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Two teenage girls disappear on a hike in indiana and snapchatted these final photos on the trail before authorities finally found their bodies. Now police and the fbi desperately looking for this man spotted on the trail. Did their social media posts put them at risk . You have to make it Mariah Careys big comeback performing in front of a Live Audience since that new years eve disaster. Were missing some of the vocal but it is what it is. Now singing her new breakup song as she tries to make her triumphant return. Good morning, america. Happy thursday. How about the mariah carey on jimmy kimmel last night. She didnt do an interview. She just let her singing do the talking as they say. That she did. Much more on that ahead. First to that new backlash for President Trump over allegations his campaign was communicating with russian officials before the election. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is going to start us off this morning. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, robin. The president is lashing out at news media and his own agents but the white house is facing louder and louder calls from republicans as well as democrats for answers about contacts between President Trumps team and russia. President trump seemed to relish the visit of his closest friend on the world stage setting a big goal for middle east peace with israeli Prime Minister bibi netanyahu. Good negotiator. The art of the deal. Reporter overhanging it turmoil in the west wing. The president s first public reaction after the firing of National Security adviser Michael Flynn, attacks on the media and the Intelligence Community. General flynn is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media as i call it the fake media in many cases. I think in addition to that, from intelligence papers are being leaked, things are being leaked. Its criminal action. Criminal act. Reporter thats a major turnabout from his press secretarys explanation about why flynn was fired. The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynns resignation. Reporter flynn was caught misleading the white house about his calls with the Russian Ambassador. But even with flynn now gone, the controversy is far from over. U. S. Intelligence sources confirm that there were repeated contacts between members of Trumps Campaign team and russian intelligence before the election. Trump has previously denied any such contacts but on wednesday he refused to answer questions about that. Mr. President , can you guarantee that nobody on your campaign had any contacts with the russians . Reporter this morning, democrats and a growing number of republicans are demanding answers from the white house. Its highly disturbing and it raises more and more questions that congress has a sworn obligation to get to the bottom of. Were looking for facts and were looking for evidence. Reporter now, the two top senators on the judiciary committee, Dianne Feinstein but republican Chuck Grassley are requesting the fbi director and the attorney general brief senators about general flynns contacts with the russian government. Robin. Can you tell us more about the reaction from congress concerning the president saying about the leaks . Reporter well, theres now a new letter out from the two Top Republicans over on the house side asking the department of justices internal watchdog to investigate leaks. This is exactly what President Trump is looking for. They are basically responding not so much to the controversy about the contacts with russia but they want to investigate the leaks coming out of the fbi. All right, jon, thank you. The president had a tweet a minute ago saying those leakers will be caught. Lets get a closer look on where things stand on the Flynn Investigation from Pierre Thomas and the big question will he face charges for those phone calls to the Russian Ambassador . The white house said their counsel determined there was no legal problem. Reporter not likely. The law in question called the logan act which prohibits private citizens from negotiating with foreign nations when there is a dispute with the u. S. Theres never been a successful prosecution ever. The sources tell me that while flynn discussed the sanctions he apparently never made any specific promises to the Russian Ambassador. But flynn could get caught up in this broader investigation over the contacts between trump aides and allies with russians during the campaign. Reporter absolutely. George, the broader investigation continues. The fbi wants to know if flynn or other Trump Associates were in contact with russian intelligence before the election. Right, and some of the associates have already spoken out. Carter page and Paul Manafort said they didnt knowingly speak to the russians. Another in wall street journal said intelligence officials are withholding Key Information from the president for fear it will be compromised. Reporter we got strong and angry pushback from the Intelligence Community and said these allegations are baseless. Now, whats at question here is whether the Intelligence Community might withhold certain information about sources and methods. That happens from time to time. But what is clear, george, is theres tension between the president and the Intelligence Community. Yesterday there were two tweets from President Trump talking about the fact that he thought those leaks might be coming from the fbi and the nsa. Okay, Pierre Thomas, thanks very much. George, the Trump Administration also fighting a battle on capitol hill. President trumps labor secretary nominee withdrawing his name facing scrutiny over his professional and personal life after an interview of his exwife with oprah surfaced. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce has more on all this. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, well, robin, President Trump is now looking for a new labor secretary nominee. Andrew puzder was supposed to be here this morning finally having his confirmation hearing. It had been postponed four times. Now canceled. Hes the first trump cabinet casualty. Millionaire fast food executive Andrew Puzder withdrawing his nomination for labor secretary. As even republicans voiced concerns. It comes as puzders personal life was put under the spotlight. The most frightening thing was leaving. Reporter this 1990 tape making the rounds on capitol hill. His exwife speaking in disguise to oprah describing what she says was domestic abuse. He vowed revenge. He said i will see you in the gutter. This will never be over. You will pay for this. Reporter the video given to senators by the host herself. His exwife later recanted her allegations and puzder has strongly denied them. Senators questioning puzders Business Record too. There is ample evidence that mr. Puzder is a terrible choice to head the Agency Charged with ensuring that women and men are treated fairly in the workplace. Reporter he once suggested he prefers robots to human employees saying theyre always polite, they always upsell. They never take a vacation. And took aim at his workers appearance. My first memo was no more people behind the counter unless they have all their teeth. Reporter he also admitted to employing an undocumented housekeeper for years though he later paid all necessary back taxes but it all proved too much for his nomination to survive. Now, in announcing his withdrawal puzder said he was honored to have been considered. He is now the 11th cabinet level nominee to ever withdraw. By comparison obama had three picks that backed down. Robin. And, mary, are any other remaining cabinet nominees in jeopardy . Reporter democrats are eyeing Mick Mulvaney for budget director but so far just one republican is opposing. He is expected to be confirmed later today. Mary, thank you. George. Lets talk more about it with matthew dowd and cecilia vega and, matt, lets talk first, you said yesterday the president will rely on this solid wall of republican support in the congress in order to keep his agenda moving. Now, he lost some republicans on the puzder nomination yesterday but overall on the big issue, republicans are holding firm with him. Yeah, there seems to be two dominant strategies in the Republican Congress using an old west analogy, there is the circle the wagon, well get too a defensive crouch and not allow anybody in and protect the president but then theres a series of scouts well say going out saying we need to find out what the danger and concern is. So youre seeing some, some republican senators and even beginning to see some Republican House members, but thats the two dominant thing, circle the wagons approach and some saying lets find out whats going on. Cecilia, when you watch the white house and the president and his staff, youve got the tweets from the president this morning going after the leakers saying the failing the New York Times has to apologize. In some ways they seem to see the press more as an opposition than democrats. No different than the campaign. We saw the president chant this at every rally he had. Its definitely playing out in realtime. I was in that press conference yesterday around reporters in the middle of the pack mainstream reporters who were clearly not happy with the fact that in this press conference for perhaps the third time in with a visit from a foreign leader did not call on mainstream news organizations, is leaning heavily on calling on conservative outlets. The reason this matters, its not because were complaining as journalist, george. This is a huge departure from past administrations who traditionally president s have called on the associated press, wire services, but theyre cherrypicking the questions basically and not getting tough questions in these press conferences on basically the news of the day. We didnt see any real questions on flynn and thats a problem when there are real answers this Administration Knows about who knew what, when. To me its not whether cecilia vega gets to ask a question or jon karl gets to ask a question or abc, its about no one with an antagonistic question gets answered. Theres two ways you undermine the First Amendment. There is a full frontal assault on the First Amendment we see in autocratic countries, not what is going on, subtle undermining and that is you call everything fake news that disagrees with you and dont call on any reporters that might ask you a question that is at all aggressive and might point out factual deficiencies. Cecilia, they seem pretty determined to think this will work for them and it will be effective. Well, it might be for the base and it has been up until now. I dont know how long you can sustain it. I dont know, frankly, how much longer a lot of reporters and media in these briefings and press conferences will tolerate this. What youre seeing now is reporters standing up and shouting questions at the president trying to get his attention. I dont know how much longer he can refuse to answer them. Cecilia vega, matthew dowd, thanks very much. Over to michael. Now to that major storm moving into the west. It could be the strongest to hit Southern California this season and lets go right to ginger with the latest. Michael, already such a wet pattern setting up in parts of california. You can see pasadena, california, this picture of a giant tree, the ground so saturated all it takes is a little wind and well get more of that. Look at the view from truckee, earlier this week i80 shut down because of a mudslide and i think well see more of that as we go into this weekend. Sandbags being filled at seal beach south of long beach and they are all in preparation for tomorrow. The flash flood watches smother from san diego through los angeles and mountains up to oroville and look at this, the series of storms coming at you, the worst coming tomorrow 7 00 a. M. , los angeles, 7 30. The drive time a mess in l. A. Its going to be. You always hear about needing rain in l. A. No one needs that much. Breaking headline overseas. Authorities making new arrests in the assassination of the north korean leaders half brother and matt gutman has all the details. Reporter good morning. Early this morning Malaysian Police arrested two more members of a cell of assassins who police say tracked kim jongnam to the kuala lumpur airport despite the fact that he was traveling under an assumed name and killed him with a fastacting poison before melting away into that crowded airport. After zeroing on the suspected assassin in that lol shirt this Morning Police in malaysia tightening the noose around a cell of alleged assassins they say killed north koreas kim jongnam. In this grainy video chinese tv claims to show the second suspected female assassin being bundled into a police car in kuala lumpur. Kim jongnam was the portly playboy and half brother of current north korean dictator kim jongun. The brothers shared a father you see in this awkward family photo from 1981. North koreas former dictator but the brothers were estranged. Kim jongnam had reportedly been living the high life in exile in the gambling mecca of macau. He was awaiting a flight when police say a woman came from behind and covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid. Police say it was poison and they say kim jongnam complained of burning in his eye, dizziness quickly led to death. The poison killed him before he reached the hospital. Immediately investigators began scouring cctv footage for two alleged femme fatales. Three arrests have been made. The two alleged female assassins and one of their boyfriends. Each carrying a passport with a different nationality. Kim jongnam had reportedly sent his dictator brother a letter in about 2012 begging him to spare his and his familys life but the 33yearold north korean had his own uncle killed and had hundreds of other government officials killed. There isnt much mercy in that regime, robin. No, indeed not, thank you. All right, now to a terrifying moment on an American Airlines flight forced to make an Emergency Landing after hitting a deer during takeoff. Abcs david kerley is in los angeles with the story. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, michael. The pilots didnt know they hit something but their jet was damaged. They were leaking fuel in flight. As the American Airlines commuter jet is speeding down the runway to take off for dallas another pilot sees something. I have a Deer Crossing in front of the embraer. Reporter even the pilots dont realize exactly what happened. Did you hit something on the runway. No, we had a loud bang though were coming back. Reporter with jet fuel streaming out of its right wing it makes a quick return to the Charlotte Airport for an Emergency Landing. On the ground the nearly 50 passengers and crew stream out of the jet and firefighters start pouring on foam. Passengers say the jet was making some strange noises. It was pretty loud. It didnt just sound like a street bump. It was like boom. All of a sudden you could hear the bong, bong, bong going in front. Reporter no one was injured but the damage from the deer hit is clear on the right wing of the jet. While deer strikes on roadways are common there are 3,300 every day, there is less than one a week at an airport. But the more than 40 aircraft deer strikes a year on average usually do result in damage to the aircraft like this one. And that damage is costly. In the last 25 years deer hits have actually cost aircraft damaged aircraft a total of nearly 60 million. Wow. David, thanks very much. Amy right here with todays other top stories. People were saying this story were about to bring you sounded like a plane crash. It was a series of explosions and fires that lit up the night sky in Eastern Washington state and the fire was coming from a power substation. That explosion knocked out power in three cities. Investigators are blaming equipment failure. New immigration standoff in denver where a mexican born woman is taking refuge in a church to avoid deportation. Immigration Officials Say they denied jeanette vizguerras request to say in the u. S. Because of two misdemeanor convictions. She says she has worked and paid taxes here for 20 years. Well, federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation of fox news channel. At issue whether the company failed to tell investors about payments it made to employees who claimed they were sexually harassed by roger ailes. Fox cooperating with that. Someones trash got turned into a treasure. Someone dumped this Old Television set unaware that the previous owner had stashed 100,000 inside of it. He had given the tv to a friend and forgot about the cash. He says he stashed 30 years ago. Its a good thing the worker at the recycling center is an honest woman. She called police when she found the stash of cash and tracked down the Rightful Owner because there were documents in this cash box. Police now understandably told the owner, you might want to put that in a bank. A little safer there. How do you forget . I dont know. Must have been doing that if he forgot. Oh, yes. Gosh. I tip that much. Yeah. More snow in the northeast, ging. Imagine 3 to 6 feet of snow had fallen in the last nine days in parts of maine. Three to six feet, not inches. This picture, the semis off. A lot of placing around portland up to a foot or more overnight and from connecticut and not quite done yet. This will wrap up in the next 12 hours or so but still in place with winter storm warnings and advisories and a lot more coming up. Lets get to the rainy cities brought to you by silk. Good morning. Im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Rain quickly to just showers this morning. Well have some dry periods between the Weekend Storms so its not a washout. Look how scattered to isolated our showers are this afternoon. Well even see sunshine from time to time. 60 to 64 degrees our spread. Well have drizzle turn to steady rain. Mid40s to low. Every storm will b and coming up, a closer look at how russia recruits inside the United States get inside the white house. Brian ross here with new reporting. That murder mystery, two teenage girls killed while hiking in indiana. Police are now searching for this man who was also spotted on the trail. The fbi is joining the investigation. So i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating whats within me with onceweekly trulicity. Trulicity is not insulin. It helps activate my body to do what its supposed to do release its own insulin. Trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. I take it once a week, and it works 24 7. It comes in an easytouse pen and i may even lose a little weight. 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Welcome back to gma and youre looking at our giant excited crowd in lumberton, North Carolina, where hundreds of people are up early this morning for a huge surprise. Thats right. Its part of what were calling our we are gma event. A huge live celebration honoring four very deserving people who helped their town get through a tough time. Hurricane matthew and they have no idea about whats going to happen. We love those surprises. Oh, theyre just there and have no idea. Youre right. Thats always fun. Also right now there is a battle on capitol hill over President Trumps nominee for the office of management and budget. Mick mulvaney, one republican senator john mccain says he will oppose the nominee but is expected to be confirmed later today. A nationwide protest called a day without immigrants is under way. Some will stay away and keep their Children Home from school to show the impact they have on the economy. You see different kinds of protests all over the country. Blockbuster allegations that trump insiders had contact with russian intelligence officials during the president ial campaign and brian ross is here with a look at how russians try to gain influence in the u. S. Reporter good morning, george. The Trump White House continues to dispute reports that any of the president s associates were in contact with the russians during the campaign. But theres no dispute the russians themselves have been making great efforts to get close to trump and the people around him whether the targets knew it or not. Its every russian spys greatest dream, to have an asset, a source inside the white house or anyplace of power in washington. They always target a political figure. They want to know whos a mover and shaker in our society, who affects it. Reporter and as portrayed in the americans for the russians, all is fair in love and espionage. Im in charge of fbi counterintelligence and my secretary married a kgb officer. Reporter u. S. Intelligence officials describe a massive effort by russian spies to infiltrate and disrupt american politics. Including the use of what are called cutouts and front, people and organizations that would not appear to be part of russian intelligence. This is a theory of war, a 21st century theory of war that includes false information that includes cyberhacking, that includes, you know, in effect sewing chaos. Reporter senator mark warner is on a committee that is investigation into meddling in the election and whether anyone in the Trump Campaign was involved. I think this investigation is maybe the most serious thing that ill ever take on in my public career. Reporter when general Michael Flynn was in moscow in december 2015 invited to sit next to russian president Vladimir Putin, he was about to become the senior Foreign Policy adviser for donald trump. Now the question for Senate Investigators and the fbi is why the russians carted the general who was fired this week and trying to exploit him even if he did not realize it. If by his actions implied or implicit there was an effort to undermine american Foreign Policy, that bothers me a great deal. Reporter also under scrutiny another former trump Foreign Policy adviser, carter page, who claims hes done Major Business deals with russians and defends its leaders raising the eyebrows of american intelligence officials. Would you agree that Vladimir Putin is a thug as some have called him . You know, i thoroughly disagree. Reporter page is named as a central figure in the infamous dossier of unsubstantiated allegations about the Trump Campaign and the russians being in cahoots and told abc news the allegations are ridiculous. Is it absolutely false . Completely false and laughable. And former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort who once worked for prorussian politicians in ukraine denies talking to anyone telling abc news how am i supposed to know who is a russian spy . The key word is knowingly. What else are they doing . To try to figure out what happened in this campaign . There are questions about finances and mr. Trump himself. There are doubts remain as long as he refused to release income tax returns, one of the Big Questions for investigators. Brian ross, thanks very much. Coming up here in two minutes that murder mystery, two girls bodies found after they went missing on a hike. Their deaths rocking their tightknit community and the search for the killer this morning. Is morning. mic thuds uh, sorry. Its unlimited without compromising reliability, on the largest, most advanced 4g lte network in america. thud uh. Sorry, last thing. Its just 45 per line. Forty. 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The girls were dropped off on this trail for what was supposed to be a hike and a fun afternoon. But they never came back. At 2 07 00 p. M. On monday 14yearold liberty german uploaded this picture to snapchat of her 13yearold friend Abigail Williams walking across the train tracks over a bridge near delphi, indiana. That would be their last communication. The next day their bodies were found in the woods just threequarters of a mile from that very bridge seen on libertys snapchat and launching a massive manhunt to find the suspect. Overnight they released this image. Of a man they want to bring in for questioning. Investigators believe he was on the trail around the same time as the girls. This is rural indiana. Most of the people that are born and raised here stay here. It is very uncommon for that to happen in a small community. Reporter the community of 3,000 in complete disbelief. Everybody is ready to know what happened and why and who did this. Reporter a Family Member dropped the girls off at the nature trail for a hike around 1 00 p. M. When they returned to pick them up 2 1 2 hours later they were nowhere in sight. Hundreds combed the trail looking for any sign of the friends. Police checking snapchat pics for clues. Their families at the time hoping for the best. Missing, abducted. We dont know for sure. Cell phone has been pinging around town. Reporter but search teams discovered their bodies tuesday around noon. This morning, a community in mourning searching for answers. Now to think something could have happened here in our own town, its scary. Reporter the fbi has joined this investigation. Authorities say they are receiving hundreds of tips but so far no suspects. Robin. Alex, thank you. Abc news consultant and former fbi agent brad garrett, this is heartbreaking and you know this area very well. Its such a small, tightknit community. What stands out to you about the case . That the idea that this is just totally random, that this guy didnt have some connection at least with the community is i think thats probably likely. That this is not like new york in a park where you have a lot of people all over moving around. This is three thing, it is either random, its targeted, somebody watched them walk down this trail or its somebody they knew. We heard in the report about the snapchatting and seeing the pictures so that puts their location on the map for some people. How do you think possibly that could factor in at all . Its extremely important because if you have a bad guy that happens to have a cell phone or some device thats emitting a signal, he may be able to put him or her in the proximity of the two girls. We see in the picture the authorities are putting out and asking if anybody has seen this person that was on the trail and looks almost like the same location where the two girls were, we saw the snapchat. What else are investigators doing right now, brad . You know, the real key is the following. Who uses that trail regularly . Because this is a very rural part of indiana, so are there regular walkers . Who do they see Walking Around because the idea that Somebody Just all of a sudden appeared on this trail is probably not likely, so the real key is going to be able to identify people that move around that area and the other side of this is the girls. Who did they snapchat with . Is there some relevance to what happened to them in reference to who they were talking to . So rare in this area that Something Like this happens and you can hear from members of the community, theyre just shocked. You know, their guard is not up like we are in these urban environments where people go in the woods and hunt and hike and do whatever they do and feel totally comfortable and this is another great example of vulnerability when youre alone. When youre alone. It was 1 00 in the afternoon in an area they were so familiar with. Hopefully well get some information soon to help. All right, michael. Thank you, robin. Our legal team is here. Coming up on our big board howard stern hit with a blockbuster lawsuit accused of broadcasting a womans private conversation live on air. Well find out if he went too far. Plus, the young Lottery Winner who says hitting the Lottery Jackpot ruined her life. How young is too young to play . Well be back in two minutes with sunny and dan. They have all the answers. . On my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo is specifically designed to open up airways to improve breathing for a full 24 hours. 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So this woman calls an irs agent, wants to deal with her taxes. He had been calling howard stern and the lines got crossed. Hes calling Howard Sterns show to get on the show. He is on hold. Hes an irs agent. You know hes got some time to kill. Hes on hold. Why not do my job. My job is to take calls from people calling in about questions. Takes the call while on hold on the howard stern show and that ends up with the howard stern people, they start commenting on it. Shes suing now. Now bottom line is typically i dont know this would be that powerful a lawsuit. Why . Because the stern show didnt intentionally go and take it. It sort of was handed to them. The problem is when youre talking about tax return information, the law is very specific. It is different. You can sue for negligence and as a result this is a serious lawsuit. And, sunny, what could be the fallout here . Does she have a case . Dan kind of set up a case for her. I hope the irs agent doesnt still have his job. Who does that . I mean, who does that youre working. With Government Property and i think put on hold by the irs all the time. You get the message, you know, were going to record it for Quality Assurance not to be broadcast all over the howard stern show. I agreree with dan. I think there certainly is a suit here and i certainly think shes going to win across the board. Arent we all outraged by just merely hearing it . And i really think that the howard stern show made a judgment call. I dont think they necessarily just were handed this information. Not only were they handed it they decided to use it. Thats where the liability. As a legal matter its different the Supreme Court ruled on an issue of a Radio Station getting an intercepted information and theyve said a Radio Station can use that information. Now i think this is different. Its different because its related to taxes but, look, is it outrageous . Thats what howard stern and his show does. They do outrage. You know, thats what the whole show is about. You can say, oh, my god, the howard stern show is awful and shock jocks are terrible. That may be true. Does the First Amendment protect them here . Absolutely im saying not in this case. This case is different because youre talking about privacy issues and youre talking about tax theres a specific statute that relates to negligently releasing information about someones taxes. So thats why this is such a dangerous case for them. Ive got to believe theyll settle it. And its not going to they better and think about it, shock jocks certainly are protected but we see this coarsening of our culture and think about don imus. He was literally fired for calling the rutgers Womens Basketball team nappyheaded hos. Those were his words. There has to be a line when we come to these shock jocks. There has to be a line. For entertainment value its entertaining until its you then its not entertaining anymore. I hope the people that criticize him dont listen. Thats all im saying. We got to move on to our next story. Most people, you dream of, what, hitting a Million Dollar jackpot. One of britains youngest winners jane park is claiming the money she won at age 17 has ruined her life. And sunny at one point she threatened to sue the Lottery Company and she released a statement and in it she says she strongly believes the age limit for playing the lottery in the uk should be 16 to 18. Now, increase it from 16 to 18. Yeah. What do you think . Do you think is there a certain age or is 16 too young. I think its too young. Were talking about gambling. I was in college at 16. I was a crazy person, a nut. Theres no 16yearold dont tell on yourself. 16 . I was in college Doogie Howser but she did things i think adults do, as well. If you look at her Instagram Page she purchased a purple range rover. A rolex. She had some plastic surgery. My question is where the heck were her parents and if you think about it, the curse of the lottery, have you heard about this, 70 of adult Lottery Winners go bankrupt within the first couple of years. The reason we dont let young people buy lottery tickets, its because were afraid theyll blow their money. Not that we say youre 16, youre too young to buy a ticket. Youre too young to throw away your money. 18 here. Almost every state its 18. Three states where its 21. Iowa, louisiana, arizona. Its 21. But, you know, again, the notion the woman who won is serving as the face id rather see the person who kept blowing 20 a week who is 16 saying, you know what, okay, now ive got sympathy. Used it. Very hard for me to feel sorry for this woman. Champagne problem. Like, come on. You won over a million bucks and, oh, were supposed to feel so sorry for you because you were too young to buy the ticket. It is a lot of responsibility but like you said you would hope where were her parents . And i will say with this lottery organization, they provide a lot of support. She was provided the opportunity to have a financial adviser, to have a private banker, but she bought a purple range rover instead. Thats what a lot of people do. Now complaining about it and now threatening to sue over it. Too young. The lawsuit doesnt have much chance. No one on the set is saying this is crazy. This is like why is a 17yearold buying gambling . Im just saying. I think its a little crazy too. Its all about how you handle it. A lot of 16yearolds are like let me win. Ill show you. I have a 14yearold that wishes you win today, dan. Ginger has the story behind this waterfall. Looks like its on fire. Plus, get ready for our huge surprise. Live in North Carolina, of course, hit so hard by Hurricane Matthew. Incredible Community Leaders have all come together but four special people have no idea about the surprise theyre going to get. Coming up gmas sizzling suppers brought to you by las vegas. 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The president under fire from both parties over contacts between his campaign and russian intelligence and the president s pick for labor secretary withdraws his nomination. Health alert. Battling the common cold. So many of us reaching for tissues and chicken soup right now, is popping more vitamin d the answer . Dr. Besser breaks down how to get healthy Mariah Careys comeback. The star performing in front of a Live Audience for the First Time Since that infamous new year eves meltdown on live tv. Im going to let the audience sing. Her brandnew breakup song as she returns to the stage. And we are gma. The live event so big, hundreds of people up before dawn to help us pull it off. One towns story of struggle and resilience after a hurricane and the four women that helped all the kids and theyre in for a big surprise as the town comes together to say [ chanting good morning, america ] i dont know about you guys but to hear them shout we are gma gave me chills. We are excited of the we have a special surprise for four very deserving educators who have really done so much for their community and it is something that were starting 50 hearts in 50 states. Yes. It begins in blumberton, norh carolina. Lumberton junior high hit so hard by Hurricane Matthew and we saw rob marciano there to help pull this off. Surprise those four people who helped the town get through a tough time. Who knew rob was such a great cheerleader. Something else im looking forward to. Deals steals, everybody. Ah. Tory johnson is here with big savings and theyre starting at just 2. 50 and continues to amaze us. Our glam squad is hard at work. That is our own glam squad. Takes a village as you probably know. There they are hard at work and help showcase all these great deals tory is bringing us and doing it with our audience members this morning. And did you notice glam squad, a little extra something for them this morning as well. I love how serious theyre looking. Never that serious backstage. Never, never. No, theyre too busy getting gossip. We have to get serious. Amy has the news and morning rundown. We begin with President Trump promising to track down the people responsible for leaks in the Intelligence Community. He blames those leaks for the crisis that brought down former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Meanwhile, frustrations are growing on capitol hill and our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is tracking all the latest. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, amy. General flynn is gone, but the controversy is far from over. The white house is facing louder and louder calls from both republicans and democrats on capitol hill for answers about the contacts between President Trumps team and the russians. In fact, the top two senators on the judiciary committee, democrat Dianne Feinstein and republican Chuck Grassley are saying they want to hear directly from the fbi director and from the attorney general about general flynns contacts with the russians. Meanwhile, President Trump is lashing out at the intelligence agencieses for leaking. Two tweets this morning, one saying the spotlight has finally been put on lowlife leakers. They will be caught. Another saying, leaking and even illegal classified leaking has been a big problem for years in washington. Amy. All right, jon, thank you. U. S. Intelligence officials are strongly denying a report in the wall street journal that claims the Intelligence Community is withholding Sensitive Information from President Trump to avoid leaks. One official calls that claim baseless. Well, President Trumps nominee to run the White House Budget Office is expected to be confirmed with only one republican senator voting no. The search is on for a new labor secretary nominee after Andrew Puzder withdrew his name following scrutiny of his personal life and Business Record. New developments in that James Bondstyle assassination of kim jonguns brother. A woman in indonesia has been arrested for what bliss believe was a poison spray attack. The other was arrested after being seen on airport Surveillance Video in malaysia. And in health news a potential step toward detecting autism. Using brain scans and computer algorithms, researchers have been able to predict with 80 accuracy which would develop the disorder and say they can predict it before a colds first birthday. More research is needed, they say but it could lead to new therapies and other treatments. Walmart facing a lawsuit today accused of selling fake craft beers. The suit claims the beers actually come from a major brewer that produce, quote, cheap College Party staples. Walmart vowing to fight the case. It could have been a costly donation. A california woman dropped some of her husbands clothes off at goodwill. She had no idea that inside one of those shirts he had been secretly stashing 8,000 to take her on a dream vacation to italy. As you might imagine when he finally told her there was a frantic search and then relief when a worker found the shirt and the cash the next day and i have to say the man wasnt putting it in his pocket the whole time. He actually had it in the bank and took it out to give a Family Member who was going to be evicted. He had all that cash in his pocket and no one knew it was in there except him. The money in the pocket and money in the tv. I know. Money back in his hand though thankfully. Thats good. Now, lara, a warning, there is an adorable baby over your shoulder. She may steal your pop news headlines. Hi, baby. [ applause ] so she was happy with the shoutout too. Give us pop news here. I will, indeed. Good morning, everybody. Hi, baby. All right. So were going to begin with our friend mariah carey. Mariah carey in the news this morning because she is officially made her comeback getting back on stage this time at Jimmy Kimmel Live for her First Television performance since the sound check heard around the world as i now like to call it. Except by her actually. That was the problem on new years eve. Remember she sang on new years rockin eve and couldnt hear so ended up not singing. Well, she put it all to bed last night and she was flawless. Crooning a performance of her new single called i dont. Here it is. I dont i dont i used to love you but i dont i dont i used to love you but i dont, i dont. That song inspired by her breakup with billionaire james packer. I dont know what was she trying to say there . She said it. Everybody is laughing and im over here going i heard that. You werent laughing. Any more clarification in the video she burns her wedding dress. Okay. Apparently it was the wedding dress, so she dont. She dont. What . The perils of dating a yeah, get it out there. March 15th if you want to see her do it live kicking off a 35show tour with lyle kneionel. Sign me up. Twofer. I feel like we could get there. Hmm. Road trip. Keep it in mind. Also in pop news, Justin Timberlake in the news brings disco back to the Academy Awards and tells vanity fair he was inspired by abba when he created cant stop this feeling. He even asked himself what if we did a modern disco funk record. That is what did it and created the song you are hearing and nominated for an oscar. He is out to craft a catchy melody that unites everybody including young people and their parents. Oscars aside he is up for seven kids Choice Awards in march, three wins under his belt already. Kind of like the meryl streep of the kids Choice Awards so he actually gave advice to meryl on how she too could have a kids choice award. The work does matter but really just go there and be willing to get slimed. It helps. [ applause ] got to be a kid. I think you guys will like this story. A little sports story for you. Tennis star Eugenia Bouchard is a woman of her word. The 44th ranked player in the world has made good on her end of a super bowl bet you might be surprised she took in the first place. When the patriots were down, what, 210. Bouchard was feeling so confident that the falcons would take it home she agreed to a random fan who said, genie, if youre wrong and the patriots turn this around, you go on a date with me. Oh. Well, we know how the game ended. Yep. Last night bouchard did it with that lucky twitter user and looks like they had a great time. Goodlooking couple. Yeah. She took him to a courtside game. Nets. Courtside seats and had a great time. And genie offered this little pearl of wisdom. Never ever ever bet against tom brady. Thats some glory for the guy. Absolutely. It sounds like one of those stories in the future theyre married and you go, how did you meet . Good start. 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When they combined them what they found for those who did not take vitamin d 42 got a cold. For those who took it it was 40 . Only a 2 reduction. They feel more studies have to be done and i agree. Why is it so hard to find a cure for the cold . Yeah, you know, when we think about the common coal, its actually caused by hundreds, if not thousands of viruses. So coming up with something that works against all those is difficult. And viruses mutate so something that may work this year probably wouldnt work next year and because coals are mainly an annoyance, the fda would require incredibly gentle medications with no side effects if they would approve something for treatment. People believe a lot of things about fighting the cold once you have it. Are you going to bust some myths. Chicken soup. You get the cold and it restores your immune system. True or false gentleman. False, but i love taking chicken soup. It makes me feel better. A lot of disappointed people. Okay, megadoses of vitamin c. Does that help . True or false . False. It doesnt help once you have a coal. There are studies that show if you take it every day it could reduce your cold about a half a day but doesnt prevent coals either. Last but not least the old antibiotic. Does that help, true or false . Absolutely false. You know, all its going to do is give you side effects. Coals are caused by virus, antibiotics work against bacteria. Unfortunately, false. Sorry, george. All week long, nothing is working. It doesnt help. Wow. Coming up winter beauty deals steals. See tory johnson and our glam squad. Youre so beautiful at whole foods market, we believe in food thats naturally beautiful and fresh. Delicious and powerful, and full of nutrients. Food that makes us nourished and mighty, and connects us to the natural world. So there are no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives in any of the food we sell. We believe in real food. Whole foods market. 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Now theyre blocking two lanes instead of one. Its been blocking since about 4 30 this morning. Thats still a major sig alert. 2 Miles Per Hour on northbound 880. Thank you so much. Meteorologist mike nicco will you still have a chance of scattered showers today. Alittle breezy but no damage. Large breakers at the beaches until 9 00. Still a one on the storm impact scale. You can see wet weather but for the most part this is what youll see for the rest of the day scattered light showers. Heavier rain tomorrow morning and during the afternoon hours. Alexis . Im sorry, natasha . No problem. Well air a special report on the president s latest announcement from the white house. Hes expected to announce his latest pick for secretary. Thats supposed to start at 9 00 a. M. I know you hear us at home say this all the time, but we have a fantastic audience. [ applause ] so fun. So much fun. So much fun. A lot of fun, and i know our audience will be excited as i know you guys will be about hearing this next story. It is an update to a story we shared earlier this week. Now we have some members of a fifth grade Basketball Team from new jersey here and the league told them they couldnt play the rest of the season because they had two girls on the team. Now, the issue was they had been playing as a coed team already for four years, so every Single Member voted to forfeit the rest of their games rather than play without the girls. It showed solidarity. [ applause ] but the update is theres some good news, theyre going to be allowed to play together as a team, boys and girls, for the rest of the season, and all of the games that they missed are going to be rescheduled, and this is thats the way it should be. Thats the way it should be. And this is it the way it should be too. Take a look at their reaction. Were in the playoffs. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting unity, unity, unity ] i like that. I know. Yeah. We want to wish them the best for the rest of the season. Unity, unity, unity. [ chanting unity, unity, unity ] just keeping it going because were bringing out Damien Chazelle, director of la la land. Lets bring him out right now. [ applause ] golden globe winner [ applause ] good to see you. Hi. How are you . How are you . Oh, my gosh, its an honor to meet you. Thank you. Honor to meet you. Nice to see you. Good to see you. Congratulations on everything. [ applause ] everything. You are on a roll. Whiplash now la la land, 14 Oscar Nominations sweeping all the awards. [ applause ] has it sunk in yet . No, probably its probably obvious that it hasnt when you just look at me. Im like i just find it crazy. I find it surreal. I am really thrilled a lot of the people who made the movie with me are getting acknowledged. Theres actually a great thing. And youve gotten so much attention for that incredible opening scene, that amazing dance number on the l. A. Freeway. Now, is it really true you almost didnt do it . Well, so what happened is we did it. We always wanted to do it but then when we were editing the movie, it seemed to not work for a long time. There was stuff around it. And we were like, ah, this isnt really getting us into the movie the way we needed it to. First we thought it was the scene and four months the movie didnt have it started with the next scene. Basically, yeah, started with like a little bit between ryan and emma. Whats that like as a director when you say its not working . What do you mean its not working . Whats not happening . Its tough to describe. Its kind of i mean, in a way its part of the pain and the joy of making a movie. A lot of it you cant explain. You sit and watch and something feels right, something feels wrong. I found it helpful to invite friends over to the cutting room and watch scenes or watch the movie and mainly just kind of watch them watch it because you could kind of see, oh, where theyre twitching in their seat and kind of recoiling or leaning. When youre doing this, what are you seeing . Put up that where the directors do directors do it for show. I was like, what . Really cool. Looks great. We have to look like we know something. So its like in the scene that george talked about earlier i was amazed at because of the coordination of the scene, first of all, and, secondly, you were able to stop traffic in l. A. For that long. That blew my mind. How did you do that . Well, i alone didnt could never have done that. It was an Incredible Team of well, my choreographer mandy moore, a different mandy moore than some people think. And then the whole crew on the movie, i mean, they managed to convince the city to let us shoot on this freeway, overpass for two day, a saturday and sunday so we kind of went in in the dead of night, piled all the cars in there and the crew got it all ready and started rehearsing at dawn. Then as soon as the sun is high you start shooting and you just try to cram it out until the sun sets again. Did you wear a disguise so people being held up in traffic didnt hate you for it . In l. A. , good luck for that. I tried to. We were up you were up on this ramp and in the number you can see cars just kind of going down and my actually my editor who im good friends with tells me a story he was driving his kids, i think, to the zoo or something, one of those days and like looked up at the freeway, he forgot we were shooting and was just like, oh, god, i do not want to be up there. Car after car stopped and then he looks closer and sees the cars just stop at a certain point and people on top of the cars and then it suddenly occurred to him, theyre shooting. Its damien. If youre one of the few who havent seen la la land, here it is. I got a callback. What . Come on. For what . For a tv show. The one i was telling you about. The dangerous minds meets the o. C. . Yeah. Congratulations. Thats incredible. I feel like i said negative stuff about it before. What . Its like Rebel Without a cause sort of. I got the bullets. Yes. Youve never seen it. Ive never seen it. Oh, my. [ applause ] those two are just magic on the screen. [ applause ] i was its the best special effect you can ask for is just having the two of them in a frame together. I was really i was lucky. Yeah. Yeah. Were lucky. Absolutely. Youre just 32. Yeah. Gosh. Wow. It makes you go what have i done with my life . And youre just getting started. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. La la land is in theaters now. Cross our fingers. Coming up, a special live event. We got a live event of our own. Come on back. Back here on gma we have people from all over. My ladies from gunnerson, colorado. Right . And then your name . Sam. Ollie. Sam and ollie i imagine from england. Good morning. Im meteorologist mike nicco. Steady rain turns over to scattered showers by 9 00. That will continue through noon. Isolated showers at 4 00 and just about over by 7 00. Well hav this is hannah from scotland, see, from all over. All that brought to you by ethan allen. Lets head up to robin now. All right, ginger, thank you. Okay, it is clearly the moment of the morning that we love to share these kind of big moments, surprises with all of you at home. Its part of what we like to call we are gma and this morning we are in lumberton, North Carolina. It is a city devastated by Hurricane Matthew last fall. More than 350 families are still living in temporary shelters. The flooding also destroyed the Community Center and West Lumberton Elementary School. Those students now sharing the junior high, and its four women who have been bringing this community and the students together, and they are with our rob right now. Good morning, rob. [ cheers and applause ] good morning. Good morning, robin. Here they are, as you mentioned. Hurricane matthew, you know, so often its the coastal towns, beach towns that get all the attention when a hurricane comes ashore. More often than not its the inland cities like this one that get the horrific, devastating flooding and the way the community persevered is truly remarkable. You know, fema has come in. They did their part and helped out a lot but there is a lot of work to be done. I am here with, sorry, angela faulkner, the president or the principal of this junior high school. Yes. With tara bullard, the West Lumberton Elementary School principal whos been absorbed into this school as well, felicia hunt and vicki mcgurt. Both student counselors instrumental in getting this Community Back on its feet. Make no mistake, these four ladies are heroes and what they dont know is that we are here to honor and celebrate them with this community to show them just how much they appreciate you. Have a look. There is flooding everywhere. Reporter lumberton, North Carolina, Hurricane Matthew leaving threequarters of the city underwater. Over 1,000 homes destroyed. When you realize you dont have a home, you dont have nothing. Reporter the towns beloved Elementary School left in shambles. But its very emotional. This school means a lot to me and it means a lot to my family. Reporter four women working tirelessly day and night to help all the kids displaced. Student counselors vicki mcgurt and felicia hunt locating kids in shelters and shattered homes providing much needed comfort and support. They knew they had a mission and they knew that there was no option of failure, that they had to make sure that these kids that got displaced and lost their homes and their lives, that they were taken care of. Reporter and a big change for many students. Lumberton junior high would now house the Elementary School. The two principals, tara bullard and angela faulkner, combined staff and resources to create a unified school and safe haven. On the first day back to school, big cheers and hugs. The student counselors meeting students and taking them into their new school. It made me feel like i was safe there. I didnt have to worry about anything. Reporter seeking out students who really needed help and making sure that everyone felt cared for. Together, these women inspired, led, gave hope to the recovering community. Miss tara, i have so much respect for her, i look at her and i see a small package with a whole lot of heart. Miss felicia, i know how lost we would be without her, and during this time, she was our angel. Miss vicki mcgurt is the most amazing, sweet, passionate woman ive ever seen in my life. She cares about our students. Our students are always first. How about that . Wow. How about that . I tell you what, ladies, miss felicia, i heard you reference the students as your babies. What does it make you feel right now to hear your babies and their appreciation for you . It brings tears to my eyes because you just show up every day and you hope that what youre doing make a lot of difference in their lives and it does. Its good to see. And, miss tara, you were in your school the moment the water receded, digging out whatever supplies you could have. Youve come a long way, havent you . Yes, a very long way and just have been very welcomed on this campus. And, ladies, i know you made sure they had a christmas, a thanksgiving and made sure they had supplies and things at home that they needed for their families. I mean, truly, truly heroes. You have given of your heart and your soul to this Community Last four months, and we want to do a Little Something if you dont mind. Give a little piece of our collective hearts here at gma and the lumberton community, are you ready to make the gma heart . Go, go, go. Thats it. Thats it. The marching band, the prep band, the cheerleaders, seventh graders and the Elementary Schoolkids. Oh, yeah, i love it. All right. Lets get a good shot of it. I love what youve done. Take a look at what it looks like from the air. [ cheers and applause ] wow. I love that. Thats awesome. You see that love . Awesome. You gave a lot of love and leadership to this crew. How does it feel to get that love back . It is awesome. Oh, wow. [ cheers and applause ] now, hundreds of people here giving you their collective heart. I love it. You guys just made the gma heart. Thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] well, were not just here to give you our gma hearts. We know youve been through a lot and rebuilt and thank you for being an inspiration and creating the future you imagine for your students, our Parent Company disney is pledging to build a brandnew playground right here in lumberton. [ cheers and applause ] right near the Activity Center. I know thats the Central Point of this community. Hurricane matthew just left that whole place underwater, devastated. Its been closed since october. Were going to help you get back on your feet as part of disney, abc and espn meet me at the park campaign, 16 local parks will receive grants for improvement projects including the park right here in lumberton. You got it. [ cheers and applause ] all right. I need my megaphone for this one, if you dont mind. Were not done here. Lowes Home Improvement which is headquartered right here in North Carolina has a Little Something else to add. Chad maddox, the store manager. Welcome, chad. Give it up. [ cheers and applause ] on behalf of lowes Home Improvement, were overjoyed to be able to offer you a 50,000 donation to the Activity Center and extremely proud to be a part of this community and here for the long haul to make sure we are rebuilt with pride. Thank you. Thank you. 50,000 from lowes Home Improvement. What do you have to say to that, ladies . All right. Thank you, chad. Youll not only be able to build the Activity Center, too, that Activity Center from what ive learned is where the kids go to play sports, its where the kids go to study. Its physically where the kids go to have fun and missing since Hurricane Matthew so with the help of disney and lowes, the heart of the community can start beating again. Miss felicia, what do you think about that . I think its phenomenal. Were so excited. Thank you. Miss vicki. Its awesome. Its amazing. Thank you. And miss tara. Wonderful. And miss angela. You know. Thank you. So honored for me to meet you and so honored for the entire gma staff to be here. Chad, thank you for the big bucks. That is awesome. I just have one more question for everybody here. Who are we . [ chanting we are lumberton, we are gma ] [ cheers and applause ] and theres else that we want to mention. Let me check with the control room. Am i still okay to mention this . Okay, there are still hundreds of displaced families, other people to meet there in lumberton. Go to our site to find out how to help. Its called dare to donate a dollar to support our friends in lumberton. Its been such a wonderful morning and so many times people at home want to know how they can help. Go to our website and well show you how you can do that. 1. 1. All right . Well be right back. Taste the many sides of brookside. Smooth dark chocolate outside. Exotic fruit flavor inside. Brookside. For all your sides. All right. So it is time for good eats. You guys excited . It smells so good in here thanks to timon balloo. Hes the executive chef and creator of las vegas hot spot called sugarcane, great dishes you can translate for your dinner, which we love. So timon, some business to get to. Spokesperson for las vegas. Yes. Correct . Tell us about your new restaurant, sugarcane. Well, were in the venetian plaza hotel. I cook globally inspired small plates. A lot of flavor. Fun time. Good stuff. So you can try a bunch of different things. I dont like to commit to the one thing. Im a small plate kind of gal. You also have a big event coming up. Everybody, you might want to know about it. Its called vegas uncorked and its a fourday wine and food extravaganza. Sign us up. When does that happen . And whats your involvement . Its going to be a great time. A lot of fun, great food, great chefs, happening during april 27th through 30th. Come out if youre in the area. Its going to be an awesome time. You know what they say about vegas. So what are we making for our dinner tonight . It seems relatively easy. Really, really easy. Were doing soy marinated chicken thighs and what we have here is a little bit of soy sauce, a little bit of sesame oil, a little bit of honey, garlic shallots, ginger. And we marinate the thighs for about two hours. Two hours is a good amount of time in smells so good. And you see they get so dark and golden. Why do you like the thigh . Skinless. Its beautiful. Just so juicy, stays moist and i like to leave a little bit of the skin on. Adds a little bit of fat and flavor. If you want to take it off later you can. We dont have a ton of time. Asparagus done on a skillet. Is this just slathered with olive oil . It goes with great things. Asparagus, potato, a little olive oil, sesame. You know what were going to do, timon, were going to let the audience enjoy and you can get the rest of it on our website. Check out vegas. 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All right, what a great morning its been with everybody and lets see that moment again. Our team in lumberton forming a we are gma heart. We love to see that. Have a great day, everybody. Great day, everybody. Good morning, bay area. Lets get up and get going. Im Natasha Zouves from abc 7 mornings. It was a bit of a soggy start. Lets check in with meteorologist mike nicco. We took the best this storm could give us already this morning. Just scattered showers, breezy, the biggest obstacle at the coast because of the big breakers. No yellows and oranges. Theres not going to be any this afternoon when we hit the low to mid60s. More rain tomorrow all the way through wednesday. B. A. R. T. Has a tenminute delay because of weather. And a delay at rock ridge. Northbound 880 at fifth avenue two right lanes are blocked due to the flipped semi. Thank you, alexis. Any minute now abc 7 will break in with a special report from the white house. President trump is expected to anun pick for labor secretary. Well stream the announcement live on our abc 7 news app. Announcer its live with kelly today, from the series this is us, chrissy metz. And producer and star of the pop game, timbaland. The cohosts tackle the slt workout. And who wants to be a millionaire host Chris Harrison joins kelly for the hour. All next on live [cheers and applause] and now, here are kelly ripa and Chris Harrison [cheers and applause] kelly hi, hi hi, guys