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Then backing into his truck and attacking with a shovel. What sparked the rampage . The search right now for the suspect. And jackpot. Pete the tennessee 20. The coworkers at the Auto Parts Company who hit it big winning that massive 420 million powerball lottery. One of the biggest ever. Wait until you hear their secret office pool strategy. The winners are joining us live only on gma. We do say good morning, america. Were very happy for that lucky group of coworkers. You can say its the ultimate office pool. It is the ultimate office pool and it was funny. Our everybody here said if that happened here there would be no one here to do the show. But i wonder how many will be former coworkers. Well see. We do know a lot are giving back to the victim of those wildfires in tennessee. Deadly onetwo punch. Those major wildfires sparking thousands of evacuations and tornadoes as robin said tearing through the south. The system is on the move. Rob marciano tracking it all. Good morning, rob. Good morning. We thought it would happen and did. Just a frightening night across the south. Dozens of structures damaged. Nearly a dozen tornadoes across four states. Powerful storms that made for a frightening night, no doubt. Theres the tornado right there. Lets go. Reporter overnight 23 louisiana to tennessee. This is what it looked like in northeast alabama after a twister slammed into homes damaging businesses as animals roam the roads. Three killed all in the same trailer. Four children in Critical Condition after a Daycare Center was completely destroyed. Thousands without power this morning. In mississippi, strong winds over 60 Miles Per Hour flipping over trucks, damaging barns. Over or near tilted over and were really lucky nobody was hurt here tonight. You know, it could be the other way. Reporter this store decimated. Police out in force to make sure everyone is okay. We had deputies stationed from the north end of the kobe bryant to the south end. This is not unusual in this area this time of year. We call it dixie alley but heartbreaking nonetheless. It moves east. Atlanta back through mobile, new watch right now and they stretch up through chattanooga where the severe line is getting into the fire zone. Theres gatlinburg, some rain heading there and expect heavy rain there but unfortunately the damage is done. Yes, it is and, rob, we have linzie janis standing by there in gatlinburg, the heart of the fire zone. Good morning, linzie. Reporter good morning, robin. Heavy wins whipped up those flames again overnight but as rob mentioned the rain has already begun and that should overnight battling the blaze and going door to door searching for the missing. Go, go, go, go. Reporter the governor is calling it the largest forest fire in tennessee in 100 years. Responsible for at least three deaths. Completely gone. Reporter scorching hundreds of homes and businesses. Were not going to make it across the road. Reporter more than 14,000 forced to flee the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge, dollywood theme park escaping after desperate attempts from firefighters to snuff out the flames. Several cabins there destroyed but the main park safe. In a statement parton saying she is praying for all the families affected by the fire. This time lapse shows how quickly the flames spread. Sweeping across the nearby mountainside. These aerial shots show homes flattened. Buildings reduced to rubble. Cars burned out. The only thing standing here a charred washer and dryer. Will be critical in putting out fires like this one in this burned down motel. Bill black is one of hundreds here who are now homeless. When i left my house last night the fire was about 100 yards from the house. Reporter black, a local minister says he came straight to this makeshift shelter to help others telling us dodds suffered burns and other injuries as they escaped the flames. We were dealing with 70mileperhour winds. It just exploded. Reporter again, this area is today. Officials say they hope that will help put an end to a very dangerous situation here. We certainly hope they are right. Linzie, thanks very much. The latest on the trump trabant. The president elect making key appointments to his Economic Team as 13eklation swirls around mitt romney as secretary of state after that intimate dinner last night. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is on the story. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. It must have been quite a dinner. After a gourmet meal at one of the restaurants in one of called trump a dangerous fraud and a phony emerged to praise the president elect as someone with an inclusive message who will lead america to a brighter future. The longtime rivals were greeted with applause as they entered the pricey french restaurant inside the Trump International hotel and tower. Trumps new chief of staff Reince Priebus in tow. Garlic soup with sauteed prime sirloin for trump, lamb chops for romney. Romney called trump a fraud during the campaign. As a potential secretary of state. I happen to think that americas best days are ahead of us. President elect trump is the very man who can lead us to that better future. Reporter but there is serious opposition to romney from some of trumps top aides. The former Massachusetts Governor isnt the only option on trumps radar. Another contender, tennessee with trump about the job on tuesday. He needs to choose someone hes very comfortable with that he knows theres going to be no daylight between him and them. Reporter trump is quickly filling up other cabinet posts including his first Major Economic appointment. Treasury secretary trump is expected to tap his Campaign Finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin who spent 17 years working for Goldman Sachs. Former Bush Administration labor secretary elaine chao is expected to head transportation department. Chao is well known on capitol hill as the wife of senator Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell but as his cabinet comes together one trump advocate is chiding the president elects continued use of twitter. Newt gingrich criticized him for pushing allegations of voter fraud. The president of the United States cant randomly tweet without having somebody check it out. It makes you wonder about reporter tomorrow president elect trump heads to indiana to begin what his team is calling a thank you tour. Hell start with a big announcement, a deal to keep a factory operated by the air Conditioner Company carrier in indiana. The company had planned to move the facility and its 1400 jobs to mexico. But, george, details of what carrier was offered in the way of incentives to keep that factory in end that have not been revealed. Governor mike pence working on that. More wit we dont know all the details but likely to save 1,000 jobs. Pretty big win for president elect trump. Its a win. People in the midwest think nobody has advocated for them. If donald trump gets the win its a big deal for him. The question as jon says, what did he have to give away and what other companies are going to say give us something. The public courtship of mitt romney and donald trump right now. Pretty remarkable given what romney said during the campaign. Think anything is done with donald trump until its formally announced. The reversal is stunning. The degree of difficulty on this dive for mitt romney is more than a 4 1 2 reverse somersault with a tuck position. Its greater than that and i would think it would make more sense for jim harbaugh to go to work for urban meyer of the Ohio State Buckeyes as an assistant coach than this move mitt romney is making. A reversal for both. Trump called romney entirely unimpressive. And a loser and romney called him a fake, a phony, a fraud and con man. What romney did not do is apologize. The question, is that required in trumps mind . We dont know the answer to that yet president elect on twitter early this morning. Several different tweets including one that could be very significant saying that on december 15th he and his children will have a press Conference Announcing how theyll handle the business going forward. He says it will be a big press conference. The kids will be there. He says it will be him removing company. Interesting, several tweets on this, one says i feel as visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with nye various businesses. If he turns the company over to his children, as he has said before, ivanka trump is a big part of that. Ivanka trumps husband Jared Kushner is i am told going to be going to washington, in the west wing with president elect. Devil in the details on this. Well watch that press conference. The fascinating thing were getting more information from twitter than press conferences. The way hes communicating right now. Over to robin. Now to charleston, south carolina, where Police Officer Michael Slager is on trial for a fatal shooting. He took the stand on tuesday breaking down during his testimony. Abcs Steve Osunsami is there in charleston with the details and reaction. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, robin. This case could go to the jury today. We could hear closing arguments this afternoon. Michael slager didnt have to his own story in his own words. At times he was tearful. My family has been destroyed by this. The scotts family has been destroyed by this. Its horrible. Reporter former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager was here on the witness stand trying to convince jurors hes not a murderer saying that he killed walter scott in 2015 because at the time he says he felt threatened. And at that point i made the decision to use lethal force because mr. Scott never hes always dangerous. Reporter but prosecuted asked how dangerous could scott have been as he was running away from the officer unarmed. They even made slager stand up and hold a tape ruler to show how far scott ran before slager started firing. It was 18 feet. I didnt know what was going on with all that so i fired my firearm until the threat was stopped. Reporter shortly after the shooting slager told investigators he thought scott was running away with his taser. Now knows thats not true. That it fell to the ground. Slager says the two fought over the taser in a struggle that happened before the cell phone recording. But he had trouble explaining what hes seen doing here. Picking up the taser from one location and moving it closer to scotts body. I dont know why i dropped it on the ground but i did pick it up seconds later. Was it because i was policing my gear . I cant even answer to that. Reporter lawyers for scotts family says it looks to them like slager was planting evidence. You alway did he run back and pick it up . And then actually drop it by mr. Scotts dead body. Reporter it is possible the court could take a field trip to the crime scene today. Slager is pleading not guilty. If he is convicted he could get up to life in prison. Robin. Keeping a close eye on this. Michael. To that devastating plane crash with the Brazilian Soccer Team on board. Loss, six people miraculously made it out and david kerley has more and theyve recovered the black boxes. Reporter thats right, michael. Yes, they have the black boxes but the question this morning is, the true reported an electrical problem. So do those boxes stop recording information that could solve this mystery . Having pulled six survivors from this crash scene, teams recovered 71 bodies of those who did not survive. And the black boxes which could answer why the commuter jet crashed taking a brazilian stunned fans overnight holding a vigil. The shock seen on the face of one of the youngest fans and two injured players who didnt make the trip to the teams first ever finals. The jet was headed to the medellin airport which is surrounded by mountains. Abcs Steve Ganyard has flown into that airport with the colombian military. Even at daytime it is a reporter the pilots reported an electrical failure and an emergency before the aircraft tail hit a mountain and the rest of the jet slid down the other side. But how did those six people survive . The wreckage will help provide the answer. Increasing the odds of survival, those sitting within five rows of an exit and passengers in the aisle fare better than those in window seats. Theres no way to game it and say if i sit in the front the back will hit first. It every mishap is a little unique. Reporter odds already on the fliers side. More than 95 of plane Crash Victims survive. In fact, a professor who studies this says you have a better chance of becoming president of the United States or winning an olympic gold medal or a nobel prize, michael, than ever dying in a plane crash. Wow. I have one question for you. Why is it better to sit in an aisle than a window seat. Reporter its because if something happens and you do go somebody who has to move two seats, get to the aisle and get to the exit. All right, david, makes a lot of sense. To amy with the mornings other stop stories starting with the Big Development in that escape from the california jail. Thats right. As you might imagine people have been on edge around san jose for a week now but overnight we learned one of the inmates who escaped last wednesday has been captured nearby. Laron campbell was one of four men who sawed their way out of a and used bedsheets to rappel to the ground. One escapee is still on the run. Well, isis now claims the somali refugee who went on that rampage at Ohio State University was one of its soldiers. Students held a vigil for the 11 people injured. The attackers family says he gave no hint he was planning anything. Police say he bought the knife used in the attack just one day earlier. Well, hundreds of thousands of cubans gathered in havana to castros ashes will now be taken to the eastern part of the island where the revolution started. President obama is sending a white house aide and a diplomat to sundays funeral. Well, a fender bender sparked a dramatic case of road rage in england. The guy in the green started wrestling the other driver then he got back behind the wheel and crashed. Look at that. Into the other truck. Moments later he returned with a shovel and went on the attack smashing the guys window. Police are now trying to find that man. Finally one daredevil took riding his bike to new heights. He rode across look at that. This is the top of a 650foothigh dam balancing on it. He had a rope and guide and said it wasnt a safe way to do it as you might imagine. It was all for a gopro camera contest and took him seven tries to get across. He backed up because of the high wins. He said it was the biggest im sure. What de win . Another gopro . All for a camera, guys. More power to him. What do you got, rob . George, we have rain moving across much of the eastern third of the country. Check it out. Time it out, new orleans is getting some of atlanta will get it. D. C. Will get it, as well and 95 around rush hour, wintry mix across parts of maine by 00 in the rn the northeast including new england and well take it as miserable as it is, locally 3 inches possible and right there into the fire zone we are looking at the potential for seeing more than 3 inches. That will certainly help put the on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quck moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as well, with gusts around 25mph likely. Plan on clouds to hold on tight through saturday with our next area of low pressure set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day today chance of light snow. Little or no accumulation. Mentioned the Winter Weather across parts of maine this. Is mt. Washington in new hampshire. About 6,000 feet if you like the Winter Weather. I know all of you do. Just feast your eyes on that. It will get here. Reminds me of christmas. You know what, it is the final christmas for the obamas in the white house. First Lady Michelle obama got choked up as she unveiled the amazing decorations surrounded by military families and the theme for this year, the gift of the holidays. And take a look at the Beautiful Tree in the blue room and these giant replicas of the obamas dogs sunny and bo made out of yarn so very skillfully well done and Gingerbread House made with 150 pounds of gingerbread. 100 pounds of dough and 20 pounds of icing. Whoo. Who is brave enough to break off the first piece . I like a Gingerbread House. Almost looks good enough to eat. Coming up the mystery growing over those terrifying new details in that california supermoms abduction. What was the message branded on her body . We have those Powerball Jackpot winners, the tennessee about how theyre splitting the 420 million windfall and well get their advice for anyone thinking about jumping in the office pool. Plus, leah reminis bitter battle with scientology. It is escalating. Why the actress is at war again with the church. Its cyber week at toysrus and you know what that means we overthrow humanity . No, dude. Save big storewide and online. Rats. Its cyber week at toysrus save big on thousands of toys kids want, online and in store people say, lets just get a sandwich or something. Or something . You dont just graduate from medical school, or something. And we dont just pull smoked chicken, bake fresh foccacia and handslice avocado. Theres nothing or something about it. Good is in every blue diamond almond. A good that comes in 20 flavors from whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Cedar Rapids Police shot and seriously injured. On november first, officer lucas jones pulled over Jerime Mitchell near coe college for a traffic violation. Police say the two men got into some sort of altercation. Jones fired his gun at mitchell who was still insi family says the shooting paralyzed him. Linn county supervisor Stacey Walker will talk at the benefit tonight. Its at the African American museum in cedar rapids from five until nine tonight. The money will support mitchells family. The Unitypoint Clinic urgent care facility in cedar falls is set to move to a new location. The new facility will open at 5100 prairie parkway and will be available for patients 7 days a week. The urgent care clinic will offer walkin and afterhours care for nonemergency situations. A look at your first alert on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as likely. Plan on clouds to hold on tight through saturday with our next area of low pressure set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day today chance of light snow. Little or no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 tonight scattered flurries. Wind w 1020. 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Look at that devastation from those deadly tornadoes tearing through the south overnight. 23 twisters reported from louisiana to tennessee. Leaving thousands without power. Destroying a Daycare Center. We also have those wildfires burning in tennessee forcing thousands of evacuations. And were following all the latest yes, we are. Right now speculation growing over who will be Donald Trumps secretary of state after he dined with former rival, mitt romney, overnight. Trump is also making more cabinet appointments and revealing new details about what he plans to do with his businesses. Take a look at this gas pipeline explosion in missouri. Just miles from the kansas city airport. Flames shooting into the sky. The fire eventually burned itself out. No word yet on what sparked that fire. And you guys know what . In the galaxy, diego luna, a captain in the new star wars movie. He is going to join us live today. Excited about that. Speaking of excitement, this is how excited everyone is about seeing this film. It had one of the biggest days ever for ticket presales in box office history. Like 20 million worth. Really incredible. Good luck getting tickets on december 16th. Thats true, amy. A lot more on that coming up. Were going to get to the new details now california mom, Sherri Papini. Found alive three weeks after she went missing. New details, the search for her captors is intensifying, as her husband shares disturbing details saying she was battered, bruised and even branded. Abcs Kayna Whitworth is in redding, california, with the latest. Good morning, kayna. Sherri papinis husband keith saying she endured intense physical agony and severe mental torture during her 22 days being held captive adding that ultimately it was sherris will to survive that brought her home. This morning, the terrifying details of Sherri Papinis alleged kidnapping coming to light. Among her injuries, police now say she was branded, a message burned into her skin. I would think that that was some sort of either an exertion of power or control and or maybe some type of message that the brand contained. Did they Say Something or was it a symbol . It is not a symbol, but it was a message. Reporter her husband described an agonizing three weeks in which his wife was tormented physically and mentally. Telling gma, she weighed just 87 pounds and was covered in multicolored bruises, severe burns, red rashes and chain markings. Her signature long blond hair had been chopped off. Obviously a very sick person who may have wanted to not only cut it off to change her humiliate them, wear her down. Reporter Authorities Say the 34yearold stayathome mom was abducted while jogging near her home in redding. A small town in Northern California where she lived with her husband, keith, an electronics salesman and their two kids. 22 days later, she was recovered in restraints on the side of a highway 150 miles away. Releasing this victim after holding her for a pretty extended period of time does not make sense to me. It just doesnt. Because it increase the risk level of the offender exponentially. Reporter according to the fbi, in 2015, there were nearly 85,000 missing persons in the u. S. Over 18,000 of them involuntary abductions. Only about half of those victims ever returning home alive. Now, investigators met with Sherri Papini for a third time yesterday. So were hoping to hear today enough, george, we could see a composite sketch of her captors. That would be a big advance, okay, lets get more from former fbi special agent brad garrett, our abc news consultant. So many disturbing details, the weight loss, the hair cut off. The branding. This is about to destroy her identity, george. The branding is so she will become part of their group. They want to eliminate her past. They cut her hair, they basically they beat her, maybe torture, et cetera and its to make her part of whatever they are. Which leads to the next question, why let her go . Well, we dont know the circumstances. Did these two women, are they part of this group organization, whatever it might be decide this is too much . They pick her up and place her along the side of the road so the context of those two women is unclear. Thats all we know now from her, the two women seemed to have taken her. Is it likely though that other people were involved with Something Like this . Too many steps, george. To go through the starvation, the branding, the cutting of the hair. Its, like, im trying to make you part of whatever we are. Whatever the group whatever their extremist thinking might be. And the longer you do that, the person then becomes more dependent on you to survive, and thats what they want. A lot of internet traffic, oh, was this some kind of hoax. The sheriff saying he ruled that out. Knowing from what you know from the outside do you rule that out as well . Absolutely. If youre going to disappear are you going to go to this much trouble and have somebody brutalize you, brand you, starve you . Not likely. The final question, random or targeted . Any clues there . Im going to guess random and random because shes a woman out jogging. Maybe she does it the same time each day. Perhaps this group were looking for a particular size person, shape, et cetera. And they just grabbed her. It could be an opportunity grab is what im trying to say. Okay, brad garrett, thanks very much. Over to michael. All right, george. Kanye west in crisis. The rapper still in the hospital after that breakdown. Well find out what we can learn about his condition now. 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You shouldnt give underwear to everybody. We welcome you back. Time for the big board breaking down more of this mornings top stories. Dan abrams here at the table and well get to your story in just a moment. First lets start with kanye west. The rapper canceling his tour and hospitalized last week for exhaustion. Now, People Magazine is reporting west is under, quote, constant watch for his safety. Peoples executive editor kate coyne joins us now with details on this. Always good too see you, kate. A lot of concern here. What can you tell us . You know, i think its right for people to be concerned. Were entering into a full week now that kanye west has been i think that tells you first and foremost this is more than exhaustion. Sources are telling us hes grappling with paranoia. That they are trying to figure out a course of medication that may help. But that theres still very many Unanswered Questions at this time and its an ongoing struggle. And his wife, kim kardashian, she already has two young kids at home she needs to worry about and now she has to worry about this with kanye. How is she shes also, of course, still dealing with the trauma of what happened to her in paris so in the wake of all this, she is not bringing the kids to see kanye in the hospital which i think is actually kind of understandable. You know, it could be very traumatic especially for their daughter, north, to see their dad in a hospital room, in a hospital bed. So shes keeping them away for now. But it remains to be seen how much longer hes even going to be in the hospital. Saints birthday is coming up on december 5th. Magazine is out this friday if you want to read more on that story. Up next, a heated debate about random drug testing. An Indiana School board is facing backlash for a measure that was approved that requires certain High School Students to consent to surprise screening. And we sat down and you said, boy, we have a debate going on here. A lot of parents, this is dividing the community. A lot of them feel like this is invasion of privacy. Others think its fair. It was a 32 vote and the board its definitely legal, youre talking about Extracurricular Activities and students who park on campus. Those are the ones who are subject to the random drug screenings. The Supreme Court weighed in on this in 1995 and said its okay to test kids playing sports in 2002. They said its okay to test kids more broadly involved in Extracurricular Activities. Now whether its a good idea is a separate issue from whether its legal. And it actually exists in about almost so if you want to play sports i have to do this but if i dont play sports if you dont engage in Extracurricular Activities. Thats one of my arguments for why this is such a bad idea. I think if you say to people if you engage in Extracurricular Activities youre suddenly subject to drug testing. What does that mean . That means some kids are going to say, i just wont do Extracurricular Activities. Theres also the ability to cheat on these tests, and theres also the fact that these st the American Academy of pediatrics is strongly coming out against it. Thats one side. We got two dads here. We got two moms on the board as well. Dan is fired up. Becky wants to weigh in. Ill jump in here because at the high cool in our town they bret bret liezing at the School Dances and that makes breathalizing for alcohol. Now, as a parent my philosophy is a lot like u. S. Foreign policy, trust but verify. But thats my responsibility as a parent. I dont want an organization necessarily doing that for my kid and maybe having it on their record. Thats true. How about you, kate . Im coming down somewhere in the middle. I have two boys who are approaching adolescence in just a few years and for me at this point anything that serves as a potential deterrent if this testing proves to have that impact to deter people as opposed to just punish them after the fact, has a sort of appeal to me. I can see the allure to something that would scare my kids off of maybe going a little too far on the weekends. Im with kate on that one. I like that. Random drug testing as an athlete. And you would go in, and be, like, come over here right now, and if you do the right things, you have nothing to worry but i dont want they want punished for something, a mistake they make that stays with them for the rest of their lives, but i do agree with kate if theres something that deters the argument that marijuana, for example, is much more detectable than harder drugs so could actually encourage kids anyway, a lot of stuff. You know how we feel here so at home, so wed love the hear you weigh in as well. Now to what could be one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season, drones and cue the drone. Yeah. But there is a new report out this morning in that is a tiny drone. Sounding the alarm bells about the rise of drone jackings where hackers literally take over the device. Becky, you are our expert on this. I know this was a gift for your twins last holiday season, so tell us more about this. What do you think . What ash the jackings . Weve heard stories of drones taken out by annoyed neighbors with a shotgun, but this report predicts well see a drone taken over by hackers, using a laptop, software, directionalized antenna. You have a drone in the studio. Computer. But i think before parents freak out that the kids holiday toy will be poached out of thin air think amazon drone. They anticipate it will start with highend stuff, maybe Aerial Photography or law enforcement, but i have an image of it carrying a package and its like a pinata for a sophisticated thief. Forget about walking into somebodys door and taking a package. They literally hijack your drone. No drone zone i say. In terms of so easier to grab it off the porch. Does anybody here have a drone on the christmas lis no, im actually really thrilled by this report, because i had crossed it off my list already, and now i feel fully vindicated. I wasnt getting one because i was convinced my boys would smash it within the first 48 hours which they would have, and now its like, great, hacking. Another reason not to do it. As a mom youre always justified, kate. Youre a mom. Exactly. They really would have destroyed it in about 48 hours. How do the twins like the drones from last christmas, becky . Kates hit the nail on the it was trashed by the end of the christmas day. Wow. Going to be on your Christmas Tree . Absolutely not. Particularly, i dont want my neighbors to have them. Yeah, i mean i dont want it but thats the more important to me than not on my i had a neighbor who had one. 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I know this was eight years in is the making, so how does it feel . Oh, my gosh, its still surreal. Im in shock. Its wonderful. Good to see you hold that big check like that. You know, amy, a lot of us joke and say, oh, if i hit it big im not coming to work the next day. You all really enjoy the work that you are doing, but was your boss a little concerned he would have 20 people walking out on the job all of a sudden . Yes. An engineering and quality, so its more technical, and he cant just bring somebody in off the street, so he was really nervous. And he was, like, im happy for yall, but please, please dont walk out on and we told him, no, were not going to walk out on you. For the ones thats going to quit well give you time to get a replacement. Good of you guys. Going to after you trained your replacements but others will stay put . There are a couple that are going to stay. Thats great. And i have a question. Id say 50 50. Amy, i have a question. Im sure a lot of people are wondering. What are you going to do with the money . Any plans . What are your plans . Oh, well, at first it was just a shock to know so you have to think about it, but one of the things, of course, is take care of me and my family and kids and pay off the bills. Get ready for retirement. The next thing is, you know, im we were going to the vacation and so now its to help them. Thats one of the biggest things and help macon county, the community. Some of the money going to charity and i know another big question a lot of people have who are watching is, any advice for other office pools . How do you win . Well, you never expect youre ever going to and, you know, so dont go in just expecting and get depressed that you dont win. We have enjoyed it, and we pick on each other, but dont give up, because as you can see, miracles do happen. Yeah. You guys did not give up. No question about that. Congratulations. Were just so happy for each and every one of you. 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Protesters, who chained themselves to Construction Equipment in iowa, are now in custody. Law enforcement in pilot mound made the arrests yesterday after a group of protesters ran past security to the construction site. Pilot mound is in boone county. 2 of protesters chained their wrists together inside of a p vc pipe, wrapped in chicken wire and tar. R searched the area for others in the group, who call themselves mississippi stand. We fully understand the risk of every direct action we take. And we are willing to take those risks and put our lives on the line because we deeply believe water is life therefore we must do everything in our Human Capacity to protect it the pipeline will cross through 18 counties in iowa when its finished. Kcrgtv9 and the heritage area dollars to fill the plate. We got the total back late last night that yesterdays telethon raised 132,066 dollars. All of that money will go towards helping Senior Citizens who dont have easy, regular access to meals. We have a link on how to volunteer or donate to heritage on our website. And now heres your first alert forecast. Cloudy sky is back and will hold on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as well, with gusts around 25mph likely. Plan on set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day today chance of light snow. Little or no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 tonight scattered flurries. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. Path of destruction. Those terrifying wildfires in tennessee, 14,000 people evacuated. Hundreds of homes and businesses burned. My house is on fire. As so many now start returning home to the disaster zone. At war with scientology. Leah reminis new battle with what youre about to see sheds light on the truth of whats really going on with this church. Now scientology leaders firing back. Why remini is demanding more than a Million Dollars from the church. . Welcome to my house . Oneonone with jeff gordon. The nascar champ on racing, whether hes the reallife ricky bobby and his secret talent. Cue it. . Call me jeff gordon with the black ss and the navigation . And the force is with us. Were going rogue. If youre really doing this, i want to help. The captain of the brandnew star wars movie, diego luna here live. Are you with me . All the way. As we say good morning, america. . Rudolph the rednosed reindeer . . Had a very shiny nose . He surprised him. We surprised each other. It is great to be here this morning. We have Kacey Musgraves ahead with her version of rudolph the rednosed reindeer. Celebrating 25 days until christmas. Getting close. Yep. And that guy we just were laughing with, the huge excitement for the new star wars movie and the start of it all, diego luna and theres so many excited fans out there, but the most excited of all may be diegos son so were going to talk to him about that in a little bit. Hes been a lifelong star you know we asked all of you to start sending in your best christmas cookie recipes. Your videos, pictures, how you make them. We had this picture from one of our viewers, sally reese in front of a Christmas Tree in new york and accompanied by a story about her grandmas recipe. Theyre joining us this morning with norwegian christmas cookies. I want to say, i was wondering, i was curious, i had never seen anything like this. I have already decimated theyre good. Butter cookies with meringue and coconut on top. You will, viewers, want this recipe. Really good. This is really good. And very moist. Really, really good. Well finish while amy does the morning rundown. The big story, the deadly storms in the south. Nearly two dozen tornadoes have been reported from louisiana to tennessee. At least three people were killed in alabama and among the injured, four children in Critical Condition after their Daycare Center in northeast alabama was destroyed. Strong winds damaged hundreds of buildings there. Meanwhile, people are just beginning to survey the damage after those raging wildfires eastern tennessee. Three people are confirmed dead. 14,000 people had to evacuate the area, and abcs linzie janis is there with all the latest. Good morning, linzie. Reporter good morning, amy. Overnight more wind whipped up those flames, but the rain has already started coming down this morning. Its expected for most of the day and Officials Say they hope that will help put an end to what has been a very dangerous situation here. The governor calling this wildfire the biggest in over 100 years in tennessee. More than 14,000 residents were forced to flee the two tourist towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge, many of them telling us they had almost no time to react. Some running from their burning homes, others describing their escape as driving through hell. One local official saying those winds were so strong and whipped up this wildfire, no one could have predicted this. It has left hundreds of people homeless, hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. Amy. What a horrible situation there. This morning from president elect donald trump. He says he will remove himself from his companies so he can, quote, fully focus on running the country. Trump says he will discuss the details in a press conference on december 15th. Today he is heading to indianapolis after reaching a deal with carrier to keep nearly 1,000 jobs from moving to mexico and last night he had dinner with mitt romney who later praised trump and expressed confidence in his leadership and thats a stunning aboutface from earlier this year when romney slammed him as a fraud. Trump has yet state. Meanwhile, trump has picked former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin for treasury secretary. And a deadly accident at Cirque Du Soleil in san francisco. Officials say a technician died after being struck by a piece of lifting equipment. It happened during rehearsal. Police and safety regulators are investigating. And a brazen theft in new york city. Take a look at this man. Gold flakes worth 1. 6 million. That bucket weighed about 90 pounds, and the man is still on the run this morning. And finally, a mystery thats truly for the birds. Construction workers in new zealand baffled by their orange traffic cones which were moving on their own. Well, they went to videotape to check it out. And look what they found. Birds flying under the cones to move them. The workers think the birds were doing tricks to get some human attention and hopefully some human food. I was going to sparrowou a bird pun, but thats what i call fowl play. I love when you pause. Its like wait for it, wait for it. Bring it on home. Well done as always, amy. Thank you. How about pop news. Thank you. Hey, robin, welcome back. Pop news time. Oscar winner Matthew Mcconaughey raised some eyebrows when he starred in that series of lincoln commercials. Now hes trading it for safety. At his alma mater, the monday night. For a great cause. Its the sure walk program, that Program Giving students free rides or providing someone to walk home with them on campus any time needed between 7 00 p. M. And 2 00 a. M. To ensure a safe return to their dorm in case theyre perhaps a little dazed and confused. The program is not new, but it has become so important in the aftermath of that young female student killed on campus last year, so, matthew, we thank you for bringing that. And, george, i know its a friend of yours. Paul begala, the student body president back when it started in the 1980s. It was a walk program for the longest time but after this killing he and his wife bought the golf cart and its really making a difference out there. Yep. And thank you for bringing that to us. Also in pop news, this morning, happy to report wedding vows for a favorite dancing with the stars pro. Mark ballas tying the knot with his girlfriend. When did this happen . Of four years. This past weekend. Wrote if i was a boy for beyonce. But, boy, she looked anything but. Not a boy. Nope. Out there in a santa monica wedding. She wore notice george says that under his breath. So we hear it. Look at these pictures. Go ahead, just roll them slowly and enjoy. She really is one of the most beautiful brides ive ever seen. Im not sure what those pictures oh, theres some of the guests. She had had this incredible bejeweled headpiece and ballas starring in broadway jersey boys on broadway, wore a custom threepiece suit and his best man derek hough and the other best buddy was a 2yearold rescue dog hendricks and dancing pros, val, julianne and cheryl burke and guess what they did at the reception. Dancing. Everybody catch mark in jersey boys until january 15th. We want to thank people and entertainment weekly. You can see more from the wedding on peoples website. Congratulations. Theyre waiting until mark is done with broadway and then so congrats. Finally, im happy to report this, the exercise industry can be quite a racket as we know but no game when it comes to determining what sport can actually increase your life expectancy. A new study by the british journal Sports Medicine analyzed 80,000 adults for nearly a decade so this is legit and they found one sport that was game, set and match above the rest. Oh, your sport. Tennis, badminton or squa 56 less likely, people who play them a lot are 56 less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those who swim, cycle or do aerobics. No wonder they call tennis the game of life. I would just like to say, george, not getting rid of me for a long time. Good thing. Good thing. Kind of surprising, though. Yeah, agreed. Especially swimming and especially if you saw me on the tennis court, you would think i could die at any moment. How often do you get a chance im still recovering from hip surgery. When i was playing, the reason i needed hip surgery is because i was playing a lot, three to four times a week. So hopefully many years to come. Thats pop news, everybody. All right, lara, coming up actress leah reminis new and very public battle with her former religion. 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What youre about to see sheds light on the truth of whats really going on with this church, a church that i promoted, defended and believed in most of my life. Reporter leah reminis level tuesday night with the First Episode of her new Docuseries Leah Remini scientology and the aftermath. I hope that this project at least validates your pain is real. Reporter a es eightpart series follows former members of the church and tells their stories. Reminis fight against the church in which she was raised began when she quit three years ago and then escalated last year with the release of her book troublemaker in which she i really did believe that i had oneup on everybody because i had this scientology thing. Reporter the church said her book was a pathetic quest to get publicity. As for her new show, the church insists it is full of lies and said it is doomed to be a cheap reality tv show. She needs to move on with her life instead of pathetically exploiting her former religion, her former friends and other Hollywood Reporter, quote, they were trying to stop this show from happening. They were trying to disparage my name. When you stop [ bleep ] up peoples lives and families ill stop too. Reporter remini is now demanding 1. 5 million from the church. She tells the Hollywood Reporter its a response to the horrific and libelous letters they sent me. Also in that Hollywood Reporter interview, remini claims that back when she was starring in the cbs sitcom the king of queens, tom cruise and the church urged her to call her then boss, les moonves, the chief executive officer of cbs corporation. She says, i got pressured to call les moonves at cbs to try and get a 60 minutes report squashed. She says she made the call but moonves refused to intervene. We reached out to cruise and cbs for a statement and they did not respond to our inquiries. I sat down for an interview with leah remini just last year in which she described the power and allure of the church for her so for a kid who was always looking around comparing herself to other people, to be part of a faith where you had a mission to save the planet. Save the planet. That must have been a big deal. Yes, and because scientologists view children as spiritual beings, youre not treated as a kid, so youre given a lot of responsibility. Your ego becomes extremely inflated. Reporter remini says her new show is about families that the church has torn apart, something she says she knows all too well after losing a best friend to the religion. The church of scientology says in a statement to abc news, it is sad that leah remini wishes to exploit for money those who tirelessly worked to help her when no one else was willing to tolerate her behavior, adding that remini needs to stop blaming the church. For Good Morning America, dan harris, abc news, new york. And we are back with our chief legal analyst dan abrams and, dan, given her history remini must have known and a e from the church. Absolutely. Look, scientology is notoriously litigious and they will protect what they view as their reputation to great length. So as a result, you can count on the fact that a e went through everything she said line by line and separating out opinion from fact, right. As a legal matter, she can give her opinion about things. The dangers as a legal matter are stating something as a fact and various factual claims that shes making here. What is the standard there for a church as opposed to a public figure on the factual claims . Is it enough for it just to be wrong . Look, it would be the same because the church isnt an individual but basically the same legal standards apply as would apply to any other church. And as a result, its a hard lawsuit to take, so were seeing a lot of back and forth here between leah reminis lawyer and going back and forth. A lot of demands going and back. Shes not going to get 1. 5 million. Shes not going they want a Million Dollars. That sounds like a fair amount. This isnt a lawsuit yet. These are just threats back and forth and i dont expect its ever going to end up in court. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Well be right back. Cal day. There is nothing typical about making movies. Im victoria alonso and im an executive producer. At marvel studios. We are very much handson producers. If my office. Fast and portable but also light. You dont do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for. Decades if you dont feel it in your heart. Listen, i know my super power is to not ever sleep. Thats it. Thats the only super power i have. Hi, im phil mickelson. Ive been fortunate enough to win on golfs biggest stages. But when joint pain and stiffness from Psoriatic Arthritis hit. And he prescribed enbrel. To help relieve joint pain and help stop further joint damage. Enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. 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This is emily from atlanta. You have something to say, emily. Good morning, america. Thats right. Good morning, america. We got some fog and rain coming in later. We are standing by for star wars actor diego luna coming ud on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of likely. Plan on clouds to hold on tight through saturday with our next area of low pressure set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day all right. Now to those dating dangers, you can face them online. Millions are using apps to find love but many women are becoming targets of Sexual Harassment. Abcs Rebecca Jarvis is here with more on our new series crossing the line, and good morning, rebecca. Good morning,ic people are using dating apps for companionship, but many of them say theyve been sexually harassed. Even the ceo of tinder recently admitted there is a bad behavior problem on his site and the company is working on tools to fix it. Heres how some women are fighting back. Online dating apps have changed the way we date. But these apps have also transformed the world of Sexual Harassment. This whole concept of those i think people arent sensitive enough. Reporter take a look at some of these real images sent to women online. Vulgar messages ranging from you look doable to the more aggressive, i want to get you accidentally pregnant and others too obscene to repeat. And when guys are rejected, the vulgarity continues. Slut, says one, and you could be a model if you lost a little weight, sweetheart. Do you think Sexual Harassment on dating apps has become the i think its become an unhealthy part of the dating app world. Reporter 29yearold Alexandra Tweeten says she received dozens of harassing messages while using dating apps. Sexist and hateful and, yeah, that really surprised me. Reporter so she decided to fight back creating this instagram page, bye felipe publicly shaming harassing petition on change. Org to stop harassing messages and pictures on social media. Not every man harasses women but every woman you know has been harassed at some point. Reporter in august this post on twitter went viral after a young woman publicly showed how even a picture of her headphones sparked lewd sexual advances. One mans response, you wearing those and nothing else, that would be heaven. This is an assault of the person who is getting the comments. Person who is sending the comments. Reporter according to the pew research center, 42 of women who online date have been harassed and while online, 26 of young women say they experience stalking, and 25 are targets of online Sexual Harassment. Whats the spillover effect of this kind of behavior in these types of interactions in real life . You feel afraid. You feel that you cant go out into the cyberworld without i definitely think that anonymity probably adds to some people just posting whatever they want to post but what should someone do if they get these ugly comments . You can speak out to the offender. Tell them to stop in no Uncertain Terms and block them. But i think as these websites are businesses, you have to think of yourself as a customer, a consumer. You tell the website whats going on. You speak out. You talk about the fact that this is going on or you even consider stop using the website because ultimately thats going to hit them at their bottom line. Thats going to have the biggest impact for t the bottom line has the biggest impact every time. Thank you, rebecca. We appreciate that, and now lets go upstairs to lara. All right, thank you very much. 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And the trumpets they go . We welcome you back. What a wonderful audience that we have here. Im telling you. [ cheers and applause ] yeah, i love it. Love that. Why dont you kick things off. It is the holiday season. Gma in the holiday mood. A lot of holiday matters. George and i were at a party last night. We go to these parties and it comes to the point youre done dancing, ready to go home. Is that like 6 30 . Yeah, 6 30. George, we were out till 8 25. That was a late night. We put in our time last night. But do you say goodbye to the host . That is the new debate thats out there right now. Sure. Well, there is a study. To look at it. They said, okay, if youre at a party and more than a dozen people in attendance, you should say goodbye to the host. Thats one way to look at it. If theres more or less. If there are fewer than a dozen you have to say goodbye. But otherwise you can do the right. They call it ghosting, and if theres more than a dozen, you dont necessarily have to say goodbye to the host. Heres the caveat i have. Because we have to i have to leave things early a lot because of this and if its you dont want to do this whole thing, oh, im leaving now but you kind of want to slip out and maybe tell the host ahead of time but you dont want you dont want to get yelled at by the host. Right. Lara, we know this especially and maybe you have he is masterful. This man right here at getting out. You do it so well. We have actually had george lead the charge and all hid behind george. In his wake. It depends on how well you know the people but they say a lot of times if youre going to the host, this is a good way when you make sure youre thanking them. Thank them and that gives them the hint that im thanking you because i got to go. But real simple now, if there are more than 12 people there, you can sneak out and then just send a little thank you email and youre not being rude. And youre not being rude. But if theres less, you should probably take the time to say goodbye to your host. All right, great. And its always great to send a little thank you note. A little thank you note. [ applause ] well done. All right. Im going to bring a little football to the table football. Over the weekend you know a lot of rivalries and jets and patriots and patriots won that game. Yes. I know it pains you. All right. Patriots fans. [ applause ] tom brady like a lot of players has a radio show so tom brady goes on his radio show, and did you watch your daddy play yesterday . Yeah. He was playing against the green guys. I dont know what theyre called but theyre very good. How did you think your dad did yesterday . Great. He flipped his chest. He flipped his chest. And he tripped too. He sure did. He got tripped a few times didnt he . And he got even more hurt. More hurt . Well, maybe youll tell us whats wrong with him. I dont know. Hes in a crazy way. Next fight with the broncos, its gonna be crazy. Hes gonna be like a horse next time. Oh, wow, youre already looking ahead, arent you, benny . Yeah, he can look ahead. I cant. His son can look ahead to the next game. He cant. I love that. I absolutely love that. I do. Because you know you get to play a game for a living and heres your kid who gets to see you donkey. Exactly. Flipped his chest. What does that mean . I have no idea. Im not able to decipher the 6yearold mind. You usually am but not this time. Do your kids watch in the morning and critique you . Yeah, i try to not have that happen anymore. Theyre teens and preteen. The critiques are rough. Yeah. Yeah, right . They get out of the house a little earlier now so thats okay. Your girls always weigh in. Theyre so sweet. They weigh in on everything. It gets less sweet as they get older. Oh, does it . Its been wonderful to see your kids grow up. Oh, thank you. You can have them. Were at the age where we can do nothing right. Did your kids really Pay Attention to what you do or know you go to work . They dont Pay Attention. It comes and goes. Yeah. Mostly i think that theyre they just want us to be regular parents and its sort of when were out in public its like uncomfortable. They get a little embarrassed. Yeah, with the exception of on the show. Oh, yeah. All of a sudden, hey, we want to watch kylie jenner coming on, okay. [ applause ] great show, dad. Great show. I love what you do, dad. Totally. You got a special guest. I do have a special guest. Lets bring in diego luna. [ applause ] [ playing the theme to star wars ] . [ applause ] good to see you, man. Hey. Hi. Always good to see you. Same. How are you . Very good. Good to see you. So were talking about kids. You have a little boy, a little girl, right . I have both, yeah. I have the most Beautiful Boy and girl. Theyre 8 and 6. 8. And your little boy got im sorry to tell you that. You might be the second most beautiful, yeah. So your little boy got to see a piece of you. Yeah. In star wars. Whole relation has changed since this came out. Wow. Oh. I mean because hero. Coolest dad ever. Hes a huge fan of star wars and when i told him, he just went crazy. You know, its like work normally used to separate us, you know, he hated my job. He was like, where are you going . Why for a month . Yeah, you crazy. Youre going to leave me here. Yeah, dad, you got to go, right . 6 00 a. M. In the morning, what i mean, and please behave. You know that kind of thing, that talk you have when theyre going to go to school, it was the other way around. Make sure you do what the director says, be there on time. He wants you coming back. Did he get a chance to go on set or yeah, they both went to set and it was beautiful because they came to the rebel station and its an amazing set where you have all the ships and the people running around and droids that like going this is paradise. Finally, i mean, were never going to go back home, right, dad . Diego, i know your son is not alone. You grew up a giant fan and i love the story. Your first day on the set. Yeah, of course. [ applause ] thank you. Your first day on the set. You were probably as excited as your son, it sounds like. I arrived to london and the producer goes like, oh, gareth, gareth edwards, hes the director and hes like, go meet him. Hes on the set. Hes doing a camera test and i arrive and hes like, welcome. Were going to have so much fun and hes in front of a monitor anthen i started listening, [ darth vader breathing sounds ] and i just went like, oh, no, oh. And i could see gareths face and he had the same expression like we suddenly went to kids hes taller than you. You would feel terrible next to him, and hes like there just [ darth vader breathing sounds ] and then he says, like, should i come in through the left or the right . Oh. Youre doing a movie. This is fantastic. So, we had Felicity Jones the other day. She said she did kung fu martial arts. You did military training for this . Yeah, my character is a captain, an Intelligence Officer so, yeah, i had to do a lot of military training to understand like how the mind of someone in the military works, you know, because im supposed to keep this Team Together through the mission, and i know nothing about war, you know. Thankfully. Its a good thing, right. So i had to do a lot of research and it was a lot of fun. Also just the physical training to be able to do the stuff we made on this film because there was no like the double will do that. The double will do that. You got some injuries, right . Yeah, of course. I mean, its a star wars film. You want to go for it, right . [ applause ] do you get a lightsaber . No, i cant the trailer were rebels. This film is about its the most grounded star wars film. Its about the people. Its about heroes like you and i and, you know, like regular people doing extraordinary things. What its saying is we can all be part of change and we could all make great things happen. Thats a beautiful message. We work as a team and were very powerful. So but since youre such a big fan and youve already shot this movie, did you take anything with you to remind you . If you did, maybe you dont want to tell us. A confession moment. You know what, i am mexican. I want to be able to come back to this country. Im not going to tell on national tv i stole something. Oh, thats good. Thank you for coming in. Come back any time. [ cheers and applause ] rogue one hits theaters december 16th. Oh, tell everybody. Wait, wait, i have something to tell you. I have something to tell you. Everybody in the audience is going home with imax tickets to rogue one. [ cheers and applause ] big deal. All right. Look, the ohio contingent is here. Sandusky. Virginia. Connecticut. Tennessee. All right. Our hearts go out to you from tennessee for sure. Want to show you video from northern colorado. It is ski season. Take a look. They are cutting tracks in steamboat. Oh, the champagne powder is there. We will take it. For the season with more on the way. All right. Nascar fans, jeff gordon just a few minutes away but, matt, happy birthday. Were getting it doncloudy sky d on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as well, with gusts around 25mph this weathercast brought to you by state farm. Can we get security on the people from ohio, please . So nice to have you. Michael, back inside. All right, rob, thank you, man. Nascar legend jeff gordon has 93 wins and 4 championships under his belt so its no surprise that his new biography is a winner as well. Jeff gordon his dream, drive destiny is out now, and i had a chance to sit down with jeff to talk about his life, career and whether or not hes really retired. Take a look. So happy to have you here with us. Thank you so much and, okay, we got to get to the bottom of this. Because ive been wondering about this. You retired but then you drove for Dale Earnhardt jr. , so are you retired or not . Im a little confused. Im confused too. I thought i was. I was in the south of france on vacation, and all of a sudden i get this call, and its, we may need you in indianapolis, you know, and i hated to hear the situation with dale having, you know, the injury, but, man, im why did you decide to write this book now . Well, because i was i thought i was wrapping up my career as a driver, but, no, seriously, you know, to go all the way back to the beginning. Probably a little bit of therapy for yourself. Oh, my gosh. Probably some things you look back and say, man, i did that. I accomplished it. When youre in it, youre not thinking about what how its affecting you and what the impact it has on your life. My parents had to work hard, sacrifice a lot. I mean, ive been at a racetrack probably every weekend just about since i was maybe 6 or 7 speaking of family, John Bickford your stepfather. Hes the hero in this book. You gave him a lot of credit. Luckily my mom met him when i was very young and he presented the race car to me and my sister. She wasnt interested. Now shes like i could have been danica patrick. [ applause ] but, yeah, no, absolutely. He is the one and not just but he guided me along the way. I tell you the book is very candid, and one thing youre exwife. And in reading it i couldnt help but think about, you know, ricky bobby and talladega nights. I wasnt i wasnt thinking of that when we wrote the book. But ive had a lot of people comment about that but honestly like i go back to that time of my life and i go, who was i . It was crazy. I mean life was good on one hand because of all the wins and the success and my lifestyle was just booming and blowing up and this is not who i am and so, yeah, there was definitely some ricky bobby moments during that time. One thing i love, man, im a connoisseur of rap music, i love rap music, and there is this song that nelly did called e. I. It put me on the map. Yeah. Put you on the map but youre in the song, man. I know. . Call me jeff gordon in a black . Call me jeff gordon with the black ss and the navigation . [ cheers and applause ] that was terrible. By the way. That was horrible. Rap career next. No. I dont think so. Rap career is next for you. I feel it in my bones. Maybe we can do a little collabo. Im feeling it. I want to tell you what, your history is incredible. Trust me. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. [ cheers and applause ] that was a lot of fun with fun when we come back because Kacey Musgraves is here helping us get into the holiday spirit. . You would even say it glowed . . Rudolph the rednosed . Rudolph the rednosed reindeer . Oh, how i love this woman, Kacey Musgraves. The country star is going christmas. Its her new album out now, a very Kacey Christmas. I love that. It features four original tracks she is here with some friends and shes about to sing rudolph the rednosed reindeer. Okay, kacey. . Heres one for all the little kids. . You know dasher and dancer and cupid and donner and blitzen . . But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all . . . Rudolph the rednosed reindeer . Like a light bulb . . All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names . . They never let poor rudolph join in any reindeer games . . Then one foggy Christmas Eve ole santa came to say ho ho . Rudolph with your nose so bright wont you guide my sleigh tonight . . Well, then all the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee . . Yippee . . Rudolph the rednosed reindeer youll go down in history . . Hit it, gals. A little steel. . . . . . Then one foggy Christmas Eve ole santa came to say ho ho ho . . Rudolph, with your nose so bright wont you guide my sleigh tonight . . Well, then all the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee . Rednosed reindeer youll go down in history . . Oh, yeah youll go down go down in history . [ cheers and applause ] gmas fall Concert Series is presented by carmax. Gma thursday means one thing. Really great deals. So tomorrow get ready. Are you ready . Im ready. Because the only place youll see these ultimate deals on the holiday must haves for the whole family. Lets go. Is Good Morning America. . Rudolph the rednosed reindeer . Our thanks again to Kacey Musgraves. A very Kacey Christmas is the name of the al and have you us in the mood. I got to say that. Thanks for watching, everybody. D capitol hill. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley met with with the president elects pick for attorney general yesterday. Jeff sessions is a republican senator from alabama who sits on grassleys Senate Judiciary committee. Grassley says the panel plans to hold a confirmation hearing before the inauguration on january 20th. The 2nd finalist for president of the university of Northern Iowa is someone whos very familiar with the campus. Today, hes meeting with people around uni. Jim wohlpart is already serving as unis interim president. He was previously finalist, neil theobald, attended a forum on campus. He is the former president of Temple University in philadelphia. And now heres your first alert forecast. Cloudy sky is back and will hold on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as well, with gusts around 25mph likely. Plan on clouds to hold on tight through saturday with our next area of low pressure set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day today chance of light snow. Little or no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 wind w 1020. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 1015 high 37 tom. Night cloudy and cool. Announcer its today, from the series madam secretary, tim daly. And, from rogue one a star wars story, diego luna. And we continue lives holiday gift guide. Plus, from the walking dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins kelly at the cohost desk. All next on live and now, here are kelly ripa and Jeffrey Dean Morgan [cheering and applauding] .