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Terrifying ds at sea, caught in hurricaneforce winds fearing for their lives. Those passengers from that nightmare cruise now on dry land and here in our studio live on gma. And good morning, america. Happy thursday. Lets take a live look at Royal Caribbeans anthem of the seas. There it is docked safely in new jersey. They had four scary days on the water. Those hurricaneforce winds and passengers from that ship are standing by right now. Robin will talk to them live. I think they kissed the ground when they got back here. Also have a big morning ahead. Lara is live in hollywood. A huge scandal event taking us behind the scenes and those empty chairs. No, no, wait till you see whos coming to visit us. She wont be by her lonesome much longer. Arctic blast moving east. Temperatures0 degrees below normal. For many its about to get worse. More than 50 million could face below freezes and to rob marciano for that. Good morning, george. Temperatures below freezing. Come this weekend will drop another 20 degrees. The polar vertex will release a chuck of cold air and that means well be in the deep freeze. This picture out of i90 east of cleveland. The lakeeffect snow machine in erie and ontario. Today we shifted south to buffalo and south to fulton, new york, another 10 to 12 inches likely. Then here we go with temperatures. Actual morning temperatures and then we push that cold air further to the south and chicago tomorrow morning, 3 degrees, minus 10 and on sunday morning, if we hit zero degrees in new york city, george and robin, that will be the firir time the coldesesnight, i should say, since 1994. Whoo. Bundle up. Ill sleep in. Rob, thank u. Now to breaking news in that the four remaining occupiers may turn themselves in and end their more than monthlong protest. The fbi surrounding them right now and abcs Neal Karlinsky is in bend, oregon, with the latest. Good morning, neal. Reporter robin, good morning. A bizarre and fluid scene out here. The fbi moved in overnight and the standoff appeared to be ending but that is when the four inside who are still holed up in there called out that they feared a shootout was imminent. Youre gonna come up with your hands up. No, were not. Reporter overnight chaos at the standoff as the fbi move in on the final four holdouts now 40 days into an occupation of this federal wildlife refuge. Be reasonable. Reporter the holdouts Live Streaming a phone call from inside. In the background the fbi can be heard telling them to surrender as the four claim they fear the fbi will murder them do the right thing all right. What the right thing is to kill us . Reporter they posted these tired of you guys. Telling us what we can and cant do. Reporter showing them lashing out t the fbi and doing doughnuts in a government vehicle. Yeah. Reporter just last month the standoffs leaders were arrested during a traffic stop during which Group Spokesman Lavoy Finicum was shot and killed. According to investigators, he was reaching for a gun after briefly fleeing. And this morning cliven bundy, the 74yearold father of the oregon occupation leaders who sparked his own fight with the federal government over a cattle grazing right in 2014 also now behind bars, taken into custody by the fbi while flying in to support the remaining oregon holdouts overnight. The four inside say they will drop their guns and surrender. Later this morning when a nevada legislator and supporter of theirs shows up on the scene but they have changed their minds before, though, this time the wearing very thin, george. Yeah, very dangerous situtuion. Okay, neal, thanks very much. We move to the race for the white house. Your voice, your vote, and the democrats will face off tonight. Lets take a look at the stage in wisconsin set for their first debate since New Hampshire. The big question now, will Hillary Clinton try something new after Bernie Sanders sweeping win . Abcs cecilia bega is here with the latest. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter george, good morning to you. Bernrn sanders didnt just win in New Hampshire, it was one of the largest margins of victory since jfk won there in 1960. Now, Hillary Clintons team is rethinking the strategy and we could see ititnfold tonight on that debate stage. E. As both sides prepare to come facetoface at tonights debate, for the First Time Since Bernie Sanders big New Hampshire victory, this morning, worry inside camp clinton. Sources telling abc news Hillary Clintons top advisers are now calling supporters from big donors to backers in congress tryiyi to ease concerns. Whether you get knocked down that matters, its whether you get back up. R`porter the strategy now shift the focus to South Carolina and nevada, the hope that clinton support among africanamerican and latino voters can help propel her to the nomination. The 22point loss in new hahashire, bigger and momo embarrassing than her camp ever expected. So big even sanders was shocked. You sound like youre surprised by the outcome yourself . We thought wed win but not by that large a vote. Reporter when i asked about the uphill fight ahead, this stark admission. If the election were tomorrow do you think yoy could win South Carolina and nevada . No. Fortunately for us, the election is not tomorrow. Reporter and about those recent attacks from bill clinton. Has he gone below the belt . I think so. Look, i know hes going to be out there defending his wife. Trust me, my wife will be out there defending me. Reporter but the battle now for minority voters. Big g n, harlem where he a a soul food and met with al sharpton. And listen to this, that New Hampshire win was very lucrative for bernqe sanders. In the 18 hours after the polls closed there, sanders raised more than 5 million shattering the campaigns previous record for money raised in less than a day. Guys, and it is mostly from small donations. Thats s ats been fueling him all along. High stakes tonight in this debate. Clinton team telling you anything about their strategy . You know, its funny, george. They wont. They dont want to put their playbook out. In the past theyve given us nuggets here and there. Minority communities to be a big one. Thats the battleground and where Bernie Sanders is especially vulnerable watching for Hillary Clinton to go on the he is ready for it. Very important tonight. Now to the republican race, the field down to six candidates this morning after Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina announced they are dropping out. To take place. Abcs jon karl is there for us in clemson, outh carolina. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, robin. After the big win in New Hampshire. Trump took a victory lap in South Carolina last night. Hes hoping a big win here will make him unstoppable. The republican candidates are bringing their fight for the gop nomination to the south this morning. Rallying supporters overnight, donald trump said a South Carolina win would clear his path to the republican nomination. We win here, were going to run the table. If we win here, after winning so big in New Hampshire. All of these characters are going to give it up. Reporter trump once again trained his fire on jeb bush who is hoping a strong South Carolina showing can save his campgn. You have a guy like bush who has his big fund its terrible. Ill be honest, the last thing we need is another bush. That i can tell you. The winner of the Iowa Caucuses couldnt repeat that performance in New Hampshire, he says he wont be deterred by trumps victory. One of the most important conclusions coming out of these first two states is that the only candidate who can beat donald trump is me. Reporter meanwhile, marco rubio is trying to get back on track after his disappointing fifth place finish in New Hampshire. We caught up with rubio as he headed to South Carolina. He says hes willing to take on the gop frontrunner. Are you going to go after donald trump . Its no longer in my opinion were going to do but you wont them. Reporter and john kasich after his surprise second place finish in New Hampshire drew an overflow crowd in South Carolina. Kasich has relied on a positive campaign but says he is ready to hit back at his rivals. Dont mess with me, okay. So im not going t tbe a pin cushion for a marshmallow but time trying to trash other reporter when this race started we had 17 republican candidates and now were down to six. Donald trump and five others all dividing u that antitrump vote. Robin. That is true. But what is the situation right now . How does the race stand right now in South Carolina . Reporter there have been no reliable polls since a week before the Iowa Caucuses. But in everyoll in South Carolina going back to october donald trump has had a commanding lead and theres little evidence anything has changed that. The other candidatete have nine days to make up some ground. All the polls in New Hampshire, as well. Lets get more from our political analyst matthew dowd. Matthew, very different terrain from iowa and manchester, new hampshshe and that has vicioio politics. It gets nasty and negative fast. It is different. It has aspects of iowa and New Hampshire. First its an open pririry. That meansnsemocrat, independents and republicans can but it also has the highest percentage of evangelicals similar to iowa but one of the differences in the evangelicals in South Carolina is theyre not drdren to the polls by s sial issues but establishment conservative issues and so when you look at all the panorama of this and also is, South Carolina is going to have twice as many liberal and momorate voters as iowa, so when you look at it, you give advantage, donald trump, when you go into South Carolina. And he probably has the lead going in. Lets talk about the democrats. That debate tonight. A lot of commentary swirling around Hillary Clintons debate strategy. Does she go very, very positive, put forward a vision, some people said she hasnt done that or is now the time to really try to take down Bernie Sanders . Well, listen, george, shes been wounded and shes bleeding so the first thing she needs to do is apply a tourniquet and stopping bleeding so she doesnt lose nevada the next state up. At i would do if i were her prosecute the case directly ainst Bernie Sanders and ignore the moderators and basically say in a calm, cool, saying the oy person on this stage that can get anything done is me. Your ideas are great. Theyre aspirational but the only person that can get things done is myself. I woululturn to him and prosecute the case. Welllle watching tonight. Matthew dowd, thanks very much. Thank you. Now to new developments overnight in ferguson, missouri, the federal government announcing its suing the city trying to force it to overhaul its Police Department. Which has repeatedly been accused of racial discrimination. Abcs Pierre Thomas is in washington with that story for us. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. In a blunt press conference the attorney general accused the city of ferguson of stonewalling attempmp to right the wrongs of a Police Department she flatly described as racially biased. All this is what d mocracy looks like. Reporter this morning the Justice Department firmly agreeing with africanamerican residents of ferguson saying their complaints of unfair and racially biased Police Enforcement are,n fact, true. The ferguson Police Departments violations in particular were expansive and without reasonable suspicion. By arresting them without cause and by using unreasonable force. These violations were not only egregious, they were routine. They were driven at least in part by racial bias. Reporter the Justice Department now suing the city of ferguson less than 24 hours after the city council rejected a deal to reform the p pice. I think the things that weve asked for are very reasonable. Were not trying to take away any safeguards. Reporter the attorney general wasnt buying it saying blacks in the city which saw so much unrest after the Fatal Police Shooting of Michael Brown they have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer. Reporter fergusosoofficials say y eyre willing to Reform Police practices but argue that implementing the deal might be too costly and that changes were needed. Ferguson city councilman mark burns sent us an email last night saying while washington politicians can run up endless debt that doesnt work in ferguson where we, quote, actually have to pay our bills. Robin. It certainly is all right, pierre, thank you. Now we turn to amy with the morninins other top stories starting with a tragedy in maryland. It is so, so sad. Flags are flying at halfstaff across maryland to honor two sheriffs deputies shot and killed while responding toto reports of a suspicious person at a panera restaurant. This is north of baltimore. Police say the suspectho is wanted on two warrants opened fire targeting the deputies before he himselelwas shot dead. The deputies were 16 and 30year veterans of the force. Well, there are new precautions now because of the zika virus. The u. S. Olympic Committee Says it will hire Infectious Disease experts to advise athletes about the outbreak in brazil after soccer star hope solo expressed concerns aboutraveling to the rio games this summer. North korea leader kim jongun appears to have made another move to tighten his grip on power. Sources in south korea say hes citing abuse of power, a day after the Senate Approved harsh sanctions on the regime. And a detained american sailor appeared to be crying. A u. S. Navy Spokesman Says we are disgusted by the exploitation of our sailors for propaganda. Ten were held after straying into iranian waters. D some terrifying scenes from india as an elephant rampaged through this town for hours crushing cars. It damaged about 100 homes. People ran for their lives but the animal was not on the attack. Apparently it was just looking for the way back to the forest. It was subdued with tranquilizers and returned to the wild. And finally, sometimes you just really, reaeay need your morning coffee, especially after a snowstorm so forget the fourwheel drive. One woman in canada relied on fourlegged drive and hooked up her trained border collies to her sled and made a beeline for the tim horton drivethrough. They had a special lane for her. An urban musher. Thing and a pro. She didnt get any coffee for the dogs. She said theyre plenty hyper already. Thats what i call a coffee run, you know. Maybe a doughnut for the dogs. That would have been nice. They had their treats. Thanks, amy. Well move on to the debate over concussions in pro sports. Now turning to wrestling after that big announcement from wwe superstar retiring because of repeated jesse is here with that and bryan wants to send a message. He sure does. The thankyoudaniellebryan is filling up after the fan favorite announced that severe concussions are forcing him out of the ring and now wants to be a role model for others at risk. Exchanging head butts at the top of the ladder. Reporter its hits like that and slams like this that now has one of pro wrestlings most i took a test that said maybe my brain isnt as okay as i thought it was. Reporter 34yearold wwe champion daniel bryan announcing this week that hes walking away from the sport he loves because of concussions. Within the first five months of my wrestling career, i had already had three concussions. And then it gets to the point when youve been wrestling for 16 years that adds up to a lot of concussions. Reporter his doctor documents at least ten of them, some bryan says even leading to izures. So, unlike many pro athletes in sports where concussions are a constant danger bryan is one o the first to walk away before too much damage is done something hes encouraging others to consider. You have a responsibility to yourself, to your family, to your friends just to protect yourself. Reporter and bryan makes it clear he doesnt blame the sport or the wwe. He says after his last concussion, even after several clear him to return. And that decision may have saved him from a situation where he wouldnt have been able to walk away by choice and maybe without major consequence. Youre seeing more and more athlhles. Nfl players have left the sport of concussions. People becoming much more clear about why hes doing rob on the weather. Record cold in the east. Heat in the west. Yin and yang and california, three days in a row of recordshattering heat and well do it again today. Maybe slightly cooler, 10 to 20 degrees above normal. Reinforcing shot with a run of the marathon ahead of schedule this year. As well. While well start off cold again, highs should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move into the area. This one should be farther east than yesterdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts will remain light and generally under 1, itll make for a slick morning commute on fridid. The wind will pick up behind this system during the day on friday and may cause some patchy blowing snow still to come on gma, that nightmare Royal Caribbean cruise ship battered by a terrifying storm. The passengers are hear and outside. How well do those Touchscreen Gloves work . A scandalous morning here. Lara taking us behind the scenes with the on screen cast. Shes in cyrus office. Are you looking at secrets . You dont want to miss it. Come on back. Unprecedented. Secrets . You dont want to miss it. Come on back. Unprecedented. 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Youre looking at the anthem of the seas, safely docked this morning in bayonne, new jersey, after facing, oh, hurricaneforce winds. How some of the passengers from that ship, now theyre here live. Im going to talk to them in just a moment. Looking forward to that. We ar lara out in hollywood behind the scenes with the cast of scandal. How is it going in the oval . Its not bad, george. I could get used to this. I am in the oval office, while the scacaal oval office and d im not alone. Joined by none other than mr. President. Good morning, america. And some of his cast members. Interesting sequence here, it is the fight between good and evil. But the question is on scscdal that we love, whos good, whos evil . Scandalicious hour. At 8 00. Are you going to talk finally . Am i going to talk . Why was lara in my seat . This guy watch him. We e t that eye out. Were watching. All right, lara, well get back to you. First, the Cruise Ship Passengers finally back on solid ground after that nightmare at sea. Royal caribbeans giant ship, anthem of the seas arriving safelylyn new jersey overnight after surviving hurricaneforce winds. Some of those passengers are good enough to be with us here. Were going to talk to them in just a moment but first, linsey davis is at that dock in bayonne, new j jsey, with more. Good morning, linseyey reporter good morning, robin. Seeing the ship now from the outside it looks as if nothing ever even happened. Certainly thats a far cry from the accounts that weve been hearing agagn and again from passengers who talk about this massive ship listing at 45 degrees and en if you count up three stories they talk about balconies three stories high. After four harrowing days at sea, the anthem of the seas finally made it to shore where passengers were greeted with cheers. The 4500 now seaweary passengers thankful to be on dry land. Im alive. Im alive. This is insane. Reporter again and again, we heard stories of fear, of passengers saying as the ship was being pounded by 30foot waves and wind gusts topping 100 Miles Per Hour sunday night they thought for sure they would not survive. Some people were absolutely terrified. It was scary. Reporter some are still questioning the captains judgment to venture out to sea with severe storm warnings in the forecast and wednesday night, Royal Caribbean apologized to its passengers in a statement calling the event exceptional and saying the company has identified gaps in our Planning System that we are addressing. What happened this week showed that we need to do better. Something went wrong. Forecast correctly or we will do a complete review of the situation to see if theres any way to change our procedure, processes to do anything to make sure this doesnt happen. Reporter maritime lawyer jim walker says half a dozen passengers already called him from the ship wanting to file a lawsuit. The real issue here is whether the cruise lines have any liability for the fear and anxiety that most of these passengers had and in most cases, cruise lines are not responsible when the passengers have been fearful of weaer conditions. Reporter while at least four people suffered minor injuries, Royal Caribbean says the ship didnt sustain any major damage. The ntsb is currently considering an investigation. In the meantime, Royal Caribbean will once again set sail on bahamas. Robin. All right, linsey, joining us now to share their stories are and Charlotte Lipman and lauren, whitney, brittany and alex and albert hayes. Good morning. Do you still feel like youre absolutely. I was just looking at you as were so thankful that there are only some minor injuries and that you all are doing okay. Okay, whwhkissed the ground when they got back . Anybody do that . Everyone . You always hear about people saying theyre going to kiss the ground. Peter, we saw your sisters video that she posted. You guys were told to stay in your cabins. It looks like you guys were in a washing machine. I mean, what was it like inside thats exactly what it was like. It was absolutely terrifying. We were on the third floor with an ocean view and we literally saw the ocean with dori swimming by. Good you can have a sense of humor about it right now. But the captain would come on. You could hear even 17 years hes been a captain. He was experienced but there are their first time out. Could you hear theheear in their voices . Absolutely. My sister walked out into the corridor and saw some of the staff hugging and crying and thats when she got concerned. We also didnt have any life vests in the cabin which i i unusual. Weve cruised many times and i guess they keep them at stations now but we were told to go back to the cabins and there were no life vests. Luckily we had our own personal snorkel vests and my sister was wearing it throughout the yes. You guys have been on cruises before. Wasnt your first rodeo. We have. Lauren, okay, i can understata this, you had a panic attack. Oh, yeah. Even though you were beyond. Even though you were told to stay in the cabin, you had cabin fever. Had to get out. We were probably we were all together probably in the room for 20 minutes if that and then we left. Yeah. I couldnt do it and the crew members were even telling us get back to the room and i said, no. Im not going back. I hate to use the phrase but you said you felt like you had a i felt that way when the loudspeaker telling us to get back to our rooms. He didnt sound very convincing that it was going to be okay so it just everyone around us just started crying, saying they couldnt breathe. I had a guy rubbing my back up the stairs saying its going to be okay. When everyone is freaking out like that it gives you a lot of anxiety. Out. Charlotte, youre 10 years old. It was your birthday cruise. Yeah. And your daddy y d everyone said you were having a good time eating candy and stuff. What was it like for you . It was kind of scary since i saw the waves and they were basically almost crashing on to our terrace. And the room is basically tilted all the way down like a ramp but when it wasnt moving i just ran down and then i fell on the bed. It was fun but still really scary. Yeah, because your day was there for you and you had d be concerned, papa. It was very concerning but we tried to make the best of it. You said you got to eat candy and got quality time with your you heard in linseys report the response from Royal Caribbean saying that there were some gaps and stuff. Looking back, what do you all think should have been perhaps done differently, would you want Something Different . Yes, it came to my attention from a meteorologist friend of mine this storm had been forecast up toto week before and ive been watching the news since we came on land and they forecast was very accurate as far as what we were sailing into. So, you know, in retrospect, the captain did maneuver us through the storm, but i think he was instrumental in getting us to the storm and thats what i how do we prevent this from happening again. The big lesson here. Show of hands. Who is going to go on a cruise ship again . Look at you. A few shaky hands. Charlotte was right up. Shes a daredevil. Hey, thank you all very much and finding the humor in it. I knowowt had to be some verer scary moments and thank you for sharing your story. Glad that youre bac on somd ground. Althe best to you. Thanks robin. Coming up as the temperatures plunge what should you do if you want to use your phone outside . Well look at the Touch Screen Gloves that can keep you connected. Put them to the test. 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Nick guy, a website that advises on best gadgets evaluated 12 pairs to find out how well they work. Looking at all of these, they dont have the tips were so used to seeing. The technololy is advanced. They actually sew in silver and copper thread that conducts electricity and allows you to use your touch screen as if you werent wearing gloves. To test for touch screen ability. He camped out in a temperature controlled brewery cooler, a lot like this one keeping it consistently frosty above freezing while he texted, used apps and played games. Now its my turn with wire cutters picks. All right, its cold in here. It is. 37 degrees. Moshi. These are our favorites. We found they were nice and warm them. How well can i type in a brewery cooler . Well, no typos. Looked like you did pretty good. Next up the north face thermoball tip gloves. For 50. A little bit thicker, not quite as flexible but theyre stilpretty impressive for how warm they are. Feel like i could be in a blizzard and can t te. Yeah. They all lose connectivity over time but sometimes too quickly. Thats what wire cutter found with glider gloves winter style which sell for 29. 99. Yeah. We wore them for a few months and were fine. When we went to do our final tests the lefthand glove stopped working altogether. They can wear out and thats glider gloves told us we found its about 1 of all gloves that fail early. We do back up our product with a 90day warranty and replace any gloves that have failed or are defective. Nicks advice, get gloves with gripping material on the palm. See how well it stays in the palm. Get a tight fit. Watch out for those with extra materials or seams on the tip. That reduces touch screen ability. We should tell you wire cutter does get a percentage of money from retailers on glgles sold through the links on their site and by the way, out of 12 of the Touch Screen Gloves that expert tested this year he says he highly recommends four of them. You can see the entire list of results on our website, goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo check it out. Good info. Thanks very much. Coming up here, johnny depp plays donald trump. You haha friends coming o or . Yeah, so . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. Webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze. To continuously eliminate odors for. Up to 45 days offfreshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. [inhale exhale mnemonic]. , two more ways to breathe happy eat up, buddy. Youll get it this time. Ok not too quick dont let go until i say so. I got you. Youre doing it whole grain quaker oats. 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But if imagine if donald trump starred in, wrote, directed and even edited a movie about himself. Thats essentially what this is fun of donald trump. What threw them off is who played donald trump. Put it up. If you dont know already, yes, that is johnny depp who transformed it took him two or three hours every day to do that. They shot it in december over about four days. And let me give you a little example of how thik came out. I had to start up with nothing g t the shirt on my baba and a small Million Dollar loan from my father. Thats the beauty. He did say that. He did say that and goes on with more stuff. A full movie. Fullon movie. They did this about four days. Youd love this. They thought they had to do it in a murray because trump was going to be out of the race. Plenty of time. Yes. We want more. Some would say that is scandalous. We have a scandalous hour coming up. I see what you did. Scandalous hour and i was worried about joint damage. 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And now heres your first alert forecast. Plan on a quiet thursday with a clear start as well. While well start off cold again, highs should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move into the area. This one should be farther east than yesterdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts will remain light and generally under 1, itll make for a slick morning commute on friday. The wid will pick up behind this friday and may cause some patctc blowing snow yet again. Saturday is still on track to be cold and quiet with another snow chance coming our way for good morning, america. Kim kardashian opening up about baby number two and that big debate about moms, kids and being happy. Experts weigh in with three ways for all moms to reduce the stress. New this morning, questions about how popular Weight Loss Centers are getting people to shed those pounds. The new report rsing Big Questions about whether some even work. Dr. Ashton here live with what you need to know before you sign up. Its time to get the chains out and things are about to get scandalous right here. Dont tell me you cant do this. The allstar cast of prime times hottest show like youve never seen them before all access. Were going on the scandal set and behindndlosed doors. Sit dowow as we say all good morning, america. S, indeedy, good morning, america. Suit up, gladiators. You know who you are. Scandal is b bk tonight, and were celebrating big time this morning. Unprecedented access behind the as you saw, the entire cast is going to be joining us live. Yeah, who needs sleep . Its 5 00 in the morning there in l. A. Lara is there on the set with the entire cast. Its the first time were going to see it. Hey, lara. Hey, yeah, george, this is unprecedented. So kind. Gma starts at 7 00 in new york. Thats 4 00 a. M. Out here in l. A. And, look, a welcome sign. Were in the studio where scandal comes to life. Im in Pope Associates with the gladiators, everybody. We got huck, we got quinn, we we i have a question. Picture. Gladiator, gladiator, gladiator, ah. Bellamy has infiltrated. A little foreshadowing of the season. We could tell you but wed have to kill you. Yeah. Were here. We like you too much. Oh, yeah. Please dont kill me do have some new clients here. Suspects, suspects. Clients or suspects. But as i told them off camera you guys have a lot of work to do. Stephanopouous. For a long time. The dirt. Uhoh. So anyway, well have a full ca talk and talk with all these guys and give you secrets all throughout the 8 00 hour. Mwah. Back to you. Going to be so much fun. A lot coming up. Now to amy with the morning rundown. The big story this morning after 40 days, the standoff for thth wildlife refuge in oregon may finally be ending. Members holed upn the property are promising to turn themselves fbi. Meanwhile, cliven bundy was arrested in portland last night. He is the father of ammon bundy who led the occupation of the refuge to protest the use of public lands. Well, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are preparing for another crucial debate tonight, this time in wisconsin. It will be their first faceoff since sanders landslide victory iniNew Hampshire. Sources tell abc news Hillary Clintons top advisers are calling supporters and donors trying to ease concerns about their campaign. They are focusing on South Carolina and nevada and relying on support among africacaamerican and latino o voters. On the republican side, donald trump telling supporters in South Carolina, if he wins theistates primary, hell, quote, run the table to the nomination. Ted cruz claims he is the only candidate who can beat trump. John kasich is considered a long shot in South Carolina, but the Ohio Governor is making news as he prepares to sign a bill defunding planned parenthood. Signs about dementia in america. It appears to be on the decline. A new study finds rates of dementia are down more than 40 since the 1970s among whites. Doctors say the change is most likely because of lower rates of found a link between Higher Education and a lower risk for dementia. Well, we have an update on this video we showed you of that spect by tripping him on a sidewalk. Well, Police Released the video in the hopes of finding him so they could thank him for doing their legwork, and now they have. It turns out he is a soldier in the british army, and like any good soldiererhe is always on duty. And finally the secret service has posted a sign outside the white house that may seem a little obvious. It reads, weapons prohibited at the white house. Well, the agency tells usa today that its required by law to post the sign to have the was passed back in 1988. It took them 28 years to get the sign up. No word why it took so long, but good work, guys. Better late than never, robin. I guess so, amy. Thank you. We got a big Health Headline for the millions of americans trying to lose weight. Twothirds of u. S. Adults are classified as overweight or obese, and a new study from Johns Hopkins university reveals those popular Weight Loss Centers that so many use may not be helping. Dr. Jennifer ashton is here with the details. So, whats going on here, jen . So, robin, if you are overweight or obese and in my office, i would likely counsel you about the importance of losing weight and then might likely r fer you to one of these Weight Loss Centers to help you because this is an ordeal. So what this study did is they kind of went behind the scenes and did a report card in an urban area of medical Weight Loss Centers and what they found, they didnt do so well. There is a lot of room for improvement. One of the findings was about 1 guidelines in helping patients lose weight. Fewer than one in three are actually supervised by a physician, and only about 3 are recommending the proper amountnt so, again, not such a good report card here. These are shocking numbers. Yeah. The reququements . We dont know. I mean, my take on this is a number of possible explanations. Number one, a center may choose deliberately to pursue their own approach, which is fine as long as youre transparent about that, and you want to follow your own espy. What would be more concerning if they were actually unaware that there were real guidelines that should ideally be followed and, lastly, obviououy there could be financial gain here, and it could be a scam, so this is a scenario again where patients need to proceed with caution. Buyer, beware. Congratulations, you are just newly yes. Board certified when it thank you. And there is some research out there that shows why it is so difficult for many to lose weight. Right, we know baseseon the obesity medicine data, in some cases losing a significant amount of weight may not be as simple as eating carrot sticks and exercising a lot because this is a complex issue with multiple causes. There are metabolic reasons, hormonal reasons, environmental reasons, exposure in utero, behavioral, genetic. This is a war on obesity, so we need an army to fight it. Jen, you know so many peoeoe, they see these centers in malls, in strip malls and all around. What is your recommendation . Well, proceed with caution. Okay, there are a couple of tips. Number one, you want to be clear about your goals at the onset. Are you going to lose 20 pounds or are you going because youre trying to lose 200 pounds and you want to ask about the credentials of the peoeoe operating these centers. Good. That should be up front. Its not a secret. You are entitled to know their qualifications. Ideally, people can go to the internet and read the American Heart Association and obesity loss from 2013. Its a magnum opus, but it is there and it is accessible for everyone to look at and, lastly, you have to factor in cost. We say it all the time. Its expensive to be oveveeight. But getting good health can also be expensive, and so cost has to be factored in. Wonderful suggestions right there. All right, congratulations again. Thank you. Like she needs another title. Doesnt have enough going on. A little bit of free time. A little. Jen will be answering your questions throughout the morning. Tweet her drjenashton. Go to gmas Facebook Page as well. Now to jesse with the morning menu. Thanks, robin. Heres whats coming up on the morning menu. Kim kardashian opening up about baby number two and starting a parenting debate. What experts are saying this morning. And lara is live on the scandal set getting unprecedented access with the entire cast like youve never seen before. 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But going from one baby to two, thats something she says shes still trying to master posting this week, i get no sleep in reference to balancing the needs of her newborn son with those of her toddler daughter, noh west. One is like one, she writes repeating something her mother kris jenner once told her. Two are like twenty. Every waking second im not with the baby im with north. I feel like i go into overdrive to give my daughter attention and make her feel loved. This is exactly what your Reality Stars to be like. Relatable and in this post, Kim Kardashian proved shes just like every other mother out there. Completely overwhelmed by taking care of kids. Becoming a Second Time Mom is far from uncommon. According to a 2015 study conducted by the university of michigan, 65 of women are likely to be less happy in the first year or two after the birth of their second child. Nicole herwitz knows the stress of going from one to two. The new yoyo mom says she was just getting into a routine with her firstborn max when she welcomed a new baby two months ago. Mornings used to be really easy. My son would wake up, and we would do breakfast for him and get him off to school. And now its a lot of preparing at night to get the toddler out the door and then start things all over again with the newborn. Reporter parenting experts say the key for new moms and Kim Kardashian is enlist help from a baby sitter or spend time with mommy friends who understand the stress and schedule some me time on a regular basis. If your older child is feeling jealous or left out, you can always make them feel included in taking care of the baby. Reporter for Good Morning America, reena ninan, abc news, new york. Yeah, you have to watch those two, right . Absolutely. And kim is very fortunate. She has her resources to be able to help heheout that some other mothers might not have. Now to the moment weve been waiting for all morning, lara live in hollywood with the cast of scandal. Enjoy, lara, enjoy. Oh, thank you, robin. You know im in heaven. I love the show, and the cast is just as nice as you would imagine. Scandal back tonight. Millions of viewers have followed every plot twist about olivia, fitz, jake, mellie, the entire crew. Were going to talk about all of that but first we want to get you caught up on whats gone on. Take a look. Its handled. Reporter no one handles a scandal dont tell me you cant do this. Reporter quite like olivia pope. I need to work. Reporter tonight the gladiators are back in business, and things are getting a little complicated. I was trying to save us. There is no us. Reporter when we last saw them at christmas,`president tz narrowly survived an i have done nothing wrong. Reportete his exwife mellie became an overnight political sensation. Olivias evil dad came back into the fold. I may be the bad guy, but the worst guys are out there. Reporter a a for a brief moment, it looked like the white house may even have a new first lady, but she found out that even the best fairy tales dont always have happy endings. We tried. We did. Reporter so where will it all end up . It doesnt matter. I know. Reporter of course wed love to tell you, but then wed have to handle you. So, instead right now an unprecedented look bebend the scenes on the set of prime times hottest show, so grab your popcorn, gladiators. Sit down. Reporter because this scandalous cast interview live starts now. Yes, i cannot tell you how excited i am to be here for this unprecedented live look at scandalehind the scenes. The show, as i said, back im here with 13 members of the cast, and we are going to [ cheers ] and tables are turned. Im interrogating you guys today. Uhoh. Uhoh. We have all agreed to spill some scandalous secrets but first here is a little look at something to come tonight. Yes, yes. Are you going to open the door . Are you okay . Im fine. What do you mean . I mean, you wont open the door and thats weird. Is there someone in there . What do you mean about a client . . This isnt about a client. You want to talk on the phone. Surveillance we do not want anyone at the nsa to hear about this. Why . Whos the client . The head of the nsa. I was just trying out for a role. Im not going to live. I have a captive audience and i love the show so much. Applaud, everybody. [ applause ] im going to start ah. So, kerry washington, thanks for being here. Very, very early. All of you, thank you. Youre our first gladiator and one of our most fierce gladtors. I triri to dress the part thanks. The scene that we just saw, what are you hiding behind the door, girl . That scene, huck is trying to talk to you. You will not usually you let everybody in. You have something, eieier its a man or a something. Uhhuh. 9 00, 8 00 central. 9 00, 8 00 central. Really . That big . Thats my answer. Thats the only way you get to see whats behind the door. Does whats behind the door have a heartbeat . Hmm. I mean, poeticly speaking. Thats beautiful. I see life in all kinds of things. That was great. Whoo. I have a big question. We saw a glimpse of it. I feel like fashion is almost another character in the show. Uhhuh. It definitely tells a bit of the story, and what weve seen so far indicates a sea change of sorts, in fact, im going to start i want you to roll one more clip and youll understand what im talking about. Go ahead, roll this. We are never done. We do not give up. My world, my rules, this is there is no script. Do you want to be a gladiator in a suit . Its handled. I like that. Oh, yeah, you throw that white hat. Out with the white, in with the red. Let me ask any of you, what does the red symbolize . Whats the change well see in olivia and in all of you . Ooh, wow. What is the change . If you say 9 00, 8 00 central no. It feels like it feels like were not hiding anymore. It feels like which is ironic because of the clip we just showed of hiding. But it feels like everybody is trying to step into their new truth. But are you sick of being on the white horse . Do you have a different agenda now . Well see. I mean, i think everybody is ill struggling. Thths so much to me what the show is about. Everybody is trying to be the best version of themselves. Well, not everybody. Be an upstanding person. Trying. Not everybody is not everybody is able. I was going to point right to your dad. No, no. Version of himself. Absolutely, he thinks hes being the best version of himself, yeah. I mean, nobody does a soliloquy like you, my friend, joe plays command. Thank you very much in front of my entire case. Yes, thank you. Theres just something about the lilt in your voice, and i love the dynamic thats happening or that im sensing between you three, scott foley and guillermo, my hunk. Whats to come . What can you tell us about the dynamic between that triangle . Well, theheast thing you saw, right, was that he walked into my house, which means that were either going to be very close, or theres going to be a lot of blood. Really . Okay. Oh, wow, look, look at the oh, well we have a chyron up. You cant see but i just saw a very touching moment. It was. It was sweet, wasnt it. It was sweet. Im not feeling wee be singing kumbaya dudung that scene. You dont know. Thing we saw jake walking into rowans house, so i think theres a lot of possibility there. You know, there was some harsh feelings in the past and understandably so. Yeah. But i think theres an open door. And, huck, i want to ask ygu. Your character is probably the most complicated. I just called you u ck. Guillermo. Okay. Guillermo, how is that for you to play it must just be a delicious piece of meat for an actor. Yeah. And then also what can we expect from your character . Its awesome. You know, im the luckiest guy. I feel like im on television to be able to portray huck, but, you know, huck, i think, is trying to be that normal guy. You know, hes trying to be that guy. Really, hes trying really, really hard and as you saw in one of those scenes a few episodes ago where he doesnt end up torturing rowan was a major step forward. Huck is getting soft. Yeah, well, i dont kind of. I look att as hes getting stronger. Amen. Hes getting better. Resisting the trying to break yeah. Katie, next to you is cornelius. He is the newest gladiator. [ applause ] yeah, yeah, yeah. And he might not be as willing to do the things that you are willing to do. Very true. My friend. So how yet. Oh, really. I mean, who knows. Who knows. Thats true. How will that dynamic work, though, when youre willing to pull teeth literally . I think that youll see a lot Going Forward about what its like to have a new gladiator in the office and how we all sort of deal with that energy and what responsibilities we give him, what we dont give him and all right, and then darby, who is my fashion icon, always fun to see you. Ah. And abby, poor abby, thats tough to be in that press room. You had a hard time with the press corps. So, do you get a break . Doeshe presisint finally call you abby . Of a different scene in this second half of the season, and there is a major cnge. Ooh. Thats all i can say, major. All right. Capital major. So are we saying thth abby has one of the biggest story line . Yeah, yeah. I know. I havent even gotten to this side of the room. Every story equal opportunity writing. But abby i would say every character has major changes. And i mean, portia, this little threeway back here quite literally and, artemus, welcome to the family. Yoyore fantastic. [ applause ] i want to hear about that. And ive been saving i mean, your trouble all the time playing cyrus beene and the president and first lady and were going to have to wait to save the best, the nuggets of your relationship and, of course, with this gal, kerry more with scandal coming up. Plenty morortime coming up, so thank you for this little sort of sneak peek. More to come, everybody, but just a reminder in case kerry didnt remind you enough, scandals winter premiere is tonight, 9 00, 8 00 central. Please stay with us, though, well get a little scandalous coming up. Back to you guys in new york. Lara, please tell each and every one of them how grateful we are for them getting up like thth, playing with us thth morning. We know how early it is, and our audience is loving it. You tell them. They baited the hook this morning. Thank you, thank you, to each and every one. We cant wait for more. Lets go outside to rob. Were grateful for those bearing the cold. Youre from australia. Why would you come to the eold . Something different. Just Something Different but, yes, freezinin on the way back there heading to hi high so itll be a warmer stopover. You want to build a snowman. Snow rowers in idaho. Bring you that kind of yodel as well. While well start off cold again, hihis should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move into the area. This one should be farther east than yesterdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts will remain light and generally under 1, itll make for a slick morning commute on friday. The wind will pick up behind this system during the day on friday and may cause some patchy blowing snow yet again. Saturday is still on track to be cold and we have more from the set of scandal coming up in our next half hour. Also deals steals, tory and jesse are going to be here with that. Its all i need tonight an overheated circuit is to blame for a fire that damaged a duplex in waterloo. It happened around 4 oclock Tuesday Morning at 264 western avenue. Firefighters say it started between the first and seconds floors. No one was injured. The duplex is a total loss. Civil Rights Groups in iowa are pushing for legisistion that reform thehe criminal justice system. Members of the naacp and other groups are in favor of a bill that would ban racial profiling and keep juvenile records confidential. They would also like to see lawmakers ban the box on job applications to expand Work Opportunities for people with criminal histories. Ban the box refers to getting rid of the check box on applications that asks if youu been cononcted of any crimes. And now heres your first alert plan on a quiet thursdadawith a clear start as well. While well start off cold again, highs should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move into the area. This one should be farther east than yesesrdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts will remain light and generally under 1, itll make for a slick morning commute on friday. The wind will pick up behind this system during the dayayn friday and may cause some patchy blowing snow yet again. Saturday is still on track to be cold and quiet withnother snow chance coming our way for you can see the full video on our Facebook Page right now. You want to check that out. Very cool. Also this morning, mario batali is here. He is taking on our 5 dinner challenge. Ill team up with him for i guess were making penne pinchers penne. Its going to taste good if mario is here. Lets get back to lara. Lara. Hi, everybody. Welcome to pop news time. I am on the balcony on the set of scandal with the one and only josh malina. Its exciting. Hi, thanks. I know youre a pop aficionado. I am. Soso guys, we begin with part one. We need to roll the music. Do you like adele . Sure. Hello from the other side hello. Its me. Actually its adele. She is in california d daming about how it used to be. Actually shes probably dreaming about how tomorrow night will a surprise popup lastminute concert shes throwing for her most loyal fans just ahead of her performance at the grammy awards. 1500 tickets were offered to super fans you had to be registered at adele. Coco which i know you were. Is it a surprise if we know its tomorrow . She surprised fans by saying, hurry, go to my website. I think a surprise is if she just walks in. But this is big. 1500 fans get to see her. Shes got a world tour coming but this is just for the very biggest fans like i am with scandal. Sure. And not to worry if you didnt get tickets because, yeah, they are all gone now, six shows coming here in l. A. At the Staples Center and all over, summer. Go to her website for the dates and the places. Also in pop news, if you valentines day, i cant help you. I do. My wife of 20 years. No problem. How about a little pillow talk with fabio. Fabio . Yes. Check this out. Yeah, baby. Fabulous. Oh, yeah. Theres cheesy music, rose petals, champagne and inexplicably a wind machine. He still looks good. Hes hanging in there. I probably should stop speaking. Fabio is there for you because hallmark is offering i feel like i have to talk like this. I wish you would. Hes prepared a lovely evening for you thanks to hallmark offering 18 minutes of the long hair lotharios undivided attention on their streaming site, feeling. Com. Hes stretched out on a bear skin rug. He will ask u how you are, of course, hes not really listening to your innermost fantasies, your secrets. This may not lead to a happy ending. I feel like after about three live minutes of skyping with fabio, it would get awkward. Its not even skyping, its like a video that rolls. Youre watching and hes other plans on valentines day as the gladiators would say, fabio has it handled. Yeah, you see what i did there. It was good. All right. So now we have t t other teammates of yours. Portia and artemus will help me. Pop news, well do a little game. You guys always have wine, wine coolers and you seem to like wine coolers. We promote drinking on the a nice bottle of red. We came up with a game. These are all wines and their description. Tell me which cast member best matches the wine. First one is rose, bubbly flirty, a regular at summer beach houses. Jeff perry. Jeff perry. Okay, artemus. I mean, if we get to hard liquor, i can give you some answers. Saving that for last. Malbec, deep and soulful. With i a i think papa pope, no . Thats what i was thinking. I dont know abouthat actually. Deep. Who is deep and soulful . Nobody on the show. Fantastic. We dont have any of those. Irs reisling, bellamy. Shes very sweet. Anybody catch that. Portia was like, me. I just wanted o person i was assuming i was totally with you. White zinfadel. High alcohol content. You like to have a good time. Oh, that might be me. We got our zinfandel. I love it. Oh, thats it, and, o oy, and good oldldooch. Oh. You said you wanted it. Well, thats susans no, you said you were going to name. Oh, shoot, yeah, how about oh, a blanco tequila, id say scott foley. There you go. Bitter aftertaste. Sampling of the secrets of the scandal set. For now, though, back to you in new york. More with the president and olivia coming up. Now im craving a glass of wine. So early. Thank you, lara. Thank you everybody. Well have a lot more with the cast of scandal coming up. Amy and mario batali, our 5 dinner challenge. Thats right. We are giving Celebrity Chefs 5 bucks to whip upup wellbalanced meal and this morning a celebrity chef and cohost of the chew is taking on the challenge, mario batali, come on out. [ applause ] all right, you, this is not an easy challenge, 5, but youve got it covered and its in the bag. Absolutely. First of all, i have a box of pasta, which were only going to use half. Pasta is a good option for people on a budget. Absolutely. The problem with americans, a lot of us think of it as a single portion serving. This is enough for four people. All right. Then sausage. Sausage. All right. Delicious italian spicy sausage. That was 1. 50. Were only going to use half of it. Then broccoli. Broccoli. 85 cents worth for a half a head. That is an incredible this is your total right here. Yes. Total of 3. 21. That is amazing. All right. Im feeling pretty good about it. Pretty incredible. So, lets get cooking. We need any items from our pantry . Well, yes. Could you bring me extra virgin olive oil, chili flakes and a quarter pound of the 50s sliced real thin. That was a joke. I want to tell you. You actually have a brandnew restaurant. Congratulations. I do. First in ten years. First new inventory in new york city in ten years. La sirena. It means the mermaid in the odysysy that would sing from the rocks ofofirano. It wouldldrash the ships and die. No one will die in this restaurant. No one will die in this restaurant. All right. So we drop our pasta. What we always do, right before we drop the pasta in the water we salt it, so you always remember. Right before i put the pasta in salt is free on today. Then we cook it t dente and if you do it you cook it according to the package instructions written right on the box. Cook it one minute short of that and then throw it in with all of the rest of the things we call palm de menu. I put three of the links back in the freeeer. A tip is, dont be afraid to freeze. Dont thaw things, dont leave it on the counter. Take it out the night before and put it in the fridge and broccoli is blanched in water and throw it in ke that. Y y blanched it. How long do you blanche . When you blanche things you bring water up to a boil and you throw it in quickly with a little bit of salt, take it out after one minute, put it in ice water to shock it and refresh it which h tains the chlorophyll. See, im glad i asked. Retains the crunch and that also helps you know youre maintaining some of the vitamins very nice. All right. O if you dont have e sink. Hold on, let me reach for the sink. Ooh, sorry. Virtual kitchen. The virtual sink is so good. Whats important in good pasta dishes is dont take the noodleses out and just pututhem naked on ah chlt. You toss them into the pan with the condiment so the two separate ingredients thats such a good idea. The noodle and all the other stuff come together as one. Yeah. Now well add a little chili flakes. A marriage of flavors. Exactly. A little drizzle of extra olive viviin oil. Cheese. Just a little cheese. Cheese is expensive and cheese wl mask it. Use that grater right there. And you buy your cheese in bulk. Buy my cheese in bulk and also i only keep in the refrigerator how much ill use that week, a half pound. The rest in the freezer wrapped twice in foil and then in a plastic wrap. You can freeze that. You can freeze cheese the hard, dried cheeses you can freeze. The fresh cheeses not so much. We are learninggo much this rning. I know. Put the cheese actually in there is what we want. Put the cheese in the pan. So that it melts, almost becomes a little like fondue. Oh. One of the big things about italian pasta cookery is that its about the balance abudanza, mple food. You neveree giant italians Walking Around on the street. They eat pasta every day. Its because they eat the right portion. All right. Thank you much. This is amazing. So good. Robin is like a little of that. Look how much robin is eating. Robin is a good eater. But shes clearly a responsible eater because shes slim and sexy. Youre good. Stop it some more. You can get recipes at goodmorningameriri. Com on yahoo i just almost spit it out. Lets go outside to rob. Well save you some, rob. Looks delicious and hot. Were cold out here. You bought the hat here. Good job. Chilly for sure. Where its warmer though is the midsection all the way up to the northwest. Temperature in the 70s. Look at billings, 59 and 60s in southern oregon. The northwest t ll see more rain coming in after a dry spell. Clear start as well. While well start off cold again, highs should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move be farther east than yesterdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts all right. This Weather Report is brought to you by weight watchers. Back to you, amy. Amazing, 3. 21 for this. Stay with us. We are back now live with our favorite gladiators in this unprecedented behindthescenes look on the set of scandal out in hollywood with me so early in the morning and then tonight on back again for the winter premiere. I got to get to the president. I got to get to cyrus beene. So jeff and tony, tell me about your dynamic. Tony, so much changed for you, no wife, no mistress. Right. You and jeff are back together. Were working together. But as you saw in the last things are pretty strained between us so abby really has are you going to hit on abby now . I cant tell you anything about that. Whoa. I think you were just giving us a little a little oh, look at bellamy. So, meanwhile, bellamy is like, thats fine. Bellamy doesnt like me. Bellamy doesnt care about olivia being gone. She doesnt care about you. She is focused on becoming the president of the united states. Right . Doesnt get much help from her ex. If she needs it. Amen. Amen, sister. Amen. So, are you watching helping other places. Who knows. Hence, why we saw bellamy in olivia popes office earlier in this show. Thank you for sharing a secret. Could it be . Could it be . Thats what this segment is all about. Digging, digging. All right. I want to talk to cornelius, the very handsome, very earnest gladiator, newest member of the team. Getting on the set, working with live family what was that like for you and what was something that surprised you, a scandal mates. First off i was really surprised just how much it felt like a family on set. People are really genuine, open and like family when you kind of get in there, you get teased a [ laughter ] thats true. Us not say pranks but a little bit. They put a little sprinklkl on. What else . I love to eat. I found somebody who loves to eat just as much as i do. Who is that . This man. Yeah. Every morning. How long are the days on the set . Tell me about the days because i imagine a show like this very long. We have the hardest working crew in hollywood. This crew like any of us [ applause ] our crew is tireless, and they are professional and like they are the family youre not seeing here because no way wed be sitting here without them and they work harder than anybody up here. And theyre here today with us. They came in. Thank you, guys, behind the scenes. So one of our viewers wanted to know who hangs out off screen . You guys are working 13hour days. We all do. Ive actually been out with a few and ive seen you all the wine flows even when youre not in olivias apartment. Yeah, definitely. The girls like to gather and boys do too. Did you guys watch the super bowl together . Anybody . No. I w wt to ask you, kerry, your wardrobe changes, which did you like better, being the gladiator in white or the kind of sexy lady in red . This one it was tricky for me. Like our very first sitting, it was in the script that olivia starts wearing bright colors and lynn and i kind of froze. We sat and looked at each other and decided to try agaiaithe next day. One of the ways ive distinguished between kerry and olivia is i wear a lot of bright colors and she doesnt. Were figuring it out. It was a huge shift. On set too. Your Costume Designer deserves an award. Lynn is a genius. I agree. I just need to know before we go, can you really remain alone . Youve got youre flanked by two feet . I think its alal thats interesting questioio are you alone when you are surrounded by friends and family. Like she still has her gladiators. Maybe thats enough for now. Is that enough . Maybe. It is what her father wants for her. Oh. Stand on her own two feet and do her thing on her own. Listen, command. Its the truth. We always worry about what your ulterior motive is. My ulterior motive is to make sure my daughter is happy. Oh, my y d. Or dead. Raise your hand if you believe hands down. So, who here is going to leave our gma moment and thank you u much for having us and for coming in early and go home and take a nap . Raise your hand. That we can raise. I dont blame you. You guys are going to go im above it. Everybody from scandal, we thank you. We love you. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Cant wait to see how it unfolds. Mwah, mwah, mwah. Dont miss the winter premiere. Ill say it again, scandal tonight 9 00, 8 00 central, where . 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