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And an icy upset in sochi. The defending Gold Medalist dethroned with more than a million rushing to sign a petition overnight calling for an investigation. And the hockey shocker with gold at stake as the american women lose a late lead and fall to arch rival canada in overtime. Now bobsledding sensation johnny quinn actually gets ready to take to the track. Good morning, america we do say good morning, america, on this friday morning. Team usa now with matching gold medals in the olympic debut of ski halfpipe. Maddie bowman, who has been skiing since 2, at the ripe old age of 20 winning gold. The youngest american to win gold. Boy, i tell you what, the look on her face last night. Of course, crazy day in sochi. That finish to the womens olympic hockey final, canada taking down the u. S. Women in gutting fashion. And raising the stakes, if you could, even higher today as the u. S. Men now prepare for their semifinal against canada. That puck will drop in just a few hours. Fair to say these will be in seats for that. You got it. First, we want to get to the Severe Weather. A storm front wreaking havoc from illinois all the way to alabama and it is on the move. It is. We are looking at a current radar, so you can see the impressive lightning strikes all the way from virginia really down to the florida panhandle. Severe thunderstorm watch from tallahassee up through western south carolina. So weve got a lot to talk about this morning. But look what happened just hours ago in alabama. Northern alabama weve got ft. Payne, pictures of twisted semis some thrown on top of buildings all part of more than 300 Severe Weather reports including 13 tornadoes reported in illinois, one of them in mechanicsburg, illinois. And that is where alex perez is this morning with all of the stunning pictures. Alex . Reporter well, good morning, ginger. The winds still howling. That brief warmup across the midwest yesterday came at a big price. Parts of illinois waking up to damage just like this. The wind so strong here it completely ripped this Storage Building to shreds. A terrifying and rare sight. Wintertime twisters tearing through illinois. And early this morning in alabama this semitrailer picked up and slammed into the side of a building. Emergency workers are still assessing the damage. A number of people taken to the hospital. Tornadoes this far north are rare at this time of year and double trouble in a region where snow is still on the ground. Just a few miles from one reported twister in concord, illinois, this fiery 20car pileup on a snowslicked road as lightning struck in nashville. In rochester, minnesota, a cell phone transformer blowing up in the snowstorm. Heavy winds blew this semi right off the road. In plymouth, michigan, heavy snow and ice collapsed this mans garage. Well be back tomorrow to start cutting it all apart. Reporter in Oklahoma City wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. Its crazy. Reporter slamming shopping carts into car after car. In huron county, michigan, crews using dynamite to break up ice dams on this river and prevent flooding. Finally in minneapolis, blizzard conditions hampering roads and runways. At minneapolis st. Paul airport, the snow falling so fast, crews couldnt keep up. So the cleanup here hasnt even started yet, but the good news is there are no reports of any injuries. But the weather roller coaster is not done just yet. The midwest now bracing for plunging temperatures and return of the bitter cold. Ginger . Youre so right. Often in the spring these types of tornado outbreaks then and Severe Weather outbreaks followed by severe cold. But here is what i wanted to show you today. From southern new jersey all the way to jacksonville, florida, that is who has to be on alert. Damaging wind, hail and isolated tornadoes. Robin . Such a large portion like that. All right, thank you, ginger. Now to those fastmoving developments in ukraine. News now of a deal for elections as the president tries to defuse the violent crisis there. The country of 46 million torn between protesters who want western freedom and the police enforcing ukraine linked to russia. Abcs Hamish Macdonald is live in kiev with the latest developments there this morning. Hamish, good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning to you, robin. This is the moment that ukraine must decide its future. Will it descend further towards civil war or can it find a political solution . This hour the president says he will be signing with the opposition a deal to bring about early elections, but as that is happening were hearing reports of fresh gunfire unconfirmed in the square. Theyre chanting no deal. Protesters are calling it a massacre. Watch as uniformed snipers pick off their targets from a distance. This is the moment a government turns on its own people with lethal force. Two days ago this was a hotel lobby. Today a field hospital. The injured are treated on the floor and left alongside the dead. They were killed by very high professionals. The bullets come directly to heart, to neck, to lungs. Reporter police too are suffering casualties. Each side has its victims. Its now pretty much a clear run from the front line up the hill to the Parliament Building but weve just been told if we want to walk it carry a press card above your head because snipers are lining the rooftops. Ukraine is locked in a battle for its own future. Does it choose europe, america, western values or its nearest and biggest neighbor, russia . The bloodshed is pushing ordinary people to extreme and violent limits and there may be no turning back. Josh, the reality is there is so much at stake here and the coming hours will be perhaps the most crucial this countrys faced so far. And, of course, well be with you throughout. Hamish, thank you very much for that. Of course, especially stunning those pictures for whats happening just across the border in russia. Sochi to be precise. To the olympics where, again, it was a stunning day on the ice in both figure skating and hockey and our amy robach once again tracking all of it from our gma headquarters right there at our olympics desk. Amy, once again, good morning to you. And good morning to you, josh. It was a historic but controversial night at the iceberg skating palace. The hometown crowd cheering on its gold medal in figure skating. But millions worldwide crying foul. An unbelievable upset now sending shock waves around the world. Listen to this prorussian crowd. Reporter even after this major stumble russias Adelina Sotnikova took home the gold on home turf. Dethroning south koreas yuna kim, the defending Gold Medalist, despite her seemingly immaculate performance. A performance for the ages. Reporter the unexpected outcome prompting nearly 100,000 people per minute to sign a petition online overnight demanding an investigation. The now roughly 1. 5 million petitioners outraged two of the skating judges reportedly have russian ties. One said to be married to the director of the russian figure skating federation. Another previously suspended after trying to fix an event in the 1998 games. Meanwhile, american skating superstar gracie gold nearly perfect except for this. A tough tumble tossing her into fourth place and teammate Ashley Wagner all smiles after a dazzling seventh place skate. And another icy upset in womens hockey. Shot score the gold medal to canada. Reporter team usa suffering a heartbreaking loss in overtime, a miracle on ice moment just inches out of reach. And the puck goes down and hits the goal post reporter up by one, team usa hitting the post on the open net then this. Scores reporter with 54 seconds on the clock, canada ties it, winning in overtime. We didnt train as hard as we could for second place. Reporter while up in the mountains american favorite Maddie Bowman soaring to the first ever gold medal in womens sky halfpipe. And now lets get to the latest news and we have to salute the womens hockey team. What an incredible run to silver and the u. S. Olympic committee is honoring them by naming julie chu flag bearer for the closing ceremonies. It is so well deserved and the mens team, by the way is after revenge now. Taking on team canada in the hockey semifinals, the puck drops in just a few short hours. And we will be watching the mountains at rosa khutor when americas new phenom Mikaela Shiffrin goes for a slalom gold. The 18yearold from colorado was wowing the ski world this season. Shes taking three of the six world cup races, she says she uses visualization to prepare for races and for the slalom, she tells us shes been picturing herself on the podium. We will have to see if that picture comes to life. Guys, i am picturing myself back in new york city very soon, so hope to see you there. Robin. Youve been doing a great job there, amy, well welcome you home with open arms. Thank you. Back with you in just a moment. Lets bring in sasha cohen who is here with us in new york and our dear friend at espn, julie foudy who is live from sochi. Sasha, let me begin with you. Figure skating, wow. What do you make of what happened last night . Well, the americans were good. It was disappointing they didnt get a medal but they werent good enough. Gracie fell and ashley had a cheated double footed combination which really hurt her in the technical score. Adelina had superior jumps and spins and all those points just racked up. If you look at the breakdown you can see she deserved to win that night. We heard in amys report theres some controversy with the judging, in fact, american Ashley Wagner, she sent this on yahoo people dont want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean. What did you think about the judging . As gracie knows skating, a clean jump counts for a lot. If you double foot and cheat a jump, 30 of your score is knocked down. If that adds up over a program you could see why someone who falls but does Everything Else cleanly comes out ahead of thats why we have a breakdown. Thats why the system changed when i was still competing from 6. 0 system to these high inflated numerical values because each element has a value and grade of execution. So you have transparency. See, once again, you just break it down for us like that, sasha, thank you. Lets get now to julie and, julie, come on team usa against canada. Once again, going down to the final moments. They were leading throughout. Losing in overtime like that. You have to know how difficult that must be for them. I mean, congratulations with the silver but as we heard, thats of little consolation to them. Oh, robin, it was gut wrenching. You know the thing is you got the sense when you were sitting there, United States and as you mentioned, canada has had this choke hold on the gold medal winning the last three olympics but got the sense finally this team and this time it was going to be different. They were up 3 30, 3 30 to go up by 2 goals and then it all started to unravel. Give credit to the canadians they came roaring back. It was mariephilip poulin, the canadian who scored the two goals against the u. S. In vancouver did it again last night and it was just a gutwrencher. Tears all over the ice afterwards, of course. Thats understandable. Men, semifinal action, u. S. Versus canada. How do you see that . Its the part two of this competition, the semifinal and as we know a lot of nhl pros, some of them teammates now going against each other country to country but i think the High Pressure here is the beer thats being wagered. President obama with Prime Minister harper, i think that puts all the pressure on them. You heard about that over there too, huh . Okay, julie. How did i know you would . Of course, we did. All right, julie, hey, thanks, as always. Appreciate that. Sasha, as well. Well get more of your thoughts later in the morning. Thank you. Patriotic fandom good for the soul, tough on the ticker especially right now. All right, we turn to news about another olympian. Shocking new details in the murder case against Oscar Pistorius accused of killing his girlfriend in south africa last year. This morning new documents reveal how prosecutors may make their case against him. It is unclear how the documents got out. As both the defense and prosecution deny leaking them, abcs linzie janis has the story. Reporter with his murder trial set to begin in less than two weeks, the case against Oscar Pistorius may be taking a stunning turn. The south African News Network enca says its obtained documents which reportedly indicate the prosecution is backtracking on key parts of its case. The state has always maintained that pistorius and steenkamp hi, my name is riva. Reporter were arguing on valentines day last year. When she ran to the bathroom then in an act of premeditated murder prosecutors allege pistorius took the time to put on his prosthetic legs, grabbed his gun from under the bed and went after steenkamp firing four times through the bathroom door killing her. Pistorius has pleaded not guilty, said he had mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder and that he was not wearing his prosthetics and this morning, the news Network Claims that these freshly leaked documents show that the states own ballistics expert has backed pistorius claim, that he wasnt wearing those artificial legs when he fired at steenkamp from a distance of about two feet, not the five feet police had originally said. This is a premeditated murder, whether he has them on or he doesnt is actually irrelevant. Its really can they prove intent. Reporter according to enca, the prosecution still intends to argue pistorius preplanned steenkamps murder. For Good Morning America, linzie janis, abc news, new york. Linzie, thank you for. We turn to ryan smith with the other top stories. Ryan, welcome back. Yes, good to be back. And we begin with a story breaking overnight. A shooting rampage at the headquarters of an American Indian settlement in Northern California and police are saying former a former tribal leader opened fire during her eviction hearing killing four people and wounding two others. They say when Cherie Rhoades ran out of ammunition she grabbed a knife and was arrested running from the building. A new fallout from the extreme drought gripping the west. Its sending beef prices surging to near record highs. Ground beef is now selling for an average of 3. 50 per pound and prices to rise another 15 in the coming months and cattle herds are at their lowest level in 60 years. Eight men have been busted in philadelphia in connection with the string of highprofile Jewelry Store robberies, smash and grabs. In one heist in delaware, thieves got away with a 2 million gem called the liberty bell ruby. You see the smash and grab there. Theres the ruby. Its made from the largest ruby ever mined and it has not been recovered. And in oklahoma a Police Dash Cam rolling as an officer risked his life to save a man trapped in this burning car. Look closely. You can see the officer there dragging a man to safety, risking his life doing so. Four other people in the car escaped but they were nearly crushed by a falling utility pole. The officer moved them just in time. And theres an even more dramatic rescue to show you. A lot of people are talking about this. A woman saving the life of her young nephew along a florida highway. Take a look. The pictures are heart stopping. The fight to save an unconscious babys life on the side of a busy highway. It really was the scariest moment of my life. Reporter Pamela Rauseo is the woman seen here giving cpr to her 5 month old nephew sebastien. I dont know how i remembered what to do. I just knew i couldnt let him die. Reporter she tells us she was driving along the expressway on thursday when she noticed sebastian who was born premature and with respiratory issues was burning blue. Thats when she pulled over and took action. I had the baby in my arms. He was completely limp and i kept screaming for help. Reporter traffic at a standstill fellow drivers began to help. This lady left her own son in the car to help her. And comfort pamela. Al diaz, photographer, ran through lanes of traffic to alert Police Officers before capturing the tense moments on his camera. Once i saw that she was being assisted, thats when i went back and grabbed the camera. It was pretty traumatic. Reporter after all that, a happy ending. Baby sebastian recovering in the hospital this morning looking brighteyed and blissfully unaware of the crisis he endured. Hmm, incredible and robin, josh, that aunt, a hero today as well as everybody on that road who helped out. If that doesnt inspire you to learn how to do cpr, i dont know what will, ryan. Thank you. Remarkable. Yeah. Hey, ginger, this intense fog causing problems. Yes, travel problems. Anybody has a flight out of new york city check ahead. Look at this. This is a camera that should be seeing lower manhattan. Youre not seeing anything at all because the fog has condensed and, yeah, were getting rain on the way too. Washington, d. C. , you may see some rain showers, especially heavy thunderstorms in some spots that will cause some flooding possibilities south of there around noon. New york city here, were looking for it later afternoon. The bay area forecast. Check out all the sunshine all the way through monday and then a big storms coming in. Two of them next week bringing significant rain. Low to mid60s in the upper coast of san francisco. Watch out for the pollen this weekend. Its going to be high. Everybody is staring at those pictures saying this looks scary. These are actual air temperatures next week. All sub zero in the north. Cincinnati even in the teens so cold air. Winter not over. Thank you, ginger. Coming up, friends star lisa kudrow in court defending herself in a multimillion dollar lawsuit over the hit show. Why she was accused of acting like her character on the stand. A colorado socialite on trial accused of killing her husband with a car bomb. Why prosecutors say she was going after his insurance policy. Lena dunham lashes out speaking out against critics. Well explain. Speaking out against critics. Well explain. Lashes out against critics. Well explain. Transferred money from his before larry instantly bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. Before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an underserved season. And before he quit his friends leafraking business for not offering a 401k. Larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. 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Doesnt feel as cool as yesterday even though it is because of the lack of the rain. Our seven day forecast showing temperatures about 4 to 9 degrees warmer today all the way through monday. And then the big rain is coming good morning, america. All right, ted ligety. I just love saying ted ligety. He is the First American to win gold in the giant slalom and the First American to win two Alpine Skiing gold for the men. He is headed back to the slopes one more time and were going to talk to him just ahead. All the great moments in the final american push at the games this weekend. Yeah. It meant well see him again. U. S. Men getting ready to face canada today. Lots of good stuff there. I just love thats my favorite part, the National Anthem being played. You know, the medal and this too. Deejay prostyle. Hes got it. Good morning, good morning. Good morning. Its great to have you there. Also ahead here, friends star lisa kudrow took the stand defending herself in a multimillion dollar lawsuit brought by her former manager over money made during her days on the hit sitcom. Some questions about behavior on the stand. Its interesting. Well get into that. Also actress Julianne Moore revealing she stalks her kids on social media. Smart parenting or an invasion of privacy. The jury is out. Yeah, you be the judge. Im really looking forward to sharing this story with you. A brave little boy from dallas, texas, little joshua, he is reaching out for help trying to find a bone marrow donor and were going to share that story with you ahead. He and his morning. I skype with him. Hes just he just makes you feel good. Well get his story out there. A story that needs to be told. Well begin here, again, with the actress lisa kudrow there on the stand in her own defense in a courtroom battle with her former manager. He claims she owes him nearly 2 million of her earnings from the megahit friends and other projects. Abcs cecilia vega has the story. Reporter she was center stage at a very different kind of show. Lisa valerie kudrow. Reporter the former friends star defending herself against a lawsuit brought by had o her exmanager who claims she owes him 1. 7 million, a percentage of what the emmy winner earns in reruns and other projects. The usually secret inner wo workings of that hit show and the millions kudrow earned from it all on full display. Even that first friends contract she signed when she was a struggling actress where she earned about 13,000 an episode entered as evidence for the jury to see. I didnt like that it was the lowest paid performer on the show. They said that no one was going to get paid more than this. You learned later that was not the case. Right. How did you learn that . From speaking to the other actors. Reporter kudrow said the cast banded together and negotiated as a group to boost their pay as the Shows Success climbed. We all relied on each other. Reporter in the final seasons kudrow earned more than a million per episode. The issue before the jury, whether kudrow owes her former manager, scott howard, money from what she earned after they parted ways. They had an oral agreement that howard managed kudrow in exchange for a 10 cut. I believe that in the end of the day the agreement should be honored. Reporter despite their Longtime Partnership it was far from a friendly day in court after the actress who played the always sweet often ditsy phoebe repeatedly told howards lawyer she didnt understand his questioning, this you really in real life bare no relationship to the character phoebe. You mean like right now . I dont know. She was pretending to be dumb during crossexamination. Youre not acting now, right . The friends star camp says it has no comment until this case is closed. Cecilia vega, abc news, los angeles. Something of a curious turn to discuss with dan abrams. How porch was this testimony . Its a rare case where the testimony of the defendant isnt that important, why . How she comes across is important. Meaning whether the jurors like her in general do they want to help her or hurt her, yes, thats important but the substance of what she is saying isnt that much at issue. Meaning it seems that they basically agreed that they had this oral contract that ended in 2007 and the question now is, is he entitled as a manager, as opposed to an agent, to the residuals . Whats the difference . Well, in theory an agent is supposed to be the one that cuts the deal and as a result is entitled to everything that comes from that deal, again, in theory the manager is managing the persons career and life. The problem is in hollywood these days managers and agents very often do the same thing, and so thats now the important legal question here is, you know, the manager is saying, look, ask other managers. A manager who helps with a deal like this is expecting to get a cut of that throughout the persons career. So then how enforceable in this case is this oral agreement . Well, believe it or not oral agreements are very enforceable. The question just becomes what was the agreement, right. So theres not a question about is an oral agreement enforceable . The question is what was the agreement specifically and thats the problem with oral agreements is you dont exactly know what the agreement was. I think well find out just how enforceable it was. Dan, thanks. To another legal matter. The aspen socialite on time for killing her exhusband with a car bomb. Pamela phillips maintains her innocence but prosecutors say they can prove shes a killer even though its taken more than 17 years to bring her to trial. Abcs linsey davis has that story. Nearly two decades, robin. This is after gary trianos death in 1996. His exwife now on trial for his murder. The defense claims triano made a lot of enemies in the casino business. But the prosecution says the only person who benefited from his death was his exwife. A materialistic murderer or an innocent socialite falsely accused of a crime she didnt commit. She was having troubles with gary triano. Reporter prosecutors say 56yearold Pamela Phillips was accustomed to a lavish lifestyle filled with fancy cars and expensive homes during her marriage to commercial Real Estate Developer gary triano. And when that fortune began to dwindle after their contentious divorce, they say phillips hired a former boyfriend to kill her former husband with a car bomb, so she could allegedly collect on his 2 million Life Insurance policy. She was that frustrated and angry with things going on. Reporter phillips and triano were married with two children. But divorced when according to prosecutors triano could no longer support phillips extravagant lifestyle. Phillips then moved to aspen and met ronald young whom prosecutors say she paid 400,000 to kill her husband. She made statements to her friends that she could have gary taken out. Reporter it was back in 1996, triano had just finished a round of golf with a friend at a nearby Tucson Country Club when he approached his car, a pipe bomb went off inside it killing him almost instantly. The only person that actually benefited from gary trianos death was Pamela Phillips and the man that she hired to plant that bomb. Reporter after trianos death, phillips collected 2 million from her exs Life Insurance policy and moved abroad where according to prosecutors she continued to live the high life, but in 2009 she was arrested in this Luxurious Hotel in austria and ever since has spent her nights in a jail cell awaiting trial. Phillips has pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Back in 2010 her former boyfriend, 71yearold ronald young was convicted for trianos murder and sentenced to two life term sentences. His trial likely to take several more weeks. Something else. It is. Have a good weekend. Thank you very much. Hey, ginger, a before and after youre going to show us. A before and after. Very little time in between. This is what happened all over the midwest. Look at this picture. Same street, 12 hours different. Its the afternoon over here on the right and on the left its the next morning. So that we had huge switches and this picture comes from lincoln, nebraska, were talking about a 20 to 25degree drop and major precipitation changes as you can see there and thats elie what so many folks are dealing with and will still deal with because a second push of cold air is really coming through. Fargos High Temperature today, 11 while wichita is at 62 and everywhere in between is going to be quite windy so thats the other story behind the Severe Weather that we were talking about all last half hour. You want to get warm, go southwest. Good friday morning. Hi pressures going to bring us a lot of sunshine and warmer than average weather. Lets take a look at the sevenday all that weather brought to you by walgreens. I got to say dallas and houston dont look too bad either. Theyll take it. Thank you, ginger. Coming up, picture this, top restaurants could be banning camera phones so you cant snap photos of your food. Is the ban fair or hard to swallow. I like what you did there. 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He, of course, the american bobsledder making quite a name for himself in sochi before even competing. Johnny quinn sparked a social media craze by busting out of his bathroom, the hashtag for it, quinning. We have more from matt gutman in sochi. Matt. Reporter good morning, well, quinning, thats the art of busting something out that you can pretty much quinn anything. Aagh that was not the effect i was going for but the picture of johnny quinn doing that encapsulated all that was wrong in sochi, all that was broken and made him a household name. Bobsledder johnny quinn is probably the first olympian to deliver a breakthrough performance before ever competing and it all started in a bathroom. Just went to take a shower and i get out to go check the door so i can get a towel. When i get there, its locked. Reporter to get the full understanding of his next move, a recreation. So were going to work on the technique here and try to show folks at home in case theyre locked in a bathroom door what to do to get out. Come in with a hulk smash so at this point you want to have a hole big enough you can check through and maybe a handle you can reach. Reporter how much times did you have to ump the thing . Probably i dont remember. A few times in order to make a hole wide enough so, you know, if you get stuck in this situation, its unfortunate but you got to get out. Reporter turns out the 30yearold former nfl Football Players bobsled training pushing a 400 pound sled from zero to 30 miles an hour in five seconds is also perfect for exploding through doors. It takes a lot of strength so we spend a lot of time in the weight room. Reporter his heres johnny momented retweeted at least 25,000 times turning him into a sochi social media sensation with the meme quinning. Theres quinning the cereal box, the envelope and the wine bottle. Even a busted door monument at the university of north texas, quinns alma mater. Then another quintessentialally sochi moment. He gets stuck in an elevator. I was like, hes staging this. This is a joke. This is a prank. You know, these are two situations that truly could happen to anyone anywhere. It just happened to me at the olympics in a short time frame. Reporter even the incredible hulk of bobsledding couldnt get that one open. I learned in my tutorial if youre stuck in a bathroom do not use your fist, use the flat part of your hand, now tomorrow out on the bobsled course well get to see him do something other than busting through doors, hes going to be coarsing through that 80 that icy tube at 80 miles an hour. Should be just as exciting. Now, just to redeem myself i actually brought a second bag. Go, go, go. Oh. Oh. These russian chips are made very strong. Oh. Theres no seam here. Yeah, right. Sure, matt. Our own johnny quinn. Thanks, matt. No gold medal for me. Put yourself in a position to succeed. Give yourself a little ah. A little. Still a little. Yeah. There you go. There, you quinned it. Coming up here play of the day. Fair to say its oscarworthy. Sorry, gutman. He tried it. Yeah. Whoo . We believe every education not just ours should be built around the career that you want. Imagine that. [ male announcer ] cant believe you can pronounce everything in it . Believe. New deliciously simple from i cant believe its not butter with 100 taste and zero artificial preservatives. Its time to. Believe. With 100 taste and zero artificial preservatives. Especially when it comes to digestive health. Staying perfectly balanced isnt easy. Introducing great grains digestive blend. Active cultures plus high fiber and whole grains help keep your system in balance. New great grains digestive blend. Good is in a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of the u. S. Ski team. Announcer right then, heres the play of the day. Youre all excited. The 86 Academy Awards coming up in just a little bit. Spoiler alert, were going to show you some of the best scenes from the nominated hits but its fair to say unlike youve ever seen them before. Take a look. Its like a book i deeply love. Read it slowly now so the words are really far apart. Two doors always infinite. Wait. The top priority in this job to make us money. How do i do this . S want to learn the song . Sure. I apologize for my parents. Ive been away for 12 years. Thats okay. Were glad youre back. I promise to take each and every one of them myself. Who wat was that . Nothing. You all time. Coming up here ted ligety on this deejay friday. Deejay pro style. [ male announcer ] its easy to choose the perfect bath update for your family. Wow. This is the one. [ male announcer ] lowes selection of bath updates makes it easy to refresh your bathroom. 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Nobunny knows easter better than cadbury how much money do you think youll need when you retire . Then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. I was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. Im going to have to rethink this thing. Its hard to imagine how much well need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. So maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. Still lots to get to here, deejay prostyle and ted ligety. Go nowhere. Good morning. Developing news in san leandro. Firefighters are on the scene of a house fire. It broke out about 4 00 this morning. Keeping an eye on hot spots. No word if anyone was inside the house. Good morning from the roof. Were looking at a lot of sunshine right now and more in the forecast with warmer than average temperatures. Upper 60s, low 70s inland. Big rain event this time last week. Weve had the occasional fender bender this mornings. We have a pretty descent commute on our hands. This is a car blocking one lane on 280 southbound. Thank you. It will be worth it. Is this the end of the world . You came back for me. [ male announcer ] pompeii. Rated pg13. Good morning, america. 8 00 a. M. On a deejay friday and everybodys favorite girl speaks out. Lena dunham firing back at the blockbuster blog that attacked her vogue cover. Spruce up for spring. The top tips you can use starting now to make over your bathroom. Going from drab to dazzling. And team usas newest golden boy ted ligety goes for gold twice and now he joins us on gma and its the last day of our winter games. Who will top the podium as we say all good morning, america whoo im still going to miss our Olympic Village and look at sasha. Oh, my goodness and sara fighting for the gold in our gma games. We will crown our winner this morning and look back at some of our favorite moments. Yes. Both here and also in sochi. But what great sports they have been throughout these two weeks. I tell you, deejay prostyle, great to have you here this friday. The disservice i feel like weve done to the winter games for our olympiad draws to a stirring close. The agony of defeat. Not before our medal ceremony. Of course. Stick around for that. Also, actress Julianne Moore revealing that she monitors and by monitors she uses the word stalks her kids on facebook. Her move, is it a smart parenting one or an invasion of privacy . We want to know what you think. Logon to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo is it okay to stalk your teens on social media . A lot of strong feelings on that. The newest way to get ready for a night on the town, makeup express bar, first there was the blow dry bars. Now we put the glam on the go to the test. Were just moving and grooving over here. First of all, i love you deejay prostyle. Iheartradio, indeed. Can we have our own house band . Yeah. Every morning. You know what, it is a happy story. There is a remarkable young man. He is an overcomer in his own right and reached out for help in finding a bone marrow donor. I cannot wait for you to meet little joshua. His spirit is infectious. Good one. Cute. An important one. Looking forward to bringing that to you. First abcs ryan smith here with the top stories. Lets go to the breaking news this hour from ukraine where the government claims a they signed a deal in hopes of ending the bloody uprising that has claimed at least 100 lives this week. Will protesters accept the street . They agreed to share power and hold elections earlier. Those protesters who have been pushing for democratic reforms have long demanded the president resign. Also happening right now, similar violence erupting in venezuela. The government now sending paratroopers to a region where antigovernment protesters are engaged in deadly clashes with police there. And the big story here at home is the weather. Twisters raking over parts of the midwest and the south overnight. Fierce winds and more than a dozen tornadoes have been reported in Central Illinois alone. And in alabama these pictures, this tractor trailer blown into buildings. That storm is marching east. Gingers forecast coming up in a moment. At the Winter Olympics today, a showdown of hockey heavyweights. This is it. The usa, team usa taking on canada and the winner plays for gold on sunday. The u. S. Trying to avenge thursdays dramatic canadian victory over the american women, josh, what do you say . Get it done, america. Get it done, america. With all due respect to the great white north. Overnight more than 1. 5 Million People signed an online petition calling for an investigation into the womens figure skating results. There were claims judges were biased in awarding the russian gold over the defending champ from south korea. And take a look at this. A rescue on the high seas we have to show you, this 30foot endangered white whale fighting to survive after getting tangled in a fishing line off georgia. There are fewer than 500 of these whales remaining in the world. So important to keep them alive but wildlife experts jumped into action. They were able to cut away most of that line freeing that young whale, but, again, heroes jumping in saving that whale. Yeah. Now to this. It is really true. Alligators do actually pop up out of sewers. Uhoh. This guy right here, thats right. You dont want to see that Walking Around spotted at a country club in sarasota, florida. Look at that. Maintenance workers say the gator is about nine feet long. Thats where my momma lives. Oh, get this oh, gosh. Apparently he likes to come up for air once in a while. Check that out. People walking by. Is that real . Thats real. Thats real, an alligator sticking his head out, guys, hes still there. Theyre trying to get him out. Nice and cool. I just thought it was not reassuring for those passersby. Ill have to take your word for it. Thank you, ry. Are we calling him ry now . I call him ry guy. Ill take it. Ryguy. All right, lar. Coming up, pop news. But now time for ging outside. What a crowd we have out here at the Olympic Village, our last day. I cant hear anything. How about we get straight to the weather. A little drizzle coming down, of course that means milder, at least for a little while, thats happening there in atlanta, too. They had heavy rain earlier and a whole bunch of lightning strikes that we were seeing all over the radar. Look at the Severe Weather possibilities today. Anywhere from southern new jersey through parts of virginia, maryland, then you can see all the way to georgia, southern georgia, looks like that updated a little. Damaging wind, hail and, of course, the isolated tornado shot. A lot of that coming as the cold front passes this afternoon. The Pacific Northwest drying out. Theyve been having rain for two weeks in portland and seattle. Finally some drier but cooler weather there. Thats the big picture. The bay area forecast. Check out all the sunshine all the way through monday and then a big storms coming in. Two of them next week bringing significant rain. Low to mid60s in the upper coast of san francisco. Watch out for the pollen this weekend. Its going to be high. Oh, we have folks from all over here at our Olympic Village ready to see history be made with our crowning of the closing ceremonies are coming, ginger. First a look at whats going on on our gma morning menu. In pop news hungry like a wolf . How an olympian and jimmy kimmel fooled so many with an epic sochi fail prank. Lena dunham speaking out this morning against the highprofile blog that attacked her vogue cover. Then Julianne Moore admitting she monitors her kids every move on facebook so dan abrams asking is it okay to invade your kids space . The jury is out. All that and our medal ceremony on Good Morning America in times square. Gmas morning menu is gmas morning menu is brought to by new, fastacting advil. Nothing is faster. Its an extr. But also extremely pointy. Its been used to make tentative appointments and to cheat at golf. Students have used it to play ceiling darts. Its. Wait a second. Whats hiding behind this pencil . Ahh, an ipad air. Almost didnt see you back there. And whats this . Hiding behind the ipad . Ahh, the even thinner galaxy tab pro 10. 1. Interesting. Not only are you thinner, your hd screen is killer for more robo beat down action. And would you look at that. The galaxy tab even does multitasking. Two things on screen at once versus up to one thing on screen at once. You know what. Im going to take this Samsung Galaxy tab. And im going to take this pencil. The thinner, higher resolution Samsung Galaxy tab pro 10. 1. Still running in the morning . Yeah. Getting your vegetables every day . When i can. 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Top trending video overnight. Its cool. Its catchy. Its one of the videos that brings the song to life. Exactly. Good friend of our program. Yes, indeed, the beautiful one and only. How about some pop news . Friday edition. Whoo. Good morning to you all. When it comes to oscar speeches we can always count on stars talking about and thanking folks that got them up there. The director, producer, film studio and, of course, the academy. But as for specific name checks, slate magazine went through speeches for the past dozen years and counted and meryl streep has been thanked in acceptance speeches more than even the good lord. No. Wow. This honor through her already staggering oscar stat, 18 nominations and 3 wins in a 35year period and robs another one coming and, meryl, we thank you for that. Wow. She has been thanked more than the good lord. Thank you for not winning. Thats amazing. So glad i beat you. Meryl streep. Also in pop news this morning, great filmmaking comes down to exceptional casting. Alfonso cuaron was in advance talks with Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey jr. To play the leads before jolie backed out to direct unbroken and downey jr. s improvisational style did not work for gravitys tech heavy format. When they didnt come through, he had a decent backup plan, wouldnt you say . In Sandra Bullock and george clooney. Cuaron, the film and bullock up for Academy Awards. I think you call that in sports, josh, having a deep bench. Exactly. Two different ways to go. It worked. You know what, as my mom always says everything always works out for a reason. Finally in pop news this morning, the time jimmy kimmel cried wolf. Social media going wild thursday when u. S. Olympic Luger Kate Hansen posted a video to her youtube page saying a wolf was wandering the hallway in her hotel in sochi. Well jimmy kimmel has fessed up on her yeah, there sit. Slightly disturbing. He fessed up on his show admitting he may have done it skyping with his partner in crime. Here it is. I want to say thank you for helping us with this important mission. Yeah, you know, any time i can offer my services. Are you did you get in trouble at all for doing this . Um, you know, honestly there was a little bit more backlash than i thought there would be, but, you know, its all worth it in the end. Yeah, everybody who was in the same hotel as her might have been slightly concerned. Kimmel explained his crew recreated the hallway at their studio and called on the services of an actor wolf to put together this masterpiece, some say, of a hoax and thats pop news, everybody. Very good. Remarkable. Thank you. We turn now, girls star lena dunham speaking out against jezebel who offered big money for pictures of dunham in vogue but before they were photo shopped and published them. Our Mara Schiavocampo has the latest round in the body image battle. Reporter it was the blog bounty heard round the internet. Feminist site jezebel offering 10,000 last month for unretouched images of lena dunhams shoot for vogue magazine. Now for the first time the actress and director is speaking out responding to what she calls an allout attack in a new interview with bill simmons of grantland. Com. It was this weird almost like political maneuvering that i just had a lot of trouble respecting. Reporter the 27yearold star and creator of hbos hit series girls isnt shy about baring it all on the show. Its a good thing im not susceptible to criticism as i used to robin she accepts and loves her body. When photos came out of her spread in vogues february issue jezebel suspected they were doctored and offered up big bucks for proof saying this is about vogue and what vogue decides to do with a specific woman who has very publicly stated that shes just fine the way she is. Im planning to write an article that exposes all of my vulnerabilities to the entire internet. Reporter jezebels flash of cash worked much the next day the site posted these unaltered images in some cases using arrows to point out fixes like a slimmer neckline, refined jaw and smaller hips, changes dunham says she has no problem with. They like smoothed a line here and shaved off a part of my neck. It was the most minimal retouching. Reporter in the interview dunham says these days she cant even bring herself to read the site she once loved. In the end lena is the clear winner. She stood up for herself. She let them know that they were wrong and you have to respect that. Reporter jezebel has no new comment on the controversy leaving the last word to this girl. For Good Morning America, Mara Schiavocampo, abc news, new york. I agree. She did stand up for herself. Time now for the jurys out with dan abrams back by popular demand. Good morning, guys. We have got a big one for you. First up, actress Julianne Moore admitted in an interview recently she regularly stalks her kids age 12 and 16 on facebook, quote, its a scary world out there. Im all over it with my kids. So put aside the 12yearold for a minute. 16yearold. I know everyone is going to say, yes, we should be able to monitor our kids but isnt there some privacy . No. No. No. Nope, not with kids. Not with kids. Not until she goes to college. Not any sorry. Everything is fair game. Under my roof, i have access to everything you have. Oh. And the quote from all parents, as long as you live under my roof as long as you live under my roof. How many types did i hear that . Oh my goodness. But you know what happen, right. They have the page that their parents see and then theyve got their secret page. Oh, well get back to that. You have to find that too. Yeah. All of that down. Yeah, exactly. All right. Absolutely. Allieoh sorry. Marysol valdez says id rather be the mean mom invading my kids privacy than risk them getting hurt. Amen. Yes. Were not friends, were parents. Were not friends. Allieoh on twitter says if you think something is going on, its okay to check. Never be too involved. Your kids will resent you. Thats kind of what i think. Im with allieoh on this. Everybody is just trying to do the best they can. I knew josh was the stalker parent. Dan, youre going to be i love how were dragging you so reluctantly into parenthood. In two years were doing all these topics. Our gma hand it over. Our gma flash poll. Is it okay to stalk your teens, that was the question, stalk your teens on social media. 68 said yes. 32 said no. There you go. Survey says. Next up, for many foodies taking a picture of your dish at a restaurant is part of the experience. Well now a group of top chefs are considering banning camera phones from their restaurants. They say it can be distracting to other diners. Particularly those who take pictures from different angles. How dare them. And as one said it takes away a little bit of my intellectual property. Someone who would copy me. That was a sort of greek, sort of french accent there, by the way, in case you were wondering. Very sort of. They have a point on the ip rights. If somebody copied that recipe. How could you copy from a picture. Take a picture, you can suss out the ingredients. Maybe, maybe not. The distraction. Youre sitting at a nice restaurant. Its very dim and someone is flashing away at their food and they come i dont think its a photo shoot. Doing like this. Work it, baby. Get the pan. Kelly on facebook, its okay for me to pay for the meal but not snap a pic to post on yelp. Ill just take my dimes on down to the next hot spot where i can snap away. Get over yourselves, top chefs. Wendy, it is inappropriate behavior in an elegant restaurant distracts from those around you. One more. One more. Finally a study is compiled from match. Com on who works and what doesnt for your dating profile. I love to surf. Good. I love karaoke, bad. Hardly surprising. Heres an interesting one, referring to cats, if you refer to cat, its good. If you refer to my cat, its not good. Wait. Why do cats why does having a cat have a bad rap . I dont know. Guys unfortunately, as no, it was its the cat lady. Its the cat lady. Tattoos, what do you think, good or bad . It depends on the gender. Yes, it does. Which one do you think it helps . Women. Nope, men more attractive with tattoos. Women less attractive can tattoos. What do they call that little thing . I dont know. Its called a something stamp. I thought cat lady was bad. Final point which is that women should refer to themselves as girls which is really sad because they said more women got attention if they refer to themselves as girls rather than women which is really pathetic. Hey, thanks, dan. Good to see you guys. Final little note, just to check out on a dan abrams, we love you. All right, moving on. Thats it . Im done. All right, dan, well, stick around. We want you to hear about this. How to get the look of the stars only a professional Makeup Artist can give you but without the sky high cost. Its a new kind of grooming on the go service and abcs sara haines checked it out. Reporter glamming up for a night out can get complicated like this scene from clueless. Im still all red. Reporter now you can get fab without the fuss. Pucker a new store in new york city is offering professional Makeup Services minus the celebrity price tag. Hi. Im sara. Welcome to pucker. Reporter pucker features an express makeup bar offering full makeup application for 45 minutes and 50 and the quickie, 35 for 25 minutes. Ceo and cofounder is the brain behind the beauty. Highway did you come up with the idea behind pucker . It came about if my own needs to get my makeup done. I was a stay at home mom. Reporter hiyam teamed up with Julio Sandino who made up alisters like Angelina Jolie. Creating this makeup mecca and and now customers like aliza salk is taking advantage. I wanted to get a touchup. Reporter with my new girlfriend in tow, i hit up the hair bar downstairs before sitting down with the makeup master himself. May i . Yes. Reporter nothing like a little cocktail to relax as he works his magic. I have a menu. What do you think i should go with . Maybe we can do the smoky eye and a softer lip. Reporter a few minutes and a miracle later. How do you like the look . I love it. Its so pretty. Cheers. Thank you. Reporter next stop, the selfie booth to give you that hot shot to share. Looks like ive been puckered. I feel like this is so long overdo. We have blow dry bars and Everything Else but you know the nights when you need to get somewhere and do not look the part. It was such a quick lounge and bring a girlfriend or boyfriend, they can have a drink and leave bags there and theyll messenger them to your house. And were you thrilled with your experience . He was amazing. Them to yourself. That guy, julio was amazing. I might be a snob and only ask for him. Welcome to the show, ryan. Thank you. How long do we have to wait . You should have seen the looks these two guys are giving each other as you were talking about that. Thank you, sara. Weve had a blast, as you know, covering the olympics and going for the gold and our gma games, the olympics closing ceremonies are this weekend. Ours are coming up in just a little bit. You want to stick around for that. Joining us to say goodbye to sochi, two women who did an incredible job, amy robach in sochi and our special contributor sasha cohen here in times square. Well done, ladies. Well done. Hey, amy, im going to get prepared for the oscars. Who are you wearing right now . Ralph lauren. Its what everyone is going to be wearing this year in the United States. At least at the closing ceremonies this is the peacoat. I have a lovely scarf here and a beautiful turtleneck sweater. Theyll be nice and toasty in the closing ceremonies but it looks great. Ralph lauren did a great job with both of the outfits this year. Amy, so looking ahead then to what were going to see this weekend, its fair to say i think nobody really knew what to expect from the opening ceremonies, remarkable things there, what can we expect this weekend . Well, this weekend were going to be seeing a beautiful showing from all the Different Countries and, you know, i think were going to see a lot of medals, more than two dozen for team usa which will be nice. One thing they didnt give me with the outfit but i also want to talk about my favorite moment this week because i have to tell you i think a lot of people feel the same way, the u. S. Versus russia. The next best thing to actually getting a seat there in the bolshoi ice dome was in my hotel room because we had the whole crew come in. We all watched it together. Screaming, biting our nails, it was a blast and i think thats the takeaway moment for me covering these games was just that fun, fun moment for all of us rooting on team usa. Hey, youve done a fantastic job. Safe journey back home, our friend. Cant wait to see you. Sasha, what about for you, top moment. Carolina kostner, her mesmerizing performance to bolero in the freeskate. One of the older performers and at 27. To capture the nerves that always brought her down and her third olympics and bring home a first medal for italy in a singles event. A performance youll remember forever. It wasnt just technical. Our moment has been seeing you and you and you in our gma games. Closing ceremonies coming up and ted ligety will join us, as well. Come on back. Gma at the olympics is brought to you by chobani, how matters. Good morning. Developing news in san jose where police are investigating that citys eighth homicide of 2014. A homeowner tells officers a burglar fired shots at him last night. The homeowner grabbed a gun and shot at the man in the car. Later, a man was dropped off at the hospital suffering a gunshot wound and later died. We have an accident in san jose, but that has cleared up. It was causing a backup there. Lets take a look right now at birkly. It is sundrenched after this hour, so make sure you pack the sun george from the roof. George ever good morning from the roof. Were off on morning lows. Now were into the 40s and 50s. Our destination today with all this sunshine warmer than average by anywhere from 40 degrees in sfrans. Warmer than average. Few high clouds. Bi [ cheers ] well, sasha, sara, ginger, yes, lara, you too fighting for a fortnight. An olympic fortnight to get to the top of that podium before our resplendent Olympic Village, closing ceremonies, who gets gold and a bunch of event s ts beared almost no resemblance as you wish you welcome back to Good Morning America. Deejay prostyle. Me too. Hey, hey, hey. Another shoutout to our Olympic Village. The people that have come over the last few weeks and been out there through our gma game, love you. Braving some serious weather out there. Thats right and look at the spirit. Look at the village. The village. Also this morning a very special overcomer. One brave little boy sharing his story, his inspiring search for a bone marrow donor. He will lift your spirits. He sure will. His story is coming up with robin. Then we hope you improve this. A great bathroom. Its a makeover on a budget. Projects you can start this weekend if you desire. Youll be youll be i think motivated, robin. Improve this. All right, lara. We are delighted to have olympic Gold Medalist ted ligety. Ligety. Our first Alpine Skiing Gold Medalist at the sochi games and its not over yet for him. I spoke to ligety earlier this morning. He joined us trait from the slopes where hes trading for tomorrows slalom event. Hey, ted, thank you for joining us. I hope youve had a little time to celebrate your win at giant slalom and the fact you are the First American pan to win two olympic gold medals in Alpine Skiing, the First American pan to win gold in the giant slalom. Has its all settled in . Its amazing. Its you know, really a dream come true. This is an event i was looking forward to the most, my best event and to be able to fight through that pressure and be able to win a gold medal is pretty awesome. Got the medal actually. Its right here if i pull it out. The ribbon is already kind of fraying. Im sure a lot of fingerprints on it. Everybody in your family wants to touch it and just so proud of you. You have an incredible style and its a style that people say really sets apart. Yeah, ive been working on, you know, trying to innovate ski racing for a lot of years now and my technique is somewhat different than a lot of guys i normally compete against. I took a smoother cleaner line than most of the guys and luckily enough thats equaled being significantly faster at times so something im continually working on every year to get better and better and luckily it pays off and gets you a gold medal. Its definitely working for you. I know your girlfriend mia is with you there with you. How is she helping you handle all the stress and the pressure of this type of competition . Yeah, so she travels with me actually all the season and olympics, as well and, you know, shes not a ski racer. Shes not somebody that really particularly cares about the results side of things so she keeps everything even keeled. I know theres something you wanted to talk bvenlt the every step of the way program. You have been involved with that. Whats that about . Yes, so i teamed up with citi to work with that program and thats, you know, were donating money to various youth sports programs, my program is Youth Enrichment Services which is out of boston. It gets inner city kids out skiing, snowboarding and doing Outdoor Activities and its really cool to share my experiences with those kids and have them out there and enjoying the sport that i love so much. Well, its so good of you to do that. Were cheering for you every step of the way, ted ligety. All the best to you tomorrow going forward. Have fun. Take care. Thank you. Okay, what do you think of when you hear ted ligety . No diggety. I just need one more. Lovely style. Its unbelievable how much faster he is than everybody else. Just nine days now until oscar sunday and jonah hill nominated for his acclaimed performance in the wolf of wall street. Well, he tells abcs Chris Connelly what it was really like working with his director, Martin Scorsese and coscar leo dicaprio. Reporter lately youve seen jonah hill in Martin Scorseses five oscar nominated the wolf of wall street playing from donny azoff. Technically do one for me. Reporter hes this tight with costar Leonardo Dicaprio king of the world of film. More than happy to toss jonah a titanic lifeline during his snl host stint. Am i the king of the world. Yes, rose, yes youre flying. Reporter for his performance hes been nominated for ang academy award. Now you are a twotime oscar nominee. Im just incredibly honored. I dont think any actor actually think thats going to happen to them. He has that innocence about him, but jonah also with leo was interesting. Its like a little comedy team. Reporter his need to please scorsese would put him in a tight spot in which a drug dealer confronts donny violently. Scorsese is going, well, i dont know. It doesnt look good. It doesnt look good. He turns to me, he says, kid, you want to try one more and hit it for real. Reporter not what jonah wanted to hear. I turned to leo and he goes like this and he looks at me and slowly looks away in the other direction leaving me hung out to dry basically. You dress like im on the floor and then scorsese is like get him new teeth and shoot his face because its swelling. Reporter yet jonah would get back at lee yoo in a sushi eating scene that marks their characters penthouse to outhouse plunge. Take that last piece. Thats all yours. Eat this . Then we did takes all night so he had to eat like 80 pieces of raw yellow tail and by the end of the night he was on the floor throwing up in a trash bin and only two people on the floor laughing were myself and Martin Scorsese. Reporter once again revenge is a dish best served cold. For Good Morning America, Chris Connelly, abc news, los angeles. And in that case raw. You can see more of jonah hill and the interviews with the oscar nominees on our countdown to the oscars special next thursday, february 27th at 8 00 eastern and then we by we i do mean lara ra and robin on the red carpet for red carpet live, oscar sunday, march 2nd all followed by the 86th Academy Awards on abc. Looking forward to all of that. Time now for a final check of the weather. Ginger. I want to bring you just some of the more beautiful faces all down the line here. Hey, ladies, its not the perfect hair day here in new york city, is it . No, its not the perfect hair day but were all good here. Were good. Lets look at twitter photos which we start in missouri from yesterday. We had that tornado reported and this one, the photo just stunning that you can see it. Then in the northeast, heres what to expect so drizzle now, right. By later afternoon some heavier rain, even thunderstorms moving through, norfolk, virginia, you can see theyre 70 before that happens and the coal front slips on. A look across the nation for the weekend but for now, thats the bi good friday morning. Hi pressures going to bring us a lot of sunshine and warmer than average weather. Lets take a look at the sevenday all right. We have so much more coming up in our closing ceremonies, robin. Were looking forward to that, ginger. Thank you. As many of you know a couple of years ago i was diagnosed with mds which was once known as preleukemia. I needed a bone Marrow Transplant and blessed my big sister sally ann was a Perfect Match. Most people are not that fortunate. In fact, 70 of the people that need Marrow Transplants do not have a match in their family, 70 . One of those families reached out to us with their story. Its 9 00 a. M. And joshua, who has sickle cell anemia is arriving at Childrens Medical Center dallas for the beginning of a long day. Its a trip hes been making every month for most of his young life. How are you feeling today . Reporter with mom vera. When he was 20 months old he had a severe stroke that left him with weakness on the right side of his body. Hi, josh. Reporter in order to stave off future strokes caused by the disease, joshua has blood transfusions every four to six weeks. Its a lengthy sometimes uncomfortable process, but its the best solution until he finds a bone marrow donor. Transplant is the only cure for sickle cell anemia. These blood vessels in his brain where his stroke occurred have continued to narrow. We believe that transplant really offers him the best chance to not have a lifethreatening stroke. Reporter between doctors visits, he loves to play. I like football and basketball. Reporter and lots of affection from mom. You ready to get started . Reporter he manages his treatment with good humor and poise beyond his age. I think josh has a huge heart. The things we have to do sometimes arent always the most fun, you know, starting an i. V. And having to sit in a chair for four hours, but i mean he justs loves it when you come in the room and loves the interaction. Oh, no. Reporter 20 of the people in need of a bone Marrow Transplant are children. Hes been looking for a match for four years. I know in my heart there is somebody out there thats going to match josh. Reporter hoping to widen the search joshuas family sent me a message. Robin, many people listen to you. Have a voice for us to find a match for joshua or kids like him. Help me find my match. Reporter his message is loud and clear. Get tested. Join be the match and maybe make someones dream a reality. My dream for joshua is being healthy, being able to just do what he loves to do, i want joshua to feel like he can do anything but to be able to do it, it would bring joy to me and to him. I tell you, when i skype with josh, he makes me laugh. Hes so full of spirit and just really his mother and everybody there at the hospital in dallas. I dont know if you realize a marrow or cord transplant can be a treatment option for more than 70 different diseases including sickle cell anemia, leukemia, lymphoma. To find out more go to be the match and you can find that information on our website at goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo and i know you out there, youve been doing it. You know, youve been hitting me on twitter so thank you very much for trying. Its so easy. It doesnt hurt. Please do it. His match could be anywhere. Lease find it. All right. Coming up, improve this. Easy ways you can transform your bathroom this weekend. Well, thats a segue. Oh. My goodness. Come on back, folks. Whoo. Good morning americas countdown to oscar sunday brought to you by nasacort allergy 24 hour. Is that millions of peopleia will qualify for Financial Assistance. Its important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater Financial Assistance you will receive. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Oohlala oh, yeah, its time to improve this spring is just around the corner. We hope. But that doesnt mean its too late to give up on your new years resolution to renovate so this morning were checking out some budgetfriendly tips to transform any bathroom from lackluster to luxury in one weekend. Candy whiting of texas loves her home but there is one room she cant quite get a handle on. Oh, its just dog ugly. I dont know what else to say. So look at this bathroom. Oh, my goodness. These walls are hideous. These cabinets i just dont even know where to start. Reporter fortunately a handsome cowboy is here to save the day. Mean shane golan, a superstar texas contractor and owner of venetian homes. All right. So, candy, heres what i want to do. Well paint the cabinets. Well change the hardware. Were going to get you some plumbing fixtures that dont come off in your hand then well definitely do something about the floor and definitely do something about these walls. Most of this stuff are things can you do on your own on the weekend. A lot of stuff at lowes. Reporter first up what to do about those downtrodden cabinets in what we want to do and a lot have a misconception, you sand it before you paint it. For Optimal Results what you want to do, get a coat of paint on here and come in and sand it so we come in here and take this and knot down the high points in this wood and well get rid of the small little grooves in the wood so want to prime it, sand it and then well come back in with a finish coat. So one of the easiest most inexpensive ways to dress up any room is going to be replace the cabinet hardware. Now, you can find these at lowes or any of your local stores and its a really inexpensive way to set these cabinets off. You wont believe how little paint can transform a milding and a room. What were measuring for now a piece of trim and add that to the wall and give you optical illusion your baseboards are taller than they are. All we have to do is chop it with a saw, put it up and then paint from there down. Never be afraid to think outside the box when it comes to light. A lot of times people dont think about hanging dining room fixtures or nook fixtures in a bathroom. This is a perfect example. So well remove this light and hang a fixture. Reporter shane and his team work around the clock until the moment of truth. Will candy and her new husband have the spa they always dreamed of . Oh a. Agh oh, my god. Oh, its so knock your socks off gorgeous. Do you love it . Oh, i love it. I love it. Im so happy. Im going to start crying. Oh, dont cry. Oh, its gorgeous. Its exactly what i was hoping for and i didnt even know what i was hoping for. Its fair to say she liked it. To get shanes stepbystep instructions for sprucing up your bathroom with tile, mirror, go to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo or ask lara. Or ask lara. Im happy to talk to you about it too. The best of our gma games, our closing ceremonies, the village, its next. A good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Good. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of u. S. Snowboarding. [ cheers and applause ] weve had so much fun these past two weeks. What a fortnight. The competitors felt the thrill of victory and the agony actually of victory, as well. Lets take a look back at the epic. The course was set and the competition ready to get after it. The road to glory paved with highs. Flying through the air and does win by a nose. And close. Lara, you got to keep the shoes on. In the inaugural snowshoeing event. Sasha cohen the winner of our first competition. Day twos hockey shootout. It is the great gma slapshotoff. Zon zonezapping nail biter to the end. The days events, hot curlers. Hot curlers . There was an olympic size cameo in curling as Sage Kotsenburg took on george stephanopoulos. George, george, george. It stopped. By day six the medal board was shaping up in sasha cohens favor. Sasha cohen has two left skates. No brake. And no brakes as she entered the speedskating challenge on top. I have tears of joy. Slow down. It was a thawdown throwdown for the ages. [ cheers ] as rivalries heated up heading into day eight skatetacular figure skating final. The pinnacle of sportsmanship and camaraderie reaching new heights, two weeks of historymaking moments at the gma games. [ cheers and applause ] oh, there can be only one winner. We know who that is. Cue the anthem as we close our olympiad and lara spencer is joining us with five total medal, a bronze medal is your, lara. Thats not bad, lara. We will see you four years hence, roses for the lovely lady, as well. Another bronze medal to sara haines. Come on in. Come on out. Come on. Great service to the cause. And it really did come down to two, by a hair, ginger zee with a silver medal. Come on and magnificent. Come on over here. Come over here. And finally, there could be only one winner, not surprisingly, the actual olympian among us, sasha cohen. Come on. Eight total medals. The gold and she walks away. Thank you. Thank you. And also gives us a chance, sasha, its been so phenomenal having you. Was this truly the greatest athletic experience of your life. I miss competing so much that i think i found that i just like diving for things. Yes. So i this has been so fantastic and im competitive. Definitely. Bloodied and unbowed, a champion. All champions today. Huh, everybody . 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Join us for our midday newscast at 11 00. Have a fabulous announcer its live with kelly and michael. Today, host of americas got talent, howie mandel. And he plays daryl dixon on the hit drama the walking dead, norman reedus. Plus, shes back from russia, with a brandnew gold medal. Snowboarder kaitlyn farrington. All next on live. [captioning made possible by isneyabc domestic television] announcer now here are kelly ripa and Michael Strahan [cheers and applause]