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Good Morning America

Thursday, April 23

Good Morning America

ABC News

News, Entertainment News, Daily News, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Bring a Kid to Work Day takes over 'GMA'; Navy secretary fired amid US Navy blockade as Iran seizes ships near Strait of Hormuz; ‘GMA’ gets rare look at Mount Rushmore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City.

0:05.0

This is Good Morning America.

0:07.0

Oh, and our studio is busy this morning with our GMA team, and they're adorable kids.

0:14.0

We have a lot of news to get to first, but that is going to be adorable a little bit later.

0:19.0

The wildfires, though, that are tearing through the southeast, dozens of new fires breaking out overnight.

0:23.6

Dozens of homes destroyed as well. Evacuations ordered and a state of emergency declared

0:27.4

ginger standing by tracking the critical alerts fueled by this extreme drought, the worst for Florida

0:32.6

in 25 years. Matt River starts us off in Georgia. Good morning, Matt.

0:39.8

Good morning, George. A very busy morning here at the Capand Post in Brantley County, Georgia's officials do whatever they can to

0:44.4

try and get on top of these raging fires. This morning, fires exploding in the southeast as a state

0:51.4

of emergency is declared in Georgia. 34 new fires reported overnight as residents raced to escape, some forced to turn around facing a wall of fire.

1:01.0

You can say it's a miracle that we have not had any life's laws.

1:05.0

This video showing a bus full of children fleeing as the fire bore down on their school. Their teacher calling

1:11.6

them quote amazingly brave. Thousands forced to evacuate because of the Highway 82 fire after

1:18.7

the massive wildfire exploded in size, consuming more than 50 homes and nearly 5,000 acres.

1:24.8

We started gathering stuff in one location,

1:27.7

taking stuff off the wall, pictures and things

1:31.0

would take place.

1:32.4

The fast moving fire started earlier this week,

1:34.9

growing exponentially in just hours.

1:37.1

You can see there's still hotspots back there.

1:39.0

This is what's left of a mobile home

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