS AROUND THE WORLD. >> FINAL QUESTION. RICK, I HOPE THAT EVERY CHILD THERE IN THE HOSPITAL THAT IS ABLE TO DO SO WILL BE WATCHING THIS MISSION. ARE THERE VIEWING PARTIES? IS EVERYBODY TUNING IN? >> THERE ARE. WHEN I CAME DOWN HERE JUST A FEW SECONDS AGO, A LOT OF MY TEAM MEMBERS WERE ASSEMBLED IN OUR LOBBY WATCHING, SO I JUST THINK THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT TIME TO BE AROUND FAMILY, AND THAT FAMILY, FOR MANY OF OUR ST. JUDE PATIENTS, IS THE ST. JUDE FAMILY. SO, THEY'LL BE ASSEMBLED TOGETHER HERE BECAUSE THEY'RE HERE ON A HOSPITAL CAMPUS. THEY'LL BE ASSEMBLED, WATCHING THESE FOUR INCREDIBLY BRAVE PEOPLE AND ROOTING HAILEY AND JARED AND THE ENTIRE CREW ON, AND BEING DEEPLY MOVED. I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW ASTRONAUTS TOMORROW MORNING AND LATER ON TONIGHT. >> I CAN SEE IT RIGHT NOW. I SEE THE NEXT HAILEY COMING STRAIGHT OUT. OF THAT HOSPITAL. >> YOU BET. >> RICK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU, KEIRA. >>> ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET STRAIGHT BACK NOW TO GIO BENITEZ AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. THE COUNTDOWN TO LIFTOFF MOMENTS AWAY, T-MINUS FIVE, EIGHT, SEVEN, HERE WE GO. >> THIS IS WHERE IT GETS VERY EXCITING. WE JUST HEARD OF SPACEX LAUNCH CONTROL, THIS IS A GO FOR LAUNCH. GOOD NIGHT AND GODSPEED IS WHAT THEY SAID. THEY ARE READY, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, IT APPEARS THIS IS HAPPENING AT T-MINUS 4:52 RIGHT THERE. THE DRAGON IS NOW RUNNING ON INTERNAL POWER. THAT MEANS IT IS NOW ENTERING THAT AUTOMATIC MODE FOR LAUNCH, AND GETTING READY FOR THAT LAUNCH. YOU SEE THERE, THE CRITICAL TIMELINES THERE, THE ENGINE HAS BEEN CHILLED. YOU SEE THAT STRONG BACK RETRACTING. THAT IS THE SPINE THERE THAT YOU SEE NEXT TO THE CAPSULE. THAT WILL START RETRACTING VERY, VERY SOON. >> AND THE TRAINING THAT THESE FOUR WENT THROUGH, JUST TALKING WITH MIKE HERE, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THIS AND JUST THE DIFFERENCE OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AS AN ASTRONAUT WITH NASA YEARS AND YEARS OF TRAINING. WE'RE TALKING, WITH THESE FOUR, ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS, RIGHT, GIO? >> Reporter: OH, ABSOLUTELY. AND LISTEN, THIS IS NOT THE SAME TRAINING THAT ASTRONAUTS GET, RIGHT? BECAUSE ASTRONAUTS DEDICATE THEIR LIVES, MIKE WILL TELL YOU THIS, THEY DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO LEARNING HOW TO DO THIS, BUT THEY SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA, TRAINING WITH SPACEX, AND SO APPARENTLY, WHAT I AM TOLD IS THAT THEY GOT THE SAME SPACEX TRAINING THAT ASTRONAUTS GET BEFORE THEY GOT INTO THE CREW DRAGON. WE'VE SEEN OTHER ASTRONAUTS LAUNCHED SINCE MAY 2020 IN THE CREW DRAGON. THEY GOT THAT SAME TRAINING. SO THEY ARE READY TO OPERATE THE SPACEX CREW DRAGON. >> IT'S AMAZING. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A BILLIONAIRE, A CANCER SURVIVOR, A GEOLOGIST, AND A RAFFLE WINNER ON BOARD THIS ROCKET ABOUT TO TAKE OFF RIGHT NOW. IT LOOKS LIKE T-MINUS 3:16 AS WE WATCH THIS ROCKET GET READY TO GO. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THREE DAYS OF ORBIT. IT'S GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE. AND 39-A, THIS IS A HISTORIC LAUNCH PAD. THIS IS WHERE THE MEN LAUNCHED TO GO TO THE MOON. >> I LAUNCHED FROM THERE TWICE, YEAH. IT'S A LOT OF -- IT LOOKS A LOT DIFFERENT, THOUGH, KEIRA, THAN WHEN THEY WENT TO THE MOON AND WHEN WE LAUNCHED SPACE SHUTTLES FROM IT BUT IT'S PRETTY COOL. >> WE'RE TALKING 17,500 MILES PER HOUR. >> YEAH. IT'S A LOT OF SPEED. GOING -- YOU NEED THAT AMOUNT OF SPEED AND THAT AMOUNT OF ENERGY TO GET TO ORBIT. >> ALL RIGHT, AND LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO -- ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN IN TO THE LIVE FEED NOW? LET'S DO IT. >> THE POWER SYSTEMS OF PAD 39-A. AS YOU JUST HEARD, THE CROWD IS SUPER EXCITED HERE AT SPACEX HEADQUARTERS IN HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA. WE ARE NOW UNDER 2:30 UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF THE "INSPIRATION 4" CREW. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW. >> WE SEE ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN, BUCKLED IN AND READY TO GO. KEIRA, WE ARE NOW APPROACHING THAT VERY START-UP MODE. THAT IS COMING UP VERY, VERY QUICKLY HERE. >> THERE'S THE CALL. >> T-MINUS 1:00. >> DRAGON IS IN AUTO IDLE. >> THERE YOU JUST HEARD IT. IT IS IN AUTO IDLE. >> ALL OF ITS PROPELLANTS. >> EXPECT LOUD VENTING. >> ANNOUNCEMENT TO LET THE CREW KNOW THAT AS WE VENT OFF VARIOUS LINES ON THE LAUNCHPAD, THEY'LL HEAR SOME LOUD NOISES, LET THE CREW KNOW THAT'S PLANNED. ALSO RIGHT NOW DRAINING LIQUID OXYGEN OUT OF THE TRANSPORTER, DRAINING THE LINES, GETTING READY FOR LAUNCH, WAITING FOR THE START-UP CALL AT T-MINUS 1:00. >> THEY'RE KEEPING THE CREW INFORMED. I'M SURE THESE ARE CHECKLIST ITEMS THAT PARTICULARLY JARED'S CHECKING OFF. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HEAR THESE THINGS IN THE SPACESHIP. THINGS ARE GOING WELL. THOSE LAST FEW MINUTES. 17,500 MILES AN HOUR, THEIR GOING TO GO FROM ZERO WHERE THEY ARE NOW, STANDING STILL, TO THAT SPEED IN 8 AND A HALF MINUTES. IT'S -- YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING SOMEWHERE WHEN THIS HAPPENS. >> THAT G-FORCE THAT THEY PRACTICED ON THE CENTRIFUGE, I MEAN, THEY'RE READY. IT'S LIKE AN ELEPHANT SITTING ON YOUR CHEST WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH. >> ABOUT THREE TIMES YOUR BODY WEIGHT SO WHATEVER YOU WEIGH, MULTIPLY IT BY THREE. I FELT LIKE I HAD THREE BIG DUDES SITTING ON ME FOR A FEW MINUTES. >> THE FINAL 25 SECONDS, 24, 23. WAS YOUR HEART RACING AT THIS POINT, MIKE? >> IT REALLY IS SURREAL. LIKE IS THIS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN? IT'S LIKE, TOO LATE NOW, THEY'RE GOING TO LET ME GO. WE JUST NEED A LITTLE MORE TIME. LET'S GET OUT OF HERE. >> HERE WE GO. THEY ARE STRAPPED INTO THAT CAPSULE ATOP A 200 FOOT-TALL SPACEX ROCKET ABOUT TO BLAST THEM INTO SPACE PAST THE SPEED OF SOUND. HERE WE GO. >> THREE, TWO, ONE, IGNITION. >> PITCHING DOWN RANGE. PROPULSION IS NORMAL. >> T-PLUS 30 SECONDS. NOMINAL. "INSP "INSPIRATION 4" CREW ON BOARD DRAGON AND FALCON 9, WAITING ON THE CREW IN THE CAPSULE. WE'RE INTO THE THROTTLE NOW AND INTO THE THROTTLE BUCKET. THROTTLING DOWN IN PREPARATION FOR THE MAXIMUM PRESSURE. >> WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE THEY JUST CALLED MAXIMUM DYNAMIC PRESSURE AS THEY GET HIGHER IN THE ALTITUDE, THE FORCES BUILD UP ON THE VEHICLE. IMPORTANT PIECE TO GET THROUGH, BUT EVERYTHING'S GOING REALLY WELL. WHAT I THINK IS REALLY COOL HERE, TOO, IS THAT IT'S A NIGHT LAUNCH SO WE'RE GOING TO SEE QUITE A SHOW BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT'S LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT SKY AND THE BOOSTER RETURNS, WE'LL SEE THAT AS WELL, SO IT'S -- NIGHT LAUNCHES, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS VEHICLE, ARE EVEN MORE SPECTACULAR, I THINK, THAN WHAT YOU SEE DURING THE DAY. >> I TELL YOU, MY HEART WAS BEATING BECAUSE AS SOON AS YOU SEE THOSE -- THERE WE GO. WE GOT THE THUMBS UP FROM THE CREW. YOU KNOW WHAT'S INCREDIBLE ABOUT THIS, NOT ONLY WATCHING THE ROCKET LIVE, TAKE OFF, BUT BEING ABLE TO SEE THE PICTURE OF THE FOUR INSIDE AS WELL. >> YEAH, YEAH. >> JUST THAT DUAL IMAGE AND YOU CAN HEAR THE CHEERING INSIDE. THIS IS A GREAT SIGN. >> THIS IS REALLY GOOD. YEAH. EVERYTHING'S GOING WELL. WE HEAR THE CHEERS OF THE CONTROL ROOM. ABSOLUTELY. SO, WHAT'S HAPPENED IS I THINK WE JUST HAD STAGING, SO THIS IS PART OF THE SHOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET TONIGHT THAT I'VE SEEN THAT -- IT WAS AT THE LAUNCH BACK IN APRIL, MY FRIENDS WHO ARE UP THERE IN SPACE NOW, SHANE, MEAGAN, AND A COUPLE OTHER -- AKI FROM JAPAN, ANYWAY, THEY WENT BACK IN APRIL AND IT WAS A NIGHT LAUNCH AND WE GOT TO SEE THIS SPECTACULAR SITE THAT WE'RE SEEING NOW. >> CUTOFF FOLLOWED BY STATE SEPARATION, LOOKING AT THE SECOND STAGE ENGINE NOZZLE AND THEN IGNITION OF THE SECOND STAGE. >> SO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THE SECOND STAGE TO IGNITE HERE. AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE -- OKAY. BOOM. >> THERE IT GOES. >> THERE IT GOES. AND WHEN WE SEE THAT ENGINE IGNITE, WHICH IS A REALLY GOOD SIGN. SO THAT'S STAGING. SO THE FIRST STAGE IS DONE. IT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO EARTH AND HOPEFULLY LAND ON A PLATFORM, WHICH IS AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND WE'RE GOING TO -- WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO BE SEEING TWO VIEWS HERE. THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE VEHICLE COMING BACK TO EARTH, LANDING ON A PLATFORM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. WHEN I SAW THEM DEMONSTRATE THIS RETURN CAPABILITY OF THAT BOOSTER, I BECAME A BELIEVER IN SPACEX ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO WHEN THEY FIRST DID THIS BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS CAN REALLY WORK BUT TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE THIS OUT, TO RETURN THE BOOSTER BACK TO A NOT EVEN -- IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE LAND. >> THEY CAN RETURN TO AN ACTUAL TARGET. >> A TARGET IN THE OCEAN. IT REQUIRES VERY LITTLE FUEL TO DO THAT SO THEY CAN USE MOST OF THE FUEL TO GET TO SPACE, JUST A LITTLE BIT IS NEEDED TO RETURN IT, BECAUSE IT LANDS BACK OUT IN THE OCEAN, BUT THE TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED IS MIND-BOGGLING AT NIGHT IN THE OCEAN. SO, THEY CAN REUSE IT. SO THE TWO THINGS THAT I THINK ARE KEY TO THIS, THIS NEW SPACE AGE THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE, IS THE AUTOMATION THAT ALLOWS ALMOST ANYBODY TO GO AND THE REUSABILITY. THEY'RE GOING TO GET THAT BOOSTER BACK TO BE ABLE TO USE IT AGAIN. >> AND OUR GIO BENITEZ, TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT THERE, 4:00 IN SINCE THIS LAUNCH TOOK PLACE. WHAT IS THE -- WHAT'S THE ENERGY LIKE, THE FEELING WHERE YOU ARE? >> Reporter: LET ME JUST TELL YOU, IT'S ALWAYS AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE WATCHING THIS, BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE, IF WE CAN GET OUR OTHER CAMERA HERE, IF WE COULD GET THAT ON THE AIR, BECAUSE I JUST WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE FROM THE GROUND. WE ARE ESSENTIALLY SEEING HALOS IN THE SKY AS THAT STAGE ONE COMES BACK. WE'LL GET THAT SHOT IN JUST A MOMENT HERE. BUT THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE. >> WE'VE GOT IT. >> Reporter: LOOK AT THAT. YOU SEE THAT? I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE. MIKE WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE ON A NIGHT LAUNCH. THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE. LOOK AT THAT. LOOK AT THAT. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THESE THINGS, RIGHT THERE, THAT IS THE STAGE ONE. THAT IS THE ROCKET, THE FALCON 9 ROCKET THAT IS RETURNING TO EARTH. THAT IS THE ROCKET THAT TYPICALLY WOULD BE THROWN AWAY, RIGHT? MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH WOULD BE JUST THROWN AWAY. THAT IS RETURNED TO EARTH TO BE USED AGAIN LATER. IT'S GOING TO LAND ON A DRONE SHIP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. KEIRA, I GOT TO TELL YOU, THIS IS WHERE I GET EMOTIONAL. I'M THINKING ABOUT HALEY'S STORY AND I'M THINKING ABOUT DR. PROCTOR AND I'M THINKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND WHAT CHILDREN WATCHING THIS ARE THINKING, ESPECIALLY LITTLE GIRLS AND WHAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE AND WHAT THEY CAN LOOK FORWARD TO. THEY HAVE WORKED VERY HARD, AND THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH SO MUCH. HAILEY WENT THROUGH SO MUCH, BUT SHE WORKED SO HARD TO LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THIS AND OF COURSE DR. PROCTOR, THAT GEOSCIENCE PROFESSOR DEDICATING HER LIFE TO TEACHING PEOPLE THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD, PERHAPS, RIGHT? AND THERE SHE IS GOING AND TEACHING US ANOTHER LESSON RIGHT HERE AND PERHAPS OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS, EVEN MORE LESSONS. SO, A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT HERE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. >> YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO LET YOU BREATHE ON THAT FOR A MINUTE, GIO, BECAUSE DR. PROCTOR, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT HAILEY. THE CANCER SURVIVOR. SHE NOW WORKS FOR ST. JUDE. ST. JUDE SAVED HER LIFE. NOW SHE IS IN THE -- SHE WAS IN THAT LAUNCH AND SHE IS HEADED UP INTO SPACE. BUT DR. PROCTOR, HER DAD, BACK WHEN SEGREGATION WAS IN FULL FORCE, HE WORKED FOR NASA. HE WAS TRACKING THE APOLLO MISSIONS. NEIL ARMSTRONG THANKED DR. PROCTOR'S DAD FOR HELPING HIM GET TO THE MOON. HE WAS ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM AND SHE WAS BORN. SHE WAS A MOON BABY, SHE SAID. AND SO -- AND UNFORTUNATELY, HE HAS PASSED AWAY, AND SHE SO MUCH WANTED HIM TO WITNESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS LOVED SPACE. SHE ALWAYS LOVED AVIATION BECAUSE OF HER DAD AND THE FACT THAT HE WORKED FOR NASA. AND NEIL ARMSTRONG EVEN COMING TO SEE HIM AND WRITING HIM A HANDWRITTEN THANK YOU NOTE FOR KEEPING EYES ON HIM AND GETTING THEM BACK SAFELY. I MEAN, WHAT A POWERFUL -- YOU START TO UNDERSTAND WHY THESE FOUR ARE PART OF THAT CREW. YOU UNDERSTAND HAILEY'S STORY, AND THEN YOU HEAR DR. PROCTOR'S STORY. IT'S INCREDIBLE, GIO, AND NOW YOU'RE HEARING THEM TALKING. >> SO EXCITED SHE'S FINALLY IN SPACE. >> JUST INCREDIBLE. LET'S LISTEN IN HERE. >> WE'LL BE ORBITING EARTH FOR THREE DAYS AND THEY WILL BE AT AN ALTITUDE OF 575 KILOMETERS, WHICH, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, JOHN I., YOU SAID THAT IS THE DISTANCE FROM LOS ANGELES TO THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. >> THERE YOU GO. THEY'RE GOING TO GET THERE A LOT FASTER. [ APPLAUSE ] >> FIRST STAGE, AGAIN, THIS FIRST STAGE, ALREADY SEPARATED FROM THE SECOND STAGE. SO, FIRST STAGE IS MAKING ITS WAY BACK TO EARTH, TRYING TO LAND, AND THE SECOND STAGE, EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL. IT IS HEADED INTO ORBIT WITH THE CREW ON BOARD. >> ACTUALLY, THEY'RE ON YOUR SCREEN. YOU CAN SEE A SUNRISE HORIZON THERE WITH PLANET EARTH JUST BEHIND THE GLOWING MVAC ENGINE. >> STAGE TWO IS IN TERMINAL GUIDANCE. >> STAGE TWO AT TERMINAL GUIDANCE. WE ARE AT THE ALTITUDE. WE'RE WORKING THE ANGLE OF MOMENTUM WE NEED TO GET INTO THE RIGHT ORBIT AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING, CREW'S PULLING ABOUT 3.5Gs RIGHT NOW, LESS THAN THEY TOOK ON THE FIRST STAGE FLIGHT. >> IN ABOUT 15 SECONDS, WE ARE EXPECTING. >> COPY, SHANNON. >> WE ARE EXPECTING -- >> SHUTTLE DOWN. >> THE MVAC TO THROTTLE DOWN AND AN EVENT CALLED SECOND ENGINE CUTOFF AND WE'LL WAIT FOR THE CONFIRMATION OF GOOD ORBIT. AT THE SAME TIME, THE FIRST STAGE WILL BE BEGINNING ITS LANDING AND HERE WE HAVE THE MVAC, WE JUST SAW THAT IT SHUT OFF ITS ENGINE. >> PHASE ONE. >> LANDED ON THAT DRONE SHIP AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT. S >> AND KEIRA, IT LOOKS TO ME WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT SHOT OF THE CREW MEMBERS THERE, IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE THEY ARE FEELING THAT ZERO GRAVITY. THEY'RE MOVING THEIR HANDS AROUND IN A WAY THAT TELLS ME THAT THEY ARE FEELING AND ENJOYING THAT SENSATION. OF BEING TOTALLY WEIGHTLESS. >> MIKE, YOU'VE BEEN THERE. >> NO, AS SOON AS THAT ENGINE CUTS AND YOU'RE IN ORBIT, IT'S IMMEDIATE. IT BECOMES VERY PEACEFUL AND QUIET, AND YOUR ARMS JUST FLOAT UP LIKE THIS. OUR ARMS STAY DOWN HERE, KEIRA, BECAUSE WE'RE ON EARTH, ONE GRAVITY. BUT IN ZERO GRAVITY, THEY JUST FLOAT RIGHT UP. I TOOK OFF MY HELMET, PUT IT IN FRONT OF ME. I SAW TOM HANKS ON APOLLO 13, AND I WANT TO DO THAT SOME DAY. BUT IT'S IMMEDIATE. IT'S AN IMMEDIATE TRANSITION. >> WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE LIVE PICTURES. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP TALKING THROUGH ALL OF THIS HISTORIC LAUNCH, MIKE. WE WANT TO BRING IN NOW ALSO HAKEEM, AUTHOR OF "A QUANTUM LIFE: MY UNLIKELY JOURNEY FROM THE STREET TO STARS," ALSO PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY. GREAT TO SEE YOU. GIVE US YOUR FIRST REACTION AS YOU WATCH THIS LIVE ALONG WITH US. >> WHEW. THAT IS MY FIRST REACTION. >> YES, WE'RE ALL RELIEVED. >> I AM SO -- YES. SUCH A RELIEF THAT THEY MADE IT OFF THE LAUNCHPAD SAFELY AND INTO ORBIT BECAUSE IT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. >> NOW, BEFORE GETTING TO THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH A LOT OF TRAINING, PHYSICALLY. I MEAN, JUST THE LIST OF EVERYTHING FROM DEALING WITH THE G-FORCE TO LEARNING HOW TO EGRESS, TO LEARNING HOW TO HANDLE THE WEIGHTLESSNESS, YOU KNOW, TELL US ABOUT THE TRAINING AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO GET YOUR BODY READY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS. >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. AND WHAT WE HAVE TO REALIZE ABOUT THIS CREW IS THAT ASTRONAUTS USUALLY TAKE AROUND TWO YEARS OF TRAINING AND THEY ONLY HAD FIVE MONTHS AND MIKE NAILED IT. HE TALKED ABOUT THOSE G-FORCES THAT YOUR BODY FEELS. WE'RE NOT DUMMIES AND THE DIRECTION OF THE FORCES ON THE BODY MATTER, AND SO YOU NOTICE THEY WERE IN A RECLINED POSITION SO THAT THEY HAVE HORIZONTAL FORCES, SO IF YOU CAN IMAGINE, IF YOU COULD HAVE FORCES, IF YOU'RE GOING UP, THAT SENDS ALL THE FLUIDS IN YOUR BODIES DOWN TO YOUR FEET AND COMING BACK IN, YOU WOULD EXPERIENCE THE OPPOSITE, THE FORCES GOING UP TO YOUR HEAD, BUT THEY DON'T DO THAT. THEY MAKE YOU HORIZONTAL TO THOSE FORCES BUT IMAGINE THIS. YOU FEEL THREE, FOUR, FIVE TIMES YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN ONE DIRECTION AND THEN YOU'RE WEIGHTLESS AND THEN YOU FEEL FOUR, FIVE TIMES YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN THE OTHER DIRECTION WHEN YOU DO RE-ENTRY. SO, IT IS A VERY PHYSICALLY TAXING EXPERIENCE. >> ALSO, TOO, I MEAN, WE TALK ABOUT THIS MISSION, THE FACT WE'VE GOT FOUR CIVILIANS GOING UP IN SPACE, WHICH IS A HISTORIC MOMENT. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE HUMANITARIAN MISSION HERE, THE FACT THAT JARED ISAACMAN HAS CHALLENGED PEOPLE TO KEEP DONATING TO ST. JUDE HOSPITAL. HE'S WRITTEN $100 MILLION CHECK. HE WANTED TO ALSO MAKE THIS A FUND-RAISING MISSION AS WELL. BUT ALSO, THERE IS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT CAN BE GATHERED ON A MISSION LIKE THIS. AND THAT'S YOUR SPECIALTY. >> ABSOLUTELY. AND I HAVE TO SAY, I HAVE A VERY CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER WHO'S A PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY NURSE AND I TELL YOU, FOR ANY CHILD TO LEAVE THAT HOSPITAL AND GO HOME, IT IS AN AMAZING VICTORY AND TO HAVE THAT YOUNG LADY LEAVE THE HOSPITAL AND THIS IS HER DESTINY? THIS IS WHERE SHE ENDED UP? WHAT AN AMAZING STORY THIS IS. NOW, EVERY MISSION HAS WHAT WE CALL A PAYLOAD SPECIALIST, AND THAT PAYLOAD SPECIALIST IS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UNDERTAKING THOSE EXPERIMENTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, SO THIS CREWED MISSION, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE CIVILIANS, EVERYBODY HAS A JOB, JUST LIKE THEY WERE IN A MILITARY TANK ON A MILITARY SHIP OR IN A NASA ROCKET. AND SO, THE ENGINEER THERE IS THE PAYLOAD SPECIALIST, SO THAT'S WHO WILL BE CONDUCTING THOSE EXPERIMENTS. THERE'S ALL SORTS OF EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN DO IN SPACE. THOSE THAT INVOLVE ZERO G, THOSE THAT INVOLVE RADIATION, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON HERE BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING MUCH HIGHER THAN THEY TYPICALLY GO. >> IT'S MIKE. IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU HERE, EVEN OVER THE DISTANCE. YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT SIGNIFICANCE OF GOING TO SPACE AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE ST. JUDE CONNECTION. WHAT ELSE DO YOU SEE AS -- THIS IS A HUGE STEP. WHERE DO YOU SEE THE OVERWHELMING OR OVERARCHING BENEFITS OF DOING THIS? MAYBE EVEN AS A SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR, WHAT IS THIS GOING TO MEAN TO THE WORLD? >> ABSOLUTELY. WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF OUR ASPIRATIONS, SO YOU KNOW, MANY TIMES, THINGS START OUT AND ONLY GOVERNMENTS CAN DO IT. ONLY THE MILITARY CAN DO IT. ONLY THE VERY RICH CAN DO IT. BUT NOW, WE'RE SEEING REGULAR FOLKS ARE HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY, AND MENTIONING THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN MIKE AND I MET INITIALLY ABOUT A DECADE AGO, HE WAS JUST ON ME CONSTANTLY, APPLY FOR THE ASTRONAUT PROGRAM, YOU'LL BE A SHOE-IN. I DIDN'T DO IT. BUT MIKE, THERE'S HOPE FOR ME YET. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, DR. PROCTOR, AND MIKE YOU KNOW THIS TOO, SHE WAS ACTUALLY A FINALIST FOR THE NASA PROGRAM. SHE ALMOST DID BECOME AN ASTRONAUT. >> SHE WAS REALLY CLOSE, YEAH. YEP. >> RIGHT. SO THIS IS -- THIS IS HER DREAM COME TRUE. LET'S BRING NADIA BACK IN BECAUSE SHE'S DEFINITELY GOT TO KNOW THESE CREW MEMBERS WELL, AND NADIA, WE GOT SO CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT, I MEAN, THIS MISSION, IT'S CALLED "INSPIRATION 4" AND IT'S BASED ON FOUR PILLARS AS WE KNOW. JARED LAID THAT OUT AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS MISSION AND THAT'S LEADERSHIP, HOPE, GENEROSITY, AND PROSPERITY. AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOPE, AND THAT'S HAYLEY ARCENEAUX. THAT'S OUR CANCER SURVIVOR WHO'S THERE IN SPACE NOW ORBITING WITH THE OTHER THREE. WE KNOW ABOUT JARED. HE'S THE LEADERSHIP ASPECT. HE IS THE MISSION COMMANDER. HE PAID FOR THIS, AS MIKE SAID, HE PAID FOR THIS WHOLE THING. HE SPRUNG FOR THIS. >> FOOT THE BILL. >> EXACTLY. BUT WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT GENEROSITY YET. OUR AIR FORCE VET WHO WORKS FOR LOCKHEED, CHRIS, HE'S THE ONE THAT MADE A DONATION, WON THE RAFFLE, AND HE'S UP THERE AS WELL. HE WAS THE SPACE NERD, AS HIS WIFE SAYS, WHEN THEY FIRST MET, HE WAS WEARING A SPACE CAMP T-SHIRT AND SHE THOUGHT, OH, BOY, NERD ALERT, AND NOW SHE'S BEEN SO EXCITED THAT HE HAS FULFILLED HIS DREAM. >> IT'S TRUE. HE WAS A COUNSELOR AT THE U.S. SPACE CAMP AND HE'S AN AMATEUR ASTRONOMER AND HE SAY HE'S BEEN A TOTAL SPACE NERD FOR BASICALLY HIS ENTIRE LIFE, WHICH I LOVE. HE WON HIS SEAT BY ENTERING A RAFFLE AND DONATING MONEY TO ST. JUDE'S AND 72,000 OTHER PEOPLE ACTUALLY ENTERED THAT RAFFLE. AND A FUN LITTLE STORY IS THAT CHRIS WASN'T ACTUALLY THE WINNER OF THAT RAFFLE. HIS FRIEND WON, AND HIS FRIEND DECIDED NOT TO GO ON THE TRIP AND INSTEAD GAVE THE SEAT TO CHRIS, AND SO NOW HE'S ON BOARD AS THE MISSION SPECIALIST. >> WHY WOULD YOU EVER, MIKE, WANT TO GIVE UP A CHANCE TO GO? YOU WONDER WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY, RIGHT? >> THAT'S A GOOD STORY RIGHT THERE. AND NADIA'S A JOURNALIST. >> SHE'S OUR NATGEO WRITER. YOU GOT TO GET THE SCOOP ON WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ACTUAL WINNER. DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE OTHER WINNER? >> WE DON'T. SO, THE PERSON HAS ASKED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS. >> WOW. >> IT'S A MYSTERY. >> DR. PROCTOR TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT SHE WANTED TO BRING THAT NOTE FROM NEIL ARMSTRONG THAT NEIL ACTUALLY GAVE HER FATHER WHEN HE WAS THE NASA TRACKER BACK DURING THE APOLLO DAYS. DO WE KNOW IF SHE ACTUALLY TOOK THAT LETTER WITH HER? BECAUSE I KNOW EACH CREW MEMBER TALKED ABOUT TAKING SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH THEM. DO YOU HAVE ANY SCOOP ON THE SPECIAL MEMENTOS THAT EACH CREW MEMBER TOOK? >> YOU KNOW, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION. AND I DON'T HAVE THE SCOOP ON WHAT THEY BROUGHT. I KNOW THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT EARLIER TODAY. I AM REALLY CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THEY DO UP IN ORBIT. IT DEFINITELY SOUNDS LIKE THEY HAVE A LOT OF FUN PLANNED. CHRIS SAYS HE'S GOING TO PLAY THE UKELELE AND WE HEARD THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AS WELL AND LOOKING OUT THE BEAUTIFUL WINDOW AND ADMIRING THE VIEWS OF EARTH. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM REALLY IMPRESSED ABOUT WITH DR. PROCTOR IS THAT EVEN THOUGH SHE'S TRAINED AS A GEOSCIENTIST, SHE HAS DECIDED TO DEDICATE HER LIFE TO EDUCATION AS WELL AS ART, AND SO SHE REALLY BRINGS THAT FACTOR INTO THE EQUATION AS WELL. AND AGAIN, SHE DID ACTUALLY MAKE IT TO THE FINAL ROUND OF NASA'S ASTRONAUT SELECTION PROCESS IN 2009, WHICH IS REMARKABLE ON ITS OWN. >> AND SHE REPRESENTS THE PROSPERITY PILLAR, RIGHT? SHE IS THE ONE -- SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A TELEVISION, THAT SHE JUST DECIDED TO PUT A VIDEO OUT SAYING, HEY, THIS IS WHY I WANT TO DO THIS, AND SHE TALKED ABOUT HER ART. HER ART COMBINES HER ETHNICITY ALONG WITH SPACE, AND GAVE HER WHOLE BACKGROUND FROM HER DAD TO HER LOVE OF AVIATION AND ART AND IT'S HER ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT THAT EARNED HER THAT SEAT, RIGHT? >> IT IS. SO, SHE WON HER SEAT BY ENTERING A CONTEST IN WHICH COMPETITORS WERE ASKED TO CREATE A ROUGHLY TWO-MINUTE LONG VIDEO EXPLAINING WHY THEY WANTED TO GO TO SPACE, WHAT THEY WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE MISSION, AND THEN THEY HAD TO IMPRESS THE JUDGES WITH THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL PANACHE BY OPENING UP A DIGITAL SHOP AND ACTUALLY SELLING PRODUCTS. AND SO, THAT'S HOW SHE ENDED UP ON THE MISSION AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE MENTIONED THIS FACT YET BUT SHE'S THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO FILL THE SEAT OF MISSION PILOT EVER. THAT'S ALSO REMARKABLE. >> AND THE FOURTH BLACK WOMAN TO EVER ENTER SPACE, WHICH IS PRETTY REMARKABLE. NADIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. HAKEEM, I WANT TO ASK YOU NOW ABOUT THE CONDITIONS AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE LIKE FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS AS THEY PLAN TO BE IN ORBIT, 360 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH'S SURFACE. >> WELL, BEFORE I DO THAT, I JUST HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT DR. PROCTOR AND HER FATHER. >> OF COURSE. >> WHAT IS A LITTLE KNOWN FACT IS THAT BACK IN THE '60s IN THE "APOLLO" ERA, WHEN JAMES WEBB, THE NAMESAKE OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE WAS RUNNING NASA, THEY USED -- LED BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY, THEY USED NASA FACILITIES TO INTEGRATE IN THE SOUTH. THIS IS BEFORE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. THIS IS BEFORE ALL OF THE LAWS THAT WE KNOW OF, SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT KATHERINE JOHNSON, RIGHT, AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHO NASA IS. NASA HAS BEEN A LEADER AMONG THE FEDERAL AGENCIES IN DOING THIS AND NOW WE SEE THE SAME THING IN PRIVATE SPACE EXPLORATION. BUT NOW, THEY'RE UP THERE. AND THEY ARE IN ZERO G. NOW, AS A PHYSICIST, I HAVE TO POINT OUT THAT IT IS NOT ACTUALLY ZERO GRAVITY. GRAVITY STILL EXISTS. WHAT ASTRONAUTS ARE DOING WHEN THEY ARE IN ORBIT IS THEY ARE FALLING. THEY ARE FALLING AROUND THE EARTH. YOU CAN IMAGINE THIS EXPERIMENT THAT WE OFTEN TELL OUR STUDENTS. IF YOU DROP SOMETHING AND SHOOT A BULLET, WHICH ONE HITS THE GROUND FIRST? WELL, THEY HIT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME BUT THE THING IS, IF YOU MAKE THAT BULLET GO FASTER AND FASTER, IT WILL GO FARTHER BEFORE IT HITS THE GROUND, BUT THE EARTH IS A SPHERE, SO IF YOU SHOOT IT OFF FAST ENOUGH, IT WILL NEVER HIT. IT WILL JUST KEEP FALLING AROUND THE EARTH AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING. AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO DO OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO EXPERIENCE THIS, IS IT CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR PHYSIOLOGY. IT CAN CHANGE THE SHAPE OF YOUR HEART. THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD IN YOUR BODY. RADIATION CAN AFFECT YOUR EYES. YOUR BONE DENSITY CEASES. YOUR INNER EAR AND SENSE OF BALANCE RECALIBRATE. SO THERE IS A REAL BIOLOGICAL EFFECT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE CONCERNED WITH ANY OF THAT. THEY'RE GOING TO BE ENJOYING THE VIEW AND DOING THEIR JOBS. >> I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD HAKEEM FOR PHYSICS CLASS. >> IT'S TOO LATE. >> MIKE HAD NO IDEA. >> ALL THESE THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU. >> THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW. >> WHAT GIO DID BEFORE WAS WHAT HAKEEM SO ELOQUENTLY MENTIONED, WHEN GIO WAS IN THE AIRPLANE IN FREE FALL BUT THEY HAD TO PULL UP IN A FEW SECONDS. THEY WEREN'T GOING FAST ENOUGH TO MISS THE EARTH. SO IF YOU CAN GO AS FAST AS THE SPACEX FOLKS ARE GOING, AS HE SAID, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT GIO DID JUST FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AND DOING IT FOR A LONG TIME. >> LET'S BRING GIO BACK IN. NOW WE'VE GOT EVERYBODY, MIKE, HAKEEM, NADIA, GIO, THIS IS MY INSPIRATIONAL FOUR RIGHT HERE. THIS IS MY CREW TO HELP ME GET THROUGH THE ACTUAL HISTORIC INSPIRATION 4. BUT GIO, DO YOU WANT TO WEIGH IN ON THAT? YOU DID, YOU GOT A LITTLE TASTE FOR SOME OF THE TRAINING THAT THESE CIVILIAN ASTRONAUTS GOT TO GO THROUGH, AND IT PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE. I MEAN, HAKEEM JUST EXPLAINED THE PHYSICS, AND YOU FELT IT. >> YEAH, BUT MIKE, WAIT A SECOND. IT WASN'T JUST A FEW SECONDS. SEVEN AND A HALF MINUTES IN WEIGHTLESSNESS, OKAY? THAT IS MORE THAN RICHARD BRANSON GOT AND MORE THAN JEFF BEZOS GOT. >> OKAY. >> YOU MIGHT NOT -- >> BUT ALL AT THE SAME TIME. >> 30 SECONDS AT A TIME. >> YEAH, I'M TELLING YOU WHAT, YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO DO A SEVEN MINUTE DIVE TO THE EARTH. YOU'RE GLAD THOSE GUYS ENDED UP SEVEN MINUTES AWAY. THAT'S A GOOD THING TO EXPLAIN. COMBINED WIEGTLESSNESS. I LIKE IT. CONGRATULATIONS. GOOD POINT. EXCELLENT. >> ABSOLUTELY. AND YOU KNOW IT'S JUST SO FASCINATING, WHAT THIS CREW IS GOING TO BE WITNESSING, OKAY, BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE ORBITING THE EARTH EVERY 90 MINUTES AT 17,500 MILES PER HOUR. THEY WILL SEE 15 SUNRISES AND 15 SUNSETS EVERY DAY. >> 15 SUNSETS, 15 SUNRISES, I BET YOU REMEMBERED A FEW OF THOSE, DIDN'T YOU, MIKE? >> YEAH, ABOUT EVERY 45 MINUTES, A SUNRISE OR A SUNSET, AND EACH ONE IS SPECTACULAR AS THE OTHER AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT VIEW OF IT FROM THE HUE ALTITUDE WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL WINDOW THAT'S BEEN DESCRIBED. >> TELL YOU WHAT, IT IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WAY WE LOOK AT SPACE TRAVEL INDEED. HAKEEM, MIKE, NADIA, GIO, WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING MORE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. WE'LL LET YOU GUYS GET A LITTLE BREAK NOW AS WE MONITOR JUST THE NEXT THREE DAYS. IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING, MIKE. AND BEFORE WE TIE IT UP HERE, WHAT'S THE ONE THING YOU'RE GOING TO BE REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO NOW? >> I WANT TO SEE THEIR REACTIONS TO IT. AS ASTRONAUTS, WE'RE TRAINED DIFFERENTLY. WE HAVE A CERTAIN CULTURE, THE WAY WE LOOK AT THINGS. I THINK THIS IS -- THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUT INFLUENCE ON THEM. THEY'RE GOING TO BE UP THERE TO HAVE THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE ON IT, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO BE INTERESTING. YOU KNOW, WITH EACH ONE OF THEM COMES FROM A DIFFERENT AREA, BUT JUST TO SEE THAT, IF WE WANT TO CALL IT CIVILIAN OR NONPROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SAY, LET'S SEE WHAT THEY THINK OF THIS AND LET'S SEE HOW THEY SUM IT UP FOR US WHEN THEY COME BACK. >> YEAH. HISTORY HAS INDEED BEEN MADE, INSPIRING US ALL, INSPIRING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, ACROSS THE WORLD, AND WHAT MADE IT SO UNIQUE, IT IS A NEW AGE, ISN'T IT? THEY HAVE TOUCHED THE HEAVENS. >> YEP. >> AS ONE OF THE CREW MEMBERS SAID, WELL, WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT GOD ACTUALLY SEES. WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IN GOD OR NOT, YOU ARE GOING TO GET A VIEW LIKE NO OTHER. >> YOU KNOW, THAT WENT THROUGH MY MIND WHEN I WAS IN SPACE, KEIRA. YOU KNOW, THIS WOULD BE THE VIEW FROM HEAVEN WHEN I SAW OUR PLANET DURING A SPACE WALK FROM THAT ALTITUDE, AND IT WAS REPLACED BY ANOTHER THOUGHT, WHICH WAS, NO, IT'S MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THAT. THIS IS WHAT HEAVEN MUST LOOK LIKE. AND THAT'S WHY I FEEL ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF OUR PLANET, THAT WE CAN SEE A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS ON OUR -- HERE ON THE EARTH, BUT WHEN WE SEE IT FROM ABOVE, I THINK WE SEE ITS TRUE BEAUTY AND I THINK WE ARE LIVING IN A PARADISE AND THAT'S WHAT YOU REALIZE WHEN YOU SEE IT FROM UP THERE. >> AND WHEN YOU'RE UP THERE, THERE'S NO INEQUALITY. THERE'S NO POLITICS. THERE'S NO CIVIL INJUSTICE. YOU ARE SEEING MOTHER EARTH LIKE YOU SHOULD. >> THE WAY IT SHOULD -- I THINK THAT'S THE WAY TO PUT IT. THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. AND TRULY I THINK THE WAY IT IS AND THE WAY WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT IT. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR MORE ABC NEWS LIVE AND MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. 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PUBLIC HEALTH IS ON THE BALLOT. >> CAMPAIGNING WITH HEAVY WEIGHTS INCLUDING JOE BIDEN. >> THIS ISN'T HYPERBOLE. >> VICE PRESIDENT CAMILLKAMALA . >> LET'S BE GRACIOUS IN DEFEAT. >> HIS MAIN CHALLENGER LARRY ELDER ADDRESSING SUPPORTERS TONIGHT CONCEDING DEFEAT. >> WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE LOST THE BATTLE BUT WE ARE CERTAINLY GOING TO WIN THE WAR. >> NEWSOMS CRITICS TRIED SIX TIMES TO OUST HIM. >> THIS STARTED AS A BACKLASH TO THE COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS. IT GAINED STEAM WHEN THAT PHOTO WENT VIRAL AND GOVERNOR NEWSOM WAS SEEN AT ONE OF THE PR PRICEYEST, FANCIEST RESTAURANTS IN CALIFORNIA SEEMING TO FLAUT HIS OWN MANDATE. >> 46 CANDIDATES WERE VYING TO REPLACE NEWSOM INCLUDING FORMER OLYMPIAN CAITLYN JENNER, ENTERTAINER ANGILIE AND JOHN COX THAT GOT A 1,000 POUND KODIAK BEAR ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH HIM. >> IT'S GOING TO BE TIGHT, BUT WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS ELECTION. >> RECALL! RECALL! RECALL! >> VAOLUNTEERS REFORMED CALIFORNIA AND LAUNCHED THE FINAL GET OUT THE VOTE PUSH OVER THE WEEKEND IN SUPPORT OF THE RECALL. >> DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF BUSINESS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WALK AROUND ANY AREA AND YOU'LL SEE SO MANY BUSINESSES SHU SHUTTERED. >> WE WANT SOMEBODY INTERESTED IN DOING THINGS FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR THEMSELVES. >> THE CALIFORNIA RECALL ELECTION IS COMING UP ON TUESDAY. >> CARL DeMAIO IS THE ORGANIZATION'S CHAIRMAN. >> YOU CAN'T HAVE A STRONG AMERICA WITH A SICK CALIFORNIA AND BY EVERY MEASURE, CALIFORNIA IS FACING MAJOR PROBLEMS. WE HAVE SURGING CRIME, THE HIGHEST TAXES IN THE NATION, OUR JOBS ARE LEAVING US BECAUSE OF THE MANDATES AND REGULATIONS OF THIS GOVERNOR. >> PRELIMINARY EXIT POLLING GIVES A WINDOW HOW NEWSOM WIN. OVERALL 55% OF VOTERS APPROVED OF THE WAY NEWSOM IS HANDLING HIS JOB AND JUST THREE IN TEN SAID NEWSOM'S PANDEMIC CONTROL MEASURES ARE TOO STRICT. >> GOVERNOR NEWSOM MADE AMAZING STRIDES TO GET US BACK THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. HE'S DONE MORE THAN ANY GOVERNOR TO STABILIZE THE ECONOMY AND MAKE INVESTMENTS IN THE FUTURE. WE WANT TO PROTECT THAT PROGRESS HERE IN CALIFORNIA. >> IN CARLS BAD THEY ARE CONFIDENT THEY WILL BEAT THE EFFORT DENOUNCING THE $276 MILLION ELECTION AS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY. >> WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL ELECTION COMING UP. WHY ARE WE GOING THROUGH THIS SHAM RECALL WHEN THE ELECTION IS COMING UP IN MONTHS, LITERALLY. >> WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN OTHER ATES IS AN ATTEMPT TO ROLLBACK VOTING RIGHTS BUT ALSO ROLLBACK CIVIL RIGHTS LIKE REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND WE'LL PROTECT THAT. AND THAT'S AT STAKE IN THIS RECALL. >> WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT CALIFORNIA YOU'RE LEADING THE RACE? >> IT SAYS CALIFORNIANS ARE FED UP. >> CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO HOST LARRY ELDER WAS THE FRONT RUNNER IN THE RACE TO REPLACE NEWSOM AND BECOME PAIRED TO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> HE'S A CLONE OF DONALD TRUMP. CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM BEING THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE? >> MY PATH TO VICTORY IS PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE WAY THIS MAN IS GLOOVERNING CALIFORNIA. MY PATH TO VICTORY IS THE DECLINE AND QUALITY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. THAT'S WHY HE'S IN TROUBLE. >> ELDER SAID ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE WOULD DO AS GOVERNOR IS REPEAL MASK AND VACCINE MANDATES, BUT SKIRTED AROUND THE QUESTION OF WHETHER HE'D ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS. DO YOU AGREE TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THIS ELECTION? >> I FIND IT FASCINATING. NOBODY EVER ASKED MY OPPONENT DID HE AGREE WITH HILLARY WHEN SHE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE 2016 ELECTION. >> SHE CALLED CANDIDATE TO CONCEDE. >> I DON'T THINK WE'LL HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE RESULT OF THIS ELECTION. >> I STILL FEEL LIKE I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FROM YOU. I'LL MOVE ON. >> YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DIDN'T GET THE ANSWER YOU WANTED. >> I WONDER IF YOU'LL ACCEPT THE RESULT. IT'S A PATTERN AMONG REPUBLICANS INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT T TRUMP. BEFORE BALLOTS WERE COUNTED, HE ALLEGED THE ELECTION WOULD BE RIGGED AND NEWSOM HIT BACK. >> THESE PEOPLE LITERALLY ARE VANDALIZING DEMOCRACY AND TRUST IN INSTITUTIONS. >> A WEBSITE LAUNCHED MONDAY BY ELDER'S CAMPAIGN HAD ALLEGED FRAUD DEMANDING A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR TO INVESTIGATE THE TWISTED RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL ELECTION THAT PAGE HAS SINCE BEEN TAKEN DOWN. >> THIS LOOKS LIKE A NEW NORMAL AS ABNORMAL FOR DEMOCRACY. YOU HAVE A MANTRA IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT SUGGESTIONS THAT DEMOCRATS CANNOT OR ARE NOT WINNING ELECTIONS LEGITIMATELY. THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT RESONATES FOR QUITE AWHILE IN REPUBLICAN CIRCLES. >> AMONG THOSE WHO WANT GOVERNOR NEWSOM OUT OF OFFICE, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. ANGELA OWNS PINEAPPLE GRILL AND SALOON AND BELIEVES NEWSOM FAILED SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ACROSS THE STATE THAT STRUGGLED TO KEEP AFLOAT DURING CALIFORNIA'S NUMEROUS SHUTDOWNS. GAVIN NEWSOM RAISED $80 MILLION TO BEAT US AND KEEP HIS JOB. WHY DID GAVIN NEWSOM NOT TAKE THE ENERGY HE HAD TO RAISE MONEY TO SAVE THEIR JOBS? >> SHE'S LOST MORE THAN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF REVENUE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC AND FEARS MORE STRINGENT COVID MEASURES ON SMALL BUSINESSES IF NEWSOM REMAINS IN OFFICE. >> WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS IF HE SURVIVES THIS? >> IF HE SURVIVES THIS, IT MEANS IT'S JUST GOING TO BE A THE BATTLE OF SURVIVAL THE. THE MANDATES WILL COME DOWN AND FIND BUSINESSES. I WANT TO WAKE UP AND NOT HAVE PANIC ATTACKS WILL WE GET SHUT DOWN? >> IT WILL BE DEVASTATING. >> WITH THE RECALL BEHIND THEM, DEMOCRATS HOPE THEY HAVE THE WINNING PLAYBOOK FOR THE NEXT ELECTION. >> YOU'LL HEAR DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT A POTENTIAL TEMPLATE. THEY CAN STOKE THE FEARS ABOUT BACKSLIDING AROUND COVID AND FEARS OF TRUMP 2.0 TO GET THE BASE ENERGIZED. YOU'LL SEE OTHER DEMOCRATS TRY TO MIMIC THAT PLAYBOOK AS MUCH AS THEY CAN IN 2021, 20 22 AND BEYOND. >> FOR CALIFORNIANS, THERE IS A COLLECTIVE SIGH OF RELIEF THIS CHAOTIC PROCESS IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END. >> WE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH IT ALL TONIGHT. >> WE HAVE MADE IT THROUGH ANOTHER WEEK TOGETHER. >> WE TELL ALL OUR PATIENTS HOW MUCH THEY ARE LOVED AND HOLD THEIR HANDS. >> DAVID, WE'RE SHOWING ALL OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR THE ICU STAFF. THEY'RE THE HEROES IN THIS. >> EXTRAORDINARY STORY. >> A COMPUTER SALESMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO PRISON TO BEGIN A 17-YEAR SENTENCE. >> THEY LET HIM TURN HIMSELF INTO JAIL WITH NO ESCORT. >> NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN. >> HOW DO YOU EVADE CAPTURE FOR 25 YEARS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> JOIN THE SEARCH FOLLOWING THE U.S. MARSHALS AS THEY UNCOVER LEADS IN A GLOBAL MANHUNT. CAN YOU HELP CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? LISTEN AND JOIN THE ALL NEW HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST. >>> YOUR WORLD MAY FEEL OUT OF CONTROL BUT YOUR HAPPINESS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. LISTEN TO THE 10% HAPPIER PODCAST. >>> RIGHT NOW WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS SHOW VERSUS THE COMPETITION. >>> THIS IS "GMA 3" A THIRD HOUR OF GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> THIS IS ALL ABOUT YOU. >> THIS IS WHAT BEING LIVE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS "ABC NEWS LIVE." >> WE'LL MOVE BACK. LET'S MOVE BACK. >> WE'RE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE. >> SQUEEZING INTO THE BOMB SHELTER. >> MY QUESTION, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? >> BREAKING NEWS, LIVE EVENTS. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT. >> LIFT OFF. >> STREAMING STRAIGHT TO YOU, ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. >> YOU JUST MET ONE FRIEND RIGHT HERE. >> YOU'RE WATCHING "ABC NEWS LIVE", THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >>> NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE", "20/20," TRUE CRIME CINEMATIC. "20/20" STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE". >>> THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME, ANY TIME, "NIGHTLINE." >> NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE", 20/20 TRUE CRIME, STUNNING, THE UNTHINKABLE. FOLLOW THE CLUES, THE HUNT, TRUE CRIME, 20/20 NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE." >> THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME, ANY TIME, NIGHTLINE. >>> THE STANFORD DROPOUT THAT APPEARED POISED TO CHANGE THE WORLD BUT DIDN'T. >> HER FALL FROM GRACE WAS SPECTACULAR. >> ELIZABETH IS FINALLY GOING TO TRIAL. >> THIS CASE WILL PROBABLY GO DOWN IN SILICON VALLEY HISTORY. >> TO THIS DAY, ELIZABETH MAINTAINS HER INNOCENCE AND WE'LL TAKE YOU INSIDE THE COURTROOM IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATION, ELIZABETH HOLMS IS NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT. FOLLOW THE DROPOUT ELIZABETH HOLMS ON TRIAL WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST. >>> THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS HAVING AN AFFAIR. WITH AN INTERN. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GO PUBLIC. >> I PROMISED I WOULDN'T TELL ANYONE. WE HAVE TO SHOW WHAT HAPPENED. >> ARE WE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE. >> YOU ARE CHAOS. YOU ARE MAYHEM. >> THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE FALSE. >> IMPEACHMENT AMERICAN CRIME STORY TUESDAYS AT 10:00 ON FX AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND. >> HE REALLY LIKES SHOULDER MASSAGES. >> 24-YEAR-OLD LAB DEXTER ISN'T HER PET BUT GUARDIAN. >> DEXTER IS MY SERVICE DOG. HE ALERTS ME OF SEIZURES. >> SHE SUFFERS FROM A DISEASE THAT CAN LEAVE HER FROZEN IN PLACE. HE'S A FOUR-LEGGED SEIZURE MONITOR. HE'LL ALERT HER BEFORE IT HAPPENED. >> HE'LL DIAL A DOG PHONE THAT HAS MY PARENTS' PHONE NUMBER ON IT AND RETRIEVES A POUCH THAT HAS NECESSITIES FOR ME LIKE MEDICATION, WATER, MY CELL PHONE. I'M GOING TO PAUSE FOR A SECOND. HE'S ALERTING ME. >> NATALIE RECEIVED DEXTER FROM A PROGRAM CALLED LITTLE ANGLE SERVICE DOGS, A NON-PROFIT THAT TRAINS DOGS TO WORK WITH PEOPLE IN NEED. SURPRISINGLY, THOSE FURRY LITTLE ANGELS ARE RAISED AND LARGELY TRAINED IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S FACILITY, THE SECOND LARGEST FEMALE PRISON IN THE U.S. AND THEIR TRAINERS -- HOW MANY OF THE WOMEN HERE HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A VIOLENT CRIME? BASICALLY EVERYONE. IT'S PUPS, PRISONERS UPLIFTING PUPPIES SPIRITS. >> THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT TRAINING A DOG. THESE ARE TRAINED SERVICE DOGS THAT SAVE LIVES. >> AMY DAVIS A LEAD TRAINER IN THE PROGRAM IS SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE. >> I HAVE DONE SOMETHING THAT LANDED ME IN PRISON THAT WAS HORRIBLE. I PARTICIPATED IN A ROBBERY MURDER. DURING THAT TIME I WAS IN WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A VERY UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP. I WAS ON DRUGS AND BROKEN AND LOST. >> SHE SAID THE PROGRAM RESTORED HER SENSE OF SELF-WORTH. >> WHEN AN EIGHT--WEEK-OLD PUPPY WEIGHING 20 POUNDS WAS PUT IN MY ARM, LIKE EVERY WALL I PUT UP TO PROTECT MYSELF, EVERY WALL I THOUGHT I HAD JUST MELTED. >> INMATE ANNETTE LIKENS IT TO HAVING AN INFANT. >> WHEN YOU HAVE THAT DOG, IT'S LIKE AN UMBILICAL CORD. WHAT YOU FEEL, THEY FEEL. >> TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE CONVICTED OF? >> CHILD ENDANGER MTD RESULTING IN DEATH FOR MY 5-YEAR-OLD SON BRAYDON. LATER ON A COUPLE MONTHS LATER I GOT CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR NOT PROTECTING HIM. >> THEN BOYFRIEND HAD BEEN VIOLENT ABUSING HER SON. >> I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM MY BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME AND HE SAID MY SON STOPPED BREATHING AND I SAID WHAT DID YOU DO? HE HAD BEATEN MY SON TO DEATH. >> ZAMORA WAS CONVICTED OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCED TO 23 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR THE DEATH OF AMBER'S SON. YET, YOU GOT CONVICTED OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER? >> YES, SO A PARENT IS -- YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD SO BECAUSE I DIDN'T PROTECT HIM AND I DIDN'T LEAVE AND I DIDN'T SPEAK UP, THEY CHARGED ME. MY PUNISHMENT IS ME HAVING TO LIVE WITH MY SON'S DEATH FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. >> HAS THE DOG PROGRAM HELPED YOU DEAL WITH THE GUILT AND SHAME? >> ABSOLUTELY. I CAN'T ALLOW ANYTHING BAD TO HAPPEN TO THIS DOG. IF SOMEONE WERE WANT TO KICK MY DOG, I'M JUMPING IN FRONT OF IT. I'M SUPER PROTECTIVE OVERWHAT I DO AND I DO IT IN HONOR OF MY SON BRAYDON EVERY SINGLE DAY. >> DANA IS THE PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVE HERE IN THE PRISON. IN 2017 SHE BROUGHT THE DOGS TO THE FACILITY TAKING A CHANCE ON WHAT WAS THEN A NEW INITIATIVE. WHAT IS MORE REWARDING FOR YOU, SEEING THE CHANGE IN THE HUMANS OR THE CHANGE IN THE ANIMALS THAT ARE TRAINED? >> WHEN I GOT HERE, I REALIZED THESE ARE WOMEN WITH STORIES AND THEY'RE HEART WRERCNCHING STORI AND THEY'RE SO OPEN AND HONEST IT CHANGED ME BECAUSE I REALIZE THE DOGS AREN'T JUST CHANGING THE RECIPIENT'S LIVES BUT THE PRISONER'S LIVES. >> BEFORE SHE GOT DEXTER, THE SEIZURES ROBBED HER OF INDEPENDENCE. >> THE SEIZURES WERE SO UNPREDICTABLE AND SILENT USUALLY SO THERE ALWAYS HAS TO BE SOMEONE VERY ATENT TATIVE. >> NATALIE WAS COOKING BACON AT THE STOVE AND SHE HAD THE PAN IN HER HAND FROZEN IN A SEIZURE AND I JUST WENT OVER THERE AND, YOU KNOW, GOT THE PAN OUT OF HER HAND AND GOT AWAY FROM THE STOVE AND TURNED IT OFF. >> LISA LOOKS FOR A WAY NATALIE CAN LIVE A MORE NORMAL LIFE AND CAME ACROSS LITTLE ANGELS. NATALIE WAS PICKED AS A CANDIDATE AND LITTLE ANGELS STARTED THE PROCESS OF CONDITIONING DEXTER. >> HE WAS TAUGHT THIS ALERT, WHICH IS A PAW AT THE LEG AND WHEN HE GOT THAT GAME DOWN WAS WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR US TO SEND SAMPLES OF MY SEIZURE SKECENT S WHATEVER I HAD A SEIZURE TO TAKE SOME GAUZE AND WIPE THE PALMS OF MY HANDS AND THE INSIDES OF MY CHEEKS WITH THE GAUZE AND MAIL IT TO LITTLE ANGELS SO HE LEARNED TO ASSOCIATE A GAME WITH THE SCENT. >> IN 2018 THE PAIR FINALLY MET AND DEXTER'S TRAINING WAS PUT TO THE TEST WHEN HE DETECTED AN ONCOMING SEIZURE. >> WE'RE ALL JUST BAWLING. WE WERE SO EXCITED. YOU COULD SEE HOW DIFFERENT OUR LIVES WOULD BE. >> PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY OFTEN HAVE THIS CONSTANT CLOUD OVER THEIR HEAD OR IN THE BACK OF THEIR MIND WORRY OF WHEN WILL THE NEXT SEIZURE HAPPEN, WHERE WILL I BE? WHAT WILL I BE DOING? AND I DON'T NEED TO HAVE THAT ANYMORE. AND SO THAT'S RELIEVING. >> WE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH IT ALL TONIGHT. >> WE TELL ALL OUR PATIENTS HOW MUCH THEY ARE LOVED AND HOLD THEIR HANDS. >> DAVID, WE'RE SHOWING ALL OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR THE ICU STAFF. THEY'RE THE HEROES IN THIS. >> EXTRAORDINARY STORY. >> A COMPUTER SALESMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO PRISON TO BEGIN A 17-YEAR SENTENCE. >> THEY LET HIM TURN HIMSELF INTO JAIL WITH NO ESCORT. >> NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN. >> HOW DO YOU EVADE CAPTURE FOR 25 YEARS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> JOIN THE SEARCH FOLLOWING THE U.S. MARSHALS AS THEY UNCOVER LEADS IN A GLOBAL MANHUNT. CAN YOU HELP CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? LISTEN AND JOIN THE ALL NEW HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST. >>> YOUR WORLD MAY FEEL OUT OF CONTROL BUT YOUR HAPPINESS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. LISTEN TO THE 10% HAPPIER PODCAST. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC'S THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS SHOW VERSUS THE COMPETITION. >>> THIS IS "GMA 3" A THIRD HOUR OF GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> THIS IS ALL ABOUT YOU. >> THIS IS WHAT BEING LIVE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS "ABC NEWS LIVE." >> WE'LL MOVE BACK. LET'S MOVE BACK. >> WE'RE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE. >> SQUEEZING INTO THE BOMB SHELTER. >> MY QUESTION, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? >> BREAKING NEWS, LIVE EVENTS. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT. >> LIFT OFF. >> STREAMING STRAIGHT TO YOU, ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. >> YOU JUST MET ONE FRIEND RIGHT HERE. >> YOU'RE WATCHING "ABC NEWS LIVE", THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >>> NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE", "20/20," TRUE CRIME CINEMATIC. "20/20" STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE". >>> THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME, ANY TIME, "NIGHTLINE." >> NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE", 20/20 TRUE CRIME, STUNNING, THE UNTHINKABLE. FOLLOW THE CLUES, THE HUNT, TRUE CRIME, 20/20 NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE." >> THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME, ANY TIME, NIGHTLINE. >>> MR. PRESIDENT, DO YOU KNOW A WOMAN BY THE NAME OF MONICA LEW LEWINSKY? >> I DO. >> I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE FALSE. >> THIS IS MY REAL LIFE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND I'M SCARED. >> "IMPEACHMENT AMERICAN CRIME STORY" TUESDAYS AT 10:00 ON FX, AVAILABLE ON DEMAND. >> HIS REPORTING, HIS BOOKS HAVE SPARKED HISTORIC POLITICAL FIRESTORMS, WHAT BOB WOODWARD AND ROBERT COSTA REVEAL ABOUT THE THREATS, THE NEVER BEFORE SEEN MATERIAL FROM SECRET ORDERS. THE COUNTRY ON THE EDGE IN PAROL MAY LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS. LIVE, MONDAY ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >>> THE "SNL" LEGEND USED HIS WHIT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AND A CHARACTER INSPIRED BY ACTOR BERT REYNOLDS. THE COMEDIAN DYING TODAY AFTER PRIVATELY BATTLING CANCER FOR NINE YEARS. NORM McDONALD WA61. >> EXTRAORDINARY STORY. >> A COMPUTER SALESMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO PRISON TO BEGIN A 17-YEAR SENTENCE. >> THEY LET HIM TURN HIMSELF INTO JAIL WITH NO ESCORT. >> NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN. >> HOW DO YOU EVADE CAPTURE FOR 25 YEARS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> JOIN THE SEARCH FOLLOWING THE U.S. MARSHALS AS THEY UNCOVER LEADS IN A GLOBAL MANHUNT. CAN YOU HELP CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? LISTEN AND JOIN THE ALL NEW HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST. >>> NOW STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE", "20/20," TRUE CRIME CINEMATIC. "20/20" STREAMING ON "ABC NEWS LIVE". >>> WHAT IS IT YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW, NEED TO KNOW? >> HOW ABOUT A THIRD HOUR OF "GOOD MORNING AMERICA ". >> STREAMING ON A "ABC NEWS LI." IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. >> I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND I'M NOT GUILTY. >> WHY THE FASCINATION WITH CRIMINAL TRIALS? TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS REALLY OUT THERE. >> I KNOW IN MY HEART THAT HE DID THIS. IT'S THE TIME OF SUSPICION. THE ENDING IS REALLY TOUGH. >> YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE TRUTH WILL BE DIFFICULT TO FIND UNLESS YOU TRY TO FIND IT. >>> THIS IS WHAT BEING LIVE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS "ABC NEWS LIVE." >> WE'LL MOVE BACK. LET'S MOVE BACK. >> WE'RE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE. >> SQUEEZING INTO THE BOMB SHELTER. >> NOT AFRAID TO GO THERE. >> SO MY QUESTION, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? >> BREAKING NEWS, LIVE EVENTS. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT. >> LIFT OFF. >> STREAMING STRAIGHT TO YOU ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. >> WE JUST MET ONE FRIEND RIGHT HERE. >> YOU'RE WATCHING "ABC NEWS LIVE." THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >>> THE MYSTERIOUS BOYFRIEND. >> WHAT DOES HE EVEN DO OVER THERE? TELL ME EVERYTHING. >> YOU'LL BE OKAY. >> HE'S THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND SHE'S A KID. >> YOU HAVE COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES. >> THE WHITE HOUSE DECEMISPOSED ME LIKE A PIECE OF TRASH AND THEY WILL DO THE SAME THING TO YOU. >> "IMPEACHMENT AMERICAN CRIME STORY" AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND. >> YOU THAT JENNIFER ANISTON HAS HER OWN MORNING SHOW, CAN SHE HANDLE "GMA". >> GOOD QUESTION. >> TOMORROW ON "GMA". >>> ABC LARRY NASSAR SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM OVER TWO DECADES. MARONEY ACCUSING THE FBI OF MISHANDLING THE INVESTIGATIONS, LYING AND IGNORING THEIR CLAIMS SAYING THEY HAD LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE EVIDENCE OF CHILD ABUSE AND DID NOTHING. SENATORS BLASTING THE FBI TODAY AND DEMANDING ACC. WHAT THE FBI DIRECTOR IS SAYING TONIGHT ABOUT AGENTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THAT INVESTIGATION AND WHAT COMES NEXT? RACHEL SCOTT IS ON CAPITOL HILL TONIGHT. T T >>> THE FDA AND ITS DATA REVIEW, WILL AMERICANS NEED A THIRD SHOT? AN INDEPENDENT PANEL MEETING TOMORROW TO DECIDE WHETHER TO AUTHORIZE BOOSTERS. TONIGHT, WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY ABOUT WHEN AMERICANS MAY NEED THAT THIRD SHOT AND WHEN MIGHT CHILDREN UNDER 12 BE ABLE TO GET VACCINATED? >>> THE BATTLE OVER VACCINE MANDATES AS PRESIDENT BIDEN LEANS ON BUSINESSES TO HELP GET THE UNVACCINATED TO TAKE THE SHOT. SOME EMPLOYEES PUSHING BACK. WE'LL EXAMINE HOW FAR THE GOVERNMENT CAN GO IN MANDATING VACCINES. >>> ONE DAY AFTER A NEW BOOK REVEALS EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR GENERAL MARK MILLEY DEFENDING HIS CALLS WITH CHINA, A FORMER TOP PENTAGON OFFICIAL TELLING ABC NEWS ABOUT A COORDINATED EFFORT TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY. DOES PRESIDENT BIDEN STILL HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIS GENERAL? JONATHAN CARL STANDING BY WITH NEW REPORTING. >>> AND TONIGHT, WE'RE GIVING YOU A FRONT ROW SEAT TO HISTORY WITHOUT A SINGLE PROFESSIONAL ASTRONAUT ON BOARD. THE SPACEX LAUNCH BLASTING FOUR CIVILIANS OUT OF THIS WORLD. >>> AND GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, I'M KEIRA PHILLIPS IN FOR LINDSEY DAVIS. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. TODAY WAS A PAINFUL REMINDER THAT SOMETIMES THERE IS DAMAGE THAT JUST CAN'T BE UNDONE. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF DOZENS OF TOP GYMNASTS BY FORMER OLYMPIC TEAM DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR AND THE YEARS OF SILENCE BY USA GYMNASTICS AND THE FBI. OLYMPIC GREATS SIMONE BILES, ALY RAISMAN, McKAYLA MARONEY AND COLLEGE GYMNAST MAGGIE NICHOLS ALL APPEARED BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TODAY SAYING THEY WERE BETRAYED BY THE FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AND BY THE LEADERS OF THE SPORT THEY LOVED. THE GREATEST GYMNAST ON THE PLANET, SIMONE BILES, SPOKE TODAY OF AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED A MONSTER TO VICTIMIZE HER AND SO MANY OTHERS. FBI DIRECTOR CHRIS WRAY WASN'T THERE TO ARGUE WITH THESE BRAVE SURVIVORS AND HE OFFERED HIS APOLOGY. SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? ABC'S CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT, RACHEL SCOTT, LEADS US OFF FROM CAPITOL HILL. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, FOUR OF THE GREATEST ATHLETES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GYMNASTICS DEMANDING JUSTICE, TELLING CHRISTMAS THEY WERE BETRAYED BY THE FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY TEAM DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR. >> I DON'T WANT ANOTHER YOUNG GYMNAST, OLYMPIC ATHLETE OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO EXPERIENCE THE HORROR THAT I AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE ENDURED BEFORE, DURING, AND CONTINUING TO THIS DAY IN THE WAKE OF THE LARRY NASSAR ABUSE. TO BE CLEAR -- I'M SORRY. >> TAKE YOUR TIME. >> TO BE CLEAR, I BLAME LARRY NASSAR, AND I ALSO BLAME AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED AND PERPETRATED HIS ABUSE. >> IN SACRIFICING MY CHILDHOOD FOR THE CHANCE TO COMPETE FOR THE UNITED STATES, I AM HAUNTED BY THE FACT THAT EVEN AFTER REPORTING MY ABUSE, SO MANY WOMEN AND GIRLS HAD TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF LARRY NASSAR. USA GYMNASTICS AND THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE HAVE ALL BETRAYED ME AND THOSE WHO WERE ABUSED BY LARRY NASSAR AFTER I REPORTED. >> GOLD MEDALLIST ALY RAISMAN ACCUSING THE FBI OF LYING AND DRAGGING ITS FEET FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. >> OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT HAS BECOME PAINFULLY CLEAR HOW A SURVIVOR'S HEALING IS AFFECTED BY THE HANDLING OF THEIR ABUSE. AND IT DISGUSTS ME THAT WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR THE MOST BASIC ANSWERS AND ACCOUNTABILITY OVER SIX YEARS LATER. IT TOOK OVER 14 MONTHS FOR THE FBI TO CONTACT ME, DESPITE MY MANY REQUESTS TO BE INTERVIEWED BY THEM. NASSAR FOUND MORE THAN 100 NEW VICTIMS TO MOLEST. IT WAS LIKE SERVING INNOCENT CHILDREN UP TO A PEDOPHILE ON A SILVER PLATTER. >> HER TEAMMATE, McKAY LA DESCRIBES TELLING TEAMMATES HOW NASSAR STARTED ABUSING HER WHEN SHE WAS JUST 13. >> I TOLD THE FBI ABOUT TOKYO, THE DAY HE GAVE ME A SLEEPING PILL FOR THE PLANE RIDE. THAT EVENING, I WAS NAKED, COMPLETELY ALONE, WITH HIM ON TOP OF ME MOLESTING ME FOR HOURS. I TOLD THEM I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE THAT NIGHT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY THAT HE WOULD LET ME GO. BUT HE DID. I TOLD THEM I WALKED THE HALLS OF TOKYO HOTEL AT 2:00 A.M. AT ONLY 15 YEARS OLD. I BEGAN CRYING AT THE MEMORY OVER THE PHONE, AND THERE WAS JUST DEAD SILENCE. I WAS SO SHOCKED AT THE AGENT'S SILENCE AND DISREGARD FOR MY TRAUMA, AFTER THAT MINUTE OF SILENCE, HE ASKED, IS THAT ALL? THOSE WORDS IN ITSELF WAS ONE OF THE WORST MOMENTS OF THIS ENTIRE PROCESS FOR ME. TO HAVE MY ABUSE BE MINIMIZED AND DISREGARDED BY THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT ME JUST TO FEEL LIKE MY ABUSE WAS NOT ENOUGH. BUT THE TRUTH IS, MY ABUSE WAS ENOUGH, AND THEY WANTED TO COVER IT UP. >> Reporter: MARONEY ACCUSING THE FBI OF COVERING UP HER CLAIMS TO PROTECT NASSAR. >> WHY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WHOSE JOB IS TO PROTECT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS? THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. TODAY, I ASK YOU ALL TO HEAR MY VOICE. I ASK YOU, PLEASE, DO ALL THAT IS IN YOUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR IGNORING MY INITIAL REPORT. >> Reporter: NASSAR WILL LIKELY SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON. ONE OF THE FBI AGENTS ON THE CASE HAS RETIRED. THE OTHER ONE, RECENTLY FIRED. TODAY, DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY PERSONALLY APOLOGIZING TO THE WOMEN. >> I'M DEEPLY AND PROFOUNDLY SORRY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. I'M SORRY THAT SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE LET YOU DOWN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND I'M ESPECIALLY SORRY THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE AT THE FBI WHO HAD THEIR OWN CHANCE TO STOP THIS MONSTER BACK IN 2015 AND FAILED. >> WRAY THEN MAKING THIS PLEDGE. >> I AM AND MY ENTIRE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM ARE GOING TO MAKE DAMN SURE EVERYBODY AT THE FBI REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED HERE. IN HEARTBREAKING DETAIL. >> REALLY GUT-WRENCHING TESTIMONY THERE ON CAPITOL HILL. RACHEL SCOTT JOINING US NOW. RACHEL, WE HEARD THAT APOLOGY FROM WRAY, BUT THESE WOMEN WANT MORE THAN JUST AN APOLOGY. >> Reporter: EXACTLY RIGHT, KEIRA. THEY WANT ACTION HERE. SO MUCH OF TODAY'S HEARING WAS ALSO FOCUSED ON ACCOUNTABILITY, AND WE HEARD FROM THESE WOMEN TALK ABOUT HOW THE FBI HANDLED THIS AND THE WAY THAT IT STILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS THEM, THAT THEY HAVE PTSD, THAT THEY ARE EXHAUSTED LEAVING THE CAPITOL TODAY AFTER SPEAKING UP AND SHARING THEIR STORIES. THEY HOPE THAT TODAY IS ENOUGH, BUT THEY DO WANT MORE ACTION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. >> SO, RACHEL, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Reporter: WELL, THAT IS THE TOP OF THE MIND FOR A LOT OF THE GYMNASTS HERE TODAY. THEY WERE PRESSING LAWMAKERS ON WHAT EXACTLY DOES COME NEXT. ONE THING THAT WAS NOTABLE TODAY IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DID NOT HAVE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL COME TO THIS HEARING. THEY WERE INVITED BY TWO OF THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. THEY DENIED THAT, NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHY, AND MANY OF THE GYMNASTS LEAVING TODAY WERE FURIOUS THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO SEND ANYONE ELSE, INCLUDING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO LISTEN AND HEAR THEIR STORIES. THEY SAID IT'S ALMOST AS IF THEY SEEM LIKE THEY JUST DIDN'T CARE. >> WELL, BACK TO THE SURVIVORS, YOU CAUGHT UP, ACTUALLY, WITH ALY RAISMAN AND HER MOTHER, LYNN, SHORTLY AFTER THE TESTIMONY TODAY. THIS WAS OFF CAMERA, SO WHAT DID THEY TELL YOU? >> Reporter: YEAH, I DID. IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE THEY LEFT THE CAPITOL, AND YOU REALLY GOT A SENSE JUST OF HOW BIG OF A TOLL THIS HAS PUT ON ALL OF THESE WOMEN, BUT INCLUDING ALY RAISMAN, WHO TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS EXHAUSTED LEAVING HERE TODAY, THAT SHE FELT LIKE LEAVING OUT OF THAT HEARING THAT SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF SHE COULD WALK OUT. IT IS JUST REALLY CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED, THE COURAGE THAT THESE WOMEN HAD TO COME HERE TO THE CAPITOL TO SHARE THEIR STORIES, BUT AGAIN, THEY REITERATED THIS MESSAGE THAT THEY DO WANT ACTION HERE, THAT THESE APOLOGIES, THAT THE WORDS CONVEYED BY THE SENATORS TODAY WILL MEAN NOTHING IF THERE IS NOT ACTION FOLLOWED UP. >> WELL, THEIR WORDS DEFINITELY MEANT SOMETHING. RACHEL SCOTT, THANK YOU. >>> NOW TO THE PANDEMIC AND THE PUSH FOR VACCINE BOOSTER SHOTS. PFIZER TODAY RELEASING DATA MAKING THEIR CASE FOR BOOSTER SHOTS SIX MONTHS AFTER A SECOND DOSE. THAT DATA WILL BE REVIEWED BY AN FDA COMMITTEE ON FRIDAY BEFORE A FINAL RECOMMENDATION ON WHETHER AMERICANS COULD GET BOOSTER SHOTS AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK. ABC'S WHIT JOHNSON HAS THE LATEST. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE FDA RELEASING DATA FROM PFIZER'S BOOSTER TRIALS AS THE COMPANY MAKES THE CASE THAT AMERICANS WILL NEED A THIRD SHOT. PFIZER RECOMMENDING THAT EXTRA DOSE FOR THOSE 16 AND OLDER ABOUT 6 MONTHS AFTER RECEIVING THEIR SECOND DOSE. >> BIG PICTURE, BOOSTING IS IMPORTANT, BOOSTING IS NECESSARY. >> Reporter: PFIZER ALSO SUGGESTING THE REDUCTION IN VACCINE PROTECTION IS LIKELY NOT DUE TO THE DELTA VARIANT BUT INSTEAD VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS DECREASES WITH INCREASING TIME SINCE BEING FULLY VACCINATED. THE DATA SHOWING VACCINE EFFICACY AGAINST SYMPTOMATIC DISEASE WAS 96% A WEEK AFTER THE SECOND DOSE BUT THEN DROPPED TO NEARLY 84% AFTER FOUR MONTHS. >> THERE'S NO MEDICAL DOWNSIDE BECAUSE THE SAFETY PROFILES OF THESE VACCINES ARE INCREDIBLY GOOD. AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT TO WAIT FOR THE FDA AND THEN CDC TO REALLY LEARN THE BEST TIMING AND DOSAGE THAT THEY RECOMMEND. >> Reporter: AN FDA PANEL'S EXPECTED TO DECIDE FRIDAY WHETHER TO RECOMMEND PFIZER BOOSTER SHOTS FOLLOWED BY A REVIEW OF MODERNA BOOSTERS A WEEK OR TWO LATER. AND TODAY, MODERNA POINTING TO NEW DATA SHOWING PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED ITS VACCINE WILL ALSO NEED A THIRD DOSE AFTER SIX MONTHS. >> IT'S NOT THE KIND OF THING THAT YOU WANT TO MISS BY SIX MONTHS. YOU'D RATHER BE A LITTLE TOO EARLY THAN A LITTLE TOO LATE BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, LIVES ARE AT STAKE. >> Reporter: THE COMPANY SAYS PROTECTION FROM THE FIRST TWO MODERNA SHOTS APPEARS TO BE THE STRONGEST AMONG THE THREE VACCINES. AND UNLIKE PFIZER, MODERNA'S BOOSTER SHOT WILL BE A HALF DOSE, WHICH THE COMPANY SAYS PROVIDES MORE THAN ENOUGH PROTECTION. STILL, THE DEBATE HEATING UP OVER WHETHER BOOSTER SHOTS ARE NEEDED FOR EVERYONE. >> YES, WE SHOULD PROBABLY BOOST PEOPLE WHO NEED IT IN THAT HIGH-RISK CATEGORY, IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE, VERY, VERY OLD, BUT FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE, DO WE REALLY HAVE THE SCIENCE AND DATA TO SAY WHAT'S SAFE? FOR A THIRD DOSE OR NOT. >> Reporter: BUT DR. ANTHONY FAUCI ARGUING THAT BOOSTERS COULD HELP SLOW TRANSMISSION AND REDUCE THE RISE OF BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS. >> WHIT JOHNSON JOINS ME NOW. SO, WHIT, THIS FDA COMMITTEE WILL REVIEW THAT PFIZER DATA AT A HEARING THIS FRIDAY. SO, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AND HOW SOON COULD BOOSTERS BE AVAILABLE IF THEY ARE APPROVED? >> Reporter: AND WE'RE NOW LEARNING THERE COULD ACTUALLY BE A DELAY IN THIS PROCESS. THE FINAL STEP HAS TO GO THROUGH A CDC PANEL, AND THEY'RE NOT MEETING UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY, SO BOOSTERS LIKELY WON'T BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL THE END OF NEXT WEEK AT THE EARLIEST, BUT IF APPROVED, THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THEY'LL BE READY TO GO AND ROLL OUT THOSE SHOTS AT 80,000 LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL BE FOLLOWING IT. WHIT JOHNSON, THANKS. >>> AND NEW FLOODING FEARS IN PARTS OF LOUISIANA WHILE AT THE SAME TIME STILL TRIES TO RECOVER SINCE BEING BATTERED BY HURRICANE IDA JUST WEEKS AGO. >>> GIO BENITEZ WAS THERE. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE LAUNCH? >> Reporter: WE SAW WHEN THE FALCON 9 ROCKET RETURNS, IT RETURNS TO EARTH. WE SAW THOSE HALOS. THAT WAS SPECTACULAR. WE HAVE SOME VIDEO OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AS THE CREW REACHED ZERO GRAVITY. THEY RELEASED A TOY. I WANT TO SHOW IT RIGHT NOW. THAT'S A LITTLE FLOATING PUPPY IF YOU WILL. IT'S INSPIRED BY THE ESPECIALLY TRAINED DOGS AT SAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL. THAT WASHAT THIS WAS BENEFITING. LOOK AT IT RIGHT THERE. IT'S A SWEET MOMENT. IT REMINDS YOU THIS CREW IS TRYING TO RAISE $200 MILLION FOR SAINT JUDE'S. THE YOUNGEST PATIENT IN SPACE, SHE WAS A PATIENT AT SAINT JUDE'S AND NOW SHE'S THERE AS THE FIRST PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVOR TO BE IN SPACE. ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT AND POIGNANT FOR HER TO BE THERE AND BE ABLE TO RELEASE THAT LITTLE TOY RIGHT THERE. WE'LL SEE SO MANY SPECIAL MOMENTS. >> SHE WAS ALSO GOING TO BRING THAT LETTER THAT NEIL ARMSTRONG WROTE HER DAD SO MANY DECADES AGO. SO MANY MEMENTOS THAT MEANS SOMETHING. NOT JUST THIS MISSION BUT EVERYTHING THAT COMES ALONG WITH IT. NOW, THEY ARE HEADED INTO SPACE. WE DO NEED TO TALK ABOUT CONTINGENCY PLANS. THEY'RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE ORBITING FOR THREE DAYS NOW. WHAT DO WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO. WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, GIO. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE CREW DRAGON HAVE GONE. THAT SHIP NEVER MADE IT THAT FAR. THEY ARE NOW THE FIRST ALL CIVILIAN CREW MEMBERS TO BE THERE. THEY DO NOT HAVE AN ASTRONAUT ON BOARD. THEY HAVE TRAINED FOR MANY MONTHS WITH SPACEX TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE CREW DRAGON. IF THERE IS AN ISSUE, THEY CAN'T GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, THEY DON'T HAVE A WAY TO DOCK THERE AND NOT ENOUGH FUEL TO GET THERE. THEY CAN AND I AM TOLD THEY CAN RETURN TO EARTH. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS THAT THEY CAN DO THAT IF THEY ENCOUNTER ANY ISSUES OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS. >> ARLL RIGHT, GIO BENITEZ THER, COVERING THE SPACE CENTER LIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU, KIERRA. >> I WANT TO BRING IN OUR RETIRED AS ASTRONAUT, HE BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO SEND A TWEET FROM ORBIT. WE NEVER ASKED YOU WHAT THE TWEET WAS, WE GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MISSION. >> I WAS NOT SURE WHAT - I GOT ADVISE FROM NEIL ARMSTRONG. I WENT UP AND ASKED HIM, HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT IDEA WHAT YOU SAID FAMOUSLY. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH IT? DID YOUR WIFE TELL YOU TO SAY THAT? HE LOOKS AT ME AND SAYS, MIKE, I DIDN'T WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY UNTIL I GOT TO THE MOON. YOU ARE NEW AT THIS. YOU GOT TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS FIRST AND WORRY ABOUT ALL THAT STUFF LATER. YOU GOT IT? HE'S MY HERO WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID. YEARS LATER, I GOT SENT THE FIRST TWEET FROM SPACE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TWEET FROM SPACE? WE GOT TO GET TO ORBIT FIRST. ONCE I GET TO SPACE, I WILL FIGURE IT OUT. THAT'S WHAT I DID. WHEN I GOT TO SPACE, ERE IN ORBIT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AND OPENING UP THE COMPUTER, MEGAN MA MaCARTHUR, THAT ADD GVISE I GOTS THE WORST ADVICE. I AM FEELING GREAT ENJOYING THE VIEWS. THAT WAS THE FIRST TWEET FROM SPACE, JUST FROM THE HEART AS SOON AS I GOT THERE. >> WELL, I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT TONIGHT AND IT'S STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HEART. >> YEAH. THERE YOU GO. >> AS YOU WATCH, THIS WAS HISTORY BEING MADE BECAUSE LOOK YOU ARE A HIGHLY TRAINED NASA ASTRONAUT. YOU WORKED YEARS AND YEARS TO GET WHERE YOU MADE IT TO. ALL THE OBSTACLES YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH AND IT TOOK US A LONG TIME. TECHNOLOGY SOIS DIFFERENT. THIS HAPPENS SO QUICKLY. THEY TRAINED FOR 5.5 MONTHS. THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS AUTOMATED. AS YOU LOOK BACK AT THIS MISSION THAT'S SO 2021. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AS THIS HAPPENED? >> I THINK IS GREAT. WHEN THEY GO TO THE SPACE STATION FOR THE ROBOTIC TRAINING, THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THEIR TRAINING IS GOING TO BUILD UP. SO, BUT WHAT I THINK OVERALL WHAT I SEE HERE IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING TO DO, I WANTED TO BECOME A NASA ASTRONAUT. THAT'S A CAREER. WHEN I THOUGHT I WANT TO GO TO SPACE, WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT IT. THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY. BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE WE NEEDED TO GET INTO THE MOON RIGHT NOW. I SEE HERE BY NOW OPENING UP SPACE SO THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT CAREER ASTRONAUTS CAN THINK ABOUT MAYBE SOME DAY GOING AND CREATIVELY USE SPACE FOR REASONS I NEVER THOUGHT AS ASTRONAUTS AND AS A WAY TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT DO THAT AND PICK AND CHOOSE CHARITY. THEY DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SPACE BEFORE. NOW THEY DO. THINGS LIKE WHAT WE SAW TODAY. IT WAS GREAT. ALL THESE GREAT STORIES FROM EVERYONE IN THE CREW MEMBERS AND ALSO THE PURPOSE THEY'RE GOING TO RAISE MONEY FOR SAINT JUDE'S HOSPITAL. WE WERE SO FOCUSED ON WHAT WE ARE DOING. BY GIVING MORE ACCESS TO PEOPLE OF THESE CREATIVE IDEAS, I AM EXCITED. I CAN'T IMAGINE SOME OF THE IDEAS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME UP WITH AND HOW THEY UTILIZE SPACE. THEY ARE USING AWARENESS AND CHARITY AND INSPIRATION, I LOOK FORWARD FOR WHAT'S GOING TO BE COMING DOWN THE PIPE THESE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. >> IT CLEARLY, IT'S ONLY THE VERY WEALTHY THAT CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS BUT WE ARE LOOKING WAY BEYOND THAT AS YOU JUST SAID. HERE IS SOMEONE THAT DECIDED THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT GOING INTO SPACE. THIS IS ABOUT A HUMANITARIAN MISSION AS WELL. >> YEAH. >> AS I OPENS UP THE DOORS FOR OTHERS TO EXPLORE. IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE WHAT IT COULD MEAN IN THE FUTURE. WHEN YOU HAVE ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUND AND DIFFERENT EXPERTISE AND CAREERS. IT'S LIKE GOING TO ANTARCTICA, THEY BRING ALL SORTS OF INTERESTING PEOPLE TO DISCOVER THINGS, IS THAT WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE NOW MOVING FORWARD IN SPACE? >> PHDs, THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED IN THE NASA PROGRAM. THERE IS ALWAYS A NEED FOR THAT. THERE IS ALWAYS OTHER PEOPLE GOING TO BRING THEIR EXPERIENCE FOR SPACE. KIERRA, YOU WOULD BE SPECTACULAR. YOU CAN'T BE GOOD AT EVERYTHING. MOST OF US HAVE OUR NICHE OF WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FLYING IN SPACE AND YOU ARE NOT A TEST PILOT ENGINEER OR SCIENTIST, BUT YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD BY UTILIZING IN WAY THAT I WOULD NOT IMAGINE AS AN ENGINEER. I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE. IN A JOURNALIST'S SPACE, THAT'S SOMETHING NASA WANTED TODD DO F YEARS. >> COULD NOT GET APPROVAL. >> ALL THE THINGS NASA WANT TODD DO, HAVING AIRLINES TAKEN OVER EVENTUALLY AND MANUFACTURING FACILITIES AND SPACE THAT CAN BE SERVICE AS SPACE SHUTTLE. >> RIGHT. 40 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST LAUNCH OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE. WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THE REALIZATION OF THE DREAM THAT NASA HAD WAY BACK DONE, THE UTILIZ YULIZATION OF SPACE. NOW I THINK THE OPPORTUNITY IS THERE. IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO GET A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST UP THERE TO BE ABLE TO EX PLANEPLAIN WHA LIKE. YOU THINK ABOUT IT. >> THE HIGHER WE GO, THE FURTHER WE CAN SEE. THAT'S WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE TWEETED. >> NAST WHY YOUTHAT'S WHY YOU N JOURNALISTS. YOU SEND A KNUCKLE HEAD ENGINEER - >> CALL ME NEXT TIME YOU GO INTO SPACE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> A PRINCIPLE PLEASURE. >> YOUR INSIGHT S WERE TERRIFIC TONIGHT. >> BACK HERE ON EARTH. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE FLOODING FEARS BACK IN LOUISIANA AT THE SAME TIME STILL TRIES TO RECOVER SINCE BEING BATTERED BY HURRICANE IDA JUST WEEKS AGO. OUR VICTOR OQUENDO IS THERE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, NICHOLAS ADDING INSULT TO INJURY FOR THE THOUSANDS OF LOUISIANA FAMILIES STILL TRYING TO RECOVER FROM IDA. >> IT'S A LITTLE OVERWHELMING. >> Reporter: WEST OF NEW ORLEANS, MELISSA AND CRAIG PERRIER HAVE BEEN OUT OF THEIR HOME SINCE IDA HIT. THEY RETURNED WITH THEIR 7-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER, CAMILLE TODAY TO FIND NICHOLAS HAD TORN THE BLUE TARP OFF THEIR ROOF. IDA DESTROYED YOUR HOUSE, YOU COME BACK TO IT AND NOW ANOTHER STORM LEFT YOU WITH SOME WATER INSIDE AGAIN. >> AND ALL WE WERE GOING TO SAVE IS NOW ALL RUINED SO WE HAVE TO RIP ALL THIS OUT NOW. >> Reporter: THE NEARLY STATIONARY STORM COULD BRING UP TO FIVE MORE INCHES OF RAIN HERE. FAMILIES ALREADY FORCED TO PART WITH SO MANY PIECES OF THEIR LIVES NOW STRUGGLING TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET. >> WE THOUGHT WE WERE REALLY AHEAD OF THINGS AND NOW TO JUST KEEP GETTING KNOCKED DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, WE'RE NOT AHEAD. >> VICTOR, THANKS. LET'S GET TO OUR ROB MARCIANO NOW. TIME THIS OUT FOR US. WHAT COMMUNITIES NEED TO BE ON ALERT TONIGHT ABOUT POSSIBLE FLOODING? >> Reporter: THIS THING HAS JUST HIT THE BRAKES, SO NICHOLAS OR WHAT'S LEFT OF NICHOLAS IS GOING TO HAVE TO WRING ITSELF OUT OVER TIME BEFORE WE START TO SEE THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS BEGIN TO WANE. YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CENTER OF IT IS RIGHT NOW. IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME SPOT IT WAS LAST NIGHT, RIGHT AROUND JENNINGS, LOUISIANA, EVERYWHERE EAST OF THERE IS IN THAT FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL AT LEAST TOMORROW NIGHT. WE HAD WARNINGS AROUND PENSACOLA AND A NUMBER OF RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD STAGE AS WELL. 3 TO 6 INCHES WILL BE A PROBLEM THROUGH TOMORROW. OF COURSE WE'RE NOT DONE WITH THE TROPICS YET. WE'RE IN THE HEART OF HURRICANE SEASON. WE'VE GOT TWO OTHER DISTURBANCES OUT THERE, ONE WAY OUT THERE, HAS A REALLY GOOD CHANCE OF BECOMING A TROPICAL STORM IF NOT A HURRICANE. AND THEN THE ONE CLOSER TO BERMUDA AND THE TURKS AND CAICOS, THAT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE NUDGED OUT TO SEA. WE HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT'S POSTED FOR MUCH OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH UPSTATE NEW YORK AND THROUGH THE HEART OF NEW ENGLAND WHERE WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL DOZENS OF REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN THERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS, I THINK, WILL PERSIST THROUGH THESE AREAS AND EVEN THROUGH THE NEW YORK AND I-95 CORRIDOR. SUMMER-LIKE FEET HAS BEEN FUELING THIS. I KNOW YOU FELT THIS YOURSELF. IT WILL ONLY BE SLIGHTLY COOLER TOMORROW. >> GOOD. YEAH, WE WILL WANT THE COOL WINDS FOR SURE. ROB, THANKS. >>> WELL, TURNING NOW TO THOSE EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS ALL REVEALED IN A NEW BOOK CENTERED AROUND THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY. SOME OF THOSE ALLEGATIONS CENTERED AROUND CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS, GENERAL MARK MILLEY, AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH CHINA. MILLEY NOT ONLY DEFENDING HIMSELF BUT FACING PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL AISLE FOR HIS CALLS TO ASSURE CHINA THAT THE U.S. WOULD NOT ATTACK THEM. WE LEARNED TODAY THAT HE WASN'T THE ONLY TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL MAKING THOSE CALLS, THOUGH. HERE'S ABC'S CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, JONATHAN CARL. >> Reporter: PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY EXPRESSED GREAT CONFIDENCE IN AMERICA'S TOP GENERAL, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN MARK MILLEY. >> I HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN GENERAL MILLEY. >> Reporter: BUT MILLEY IS FACING SEVERE CRITICISM, EVEN CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION OVER REVELATIONS IN A NEW BOOK THAT HE SOUGHT TO UNDERMINE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S AUTHORITY, EVEN REACHING OUT TO CHINA AMID THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT TRUMP'S INCENDIARY RHETORIC AROUND COVID TO SAY HE WOULD TELL THEM IF THE UNITED STATES WERE TO LAUNCH A MILITARY STRIKE. BECAUSE HE WAS FEARFUL TRUMP COULD DO SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF HIS PRESIDENCY. TODAY, A SPOKESPERSON FOR GENERAL MILLEY CONFIRMED SOME OF THE MAJOR EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK BY BOB WOODWARD AND ROBERT COSTA. HIS CALLS WITH THE CHINESE AND OTHERS IN OCTOBER AND JANUARY, MILLEY'S SPOKESPERSON SAID, WERE IN KEEPING WITH HIS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CONVEYING REASSURANCE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN STRATEGIC STABILITY. BUT THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY. ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED THAT IT WASN'T JUST MILLEY WHO REACHED OUT TO CHINA. IN FACT, A FORMER SENIOR PENTAGON OFFICIAL TELLS ABC THE FIRST CONTACT CAME FROM TRUMP'S FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY, MARK ESPER, WHO CONVEYED A MESSAGE SAYING THE UNITED STATES HAD NO INTENTION TO ATTACK. IT'S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS SAYING THAT MILLEY SHOULD RESIGN. LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER, STAR WITNESS IN TRUMP'S FIRST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, IS SAYING IF THE STORY IS TRUE, MILLEY MUST GO. >> IF THE SENIOR MOST MILITARY OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACTED WITHOUT ANY OVERSIGHT, WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY, I FIND THAT DEEPLY TROUBLING. >> Reporter: IT IS DONALD TRUMP WHO CHOSE MILLEY TO BE THE JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN BUT NOW HE IS SAYING MILLEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON. >> IF IT IS ACTUALLY TRUE, WHICH IS HARD TO BELIEVE, THAT HE WOULD HAVE CALLED CHINA AND DONE THESE THINGS AND WAS WILLING TO ADVISE THEM OF AN ATTACK OR IN ADVANCE OF AN ATTACK, THAT'S TREASON. >> JONATHAN CARL JOINING US NOW. JOHN, GENERAL MILLEY WILL LIKELY FACE TOUGH QUESTIONS WHEN HE'S SCHEDULED TO TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL LATER THIS MONTH. WHAT KIND OF PRESSURE DO YOU THINK HE'S UNDER RIGHT NOW? >> Reporter: WELL, THIS WILL BE A FIERY HEARING. IT IS SEPTEMBER 28th. IT WAS PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED, HE WAS ALREADY EXPECTED TO FACE SOME VERY TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MESSY WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN AND WHETHER OR NOT HE BEARS SOME RESPONSIBILITY, BUT NOW HE IS GOING TO FACE QUESTIONS PRIMARILY FROM REPUBLICANS BUT I DON'T THINK EXCLUSIVELY FROM REPUBLICANS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT HE UNDERMINED CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY AND YOU ARE STARTING TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, MORE CALLS, AGAIN, CALLS NOT JUST FROM REPUBLICANS BUT PRIMARILY FROM REPUBLICANS FOR HIM TO RESIGN. >> WELL, AND ALSO, JOHN, I MEAN, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS IT THAT FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY ESPER WAS ALSO IN TOUCH WITH CHINA? >> Reporter: WELL, THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT, I BELIEVE, AND IT WAS NOT IN WOODWARD'S BOOK. WOODWARD -- IF YOU'RE JUST READING THEIR ACCOUNT, YOU GOT THE SENSE THAT MILLEY WAS ACTING ON HIS OWN, YOU KNOW, ONE TOP GENERAL THERE TO TRY TO UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENT, GO DIRECTLY IN A SECRET BACK CHANNEL TO THE CHINESE. IN FACT, WHAT I HAVE LEARNED, ACCORDING TO A VERY SENIOR FORMER DEFENSE OFFICIAL, THAT THE FIRST CONTACT WAS NOT MILLEY BUT IT WAS THEN DEFENSE SECRETARY MARK ESPER, WHO ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE MILLEY MADE HIS NOW FAMOUS CALL TO THE CHINESE GENERAL, REACHED OUT TO THE CHINESE DEFENSE MINISTRY WITH A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD NO INTENTION TO ATTACK CHINA, HAVE ANY KIND OF A CONFRONTATION WITH CHINA. THAT MESSAGE WAS SENT BY SECRETARY ESPER BECAUSE THEY HAD INTELLIGENCE THAT THE CHINESE WERE CONCERNED, WERE CONCERNED THAT TRUMP MIGHT DO SOMETHING RASH IN THE FINAL DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS MILLEY NOT ACTING ON HIS OWN BUT ACTUALLY ACTING IN AWKWARD NATION WITH THE PERSON WHO WAS, AT THE TIME, THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, MARK ESPER. >> AS YOU KNOW, WHEN THESE BOOKS COME OUT, LIKE YOUR BOOKS AS WELL, THESE THINGS CONTINUE TO HAVE FALLOUT AND WE'LL FOLLOW IT ALL. JONATHAN CARL, THANKS. >> BELIEVE ME, THERE'S A LOT MORE TO COME. >> NO DOUBT. THANKS, JOHN. >>> ALL RIGHT, WHEN WE COME BACK, ALL EYES ON LAUNCHPAD 39A. WE ARE MOMENTS AWAY FROM OUR SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE OF THE HISTORIC ALL CIVILIAN SPACE MISSION. >>> AND VERDICT VACATED FOR THE FORMER OFFICER CONVICTED OF THIRD-DEGREE MURDER FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A WOMAN WHO CALLED 911. BUT WILL HE ACTUALLY BE RELEASED FROM PRISON? >>> SO MUCH CONFUSION ABOUT THESE VACCINE MANDATES, PARTICULARLY IF YOU WORK FOR A COMPANY PUSHING BACK. WE'LL BREAK DOWN WHERE THINGS STAND. STAY WITH US. place else ABC news world news
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ARIZONA HAS ALREADY FILED THE FIRST LAWSUIT AGAINST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OVER THE NEW VACCINE REQUIREMENTS, BUT EXPERTS SAY THAT EFFORT WILL LIKELY HAVE LITTLE IMPACT. >> THESE POLICIES ARE QUITE TARGETED. HE'S USING HIS PARTICULAR AUTHORITY THAT IS WITHIN HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO THE MOST THAT HE CAN WITHOUT OVERSTEPPING HIS AUTHORITY. >> Reporter: MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS AGREE WITH THE NEED FOR VACCINE MANDATES. IN A RECENT ABC NEWS/"WASHINGTON POST" POLL TAKEN BEFORE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT, 52% OF ADULTS SUPPORT BUSINESSES MANDATING VACCINES FOR EMPLOYEES. BUT FOR SOME OF THE 24% OF AMERICAN ADULTS WHO ARE UNVACCINATED, THE IDEA OF THEIR EMPLOYER TELLING THEM TO GET THE JAB IS A STEP TOO FAR. >> NO VACCINE MANDATE. >> Reporter: IN NEW YORK CITY, JOHN HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN. >> I WANT EVERYBODY TO HOLD THE LINE. THIS IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SITUATION ALTOGETHER. FORCED MANDATE FOR TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT ON SOMETHING THAT IS STILL VERY NEW, 18 MONTHS OF DATA. >> Reporter: JOHN SAYS HE ISN'T CONVINCED THE VACCINES HAVE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO PROVE THEIR SAFETY. >> THIS COULD VERY WELL BE SOMETHING THAT DEVELOPS -- MAKES YOUR GENETICS DEVELOP CANCER IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS. WE DON'T KNOW, AND IT'S UP TO YOU TO TAKE THAT RISK, AND AGAIN, I DON'T STOP PEOPLE FROM TAKING THAT RISK. IT'S A RISK I DON'T PERSONALLY WANT TO TAKE. >> Reporter: WHILE THE FDA DOES WARN THAT, QUOTE, INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE ABOUT POTENTIAL LONG-TERM HEALTH OUTCOMES OF THE APPROVED PFIZER VACCINE, HEALTH EXPERTS SAY THERE HAVE BEEN NO MAJOR SAFETY SIGNALS TO RAISE CONCERNS. >> WE KNOW THAT IN THE HISTORY OF VACCINES, WE HAVE NOT SEEN SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF A VACCINE BEYOND 6 TO 8 WEEKS OF ITS ROLLOUT AND THAT'S IN THE HISTORY OF ALL VACCINES. VACCINES REALLY HELP YOUR BODY DEVELOP AN IMMUNE RESPONSE, AND THAT HELPS TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST FUTURE ASSAULTS AGAINST COVID-19. >> Reporter: HOSPITALS WERE SOME OF THE FIRST WORKPLACES IN THE COUNTRY TO REQUIRE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS AND SOME OF THE FIRST TO FACE PUSHBACK FROM HESITANT EMPLOYEES. IN JUNE, 178 EMPLOYEES OF HOUSTON METHODIST WERE SUSPENDED FOR FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THEIR VACCINE POLICY. 153 ENDED UP BEING TERMINATED. SOME OF THEM SUING THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM. THAT LITIGATION, STILL ONGOING. JOHN MATLAND IN NEW YORK STARTED A GROUP CHAT FOR OTHER HEALTHCARE WORKERS LIKE HIM. IT HAS MORE THAN 1,000 MEMBERS NATIONWIDE AND COUNTING. >> THIS GROUP HAS DISCUSSED THEIR POINT OF VIEW, THE AMOUNT OF ANXIETY THAT WE'RE ALL DEALING WITH, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW, AFTER ALL OF THIS, BEING ON THE FRONT LINES, WITH THE SCIENCE STILL DEVELOPING, THEY'RE GETTING KICKED OUT AFTER 30 YEARS. PEOPLE ARE GETTING THROWN AWAY LIKE THEY DON'T COUNT. >> IT IS VERY MUCH WITHIN AN EMPLOYER'S RIGHT AS AN EMPLOYER TO MANDATE VACCINATION OR TESTING AS LONG AS THERE ARE SPECIFIC EXCEPTIONS BEING MADE FOR MEDICAL OR RELIGIOUS OBJECTIONS. >> Reporter: ONLY 16% OF UNVACCINATED WORKERS SAY THEY WOULD COMPLY WITH A WORKPLACE VACCINE REQUIREMENT. 72% SAY THEY'D WALK OFF THE JOB. >> MANY PEOPLE SEE IT AS SOME WAY -- AN OPTION TO BE FORCED TO BE VACCINATED, WHEN IN REALITY, IT'S REALLY JUST A FORCE TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO GET VACCINATED. >> Reporter: BUT WORKERS LIKE JOHN SAY THEY BELIEVE THE SAME LIFE-SAVING PPE THAT PROTECTED THE EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE ENOUGH MOVING FORWARD. >> PPE IN RELATIVITY TO DEALING WITH PATIENTS SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO HOLD UP AND STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID. BREAK ROOMS, EVERYTHING ELSE, WHETHER YOU GET IT IN THE BREAKROOM OR YOU GET IT AT THE LOCAL 7 ELEVEN, DOESN'T MATTER. >> PPE IS DEFINITELY SUBSTANTIAL BUT UNLIKE A VACCINE, PPE HAS TO COME OFF AT SOME TIME. PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE POINT OF A MANDATE IS TO HAVE A DECISION WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO ACCEPT THAT HIGHER RISK. >> Reporter: SHORTLY AFTER OUR INTERVIEW, JOHN WAS FIRED FROM NORTH WELL HEALTH STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOR AN ALLEGED TRESPASSING INCIDENT DURING A PROTEST AGAINST VACCINE REQUIREMENTS. HE DENIES THE ALLEGATION AND IS CONTESTING HIS TERMINATION. THE HOSPITAL ISSUING A STATEMENT TO ABC NEWS READING, IN PART, "MATLAND WAS SUSPENDED ON AUGUST 19th IN RELATION TO AN INCIDENT WHICH POSED A SERIOUS RISK TO OUR PATIENTS AND STAFF. AFTER A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION, HE WAS TERMINATED AS A RESULT OF THE FINDINGS." THE DETAILS OF MATLAND'S TERMINATION ARE CONFIDENTIAL. 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REBECCA JARVIS HAS MORE. >> Reporter: DUMENTS OBTAINED BY THE WALL STREET JOURN REVEALING DEILS FROM FACEBOOK. THE PARENT OF INSTAGRAM OF T EFFECT OF THE APP ON TEENA MENTAL HEALTH. FEEL BAD ABOUT THEIR BODIES, HEY INSTAGRAM MADE THEM FEEL WORST. ANOTHER SLIDE STATING, WE MAKE BODY IMAGE ISSUES WORSE FORNE AND THREE TEEN GIRLS WHO EXPERIENCED THESESSUES AND TEENS BLAME INSTAGRAM FOR INCREASES IN THE RATEF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. >> IT REALLY IS STREFUL TO PICK ONE PICTURE THAT HAS TO BE PERFECT. >> INSTAGRAM'S STANDARDS MAKE THEM FEEL REPEATEDLY JUDGED. >> WE SEE INSTAGRAM OF A BUNCH OF INFLUENCERS LIVING THEIR BEST LIVES AND YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR IS LIKE OUCH. >> FACEBOOK DOWN PLAYED THIS INFORMATION AS TEENS ARE AN IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC FOR THE APP, WITH THE DOCUMENT STATING 40% OF USERS ARE AGE 22 OR YOUNGER. >> A LOT OF GIRLS ARE DEFINING THEMSELVES BY THE NUMBER OF LIKES THEY GET. THAT SENDS MESSAGE THAT YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH AS YOU ARE. >> IN RESPONSE TO THE STORY, INSTAGRAM TWEETING, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S RESEARCH DOING TO UNDERSTAND OUR EXPERIENCE IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT BUT SPEAKS TO AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. WE STANDBY THIS WORK AND BELIEVES MORE COMPANIES SHOULD BE DOING THE SAME. INSTAGRAM STATES ON A BLOG POST, BASED ON OUR RESEARCH, WE DEVELOP FEATURES SO PEOPLE CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM BULLYING. IN LIGHT OF SOME OF THIS NEW INFORMATION, WHAT CAN PARENTS DO TO KEEP THEIR KIDS SAFE? >> I THINK IT'S PIMPORTANT FOR PARENTS TO TEACH THEIR GIRLS HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA WISELY. IT DOES NOT WORK TO TELL THEM IT DOES NOT EXIST. ENCOURAGE YOUR DAUGHTER TO THINK CAREFULLY AND CRITICALLY ABOUT WHAT SHE'S SEEING AND TALK WITH HER ABOUT IT. >> OUR THANKS TO REBECCA FOR THAT REPORT. >>> AMANDA GOURMAND CAPTIVATED THE NATION WITH HER POEMS. SINCE THEN SHE'S BEEN AT EVERYWHERE AND EVEN AT THE MET GALA. A CONVERSATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND CAREER THAT'LL BE FEATURED IN AN UPCOMING SPECIAL. >> AMANDA GOURMAND LIKE YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE. >> I LOVE HAVING TEA WHEN I WRITE. >> THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO CAP CAPTIVATED THE WORLD AT JOE BIDEN'S INAUGURATION SEEMS TO DO IT ALL. >> IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT. IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT. >> FROM STUNNING CROWDS TO THE RUNWAY TO GRAZING THE COVER OF "VOGUE" MAGAZINE AND PERFORMING AT THE SUPER BOWL. >> LET US WALK WITH THESE WARRIORS AND CHARGE ON WITH THESE CHAMPIONS. >> AMANDA IS PULLING BACK THE CURTAINS FOR OUR CAMERAS, GIVING US EXCLUSIVE ACCESS INSIDE THE LIGHT. SHE TAKES US BACK TO HER EARLY DAYS AS YOUNG POET. >> OH MY GOSH. >> THIS WAS THE FIRST THAT WAS EVER PUBLISH IN. SHE TALKS ABOUT HER SUDDEN RISE TO FAME. >> YOU ARE MAKING POETRY COOL. PERHAPS THAT YOUNG CHILD COMING UP AND WANTS YOUR AUTOGRAPH, DO YOU FEEL THAT'S YOUR PURPOSE? >> IT'S EVERYTHING. 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BEFORE WE GO TONIGHT, THE IMAGE OF THE DAY, THE HISTORIC LAUNCH THIS EVENING FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA, THE SPACEX, FALCON 9 ROCKET BLASTING OFF AT 8:02 EASTERN, PROPELLING ALL SCIVILIAN SPACE CREW HEADIN 60 MILES ABOVE EARTH INTO ORBIT. THAT'S OUR SHOW. STAY TUNED, LIVE FOR MORE CONTEXTS AND ANALYSIS OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. ♪ >>> COMING UP NEXT HOUR, WE'RE STAYING ON TOP OF A FEW THINGS FOR YOU. INCLUDING THAT GUT WRENCH TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS . THE OLYMPIC GYMNASTS BLASTING THE FBI FOR MISHANDLING THEIR SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIMS . >>> AND WHY A MINNESOTA COURT VACATED THE CONVICTION OF A FORMER COP WHO WAS SENT TO JAIL FOR GUNNING DOWN A WOMAN WHO CALLED 911 FROM HER HOME. STAY WITH US. >>> AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. >> A COMPUTER SALESMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO PRISON TO BEGIN A 17-YEAR SENTENCE. >> THEY LET HIM TURN HIMSELF INTO JAIL WITH NO ESCORT. >> NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN. >> HOW DO YOU EVADE CAPTURE FOR 25 YEARS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> NOW JOIN THE SEARCH. FOLLOW THE U.S. MARSHALS AS THEY UNCOVER NEW LEADS IN A GLOBAL MANHUNT. CAN YOU CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? JOIN THE HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR POD CASTS . >>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I'M KEIR PHILLIPS. WE'RE MONITORING SEVERAL DEVELOPMENTS AT ABC NEWS THIS HOUR, INCLUDING THE FLASH FLOOD WATCHES ACROSS FOUR STATES FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA. WHILE NEW ORLEANS IS BRACING FOR DANGEROUS FLOODING OVER THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS, AS IT'S STILL TRYING TO RECOVER FROM TWO POWERFUL STORMS. >>> PFIZER AND MODERNA DATA ON BOOSTER SHOT TRIALS ARE NOW OUT, AND BOTH COMPANIES ARE MAKING THE CASE FOR AMERICANS TO GET A THIRD SHOT. >>> AND INDEPENDENT FDA PANEL IS STILL EXPECTED TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO AUTHORIZES BOOSTERS. AS PFIZER DATA SUGGESTS, THE NEED FOR A BOOSTER SHOT ABOUT SIX MONTHS AFTER THE SECOND DOSE. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS IF THE GREEN LIGHT IS GIVEN, BOOSTER SHOTS WILL BE READY TO GO. >>> AND AMAZON IS PLANNING TO FILL 125,000 JOBS NATIONWIDE. THE COMPANY IS LOOKING TO HIRE FULL TIME AND PART-TIME WORKERS WITH BENEFITS. MANY OF THE POSITIONS PERMANENT. AMAZON ALSO PLANNING TO RAISE ITS MINIMUM WAGE TO $18 AN HOUR. >>> I'M SORRY SO MANY PEOPLE LET YOU DOWN. THOSE WORDS FROM FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY TO GYMNASTS WHO WERE VICTIMS OF DISGRACED FORMER USA GYMNASTICS DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR. FOUR OF NASSAR'S VICTIMS INCLUDING OLYMPIANS SHARED THEIR STORIES WITH THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TODAY AS SENATORS INVESTIGATE THE FBI'S MISHANDLING OF THE NASSAR CASE. ABC'S CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS MORE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT FOUR OF THE GREATEST ATHLETES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GYMNASTICS DEMANDING JUSTICE. TELLING CONGRESS THEY WERE BETRAYED BY THE FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY TEAM DOCTOR LARRY NASSAR. >> I DON'T WANT ANOTHER YOUNG GYMNAST, OLYMPIC ATHLETE, OR ANY INDIVIDUAL TO EXPERIENCE THE HORROR THAT I AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE ENDURED BEFORE, DURING, AND CONTINUING TO THIS DAY IN THE WAKE OF THE LARRY NASSAR ABUSE. TO BE CLEAR -- I'M SORRY. >> TAKE YOUR TIME. >> TO BE CLEAR, I BLAME LARRY NASSAR, AND I ALSO BLAME AN ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT ENABLED AND PERPETRATED HIS ABUSE. >> Reporter: GOLD MEDALLIST ALY RAISMAN ACCUSING THE FBI OF LYING AND DRAGGING ITS FEET MORE THAN A YEAR. >> IT TOOK OVER 14 MONTHS FOR THE FBI COULD TAN O CONTACT ME DESPITE MY MANY REQUESTS. HE FOUND 100 NEW VICTIMS TO MOLEST. IT WAS LIKE SERVING INNOCENT CHILDREN UP TO A PEDOPHILE ON A SILVER PLATTER. >> Reporter: HER TEAMMATE KAYLA MARONEY DESCRIBES TELLING FBI AGENTS HOW NASSAR STARTED ABUSING HER WHEN SHE WAS JUST 13. >> I THEN TOLD THE FBI ABOUT TOKYO, THE DAY HE GAVE ME A SLEEPING PILL FOR THE PLANE RIDE TO THEN WORK ON ME LATER THAT NIGHT. THAT EVENING I WAS NAKED, COMPLETELY ALONE WITH HIM ON TOP OF ME, MOLESTING ME FOR HOURS. I BEGAN CRYING AT THE MEMORY OVER THE PHONE, AND THERE WAS JUST DEAD SILENCE. I WAS SO SHOCKED AT THE AGENT'S SILENCE AND DISREGARD FOR MY TRAUMA. AFTER THAT MINUTE OF SILENCE HE ASKED, IS THAT ALL? THOSE WORDS IN ITSELF WAS ONE OF THE WORST MOMENTS OF THIS ENTIRE PROCESS FOR ME. >> Reporter: MARONEY ACCUSING THE FBI OF COVERING OF HER CLAIMS TO PROTECT NASSAR. >> I THOUGHT GIVEN THE SEVERITY OF THE SITUATION THEY WOULD ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT THEIR GIRLS. INSTEAD EVER TOOK 14 MONTHS FOR THEM TO ACT AND NASSAR SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL THAT DAY. >> Reporter: NASSAR WILL LIKELY SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON. ONE OF THE FBI AGENTS ON THE CASE HAS RETIRED. THE OTHER ONE RECENTLY FIRED. TODAY DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY PERSONALLY APOLOGIZING TO THE WOMEN. >> I'M DEEPLY AND PROFOUNDLY SORRY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. I'M SORRY THAT SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE LET YOU DOWN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND I'M ESPECIALLY SORRY THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE AT THE FBI WHO HAD THEIR OWN CHANCE TO STOP THIS MONSTER BACK IN 2015 AND FAILED. >> Reporter: WRAY THEN MAKING THIS PLEDGE. >> I AND MY ENTIRE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM ARE GOING TO MAKE DAM SURE EVERYBODY IF HE FBI REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED HERE IN HEARTBREAKING DETAIL. >> Reporter: WE TURN NOW TO A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN ANOTHER DISTURBING CASE. IN 2017, MOHAMED NOOR WHILE ON DUTY AS A MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER, KILLED JUSTINE RUSHEK AFTER SHE CALLED 911 OUT OF CONCERN FOR A WOMAN SHE HEARD SCREAMING BEHIND HER HOME. HERE'S HOW JUSTINE'S FIANCEE DESCRIBED THE ENCOUNTER TO US BACK IN JUNE OF 2020. >> THERE WAS A -- NO DISCUSSION, NOTHING TO SAY HANDS UP, BACK OFF. IT WAS JUST A SHOT WAS FIRED. >> Reporter: >> Re NOOR CLAIMED IT WAS AN ACCIDENT BUT HE WAS CONVICTED WITH THIRD DEGREE MURDER. THAT'S A SO-CALLED DEPRAVED MIND AS WELL AS SECOND DEGREE MURDER. IT WAS CONSIDERED A RARE EXAMPLE OF A POLICE OFFICER BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND HE WAS SENTENCED TO 12 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON. TODAY MINNESOTA'S HIGHEST COURT OVERTURNED NOOR'S MURDER CONVICTION. SO HE'LL BE RESENTENCED JUST ON THE MANSLAUGHTER COUNT. TO BREAK DOWN WHAT THIS ALL MEANS WE BRING IN ABC CONSULTANT SEAN LLOYD WITH THE COCHRAN FIRM. EXPLAIN WHAT THE MINNESOTA COURT DID TODAY AND WHY. >> ABSOLUTELY GOVERNOR COURT ESSENTIALLY DECIDED, WHICH THEY ARE REAFFIRMING WHAT THEY FOUND BEFORE, WHICH IS THAT DEPRAVED MIND MURDER REQUIRES A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF INTENT. THEY ARE SAYING THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT REQUIREMENT THAT THE OTHER MURDER CHARGES REQUIRE. SO IN THIS CASE, NOOR HAD A SPECIFIC INTENT TO HARM OR DO SOMETHING TO THE PERSON THAT HE SAW APPROACHING THE VEHICLE. SO THEY'RE SAYING THAT BECAUSE HE SPECIFICALLY INTENDED TO HARM A PARTICULAR PERSON, DEPRAVED MURDER DOES NOT APPLY BECAUSE THAT MURDER APPLIES FOR SOMEONE WHO IS DOING SOMETHING WITH DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE IN GENERAL. SO, SOMEONE DRIVING DOWN A STREET BLIND FOLDED WOULD BE CONVICTED OF THIS TYPE OF A MURDER IF THEY WERE TO KILL SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE AN INTENT TO HARM SOMEONE IN PARTICULAR. >> Reporter: SO, DOES MANSLAUGHTER ALONE SEEM TO YOU LIKE THE APPROPRIATE CONVICTION FOR THIS CRIME? HIS PRISON SENTENCE WILL SURELY BECOME A LOT LIGHTER, RIGHT? >> Reporter: THE PRISON SENTENCE IS REDUCED PARTICULARLY FOR A MANSLAUGHTER. YOU'RE LOOKING AT A MAXIMUM OF TEN YEARS. YOU'LL SEE SOMEONE SUCH AS HIMSELF REFER TO SOME OFFENDER AROUND THE FIVE-YEAR MARK. HE WAS CONVICTED ON TWO CHARGE AS AND THEY WERE OVERTURNED ON THE MURDER. THE OTHER CHARGE COULD BE APPLIED ON THE LESSER CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. THAT'S WHERE WE'LL SEE THE SENTENCING DONE ON THAT PARTICULAR CHARGE. >> THIS WAS A PRETTY BIG STORY BACK IN 2017, YOU'LL REMEMBER. IT CAME UP AGAIN WHEN GEORGE FLOYD WAS ALSO KILLED BY A MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER. HOW DID THESE CASES RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND COULD TODAY'S DECISION IMPACT THE CASES OF THOSE THREE OFFICERS WHO STILL FACE STATE AND FEDERAL CHARGES FOR THE DEATH OF FLOYD? >> IT CAN IN THE SENSE OF WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO TRY TO PROVE AT TRIAL. THEY ARE NOW NOT GOING TO BE LOOKING TO PIN THIS ON THE THIRD DEGREE MURDER CHARGE THAT CHAUVIN WAS ALSO CONVICTED OF. BUT LET'S REMEMBER, HE WAS ALSO CONVICTED OF THE HIGHER CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER. SO EVEN IF FOR SOME REASON THE THIRD DEGREE WAS THROWN OUT OR REVERSED, HE WILL STILL BE AND WAS ALREADY SENTENCED ON THAT SECOND DEGREE MURDER. SO FOR CHAUVIN, THIS WILL HAVE ZERO IMPACT LIKELY ON HIS APPEALS, IF ANYTHING. NOW, FOR THE OTHER THREE, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE IS THE AIDING AND ABETTING WILL BE TIED TO THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER. WE'RE NOT GOING TO SEE THE STATE BRING ANY CHARGES TIED TO THAT THIRD DEGREE BECAUSE OF THEIR CONCERN OF A POSSIBLE OVERTURN. >> GOT IT. SHANA LLOYD, ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHTS. >> ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU, KIERA. >>> TURNING NOW TO CALIFORNIA'S RECALL ELECTION AS DEMOCRATS ARE BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF, ABC NEWS PROJECTS, RATHER, THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM WILL KEEP HIS JOB. SOUNDLY DEFEATING THE RECALL EFFORT. ABC'S MORGAN NORWOOD HAS THE LATEST. >> Reporter: AFTER A FOUR-MONTH GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO OUST HIM, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM WILL KEEP HIS JOB. MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS VOTING NO TO THE RECALL, ABC NEWS MAKING THE PROJECTION BASED ON EXIT POLLS AND VOTE ANALYSIS. >> WE SAID YES TO SCIENCE. WE SAID YES TO VACCINES. WE SAID YES TO ENDING THIS PANDEMIC. >> Reporter: WITH ALSO A RESOUNDING AFFIRMATION OF DEMOCRATIC POWER, NEWSOM RAISED $70,000, STANDING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN. >> HAVING PRESIDENT BIDEN HERE AND VICE-PRESIDENT HARRIS WAS A BIG BOOST FOR THE CAMPAIGN. >> Reporter: UP UNTIL THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, RADIO HOST ELDER AND NEWSOM WERE NECK AND NECK. HE FINALLY CONCEDED, BUT WITH A WARNING. >> COME ON, COME ON. LET'S BE GRACIOUS, LET'S BE GRACIOUS IN DEFEAT. AND, BY THE WAY, WE MAY HAVE LOST THE BATTLE, BUT WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WAR. >> AND OUR THANKS TO MORGAN FOR THAT. >>> AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. THAT'S THE INSPIRATION 4, ALL RIGHT. THE HISTORIC LIFT OFF FROM JOHN KENNEDY SPACE CENTER JUST HOURS AGO. SPACEX'S FALCON 9 SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHING THE FIRST ALL-CIVILIAN MISSION TO ORBIT. THEY WILL BE MORE THAN 360 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH, AND ALL OF THIS THANKS TO BILLIONAIRE JARED ISAACMAN PAYING FOR THE FOUR SEATS. THE PROCEEDS GOING TO SAINT JUDE'S CHARITY JUST A SHORT TIME AGO, SPACEX TWEETING DRAGON AND THE INSPIRATION 4 CREW WILL ORBIT EARTH FOR THREE DAYS AT AN ALTITUDE OF 575 KILOMETERS, FLYING FARTHER THAN ANY OTHER HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT SINCE THE HUBBLE MISSIONS. OUR THANKS TO MORGAN NORWOOD. ONCE AGAIN, THE LATEST PLOT OR RATHER, LET'S TURN NOW, RATHER, TO THE LATEST PLOT TWIST IN A MURDER MYSTERY INVOLVING A PROMINENT FAMILY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY NOW IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF ATTORNEY ALEX MURDOCK. AUTHORITIES SAY IT WAS MURDOCK HIMSELF THAT ACTUALLY ARRANGED HIS OWN SHOOTING, AND NOW HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE PLANS TO VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER TOMORROW. ABC'S EVA PILGRIM HAS THE STORY. >> Reporter: A SOUTH CAROLINA MAN IS BEHIND BARS FOR SHOOTING PROMINENT LOW-COUNTRY LAWYER ALEX MURDOCK. AUTHORITIES SAY 61-YEAR-OLD CURTIS SMITH IS KNOWN TO THE EMBATTLED ATTORNEY AND HELPED MURDOCK CONSPIRE SUICIDE FOR INSURANCE MONEY. THE PLAN WAS FOR MR. SMITH TO MURDER HIM ON SEPTEMBER 4, LEAVING HIS SON BUSTER TO COLLECT A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $10 MILLION. MR. MURDOCK PROVIDED MR. SMITH WITH A FIREARM AND DIRECTED MR. SMITH TO SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD. SMITH LATER ALLEGEDLY CONFESSED TO DISPOSING OF THE WEAPON. BUT MURDOCK SURVIVED THE SHOOTING, CALLING 911 HIMSELF. HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FOR A SUPERFICIAL GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. AFTER GETTING OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, HE CHECKED HIMSELF INTO REHAB, APOLOGIZING TO HIS FAMILY AND FORMER PARTNERS. THE DAY BEFORE THE SHOOTING, MURDOCK, LEAVING THE LAW FIRM HIS FAMILY HELPED BUILD, AMID ALLEGATIONS HE MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS. MURDOCK'S FAMILY HAS BEEN THE FOCUS OF NATIONAL ATTENTION SINCE THE BRUTAL UNSOLVED MURDERS OF HIS WIFE MAGGIE AND 22-YEAR-OLD SON PAUL THIS PAST JUNE. >> ARE THEY BREATHING? >> NO, MA'AM. MY WIFE AND MY SON -- >> AND WHAT IS YOUR NAME? >> MY NAME IS ALEX MURDOCK. PLEASE HURRY. NEI NEITHER ONE OF THEM'S BREATHING. >> Reporter: MURDOCK CALLING 911 AFTER FINDING THEIR BODIES. FINDING THEM NEAR THE HUNTING LODGE, HIS BROTHER SPEAKING TO US AT THE TIME ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC'S HELP. >> MY FATHER LOVED MAGGIE, LOVED PAUL LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON THIS EARTH. I CAN TELL YOU HE IS WILLING AND STILL IS WILLING TO DO ANYTHING THAT'S ASKED OF HIM. HE WANTS THIS. HE WANTS THIS SOLVED. >> AND STILL TO COME, THE MESSAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE WOMEN UNDER TALIBAN RULE NOW. >>> AND THE YOUNG SEEM SAMSTRES SPREADING LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. HER STORY IS NEXT. >>> AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. >> A COMPUTER SALESMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO PRISON TO BEGIN A 17-YEAR SENTENCE. >> THEY LET HIM TURN HIMSELF INTO JAIL WITH NO ESCORT. >> NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN. >> HOW DO YOU EVADE FOR 25 YEARS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? >> CAN YOU HELP CATCH THIS FUGITIVE? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? >> HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? LISTEN AND JOIN THE HUNT WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST. >> THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME ANY TIME. NIGHTLINE NOW STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE TRUE CRIME. CINEMATIC, REAL LIFE DRAMA, STUBBI STUNNING, THE UNTHINKABLE. TRUE CRIME. 2020 NOW STREAMING ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >>> ADMIT IT. THESE DAYS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW >> SEEMS TO CHANGE EVERY DAY. >> WHAT IS IT YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? 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PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? >> BREAKING NEWS, LIVE EVENTS. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT. >> GOOD JOB. >> STREAMING STRAIGHT TO YOU ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. >> YOU JUST GOT ONE FRIEND RIGHT HERE. >> YOU'RE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> ROBIN ROBERTS, GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, MICHAEL STRAHAN. WAKE UP WITH AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NUMBER ONE SHOW. >> GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. >> THE WORLD MAY FEEL OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, BUT YOUR HAPPINESS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. LEARN THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS. LEARN THE 10% HAPPIER PODCAST FREE ON APPLE PODCAST. >> RIGHT NOW WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC'S THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS SHOW VERSUS THE COMPETITION. >> WELCOME TO THIS WEEK. >> LOOK, I GET THROUGH IT ALL TONIGHT. WE HAVE MADE IT THROUGH ANOTHER WEEK TOGETHER. >> A BIG HUG. >> WE TELL ALL OUR PATIENTS HOW MUCH WE LOVE TO HOLD THEIR HANDS. >> DAVID, WE'RE SHOWING ALL OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR THE I.C.U. STAFF. >> THEY'RE THE HEROES IN THIS. >> HIS REPORTING, HIS BOOKS HAVE SPARKED HISTORIC POLITICAL FIRESTORMS. NOW WHAT BOB WOODWARD TOGETHER WITH "WASHINGTON POST" REPORTER ROBERT COSTA REVEAL ABOUT THE TRANSITION FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN, THE TURMOIL, THE THREATS, THE NEVER BEFORE SEEN MATERIAL FROM SECRET ORDERS. THE COUNTRY ON THE EDGE, IN PERIL. MAY LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS. WOODWARD AND COSTA FACE GEORGE LIVE ON ABC'S "GOOD MORNING AMERICA." >>> AND WE'RE TRACKING SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES THIS HOUR. 64-YEAR-OLD AUSTRALIAN FUGITIVE TURNED HIMSELF IN TO POLICE NEARLY 30 YEARS AFTER HE USED A HACKSAW BLADE AND SOME BOLT CUTTERS TO ESCAPE PRISON. HE SAID HE DECIDED TO GO BACK TO PRISON BECAUSE SYDNEY'S COVID-19 LOCKDOWN MADE IT HARD FOR HIM TO WORK. HE WAS HOMELESS AND SLEEPING ON THE BEACH, AND APPARENTLY SAYS HE WANTED A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD. HE HAD INITIALLY BEEN IN PRISON WAY BACK IN 1992 FOR GROWING MARIJUANA. >>> AN ANCIENT TRADITION IN THE FAROE ISLANDS IS UNDER NEW SCRUTINY TONIGHT. THERE IS OUTRAGE AFTER 1400 DOLPHINS WERE KILLED AS PART OF THE YEARLY HUNT. SUPPORTERS SAY THE HUNT WHICH INCLUDES THE KILLING OF WHALES AS WELL IS A SUSTAINABLE WAY OF GATHERING FOOD FROM NATURE AND PART OF THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DON'T AGREE. >>> AND MEXICAN CITIZENS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER A LOTTERY TO WIN AN INFAMOUS HOUSE. THE HOME OF FORMER DRUG KINGMAN EL CHAPO. THE HOUSE HAS BEEN ABANDONED FOR YEARS, BUT IT'S THE PLACE EL CHAPO ESCAPED THROUGH A TUNNEL UNDER A BATHTUB BEFORE ULTIMATELY BEING CAUGHT BY AUTHORITIES DAYS LATER. THAT DRAWING IS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY. >>> NOW TO THE ONGOING CRISIS FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN. AN AFGHAN TEEN INVOLVED WITH A U.S.-BACKED ORGANIZATION THAT TEACHES WOMEN HOW TO CLIMB IS SHARING HER FEARS OF A FUTURE UNDER TALIBAN RULE. AND ASKING THE WORLD NOT TO INFRASTRUCTURE ABOUT THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND. ABC'S MONA KOSAR ABDI WITH HER STORY. >> IT IS THE DARKEST AND BLACK EST IN THE WORLD FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS. OUR -- IN THE COUNTRY ARE SO GREAT. >> Reporter: LIKE MANY WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN, THIS 17-YEAR-OLD AFGHANISTAN IS AFRAID OF WHAT COMES NEXT IN HER COUNTRY AFTER TALIBAN RULE. >> OUR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED AND WE ARE AFRAID TO GO OUT. AS SCHOOLS HAVE NOT STARTED. BUSINESS IS CLOSED. EVERYTHING HAS STOPPED IN THE COUNTRY. >> Reporter: TO PROTECT HER IDENTITY, SHE ASKED US TO REFER TO HER AS BRAVE GIRL. SHE REFLECTS ON HER DAYS CLIMBING MOUNTAINS WITH U.S.-BASED NONPROFIT ASCEND ATHLETICS, AN ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 2019 WITH THE MISSION OF UP LIFTING AFGHAN WOMEN AND GIRLS TO BECOME LEADERS AND ROLE MODELS IN THEIR COUNTRY. >> FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, I WOULD HAVE WANTED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAINEERS IN THE WORLD. >> FOR GIRLS BETWEEN AGE 15 TO 25, THAT'S USUALLY THE AGE WE SEE THEM DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. THAT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL BECAUSE OF FAMILY PRESSURE. >> Reporter: THE 17 JOINING A YEAR AGO WHEN THE PROGRAM CAME TO HER SCHOOL. SHE SAID SHE SAW IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME AN ATHLETE. >> WE HAVE THIS TEAM OF AFGHAN GIRLS SHOWING THE REST OF THE WORLD HOW TO CLIMB. IT'S INCREDIBLE WHEN YOU THINK OF HOW MANY SPORTS ARE BROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY BY THE MEN. CLIMBING WAS BROUGHT BY WOMEN AND WOMEN ARE LEARNING HOW TO DO THE SPORT. >> Reporter: TEACHING THEM HOW TO CLIMB IN SECRECY, THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND ARE FACING THEIR TALLEST MOUNTAIN YET. >> WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT OUR FUTURE BECAUSE OF THE RESTRICTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED ON US. >> Reporter: WRITING AN ESSAY, PLEADING WITH THE WORLD NOT TO FORGET THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND. >>> I WANT TO READ A LINE FROM THE LETTER SHE WROTE. DON'T FORGET THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN. DON'T FORGET THE BRAVE GIRLS WHO CLIMB MOUNTAINS. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? >> GIRLS LIKE YOU AND ME USED TO GO TO A CAFE, GO TO UNIVERSITY, THEY WERE HAVING DREAMS AND GOALS AND WHAT THEY ARE AFRAID OF NOW IS TO JUST BE DOOMED TO HAVE NO OTHER OPTION THAN TO BE A HOUSEWIFE, MAYBE BE MARRIED TO A TALIBAN FIGHTER. >> Reporter: BUT DESPITE THE POTENTIALLY DEADLY RISKS, THE TEEN, AFGHAN WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE SPEAKING OUT DEMANDING RIGHTS. >> DO NOT STAY AT HOME. DO NOT REMAIN SILENT. DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS. DO NOT BURY YOUR DREAMS AND GOALS. NOTHING IS OVER YET. >> AND FINALLY TONIGHT, AMERICA STRONG. AND OUR ABC NEWS MONTH LONG LOOK AT STORIES OF STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE THROUGH THE DARK TIMES OF THE PANDEMIC. TONIGHT'S FOCUS, A 12-YEAR-OLD SEAMSTRESS WHOSE BLANKETS HAVE SPREAD LOVE ACROSS 19 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. ABC'S WILL GANSS HAS HER STORY TONIGHT IN AMERICA STRONG. >> Reporter: SOMETIMES EVEN THE BRAVEST AMONG US, LIKE HAZELLE ON THE DAY SHE SHAVED HER HEAD, OR EVAN AFTER GETTING HIS NEW BACK BRACE, JUST NEED SOME WARM AND FUZZIES. THAT'S WHERE LUCIE BLAYLOCK COMES IN. THE 12-YEAR-OLD SEAMSTRESS BEHIND LUCIE'S LOVE BLANKETS. >> I ENJOY THAT I CAN HELP OTHER PEOPLE. LIKE I KNOW THAT THE WORLD NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW. EVERYBODY, COVID AND EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: LUCIE ADDING HANDSOME FACE MASKS TO HER SEWING DUTIES OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS. >> I MADE 871 BLANKETS. 1700 MASKS. AND THEN WE SENT THEM OUT TO 19 COUNTRIES. >> Reporter: MATH HOMEWORK, ENGLISH HOMEWORK, HISTORY HOMEWORK, SEWING. >> THAT'S ABOUT IT. >> Reporter: ALL THE WHILE CREATING BLANKETS FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS SOME EXTRA COMFORT. >> LUCIE LOOKS AT THE PICTURES AND SHE READS THEIR STORY AND SHE CHOOSES FABRIC JUST FOR THEM. SO YOU DO GET CONNECTED, I THINK, IN A WAY TO ALL OF THEM. >> Reporter: CUSTOM FABRICS FOR EACH NOMINATED RECIPIENT. ZEBRAS FOR IVY, PINK FOR ATHENA AND COOKIES FOR CORINNE. >> I LOVE IT. >> YOU LOVE THE BLANKET? >> YES. >> NOT EVERYBODY CAN SIT DOWN AND SEW BLANKETS ALL THE TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ALL THE TIME THAT EVERYBODY CAN DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW. SURELY WE CAN ALL DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE WORLD A LITTLE BIT BRIGHTER WHEREVER WE'RE PLANTED. >> Reporter: LUCIE PROVING ONE STITCH AT A TIME THAT SOMETHING AS SOFT AS A BLANKET AND A YOUNG WOMAN MAKING IT CAN TRULY BE AMERICA STRONG. >> ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP, I'M GOING TO DO IT. >> ALL RIGHT. WE LOVE LUCIE. THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO ABC NEWS LIVE FOR MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. I'M KIERA PHILLIPS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. his extraordinary story a
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