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This morning, secrets of star wars. Were going behind the scenes hearing from the people creating a galley far, far away. The miss interest of the lightsaber now revealed. The force is with you only on gma. Majestic music to get us started on this thursday morning. Good morning america. A lot to get to including the Boston Marathon bombing verdict. Bostons biggest newspaper the globe saying he should not be put to death and the bombers mother speaking out. The jury unanimous on 30 counts of murder. Will they be unanimous on the Death Penalty . Well begin with that Severe Weather in the midwest. Millions affected by tornado, hail, flash floods our extreme weather team tracking it all. Gio benitez in missouri. Good morning gio. Reporter george good morning to you. The skies are starting to light up again with that dangerous lightning. Look behind me. 70 00 70mileperhour winds ripped part of this roof off. Seeing damage like this all across the country. Tornado on the ground. Reporter overnight wild weather across much of the country. Look at that. Reporter funnel clouds forming across the heartland. A rainbow appearing in the midst of this tornado. In kansas hail hammering drivers so hard this storm chaser windshield shatters as they battle the elements. This morning in North Carolina theyre cleaning up after hail cracked windows and damaged cars. In missouri it hit the transformer. There was like sparks. I like screamed. Reporter trees down roofs damaged and reports of a possible tornado after a storm rolled through here. I was like freaking out because i saw a cloud going down in circles so then i started getting down real low and then started tucking my head. Reporter 75mileperhour winds ripping trees from the ground in ohio. As you can tell theyre not small trees. Reporter in idaho, roads in need of a good plow after nearly 6 inches of hail hit the ground drivers of cars and buses caught off guard. The st. Louis skyline lit up with lightning. This bolt getting dangerously close to planes. And back here in potosi the National Weather service will come out to see what caused that if it was, in fact a tornado. More storms on the way so we turn it over to ginger zee. Thank you for being out there. You wont have to go far to find Severe Weather in potosi. More that 200 storm reports back from kansas to texas and large swath today and go through the morning with some Severe Weather and seen some overnight in chicago hail reported. But indianapolis to louisville memphis and little rock into far northeastern texas youll be in that elevated risk area. Doesnt top there. It moves east so fridays forecast from philadelphia to houston included in that risk for Severe Weather. This is a big large event, robin and we will be following it for the next 48 hours. Okay there, ginger thank you. But now to new details in the South Carolina shooting. A Police Officer seen on camera shooting and killing an unarmed man. Officer Michael Slager now charged with murder. Fired from the force, Abcs Steve Osunsami is in North Charleston this morning and want to warn you again some of the video youre mr. To see may be disturbing to some viewers. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning, robin. That officer remains jailed here and today authorities may release dash cam video from his squad car that might show more of what led to this shooting. In response to all of this authorities here are ordering body cameras for every single Police Officer in this city. 223, dispatch shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my taser. Reporter this morning new details about the Police Officer in this disturbing video. And new video of 33yearold Michael Slager shortly after the shooting telling his account to an officer. The North Charleston policeman and former coast guard member charged with murdering walter scott has been fired. We are doing our best here not only as a city but as a police department. Were going to continue to strive to do whats right. Reporter for the first time the man would took that video is coming forward, he heard the sounds of the officer triggering his stun gun but as he told nbc, he scott, never used the taser against the cop. He lives over a mile from the empty lot. Saying he gunned down this africanamerican father of four who has yet to enter a plea. Scott and an unidentified passenger were stopped by the officer in a parking lot a block away from the shooting where the passenger remained. The officer has a family too. His wife is eight months pregnant and his two stepchildren are 11 and 13 years old. Neighbors say they were a quiet everyday family. He was into his job. He said he wanted to go federal and that was his next step. Reporter slagers bosses say that despite his dismissal the city will continue to provide his wife Health Insurance until their new baby is born. We think that is the humane thing for us to do and were going to do that. Reporter protesters are in the streets and at city hall demanding more answers from the chief of police. Youre the mayor. We want to talk to the chief of police. Reporter with state authorities running the investigation local police could say very little. Police are struggling to respond to so many other questions about that video. One big one, why does it appear that the officers failed to administer cpr as scott lay dying. Robin. Yes, there are still are many questions. Thank you. Pierre thomas joins us for a closer look at the case and this story is resonating across the country. Its really adding to the fears that many minorities say they have. They are deeply deeply concerned, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. Many people of color see a dangerous pattern. Marthas engaged in routine encounters with police that somehow quickly escalate to people being shot, injured or killed and talking about traffic stops, for example, last year also in South Carolina a black man was pulled over by a Police Officer and was told to show his license and registration. When he attempted to comply he was shot repeatedly caught on tape. The officer has been charged and is awaiting trial. Just yesterday, in miami, new allegations of Excessive Force by police from the family of a young man who they say was mentally ill. They claim he was running around in his underwear with a broomstick when he was fatally shot after being chased down by police. That case now also being investigated. The big question why are these cases escalating so quickly . Were seeing more of them because theres so many cameras out there, george. There sure are. We turn to that verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts. And now that same jury of seven women and five men will decide whether he gets the Death Penalty or life in prison. Abcs tom llamas is tracking the case in boston. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, good morning to you. All it took was a little more than 11 hours for jurors to reach a verdict and now Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will have to fight for his life in court. It was incredibly emotional in that courtroom yesterday with victims and even some jurors wiping away tears before the verdict was read. Prosecutors and even Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs own lawyers said it was him and the jury agreed. Convicting him on all 30 criminal counts he was charged with. The 21yearold now facing the possibility of the Death Penalty. 27yearold Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the first blast speaking out following the verdict. There have been children taken and parents that will never get to put them to bed at night again. Reporter gregory calling tsarnaev a coward for not looking at her when she testified. Disheartening that somebody that took so much away from us doesnt even really care about what hes done. Reporter the parents of 8yearold martin in the courtroom fighting back tears. Do you hope hes put to death . I talked to a firefighter. 0ultimate judgment will come to him. Reporter when the Pressure Cooker exploded lizs two sons standing right next to her. She wants dzhokhar to die. I want to see the Death Penalty. Reporter jeff bauman who lost both legs testifying in court taking to social media writing todays verdict will never replace the lives that were lost and so dramatically changed but it is a relief and one step closer to closure. And this morning, abc news has confirmed that tsarnaevs mother has posted a message through russian social media saying my sons are the best of the best. George. Okay tom. Thanks very much. Dan abrams right now about all this and talk about this next phase. This jury same jury guilty on all counts but now and they all said they were open to the Death Penalty coming in. Whats the balancing test theyll have to apply. Fundamentally different question now than answered the first time. The first time the question was do we think hes guilty of these 30 crimes . Yes, yes, yes, yes, guilty on all counts. Now its a fundamentally different question. Which is when youre weighing the aggravating circumstances, meaning the reasons to execute, do these jurors think those outweigh the mitigating circumstances, meaning the reasons not to execute and its not like a formula that says well, if there are eight of these and three of these, it becomes just a gut call on the part of the jurors and, remember, the defense just needs one, if they can find one juror who doesnt want to execute, that means he gets life in prison. Already saw that boston globe headline spare him the Death Penalty. Massachusetts an interesting place to have this. He dont have the Death Penalty in massachusetts. Its a federal case so federal law applies, but when you think about the fact that the defense wanted this moved out of boston everyone saying its too emotional in boston very different when it comes to the Death Penalty. Not a bad place to be. If youre the defendant and youre sitting in boston facing that possibility. Like you say only one juror has to say spare him the Death Penalty. Dan, thanks very much. George now to a scary moment for passengers on the coloradobound flight, lightning striking the plane midair damaging the nose of the aircraft. You can see. Abcs david kerley has more. Reporter its a striking picture, an iceland air jet parked at the gate at Denver International with a hole in the nose of the plane, the result of a midair Lightning Strike. Its like a pop, just like a large pop. Reporter lightning struck the boeing 757 shortly after it took off from reykjavik, iceland on its journey to colorado and pilots immediately notified air control. They have advised that there are Lightning Strikes and theyre not sure if the approach lights are working but they are trying to find out and visibility is very poor. Reporter the passengers jolted. Outside of the windows the whole plane was electric blue. Reporter the pilots inform the passengers the plane had been hit by lightning but would continue on. Apparently not realizing how big the hole was. All their engine instruments showed everything is perfectly normal and wasnt until they landed at daybreak they saw the damage that it caused. Reporter lightning striking a plane is actually relatively common. Just last week two jets were struck in seattle as they prepared to land. I was kind of in shock, i was just thinking about how amazing that was to see. Reporter and jets are designed to take a Lightning Strike in this boeing Lab Engineers test to make sure the electricity flows outside the jetliner never entering the cabin but that doesnt mean parts of the plane can be damaged. For good morning america, david kerley, abc news, washington. Always a frightening moment when that happens. Our thanks to him. Gma weekend anchor dan harris here with headlines. Big news everybody, that Nuclear Agreement with iran may have hit a fresh roadblock. Overnight irans president insisting he will not sign any deal unless economic sanctions imposed on his country are lifted immediately. Meaning on the first day the deal goes into effect. So far the u. S. Has promised to lift those sanctions only gradually. A new scandal so secret service. A senior supervisor accused of making unwanted sexual advances on his subordinate trying to kiss her after a party celebrating his promotion on paid leave pepping an investigation. A major cyberattack overnight by a group that claims to have ties to isis. Hackers knocked 11 channels of a French Tv Network off the air for a brief period. They are calling it an unprecedented attack. Violence breaking out in panama ahead of the summit of the americas which president obama will be attending tomorrow. Supporters of cubas government scuffling with cuban exiles some of them from miami. Cubas president will be attending this summit for the first time. And before heading to panama, president obama is visiting gentlemanjamaica. Overnight he took time out to visit the Bob Marley Museum where the president revealed he still has all of marleys albums. He did not reveal whether he has them on vinyl or eight track. Soon you may not have to sit through those ads before watching youtube videos but itll cost you. Youtube is planning to charge a monthly fee to eliminate the ads. They still havent set a price yet. Some expect itll be around 10 bucks a month. Finally, you are about to see a moment the moment when a long held dream comes true for a mother of six boys. [ screaming ] oh, my god. That is cher lair screaming and falling to the floor after cutting the cake after her gender reveal party. The inside of the cake pink. Indicating that cher again the mother of six boys is finally, finally pregnant with a girl even though the boys are all happy about this but one of them did say, quote, i love my brothers but im tired of all the dirt piles. Can you imagine the first time this little girl has a date and the boy has to come in with six older brothers. Dangerous. Thats a lot of kids. Hey, kept on trying. Good for them michael. Now were going to talk about those directv ads that weve all seen featuring rob lowe showing a reallife version of the star that uses the service and his alter ego that doesnt. The commercials get laughs from a lot of people but not getting laughs from the competitor abcs Rebecca Jarvis has the details. Hi im rob lowe and im poor decisionmaking rob lowe. This morning those hilarious directv ads featuring a ravishing rob lowe and his awkward alter ego. I just ate this Tuna Sandwich i found on the bus. With cable you get pictures and some sound. I love the smell of other peoples hair. Dont be like this me. Reporter directvs competitor comcast filing a complaint with the Better Business bureau saying directvs ad campaign contains false claims including having better picture and sound quality and more sports channels available than cable outlets. The ads featuring rob lowe are incredibly funny but comcast isnt laughing. Reporter the Better Business bureau says while some ads could be substantiated it urged directv to modify or discontinue the ads concluding that humor and hyperbole do not relieve an advertiser of the obligation to messages that advertisers might convey. This morning directv is running a new ad Campaign Featuring a talking horse. But it says it didnt pull the lowe campaign adding we definitely reserve the right to bring back the rob lowe campaign. I saved 200 bucks by having hotel room surgery. Reporter lowe tweeting recent events have underlined my belief that for something to be Truly Original funny and sub versive there must also be fallout. Life. Rebecca jarvis abc news phoenix. That got a laugh out of everybody. Well give you that. I have friends in maine and theyre saying enough already. They are saying that. Enough already and it is snowing again this morning. Thats right. Weve got know from manchester new hampshire, this is a live look from yesterdays camera but a look this morning in portland maine, opening day for their Baseball Players and its under this. Average in april 2. 8 inches of snow so its not out of the ordinary but i know you want it to be done. It will be done eventually throughout the late morning and early afternoon then Flash Flood Watch in that same region we were talking about severe storms. Jacqui good morning, washington. A chilly morning and damp and drizzly in spots. Cloudy spots and a wind chill factor. Not much happening, maybe a few sprinkles around bowie the but most of the rain showers have dissipated and pushed east. I think we could get a few off and on through the morning hours. Cloudy and cool this afternoon with temperatures in the 50s. Big changes by tomorrow. Hand fulls of hail overnight in chicago. Ill show you who gets it next in the next half hour. Not us. Not us. Not us. Thank you, ginger. Coming up on gma the man caught in Sandra Bullocks house in court. Well have the latest. Also ahead, breaking barriers the woman shaking things up in the nfl. Sarah thomas is the first woman to be a full time owe fish in the nfl and shes here live. Gma investigates, so many trying to get cold hard cash for your iphones, now hundreds of complaints linked to one site. What you need to know before you make a deal. Kurt cobains daughter is speak out for the first time opening up about her fathers legacy and what she really thinks about his music. Y. Say hi rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] id do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. Thats why im so excited about these milkbone brushing chews. Whoa im not the only one. Its a brilliant way to take care of his teeth. Clinically proven as effective as brushing. Ok, here you go. Have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth . The twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. They taste like a treat but they clean like a toothbrush. Nothing says you care like a milkbone brushing chew. [ barks ] lowes presents how to use the greek gods to update your deck. Wow, i cant believe you did is deck yourself. Well me, lowes and zeus and apollo. 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Tomorrow we will get into the warmer sector, to around 79 degrees. Scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. A few of those could be severe. Jamie we have slow traffic. Something to keep in mind, it is wet out there. Be very careful. I just want to show you we have a disabled semi, and obviously you can see that over in the shoulder. You can get by, but you want to be careful. 395 is where we have normal congestion. This gives you an idea of what to expect when you leave the house. What roads on 270. A look on the top side of the beltway shows you we are slow, only averaging 14 miles per hour. Autria another embarrassment for the secret service this morning. A female employee accuses a senior supervisor of making unwanted sexual advances and grabbing her. The super you the supervisor, javier morales, is on leave. A push to replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 bill. They are rosa parks, elenor roosevelt. You can get your traffic, news come and weather updates all morning long on our si good morning, america. Right now, Severe Weather in the midwest affecting millions. Tornadoes, hail flash floods in the heartland. And the storm is set to move east. Also right now, Sandra Bullocks alleged stalker in court this morning. The man charged with breaking into her home forces had her to lock herself into her bedroom. Gma vehicle, so many trying to get cash to old phones. Hundreds of complaints linked to one site. They were offered top dollar but got way less. We say good morning, america. A lot to get to from yous francis bean kurt cobains daughter speaking out in an upcoming documentary about her father and shes set to release it. Also about her relationship with her mom Courtney Love. That is coming up but first the latest on Sandra Bullocks stalker. Joshua corbett arrested for breaking into her home and locking herself in her bedroom for hours. Kendis gibson has the story. Reporter this morning, Sandra Bullocks alleged stalker, back in a los angeles courtroom charged with 19 felonies including first degree burglary stalking and possession of a machine gun. According to Court Documents last june the Silver Screen sweetheart was sleeping at home when loud bangs from inside her house woke her up in the middle of the night. The gravity star seeing Joshua Corbett walking down the hallway of her mansion wearing dark clothing. Bullock dialing 911 locking herself into her bedroom until police arrived. Corbett confronted Sandra Bullock in her home. Reporter police say they found him roaming screaming, sandy, im sorry, please dont press charges. According to a search warrant he was carrying handwritten note as dressed to her call you go bullock his wife. Corbett could have been in bullocks home for at least five hours before the star noticed. Corbett who police say only lives 30 minutes from bullocks house was unarmed during the incident but after searching his home, police say they found an arsenal of weapons including illegal machine guns. Corbett has pled not guilty. The judge increasing his original bail from 185,000 to over 2 million. Corbetts high bail amount suggests that the court believes he is either a, a flight risk and, two, that he may be dangerous. Reporter for good morning america, Kendis Gibson abc news, los angeles. And thanks to kendis for that. A frightening moment for one state trooper. His life changed in an instant when a routine traffic stop turned dangerous. Abcs Neal Karlinsky has more. Reporter watching the video youd never imagine the lifechanging turn of events seconds later. Oklahoma trooper gary sanders on a return traffic stop returning to his patrol car when without warning warning, his car is hit from behind by a truck. The sort of highspeed disaster other troopers have encountered often caught on tape and with devastating results. In this case the impact knocked out his dash cam video, but not the sound. Somebody come here please. Youre not dead. Youre not dead. Good samaritans can be heard rushing to the crushed patrol car to help. Remarkably one of them knows trooper sanders. Gary oh my god, its susan. Where are you hurting . My gut. Your guts hurting. I need his pulse. Nobody has a watch . Really . Reporter all the while the daze and ctically hurt trooper can be herd in the background. You had a wreck. Believe it or not, a Highway Patrolman had a wreck. I thought i was seeing things and i just knew it was you. What happened . Somebody hit you, honey. She was a shining light in a very dark time in that troopers hour of need. Reporter this morning, trooper sanders is in serious condition with a long recovery ahead of him. A go fund me page has been set up to help while the Highway Patrol continues to investigate. The second accident like this just this year. Youre gonna be okay. Reporter for good morning america, Neal Karlinsky, seattle. Praying for a full recovery. Susan, wow, you want her on your side. Glad hes okay and really hope that he heals completely. Time now again for the weather. I have some slight hailing to talk about in the snowpack in california so i want to start with this shot from yosemite. They went from 5 of their average annual snowpack. We knew it was dire to 8 so i use the heyitssomething. This is as of yesterday. Thanks to the Yosemite Conservancy for those pictures. The mountain snow has unfortunately all but moved east. Now we are drying out. Redding, 72, 66 reno, palm spring, 85. L. A. In the low 70s. Showed you Flash Flood Watches in the middle of the country. So much rain already this mop and now more with these severe storms that will come through. These are pop up. Get real high in the atmosphere and can drop heavy rains quickly. Most will stay to the north along the Canadian Border but see rain through saturday. A half to one inch in that blue and a little less there. Philadelphia down through d. C. All the way down to the southwest going to be included in the s applico good morning washington. Here we go again. Another damp and theory day. Cloudy skies and a little bit of shower and just elect to in the morning hours. All that weather brought to you by missys. Again today, texas and someone is saying will it be bad in dallas . Dallas up through louisville and chicago and cleveland all included in the elevated risk today. A lot of the country covered. Okay, ginger thanks very much. Coming up gma investigates cash for iphones, what you need to know before trading in your old cell phone. And the woman making football history is here live. She just threw a flag on me. What the first full time female official of the nfl is saying about her new gig. 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What do you do with your old cell phone . There are a lot of websites that offer quick cash but at least one of those may not be living up to expectations. Abcs linzie has details. Reporter selling an old phone . With so many options these days the website cash for is is just one. Just want to talk to you about those phones. Reporter so why wont the companys president talk to us . The federal trade commission recording more than 900 complaints from customers across the country who say cash for iphones offered to pay top dollar. But then once the company had their phones actually paid significantly less. Chicago said the original quote, 131 131 but her final quote, just 11. The company says in the terms and conditions on its website, she has three days by phone to dispute the final quote. But when she finally gets through, its too late. Everything has already been recycled. Reporter gma investigates purchased three refurbished iphones and asked dan ackerman at cnet to estimate their market value. These look like theyre in fairly good shape. He tells us we should get around 600. Then we plug in our information on the cash for iphone website. Okay so the website is telling me i could make up 783 on these three iphones. It says the nonbinding quote is penning inspection. So we ship the phones. Off it goes. Reporter two weeks later we receive our final price quotes just 114. Nearly 700 less than the original quote. The reason for the massive difference . Cash for iphones citing the condition of the phones although they dont give specifics. And up to the minute market conditions. We want our phones back so we try calling. Got hung up on. Reporter and calling. Cant get through. Reporter and calling. They just hung up. On day four we finally speak to someone about our phones. I dont agree to this lower quote. The representative telling us our payment has already been processed. We ask for an interview with cash for iphone president david krushin. His lawyer declined so tried to catch him outside his office. Its linzie from abc news can i ask a quick question . I sold you three phones. I want to talk to you about those phes. You wont stop and speak to us . Our office started receiving a huge spike in complaints which now totals over 300. Reporter nevadas attorney general adam laxalt is investigates. He says there are legitimate companies that do this. But do your homework. Look into the companys complaints. If a deal looks too good to be truitt probably not true. Reporter linzie janis, abc news, sparks nevada. Do your homework. Thank you, linzie. A better nights sleep. Could these sunglasses be the answer . Plus kurt cobains daughter speaking out for the first time. What shes saying about her rock star dad in the upcoming documentary about the nirvana singer. 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Now comes this revealing new documentary and the first Public Comments yet from his only child. Let us entertain you reporter he became grudgingly reluctantly the voice of a generation. And 21 years ago this week suicide silenced kurt cobains rocketpropelled career. Now though it is the voice of the daughter who barely knew him that is making waves. In the new much Rolling Stone 22yearold Frances Bean Cobain is opening up about the legacy of her father even admitting to the magazine i dont really like nirvana that much. Frances bean was just 20 months old when her father died and now in an effort to learn more about the man she calls kurt shes taking on the role of executive producer of an hbo documentary called kurt cobain montage of heck. Saying of the film for 20 years my dad has been this mythical figure. I want to present the man. Also noting her unique perspective, i have no memory of kurt. Frances said that she really got to know her dad better doing the documentary. She actually said she had been very angry at him and that this process helped her understand him. Reporter as for her rocky relationship with her mom Courtney Love after watching ovie together frances and her moms lap, cobain says love apologized profusely for the First Time Ever about her troubled youth and that they have, quote, resolved a lot of our issues. I grew up and she grew up too. She wants to be her own person. It sounds like this its let her address this legacy and kind of great detail and maybe now move on. I think he says it well. While frances is clearly deeply interested in her dad she also clearly wants to chase her own dream. She says she thinks her dad would be proud of this new documentary but, quote, now i have my own life to pursue. The film will air on hbo on may 4th and in select theaters on april 24th and i can say i definitely want to watch it. Its interesting. Rooting for her too. Im sure it was very cathartic. No doubt. 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Tomorrow strong to severe thunderstorms possible in the afternoon. Jamie . Jamie we have a crash on 355 southbound, further up is where we see the flashing lights causing a delay. This one is a big one. All lanes are blocked westbound right near 395 and the third street tunnel. Traffic is being diverted onto the third street tunnel. As we move on to talk about what we have further north, the bw parkway, if you have to get to baltimore, a crash at powder mill northbound, already slows things down on the capital beltway with two lanes blocked. Autria two mensa suspected in an armored car robbery are in court today. Jared williams and Jeffrey Roberts try to rob an armored truck in january. Madison small died suddenly tuesday after falling ill the night before. She was a senior at broad run high school. You can get more news traffic and weather updates all morning on our sister station, newschannel 8. We will see you back in 25 minutes. Breaking barriers. The first full time official in the nfl here live. Oneonone with robin. Who she is and what shes saying about finally getting on the field in prime time. Wake me up are you well rested right now . The real reason you might not be and the Breakthrough Technology in these glasses that could finally help you crack the code to a good nights sleep. Dr. Besser explains. Watch what happens live this morning as jedis take over times square. Were revealing never before seen secrets of star wars and those famous lightsabers. The force is with you this morning. What is going on out there in times square this morning . Oh. Look at that. Mr. Michael strahan getting Jedi Training. Im right here training george. We got it going on out here. Im glad i got my coat. A real jedi. Its cold out here. Ginger do something about that. We got to practice some more. Throw it back to you in the studio. Hes with ray park. You know him as darth maul. Thats darth maul. Yes, it is. Showing michael some skills. Thats exciting. We will see how that goes. I mean that with some concerns. Also coming up were excited to have our pal, americas funniest home videos and dancing with the stars tom bergeron. Its a whole theme. Put that thing away. I i dont usually light my sabre this early but, you know sometimes it happens. It just came to me. I was just waiting. Waiting in fear for what you were going to come up with. I think lara is blushing. I know and that takes a lot. Yes. Okay, thanks, tom. Well get back to you. Welcome back. As you can see we have a lot of fun coming up. Lets get news first with dan harris. Im still get egg over toms comment. Good morning, everybody, including tom. We begin here with that Deadly Police shooting down in South Carolina. Once again we want to warn you that the video you might find it disturbing. Today police could release new video from the dash cam of former officer slagers car. Hes been fired by the North Charleston police department. The dash cam video could shed new light on the traffic stop that led to the shooting and death of walter scott. Protesters are demanding answers from the police chief. Among their question, why didnt slager and other officers perform cpr to try to save his life. The witness that recorded the incident said they strugglesed before the incident but scott never used the officers taser against him. The ferocious storms racing across the nations midsection. At least 8 twisters have touched down in kansas. They triggered flash flooding blamed for the drowning of a woman in indiana. Some areas saw, look at this 4inch hail and gingers full forecast coming up. Damage to the windshield. Bostons largest and most influential newspaper is this morning calling for marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be spared the Death Penalty. That is the headline in the boston globe, the same jury that convicted him of 30 counts will soon decide his punishment. And in a new interview tsarnaevs cousin over in chechnya says she is still convinced that he had nothing to do with the bombing. President obama now says he will support a petition calling for a ban on socalled conversion therapy for gay and transgendered teens this practice is aimed at changing a persons Sexual Orientation or gender identity. In health news this morning, a popular brand of sum must is being recalled. Random testing found listeria in some packages of sabra classic hummus. You can logon to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo for the product codes that are affected. And look at this. Police in Northern California are on the hunt right now for this bank robber. Calling him mrs. Doubtfire. He demanded cash from the teller while wearing a wig, glasses and hospital scrubs for some reason and also carrying a purse. Police fear he is checking out a second bank for another robbery. An eyepopping revelation about jessica simpson. A majority stake in her shoe Clothing Accessory brand and sales top a billion dollars a year. Who needs a hit song when youre bringing in that kind of money. Not bad for the woman who once famously could not tell the difference between chicken of the sea and chicken. Doesnt matter too much . No. Her everywhere. She is a mogul and congratulations. Well done. A billion dollars a year. Pop news and weather coming up. Robin in the social square. We are having a great time here. Well tell you whats coming up. Pop news, could groundhog day be coming back again and again . All the details ahead. I want to you meet this amazing woman, a fellow Mississippian Sarah Thomas who will be the first full time woman in the nfl as an official gearing up for her game day so we have a lot to talk to sarah about. Did you see this guy over here . You know tom bergeron. Tom, what are you doing with these glasss . Apparently i have more props than gallagher an todays shows. Yes but we love come here sarah. Sarah, meet tom. Nice to meet you. Pleasure, congratulations. You never know who youll meet here in the social square and youll turn the tables and interview us in a little bit. Possibly. Will there be any other props involved. Props are us. Trying to give you the sabre back. All that live on gma right here in times square. You got to love it. H is why no one wants insurance. So we go cheap. You know, because were never gonna need it. Until one day, we do. Now that cutrate policy is costing us big. Makes you wonder if theres Something Better out there. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. Kelloggs® frosted miniwheats®. 8 layers of wheat. And one thats sweet. For the adult and kid in all of us. supergrass alright plays throughout kelloggs frosted mini wheats® feed your inner kidult. Ufferers. One tried the newest allergy spray which could take several days to feel the full effect of relief. 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Its like, if i buy a tshirt and then change my mind i can return it. But a car . You dont reeeaaa eeeeeaaaaaly know until youve driven it a few days. I just want to be sure. As long as people drive cars carmax will be the best way to buy them. Before earning enough cash back from bank of america to help pay for her kids ice time. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time. And 2 back at the grocery store. Even before she got 3 back on gas all with no hoops to jump through. Katie used her bankamericard cash rewards credit card to stay warm and toasty during the heat of competition. Thats the comfort of rewarding connections. Apply online or at a bank of america near you. Special guest tom bergeron helping us with pop news today. Welcome, everybody. Can i ask you a question . Oh no. Are these all your cups . They are. Dangerous territory. She needs three because she knocks over one or two a day. And i also have different things. Depending on mood. Thank you very much. Now, thats all the time we have. Pop news, everybody. Hey, there is in us to talk about. A new broadway show we cant wait to watch again and again and again. Its ground hog day the musical coming to broad way based on the 1993 movie with bill murray. Is that andie. Andie macdowell. Such a beautiful woman. And its about the weatherman who is set to relive groundhog day over and over. The creator from matilda is working on this. Liking this combo. The nice thing is they only have to write two songs they keep playing over. Yeah. Real easy work. That should be coming to broadway in january of 2017. Dream come true for broadway. Here we go. Also in pop news, tom, one direction might be down to four members. So glad i was sitting down. And one of them niall has been yellingfora very different reason for this week. Check it out, guys. moonlighting at the masters playing caddie for his pal get out of here. Rory mcelroy. Isnt that fun. Great friends. He always wanted to do it. He was his caddie at the par 3 contest. Niall lchlt lchltll managed to get a little swing in there and as the commentator remarked his shot certainly went in one direction left and in the water. Oh thats funny. Wrong direction, yeah. Yeah. See, youre not going to say jack snrs. Jack nicklaus got a hole in one direction. I thought the one direction story was a little more the golan bear . Come on. I love the golan bear. I just like oh my god, one direction is caddying. Jack nicklaus hole in one, come on. Welcome to demographic wars. Yeah. That is amazing. Actually thought that was in your newscast so i was leaving that alone. Youre blaming me. Its all your fault. Im used to that. Thats what three drinks will get you. Throw your colleagues right under the bus. Threedrink minimum. I want to show you this video. Two best friends, they say they love each other and face their greatest fear and check it out. They dont call this ride the vomatron for nothing. Oh. [ screaming ] oh. [ screaming] make it stop. So meanwhile her friend looks like shes fine right . Doing fine. [ screaming ] her friend looks like shes yeah. Just more stoic. One of those haves where everybody kept laughing and i was like did you watch that before you put it on . George i said to my team i dont think george is going to like this. I didnt like that at all. Really . So far i should have done the golden bear and you Companies Like my video. You know what tom, enjoy the rest of the show. I want to see whats actually in this. Man, i thought it was water. Thats pop news. Jack nicklaus i love ya. Well have ginger save you. Over to ginger. I need some weather. We all have lightsabers and having a good time. Where are you from . Marietta, georgia. Saying good morning. How about we go to Chicago First and look at one of the inter interchanges there. Some fog, the storms rolling through overnight. You already had some and more to come. Lightning surround parts of the suburbs there. Look at this violent storms possible all throughout that region so you can see parts of louisiana, northeastern texas through arkansas western tennessee and western kentucky all included today. Approaching records ahead of the front, though, in the 80s and low jacqui that mornining, washington. Today looks a lot like yesterday,ut we haveig changes in the next 24 to 48 hours. Today, cloudy sks with showers and izzle occasionally. Tomorrow we will see t the warm sesector push into the region iking g tempereratures into the upper 70s to almost 80 degrees. Thderstorms will aive the afternoon, and a few could be strong or severe. It clears out in time we got some big smiles in the crowd this morning. Well be back in a couple of minutes but for now lets get inside. Ic canning off our heat index, a woman making history on the football field. Sarah thomas a mother of three, now taking on a new role becoming the first ever woman to be a full time nfl official. And heres her story. Here we go. Watch out now. Come on now. Reporter so just who is sarah thomas making nfl history . The 41yearold mississippi native is no stranger to breaking barriers considered one. The best in college football. Put your guard up. Reporter she started officiating College Games in 2007. Becoming the first woman to work a major collegiate bowl game. Make sure its wide. Reporter has spent the past two seasons officiating nfl preseason games and Training Camp practices. Off the field the mother of three is a pharmaceutical rep and becoming the first woman to be a full time nfl owe fish is a game changer. Come on now, lets give it up to the wonderful sarah thomas. Thank you. Looking forward to seeing you. This is exciting. Oh you have worked really hard for this. For 20 Years High School college, in the nfl program, doing practice games and all that. Are you ready for this moment sarah . Yes, i am. Yes, i am. Excited to be here. Tell us about how you have worked. I mean we go back. Youre from mississippi, im from mississippi. We played some College Basketball and you really feel that growing up in the south and being there really helped you and prepared you for this moment. Yeah. Well, being from mississippi, you know as well as i do sports and basketball and football is just just key. And starting off in pascagoula and thank goodness for those guys. They brought me in and really laid the foundation of what to be expected and then i just growing up and getting into conference usa and then on to the National Football league. Now on to the National Football league. This is the big show. And i was talking to Michael Strahan. I said do you all really as players notice the officials that are out there. He said, no, they just want to you do a good job and thats how you feel. What does it take to be an official in the nfl . Extreme focus, be very driven and dedicated to your job and training, just an immense amount of training getting around a great group of officials, you know get a mentor and ive been blessed to have that. Youve had some good people around you. Yes. Have any of the coach, anybody, the fans given you a hard time at all ever. Well of course. I mean youre officials. Thats right. So and it just comes with the territory but were human. We make mistakes and we move on so yeah and i no he that you said that one time when you were with conference toss was it that they wanted you to keep your hair underneath the hat. Not wear makeup. Yeah. Well, you know that was kind of a shock to me being a female and ponytail just was what i had to do but i get it. Gerald alston the supervisor wanted me to blend in. If you notice theres not many men who have facial hair so it was just a statement to blend in but when he did say no makeup i was like youre crossing a line there, i got to wear makeup. I know but you do as all officials you dont want to make it about yourself. Thats why we appreciate you letting us have this time with you. Youd rather not. How is the family handling this. This is great but this is our journey. Its not just my journey. Its my husbands journey. My kids journey but they keep me humble. Im mom and im a wife. My husband sometimes says im a drill sergeant at home making sure everything is just how its supposed to be but it is our journey and theyre so supportive and i couldnt do it without them. As i said you have been very humble and very shy about all this and say you didnt set out to be a trail blazer but you know it sends a very powerful message to many people especially women, sarah. Yeah. It does. And i just say this dont go out to try to prove somebody wrong. Go and do things whether youre a female or male black or white, just do it because you believe in yourself and you know youre there to do the job. Thats right and do the best that you can at all times. Thats right. We cannot wait to see you out on the feel sarah thomas, thank you very much. Oh, thank you. All the best going forward, mississippi, right. Mississippi. All the way. Uhhuh. Thank you, george. Thank you. Cant wait for that. Next up on our heat index take a look at our audience lets see them decked out in those tinted sunglasses. There they are. Actually its not our audience but those are our audience. They could be a secret to a good nights sleep and abcs brandi hitt has the story. Reporter for millions tossing and turing at night using your cell phone, computer or watching television before bed might be the problem. Some scientists now suggesting if youre going to be plugged in before you sleep, try popping on these while you stream. Orange tinted glasses. Everything is clear. They block out the sun. Oh yeah i got to get me some. Reporter putting those old school blublockers back in the spotlight instead of the sun blocking the blue light that comes out of your electronics. During the day helps you keep awake. That same night at night is interfering with the bodys ability to sleep. Reporter for some it might be odd sitting in your living room watching television with a pair of these on. I know a number of gamers that swear by this. Reporter a recent study followed 13 teenage boys for one week. Finding that the teens would wore the blu light blocking lenses while watching l. E. D. Screens before bed felt more sleepy than those wearing clear glasses. We regulating your melatonin cycle that lets you wake up naturally and go to sleep natural. Reporter the glasses dont have to be orange. The key making sure the lens has blu light blocking technology sending the rules of fashion all in the hopes of getting a better nights sleep. For good morning america, brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. And dr. Richard besser here right now. Hes got the sunglasses on. Not the sunglasses the screen glasses. Yeah. Im so glad youre doing this. We know these blue screens at night keep you from going to sleep. Its a problem. People are more and more people are having trouble sleeping much not all about the blue light but if you think about it in prehistoric times the sun would go down we get sleepy and go to bed and a lot of that they think is the blue light component of sunlight but now the sun goes down and we have all of our electronic guises anything with an l. E. D. Is putting out blue light and what they found you block it with orange orange orange filters and your hormones change. You think this works. Well, you know there are only a few studies and small but make a lot of sense. Melatonin is the hormone that makes us sleepy and blue light interferes with that. The other thing theres not a downside. Its not like a sleeping pill so it strikes me as something worth trying. What else can you do . There are several things. When youre going to bed you want to make sure your room is totally dark. I like a sleep mask. That will help. Turn off your electronics a couple hours before bed. Thats a good thing then an your devices theres something that ininvert the colors so that the black is white and the white is black. That will also cut down on any device. On iphones, ipads, most devices have that. Give it a try and find youll be exposed to less blue light. Youll be talking sleep all morning on twitter. I will. Thanks very much. Where are you guys . There you are. Thanks georgement time for deals steals. And today its all about beauty and bling. Tory johnson has scored major deals up to 60 starting at 1. 50 . Can you believe it. Brandnew table. First up what i love about these, theres three different collections you can choose from the state collection, zodiac either the zodiac symbol or a little word that comes in this adorable america. 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Still a ways away from the metro. You can see some light drizzle from time to time. It looks gloomy, doesnt it . 45 degrees and chilly, and it will stay that way through the day today. Occasional showers and drizzle a little drier this afternoon. Tomorrow we get into the warm sector. It will spike into the upper 70s, and thunderstorms will be developing in the afternoon hours. A few of those will be strong to severe. Shaping up pictureperfect for the Cherry Blossom festival. Breezy on saturday but sunshiny and that sunshine and sunny on sunday. Jamie right near cedar lane you can see flashing lights, but everything moved over to the side. It is causing a big delay. We have bumpertobumper traffic for you this morning. A closure on the freeway west wound at the third street tunnel. Traffic is being detoured. We have an accident outbound on the bw hard way, and a crash the bw parkway, and a crash. Brad another embarrassment for the secret service. A female employee has accused a supervisor of making unwanted sexual advances and grabbing her. The supervisor has been placed on leave and his security clearance is suspended. A second suspect in the murder of an attorney inside adc hotel heads to court. Police charged him and he johnson with conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of david messerschmitt. More traffic, weather, and news updates on newschannel 8. [ playing the theme to star wars ] welcome back. Look at that. Look at ginger and dan there with ray park. You know him as darth maul. Hes teaching them jedi lightsaber skills. Weve got never before heard secrets of star wars coming up. Look at ginger plays the part. You too no dan. Weve got more ahead. George and lara. Play golf like jedis first. One direction golf. I know when can we as can you see were here with tom bergeron. You know him from dancing with the stars, americas funniest home videos. We love having him here. You may notice a new prop. Well try Something Different and were concerned about it but were going for it. This is called the reverse button where tom, you are allowed to reverse the interview at any point so were going to interview, standard style and if you want to you hit the button then you can ask us a question. Go for it. [ bell rings ] here that bell you get to ask the question. Thats the first prop theyve had me use today that i like. Its like the 19th one. Yes, it is. Really. You got to talk about americas funniest home videos. Do you know what the staying power is . I think its just humor. Its slapstick is eternal. You go back to what i used to love, silent film comedies with chaplin, et cetera. Its done with your neighbors and the baby stuff and the animal stuff and they are so good. In the 15 years ive done the show and wrapping up my tenure sooner so good at packaging that even in an age of youtube and still making it relevant. Really you guys did it before anybody else and we all owe you thank you. Can i tell you its a little creepy to have big pictures of you staring out like well we happen to love you. So do your colleagues that you did mention. I cant believe this is it for you on americas funniest in this is it. Im going down. Do we have the picture from twitter. Your colleagues oh thats right. Tom, was it something we said . No, you know it just felt like at 15 years of doing it that it was time i was telling dan during the commercial break, he goes why are you leaving. I want to get nervous again and that was one of the key things. Youre what ten years into dancing. Our tenth anniversary. Is it true you almost turned it down. I did, well because and my agent at the time said abc wants you to do a summer series and youre going to do it and i said, well what is it. She said its live and you love live. Said okay. What is it. She said its a big hit in england. I said what is it. I said you got to promise to look at the british show before you answer. What is it . Yeah and i said okay thats fair. You know ill look at the british show. What is it. She said its celebrity ballroom competition. I said seriously and it has been one of the great gifts of my career. I bet. I still to this day live tv like this like dancing is what i most enjoy. And i dont know if everybody remembers but you actually hosted gma for a short time. Yeah back in 97. Thats my agent. Laughing. Yeah for look at you. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Wow. Much darker hair. What do you miss most about it . Well you know what i love and i love about this format is that you have to be very quick on your feet. In that sometimes like in the first hour of the show is more of a news focus and then you get into, you know talking to hosts of dance shows. We only have a minute. So if im going to do this [ bell dings] whats your favorite thing about me . [ laughter ] you just saved us from the perils of the reverse interview by asking that question. That was perfect. Yeah well done. Im happy to answer that. Whats your favorite thing about you . Sitting next to lara. Oh. Wow. How nice. Do you trust him . Implicitly. Really . Yep. Hes the best in the business. Thats true. Thats true. Reversing back. Okay. Back to you now. What do you hi is happening on this season of dancing with the stars in terms of the chemistry in terms of all that youve seen in seasons past . Well i really like i mean its a wonderful group. Were into the part now as we get to the Halfway Point where every time we say goodbye to a couple its going to be hard. Because weve really got a sort of the cream of the crop here. You know theyre always game when they come in but you can tell the disappointment is really will. I was on the flight actually with michael and peta monday night and, yeah we were talking about that and, you know they had just done a really good dance and to have to say goodbye right after that was disappointing but thats the way it works. We have to say goodbye now. We do. Theres one [ bell rings] that means throw to ginger. Ginger i have a question. Are you ready . Lara if you guys are saying anything to me i cant hear you. Were so excited about our lightsabers. My new friend ben you are so pumped up to be here. Yes, i love it. I love it so much. All right. I want what hes having. Lets start with the forecast across the nation. Some of the pictures that you are sending us. Scott kaye enjoying snow in vermont. The skiers are so happy with that or were. Winter weather advisories in applico good morning washington. Here we go again. Another damp and theory day. Cloudy skies and a little bit of shower and just elect to in the morning hours. For this Weather Report brought to you by tracfone. Can i wear this cloak every day . Do you think its a good look . Goes with my heels. All right, michael. All right, thanks ginger. Im here at Jedi Training kicking off gmas secrets of star wars series the celebration of the star wars movie collection. I have my cloak on my sabre. Im ready to go. For the First Time Ever in dij it will hd tomorrow never before seen secrets from the film and abcs nick watt learned how they make the lightsaber famous sound. Take a look at this. Whoowhoo. Reporter now for the First Time Ever you can download all six star wars and for the first time hear the filmmakers spill the beans. Find them full of surprises. Reporter how do they make that iconic lightsaber swoosh . Its a movie projector. This is the projector motor hum. Reporter and in the back of an old tv set. The blend of those two is is the basic bed thats under every lightsaber. Reporter okay the lightsaber with the two funny bits coming out the side. Youve seen it in the trailer for episode 7. Is that your idea. It wasnt mine but i helped finish the design on that. What are they for . I cant tell you. Reporter doug chang worked on the last trilogy and right knew is the concept artist for the force awakens. I cant even tell my wife what im doing. Reporter your wife . Yes. It seems a bit ridiculous. The problem eremperor is not as forgiving as i am. Reporter some of those asteroids are potatoes and one sound engineer remembers recording penguins and fruit bats in australia. You were mixing those together to become the gionosians. Peg wins and fruit bats. Reporter doug making it on the fly. Ill do some kind of robot form. This looks like that thing that rolls along in the trailer for yes, okay but its not going to be that. Reporter are you sure . Yes. Reporter where did you get the inspiration for that. That i cant tell you. Reporter until then may the force and the classics be with us all. For good morning america, nick watt, abc news, san francisco. Now were here with actor martial arts expert ray park who famously played darth maul in the phantom menace giving pointers to special jedis in training. Welcome, ray. Good morning, how are you doing . Im good. Good morning to you too. Now, we just saw a lot of the secrets that were revealed in that piece but is there anything about darth maul that we didnt learn and we dont know. Were not at the end when i had the famous cut in half scene, well actually hi to go to the bathroom okay. So that facial expression you see, darth maul doing like ah, i really needed to get out of there, you know. That is definitely a secret i didnt expect to learn. Now, how do you feel being a part of such a stellar legacy with the movie series . I grew up with star wars. That was the first movie i saw when i was a kid at 7 and feel honored and really truly lucky to have star wars part of my life. Now, i know youve been here and teaching young jedis how to fight but in the movie you had a double saber. Any special techniques that you had that can you show us something . Yeah. Yeah. Are you ready . Are you ready, guys . Are you ready. Here we go left and then to the right and then over the top like that. Easy peasy. Easy peasy. Want to try again . One to left. Two to right and over the top. How long would i last in the movie if i used that technique. A little bit. Youd be okay. You need to do a little bit more than that. You did really well there. From you illthat. I feel good about myself. Kids are you all having fun . You learning some moves . [ cheers and applause ] yeah . All right. Yall ready to show everybody a few of our moves. What have you learned . Show everybody what you learned. Asbers up guys one two and over the top. Good. And again, ready, one shgs two tell you what three, good. We have all these jedis in training out here. Everybody is looking good. I think im the biggest jedi ever from star wars but star wars, the digital movie collection available starting tomorrow and for more secrets including a never before seen interview with Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia go to goodmorningamerica. Com on yahoo ray park thank you so much man. Thank you. Coming up how to look royal, the most spectacular looks you can steal inspired by princess all right, everybody, time now for a royal edition of yahoo your day. All about princess kates incredible style. Yahoo style editor in chief joe zee. Youll teach us how to princess your closet. Isnt that a way great way to start your day. What do you mean. When you look at Kate Middleton and the middleton effect. Anything she puts on, her fashion is incredible. Her style is incredible. She has the ability to really make people stand up and take notice with something thats timeless and classic. There are ways in your own closet where you can at least capture that style so lets get an example. Absolutely. So and the great thing is to know were on baby watch. This is applicable whether pregnant or not and happens, you know, every which way so our first model and her name is katherine and british and total coincidence, i love the printed dress in yeah me too. Feels like spring and have had long winters. Scary, i cant do it a lot think. Its not the most flattering. First of all i think florals can be a little too sweet. I love it when its more abstract. Think of it as an accessory. Put on an earrings or bracelet just do a print and a great way to be that statement. Thats a great tip, everybody. The print is your accessory. Our second look this is princessing your closet in a different way. Absolutely. So i think number one when you talk about Kate Middleton you cannot forget about the coat. She made the coat a fashion statement. I like the coat. I designed this coat from my qvc line inspired by kate. You can wear a traditional coat and soft jersey with a bit of a design detail but also the printed dress which is an alternative to the little black dress. Is what youre saying when you get to the party you dont have to take your coat off. You can button and belt it and make a dress which kate has done in a lot of her public appearances. Another way to princess your closet. Our final look a picture of kate. Lets look at this. How cute, though. So pants, and these are specifically a little short. You like that look. I love the crop pant. Something very classic about that. I think that is sort of the synonymous word when you talk about the kate style there is something classic and timeless and throw around the word modern princess but she is and look at this. How adorable is this number one. I mean she always does it with denim but i love the idea that denim now can be color, color, color. I also like the clothes with a pump and the top. A little blazer. Its very like preppy and put together and casual at the same time. We all have jeans. We all have that sort of white blouse in our closet. Just throw a dale lohred blazer on top. Thee great ways to princess your closet. Thank you very much to this guy, mr. Joe zee. Always great tips on yahoo ladies you look gorgeous your highnesses. Coming up, lecrae performing live and stay with us and lets dance. Yeah. From a city mass so im working from home. I get on a video conference. With my boss, and my bosss boss. T i forgot to attach the presentation it sends in a flash, good thing i have fios. I dont and it was taking forever. We dont miss a beat. Im yelling at the kids to get off wifi. Get off the movies get off the video games i think i got a promotion. I think i need a new job. 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How did i fall in this no condition that get a mention but you offered this unconditional love i swear i sell it all for this im trying to keep it together forgive my awkwardness but often this issue in me often is valley of shadows and i know theyre trying to pick me off in this but all i need is you its funny just how off i get when i aint riding with you no adjectives for you awesomeness they burning one for that burn out this life in god im all turn the out took time out to put time in so i turn to you when im worn out all i need is you slow me down cause you know me now with my phony smile and im acting like its all copacetik its so pathetic so juvenile know what you do you keep me cool in the summer when they be dressin and i be wanting to show off and stunt there aint nothing to want you give me all that i need all i need is you to keep that fire burring for me all i need is you by my side thick and thin highs and lows dont let go we going ride we gone win dont know how all i know all i need is you, youre all i ever needed aint nobody gone get in the way. Put that on my money in the bank cause you do what them others cant and i love that yeah we gone ride till the rips fall off above it all we can never fall yeah hold my hand we can have it all hold my hand we can have it all all i need is you by my side thick and thin highs and lows dont let go dont let go we gone ride we gone win dont know how all i know all i need is you you youre all i ever needed you know that youre all i ever needed you youre all i ever needed youre all i ever needed you always pick me up all i need is you thats true you make et better for me thats true because all i need is you all i need is you indeed love and respect. [ cheers and applause ] i have a lot of studying to do. Thats w xfinity is perfect for me. They have the fastest, most reliable inhome wi, so i can do all my studying and learning, uninterrupted. Im heading out. Okay, mom. [heavy metal] ahhhhhhhhh with the fastest inhome wifi, xfinity is perfect for people who take care of business. Good morning america is brought to you by carmax. Start the search for your next car at carmax. Start here. Its funny lecrae definitely keeps it real. Going to be in concert. Best buy right across the street but youre here with us this morning. Thank you for that. Not unashamed, indeed. Unashamed. Outstanding v a great day, everyone. More star wars tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] brad we want to get a check of the weather right now. We head over to jacqui jeras. Jacqui showers moving back in, especially south and west of d. C. Showers moving in toward fauquier county. Culpeper is getting wet. So are you, madison county, and into luray. The showers will continue to spread eastward. Mainly just dreary and cool. 45 is the temperature downtown. We will make it into the lower 50s today. Most of the rain showers will happen this morning, drier this afternoon. Tomorrow, temperatures will spike up but thunderstorms will take up in the afternoon. A nice weekend ahead. Jamie we have a couple of problems. Let me begin with what we are seeing traveling on the bw parkway. The crash that had all northbound lanes blocked, they have reopened and the accident has been cleared at powder mill. As we move to talk about what we have as far as congestion, you are seeing it almost everywhere. Heading in on the gw parkway, 66 once you get closer to arlington, and the same thing on 395. Lets look at the congestion on the 14th street bridge. Brad here are top stories were following right now. Two men suspected in an armored car robbery are due in court today. Jerrod williams and Jesse Roberts tried to rob an armed truck. In february. Madison small also died suddenly Tuesday Morning after falling ill the night before. Oad run high school. Life with Kelly Michael is up next, and we are always on at wjla. Com. Its live with kelly and michael. Today awardwinning actress edie falco. And from the new film the longest ride, scott eastwood. And a performance from the husbandwife recording artist johnny swim. All next on live [captioning made possible by disneyabc domestic television] now, here are kelly ripa and Michael Strahan [applause]