Tavis smiley fires back at those allegations after being suspe suspended and losing sponsors. Hes here live speaking out for the first time only on gma. And the force is strong with this one. The last jedi soaring to an out of this galaxy opening. Now, the second largest of all time and its just getting started. And good morning, america. Welcome back from the weekend. Also a big welcome to our weekend anchor paula faris. Thanks, george. Its great to be here on a monday. Boy, it was not a happy weekend in atlantas airport. Not at all. So many people stranded. My brotherinlaw was one of the million that was stranded. My sisterinlaw said he had a hard time calling her. The communications were bad and he was literally and figuratively in the dark and they wouldnt let him leave the airport. Hes still there. 11 hours of chaos after the fire knocked out power. Lets see what its like there. You see the airport, cloudy and foggy. There you see it right there. That is correct cause even more trouble during the day today. The planes on the tarmac live. Adding insult to injury, thousands were stranded in darkness last night wandering through the airport and others stuck on planes on the tarmac for hours forced to walk back to the terminal in the cold and abcs marcus moore is right there in atlanta with the latest. Hi there, marcus. Reporter good morning the lights are back on. People are lined up at the ticketing counter. Many of the people weve seen slept at the airport overnight. Chaos and frustration as the worlds Busiest Airport goes dark. I just want to get home. Its a nightmare. We have to go through the tunnels that are pitch black. Reporter overnight, thousands trying to catch some sleep anywhere they can. Absurd. People are sleeping on the floor like homeless people. Ive never seen anything like this. Reporter hundreds of planes stuck on the tarmac sunday. They said we couldnt even flush the toilets because their water was below 20 . Reporter the emergency announcements had many fearing terrorism. The lights flickered once. That was really scary. A couple minutes later it went out again. Because we dont know the source of the fire we have no way of absolutely knowing that our system may have been tampered with in order to create this kind of chaos and confusion. Reporter people using flashlights to shine a path through those dark passageways. Frozen escalators and airport workers and volunteers trying to help. We were literally carrying old people down the escalators. Reporter finally after 11 hours, thunderous applause as Christmas Lights start to flicker. The power finally back. Its like there is an end to this hell. Reporter the cause determined to be a fire in the substation. Noxious fumes making it difficult to fight the fire. Everybody walk toward the center point. Reporter it took down the system and the power point. This morning lolo jones among those frustrated and stranded passengers trying to figure out what to do next. Not only are they not booking us on an early flight but it might be another day until were out of here. Reporter george, i met a woman this morning whose flight doesnt leave until 9 00 tonight. She has been here at the airport since noon on sunday, and this may not be over yet as flights can be impacted through the weekend, george. Okay, marcus, thanks very much. Brandnew photos coming in of what the underground tunnel looked like as the fire broke out. Thats what it looks like this morning. You see it there. We want to get more from the president and ceo of georgia power, paul bowers. Mr. Bowers, thanks for joining us this morning. Any indication now, any sense of how this all got started . George, right now were going through a process of investigating what exactly happened. But right now we do know there was a failure in the switch gear that caused the fire that absolutely created the issue for us from our feeds from this airport. Do we know if this was set deliberately . No, we do not know any of that right now. Thats what the investigation is going to go through. But there is dual feeds, two separate redundant feeds to this airport. When that switch gear actually ignited, it created the flames that you saw in the pictures that impacted our cables and the cables coming from two Different Directions and thats what ultimately caused the outage. At the airport. Thats what a lot of people are arounding about, is how is it both the main system and the backup system both failed . So, you have seven cables that come through this airport. In one tunnel, and this tunnel is the feed source, if you will, for both directions. That switch gear sits on the bottom of that tunnel, and when it ignited, it burned up that wall where you see the cables coming through. Theres, like i said, seven cables, four coming from one direction, three coming from a different direction. That is the safeguards that we have. I imagine this is a pretty intense investigation. How long will it take . Right now, were in we have our investigators in the tunnel this morning. It will take the remainder of this week. We will fix that cable this week and have all the service back to normal operations by the end of the week. Right now were feeding from two Different Directions. George, one of the things that we absolutely know is that, you know, this is an inconvenience. We are apologizing for this occurring and like the mayor said last night, you know, we wanted to make sure that everyone is safe before we entered into that tunnel. But right now our focus is reliability ensuring this doesnt happen again. Thats the final question i have. From what you know now, any steps you can take to prevent this from happening in the future . Yeah, thats one of the questions well have with the airport. What else can we do . Do we concrete encase the cable or separate the cable in different areas or not . Thats a question well have as we talk to the airport for the remainder of this week. Mr. Bowers, thanks for your time this morning. Okay, thank you, george. This power outage being felt across the country. Abcs gio benitez is tracking the impact on flights and holiday deliveries. Good morning, gio. Reporter hey, george. Good morning to you. Things are just starting to get going here at atl. We have heard just a few planes take off and land here at the airport this morning. As you said, you have been saying it all morning long. This is the Busiest Airport in the world. Thats why this is such a big deal. I want to show you these numbers right now because every single day, about 275,000 passengers fly through on 2,500 arriving and departing flights. And yesterday many were stuck and still may be unable to leave for days to come. Now, so far airlines have canceled nearly 1,600 flights between sunday and today and may continue to climb throughout the morning. To make things even worse, take a look at this, a dense fog has blanketed atlanta and the airport this morning, stretching all the way to there is a, so ev even if your flight hasnt been canceled, you may have trouble getting off the ground. That means the Ripple Effects will be felt all across the country and could affect holiday deliveries as well. Reporter so far its too early to know how big that will be but for delta passengers are going to have a real headache because delta has 60 of its flights traveling through here every day. They have already canceled 300 flights today, 900 were canceled yesterday. But for holiday deliveries, u. P. S. And fedex tell us their delivery schedules were not impacted. So thats good news. Thank goodness for that, gio benitez, thanks very much. A whole lot of inconvenience. Out west to our big story and the battle against that massive california wildfire. The thomas fire has been burning for two weeks now and its on track to become the worst wildfire in californias history. So far its already destroyed 270,000 acres and more than a thousand structures. This fire alone forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate. Our Senior National correspondent, matt gutman is in montecito, california for us where the flames are still raging. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning. That fire just ripped through here. Gutting this multimillion dollar home, and you can see the firefighter over there still putting out all that smoldering debris behind me. Firefighters managed to save the majority of the debris here. This is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the entire world, and celebrities are tweeting their firefighters. Rob lowe inviting firefighters over for dinner, and oprah voicing concern for fatigue. Many of them have been battling flames up and down california for the past two months. So many of them expect to be here through the holidays, missing their families. There are now 8,500 firefighters battling this blaze, and it looks like it could be the biggest in history. At least in the next two days or so, but scary moment. The other day, a firefighter taken down on a stretcher. He had to be medevaced, but we know he is okay. You mention the firefighter was injured, but one firefighter already lost his life battling the fires and we saw a great amount of support for him over the weekend. What can you tell us about that . Reporter such a moving tribute to cory iverson who was engulfed in the flames. Watching that procession through Southern California was so moving. All those firefighters and regular folks standing out on the freeways on those overpasses, paying their final respects, and i just want you to see whats happening here. This fire so hot and powerful, just consuming this home. Its the reason that the fire chief here has said this is the perfect storm. Low humidity, wind and relentless fire. It looks like it will go into the new year, which is not welcome news. Matt gutman reporting for us this morning. Thank you. George. We get the latest on the russia investigation amid new tensions between the trump team and Robert Mueller. The president was asked if he would fire mueller. Are you considering firing Robert Mueller . No, im not. No. What else . What, are you surprised . This comes after one of the president s lawyers claim mueller unlawfully obtained emails from the trump transition and mueller dismissing the charge and Pierre Thomas in washington has the story. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, good morning. Youre right. Today more evidence of increasing tension between special counsel bob mueller and attorneys representing the president and his interests. Weve learned that muellers team has requested a series of emails sent by trump transition officials this morning, and attorneys for the transition are crying foul and have sent letters to congress alleging the emails were illegally provided to mueller. Muellers spokesperson said, quote, when we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owners consent or the appropriate criminal process. The debate comes after trump attorneys last week pushed for the appointment of a Second Special counsel to look at muellers team specifically whether theres bias. There could be a critical meeting this week in this investigation. Reporter thats right. They might be trying to meet to get an assessment of where things stand in regard to the completion of the investigation. Some at the white house have suggested that the investigation is nearing its end, especially given that many white house officials have already been interviewed, george. But with the recent guilty plea of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn we have no clear indication that this investigation is anywhere near over. Okay, pierre, thanks very much. Lets get more on this now from our chief legal analyst, dan abrams here with me. Lets start out with this letter from the Trump Lawyers complaining about muellers obtaining these emails. Well, it seems there are two arguments theyre making. First of all that the organization that oversees the transitions, the gsa never should have turned these over in the first place. That argument borders on frivolous because its from their server. Government documents. Government documents and clear when you begin the process there is no expectation of privacy and this is a federal criminal probe so i dont think thats a real serious argument. The number two argument is the documents that they did receive involve privileged documents. Then they cite all sorts of privileges, one of them which doesnt make any sense, that there was this idea that somehow there was a president ial communication privilege. Youre talking about the transition. He wasnt president. He wasnt president yet. The one thats potentially serious is Attorney Client and whats always very serious. Thats the idea that some of the documents they obtained should be protected by the Attorney Client privilege. They will have to be very specific about what documents those were. Very specific about who the lawyer was, et cetera, and well see. And well have to see, but even if Something Like that happens, the remedy is you cant use those documents. This first step was more a Public Relations maneuver. The idea of going to Congress First makes it feel like a stunt. Youre saying we want to make sure this doesnt happen again. Yeah, the next time there is a big issue about the president ial transition, we want to just make sure that, you know, that just doesnt make any sense. This was a statement from trumps team to the public saying, we want you to know we think this whole process has been unfair. I think one of the most significant things of this letter is the trump team only found out about these emails this week. Look, that does indicate that they are not doing a great job of staying in contact with people who they probably should be to determine exactly where the investigation is. Because were talking about something that happened months ago that theyre only finding out about in the last week. Final question, this meeting between the Trump Lawyers and muellers team if it happens this week, significant . I think the only thing that could make it really significant would be whether the discussion is, does donald trump come in and talk to muellers team . Otherwise its just a typical conversation between lawyers and i dont think its that significant. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Paula. Thanks, george. It is a busy day in washington. President trump is set to give a major speech on National Security. Congress meantime, is preparing for that big vote on the republican tax bill as early as tomorrow. So lets go to our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega for more. Good morning to you, cecilia. Reporter hey, paula. Good morning to you. You know what, the president said he wanted that bill on his desk by christmas and it looks like hell get it. Lets look at what it would do for so many deductions so Many American families claim. It will reduce the amount you can claim on your mortgage up to 750,000. It also expands that child tax credit. Republicans really cant afford to lose many votes on this one. Senator john mccain is suffering and suffering from that rare form of brain cancer. He is back home in arizona in in the wake of treatment, so he is expected to miss this vote. Two key republican senators did end up flipping their votes from nos to yeses to it looks like its all but a done deal and calling it a gift for middle class families, but this nonpartisan congressional tax age analyst says that those who stand to benefit the most, paula, are the rich and big corporations. Moving on, cecilia, today in washington the president is also going to lay out a new u. S. National security policy. What can we expect . Reporter weve been talking to aides about this here. Two key headlines. He is expected to call china a strategic competitor and also going to take a break from the obamaera National Security plan and not name Climate Change a National Security threat. Every administration has to outline their plan by law to congress. President trump wants to make a big deal of it. Usually its not a ceremonial event. This will be a big speech for him. Cecilia reporting from the white house. Thank you, cecilia. George . Were getting tips for lastminute holiday shoppers. Christmas just a week away, and today may be your last chance to ship gifts without breaking the bank and Rebecca Jarvis here with details. What are the shipping deadlines . Christmas falls on a monday which means you have the full weekend to shop but deadlines come earlier for getting those shipments out. So if you look at things today is one of the last days to get things out. At the least expensive option with u. P. S. , for example, its three day select. Today is your deadline. Tomorrow, tuesday, december 19th is the deadline for Fedex Express saver and u. S. Postal first class. Those are your cheapest options. Wednesday, december 20th, fedex twoday, u. P. S. Twoday air and u. S. Postal priority mail. Those are the wednesday options. Theyll cost you more but still get there by christmas. Thursday, december 21st, fedex overnight, u. P. S. Next day air and the last option, really here is friday, december 22nd, u. S. Postal Service Priority mail express will guarantee it gets there by christmas day. You also have the fedex same day option on christmas day. The longer you wait the more you pay. Exactly, you really need to get it done earlier. Lastminute shoppers, what are the best options right now . Your very best bets are amazon, frankly, because if you are going to go online and make this happen online, your best option is there because if you are a prime member, and you can be a prime member, you can sign up for the motorbike. You have got twoday shipping on december 22nd, saturday, december 23rd, one day and can wait until the last minute christmas eve. Wow. If you need to. If you need to. Rebecca, thanks very much. Good thing santa is always on time. We want to go to ginger now with more on the fog this morning across the south. Hi, ginger. As if you hey there, paula. As if you needed more of a challenge in atlanta, the visibility still dropping less than a quarter mile now, and look at dallas, love field. Visibility there around a quarter mile. Those dense fog advisories stretch all the way in between louisiana, mississippi, alabama too. Your local weather in 30 seconds. First, the select cities brought to you by walmart. Good monday morning. Im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Your accuweather highlights grab sunglasses for today. Breezy with a chance of rain wednesday. By thursday pattern turns dry once again. Temperature from 59 at Half Moon Bay to about 68 in sant oprosa. Mid 30s in our valley. My accuweather seven day forecast storm rolls into the north bay tuesday night. For the rest of us and coming up, tavis smiley is here live after accusations of Sexual Misconduct speaking out for the first time live only on gma. On gma. With advils fast relief, youll ask, what pulled muscle . What headache . 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Certainly northbound does look slow. Meteo now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. Temperatures up to 20 degrees cooler this morning. Freezing cold 32 in morgan hill. Santa rosa 33. 43 in san jose. 51 the warm spot downtown san francisco. Check out your commute planner. Tranquil on the water. Mass transit no spare the air day. Come tuesday night into wednesday morning that could all change. That wick moving cold front that is kind of moisture starved still promising us a slight chance of wet weather. A one light on storm impact scale. Most of us are sleeping tuesday night into wednesday morning, what it does do is takes 60s out of the forecast until saturday and sunday and then they barely return. Coming up, tavis smily is speaking out for the First Time Since being suspended from pbs following Sexual Misconduct allegations. And well have another abc 7 news update in about 30 minutes and always on our news app and abc7news. Com. Join us for abc 7 see ya. Take care. 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Well have the secret behind this video right here. What the Navy Commander who spotted it thinks it shows. That chaos at the atlanta airport. 11hour power shortage. It stranded tens of thousands of passengers. Some people forced to sleep on the floor and, of course, the Ripple Effect still being felt at airports across the country. More than a thousand flights have been canceled. Now theyre dealing with fog as well. A big change coming to the nfl. The me too movement grows. Jerry richardson plans to sell the Carolina Panthers as he faces Sexual Misconduct allegations. A potential buyer, diddy said, lets make history. How great would it be to see that. That me too movement has led to a group of men who left projects amid Sexual Misconduct projects and tavis smiley is here firing back after accusations of misconduct that led to his suspension from his pbs talk show. Were going to speak with him in just a moment, but first, abcs linsey davis has the latest for us this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. These days allegations of misconduct alone set in motion a toppling of dominos for men like tavis smiley who says hes not guilty. Hes the awardwinning sometimes controversial host known for hardhitting questions. You think that the government assistance that goes to these babies outstrips the billions of dollars generated in this income by the work done by undocumented workers . Reporter tavis smiley is hitting back against allegations of Sexual Misconduct. I have never groped, inappropriately exposed myself or coerced any colleague in the workplace ever in my 30year career. Reporter vigorously defending himself in this facebook video after pbs indefinitely suspended distribution while investigating allegations smiley engaged in sexual relationships with multiple subordinates. Some of those people reportedly claimed they believe their jobs depended on their sexual relationship with smiley with him, and he created a verbally abusive and threatening environment. Pbs launched this socalled investigation of me without telling me about it. Reporter pbs tells abc news following seat of a complaint pbs hired an independent law firm to conduct an investigation and we stand by its integrity. Saying that the investigation revealed multiple sexual relationships with subordinates over many years and other acts that together constitute a pattern of conduct inconsistent with our values. Retail giant walmart, a major sponsor of smileys show say they are troubled by the recent allegations and will be cutting ties with smiley pending the outcome of pbs investigation. As the fallout continues for the 53yearold broadcaster, he says pbs rushed to judgment and trampled on a reputation he spent a lifetime trying to establish. Its time for a real conversation in this country about where the lines are. About how men and women can engage each other in the workplace. Reporter mills entertainment confirms to abc they are no longer moving forward with tavis smileys death of a king, and hey house has told us they put all of smileys projects on hold pending an internal review of the facts, paula. Thank you very much for reporting. We want to welcome tavis smiley to the studio. Tavis, thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Ung tha thank you, paula. First and foremost you deny any wrongdoing. Absolutely. I have never groped. I have never coerced or exposed myself inappropriately to anyone. In over 30 years, there has never been any allegation of that. I celebrate and applaud the women that came out and told the truth and lead us to a conversation about how to create healthy work spaces. And i have had some of those women on my program, in fact,. At the same time i want to make sure we dont lose all proportionality in this because if we do people end up guilty by accusations. You admit to having consensual sexual relationships with your subordinates. Do you understand how that can be viewed as an abusie of power . Certainly. I understand who people have a viewpoint any consensual sexual relationship in the workplace is wrong. Some people believe there is no such thing as a consensual relationship in the workplace. I hear that point of view and i respect it but there are other points of view on this. My company, let me be clear, i own my company. Pbs distributes it. In our employee handbook while we do not encourage office relationships, we dont forbid them either and dont forbid them, paula, because i dont know where your heart is going to lead you. I dont know who you are going to hang out with, or date, or who you will fall in love with. There are millions of people watching right now who met their spouses at work. How can you be certain these women didnt feel they would lose their job. I never gave any favoritism upward or downward. Never promoted anybody did you ever fire anyone you were in a relationship with . First of all i own the company and run the company, and there is a team that own the company, and i have never given anyone any instruction to do anything to anyone you didnt fire anyone with whom you had a relationship with. Any of those women you had a relationship with, are they still in your staff . One person is, yes. Were you ever told by a peer, a subordinate or employer employee that anything you did or said made them feel uncomfortable . Never. Never. Sources tell abc news that you have been accused of, quote, sexily explicit messages and unwelcome banter about womens bees. So what are we talking about . I have no idea. I sat did you ever send lewd text messages. No. In a consensual relationships we do that but never to an employee. Some have alleged that you also created, quote, a verbally abusive threatening environment. Whats your response . Not true. I have an intense environment. I have a foundation, and other things. I have a Speakers Bureau and book imprint and so its an intense environment. Some of the most intense places in our business are in control rooms around this country. Thats not for everyone, so it might be that the environment wasnt good for you. These environments are intense at times, and i hate the word, brand. I may be the brand, the face but im not an inanimate object. I have feelings and emotions, and when the ball gets dropped on something, i have to deal with those things. Those might be intense but im not an angry black man and this notion of a hostile workplace doesnt fit. You called the pbs investigation sloppy, and you were upset they didnt tell you that was going on but say you werent allowed to show proof these were consensual relationship. What kind of proof do you have . I think anyone whos been in one can prove it with letters, cards, gifts and certainly photographs. But pbs only agreed to talk to me after weeks of investigation which they didnt tell me about. Lets back up for a second. Are they supposed to tell you theyre investigating you . Do they have to . Pbs never informed me a complaint had ever been alleged. I was never told there was an investigation. I found out about it from former staffers who were getting strange phone calls averaging strange questions so i was unaware of it to begin with. But after finding out about it my attorneys contacted the pbs investigators and offered to have me come talk to them. Whenever they wanted. They did this for weeks and refused to talk to me. They were prepared to close this investigation without talking to me. Only under the threat of lawsuit did they agree to sit down and talk to me, and when they did, they talked to me for three hours, and never told me who the accusers were, what the allegations were never allowed me to provide information. Is it important to know who they are. Its important to sit in a meeting and at least understand what were talking about. If were talking for three hours and all the questions are vague and no specificity, no persons, place, time, hard for three hours to know what youre talking about. Most of your employees had to sign nondisclosures. They feel threatened. Theyre scared to come forward and publicly reveal who they are. Well, im not sure i believe that, number one but number two, all im saying an investigation for three hours. If i dont know what were talking about and theres no specificity how can i answer the questions so i answered to the best of my ability but it gets worse than that. When this threehour meeting was over, which again, only happened under the threat of lawsuit. They did not intend to talk to me, nor my current staff, and didnt talk to my hr person. Anyone who thought something happened to them for whatever reason, no complaints were ever filed, number one and, number two, this investigation did not include talking to anyone on my current staff and the minute that threehour minute was over, within minutes almost within an hour and a half i think pbs acknowledged to us, sent a letter to my attorneys they were using a clause in my contract to no longer distribute my show. 12 minutes thereafter this story posted on variety. I dont know how you write a story, research a story, get quotes from unnamed stories, put links in the story, and dowel a that in 12 minutes. Something is awry here. Do you regret anything that youve done . Other, absolutely. Ive made mistakes and written two books about all the mistakes i made in my career and the lessons i learned with them. I recall once sitting this a conversation with a person would was interested in being a producer on our show, supposed to be a short 30minute meeting. For a couple of hours, were sitting there talking. At the end, i said, my lord. Youre brilliant. Youre smart, youre gorgeous. I would rather date you, i think, than work for me, and i realized immediately what a mistake it was to make that comment. I apologized and the situation was resolved. Im human, not perfect. But it doesnt rise to the level of wrongful termination. If they reinstate you, will you go back. I dont know. Pbs made a huge mistake and teed to correct it but i dont know the answer. Sounds like youre willing to go pretty far to fight it. Ill do anything to protect my reputation. Tavis smiley, thank you very much. Thank you. Back to you. Thank you, paula, and coming up, inside the pentagons ufo program. 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The radar immediately starts getting jammed. No aircraft we know of can fly at those speeds, maneuver like that and looks like that. I think it was not from this world. I just know it was really impressive, really fast and i would like to fly it. Reporter the pentagon telling abc news, the advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 time frame. It was determined there were other higher Priority Issues that merited funding. So we always joke maybe it was trying to communicate with something under the water. Ive seen star trek with the whales. I dont know if it was alien life, but i will say that in an infinite universe with multiple galaxies we know of, that if were the only planet with life its a pretty lonely universe. Reporter now there are often rational explanations but he hasnt heard one yet and according to sources quoted in the New York Times the military still listens to soldiers and sailors and airmen, still investigates what might be out there. 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Their surprising answers and how you can talk to your kids. Prince harry interviews barack obama. The prince and former president trade jokes. Do i need a british accent . As obama reveals his hopes for the future. Get ready to rock jumanji style with dwayne the rock johnson. Run and hes saying hey, good morning, america or because were in my home state of hawaii, aloha, america. We rock the world aloha, dwayne. The fitness queen of social media is here, kayla itsines. Shes helped women all over the world transform their bodies and the their lives. Now shell show us her secrets revealing three moves you can do right ahead but that means you have to work out. Lets get to the news, including that wower outage that brought atlantas airport to a halt for 11 hours. More than a thousand Flights Canceled just as Holiday Travel gets under way and marcus moore has the story. Good morning. Reporter george, good morning. The lights are back on here at atlantas hartsfieldjackson airport. Look at the line at the delta checkin. Many of the people we have seen have actually spent the night here at the airport and while the power is back on, this nightmare isnt over for so many travelers. Already delta has canceled 300 flights today that come into and out of atlanta. In addition to the 900 that airline canceled on sunday. All as a result of this power outage and people who were here describe scenes of utter chaos and really worry among some people that perhaps this was part of terrorism when those lights and power went out. There was an announcement on the radio warning of an emergency and weve seen video of people using flashlights to navigate those dark passage ways. This was astonishing. At one point there were 100 planes parked on the taxiway at the airport and passengers had to be deplanned onto the tarmac itself and with escalators and elevators out people actually carried the elderly and disabled during all this. A fire in a substation actually caused the outage and while the power is back on this morning, we could still see flights impacted through this weekend, george. Boy, lets hope things get going today. We want to move now to a new warning about the possible dangers of cell phones. A new study is raising concerns about the possible risks of radiation and guidelines on how to reduce it and dr. Jen ashton is here with details. You gotta wonder. I mean we put this thing next to our ear all the time. Right. Weve heard these concerns for a long time. What can you tell us . It seems like everything old is new again, and there have been studies that show a possible link between the Radio Frequency Energy emitted with a cell phone and brain tumors, acoustic neuromas, learning problems, sleep problems, low sperm count in men. Overall and the trade organization that represents the Wireless Phone companies is very clear on this, major Health Organizations are stating and this includes the fda, by the way, that there is no Clear Scientific evidence to support this risk. All right, well, theres that. Theyre always doing more research. Now, the California Department of health has recommendations that we can all take to protect ourselves. These are really common sense even though we dont have the conclusive Scientific Evidence right now these things really tle theres no reason why people shouldnt do that. Basically using the handsfree or speakerphone option. Dont sleep with your phone next to your head. Ill try to improve on this because its right on my night table. Try to put it across the room. Dont keep it in direct contact with your body when Walking Around with it and this is a surprising one. When you are getting one or two bars, low signal, thats actually when the rf energy emitted is the strongest so try not to use your phone at that time. Try to keep it charged. One of those tips was dont sleep with it next to your head. A lot of teens and children do that in they put it right next to their pillow. Most of us have it on our night tables. It should be across the room but a thought that the growing brain of children and teens is more susceptible to this so awareness, common since applies. Thanks again, doc. Get that phone out of the bedroom. Even better. Switch gears to a court battle for the holidays. Check out this christmas scene right here. Its the hyatt families. They call it the hyatt extreme christmas, but the city wanted to shut it down as a danger to public safety. The lights did win out. This is the light of rudolph there. You see them right there. Also santa and in the past this has had 200,000 lights. Number this year, a secret. Are we ever going to find out . 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Thanks for coming in this morning and Adrienne Bankert is back with some pop news. Yes, thank you so much. Thank you to our audience. Okay, prince harry, weve been talking a lot about him because, you know, engaged. Meganmarkle, marklesparkle. Lets talking about another story thats pretty interesting. Hes usually being interviewed. Now he is interviewing former president barack obama. The Kensington Palace sharing this clip as they prepared for their chat. Take a look and listen. Do i need a british accent . If you use long pauses between the answers youll probably get sort of the face. Let me see the face. Oh, okay. I dont want to see that face. All right, yeah, having a little fun with each other. I cant really do the british accent yet either. Brits and aussies can always nail the american accident. We cant get theirs. We have to start with hello. That helps when i do that. Hello. Thats all i can say. Im working on it. The conversation is going to be focusing between prince harry and president obama on their shared interest in supporting the next generation of Young Leaders and will be broadcast on bbc radio on december 27th and released worldwide as a podcast so we will all be tuning in. Next up, okay, a little throwback monday. If you were watching the iconic Oprah Winfrey show back in 2011, you know that she found out about a long lost half she had a very special guest this weekend because that former surprise sister, now her big half sister, a huge deal, graduated. Oprah paid for her college education. Bought her a house. And she wrote on instagram my sister pat who discovered she was a part of our family six years ago had one big dream when i met her. To go to college. Congratulations. So cool she did that for her sister. Big family props. Serena williams doesnt need help on the court. When it comes to teething, shes calling on instagram fans. She posted a 3monthold Alexis Olympia writing, teething, aka, the devil, so hard. The 36yearold says her daughter who has her very own adorable Instagram Account how many babies at 3 months old have their own Instagram Account . Shes been so uncomfortable. Chewing on cold towels, mommys fingers. Frozen bagels. I tried frozen bagels. That worked. George is like, that works. This is when social media goes right and you can reach out again and get all these other moms advice. Whats your teething secret . I dont think i have one. We did bagels too. We tried frozen bagels. They say if accounts had to go through teething theyd say forget it. We didnt do the Old Fashioned one, brandy on the gum. We didnt do that. You didnt . No. Okay. I was going to say things are about to get interesting. Thats what mom has to do. Thats what our moms did. My mom put oragel. That will work. There you go. Thats pop news for you. [ applause ] thank you very much. No problem. A little cheerio to you. Cheerio. We want to turn to our new series called raising good men. Every day it seems like theres new Sexual Harassment allegat n allegations and were going to see what it takes to raise men who will be respectful of women and focus on three different age groups with different take aways and start with 7 to 10yearolds and t. J. Holmes sat down with a group of them. An enlightening interview. You learn a lot when you talk to kids. Parents watching all these allegations come out and why not. They are asking, i dont want my child to grow up like that so what should i be doing . Are there signs i should be looking for and its clear their opinions about girls are already starting to take shape. Allegations of Sexual Harassment. Suspended. Forced to apologize. Reporter more than two dozen prominent men facing allegations of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct. With all these allegations it prompts the question, how do you raise good men. We start with a panel of young boys. What does it mean to be a good man . Treat people fairly. No matter what skin color or gender. Yeah, to open doors for women. You have to have respect. We sat down with six students, 7 through 10 at a houston area boys and girls club, some participants in their passport to manhood program. The word, respect. What do you think when you hear that word . Well ooh cool. Out of the chair on this one. Yes. Respect means you have to behave. All right. Listen to the teacher. It means personal space, manners. Dr. David anderson is a child psychologist at new yorks child mind institute. When youve got boys this young, it is never too early to start thinking about how you build respect. How you build empathy and a culture of concept. He traveled with us to houston and unbeknownst to our young panelists their parents and our expert were secretly watching the interview from an adjoining room. Their sons openly sharing with us their views on gender stereotypes. What do you do when someone tells you to man up, be a man . I become tough. And i feel strong. Theyve gotten some of those social messages about being rough and tough and girls are frail and those types of things. As the boys grow older we want to give them a much more diverse idea of what it means to be a good person. Its important to be kind for everybody. Its important to protect everyone. But even at this age these young man displaying strong convictions about how they believe they should interact with female peers. How do you show girls you respect them . Listening to them and buying them flowers. Say hi to them. Say hi. And by not bumping into them. Keeping personal space. How do you know the boundaries of personal space . That statement says our expect is key because it shows an age appropriate understanding of consent and the need to ask for permission. When we think about stages of moral development for groups this age, theres a lot of kind of all or nothing thinking. Youre either following the rules or youre not. If someone is breaking the rules, this group showed no hesitation in reporting misconduct. Ill tell my mama. I will tell the teacher. After 45 minutes it was time to reveal to our young guests who was watching their interview. They were in the next room. Oh, my goodness. Oh. They just heard everything that just happened. Come on. No. Please. No. I was overall pretty proud, did a good job, kid. You never know when youre doing it by yourself if youre doing a good job. I dont want to take full credit for how respectful he is because my husband has a lot to do with that as well. There are a lot of times that he tells cooper to open the door for your mother or sister. Whether its a female parent or male parent its catching the boys doing the things that you want to make sure they do more of and that takes being there and having those conversations. Saying i was really proud of how you acted in that moment. With all thats going on in the news a lot of parents were, maybe even single parents, single mothers, how can i raise my child not to end up in that position to be like that . The same principles that were talking about here, teaching boys to respect other people and to take the perspective of others, they will play into boys relationships with their partners when they get older and want them thinking about how comfortable anybody in their social environment might be with whats going on. It was very interesting to hear, paula. They find a distinction, i treat girls this way. Theyre the fairer sex if you will, but you ask them the toughest person they know, mama. Really . The first thing out of their mouth is mama, but try to reconcile how is mama, the female, so tough. But i cant bump into that girl in the hallway. It was so interesting to hear these kids. You did a great job. We want to bring in Dave Anderson to continue with the conversation. You mentioned the importance of parents and having a positive role model but how do you find good role models and good influencers on your children . I think the first point we think about is that just good people are good role models. Doesnt have to be a male or female. We had coaches and teachers and one came up with his barber but looking for anybody who can articulate their values. We were trying to figure out, thinking you treat a girl this way, you should make sure you give her these boundaries but the key is not just to teach there is a difference, you need to treat a boy and respect his boundaries and personal space the same as you would a girl. Treat everybody the same. With whatever the rules were coming up with we want to ask them for examples of people that follow that rule and examples who violate that rule so if they see a boy who is tough, great. Where do they see women who are tough, they mentioned their mothers and got blank looks by how they became that tough. By raising you, son. Thats how we became that tough. Absolutely. You say this age group was 7 to 10. Offers a unique opportunity and window of influence, so how do we capitalize on that . We know that boys this age are learning things in rules so that can be to one parents advantage in the sense he learns i need to brush my teeth before bed every time. But at the same time it might be rules that girls you cant tell secrets to. Thats where we want to bring it back to having conversations openly. For parents to give examples of girls they can tell secrets to and to ask the boys for more specific examples of the kids in their class they can trust and not trust and brings in more flexible thinking. Its okay this idea of social shaping. Is it wrong for us to talk about chivalry and open the doors for women but he said some of this is social shaping but, again, goes back to the key open the door for a guy. Open the door for a person. General respect. Its all a matter of general respect. Right. I mean social shaping can be great in certain ways and teaches us values like being nice and do unto others as you would do, you know, that kind of thing but at the same time we want to look at the rigid rules that might get us into trouble and those are the ones we try to question. All right, dr. David anderson, t. J. , great job with those little boys. I spoke with middle schoolers and well bring that to you tomorrow. Lets send things over to ginger. Yes, lets do your gma moment because its a monday. You need a smile. You know when you have been at the party and getting real tired but still want to party. Yeah, 1yearold steele knows what that feels like. Hes just laying there, but the balloons dont stop. Thank you for sending us that from freeport florida. We feel you this morning. Good monday morning. Im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Your accuweather highlights grab sunglasses for today. Breezy with a chance of rain wednesday. By thursday pattern turns dry once again. Temperature from 59 at Half Moon Bay to about 68 in sant oprosa. Mid 30s in our valley. My accuweather seven day forecast storm rolls into the north bay tuesday night. For the rest of us we approach the new year and were looking back at those we loved and lost in 2017. Some of the stars that had a big impact and shaped our culture. Robin is celebrating their lives and none with a bigger impact than Mary Tyler Moore. Mary tyler moore was the first funny feminist on network television. Her smile, her smile, that lit up the entire country, the entire world. Who can turn the world on with her smile there was a goodness and kindness about her that i related to in myself and oh, my god, i wanted to be mar. I would like to know why the last associate producer before me made 50 a week more than i do. Oh, because he was a man. [ laughter ] i think it was really powerful to see mary confront these cultural roadblocks because she was a woman. Im doing as good a job as he did. Better. Better i feel indebted to Mary Tyler Moore because she said the things that i think a lot of women only thought about but didnt have the courage to say out loud at that time. Will you shut up, ted . She was a very strong lady. A loving lady and talented beyond belief. And i loved her dearly. Her legacy is a combination of everything that shes ever done in her life that touched our hearts that made us want to turn the world on with our own smiles. [ applause ] Mary Tyler Moore obviously influenced Oprah Winfrey who is now influencing generations of women and she epitomizes what we all want to be, world changers. I think you could do an entire hour program on just mary. No question about it. Funny feminist. I loved that description of her. Another actor who made his mark on tv and music was david cassidy, the Partridge Family was the ultimate teen heartthrob even impressing those on tv as well. Take a look. I think i love you i think i love you on friday nights i would race home from wherever i was. I wouldnt watch our show. Its the brady bunch i would watch the Partridge Family. David cassidy was one of the biggest teen idols ever and that feathered perfect, gorgeous shiny hair and he could do it all. He could sing, he could act. He just had that it factor. [ applause ] you guys are all too young but that was my friday nights. The brady bunch and the Partridge Family. A raging friday night with george. I was 8 years old. Coming up here, the year in memoriam. A special collaboration between robin and jimmy kimmel. See more tonight on abc and when we come back t. J. Is back with the rock. Well have what hes saying about fatherhood and taking on the new jumanji. And the School Custodian youre not going to want to miss. He is spreading so much holiday spirit. Hes going to perform for us live. Your gma moment brought to you by the frame from samsung, the most beautiful tv youve never seen. Good morning. Sue hall has a look at your monday morning traffic. A couple of problems approaching the bay bridge. 80 westbound at ashby and 80 westbound at san pab low a couple of accidents. Once you are through the metering lights you can see traffic flowing nicely on the eastern span of the bay bridge into san francisco. We have metering lights on so you are delayed at the toll plaza. Those came on at 5 15 this morning. Cool morning for happy monday morning. Lets take a look at temperatures all of us above freezing. Still in the 30s and 40s. Commute planner. Mass transit no spare the air and on the roads dry all day. Here is my accuweather seven day forecast. Subtle changes there. A one on tuesday for the evening wet weather in the north bay and one on wednesday. It will be a light storm hopefully up to 0. 2 rain. Not what we need but at least it is something. Another abc 7 news update in about 30 minutes ask always on our news app and abc7news. Com. Join us every week day morning from 4 30 to rom 4 30 to welcome back to gma. We have a real treat to motivate you all this monday morning. Take a look at this video. Silent night holy night all is c. A. L. M. That is wilbert knight. His singing has gone viral. More than 18,000 views already and were happy to have him here this morning. Hes joining us from stephenville, ohio. Some of his big fans right there and why dont you tell us how this all came about. Mr. Robinson. How did this all happen, mr. Robinson. This came about when we featured mr. Knight as our staff spotlight on our Facebook Page doing what he enjoyed doing singing happy birthday to one of our staff members. He enjoyed it and wants to spread good will into the world and shared another video to our news anchor and they picked it up and it went viral. Mr. Anything, you have the voice of an angel. I want to ask mrs. Gorman, youre the principal there, what do you think it is about his music that connects with so many people. Its easy. I mean he just is just genuine and sin cere and truly happiest when he makes others happy. If youre feeling down hell sing a couple bars and makes you smile. Mr. Anything, we can already hear youre a great personment how does it feel youve gone well beyond steubenville, ohio. People around the world are seeing your video and hearing you sing. How does that make you feel . Im overwhelmed. I just glad i can touch peoples hearts all over the world and bringing peace and love. I have to tell you mr. Anything does not have social media. He doesnt have any electronic devices. So we kind of had to pull him down into the office to tell him, hey, this is what it means to. Viral. Everyone is talking about you. He was overwhelmed. It was great sdmruls get more overwhelmed now after we hear you sing. Wed love to hear something for our entire gma audience. When jesus is my portion my calm is he his eye is on the sparrow and i know hes watching over me wow mr. Knight. Mr. Knight, thank you for taking us to church and the message you want to send through your message is peace and love. Is that your message . The message is a positive message that i want to send and im hoping i can touch peoples heart, joy, love, happiness and all. Merry christmas. Merry christmas to you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing. [ applause ] you know what it proves. He proves there are no unimportant lives especially in the lives of children. Absolutely. That was great. Well move on to one of the hottest movies, dwayne the rock johnson stars in jumanji and t. J. Holmes had a chance to talk about it. He is back with us now. You gave me a hard time last week. I did. This is further evidence i worked when i was in hawaii. Two pieces out of a week. Still. Between the luaus and mai tais i got in an interview with dwayne the rock johnson. We sat down and explained why jumanji, this movie, hes more anxious about this one than he has any other movie hes put out and why shooting in hawaii was such a special personal experience for him. He looks the same. The bald head, the bod but youve never seen dwayne the rock johnson quite like this. I dont have my claritin and all i see around here is pollen. Reporter he plays an awkward nerdy teenager. Weve got sucked into jumanji and became the avatars we chose. Reporter in jumanji welcome to the jungle. Ive never had the privilege of having a movie come out during christmas. And when you have a Christmas Movie come out i think that you have a responsibility, make sure its good. Dont let this new body get your butt whooped. Ow. Reporter it is a new take on the Robin Williams classic. And its release wraps up another big year for johnson. 2016. Forbes, highest paid actor in hollywood you were named. People magazines sexiest man alive in 2016. In 2017, you lost both titles. The People Magazine tight surveillance a title of which i do not relinquish. Wait a minute. Youll never relinquish the title. Its just your. In no Uncertain Terms and actually im telling people will i ever relinquish the title. I am and today will always be the texiest man alive. Reporter johnson admits a sense of normalcy in daytoday can be a challenge. Keep things simple. Movies on the weekend. Get good pizza. Get some good loving in because shes watching now. Get some good brownie points. Shes Lauren Hashian and theyre set to welcome their second daughter next year and johnson gushes about his 16yearold daughter simone from his first marriage just named golden globe ambassador and will get to hand out trophies at the annual award show. So proud. So proud of simone. Reporter she has expressed interest in a career in hollywood. A move he supports but also gives him pause. Would you have any concerns about your daughter in hollywood given what weve seen. Yeah, absolutely, so this is our community and its the world that i make my business in. And so farrelly the concerns are there. Weve had this wfconversation wh her before and circle back around of being so proud of the brave women who stepped forward and created this watershed moment that were experiencing. Do i have concern, im her dad and im always going to have concerns with, period. Reporter they have come full circle. Jumanji filmed in hawaii where he spent years growing up and it reminds him of how far hes come. We were forced to leave because we couldnt pay the rent, i was 13 or 14 and thought i would do anything to make sure were never in this position. The irony is lost that were here in hawaii but gives me a Strong Foundation of gratitude. And, george, i said at the top there he lost the title of highest paid actor in hollywood for this year. To who . He athe second highest paid. Lost it to Mark Wahlberg but still collected 68 million. Hes got a Christmas Movie coming out. 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Traffic stopped in both directions. I want to go straight to matt gutman on the phone. Matt, what do we know . We know it seems to be a significant incident. Local affiliate showing numerous ambulances and personnel rushing to the scene. I 5 continues to be shut down. These images we see of this train car, one dangling over this bridge. The sheriff said theyre rushing to the scene. There are many personnel there trying to attend to the wounded. There are casualties. In addition to that picture we see of that one car dangling over the overpass there are other cars that appear to be derailed. Unclear where the injuries are or the significance of these casualties at this event. There were 75 people on the train. I want to go to david kerley. This is i 5 and the amtrak run thats north south between vancouver, seattle and portland. A lot of traffic in this area. Its unclear this is supposedly a new lock motive. Im not sure if its the inaugural trip. Its not clear whether this derailed by itself or it hit something. Weve seen crashes in the past a train ran into a truck or a vehicle crossing there. Too early to know what has happened with this amtrak train. To see a car like that hanging over the bridge on to one of the busiest pieces of real estate is dramatic. David, as you say its a major, major artery. Yes. Most of the traffic in that part of the country in the northwest is this north sound corridor of i 5. The trains are going to go down to california or into vancouver. This is the life line along the west coast. This was a train that left seattle around 6 00 a. M. Apparently the incident happened around 8 01. Matt gutman Emergency Responders reporting to the scene . Absolutely. We see them streaming in there. Ambulance after ambulance. Theyre having to navigate through the massive traffic jam. Its already miles long. We have understand theyre at the scene. I assume theyre doing triage. As you and david mentioned, not only is the i5 corridor from the border of mexico and san diego to the border of canada, but this is one of the busiest times. It was the enter secretainterse Major Railroad route in the northwest. Tremendous number of people in the confluence of all these people at one time. I imagine its going to be difficult for Law Enforcement and for medical personnel to get there. Were seeing new images coming across now. There appears to be medical personnel tending to what seem to be wounded or at least working on wreckage on i5, working on debris from where that train seems to be dangling off the overpass. We see people above the train track, above the interstate and on the interstate itself. This is a significant event. Theres dozens of ambulances moving to the scene. David kerley several incidents with trains over the past years. Sometimes operator error, sometimes problems with the train. Absolutely george. Its a little early to be talking about this. In the philadelphia derailment because the engineer was driving too fast, that derailment were Lessons Learned for amtrak and regulators that the rail cars were traveling in dont always stand up to these high impact accidents. I dont know what kind of cars this train was carrying and rolling down the rails. Thats going to be something did we learn our lesson from philadelphia several years ago. Have these cars been improved . David, explain what kind of impact this will have on train travel across the northwest at this time of year . Its going to be very, very problematic. It will depend on how much damage was done to the rails because you would be surprised at how quickly these rail workers and Rail Companies deal with an accident like this. Were still dealing with those potentially injured in those cars. Theyll be able to clear the train pretty quickly if theres not serious damage to the rails. It could be opened fairly quickly. If theres serious damage, thats problematic. When youre traveling on these main arteries of rail lines there are often two or three sets. Can they move some of the traffic over . Its going to be a concern. Were getting to the peak season. Hundreds and thousands of people travel home for the holidays on amtrak along that route. We see that car hanging off the overpass, matt, on to the highway. Any idea the numbers on the over all train, whether cars slammed into any part of the train . Its hard to tell at this point, george. There seems to be some debris on the roadway. I cant tell at this point whether it is vehicles or buses. It actually looks like one of the rail cars actually careened off the tracks and landed in the i5 roadway. It appears significantly damaged, perhaps even flipped over. You see medical personnel and First Responders working on that. This seems to be a very significant crash. Whatever happened to derail this train, thats going to come second. First figuring out how many people have been hurt and whisking them off to safety and evacuate them to hospital if thats possible. Clearly medical personnel are there. The sheriff is on it. They set up a media staging point. They created a perimeter and take control of the situation. Unclear how many people have been affected. It seems like this is a mass casual casual casualty event. David the National Transportation and safety board will take control of this investigation. They will be launching a team to investigate. The official statement from amtrak is that theyre aware of the incident of the train which was running from seattle to portland. It says they have report of some injuries. And service is temporarily suspended. It seems more serious than the statement reflects. The answer that is will come out of the investigation all aimed at Something Like this happening again. The incidents weve dealt with have been on the east coast. This is the first major on the west coast. There have been some on the west coast and more like metro type regional carriers have had some issues as well. Rail traffic still considerably stave. Its still safer to get on a train than drive around in your car. Matt gutman, i havent seen anything to indicate this. Any sense at all there was any incident on the train to precipitate this . We have nothing like that at this point, george. All we can say is what we see and repeat what officials are telling us. They eere on the scene. Dozens of ambulances there. It appears to be a pretty significant crash. The pictures were seeing is that one rail car dangling off the overpass. Another seems to have crashes underneath it, flipped over. There are First Responders on the scene and ladders on the top leading to the flipped over rail car. One that distinguishes the east coast from west coast. Theres a tremendous amount of cargo, oil, chemicals moved around and transported. The east coast especially that corridor is where people travel. This line not something as frequently travelled. We assume there were many people on this train when it travelled. It seems a significant incident. Were starting to get some new images. See cars lined up. Flashers there. Theyre intermingled with First Responders rushing to the scene. Cars have tried to move to the side to create a pathway for First Responders to get through. This is i5 during rush hour. Its a major corridor leading from the border with mexico to the border with canada. Were right near taco ma, washington and seattle. David kerley, we can see amtrak cass kads. What does that tell you . Thats the service. It runs from vancouver down through seattle and portland and goes through other city ness oregon. The Cascade Mountains run north south. They run the west side of the Cascade Mountains. George, its way too early to talk about what actually caused this. As i mentioned earlier, could it have been something at a crossing were not seeing or was it something that happened with the train going too fast or was it something with the rails. So far federal officials telling us they have no indication this could be terrorism related. I have to tell you just a couple weeks ago we did a story about the fact that in the latest inspire magazine from al quaeda the cover story was suggesting terrorist derail trains. Federal authorities said they have no indication of this. It is something that local, federal authorities, amtrak and the freight rail people are concerned about. We have a couple hundred Thousands Miles of rail line much is unsecured and secured, unsecured. Its a problem that theyre looking at. David, thanks. I want to bring in greg makai from Washington State on the phone. I was on my way to work. 50 prior to going under the undare pass we came to a stop trying to avoid colliding into one another. We saw the train came off the track on to the freeway hanging there. Lots of folks including a lot of good military personnel ran to try to give help before emergency rep arrive. You didnt see the train come down . By the time you saw what happened the train was down . Right. We were focussed on not running into one another. When we looked up, smoke everywhere. Everyone was curious happened. Could you see if there were passengers on that car that was hanging off the bridge . From where i was, no. Theres no way to see if anything was in it. Honestly its the first time ive ever seen a passenger train on that track. It runs parallel to i5 going south there. It was a surprise to see it. There was nobody coming out of the train after the incident. You didnt hear anything before the train came down either . No, i didnt hear anything. How abruptly did this all happen . How abruptly did you have to stop . It was slamming on the breaks and swerving to the side of the road to avoid one another. Its wet and windy here today in washington. As far as you can tell, were there any traffic accidents in addition to what happened with the train . No, not from just normal traffic or anybody trying to stop. I think everything they acted pretty well to avoid one another. The train did appear to come into contact with vehicles on the freeway. You said you saw military responders and others rush quickly to the scene. What exactly were they doing . They were folks that they looked like they were just done with their physical morning. They were in that aye tire. They were grabbing anything they could, towels, first aid kits. I did my best to stay out of the way. Im not skilled in that manner. Did you see any injured on the ground . I didnt see any injured from my Vantage Point when i first got there. As i was stuck in traffic due to the emergency vehicles they were bringing folks out on stretchers and back boards. So you definitely see people who were injured and maybe seriously being taken from the scene . Suabsolutely. Where are you now . They turned us around and heading home. Im on my hands free device. Thank you very much. Its important information. I want to go back to david. David, one of the things were learning is the train was running down a new bypass. Do we have any idea how fast the train was going . Weve been able to confirm from am trams real time tracking it was traveling at 81 miles an hour. Depending on the piece of track thats not necessarily speeding or going over the limit. So that what speed do they generally travel at . Because these tracks you know we built these tracks a long time ago. Because they have curves at times youve seen it, there are times they have to slow down because of curves. If they have a Straight Line they can go 80 or 90 miles an hour. That doesnt suggest it was going too fast. George, you mentioned the cass kads. You can see that outside of the amtrak rail car. The coloring and paint scheme is harkening back im using some of my old time model trains. Those were the colors used for trains in the Pacific Northwest 100 years ago. This is a throw back of this service that runs along the cass kads on the west side between portland and up to vancouver. This train left seattle and was scheduled to arrive in portla portland around 9 00 a. M. I want to bring in Pierre Thomas. We know the National Transportation safety board is investigating. Have the fbi picked up any information . George, its not unusual when theres no clear cause for the fbi to assist the ntsb to try to find out what happened. Because of what happened, the level of this event, the federal authorities will be curious to know what happened and they will offer support, george. No indication yet this was anything other than an accident. No indication there was terrorism related or deliberately inspired . Thats correct, george. Well continue to check with our sources throughout the morning. Law enforcement officials will be available if needed. Again, a major Train Derailment. Train running from seattle to portland amtrak 501. You see that car dangling off the overpass into the highway, i5 highway. Traffic backed up in both directions. We know there are casualties. Emergency responders on the scene as well. Well track this all day long on abc news. A full report tonight on word news with david muir. You can get news at any time by downloading the abc app. Im george stephanopoulos. Tepha. E announcer its live with kelly and ryan today, star of the new film mollys game, jessica chastain. And, tis the season for fun with creative gift wrapping tips. And members of the studio audience will take on christmas cash by playing the lives merry money games. Plus, all week long we have celebrity holiday memories. Anderson cooper joins kelly at the cohost desk. 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