Good monday morning. We begin with a big announcement from texas senator ted cruz. The president ial race is officially taking shape now. Cruz, a republican, announced his candidacy after midnight eastern title time becoming the first person to make it official from any party. Susan, good morning. Reporter good morning, reena and t. J. Just three years ago cruz was an underdog in his campaign for the senate. Now he has eyes on the white house. The official kickoff of the 2016 president ial race has begun with a tweet from ted cruz. Of texas. Tea party favorite. His appeal came with a video message. Its going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America Great again. Reporter cruz is the first politician to declare a run for president in 2016. He spent some of yesterday preparing to officially announce his bid later today at liberty university. Up until now, cruz has been best known as a divisive figure who spear headed the fight against obamacare that led to a shutdown in 2013 following a 21hour filibuster on the senate floor. I do not like them, sam i am. Reporter cruz may not be the only republican contender for long. Senator rand paul is announcing in two weeks. Maybe a different kind of republican might be the kind of republican that could win an election. Reporter former Florida Governor jeb bush is raising huge sums of cash and is at or near the top of many polls. I got a great record to run on. Im not embarrassed about it. Im not going to change who i am. Reporter it looks like chris christie, former senator Rick Santorum and rick perry are campaigning but not yet officially in. Critics say he will have a harder time raising money from the traditional moderate republican base. His supporters disagree. You keep doing the same thing over and over again of getting a moderate republican, you cannot win. Reporter cruz will aim the race 40 to 50 million and it will take that much or more to make him competitive. In a crowded field. Thank you so much. This mornings big story, american troops whose names turned up on a hit list attributed to isis. Some saying theyre unphased by the threat. The online posting revealed the information of Service Members calling on lone wolves to murder them. Abc with the story. Reporter pictures, home addresses, more than 100 American Military personnel exposed online. The message, kill those listed. The homegrown extremist who can be inspired to attack our military in the united states, and i think unfortunately it would be not so difficult to pull off. The group behind this list calls itself the Islamic StateHacking Division and claims to represent isis. It says the information came from military records, but pentagon Officials Say the photos and most of the information are already available in public records and on social media. I worry that this increasing sophistication by this islamic terrorist organizations to manipulate social media to their own ends is a very worrying trend. The department of defense says it has contacted all the families listed, mostly air force and navy. Warning all military members and families to limit what they post on social media. Concerns remain about how vulnerable they may be. This is the kind of activity they have engaged in over the past several months specifically asking their followers and their supporters to carry out attacks. The fbi is also monitoring the situation. But the focus really now is trying to stop any sympathizers from answering that call. Hamish macdonald, abc news, london. Turning to yemen, an allout civil war. The u. S. Withdrawing its special forces from the country over the weekend and its the third and largest city fallen to rebels backed by iran. The chaos is allowing isis and al qaeda to set up attacks. The situation so dire, the u. N. Security council gathered yesterday for a meeting. Investigators in new orleans the motive for the bizarre attack at the airport isnt clear. But suspects mental problems likely played a role. Richard white went off tsa agents with a machete and bug spray friday night and being shot before he caused serious injuries. He later died. The incident has renewed calls for tsa agents to be armed but the system worked in this case. The racially charge takedown of a university of virginia student at a local pub. There this video shows the arrest of martice johnson claiming he was drunk. The coowner of the public that had carted johnson, turned him away had a different view of the 20yearolds behavior. I didnt think he was intoxicated at all. He was cordial. I asked him what high school he went to. He was just disappointed he didnt get in. He was acting like a normal college kid. The incident sparked protests on campus at a meeting between students and Law Enforcement last week. Black students walked out in protest. Martice johnson was among them. State police are investigating. A california woman was transferred to a los angeles hospital to be tested for ebola. A Public Health official had been monitoring her since her return from one of the african countries where the disease is active. Yesterday she came down with a fever. Shell stay in the hospital until tests are completed. Officials say they believe its unlikely she has ebola. Millionaire robert durst is due in court in new orleans this morning. Its a bond hearing for the louisiana gun and drug charges, but his attorney plans to argue that prosecutors acted improperly when he was arrested on a murder warrant. He says there wasnt enough evidence to arrest durst. A los angeles prosecutor spoke to durst without an attorney present. Funeral services have been held in mexico for a wrestler who died in the ring. He fell unconscious on the ropes after receiving a flying kick. From a fellow wrestler. Took two minutes before others realized how seriously he was injured. Wrestling association has said it was a tragic accident but the state prosecutor opened a man slaughter investigation. One hiker is dead and one in Critical Condition after they were caught in a collapse of this cliff at the seashore in northern california. They plunged 70 feet to the water below. Park officials said they had put up warning signs at the trailhead. Ski resorts in california are closing early because of lack of snow. In the sierras. Some areas leaving little room for snow boarders. The resort cancelled a world cup ski and snow event. Its a result of the California Drought and warmer than usual weather. There is snow, further east, michigan, northern illinois, ohio, indiana and a dusting today. Rain in the eastern carolinas and florida. More rain in the northwest and snow in the northern rockies. Cold in the northeast. Temperatures later on in the 30s. Warming up in the southwest. The hot spot, miami, 89. Still ahead, special delivery, mustsee video of the pontiff getting a pizza delivered right to his pope mobile. Stranded overnight. Surrounded by water and alligators. A group is saved by a quickthinking 10yearold. Major malfunction. A ski lift moving backwards at a fast pace. New details on exactly what went wrong. Gas prices are holding steady. Aaa says the National Average is 2. 42 a gallon. The same as yesterday and a week ago. But thats 12 cents more than a month ago. Crude oils prices down and plenty of gasoline on the market now. Prices could edge up as we get into the spring and summer driving season. Starbucks is decaffeinating its Diversity Campaign. Its baristas are no longer writing race together on customers cups. The practice got starbucks in a bit of hot water making fun on social media. Starbucks said it had always planned to end that part of the campaign after a week and the rest of its Diversity Campaign will continue. Insurgents surged to the top of the box office. A sequel to divergent. Based on a Science Fiction trilogy. Three more films are in the works and in their second weekend at the movies cinderella fell to second place and Action Thriller run all night to third. Well if you cant get the pope to the pizzeria, bring the pizza to the pope. Thats exactly what happened. You see youre going to see this owner of a pizzeria. Pope francis riding through naples. Thats a pizza owner. Going up to the pope mobile, and he hopped a security fence and hands him a custommade pie marked with the words long live the pope. The pope accepted it. On an interview days ago pope francis said he wanted to go out to a pizzeria one day and not get recognized. It didnt work. So he brought the pizza to the pope. I dont think he tipped him. Did he . Give the guy a break. He blessed him. How about that . Ill take that any day over a tip. When we come back, the criminals were smart, but the guards not so much. 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Officials figured out that the state has a system in place to respond and pay for an oil spill but there is not money available to pay for a spill of any other substance that place add huge burden on the nonprofit agencies trying to rescue the birds. More than 300 birds are estimated it have died in january when the unidentified goo was spilled into the bill. Lawmakers were surprised to marry there was to hear there was no Immediate Response and nonprofits did the work and paid for it. They saved and released 154 birds but it cost the center here in fairfield about 150,000. To two senators one from San Francisco and berkeley want to change that and they want the state to help and they will hold a press conference to announce a bill to help get