The quiet neighborhood turned into a crime scene. This carriedled with bullets, casings littering the street. The Woman Holding police at bay. Why police say they were forced to open fire here. And all about oscar. The major tough competition with suspense building. The categories to watch that could hold huge clues. Still feels completely surreal. On the nights biggest awards show. Hey, good morning and we start here with President Trump ramping up his attacks on the media overnight. In a late night tweet the president saying, quote, Fake News Media knowingly doesnt tell the truth, a great danger to our country. Yeah, this came just hours after the president spoke to a group of conservative activists saying reporters should not be allowed to quote anonymous sources. But this post reporting the Trump Administration recruited members of the Intelligence Community to counter stories about Trump Associates, ties to russia and some of those officials spoke to reporters anonymously. All this is happening as the democrats gather in atlanta to elect a new party chair. Theyre trying to chart a course forward in the age of trump. Many angles to cover this morning and we kick it off with Abcs David Kerley who is at the white house, david, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. The attacks by the president and his white house continued and underlying all this are the investigations of possible contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian officials. Facing stories and investigations about alleged ties to russia, this morning President Trump and his white house are again targeting journalists. I call the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources. They just make them up. Reporter the president york times story saying his campaign had numerous contacts with russian intelligence. Im against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldnt be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. Reporter a white house source ironically requiring anonymity says the chief of staff was told by an fbi official that the story was not true but when Reince Priebus asked the fbi to say so publicly, the bureau declined and the president questioned the bureau in tweets saying, the fbi is totally unable to stop the National Security leakers. They cant even find the leakers within the fbi itself. And this morning, a Washington Post report saying the Trump Administration reportedly tried to enlist other politicians to quiet the russian stories. The president set aside that controversy to bask in the bright lights of cpac, having coopted much of the conservative movement which did not warm to him election. The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that put and will put its own citizens first. Reporter but more conflict just hours later after the president signs an executive order to study reducing regulation, the press secretary held an off camera briefing in his office but left major news outlets out which are cecilia vega asked sean spicer about. But why not offer because theres 3,000 people credentialaled. But there are six no, theres not six. No, actually that is false. To say that there are six, maybe six that reached out to you. Reporter among those not allowed in or excluded were new york times, the president has nothing on his calendar today, dan and paula. Tomorrow the governors from the country are here for a grand ball. David, thank you and weve got a powerhouse pair of politil in washington and matthew dowd who is in austin, texas. Good morning toette bo of you. Cokie, let me start with you. Were watching the Trump Administration escalate the attacks on the media. Whats the strategy here and is it likely to work . Well, it works for the people who love donald trump and hate the media and thats an awful lot of americans. The fact is is that it puts the media in a difficult situation because every day were forced to say heres what he said that isnt true. And then people say, well, he says thats fake news and then people start to say, well, who is right here . And that becomes very difficult. Matt, do you think this is a Winning Strategy . I think in the short term it helps him because it undermines the press and anybody that tries to have some factual dispute with him. Donald trump for the last two years has to have somebody to post up against. He had it with the republicans when he ran in the primary. He had it with Hillary Clinton and now he wants to create it he does not want to stand unto himself because he doesnt want that kind of introspection on him. Okay, guys, lets shift gears and talk about russia because Senate Majority leader Mitchell Mcconnell said recently its highly likely an investigation will be launched. Probes are intensifying but the white house says any insinuation of possible contacts between Trump Associates and russia is a witchhunt. Whats your view . An investigation obviously it will be launched. Whats unsettling to put it mildly about the stories today are that one of the people or two of the people enlisted by the white house to try to knock down the stories are the heads, the republican heads of the senate and house intelligence committees and those would be the bodies doing the investigations unless they set up a separate commission which theyve said they dont want to do, that they want the intelligence committees to do the investigation. Well, if the white house already story here, what kind of investigation does that become . Matt. Well, in the land of oz sometimes you do find a witch in a witchhunt and i think its been a cloud hanking over donald trump for his entirety of his campaign and obviously we know that from our intelligence agencies russia was involved in hacking into our election and in releasing information that affected our election in some way. Donald trump and his people, theres relationships that exist so the senate and house need to investigate this and well see over time what all is involved. Finally the democrats gathered today to elect a new party chair, Hillary Clintons been cheering them on from the sidelines in a slick new video released yesterday and seems like the choice the party faces whether to go into allout war mode with trump or as many are demanding or whether to find areas where they can cooperate so, cokie, let me start with you. Whats the better strategy for the democrats. I dont think they have a whole lot of choice here. I republicans said all through the Campaign Nothing brings you together like winning, which we saw yesterday with trump and cpac. Nothing divides you more than losing and thats where the democrats are. Theyre very divided. Everybody blaming everybody else for their loss. But the grass roots have taken over and want to be active. Its instructive that the person that the leaders. The party have chosen to respond to the president on tuesday is former governor of kentucky brashear who is very much a moderate. Im not sure how thats going to play with the democratic base. And, matt, do you want to follow up on that . Sure, i think the democrats would be much better positioned, yes, create a resist fans to whatever they dont like but be thoughtful about it but in the end the problem for them isnt donald trump and the republicans. The problem for them is their brand, their own brand and own candidates that dont seem to have a capacity to connect with the American Public especially those industrial midwest states and electing a chairperson in this is like saying it will solve their problem is a little like saying the head of marketing is the reason why the cubs won. It wasnt the reason why the cubs won. They won because they had players. The democrats need to get perfect players. Perfect way to end it. Always about sports. I dont even know much about sports and got that one. Thank you very much both of you. We really appreciate it. All you need to know is the cubs won the world series. All right, cokie and matt, thank you. A deadly shooting near kansas city and mosque fire in tampa are being investigated as possible hate crimes and a widow saying her husband was meeting a friend when gunned down and eva pilgrim is covering them for us this morning. Good morning, eva. Reporter it seems like one after another different times of day, different targets, different states, the one thing they all have in common, they are all now being investigated as possible hate crimes. Possible hate crimes putting many on edge. This morning the wife of a man killed in a busy kansas sports bar speaking out. He was just enjoying his glass of beer. Reporter Authorities Say the shooter Adam Purinton targeted two he described as two middle eastern men. Even though the guy was talking to discriminately about his waist ive got two down. Reporter purinton now behind bars and the fbi investigating whether this was a hate crime. Not everyone is a muslim. Reporter authorities watching 917 active hate groups as they track recent hate crimes across the country. During the last week, waves of bomb threats temporarily shutting down Jewish CommunityCenters Across the country. 69 threats at 54 jccs since the beginning of this year. A missouri vandalized. Headstones left in disarray just outside tampa a fire at a mosque friday being investigated as a possible hate crime. Maybe did it to discourage us but this makes us much stronger. Reporter Authorities Say someone started the fire at one of the doors, no one was hurt but the building was damaged. Now, authorities now looking at security cameras hoping this he will provide clues as to who started that mosque fires. Members say there have been occasional hatefilled media posts. Now new details in that bizarre ailey ii assassination of kim jonguns half brother which played out as you can see on surveillance cameras and now hearing one of the female suspects was paid just 90 to carry out this attack which involved vx nerve agent and Alex Marquardt is on the story from our london bureau. Alec, good morning to you. In cash that suspect said to rob what she claimed she thought was baby oil on the face of kim jongnam. Instead it was one of the deadliest chemical weapons on the planet. North korea has denied any role in this murder which raises new concerns about the extent of their weapons arsenal and how they may use it against their enemies. The brazen killing in one of the worlds busiest airports taking an even darker turn with the revelation that the chemical used was the rare nerve agent vx. Its exceptionally its one of the most lethal creations that man has ever come up with. Reporter vx is classified as chemical weapon of mass destruction. The two female suspects believed to have rub id it on their hands before smothering it on the face of kim jongnam, the estranged older half brother of kim jongun. Vx has no odor or taste. A minuscule amount will trigger uncontrollable muscle contractions, confusion, in death or paralysis. As kim arrives at the airport you can see a woman lunging at her target quickly rubbing his face before escaping. A second woman was also involved. One of the female suspects from indonesia claims she thought she was participating in a tv prank show for which she was allegedly paid around 90 to rub an oil on kims face. Kim alerted airport authorities then collapsed. The assailant said to have washed their hands, one of them vomiting but otherwise unaffected. The amount they put on that individuals face would have been enough to have killed tens of people if not hundreds of people if actually sort of dispersed properly. Reporter malaysian authorities will carry out a sweep in that terminal for any remaining radioactive or chemical elms. This use of vx has been widely condemned including by american officials, a pentagon spokesman calling it a very real threat. This is tack sending a clear message about the brutal lengths go. All right, Alex Marquardt reporting for us, thank you. Back in home the wild shootout and the search for two burglary suspects and Adrienne Bankert has the details. Reporter the wild scene in a quiet texas neighborhood caught on camera. It was scary. Reporter one woman dead and man in custody after a massive shootout with Police Friday afternoon. Casings littering the asphalt, the suspects carriedled with dozens of holes after Authorities Say the 33yearold woman shot at officers during a stand off. Thats when you hear 20 guns go off. Reporter the hail of gunfire that followed captured by a neighbor in this cell phone video. According to police the altercation started early friday. Officers attempting to arrest the unidentified woman for a burglary warrant. But the suspect speeding off leading officers on a highspeed miles away on this suburban street. S. W. A. T. Teams arriving on scene attempting to negotiate with the woman for nearly half an hour. I just cant believe that it went as far as it d i was out there expecting to see somebody get wrestled to the ground and not killed. Reporter and, again, you can tell from that video this was all playing out in a suburb. People are on the street getting back from the store unloading groceries when they see this procession of police vehicle, s. W. A. T. Team, really concerning. Police have still not released the name of that suspect but some good news. The officers were not injured in that shootout. What a harrowing story. Appreciate it. A lot of other news and for that as always its over to dr. Ron claiborne. Good morning, sir. Hey, dan, good morning to you and paula. Robert. Good morning, everyone. We begin in pennsylvania where an amber alert covering three states ended with a little girl found safe and the alleged murder of her mother under arrest. Oscar hernandez is accused of killing the mother, his former girlfriend at their home in connecticut and taking o he was captured after a chase. That ended with his car crashing. Immigration says hernandez was deported to his native el salvador in 2013. Breaking overnight reports of a wave of suicide bombing attacks in syria. Syrian media say a number of explosions hit a security compound in the city of homs. The Human Rights Group says at least 14 people were killed. Homs is syrias Third Largest city mostly under government control. Back at home stocks edged up a little bit on friday. Enough for the dow to set another record high. The index finishing at 20,821. That made 11 Straight Days that the dow established a new peak and that is a new record. Here in new york, a warm reception for former president barack obama when he turned up in public. A crowd gathering and cheering when mr. Obama was spotted at a starbucks in manhattan friday. Later he and daughter malia attended the price, an arthur bouncing back from adversity. A florida man finished a Half Marathon less than a month after he nearly died of a heart attack while running in that race. In january, craig smith collapsed a little more than halfway through the race. Several nurses who were there gave him cpr, saving his life on friday. Smith returned to the spot where he fell and walked the rest of that route. How about that . I think it was 27 days after he was felled by a heart attack back and walking the route. Good for him. It was. Rob, so hearing about treacherous weather brack in the midwest. We had this record heat and now we have thunderstorms that are push nothing that so some of them became severe. This is what happened in indiana yesterday. Greensburg, yeah, quarterinchside hail making driving difficult. Also difficult driving on the back side of this storm which had a bigtime snow. Matter of fact closed Interstate West of lincoln, nebraska. But a bit of a mess. In some spots ove snow falling, generally speaking, though, a swath of about a foot north of lincoln to green bay, the snow is winding down but this line, ribbon of thunderstorms could become severe later on today in the way of some hail and gusty winds along the highly populated i95 corridor. Timing is between 3 00 p. M. And about 8 00 p. M. Tonight and see hail and damaging winds. More records expected to fall today. Dozens yesterday. For the month about 5,000 record highs have occurred and here are some of the alltime records for february. 81 in louisville. 78 in columbus, ohio, even boston, 73 degrees, yes, it is february. Hope you enjoyed this. Co the chance for some severe storms later today in the d. C. Area. This is the line were western p. A. Getting hit with some rain. The line is going to reordering west of the mountains with pockets of rainfall and wind and heavier big day tomorrow. Oscars in l. A. A chance for rain and they are running at daytona. What are they running. The daytona 500. I just loved how you said it. Hard to understand with a southern accent. It comes out once in a while. I didnt know what you said. Winter is not over basically. Not quite, yeah, not quite. Its coming back next week. I shouldnt have assembled my outdoor Patio Furniture yesterday. Well meet you there. You mentioned the treacherous weather in the midwest. Much better story coming out of the midwest. A small town in indiana is on a big high with the powerball mystery. Who bought the single Winning Ticket to a gigantic jackpot. I got so excited. Your story was so exciting about this. Are you going to start this is like a big game of guess who, everybody. Wow, diane. But, it is. I feel like weve walked on to the set of steel magnolias. Where is the oscar, everybody . This is like its a giant game of guess who. 180 days to claim the prize but everyone in lafayette, indiana, is dying to know who they are now and how they plan to spend that 435 million prize. This is powerball. Reporter someone in the Hoosier State is 435 million richer this morning. I hope you have your tickets. Reporter but Officials Say its still a mystery who in the small town of lafayette holds the winning numbers. The powerball ticket. Reporter Melinda Carter manager of the lucky store says even she doesnt know would bought it but like the rest of the country she cant wait to excitement. It really is. We just hope they come through and tell us who they are. Reporter the jackpot is one of the ten biggest in powerball history and people here are hoping the money is well spent. I hope they use it for a good cause. Hopefully charitable donations. Carter says the good news comes at a time when its needed. I think it brings a positive note for everything thats going on right now. I mean i know theres a lot of things that are really bad going on but like for having a power ball winner here in lafayette, indiana, its amazing. 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What could be a critical ruling in bill cosbys sex assault case. 13 additional women want to testify but a judge is determining how many will indeed take the stand and abcs Marci Gonzalez is covering it for us from our l. A. Bureau. Marci. Reporter a judge ruling friday only one additional cosbys Sexual Assault trial this june. Saying in a onepage ruling that he carefully weighed the possible probative value of their testimony against the potential prejudice to cosby. This was certainly the most anticipated ruling. Its a substantial and significant loss for the prosecution. We still believe that no accusations from third parties should be admissible in the trial. Reporter cosbys lawyers have been fighting to keep his procession of accusers out of court. The women alleged i drugged and sexually assaulted them. Something he denies. The defense is arguing the womens memories are tainted by time and prejudiced by media coverage. But the prosecution says this ruling is important as the jury will now be allowed to assess evidence that is relevant to establishing a common plan, scheme and design of sexual abuse. While this is a win for the defense, i dont necessarily think that it is a loss for the focus on the crime, keep it simple and not have jurors feel that he is being piled on with all of these incidents. The 79yearold tv star has pleaded not guilty to accusations of sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban philadelphia home in 20004. The ruling is one of two key pretrial issues in the case. The judge ruling earlier that the jury can hear cosbys damaging testimony from constands 2005 lawsuit. And cosby is free on a Million Dollars bail. He is expected back in court on monday for the start of a hearing during which a judge will consider his request to either select a jury from a different county or move the trial to a different location. Dan and paula. Lots to come on this case, marci, thank you. Lets get it back to rob now for another look at the weather and youre moving from a southern accent to an irish brogue for this. I dont know. Now we go midwest so get a flat a going for i says the michigander. Pretty incredible stuff. Theres oshkosh. Lake winnebago. The ice shoves which happen usually late march are beautiful but can be damaging when it begins to weaken because of warm weather and strong winds that piles up that lake ice on the Western Shores and thats wow that is really piling up so just another sign that we are experiencing an credity warm february but its going tomorrow. The windchills back to ryal. Going to feel like 16 in chicago. 29 in atlanta and 31 degrees in new york city. So winter cannot quite be done yet, especially chicago, 32 and oscars are tomorrow. A couple of showers but not nearly the rain that they were tracking Severe Weather later today. 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Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com one of the best movies of this year and there have been a lot of great ones, one is called Hidden Figures up for three oscars, tells the story of three africanamerican female math me tigs who played a vital role in nasa during the early years of space program. We were standing up and applauding. Took my daughter. Ron, you just recently found out that this movie hits close to home for you. Really, paula. Two weeks ago my cousin Linwood Wright died at the he had been a Ground Breaking pioneer in theary rowspace field going back to world war ii. I went to pennsylvania to talk to my cousins about this remarkable man, a hidden figure in my own family. I need a mathematician that can look beyond the numbers. Reporter Hidden Figures tells the little known story of three female africanamerican mathematicians in the early years of the space program. What i never knew there was a hidden figure in my own family. My cousin lynn, a brilliant Ground Breakingary nautical engineer who worked for nasas predecessor long before the women in that movie. I think its kind of an unsung hidden figure particularly because he didnt ever, you know, toot his own horn. He never bragged. Never. Reporter lin graduated in 1941 with a degree in aeronautical engineering recruited by the National Advisory committee onary nottics military then racially segregated during world war ii. After the work he designed jet engines first for the government and later in private industry. The thing that he developed, its like the science of how to make those jet engines more efficient. Reporter helping pave the way for affordable commercial air travel lin retired in 1986, his final job acting director of nasas propulsion division. He loved flight and he loved the exploration. A person with engineers in mind should be an engineer. You cant be a computer the rest of your life. Reporter just before lin died he went to see Hidden Figures. Afterwards we talked about it and he said, wow. That was great. And he liked it . He loved it. You know, my cousins elsie and lynda point it out wasnt just hair father o africanamericans in the feel. There was a dream team working at ge when he worked there in cincinnati but stories like this are really important to get that story out there about people like my cousin lin and his greatest achievement really was he was a really, really good guy. He was a gentle man and a gentleman as i like to say. Really miss him. You should make a movie. Yeah, it should be. Could be a great story. Yeah. What a great story. Were so glad hes finally getting some credit. Additional credit as he deserved. And he got to see the movie too. Very cool. We have proof of your smarts gene pool. Thats evident. Was it ever in doubt. Never. Not by me. Thank you, ron, for bringing that story. Amazing. 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Adorable. Sorry, i was laughing during that story because she was eating this. She got in our ear and said stop crinkling. Oyster crackers. I cant blame you. On to katy per katy got quite a surprise when ed sheeran unexpectedly crashed the interview. He literally just walked into the studio in the middle of it as she was talking to bbc radio one, might have been awkward except theyre apparently besties and talked about a whole blufrn of cute things including the first time they ever met. Listen to this. And i was sweating so bad. Then i saw katy and i said, katy perry, this is embarrassing. I would hug you but ew. Like he was just, this guy with red hair. She said she realized it was going to be ed sheeran like he is now she would have ecstatically hugged him and would still no matter how sweaty it is so there you go. From sweaty hugs to fake freckles is a new beauty trend. Some are selling freckle pencils and a kick starter freckle yourself offering stencillike tattoos and cost you 250. Finally i know some of you have this day on your calendar. National clam chowder day. Chowder. Chowder. Crinkling. And the question manhattan or new england. Manhattan has tomatoes. New england, cream and milk. Why do you have to choosy . Fun side, new england, these are from peters clam bar. They made a bowl for us but new englanders hate manhattan so much or the clam chowder, that is, 1939 a legislator tried to make it illegal to put tomatoes in your clam chowder. Did it pass . It did not. I can speak as a new englander and ron can jean me on this. New england clam chowder is vastly better than how dare you my mom i never had new england clam chowder. My mom always put tomatoes in everything. Im a new yorker and prefer new england and they allowed to say that in new england were journalists so neutral so we like that equally. Thanks. Thank you for watching. See you right back here tomorrow morning. Really better than my moms. Okay, so monday the best morning after party goes to drum roll, please. No one does oscar like news, we abc 7 have showers out of western pennsylvania and then restarts it afternoon causing gusty thunderstorms. For that reason, the d. C. Area is under risk severe storms. That includes a and south of d. C. As well. Here is what we are expecting, afternoon itthis will get to the d. C. Area. Notice that shading, red, heres a look at how gusty the winds are expected to get. We are talking mid 40s, low 30s. A attention to the changing sky. We are going to be watching some gusty storms come our way. Overnight tonight this is associated with a cold front. Look at the temperature dropped. This evening we are in the 50s, but waking up tomorrow, temperatures back in the 30s. Factoring in gusty winds, it will feel much colder than that. Acta reality we go to close out the weekend. Of the week, we will be cooler, but then getting warmer. The later half of the week we will have that temperature back in the 50s close to where we should be and some sunshine returning to the area. Remember to download our weather app so you can track those storms moving into the area later today. Take it easy and stay alert. Announcer jack hannas wild countdown is sponsored by nationwide. Jack hi, everyone, im jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to wild countdown. What do the tallest and fastest land animals have in common . They both wear spots. Golly day. Jeepers creepers. But it turns out, spots are a popular pattern for all kinds of creatures. From wild dogs sue you can see why theyre called painted dogs. Jack to big cats if i was just walking through the jungle right now, i never would have known that cat was up there. To this captivating critter. Oh, my gosh. Sue you are the cutest little thing. Jack weve got 6