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Children. Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. The and the students who survived. How are we not stopping this after columbine, after sandy hook. He and his classmates are here plus the reaction to President Trumps idea. And victory. Born in the usa team usa golden again for the first time in 20 years. Beating canada in a down to the wire shootout. Now the hero twins who helped america win have this message. Hi, im jocelyn. And im monique. And were the lamoureux twins, good morning, america. We do say good morning, america. What a game, a nailbiter. Team usa, olympic gold, 20 years in the making. Oh, look at the gloves come off. Uhhuh. Take a look at the usa house in south korea. Athletes and their families watching exploding that america won the first gold medal in 20 years. Amy in the middle of all of it right there. If shes got any voice left well talk to her. She sent out an email like favorite olympic moment ever. We are going to begin with the display of passion and actively. You saw these students stepping up to reduce gun violence protesting in washington rallying in floridas capitol. It was something to see and School Shooting survivors and parents meeting with the president at the white house. Emotional listening session and abcs dan harris starts us off with that power town hall that was held in florida overnight. Good morning, dan. Reporter hey, robin, good morning to you from the State Capitol of tallahassee. Over here overnight in tallahassee, 100 students boarded buss and returned to their homes after an emotional lobbying trip but the activism from the Parkland Community is far from over as we saw overnight, quite powerfully, in that wild town hall. Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak. Reporter overnight lawmakers stepping up to listen to the often blistering concerns of missi Parkland Students and victims including florida senator marco rubio who was endorsed by the nra in 2016. Look at me and tell me, guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week and look at me and tell me you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns. My daughter running down the ha hallway was shot in the back with an assault weapon, the weapon of choice. Yes, sir. Okay. It is too easy to get. It is a weapon of war. The fact that you cant stand with everybody in this building and say that, im sorry. Sir, i do believe what youre saying is true. We instead should make sure that dangerous criminals, people that are deranged cannot buy any gun of any kind. Thats what i believe i better answer will be. Your answer speaks for itself. Reporter rubio saying he would support a bill in congress to fix the National Background check system but when asked this question by a Parkland Student so, senator rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the nra in the future . The answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda and i do support the Second Amendment and i also support the right of you and everyone here to go to school and be safe. More nra money that is the wrong way to look first of all, people buy into my agenda. Reporter rubio a staunch defender of gun rights changed his position on the age limit for buying a semiautomatic rifle which nikolas cruz used last week. Number one, fred, i absolutely believe in this country if you are 18 years of age you should not be able to buy a rifle and i will support a law that takes that right away. Fantastic. Reporter also overnight the 100 students from parkland boarded buses here in floridas State Capitol and headed home after having learned some hard lessons about lawmaking. First we met with the speaker and he kind of dismissed us. We voted him. We can vote him out. Reporter students repeatedly asked republican state senator Kathleen Passadomo whether she would ban assault weapons. Id like to have that conversation. Somebody asked how do you feel about an Assault Rifle kind of thing. And my question was to define that. I dont understand something that can shoot so many bullets in a period of time can be in a civilians hands. Theres a lot of good issues that you bring up. Reporter as the senator repeatedly dodged questions, this parkland mother anna fought back tears. She said she didnt really know about guns and all that and she didnt understand. It was like it was hard. Know about it. If theyre voting for these things, they should know. Reporter while the students pressed their case in the halls of the capitol [ crowd chanting ] reporter outside a large loud protest and across america thousands of students walking out of schools in protest. We will not tolerate this in our country. Reporter progun advocates alleging the Parkland Students are being used by liberals and arguing that surviving a School Shooting does not make someone an expert in gun policy. One more note on that town hall on cnn overnight, there was a representative from the nra on stage who took questions. She stood firm on nra positions. She argued that the real problem with the parkland massacre was that Law Enforcement missed repeated red flags from the suspect, nikolas cruz. That town hall was quite intense. The activism that were seeing from these young people, is there any chance its going to lead to any real change, dan, when it comes to legislation . Reporter well, here in tallahassee, the answer appears to be yes in the next ten days of the session it appears they will pass a bill, it probably will not include something many of the kids want which is an outright ban on semiautomatic rifles but 3r0b8 will include more money for School Safety and Mental Health treatment in schools and a raising of the minimum age to purchase one of these semiautomatic rifles. Its a step. Thank you, dan. You could feel the heat in florida. You could feel it at the white house. Remarkable encounter with President Trump. Here passionate pleas from columbine to parkland and jon karl has that. Because my daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week and she was taken from us. We as a country failed our children. Reporter President Trump sat silently as one after another students and parents of shooting victims pleaded for action. How many schools, how many children have to get shot . It stops here with this administration and me. Im not going im not going to sleep until its fixed. And, mr. President , were going to fix it because im going to fix it. Im not going to rest. And, look, my boys need to live with this. Reporter andrew pollacks daughter meadow was 1 of the 17 killed at Stoneman Douglas high school last week. This shouldnt happen. We go to the airport. I cant get on a plane with a bottle of water but we leave it, some animal could walk into a school and shoot our children. Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. Sam zeif was texting with his brother as a gunman murdered one of their classmates. I turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. Reporter Carrie Gruber whose son survived agreed its too easy for teenagers to get a gun. If hes not old enough to buy a drink to go and buy a beer he should not be able to buy a gun at 18 years old. Reporter President Trump said hes open to considering an increase in the age required to buy a firearm. In addition to stronger background checks improving Mental Health care and possibly even arming teachers. The coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy, that coach was very brave, saved a lot of lives, i suspect. But if he had a firearm he wouldnt have had to run he would have shot and that would be the end of it. Reporter that was not popular with most in the room. Does anybody like that idea here . Does anybody like it. Reporter mark bardens 7yearold son daniel was murdered in his first grade classroom in sandy hook. He said guns in the classroom put teachers in a tough spot. They have more than enough responsibilities than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. Reporter the nra wasted no time in responding to the idea of raising the minimum age to buy firearms. They put out a statement even before the School Shooting victims left the grounds of the white house coming out against it saying it would violate the Constitutional Rights of 18 to 20yearolds. But the president is under enormous pressure as he himself said after this is over, the world is watching. Michael. Thank you so much, jon. Pressure, indeed. We also spoke with a teacher named casey hanson in utah. She agrees with President Trumps suggestion and believes teachers should carry guns. She carries one with her every day. The thought of cowering in a corner protecting your students with no options other than just standing there hoping nobody comes in just didnt sit right with me. I wanted i wanted a better plan. I wanted more protection for my students. Reporter and you can hear more from casey and teachers on the other side of the debate on a special nightline tonight. George. Okay, right now we hear from three of the students you saw from Stoneman Douglas high. Sam zeif and Julia Cordover joined the session yesterday. Ryan deitsch was part of the group lobbying florida lawmakers in that town hall meeting. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Sam, let me begin with you. It was movinging to see you there with the president yesterday. The idea he seemed most engaged by yesterday was this idea of arming teachers. What was your reaction to that . I was in shock. I really couldnt believe that he would even think of the idea of putting that responsibility on teachers. Teachers need to focus and they do a great job of focusing on molding the minds of the future like julia and i, and how can you give them the responsibility of going to School Every Day and not knowing if theyre going to have to kill one of their students or not and knowing that they have the option to. And, julia, that was a pretty extraordinary back and forth with the president with all everybody in that room yesterday. Do you think he heard what you all were saying . What was your response to all that . Yes, i believe that he heard our true stories and our emotions. However, i was shocked to see that the nra was quick to respond before we even left the white house. My classmates and i. And i do not understand why the nra is not understanding of us students, of our lives, of their lives and of everyone else. Ryan, you had the chance to question senator rubio last night at that town hall meeting. Pretty clear that hes not going to walk away from the nra even though he told you youre already making a difference. Yeah, definitely senator rubio did not as cameron plainly put it, would he take the money and rubio danced around the question as politicians do. He just did not want to answer it even though the crowd knew exactly what he was saying, that he will continue to take money from an organization that has been known to help in the aiding of killing innocent lives. Sam, you know, the nra is one powerful organization. You mentioned yesterday that meeting with the president australias experience after they had a horrific episode they banned semiautomatic weapons and there hasnt been a School Shooting there since that happened but how do you respond to those who say that just cant happen here in the United States . I dont get how they could be so blind. I just dont understand. People are not coming into our school we have people with Mental Illnesses in our school. Theyre not coming in with Mental Illnesses and killing us. Theyre coming in with guns and killing us. Its just plain and simple. I dont understand how these politicians who get paid to lead our country cannot see this. Julia, you had a tweet last night. You said this is only the beginning. Right now we may be infamous for our tragedy but we will be famous for this movement of change. What specifically do you want to see . Thank you. Yes, i realize that the city of parkland has been pushing for this movement of change along with the other neighborhood schools and even broader to the whole country that is forcing this change because enough is enough. We are tired of losing innocent lives to situations that are preventable and starts with less gun, not more guns. As you said this is just the beginning. Thank you for your voices. I know this has been the week of your lives but as you said it is just the beginning. Thank you all very much for your time and voices this morning. Michael. Very impressive young people. Very impressive. Were going to switch gears now to that sweet victory at the olympics. Team usa, womens hockey taking home gold for the first time in two decades. Amy robach was there for the amazing moment and, amy, do you have any voice left after that celebrating last night . I did. I saved it for the show. It was such an incredible game and guess what, today marks the anniversary of the miracle on ice february 22nd, 1980 so 38 years later to the day the u. S. Wom womens hockey team accomplishing a miracle of their own beating their fiercest rival. It was a showdown for the ages. This is becoming a smashmouth game. Reporter canada who won gold in the last four Winter Olympics appeared to be on their way to a fifth up 21 in the final minutes of regulation. Ahead to monique reporter until Monique Lamoureux broke away. She scores. Reporter sending the game to a scoreless overtime. We are headed for a shootout. Reporter and a heartstopping shootout. Shoots and scores. Cuts down the angle and scores. Reporter in the end it was another lamoureux sister, moniques twin jocelyn who stepped up for the u. S. When it mattered most. She beats and scores. Reporter lifting americans to a 32 victory. Needs to pull everything together. Reporter american david wise also brought home the gold in the ski halfpipe after two lackluster runs. He stunned the crowd with this final run. Down to the bottom. Does he have the double, yes. Reporter another medal for Mikaela Shiffrin after winning gold in the giant slalom, she won silver in the super combined. But disappointing news for lindsey vonn in what might have been her last olympic race. The veteran skier missed her gate in the slalom portion and was unable to finish the race. Despite that disappointing finish for vonn better news for team usa snowboarder Jamie Anderson. She won her second medal here, a silver in the big air event, guys. Back to you. Was something to see. Well get back to you in a moment. Rob. Another round of rain for the areas flooded already. 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Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing you in southeastern pennsylvania and pushing out of delaware we have intermittent showers and drizzle. Everybody will be seeing some of this. 44 in allentown. 53 in philadelphia. Temperatures are in the process of dropping right now, through the day well fall through the ho as is by dinnertime down 42 cooler in the suburbs. Intermittent rain and drizzle today, more of the same tomorrow, 46. Milder over the weekend, saturday night rain, tam. Thats it for us, action news is back in a halfhour. Now its time for g. M. A. Smiling sparkles. How do they clean the toilet, grin at xit . laughs stop laughing. The stomach flu is not funny. Get a cleaner with bleach in it. Good, you can smile now. Clorox means clean. A heart transplant. Thats a whole different ballgame. I was in shock. I am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. I never felt i was going to die. 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There it is, the final goal that helped the womens Hockey Team Clinch their first gold in 20 years. We have the interview with the twin who pulled that off and her sister who also scored a goal. Talking about twin power. Good day for that family. Great day. A lot of headlines. President trump is going to meet with state and local officials on School Safety. That comes after yesterdays listening session at the white house where the president was confronted by survivors and families of School Shooting vics from columbine to parkland and learning new tails about the services to remember pastor billy graham. He was called the evangelical preacher and counseled 11 president s. Private Prayer Service held saturday. The funeral scheduled for friday, march 2nd. May he rest in peace. Were going to begin this half hour with dallas mavs owner mark cuban accepting sole responsibility for allowing a staffer to keep his job after two alleged Domestic Violence incidents and ryan smith joins us. This is reportedly a lot bigger than one mavs staffer. Thats right. One former employee calling the mavericks organization, quote, a reallife animal house. A Sports Illustrated report saying the Corporate Culture was ripe with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior and one former employee speaking out about what she experienced firsthand. A former employee of the Dallas Mavericks is speaking out to dallas abc affiliate wfaa. Her voice altered. It was a lot of harassment. You know, i mean the good old boy system. You had Sexual Harassment going on. Reporter the former employee opening up following a bombshell Sports Illustrated report claiming the mavericks organizations front Office Culture was rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior. More than a dozen current and former employees anonymously telling the magazine that the mavericks alleged hostile Work Environment was an open secret. With claims of Sexual Harassment and Domestic Violence allegedly being swept under the rug. Im excited about the women that are speaking out because just working at the Dallas Mavericks i can remember incidents where women were just afraid to even go to hr to talk about what was taking place with them. Reporter overnight the mavericks players who according to this article were not accused of any allegations expressed deep concern. I was disgusted when i read the article. Yeah, really, really disappointed that our franchise, my franchise, stuff like that was going on. Reporter mark cuban, the teams outspoken owner known for his magnetic tv personality on abcs shark tank there is no market at all that you have right now. Reporter told the magazine regarding the alleged widespread Office Culture, this is all new to me. I dont have any tolerance for it. But on wednesday, accepting sole responsibility for the decision to keep the teams web reporter earl sneed on staff despite knowing about his involvement in two alleged incidents of Domestic Violence. Cuban telling espn he regrets not following up with police and was not aware of what he calls gruesome details saying keeping him on staff was a horrible mistake in hindsight. Mark cuban is an owner known for his handson approach. A lot of the women we spoke to say, look, mark had to have known. Hes adamant he hasnt. Reporter overnight cuban announcing hes launching an inquiry to investigate multiple allegations of Inappropriate Conduct and harassment by the teams former president , terdema ussery. Seen here standing by cuban at the white house in 2012 after winning the nba championship. Clear mark cuban, no one has accused him of being perfect is a focus of the story. Reporter he says he is unaware of any Sexual Harassment complaints or claims of Inappropriate Conduct about him during his nearly 20 years with the organization. Earl sneed called the claims inaccurate and said he wasnt proud of the relationships and said he underwent counseling for both. Youre an attorney. Those two alleged incidents of Domestic Violence and the club knew about it but kept him on, are they legally liable in any kind of way. I think they might see some problems. Youre talking about whether or not this contributed to a hostile Work Environment and if youve got conduct thats pervasive and severe and causing an abusive situation and theres a negative effect to it, you could have a situation where employees are filing claims. Now, here whats interesting as well you of behavior. Then what happens to the people in your organization . And that becomes a problem. Folks will come forward and say, im suffering through this kind of environment. I dont know what could happen and its making me uncomfortable. What about the nba . Interesting so cuban is doing his own investigation. The nba is taking the position of were looking at that but keep this mind the nba can do their own investigation and have two provisions in their agreement where they can penalize the organization so if, for example, they find this the results of the investigation to be conduct detrimental to the league they can fine him money that could reach a million dollar, not only that, if its in the best interest of the league to penalize and theres no other solution in the cba he could be looking at draft picks or more millions. All right. Far from over, it seems. Well see how it goes with the investigation. Seeing you with bob on espn. Swatting incident. The target a popular youtube gamer, just 12 years old. Gio benitez here with the story and, gio, when police surrounded his home, scariest moment of peters life. Can you imagine. He was just sitting there playing his game, tens of thousands watching live on youtube when a prankster called police about a fake tragedy at their home. Okay, guys, im going to end my stream now. Reporter 12yearold gamer peter known as rolly was streaming his game play when police came knocking. I got swatted today. We got swatted. Reporter that was his view from his couch as the sheriff approached. Someone had called 911 claiming a mother and son were going to hang themselves. The call was a prank. Who would do this . Im not even sure if i can reporter somehow one of his followers found his home address and sent police. They come in kind of rushing in kind of like, you know, there was a disturbance call. Whats going on. You tell me whats going on. So it was pretty scary. My mind was thinking of a million things like people have our address now. We could be in danger. And, you know, i thought that, you know, i might have like got like shot or something. Reporter celebs like Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber have been victims of swatting. Authorities say the cases can be difficult to prosecute because theyre often juvenile pranks but they can turn deadly. Tyler barris was arrested and charged with Involuntary Manslaughter after phoning in a bogus call. Police shot finch when they thought he was reaching for a gun. Peter varady says while it scared him he still loves entertaining his youtube audience. I really want to keep going with youtube. Its been my dream since i was 3 years old. And no word yet this morning whether police figured out who placed that call but we know that the fbi estimates that some 400 cases of swatting occur every year in this country. If youre even thinking about doing this, know that you will likely be caught. So dangerous. 12yearold boy too. Scary. All right, thank you so much, gio. Coming up we have the twins who helped lead women to their first gold in 20 years. I no wondering, what if . Uncertainties of hep c. I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. 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She scores reporter down 21 in regulation to their fierce rival canada, monique tied the score on this breakaway sending the game into overtime. But canada who has held the gold medal in womens ice hockey for the past 20 years wouldnt relent forcing a shootout. And thats when jocelyn took a page out of her sisters book. She dekes, scores. Scoring the winning goal for the u. S. With her signature move, much to moniques delight. One of our coaches has worked on that poff with us called, oops, i did it again. Reporter they grew up in north dakota and dad played goalie in college. Mom was a swiller. I sat down with the twins to find out the secret to their success. I was reading that you all are, is this true, mirror image twins. Im lefthanded and shes right haf handed and my left ear is flat and her right ear is flat. Do you work that to your advantage. Were both righthanded on the ice so she should be tech likely lefthanded which would be nice if we were one of each hand but we definitely take advantage of being familiar around the ice with each other and where we are and were able to make quick plays without necessarily having to communicate really well on the ice. I think, you know, we dont individually try and beat players much. Its more of our passing and moving around people and like you said, its been a good combo so far. Now, this is the same team, the same women who threatened to sit out last years World Championships if usa hockey did not give in to their demands for equal treatment to male hockey players. Usa hockey looked to replace these women but stood together and they eventually won those increased wages and perks and then you know what, they went on to win the World Championship and now theyve gone on to win gold at the olympics, so it paid off in multitudes. They deserve every bit of it. Equal pay for equal play. Thats how it works. Youve covered a number of Olympic Games and so excited to go to this game yesterday. A lot of people around the world have never been. Whats it like to be in the stands. Its amazing. These are my four olympics and can say without hesitation this was the single most exciting event ive ever witnessed. I mean, it was so nerveracking till the very last penalty shot but you can see my reaction when jocelyn faked out that goalie and scored. The entire ice arena exploded with celebration. I was happy to contribute. Can you do that again, amy . Oh, my gosh. That was priceless. No. Oh, good for you. Good for you and everybody there enjoying the moment like that. Yeah, good for america. Thats right. You got it, amy. Oh, man. Coming up, the story behind the cry for help and wait until you hear, see it there wait until you hear where it happened. Come on back. Like you do sometimes, grandpa . Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. 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This place is called avoid island but this couple did a pretty bad job of avoiding it when what started as a fishing trip ended as a rescue mission. They were anchored in three feet of water when a freak storm hit with waves so big their boat ended up smashed against the rocks. Now, with no one around to help they thought to scrawl a big help sign in the sand and also activated an emergency beacon. A rescue helicopter picked up that distress signal and eight hours after this whole ordeal started that couple was finally able to board a helicopter at a nearby landing strip. The rescue crew later posted on facebook they found the relieved couple waving from the beach and that they could clearly see where they had written help in huge letters in the sand. Happy to report the couple made it home unhurt and now they not only have these great photos to share but they have a great story to tell as well. It works. Apparently it work. They said the beacon, the helicopter and the big help sign. 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Reporter good morning, tam, the accident on the vine street expressway, eastbound at 22nd street is cleared. Were jammed heading toward schuylkill expressway at 26th street. Westbound traffic is jammed heading toward the schuylkill expressway. Delaware county, i95 just past the blue route you can see we have the flashing lights. Police on the scene with the accident blocking the right lane. I95 southbound jammed from 420 from this point to past the blue route. We have a multivehicle accidenp 495 northbound 20 philadelphia pike. Four vehicles involved. New castle county we have an accident centerville road, newport gap pike and capitol trail. Roads are getting wet, tam. All right, karen, looking at the view across the ben franklin bridge. You can see the sky matching the color of the water all sort of gray. What does it mean, david murphy. Reporter well be cloudy and cooler as we go through the day and drizzle on the terrace and damp elsewhere. Tam, not a lot of rain, but in and out of the light showers and drizzle today. 52 degrees is the current temperature. Thats on the way down. Allentown, 43. You can see the wind out of the cooler northeast. Today well see the temperatures fall through the 40s and wind up in the low 40s by dinnertime. Damp and cool tomorrow, rain and drizzle tomorrow, 46. 56 on saturday with rain at night. A fierce fire tore through a house in burlington city, new jersey. Chopper 6 hd was over the site where crews were dousing the flames from all side. No reports of injuries. Thats it for us, they have deals and steals coming up on g. M. A. Well see you in 30. Youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe its time to be your own . Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. Outrage at a gun control town hall. Look at me and tell me you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns. The parents of victims and survivors of that High School Massacre speaking out taking action across the country. Thousands of students join the fight. For the first time in 20 years team usa wins the gold in womens hockey beating canada in a heartstopping shootout. Plus, lindsey vonn and what might have been her last olympic run. And Jamie Anderson on cloud nine getting big air and a silver medal. Wendy williams diagnosis. The tv personality announcing she has graves disease taking a threeweek hiatus. Was that connected to that scary onair fainting episode. What we know this morning. And this morning, one of the stars wowing audiences, danai gurira is live in times square. And theyre here to say all good morning, america. Great to have you with us on this thursday morning. Happy friday eve, everybody. Excited to have black panther star danai gurira. Oh, my goodness, you know those kids have to be so excited right now. Were celebrating that shes here. 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We are seeing an extraordinary Public Outreach campaign by the survivors of the gun violence in parkland and their parents and politicians at all levels are stepping up to listen from state lawmakers and the governor here in the State Capitol of tallahassee to the white house itself with that powerful listening session that the president held with victims of gun violence and, george, as you know earlier in the show, you spoke with a young woman from parkland who was at the white house yesterday. Heres what she had to say. Julia, you had a tweet last night. You said this is only the beginning. Right now we may be infamous for our tragedy but we will be famous for this movement of change. What do you want to see. The city of parkland has been pushing for this movement of change along with the other neighborhood schools and even broader to the whole country that is forcing this change because enough is enough. We are tired of losing innocent lives to peer situations that are preventable and all starts with less gun, not more guns. Reporter as these kids from parkland go public, there is one problem, which is that there is allegations of Online Harassment and twitter coming forward saying they take them seriously. Youtube pulling a Popular Video that alleged that one of the young men who survived the massacre was actually an actor. George. Those attacks were so ugly. Thanks very much. Michael. Thank you, george. Now to the incredible showing from team usa at the olympics overnight. If you have not heard womens hockey won gold for the first time in 20 years. Amy is there for it all and, amy, that was just one of the medals we added to our count. Thats right, michael. We told you about those incredible twin sisters, monique and Jocelyn Lamoureux who led them to that victory. One of the toughest rivalries ever. The canadians up 21 in the third then monique coming through with a breakaway score forcing the game into overtime and then in the shootout moniques twin sister, jocelyn, scoring that winning goal to give team usa a 32 victory and jocelyn says that move that won it all has a special name. The team calls it the oops i did it again. Also as you mentioned, michael, a great day for the u. S. On the halfpipe. American david wise struggling in his first two runs but then stunning the crowd on his third run which won him the gold. And then Jamie Anderson who won gold earlier in these games earning herself a silver in the womens big air but a disappointing finish for lindsey vonn. She missed a gate in the slalom portion and was unable to finish the race. This will likely be her last Olympic Games. But, michael, im sure Britney Spears very excited about the lamoureux twin sisters famous move now. I know you heard us laughing about it back here. Its cute. I know Lindsey Vonns last olympics possibly and didnt get a chance to finish but she should be very proud so should all the athletes who have gone over and represented their countries, not just our country, it is an honor to compete in the olympics. It certainly is. It was such a lovely day. I was pausing. It was a lovely day. One of michaels favorite songs. You used to always play it in your dressing room. You do. I got it on repeat. George is in every room. We dance to it. Just like that. It was a hot day yesterday. Youre going to keep trying. What have i told you, man . Winter warmup breaking an amazing 100 records around the country and take a look. Look at this guy soaking up the sun. Thats nancy pelosi. New Hampshire State park in that 75degree heat. Our fabulous gma team, they were out in force looking good, hey, alex. They couldnt resist a walk in the park. Oh, there they are. Oh, love you guys. A working walk. A working walk. Class outside on days like that. Remember that. 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Trebek is a native canadian but became a naturalized u. S. Citizen 20 years ago. Think hell do a good job. Yeah. Lifelong dream. You go for it, alex. Terrifyingly good news if you like scary movies. Oscar nominated Actress Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in the sequel of it. This should tell you how hot these movies are. The highest grossing horror movie in u. S. History. Were hearing that it chapter 2 and bill skarsgard will don the white face paint and that scary wig as pennywise along with the writer and director, it chapter 2 in tent of 2019. Remember dressing up . Never had i felt so beautiful. Finally today is National Margarita day. So threequarters of americans say they like margaritas. One in three say margaritas are their favorite happy hour drink. The question is to salt or not to salt the rim. I must find out from the audience. Children no salt. Im a no salt. Youre a salt. It depends. If its one of those special salts. Yeah. Well, it turns out salt helps balance the bitter and the sweet elements of the margarita, george, as usual is right. According to bar tenders, if you prefer frozen margaritas you can thank your local 7eleven for that. A Restaurant Owner was inspired by the slurpee machines in the 70s and now that first ever frozen margarita machine is on display in the smithsonian. No. Yes. Im a font of margarita knowledge. Were ready for props to bring out margaritas . No. Ill see you at 5 00. Its 5 00 somewhere. But first were going to move on to our thank you, lara. Going to move on to our cover story taking a closer look at the efforts to make our schools safer for students. Nightline juju chang is here. Some School Districts are now using anonymous tip apps. Absolutely, robin. Its all based on one crucial stat. Roughly 80 of School Shooters tell someone of their plans. 60 tell more than one person so many at Stoneman Douglas said they had concerns so these apps provide a safe anonymous way to report such tips which could save lives. In the aftermath of the parkland florida School Shooting, a growing number of districts are asking students to send in anonymous tips using apps like this one in colorado called safe2tell. Just this week more than 60 students using it to report a social media violence to threaten violence. It was ultimately a joke. Better safe than sorry. The protocols we have in place have caught a lot of threats since the florida incident. Reporter safe2tell reporting theyve received 154 tips of planned School Attacks since the parkland shooting alone. Another anonymous app Say Something is in seven regions including boston and Miamidade County and now on board in another 23 cities or districts. The Say Something anonymous reporting system is a 24 7 app website and telephone line that enables any student tore teacher or parent to submit any tip or threat that theyve heard whether someone is being bullied or a fight is about to happen or someone is cutting or a threat of school violence. Reporter Nicole Hockley founder of Sandy Hook Promise lost her son dylan in the newtown shooting, now an advocate even meeting with President Trump in the white house listening session. A big push for Sandy Hook Promise, getting more schools to use the Say Something app. That anonymous gateway keeping these tips absolutely anonymous means that someone can get that information out there without fear of any form of retribution. Reporter since sandy hook there have been more than 290 School Shootings, something hockley hopes these apps will stop. You wont necessarily hear the numbers of what weve been able to stop but we absolutely know well be saving lives. Reporter these anonymous apps take advantage of the idea that by. Standers need to get involved whether its bullying or depression or violent tendency, School Officials say we cant be bystanders, do something, Say Something, robin. Nightline tonight, correct, juju . Absolutely. Well tune in. Always good to see you. Joining us now is security analyst evy poumpouras and, evy, how do apps like this work . Are they effective . They are effective and i think in the day we live in this is a great transition. All the young people now, everybody is using their cell phone, we use technology and texting so this makes it easy. We want to make it as easy as possible to say, you know what, i see something odd, i think this is strange and let people have that tool to just stop, put it in there and send it off. We see the numbers that these people who commit these acts, they do talk about it and do talk about it at home, at school and things like that and its so important to know that you can do this anonymously and with teens especially, young people, thats important. Because some people dont want to be the rat or the snitch, so to speak. The other thing is people are afraid and fear retaliation and when were seeing all these shootings students are scared. What if this person found out i said this or did this. A different thing, one thing to go and find a teacher, find someone and say, hey, i have to tell you something and theres another thing where you have this comfort and safety of just doing it through your telephone. This is really important and its also going to help Law Enforcement identify that. How will it do that . Identify patterns, because now they can see, you know what, weve got these 15 tips on this one student, you know, this has to be something here and this can help lay out those dots where what were seeing after the shootings people are saying, how come nobody caught this . Because the information isnt getting into one place. So now maybe the information can get into this one pool and we can be able to lay it out and see, you know what, these two or three people, theres a problem here, lets look into it and then we can intervene beforehand. That was part of the problem with the recent shooting in florida, if they had been able to be able to link all of that together because there were so many people that were saying that. Thats many of the shootings. Many of the shootings. Evy, thanks so much. George. Thank you, robin. We get to the revelation from Wendy Williams, the talk show host announced shes taking time off to deal with graves disease. Eva pilgrim here with the story. Good morning. Good morning. Wendy williams is known for keeping it pretty real. She was ignoring, though for a long time a real problem. One that shes now being forced to face. Ive been trending regarding what the hellm is going on with wendy. Reporter doing something she never does, taking time off. My thyroid has been totally cattywampus and that is the thing you all have been seeing. My hyper thithyroid is correcte graves disease. Addressing the hot topic of her health saying shell step away to deal with hyperthyroidism and graves disease. My doctor has prescribed, are you ready, as of today three weeks of vacation. I was pissed. Ill be back in two. Im not an heiress. Who is going to pay my bill. Concerns for the hosts health started back in october when this happened. During a live halloween show. People thought i was having a stroke on tv. Reporter williams took only a commercial break to rest before coming back out. That was not a stunt. Reporter she spoke to our amy robach about the incident. Maybe your body was telling you to slow down. Maybe, but thats what the weekend is here for. Graves disease can an autoimmune disorder that causes the production of thyroid protein and i have had patients include fainting. They include fatigue, difficulty sleeping, irritability, weight loss and bulging eyes. Some patients come in having had symptoms for many, many months and are really feeling unwell, exhausted and having them take a break from work is often a very smart idea to help them recover. Reporter williams saying this for her has been a wakeup call. So what i want to say to women more than men is stop putting everyone first because if were not good, theyre not good. Reporter now, this affects 1 in 200. Most are diagnosed between 30 and 50. Wendy is 53 and has been living with these symptoms for quite some time. I have been obsessed with the olympics. 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We have a clearedcc a disabled vehicle and jam on i95 in Delaware County at ridley park. An accident causing restrictions in westtown township, Chester County at pleasant globe road at concord road, crews on the scene with that one. Are you ready for your closeup. Im going to drive around, Atlantic City brigantine connector tunnel is closed for a tv production. Meanwhile, route 42 northbound not too bad. Southbound if youre heading to ac to get into a movie, no delay. Good luck if you want to be in a movie. Reporter chilly day to be shooting a tv show. Chilly day to be doing the tv report. Storm tracker 6 live double scan were in and out of light rain drops, all day well have intermittent light rain and drizzle. 52 in philadelphia. 43 in in allentown. Look at the wind dropping out of the north that will be the call for the day. 42 today at dinnertime. Cloudy cool and damp. Intermittent drizzle and rain tomorrow, 46. 56 on saturday and rain holding off until saturday night. Well send you back to g. M. A. And see you back here for the last update in 30. Ok, youre elbow deep up the business end of a turkey, and were gonna serve sunday dinner off a counter wiped with jasmine sparkle . I got salmonella just thinking about it. Me too. You want clean, get a cleaner with bleach in it. Clorox means clean. Welcome back to gma. We have a great audience with us here on this friday eve. We do. And were all excited. We cant wait to bring out our next guest. She is on the walking dead and amazing audiences in the groundbreaking black panther. Please give it up for danai gurira. [ cheers and applause ] welcome. Thank you. Hi. My queen. My queen. Oh, nice to see you. Chl said right. I said your outfit is on point. Downstairs talking about you. Thats very sweet. A big congrats to you for everything. On this movie. But also a big congrats on a belated birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. It was on valentines day. It was. So how did you celebrate. You know, i did something quite out of the ordinary of the i celebrated it. I had a big party. I had a big party. It was kind of celebrating the film. We are here that week for press anyway so it was just so perfect. Everyone was in town so we had a big to do and it was also connected to the one campaign. My work with them with women and girls and girl education, so we had people do a little advocacy work while they were at the party. Just give it to me. I put makeup on. Take it off. They were trying to do it in a commercial break. You see. Thank you. I mow. Got it. If anyone anyone questioned if it was live tv that was live. Thank you. I appreciate that. I so do. Someone has something in their teeth. Youre all looking at it the whole time. I appreciate that. Just the reaction from people from all walks of life including the former first Lady Michelle obama, what she said about it and saying that no matter your background that you can find something in this and it tells you to be the hero in your own story. So what has it been like for you to experience this kind of reaction from people . Honestly its kind of that thing i was just thinking this morning, the thing where its more you could have asked of, direct of or imagined as the good book says. That feeling, you can never expect it. You work so hard. I loved the vision that ryan had and the platform and putting the story an african story was on. I floateded around after asking me. We gave it everything we had. Because we were so passion naturally committed and you get to the point, heres the baby. Hope you all think its cute. You dont know how people are going to respond to it. You know, so the resonance its had has been like just more than one could ever ask for. Did you have a feeling while you were doing the work. You know, we did because the thing, especially for a lot for all of us in the film we have never seen this and just to be a part of it was so massive but just to see it happen, i was pleased just to know it was happening. To be in it was just the icing. Yeah, but like the idea i grew up on the continent and people, wherever they grew up, ryan in oakland and we yearned for these type of images and hasnt seen diverse perspectives told on a he roaric tale or on a heroic level and havent seen that from the perspective of people that look like us. Fantastic. I have a question from a super fan. That super fan being me. Are we going to see a sequel . I have no information on that whatsoever. Sorry. I artfully say nothing. I like that. Youre giving me a little, i got you. Were joenjoying this one so much and ryan coogler. Lets embrace the moment right now but i love how ryan sent out a thank you letter to all. Yes. Whats been the reaction that you personally have witnessed that moved you. Ive been so moved in so many ways. In london i met Martin Freemans young son who was i was his favorite character that martin whispered to me, hes going to come to you and this little boy just he entwined his hand in mine. His fingers in mine and held on to me so tight and its like this little british young man was so in love with these characters and with this world and it just it shattered any concept that these things cant from one perspective. Right there that was so shattering and he wouldnt let go of me. It was just the most beautiful thing and like being in london again and being in africa just now, i just got back yesterday i was amongst a lot of students, a lot of young women who were, you know, grappling in a moment where theyre trying to love themselves and accept themselves and not always seeing representation of themselves and they would come and what the responsibility we now feel is they come to us for answers. They come to us because they now want to share their struggles with what how we got to a place of confidence in who we are and where were from. And thats what i love about it. Theres a reclaiming taking place thats resonating just now in south africa. I was with a group of students from the African Leadership Academy Students from across the continent, my friend started it and there are students from cape to cairo and all there because they are the best and brightest and get to really explore how they will lead africa in the future and they were all asking me all these questions and theyre looking at me like, you know, help us to really understand the pride in who we are and how we move our continent forward and thats now what the responsibility comes with. Its now we have to have we have to encourage and edify and not believe the lie theyre deficient because theyre different. Or less than. Wow. We are seeing you in action here. Lets see you in the movie. Listen, im doing you guys a favor by letting you be in here. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] does she speak english . When she wants to. Huh. I love this film. [ applause ] when robin and i went to the new York Premiere when you came on the screen, the cheers for your character. I tell you, you are fierce but you are feminine. You are loved in this movie. Youre loved out of this movie. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Black panther, if you have not heard, its in theaters right now so make sure you check it out. Danai gurira, everybody. Coming up, the woman whos helping young girls get incredible opportunities by teaching them how to code. Well be right back. Welcome back. Some of americaswelcome back ss best and brightest here, in central park, temperatures were in the 70s yesterday, look at the all time records, philadelphia, 82. 78 in new york city, 70 for the third time in boston, cold front coming through, winter is back. June will be here before you know it. Heres the local forecast. Reporter hey, rob, rain coming through the region, most of it light and spotty. This is what well be dealing with off and on. As we look at the seven day. Were changing from yesterday falling into the 40s an low 40s by dinnertime. 46 and intermittent rain and drizzle tomorrow. Center for science and engineering found black women held only 2 , 2 of science and engineering jobs in 2015. That drove Kimberly Bryant to create black girls code. Take a look. Lets go. Reporter in the blockbuster film black panther a young female programmer creates the advanced technology in the land of wakanda. My king. Stop it. On the big screen shes played by Leticia Wright inspiring young africanamerican girls to see whats possible. Who are we . Reporter the organization black girls code is tackling the race and gender gap in the science and technology industry. For Kimberly Bryant, former electrical he can near and founder, its personal. My experience in being a woman of color in a maledominated field was something that motivated me to create something that i could change that for my daughter and certainly women that are coming up behind her much younger. My favorite subject is technology and science. Reporter the nonprofit coins itself as the girl scouts of technology. Teaching their participants skills that include learning how to build, code and become creators. When i grow up, im going to be a robotist and create some stuff to help people all around the world. Black girls code makes it possible for young black girls to have as ppirations that go beyond traditional ideas of what black girls are able to do. Were really encouraging them to be their best selves. All black girls code. [ cheers and applause ] joining us now is Kimberly Bryant and the girls from black girls code who have been working. Keep working on your project, girls. Keep working on those projects we see. Theyre putting the finishing touches on and well check if with them in a minute. Bless your heart. Thank you very much. You as a trail blazer andless realizing that your daughter after all those years was going through the same kind of difficulties that you had and this is what inspired you . Absolutely. So, it was very late as my daughter grew up that she started to express this interest in engineering and i never thought she would follow my footsteps but as soon as she expressed this as a goal, i knew i had to do something to make her path a little bit easier than mine was and because it was very difficult. Im sure it was. 7,000, you have now mentored or worked with. Absolutely. 14 chapters. 14 clapters. [ applause ] really try to introduce them to everything that the Technology World has to offer. So that could be robotics, it could be virtual reality. It could be augmented reality. It could be doing things like coding with Electronics Like the girls are doing today. Just whatever the industry has, we want them to be exposed to it. I was struck by the conversation that we had with danai where well check back with her. Her colleague, her colleague, her one of her costars was here last week and character have you all seen black panther yet . Do you remember her character, she was here yesterday and she was talking about, well, girls just like. You take a look. Maybe they can look at this film and see, you know, she loved to use her mind as a weapon to help her nation and be so smart, to create and create gadgets that can change the world and that can be of inspiration to them to say, no, i am smart. I am intelligent. They are smart. They are intelligent. [ applause ] danai, over there, just what you were saying in yes. In the conversation earlier, what do you want to say to these young women. Im so floored and so inspired by you young ladies. It really is just know at all times the world needs you and im so excited that this is happening. I will support this organization to the nth. Were in a world where young ladies and girls are told to hold back from showing their full power and potential and that does the world a massive disservice so im so excited that you are there. That youre doing it. You rock. You are magic. And i am behind you 100 and so should all the rest of the world because we need you. Thank you so much. Amazing. [ applause ] thank you. You are wakandans. Yes, yes. And that is what its all about. So lets hear from them. Ava, what have you been working on. On a guitar made out of little bits and madison has been coding what well play and also the light features on and says gma on it so ill play a little tune you might know called [ applause ] christmastime music. Thank you, ava. What have you been working on over there. Yeah, so right here, a bit bot creating the little bits kit and have the power circuit that gives electricity through the circuit and has bluetooth and use our phone right here. Theres an app called little bits and put it on drive move and just connect it. And, yeah, just drive it around. This goes anywhere you like. Ooh. Yeah. [ applause ] how everybody benefit. Absolutely. I think one of the things thats so special about seeing girls like this, so engaged with technology as creator and exactly the example we saw in the movie is that it changes the paradigm, right . So it changes this dominant narrative about who can be an innovator and thats what this work is all about and thats what was reflected and the future in the movie but were trying to make it here and now. You are making it now with black girls code so, congratulations. Thank you kimberly. Thank you. Thank you very much. This is for you. Oh, why, thank you. Im an honorary member. Im not too good at that but i will try especially with the tune and the gma. Okay. So we thank everybody with the team and coming up, David Arquette is here live. Thank you. [ applause ] im here now with David Arquette. Hes going behind the camera in an important new documentary. Its called survivors guide to prison. Lets take a look. Instead of just throwing everybody that weve decided we cant help into prison. Use the money for Restorative Justice programs, rehabs and social services. There has to be citizen oversight and accountability for all our public servants. [ applause ] and, david, thank you for joining us. Thank you. This is a very this is a powerful film here and a lot of big nape as tached. Youre attached. Quincy jones, busta rhymes. Susan sarandon. Matthew cook is Academy Award nominated documentary maker and broke it down in such a way that you understand it. We have an epidemic, a crisis going on in the prison system right now and it just needs changed. Theres things out there that we know help getting education, if somebody gets a masters in prison there is a zero percent recidivism rate so they do not go back into jail. Thats the goal. To theres a lot of misunderstandings, if you see the film it really explains it and want people, you know education. Able to get better. We the punishment model doesnt work. It doesnt work in raising the kids and within the prison system. We need education and healing and we need to help people understand where, you know, where it comes from and why people are going to prison in the first place. Yeah. I agree. Its a great point. And you also had a chance to work with your wife christina on the film. How was that. It was incredible. Shes the producer on it and just amazing to work with her in that capacity. Shes a journalist and went to nyu and shes just so incredible. She got on this and calling people around. Ive never worked with a producer as incredible as her. Thats a very smart thing to say because its your wife. Yeah, thats true. Thats true. Heres the point when we first started dating shes like where are you. And now shes doing that to like producers. Yeah, lawyers and stuff. You are a father of three kids. You have a teenage daughter, 3yearold and 10 1 2monthold. Its busy. A teenager, a toddler and a kid. We have so much fun. We run around. Its the best. Its so much fun. Yeah, my daughter is 13. Thats a whole thing. There she is right there. Shes doing great and really a sweetheart but i have a dont google daddy clause. I made some mistakes in my past, really bad outfits, other things. Dont google daddy. I kind of like that. I think ill have to apply that in my house as well. This is really something i think a lot of people need to see. Absolutely. And i agree its about education and all those things of people in prison but also of education of people who watch the film and understand more about it. Before i did the film i was for capital punishment. Yeah, if someone murders someone, they should be murdered but what happens is we become the murders. We have to stop the cycle of violence. We to like just reform everything. Understand it differently. 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In norristown we have an accident causing restrictions at dekalb and summit street. Westtown township, an crews there, as well. An accident in voorhees, Camden County is new bowman drive near 73 a busy area. Ac, the brigantine connector tunnel is closed a big tv shoot at 4 00 p. M. , tam. Lets go outside to a man who is famous, david murphy with the accuweather forecast. Reporter no more famous than you, tam. Oh, well, this is not driving rain, but its not everywhere, it is damp with drizzle here and there everywhere. The temperatures have dropped were in the out of the 50s and upper 40s in philadelphia. Dinnertime, 42. Cloudy cooler and damp. Rain and drizzle cloudy and cool tomorrow, 46. 56 on saturday, another round of rain moving in saturday night. Tam. Coming up on action news at noon, the latest on a woman who was shot to death while driving her van on broad street. It was filled with children when the bullets came flying into her side of the vehicle. Well have a live report and see if the woman was targeted or just caught in the crossfire. Live with kelly and ryan is next, im tamala edwards. Have a great thursday announcer its live with kelly and ryan today, from the series divorce, Sarah Jessica parker. And gold winning style snowboarder, chloe kim. And, from the series unreal, shiri appleby. All next on live [cheers and applause] and now, here are kelly ripa and Ryan Seacrest [cheers and applause] ryan looking good. Kelly oh, hi. Ryan whats up, whats up . [cheers and applause]