Five stars or a big bust. Hey, everyone, good wednesday morning. Im reena ninan. Im richard bacon, and we begin this morning with the aftermath from last nights president ial candidates debate. The nine top candidates there on the stage in las vegas. Most of the action was right there at center stage involving donald trump, senator ted cruz and jeb bush. Bush and trump squaring off several times but shaking hands after the debate was finished. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details live from washington. Stephanie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, richard and reena. Well, this final debate of the year focused on National Security and terrorism, and the verbal punches came out swinging almost immediately. Postgop president ial debate, donald trump sympathizing with his competition. I like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man. I really do, but, you know, i think id do the same thing if i were him, id be attacking me. Reporter on stage the gloves youre a tough guy, jeb. We need to have a leader that is youre tough. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way youre real tough. Reporter jeb bush and donald trump wasting no time to spar over Foreign Policy. He gets his Foreign Policy experience from the shows. Come on. That is not a serious kind of candidate. I know youre trying to build up your energy, jeb, but its not working very well. O at a time. Reporter in their fifth debate faceoff, almost every question focusing on National Security for the nine leading candidates with trumps proposal to ban muslims from entering the u. S. At the forefront. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. Reporter marco rubio and ted cruz also clashing, first over the nsas bulk surveillance program, then immigration. Rubio suggesting the two of them have similar positions on the issue. For marco to suggest our record is the same is like suggesting the fireman and the arsonist have the same record because theyre both at the scene of the fire. I personally am open to green cart. We will build a wall that works, and ill get donald trump to pay for it. [ laughter and applause ] ill build it. Reporter trump and cruz neck and neck in the polls but staying friendly throughout the debate, and governor Chris Christie boasting about his executive experience while jabbing at the senators. If your eyes are glazed over like mine, this is what its like to be on the floor of the United States senate. Reporter Chris Christie hammering the senators there on stage, but they actually got more air time than he did. Ted cruz, he spoke the most, more than 17 minutes, followed by trump and rubio. Richard and reena, back to you. Trumps comment to bush, im at 42 , youre at 3 , thats got to hurt, right . Thats got to hurt. What did trump say about running as an independent, stephanie . Reporter well, this is a pledge that weve heard before, right, but last night trump said once again he will not run as a independent. He added hes committed to the Republican Party and is honored to be the frontrunner. Okay, well see what happens. Stephanie ramos live in washington. Report. Thank you so much. In the spin room after the debate, donald trump characteristically called last night his best debate performance in the history of the world. No, he said, so r. One candidate who had a hard time breaking through was one time frontrunner dr. Ben carson. Analysts say that he seemed to be a victim of circumstance in the race. I think that probably the thing that came out of this was the continual slide of ben carson, who led at one point in time, and then afterward the tragic events in france when people started focusing more on these issues related to security, he started falling. I think during the course of this debate that fall continues and my expectation is ben carson will be in seventh or eighth place by the next couple of weeks. But donald trump out of this debate is still the dominant player in the gop. Dowd also saying there were rubio and Chris Christie. Chatter on social media, as you can imagine, during the debate. Yeah, believe it or not, he was the most searched candidate according to google trends, and he also gained the most twitter followers during the debate, and the top tweeted moment came when trump called jeb bush a tough guy. That was fun to watch. It was. Later often i think that debate is better watched through highlights, as well. I think you saw the best moments there. Comment that had Chris Christie trending all night, plus Live Team Coverage later on good morning america. And be sure to watch the democratic debate this saturday night hosted by abcs david muir, martha raddatz. Coverage begins at 8 00 eastern. Itll be great. Ahead of that debate frontrunner Hillary Clinton is providing new details about her plan to battle isis. Speaking to an audience in minneapolis, clinton said the u. S. Needs a 360degree strategy to prevent domestic terrorism. She positioned herself as the more serious and experienced candidate compared to her it is not enough to contain isis, we must defeat isis, break its momentum and then its back. What they are saying democratic rival Bernie Sanders says he intends to question clinton about Foreign Policy during the debate including her votes in favor of the iraq war when she was a u. S. Senator from new york. About 650,000 students in los angeles will be back in class today after an unscheduled day off. Thats because of a terror threat. That threat was emailed to a School Board Member promising an attack with guns and bombs. Administrators admitted that following fears from the San Bernardino attack influenced the decision to close the schools. Schools in new york were open yesterday despite the School Superintendent receiving almost the same exact email that was sent to l. A. The email was declared a hoax. New yorks Police Commissioner said the type of threat it contained was similar to recent episodes of the showtime drama homeland. And breaking overnight, a launched in arizona after the crash of a medical helicopter. The chopper went down in the superstition mountains about 60 miles east of phoenix. Officials say that the crash site is located in very rugged terrain. Theres no word on the condition of the three people on board or the cause of the crash. Severe weather in denver, a snowstorm dumping nearly a foot of snow over some areas also forced flight delays and cancellations. The shutdown and it shut down highways, as well. Just over 6 1 2 inches of snow was officially recorded at Denver International airport. Mounting snow totals were in the one to twofoot range. The latest weather radar shows that same storm system moving eastward bringing snow to the plains and upper midwest. The heaviest hit areas are likely to be from the northeast colorado into west Central Minnesota dumping at least 6 to 12 inches of snow through the night. And on the back side of that storm, winds could gust as high dakota, nebraska and iowa. Still ahead, star wars the force awakens, we have seen it overnight. She fell asleep. No, the First Official reviews from the critics. Yeah, they are. Theyre out. And new this morning, a plane slides off the runway injuring passengers. Details just in. Plus, ught on camera. A wall collapses crashing onto a by. Debris spilled from a cargo ship off san francco is still washing up on beaches. Dozens of containers fell off a some are still floating offshore waiting to make landfall. Theres an agreement in congress on a major spending bill meaning no Government Shutdown at the end of the year. It reportedly extends a series of tax breaks for both businesses and individuals. Passage is expected by the end of the week, but the Government Spending authority runs out tonight, so theyll try to pass another stopgap bill right away. And if you havent yet filed for obamacare, you have a little more time. The government says there was, quote, Unprecedented Demand yesterday, Unprecedented Demand on the heathcare. Gov website and the deadline is now the end of the day thursday. The penalty for not being insured jumps to nearly 700 next year. All eyes are on the Federal Reserve today, which wraps up its last meeting of the year. The central bank is expected to raise shortterm interest rates, the first increase in nearly a decade. Its unlikely, though, to have much impact on consumer loans. Its not beginning to look a lot like christmas in the eastern half of the country. Businesses. Chief among them clothing and retailers, manufacturers, they stocked up on winter gear, and were still wearing our fall clothing. Some retailers planning big discounts, but even that might not help some of the shakier stores. When we come back, state of emergency concerns in an american town because of the amount of lead in its water. And a reporter turns crime fighter on live tv spotting a what. The holidays bring many challenges to the feet. By day they must stay warm. But by night, beautiful, smoother and ready to impress the other party animals. Dr. Scholls dreamwalk express pedi. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. With asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control dicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. 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Now for a look at morning road condition, roads will be wet in the Pacific Northwest and across the southeast and up into the ohio valley. Snow will make things slippery across the Northern Rockies and upper midwest into the great lakes area. If youre flying airport delays possible in minneapolis and new orleans. Well, new overnight a very tense end to a flight in nashville. Yeah, take a look at the incredible images. A Southwest Airlines jet running off the runway ending up in a ditch. The plane resting in the dirt. Emergency slides deployed and passengers described the moments of panic. Runway and all of a sudden it felt like it hit a pothole or a speed bump, and i was like, well, thats kind of rough and then all of a sudden you realize youre going down into something. You dont know what. The fun part is at least i got down to slide down the little slide. Were all pretty safe so fortunate for that. A little holiday surprise, if you will. I guess thats my Christmas Gift from southwest is sliding down the slide. I enjoy his understated talk. The plananfrom houston javy was completely fulul eight passengers were taken to the hospital and later released. There is an emergency in flint, manager. The lead levels are too high. It affects the citys children in particular because lead can cause mental retardation. It began after the city began taking its water from the flint river. The mayor wants federal disaster relief. Well, north of boston five people includingng mother and her baby were suddenly trapped under a temporary construction wall. Gust of wind happened on a sidewalk in the city of malden. Dozens of people rushed to their aid. The baby was in a stroller at the time which may have just saved his life. Luckily the victims suffered only minor injuries. A suspected bank robber in rochester, t ts is a remarkable story, in minnesota, who returns to the scene of the crime, first mistake, was probably not expecting live tv cameras. It happened yesterday as a local reporter just started his live shot right outside the bank when he was interrupted by a bank employee. Tyler just 24 hours ago this bank in that guy right there. What . Thats the robber. Oh, thats the robber. This is live tv, folks. Thats the robber just went by according to the bank employee, so i got to go here and call 911. Ill talk to you later. Bank robbers have said it before and ill say it again, youve got to check your local news feed before returning to i thought the guy running was the robber, but what robber shows up in a tie . That is adam sadler and called 911 and the 36yearold suspect was obviously arrested. Oh, my god. How do you anyway, how about we talk about sport, huh . Yeah, well talk to our friends at espn. Yeah, well start with a surprise from college basketball. Bo ryan has stepped down as coach at the university of wisconsin effective immediately. Ryan coached the badgers for 14 full seasons and led em to the ncaa tournament of the year during his tenure. The surprise was the timing. Ryan had said he would coach one more season then retire. As for last nights sports highlights we go to those guys, the great guys, our favorites at espn. Good morning. Welcome to our sportscenter set here in los angeles. Along with neil everetet im stan verrett. The warrior streak is over but Patrick Kanes streak still going as of tuesday night. It was, it was. Patrick kane looking to extend his point streak to 27. Hes got the american born record. Hes got the blackhawk record. The record is 51 by a guy named gretzky. Kane going against colorado. Colorado was up to the task, man. They had some dudes who had some speed, and all good things must come to an end and so does kanes streak and for the avalanche, they win the game, 30. Cavaliers and celtics, you remember they play ded in the playoffs last year. Another cool thing off the court. Special olympics athlete before tipoff and once the game started, james. And then he gave his shoes to the kid afterwards. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And those shoes helped help do that. All right, you remember kevin love and kelly olynyk made that play that hurt love and took him out for the rest of the playoffs last year. 5 assists, spend ging a lot of time guarding him and look at james. Jerebko cacat do much. James did plenty, 24 points and 7 rebounds. Yeah, warriors are playing wednesday. Yep. Back to you. Thank you, guys, at espn. You like them. A lot. Up next in the pulse, last nights big debate. Why Chris Christie was trending all night and the persistent cough coming from a candidate who wasnt. 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All right, its time for the pulse and starting with a bit more from the republican debate. Christie taking some heat for one of his comments where christie sd hed be trusted by king hussein of jordan for his strategy to defeat isis. The only problem is the king of jordan, king hussein died in 1999. Abdullah ii is jordans current living king, ouch. Plenty of commenting online about which candidate was coughing. During theebate, ben carsons Campaign Says hes been struggling to get over a cold, and all the coughing was from him. He himself is a physician. This picture from afterwards. Wayne newton hanging out with donald trump. Remember the debate was in las vegas, of course. And the official u. S. Opening for star wars the force awakens is this friday but the reviews already out. They are. The embargo ended an hour ago, weve seen it ourselves last night. The New York Times says it delivers the thrills with a touch of humanity and the big news is that the movie is good. The film opens today in britain and the times of london and britains Daily Telegraph both gave it five stars. But its not all good reviews actually. The Los Angeles Times says the force awakens is, quote, only at its best in fits and and the Chicago Tribune says it is good but not great. Still it says thats much better than not bad. Star wars like abc is part of disney. I think it does deliver. I think it does, but its the last scene that got me and then i thought, oh, why did j. J. Abrams do that to us. When is the next one oh, why did i fall asleep during the film, which you did. Just for a second. I was a little tired. This early shift can be tough on a gal. And missed the dramatic twist because you were looking at the back of your eyelids. But you know what it does really well, although there are funny lines in it, it takes the story seriously, which i think you have to do for a film like that to really work. It was a compelling story. Yeah, it was. 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Gray died last spring from injuries suffered in a police van. Six cops have been charged in his death. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has arrived in baghdad where hell meet with u. S. Troops and top iraqi leaders. Hes also speak with u. S. Military commanders about ways to stepp the battle against isis. And todays weather, heavy rain for the northwest, snow over the upper midwest, rain blanketing the southeast up into the ohio valley. And perhaps youve noticed everyone is talking about star wars the force awakens. Work for abc, another part of disney, abcs she fell asleep. Abcs Chris Connelly talked to the creators of this long awaited sequel. Reporter monday night in hollywood, the World Premiere of star wars the force awakens. Give it everything you got. Reporter its action and humor. Its new characters and lightsabers. It ends up being a story of adventure and loyalty and shock and surprise and uses this amazing and precious thing called the force that tells us that were all somehow connected. Camera, action reporter so much of it the work of producer Kathleen Kennedy and director cowriter j. J. Abrams, a veteran of alias, lostst migsssion impossible 3 and the star trek series. Fire everything. Reporter and now 49yearold abrams was brought onto the Star Wars Franchise by kennedy, for decades a top producer on Steven Spielbergs acclaimed films. Idea who is Luke Skywalker that that would be something that was said by one of our characters. Why was who is Luke Skywalker such a fascinating question . I guess because it spoke to a new generation. It was that idea that there would be young people for whom Luke Skywalker was essentially a myth. Reporter abrams hoping this film will have the same emotional punch that the 1977 one had on him as a child. The thing i felt when i was a kid when i left that theater was the world was s ge and to have people, especially kids, g gto see the movie and sesethemselves in it and feel like, im capable of something extraordinary, that would be the greatest gift of all. Were home. Reporter im Chris Connelly in los angeles. That j. J. Abrams, hes got a Bright Future ahead of him. Listen, its wonderful, and its thrilling and its exciting, and it probably is