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The reality show shes setting her sights on as the games come to an end. And good morning, america. Hope youre well this friday morning. Tough night for womens figure skating and, boy, mirai nagasu getting heat for that interview. She said she was using that performance you see right there as an audition for dancing with the stars. Thats a little unusual answer to the question she was asked and amy will talk about that. That is ahead. We begin with that alarming revelation from florida authorities about that school shooting. Abcs Victor Oquendo has the latest. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, robin. The sheriff here not mincing words saying that School Resource deputy clearly knew there was a shooting going on and he failed to act. This morning, the stunning admission from the sheriffs office, the armed deputy assigned to protect Stoneman Douglas high school in parkland responded to the mass shooting yesterday but failed to take action. The sheriff saying he watched the moment play out on surveillance video. What i saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of building 12 take up a position and he never went in. Reporter instead sheriff israel says Deputy Scot Peterson waited outside for four minutes. Was he there when the shooter was still in the building . Yes, he was. Sewn dough what should he have done . Went in, addressed the killer, killinged the killer. Reporter the 54yearold seen here addressing a School Board Meeting in 2015 worked at the school for the last nine years. Im Scot Peterson. Ive been a Police Officer for 30 years. Ive been a School Resource officer for 25 years. Reporter in 2014 awarded as School Resource officer of the year, commending peterson as reliable in handling issues with tact and judgment now facing suspension without pay, the veteran deputy opting to resign and retire. Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words. I mean, these families lost their children. We lost coaches. You dont think about at school this stuff happening but when it does i feel like you need to be able to act on that and act as a Police Officer. Reporter and this morning another missed red flag. There was a fight in my house with a kid and my son. Reporter just months before the parkland shooting frightening 911 calls made multiple times by the family who had taken in suspected shooter nikolas cruz shortly after his mother died. And hes going to get his weapon right now. So now hes pissed off so and hes going to get the gun. Reporter you can hear that woman saying he bought a gun, tons of ammo and put that gun to peoples head in the past. Nikolas cruzs next Court Hearing is set for next tuesday. We know some teachers and Staff Members are expected back on campus today. Reporter some of them will be coming back on campus Offering Support Services for them. Classes set to resume next wednesday on a modified schedule, robin. Thank you. Michael. Thank you, robin. The National Rifle association weighing in saying one of the ways to stop Future School shootings is have more armed guards in school and tom llamas is here with more. Good morning, tom. Good morning to you. More than a week after that horrific shooting the nations biggest and most powerful gun lobby the nra is responding with a major address on what happened in parkland and telling supporters when it comes to protecting school, more gun, not less, is whats needed. The nra launching a publicity counteroffensive claiming gun control advocates are exploiting the tragedy. They want to sweep right under the carpet the failure of school security, the failure of family, the failure of americas Mental Health system and even the unbelievable failure of the fbi. Reporter the nra chief addressing supporters and gop members at cpac, the annual conservative conference. The whole idea from some of our opponents that Armed Security makes us less safe is completely ridiculous. Evil walks among us. And god help us if we dont harden our schools and protect our kids. Reporter and specifically calling out democrats. Cheered on by the National Media eager to blame the nra and call for even more government control, they hate the nra. They hate the second amendment. They hate individual freedom. Reporter nra spokeswoman dana loesch defending the gun lobbying group. We will not be gaslighted into thinking we are responsible for a tragedy that we had nothing to do with. Reporter and this baseless claim that many in which she calls the legacy media actually love mass shootings. You guys love it. Now, im not saying that you love the tragedy, but i am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you. Reporter the nra advocating for more firearms inside of schools. They all must come together to implement the very best strategy to harden their schools including effective trained Armed Security. Reporter jim gard who helped protect his students says guns in schools is not the solution. That would just be way over the top. This is not, you know, stoneman prison. This is a high school. Reporter all right, the nations two largest teachers unions have come out publicly against the idea of Arming Teachers. The press of the american med race of teachers said in a statement, no amount of training can prepare an armed teacher to go up against an ar15. Michael. What was the reaction in the room as theyre making those speeches . It was a quiet reaction first with the executive director but by the end the crowd was cheering him and got a lot of applause and the spokeswoman who had powerful statements got a lot of applause as well. Powerful statements but wrong statements. We do not do this for ratings. That was a baseless claim. Baseless. Okay, guys, at the white house yesterday President Trump echoed the nra line coming out for Arming Teachers and against active shooter drills. I think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know that there are people in the building with gun, you wont have in my opinion shootings because theyre cowards. If im a child and im 10 years old and they say, were going to have an active shooter drill. Well, people may come in and shoot you, i think thats a very negative thing to be talking about to be honest with you. Cecilia vega for more on this and the president has been in close contact with the nra. Reporter yeah, george, the white house says he spoke over the weekend with the nras top lobbyist and the president is very muching choing the same language the nra uses on this one saying that he would like to see our schools hardened and that would deter a shooter from showing up, if, in fact, they know someone on campus is armed. Not a lot of details on what the president is looking for. He says between 10 to 40 of all School Employees would qualify to handle a weapon. He is not saying all teachers here. Hes essential ly trained, perhaps exmilitary. Certain highly adept people and saying they should receive some kind of extra pay or bonus as incentive to sign up for this training. You heard tom there say the largest teacher organizations are adamantly opposed to this. This is not what being a teacher is about but something that the president is very much backing. And also, george, you mentioned the president s talking about those active shooter drills saying hes opposed to them. The white house later came out to clarify what he meant. They say hes not opposed to the drills. He is opposed to calling them active shooter drills. He prefers the term safety drill, george. Hard to believe this proposal to arm teachers is going to go very far in congress right now but the president also trying to persuade the nra to agree to raising that age for the ability to purchase an assault weapon and also continuing to push bump stock bans. Reporter yeah, and he says he doesnt expect to have to go up against the nra. He called them patriots, good people, spoke out in high favor, high praise of the nra but they are resisting that age increase, george. Cecilia vega, thanks very much. George, to new developments in the russia investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filing new charges against former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, rick gates. Pierre thomas has those details and there in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right, manafort and gates facing new charges, more evidence that the special counsel is turning up the heat in this investigation. The new 32count indictment filed last night accusing manafort and gates of tax evasion and bank fraud in a series of alleged crimes beyond the previous charges of Money Laundering brought last october to which they pleaded not guilty. The alleged scheme secretly funneling 75 million into offshore accounts including cyprus and failing to pay taxes on 30 million of it. Much came from ukrainian politicians with close tie to the kremlin and some took place while both men worked for the Trump Campaign. According to investigators, the alleged scheme allowed manafort and gates to live lavish lifestyles. A total of a half a Million Dollars spent on clothing in Beverly Hills. 200,000 allegedly spent on four range rovers and more than 800,000 of alleged landscaping spending. Overnight a spokesman for manafort released a statementing saying hes confident he will be acquitted on all the charges including the new ones. We did not hear from gates, but he has been in negotiations for a possible plea deal and these new charges will only increase the pressure, george. Okay, lets talk to dan abrams about that. Thank you, pierre. Laetsz start out with new charges right now. You saw manafort there say he believes he will be acquitted. If not faces effectively the rest of his life in prison. You go from facing, lets say, about a decade to possibly decades as a result of new charges. These relate to lying to the banks and lying on your taxes. Basically saying, you know all that other stuff we mentioned in the previous indictment, that all existed and as part of that, an extension of that was lying on their taxes about it, lying to the banks about mortgages, et cetera, and thats what the additional charges are. These new charges dramatically increase the pressure on him. Absolutely. Look, typically when charges are filed it means that the conversations broke down. That the possible agreement isnt happening. You dont know thats the case here. They certainly still could reach a deal for Something Like that. But the fact that these charges have been filed absolutely increases the heat on both manafort and gates to offer information, remember, when you say cut a deal, it it means that the prosecutor wants something from them. Its not just lets avoid a trial. Its lets make a deal so you can provide us with information. Thats what gets you to higherups. Who could, either of them, give up in a possible deal. Exactly right. More on that to come. Thanks very much. Now to that flooding across the midwest and new concerns as more rain moves in. Rivers are already rising forcing people from their homes and leading to those dramatic rescues. Alex perez is in elkhart, indiana, where theyve declared a state of emergency. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning. There are actually two rivers that meet in this area. Residents have been scrambling. Take a look. This is what a huge chunk of this neighborhood looks like. The water is just not receding quickly enough. This morning, a united flight skidding off the runway in green bay, wisconsin, passengers rushed off the plane in the freezing rain while rising floodwaters endangering millions. The rivers so high hundreds of people now evacuating. Im heartbroken i cant stay there and try to save it but i mean you cant fight what theyre doing either. Reporter much of Michigan State universitys campus completely submerged. The steadily rising waters forcing many rescues including a Police Officer in washington county, pennsylvania. The top of his patrol car barely visible. Animals too needing help. Drenched horses in indiana led through neck deep water to safety. Down in texas, these homes are now left with water on their doorsteps. Backyards turned into ponds. Everything in the backyard is just kind of like gone. Reporter and the st. Joseph river has crested, but more rain is on the way and its expected to remain at major flood stage through the weekend. Robin. All right, thank you, alex. And now were going to go to the olympics and disappointment for the american figure skaters. The women falling short while a 15yearold russian dazzled the crowd taking home gold. Amy is in south korea with more. Good morning to you, amy. Hey, good morning. The athletes from russia taking the top two spots and it was a tough day on the ice for team usa. The americans failing to medal but 24yearold mirai nagasu making headlines for what she had to say after her performance. Russia dominated the night in womens figure skating winning gold and silver. Triple toe loop. Reporter the americans left disappointed. Mirai nagasu failed to take off on her famed triple axel finishing in tenth place. Her crown jewel of this program. Sliding off the takeoff only managing a waltz jump. Reporter but appeared to take it in stride saying she was smiling during her performance because she was thinking of it as an audition for dancing with the stars. Nagasu remarked i would like to be on dancing with the stars because i am a star. She spoke to yahoo about the possibility of sharing the dancing stage with adam rippon. I hope ill be there with him. Ive never gotten an opportunity to compete against adam but i would love that opportunity and i would go orange for dancing with my spray tan. Who would win between you and adam on dancing with the stars . I guess well have to find out. Come on. Reporter a major win for the mers in an unexpected sport, curling. Usa snapping the canadians 12year gold medal streak. With american curling history. Reporter sending the americans to the finals set to face off against top ranked sweden. And the womens hockey team still fresh off that heartstopping victory over team canada finally taking home the gold for the first time in 20 years. Does the gold medal feel different than the silver. A lot different. A lot different. So special. What an honor. Its been an amazing journey for our team and yesterdays game was just fantastic so were so proud and just cant wait to get home and celebrate with america. I also asked the ladies if they were as nervous as i was during the penalty shots and they told me that they felt bad for their parents and for families and fans like me because they knew how stressful it was but they said they were confident and they knew they had it all along so i was pretty impressed by that. Team usa in fourth place with 21 medal, 8 gold. Norway still in that top spot with 36 medals. 13 of them are gold. Guy, going to send it back to you now. Wow. Amy, youre gonna miss it being there and are you ready to come home soon . I am ready to come home. If you looked at my instagram today i actually took a screen shot of its time to check in for your flight, so, yes, im very happy to see my family. And all of you. We have more reporting for you but youve done a fantastic job. Everybody there. Just a little more to go. To rob with more on that flooding. Maybe the Winter Olympics but springlike floodin springlike flooding continues in plymouth, i understand cran in cran indiana, arkansas, all these rivers in red are flooding. The watch watch flood watches c. 4, 5 inches of rain. Theres Severe Weather components of this late on saturday, as well. Time for the weekend getaways. Reporter hey are everybody weve got rain out there, intermittent, northern suburbs about to get more in about 45 minutes. In and around philadelphia and points to the south, fairly wet on the roads. As we look outside, its cloudy and cool. Theres Talen Energy Stadium. Construction getting set for the home opener, first week of march. 46 is the high, cloudy cool rain and drizzle. 48 degrees, cloudy rain in the afternoon saturday. Missouri is indicted. Well have his response this morning. Also coming up, did kylie jenner tank snapchat with a single tweet . Ill tell you all about it. 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We have an accident involving a school bus, no kids on the school bus, a vehicle is faces sideways in front of the school bus. Schuylkill expressway eastbound left ramp blocked, were seeing delays on the schuylkill expressway the 39 minute drive eastbound. The delays have spilled on to the vine street expressway. Youre jammed trying to get on the schuylkill expressway, the schuylkill expressway is jammed because of the multivehicle accident eastbound on the onramp from 30th street. You see ten miles on the eastbound on the vine, 11 on the schuylkill expressway. The vine and the schuylkill expressway jammed with the big accident, tam. Thank you, karen, well take a break and come back to your accuweather. Treatment options shouldnt be. Meet with a ctca cancer specialist in philadelphia, in as little as 24 hours. Learn more at cancercenter. Com appointment youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe its time to be your own . 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The other headlines were following, an investigation is under way after this massive fire broke out in los angeles on thursday. Tearing through an apartment building. The flames started on the third floor then spread forcing about 300 residents to evacuate. Three people suffered minor injuries. And ivanka trump arrived in south korea earlier today for the olympics closing ceremony. Her arrival broadcast live on television there. Shell reportedly dine with south koreas president tonight. Well talk to amy about the olympics coming up. That sex scandal rocking missouri first. Governor Eric Greitens has been indicted accused of trying to blackmail a former lover by threatening to release a photo he took and linsey davis has the story. Reporter the former navy s. E. A. L. And married father of two was arrested yesterday after a grand jury found probable cause that the missouri governor had broken a state law, taking a seminude photo of a woman without her permission. The governor of the show me state is in hot water this morning. On thursday a grand jury indicted Eric Greitens charging him with invasion of privacy alleging the missouri governmenter, the defendant, knowingly photographed his mistress in a state of full or partial nudity without the knowledge and content of her and youloaded it in a way that allowed access via a computer. But if you believe missouri needs to change direction reporter in january greitens who is married with two children, ran for election on a platform of family values. Most importantly i am a very proud husband and father. Reporter he admitted to having an affair with his hairdresser back in march of 2015 before running for governor. This was a consensual relationship. Reporter but greitens denies claims made by his mistress and her exhusband that greitens bound her hands, blindfolded her and took a partially nude photo of her to use as blackmail to keep her silent. There was no blackmail, there was no violence. The mistake that i made was that i was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who wasnt my wife and its a mistake for which i am deeply sorry. Greitens was released thursday without having to post bond. His lawyer says he plans to file a motion to dismiss the charges. Factual question at the heart of this, did he take the photo . Do prosecutors have it . Did he take the photo . Was it without her concept then did he transmit it via a computer. If he just took the photo and didnt transmit meaning you have to have been nude in the photo without concept, but if he didnt send it that would be a misdemeanor. If he sent it via a computer that turns night a felony. But what if he took the photo, didnt send it but told her if you say anything that could be a different kind of crime. So hes not being charged here with blackmail, extortion, et cetera. This is the invasion of privacy law under in missouri law which basically says taking photo, partial or full nudity without consent and transmitting it via computer. Is there any way wed be seeing this kind of indictment if they didnt have the photo . I dont think so. Its interesting because hes not answering the question of did you take a photo or not. You have to believe that they have a photo but this all came from which is so fascinating her exhusband recording a conversation with her, missouri being a oneparty state with regard to recording a conversation so recording that conversation by exhusband was legal and thats what sort of led to all this information coming out and the reason theyre doing it now today is because this is a threeyear statute of limitations. This happened allegedly in march of 2015. The statute of limitations would be expiring within about a month. He could face jail time if convicted but often you see with politicians they reach deals where if you leave office theyll drop the charges. I think i dont know that hes going to do that. I think that i think that if there were a deal made here, it would be try to make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony which fundamentally changes the kind of time youre facing behind bars. Thanks very much. Michael. Thank you, george. Now to that new fallout for snapchat, the app thats popular with teens recently underwent a redesign that left many users unhappy including kylie jenner. A single tweet from the reality star did not help the company stock. Rebecca jarvis is here and, rebecca, that tweet wiped out more than a billion dollars in value. Unbelievable, right, michael. Snapchat has 187 million daily active users, many of them between the ages of 18 and 24 years old and when the queen of snap herself, kylie jenner, speaks or posts or tweets, you can bet theyre listening. This morning it turns out wall street is listening too. I dont know what its like to live a normal life. Reporter shes the 20yearold multimillionaire makeup mogul who presighs over a social media empire. Documents almost every aspect of her life on instagram and snapchat. In order to like stay relevant for the public i have to be on instagram and i have to be on snapchat. Reporter but this morning, the life of kylie left it plummeting thanks to her one tweet to her 24. 5 million followers. So does anyone else not open snapchat anymore . Or is it just me . This is so sad. In the hours following her tweet shares fell more than 6 thursday. Wiping out more than a billion dollars in value. Oh, snap. The backlash coming on the heels of a major redesign on the platform announced by evan spiegel, the billionaire snapchat cofounder and ceo married to supermodel miranda kerr. One complaint we heard from social media photos and videos from your friends are mixed in with content from publishers and creator and your friend arent content, theyre relationships. Thats why today were separating the social from the media and reorganizing it around your relationships to make it more personal. Reporter those changes leaving some users fuming complaining the redesign is confusing and harder to use. Even inspiring a change. Org petition to remove the new update garnering more than a million signatures. A snapchat spokesperson telling abc news our goal with the recent redesign is to make snapchat more personal for everyone. This new foundation is just the beginning, and we will always be grateful for any feedback from our community as we roll out new products. Wild to see how much impact an off the cuff tweet can have. Kylie tweeted ten minutes later, still love you, though, snap. My first love. The stock is up 20 . I got to stoch you. You believe it was off the cuff . I do. I actually i actually i think that probably she thought this might have an impact but she didnt recognize it would have an impact on the stock. We saw evan spiegel in the piece trying to give directions. What can you tell us about the changes . Hes committed to the changes as they are right now but there are some new features theyre rolling out that should make it easier to find friends stories. One interesting point. He says the Biggest Issue that people have raised in this to him is that they used to feel like a celebrity was my friend and now they dont feel like their friend anymore. He says, exactly. Theyre not your friend. Wow. Okay. Kylie is not your friend. Breaking a lot of hearts. A lot of hearts right now, rebecca. Thanks, guys. Coming up well take you to the front line of the fight against the flu. By perfectly Healthy People being affected with the virus. Well explain. Come on back. Life goes on, yes, life goes on. 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For myself and then for young children. Reporter nih using its special studies unit where it treated ebola patients paying patients 3500 to get the flu and be quarantined for ten days. What are you helping the researchers accomplish. It may sound crazy but hopefully one day we have stronger medication or just hopefully a cure. If youre going to need to wear a marv and gloves. This is it. This is the dose of virus in the bag. Reporter for the patients, a nasal spray. Im going to give you a spray in each nostril. Reporter containing the virus. Number 4. Reporter which caused the 2004 pandemic. 24 hours later she is feeling sick. I had an itchy throat last night. Some patients getting a drug containing a new antibody to see if it can prevent them from getting sicker. At the same time were trying to learn about what parts of the immune system are needed to protect people against the flu in order to make a better universal vaccine. Reporter a universal vaccine, the holy grail. Each year the flu virus changes a bit. But some parts of the virus stay the same. If researchers find a way to attack that part, they could make a universal vaccine which you wouldnt need every year. What has this flu season taught us . That with regard to vaccines, we need to do better. Reporter emily and marcus are trying to help this morning by fighting the flu for science. And they are monitoring emily and marcus, thats part of the test, they actually have cameras in the room so they can see how theyre feeling. There is progress being made on a vaccine, robin. A universal vaccine, they say could be 10 or 15 years away but that means only one shot or even maybe something else. And i understand that an old treatment is making a comeback. Reporter i was hinting at that. Remember the parents, instead of getting the shot for the children like that nasal spray. A couple of years ago they didnt think it was working properly. The drugmaker has now improved it and have the recommendation back and we will probably see the nasal sprays back next year as we continue this annual flu until we get to the u. S. Universal vaccine. Some parents are saying, yes, as long as it is effective and that seems like it is the case. You didnt want to be infected with the flu. You want to report on it but dont want to be a participant. You got it. Exactly. Yeah. Wise man. Wise man. Coming up, why one small illinois village is being swept up in the black panther fever. Oh, manatees. Aka the sea cow oh theres one. Manatees in novelty ts . Surprising. Whats come at me bro . Its something you say to a friend. Whats not surprising . How much money matt saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. and i heard that my cousins so, wifes sisters husband was a lawyer, so i called him. 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But, still down to 10 by the time you see it today. So, wakanda is a fictional country in africa full of wonder and beauty and pride and technology. People wish they could go there. Well, stra, i can take you today. Please. But we have to go outside of chicago. Its about 40 miles outside of chicago. Spelled differently but thats wauconda, illinois with calls yelling wakanda forever. Its a town of 14,000 people. It looks different from the one in the movie. What are they hiding there. No vibranium there. Great restaurants so hopefully it will bring more people into the town of wauconda because were a magical kingdom. We wont shove away any people that want to learn about it. Wauconda is a little town but nice to be on the big screen again. If you think about going there, wakanda is a fictional country in africa. Wauconda. Illinois, has a population of 1 black. So headsup if you go. Need to be aware of these things, all right. T. J. , thank you. So enlightening, man. 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The accident i talked about on the schuylkill expressway eastbound near the vine has cleared. Its good news because it created a delay that was starting to spill back on the ben. Its jammed approaching the mid span 8th an vine. Its a damp and dreary ride in, weve had a a couple of accidents recently. Theres one on the turnpike westbound approaching Fort Washington speeds 34 Miles Per Hour although off to the shoulder its slowing you down, nonetheless. Mullica hill, 322 this accident blocks a lane, tam. Lets look live auto across philadelphia international, another gray dreary day for the umbrella, david murphy. Reporter light rain and drizzle on the terrace. Im out for a couple of minutes, so i didnt bother with the umbrella. The rain falling is in the lighter shade of green. We have dark stuff along the border of pennsylvania and south jersey and into delaware. The terms are chilly to temperatures are chilly to start out. In the 30s in most spots. Going for a lateday high of 46. Cloudy all the way. Intermittent rain and drizzle. Tomorrow, clouds and rain possible during the day, a milder high of 58. In the evening hours steadier rain building in into sunday morning. A massive fire destroyed 25 buses in the parkland School District in the Lehigh Valley. The district has canceled classes for the day. No reports of injuries, but a lot of questions how this was started. Thats it right now, robin promised us a feelgood story. Its coming up this hour on g. M. A. Well see you in 30. Smiling sparkles. How do they clean the toilet, grin at it . laughs stop laughing. The stomach flu is not funny. Get a cleaner with bleach in it. Good, you can smile now. Clorox means clean. Good morning, america. Its 8 00 a. M. Alarming revelations about the high school massacre. The sheriff says his armed deputy was there on campus when the gunman opened fire but did nothing to help. Plus, more missed warning signs now coming to light. Hazing warning. The parents of those two young men who lost their lives now sharing a message for all parents. To could be anybodys child that this happened to. How theyre trying to make sure it never happens again. Brendan fraser says me too. The harassment he says he faced at the hands of a hollywood executive and how he says it hurt his career. His story this morning. Plus, a miracle chance to dance. The 17yearold who thought her dancing career was over. Her scoliosis so severe she could barely walk. How she beat the odds and on this feel good friday we say, good morning, america. Youre going to hear me roar and good morning, america. We hope you feel good this friday. Uhhuh and we cant wait to surprise a certain young lady right there. She doesnt know this, but dancing with the stars star mark ballas is here. Thats right, mark. Shh. Just for her, too. Why are we whispering . Hes here because hes anastasias favorite and the big reason she is back on the dance floor, she has no idea whats coming up. Shes going to be happy. We need a feelgood story like this. Oh, yeah. We have those new details, though, about the plus school shooting. A Deputy Sheriff was on the scene and reportedly did nothing. So lets go back to Victor Oquendo. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, robin. This is a stunning revelation. The sheriff says this deputy clearly knew there was a shooting but he failed to take action. Sheriff scott israel says Scot Peterson who was supposed to protect the students responded to the mass shooting but did not enter the building, instead waiting outside for four minutes while the shooting was taking place, facing suspension he resigned and then retired. The sheriff saying he is devastated and sick to his stomach. Meanwhile, were learning about even more red flags. 911 calls made multiple times by a family who had taken in the suspected shooter, nikolas cruz, shortly after his mother died and in those calls you can hear a woman saying there was a fight, that cruz was going to get his gun which is put to problems heads in the past. Nikolas cruzs next Court Hearing set for next tuesday. Meanwhile, this morning were seeing a number of Staff Members here at the school returning to campus. Classes are set to resume on a modified schedule next wednesday. Robin. I know counseling will be made available for them, victor. Lets bring in cecilia vega for more on this and, cecilia, the president doubling down on this call to arm teachers in schools. Reporter yeah, george, he says as many as 40 of School Employees could qualify to bring these guns to school campuses. Now, hes not saying all teachers at all schools but people with special training and understand weapons and says that they could receive extra pay or a bonus as incentive to bring these guns to schools. Take a listen to what he told a group of florida lawmakers what youre seeing right there on your screen yesterday here at the white house. I think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know that there are people in the building with guns, you wont have in my opinion you wont have these shootings because these people are cowards. Reporter the nations largest teachers organizations have slammed this idea saying this is not what being an educator is all about. The white house this morning is also saying that a possible ban on semiautomatic rifles like the ar15 that that parkland shooter used is not under consideration. Nra is against that as well. Cecilia vega, thanks very much. Thank you, george. Now to Oprah Winfrey addressing 20 20 rumors about running for president on jimmy kimmel live. He asked her about that so will she or wont she . Oprah said no and heres her reason why. I am the kind of person who tries to listen to signs. Am i supposed to run the country . I dont think so. So i feel like you already ran the country for about 15 years. Well, great response by jimmy. You can tell the audience their reaction when she said it and despite oprah saying she didnt want to run the country there are a lot of supporters out there who wont take no for an answer and she blames this on stedman. At the Golden Globes he said Something Like up to the people, absolutely could do it and so people caught wind of that. He said he was misquoted but you know what got some explaining to do. She made it very clear. Coming up an Important Message from the parents who lost their children to hazing sitting down with you, michael, and what they want other families to know. 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Ive also got some ideas on a better cereal selection, which i will keep to myself. Experience netflix on the 100 fiberoptic network made for streaming switch to fios and get a year of netflix on us with a twoyear agreement. Welcome back to gma. Welcome back to gma, everybody. We have an incredible audience with us today and, robin, you have some people. [ applause ] i want to go one mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi. Wonderful. From picayune. Thank you all for being here. [ cheers and applause ] we got 11 mississippis over there. Thats what we got. Thank you to everybody for joining us on this friday morning and you know what, everybody is excited because it is time for pop news, lara spencer. [ applause ] lets do this. Who wants to know who is performing at the oscars this year . [ cheers and applause ] im telling you right now, so the five oscar nominated songs will be showcased including remember me from coco being performed by come on. Laforcata. Natalia, i owe you one and miguel will sing that. Mary j. Blige will sing and nominated also for her performance in that movie. This guy, love you, common and audra day will perform stand up for something. This is me from the greatest showman will also be performed at the 90th academy awards. Well be there to bring it all to you. March 4th, 8 00 p. M. Eastern, 5 00 p. M. Pacific right here on abc. I brought it home, rob. You did. You finished strong. Yes, thank you. Another one here, a major milestone for a member of our family, general hospital. The soap opera will air its 14,000th episode today. Guy, just to put this in context, i mean, most shows have giant celebrations if they make it to 100 episodes. 14,000 episodes. We first met the folks of port charles in 1963 and, of course, one of the most watched episodes was luke and lauras wedding. 30 Million People tuned in. [ applause ] oh, the dream of those ratings. Bet you didnt know more americans watched luke and laura tie the knot than charles and diana. Thats how obsessed we were with them and also the show. We congratulate you, general hospital. Yes, we do. [ applause ] and more news i used to actually schedule my College Classes around the schedule of that and all my children. Would not have a class during that time. Totally understand. You know you still do. And you know more celebrity news. Another celeb getting into the alcohol business. Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds is taking a shot at Aviation American Gin saying were excited to announce our new boss, Ryan Reynolds, actor, producer, professional goodlooking person and ryan responded and said in the long and in no way disastrous marriage of showbiz and alcohol. So happy to announce im the proud owner of a gin Company Following in the footsteps of george clooney. Half a billion dollars. Thank you. [ applause ] so, its friday and time for the weekend. Wouldnt a get outaway to this place be terrific . Tommy hilfigers groovetastic mansion is on the market. No takers for this pad. It is so cool. Austin powers could only dream of a place like this. A private beach and funkiest home theater i have ever seen. Look at that room. I mean, i would watch gma in that room every morning. And the guest room, guy, all have scratch and sniff wallpaper. No. Why, you ask . I do not know. Ask tommy. Look at that room. So he bought the place in 2013. I know the question, robin. He bought it for 17. 25. He put it on the market at 27. 5. Not so much the current price is now the bargain price of 23 million. But, guys, eye candy. Friday eye candy for you. Scratch and sniff, yeah. Does it come furnished . Why . You going to call . No. I mean, i kind of think you cant take the furnish tu out of that now. Its pretty cool. I thought a little eye candy. Loy of a little real estate. Happy friday, everybody. [ applause ] thank you. Moving on, this time Brendan Fraser with a me too story the star of the mummy series. Eva pilgrim here with his story. Good morning. Brendan fraser joining the me too Movement Opening up about allegedly being sexually assaulted. Its something that took him almost 15 years to talk about. This morning, Brendan Fraser speaking publicly for the first time saying a Hollywood Foreign press Association Member sexually assaulted him. Fraser the star of the mummy and george of the jungle was one of the hottest actors of the late 90s and early 2000s but his career came crashing to a stop. Fraser opening up to gq explaining in part why he disappeared saying i became depressed after he alleged philip berk, the former president of the Foreign Press association inappropriately touched him saying it made me retreat, it made me feel reclewsive. He said berk grabbed him inappropriately in 2003 at a lunch at the Beverly Hills hotel. Fraser saying he was overcome with panic and fear. I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought i was going to cry. He describes this along with other personal issues with getting a divorce and his mother dying with why he vanished. Reporter mr. Berk says mr. Frasers version is a total fabrication but did write a letter apologizing at the time. My apology admitted no wrongdoing. The usual if ive done anything to upset mr. Fraser, it was not intended and i apologize. He insists it wasnt important. He didnt mean to do it and wrote about it in his memoirs. What pushed him to come forward, watching the Golden Globes as he looked at all the men and women dressed in black standing in solidarity fraser saying, at the time he didnt have the courage to speak up. Am i still frightened . Absolutely. Do i feel like i need to Say Something . Absolutely. Have i wanted to many, many times . Absolutely. And fraser has been back in front of the camera working on parts in the tv series the affair as well as texas rising so it looks like hes making some changes. Thank you, eva. Thanks so much. Now for that Important Message from the parents of two young men, tim piazza and max gruver who lost their lived in alleged hazing incidents and their parents trying to stop what happened to them from happening to anyone else and recently had a chance to sit down together. The past year has been filled with unthinkable grief for the gruver and piazza families. Both mouring the sudden deaths of their sons due to alleged hazing at their college father trerp fraternities. How has it been for you, the last year. Awful. I never bothered to do his laundry. The hamper is still in his room from college. Ill go in there and ill hug a sweatshirt. You just keep getting by and going day by day. We have two other kids and, you know, were trying to get back to some sort of normal with them and maxs birthday was just a couple of weeks ago and that was really hard on all of us. Reporter in 2017 penn state freshman tipton was found unconscious after apparently falling head first down a flight of stairs. No one called for help for 12 hours and seven months later, lsu freshman max gruver not even one month into school was allegedly forced to drink 190 proof grain alcohol. His blood alcohol level was six times the legal limit when he died. Charges have been filed in both cases, but are unresolved. It was a tragedy that brought your families together. Something that every parents worst nightmare. But how has it been to find friendship in this time . We feel the pain any time another parent feels what we felt and i know when we read the story about max, we felt an immediate connection with the family and wanted to meet them. To have this friendship help you all kind of cope with the loss that you all share. Oh, absolutely. It really helped us through a lot of the pain to understand some of it that someones actually gone through and shared a similar experience. These were two great kids, kids that just wanted to be amongst friends and make people happy and it could be anybodys child. For the first time this weekend the families are uniting with other parents to create meaningful change. Were getting together with a group of other families that have lost children and our objective that we all share is to talk about stiffer legislation throughout the country, how do we deal with the national from terns and the universities throughout the country and how do we provide a support group for others dealing with this. Do you hope to make this an annual thing. I dont know if annual is enough. I hope we continue to communicate amongst ourselves and have an action plan when we leave there, things to do for people to take actionable items on. And get together whenever we need to. How difficult is it to make changes on these College Campuses when it comes to Something Like this. The challenge is extraordinary. The only way were going to see change is if we have parents like the gruvers and piazzas come together and make the change themselves. Thats exactly what theyre doing. The gruvers are working on legislative reform. Right now most states treat hazing as a misdemeanor crime but they want to see this punishable with a felony charge. Currently the law in louisiana is up to 30 days in jail and up to 100 fine. Theyve got laws on the books for if you have too many chickens on your property. 500 fine, six months in jail. Its not a deterrent the way the law is written right now. Reporter on wednesday lsus task force on greek life came out with recommendations including a drugfree policy for fraternities. Bans on hard alcohol and a membership contract which includes a code of conduct. The gruvers say these suggestions are, quote, disgraceful and offered no real meaningful change to greek life that would have prevented the death of our son. There are a lot of parents who have kids going to college and pledge a sorority or fraternity. Have them stick together. Make sure they have somebody have their back. Have them report it if they feel it doesnt feel right. If it doesnt feel right its not right. Strength in numbers will help each one of them and take care of each other. If they know something is going bad or feel bad they need to end it right there. I want to thank you for coming in here and talking to me and sharing your story and our hearts and prayers are with you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And the wounds are still really fresh for these families. They researched the fraternities that their sons were going to pledge and all things online were great. It said good thing stressing education and no hazing policy but there were complaints that werent addressed online that they did not see that now come forward and i think, you know, this is something that every parent and every kid needs to be aware of. And think they should be included when from terpss are talking about all the good they need to be more transparent. Thats what the parents are asking for. Theyre asking for more transparency. They want the honest part to come out so these kis know this is how these things are conducted. These are some of the things that have been been complained about in the past. If its something you want to do you have to make smart decisions. Stick together. If something is not right, stick together and say im not going to do that and they had two kids seemed like normal really good kids who just had one situation that ended their lives. Got to be so hard to relive this but they are going to make a difference by speaking out. I really believe it because they say theyll going to make a when times are tough, nothing more soothing than taking your dog for a walk. Look at the size of this dog, look at the size of the branch you talk about the ultimate game of fetch there. Its going to be a Beautiful Day in atlanta 77 degrees. Time for the local forecast, check it out. Reporter a lot cooler an damp around here, temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Rain coming through, the northern suburbs are getting the bulk of it, where the Southern Suburbs had it earlier. We have cloudy skies, Talen Energy Stadium home to the Union Opening up in march saturday night. Wet down there, maybe too wet for soccer. 46 is the high, tomorrow, 58. Intermittent rain through the day, steadier rain at night into sunday morning. Lara, its friday, baby. I know. Lets do it. The women of team usa are seeing big success at the winter games this year winning the majority of americas medals so far so lets go back to our gold medalist, amy robach, who is there. Shell tell us about these golden girls. Good morning again, amy. Hey, good morning again to you. Robin. You know i love a good girl power story and pyeongchang is the place to be for that because u. S. Women are on top. Our female athletes dominating the medal stands at this olympics. At this years Winter Games Team usas golden girls leading the way winning five gold medals in pyeongchang. Jamie andersons highflying tricks giving her the slopestyle gold and taking home the siller have in the first ever big air competition. First woman to bring home two gold medals in snowboarding. To what do you attribute your success. Hard work and dedication we can do anything. Chloe kim, the 17yearold snowboarding superstar shining brightly on the halfpipe. What separates you from others. Everyone has their own style. How would you describe yours. I think im a pretty chill gal. Reporter while the men fell short of medal contention the american womens hockey team on top once again. She scores. Reporter dethroning team canadas 20year reign. Were hoping we inspired the next generation to whatever it is they aspire to do to do it at their best and be strong in doing it. Reporter on the slopes, Mikaela Shiffrin speeding straight into first place in the giant slalom. Also adding a silver in the alpine combined to her medal collection inspiring the next generation of american athletes. The ladies are rocking it. Yeah, its pretty cool, isnt it . Its amazing. And also to think that youre inspiring so many young girls back at home who are watching. Are you aware of that . Do you think about that at all . Hopefully im inspiring people, not just young girls at home but the women have been performing very, very well and thats so exciting to be a part of that. Of the 21 medals team usa has won so far, 14 of them have been won by american women, guys. Back to you. All right. Safe travels home, amy. Good morning 8 27 a. M. , friday, february 23. Im tamala edwards. Lets check the traffic, go over to karen starting on 42. Reporter its wet in deptford, turnersville. You can see the gray on 42 northbound traffic heavy an 18 minute scram from the ac expressway to 295. We had an accident that cleared on trooper road at egypt road. One person was trapped in the vehicle, people are taken care of in west norton township. We had an accident on the vine crews just left the scene. 11 Miles Per Hour coming off the ben franklin bridge him we had a problem on the vine, one an accident and congested on the schuylkill expressway eastbound at the vine that cleared. Schuylkill expressway, i95 seeing slow speeds because of the roads being so wet, tam. Lets go outside to david murphy does he have the umbrella up . Yes he does. Reporter rain moved back on the terrace. Storm tracker 6 live down scan, southern areas that had the rain earlier is breaking up, now its the northern suburbs turn. Well be in and out of this all day, cloudy and cool and damp. 38 degrees in philadelphia. Its cool enough for a coat with the rain gear. Late today well get a high of 46. Cloudy and damp all day, intermittent rain and drizzle him tomorrow, clouds, rain during the day, the steadier rain holding off until saturday night. 58. Saturday night into sunday morning we have rain and event drying on sunday, a nice high of 62. Were back in the 50s next week. The next chance of rain appears to be thursday. Going back to g. M. A. Well be back here in 30 minutes. 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. Can you feel that its friday . Can you just feel that . Friday. Oh. And do we have a feelgood friday story for you. An incredible teen inspiring us this morning, anastasia, she is a championship winning ballroom dancer whose skocoliosis was so severe it nearly stopped her from doing what she loves most but she didnt let it. T. J. Is back to talk about her journey. I am in awe of this young lady. Not just her talent on the ballroom floor but also her strength and her resolve. She had to retire from dancing at the age of 14. Her condition was so bad and im not overstating her spine looked like an s. Well, she found a new doctor, a new procedure and guess who is dancing again . Thats anastasia manchenko, danielsing across the floor. She makes it look easy, but learning these moves took years of grueling practice. The feeling when youre on the dance floor, i dont know, its amazing. Reporter you might see joy, yet 17yearold anastasia was also hiding extreme pain. It was like a stabbing, like a constant stabbing and its like somebody is taking your spine and literally holding it like strangling. Reporter she had scoliosis, curvature of the spine and over the years it was only getting worse. The fix doctors offered a surgery called fusion. That would straighten her spine permanently but it would limit her flexibility so much that her dance career would be over. I just didnt want to give up. Something that you love to do like you do it no matter what. Reporter with the help of years of physical therapy and back braces she kept on dancing but by the time she and her partner won the 2016 National Ballroom championships her scoliosis was so disabling and disfiguring her spine looked like this. How did you dance through that . I dont know. Medicine. Was there not some doctor telling you, yeah, you probably shouldnt be dancing . There was many. Reporter the day anastasia won that National Ballroom championship, she threw in the towel deciding the pain was just too much. She thought this was the end of her dancing career. You didnt hold out hope for something . No. You just thought it was over. Yeah. The ribs were bunched up here. Reporter she found new hope in this doctor from mt. Sinai hospital who offered an experimental alternative to fusion, one still not fda approved. Its a surgery called tethering in this procedure he attaches a flexible cord onto screws placed in the vertebrae. When it is tightened it pulls the vertebrae straight. It preserves and maintains flexibility for the patient as well as growth for those who are still growing. Reporter so in july of 2017 anastasia decided it go for it. Take an xray. Reporter she underwent a full day operation where dr. Lonner removed four ribs and tethered her spine. Anastasias surgery was a success. We do know that our patients who are several years out have been doing beautifully. But there are some unknowns. How long will this flexible cord, this rope last . Reporter we met up with anastasia again six weeks later. Now she was a full two inches taller. You look so perfectly aligned. Reporter her back now nearly straight. You changed my life and made it so much better. Thank you so much. Reporter how long of a career do you think you have ahead. My whole life. All right. We do need to note that only a few centers around the country perform this and only 500 people have had this procedure but it worked in this case and meant for only people with extreme cases. Hers was one. What a great story and anastasia is here [ cheers and applause ] theyre applauding for you. Oh, my gosh. Your mother is in the front row. Your dance partner and all that. Thank you for bringing this to us, t. J. Your strength, your resilience, your resolve. What went through your mind when at one point you thought you were not going to be able to dance again . It was just heartbreaking. Do you imagine like it was my passion. Its what i love to do and like when i dance, its just like everything is complete. I can breathe. Like its my breath of fresh air. And its just heartbreaking because i cant do it anymore and all my doctors are like against it so it was really bad. Theyre supposed to be following their dreams and he retired at 14, so much so that she threw her she locked the clothes up, dancing shoes. I locked it this nye parents room far away because i cant go into my room and see all my gold medals and be reminded of something i cant do anymore. She slid in that all my gold medals. I noticed that. Your mom is just beaming. Beaming with pride as she looks over here and i know it was a long recovery and very difficult and you said watching dancing with the stars really helped you and was there any dancer in particular that inspired you . Yeah, mark ballas. I watched every single like episode i know every single dance. Yeah, but its just like watching the show inspired me to get back because it was like around the same exact time as i was recovering and going to my physical therapist and like they were like, okay, lets do this step by step and it was just like when i come home and watch the show, im like, okay, i can do this. T. J. Is a big fan. Im a big fan of yours and it was cool to hear how a show like that inspired you and if you wouldnt mind taking an audience question in you have a lot of people who are big fans. I have a question. What [ applause ] you say youre a fan of mine. Thats a huge honor but im a fan of yours. My question is can i get a hug . Oh. Lets do it. [ cheers and applause ] oh, my god. How are you . [ cheers and applause ] so nice to meet you. Oh, my god. Oh, gosh, you know what well have to go to break but do you have your dancing shoes on . Oh, she does. Would you like a spin. Oh, my gosh. 24 karat magic in the air oh. Look out showtime showtime go. Rachael its her first ever cookbook. The heaton is on in our firt ever book signing show. Patricia heaton cooks up two new dishes. Rachael this get the best internet with the best shows and get the best of both worlds. Fios by verizon gives you the Fastest Internet available for only 79. 99 a month online with a two year agreement, and your netflix is on us for one year. And with the gigabit connection on the 100 fiberoptic network, you can stream on up to 100 devices at once. So get the Fastest Internet available, plus netflix, plus up to200 tv channels, plus phone, plus a twoyear price guarantee. All for just 79. 99 per month. Its time to fiber optics your netflix. Go to getfios. Comto switch today. Heavy rain potential of flooding through the ohio could be the highest breached in Cincinnati Time for the local forecast. Epon across the region. At night. Thank you so much. Rob. We turn to an exclusive look behindthescenes of the bachelor women tell all. The 17 women, yes, 17 women who didnt get roses from arie are coming facetoface with the former race car driver and each other in an explosive reunion. Its been a season full of kiss, roses and drama on the bachelor. Ive had my heart ripped open and i dont know how this is going to end. Reporter all the women and arie reliving every moment on the women tell all airing this sunday. We were there behindthescenes speaking to the women would confronted each other and the bachelor who sent them home. It was hard to be in that room with, you know, a lot of beautiful, angry exes, no. Reporter Good Morning America bringing you this facetoface with bekahs ex. She is the love of my life. I want to marry her. Im going to get her. Other people think. Reporter taking a lot of heat when its her turn in the hot seat. Seeing the comments you made, were not only hurtful to me but them. Maybe i dragged it on way longer than i should have. I was mad. How was i a bully . What did i do to directly hurt someone . Maybe ill start focusing on me and start focusing on relationships. Reporter arie saying he didnt see her true colors until he watched it back. It made me realize i hung on to that too long. Reporter another topic. Becky carrs age, the 22yearold didnt seem ready for marriage. You can say its about age. You can say its about taking it seriously. You can call it whatever you want. But ive just never experienced quite frankly the judgment about the number of years ive been on earth as i did throughout this experience. Admitted that, yes, maybe he had not given me the chance he should have. Reporter and things taking a turn with caroline telling arie shes angry with what he did at the end of the show hinting at an explosive finale. Everything will play out and you guys will understand when you watch the finale where im coming from. Reporter the man of the hour telling us hes finally got his closure. I think there were some questions that they had for me and hopefully i answered them and gave them a little bit more closure. What is nice to see them and chat about the show. [ applause ] so, wow. The bachelor the women tell all airs this sunday at 8 00, 7 00 central on abc. Do not miss it. And Heather Graham is right here live. That friday surprise. So dont go this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. So whether youre a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. Pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny. Com new york state. Its all here. Its only here. Downsizing. 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Welcome to the show. Thank you. [ applause ] you know, its kind of a flashback friday around here so well fall back a little bit. We found some pictures of you. You were voted most talented in high school and we have a picture of, yes, your most talented picture playing the piano. What kind of memory does that bring back. I had a very poofy hair. And then your yearbook picture as well. Oh, my gosh. Its so funny. We all have those from high school. You dont want to see i want to see yours. No, you dont want to see mine. We burred them all. How about that . Youve written. Youve directed. Youre act youre the lead in this movie. How is it to direct yourself . Its weird but, you know, my best friend was there. His name is michael nichols. Want to give him a shoutout and he was watching the scenes i acted in but it was an amazing experience. The most fun job ive ever done. I loved it. Called half magic and its about an aspiring screenwrit screenwriter her friends and youre being told as a screenwriter by these executives no one wants to hear womens stories. They only want to hear about a story if its about a teenage boy. Is that something youve heard. People say womens movies dont make money and ive been told, oh, were going after the teenage boy demographic. This movie is about womens empowerment. Uhhuh. And especially in the climate of whats happening in hollywood now, its a very on point you worked seven years. This is not something that is new that you just came up with in the spur of the moment but if you had to write it today would it be any different. I think when i wrote it i didnt realize people would be so ready to talk about these kind of issues so i covered it with comedy and its sexy and funny so now i think people are really seriously talking about it and i think thats amazing like i just thought im going to have this empowerment message and cover it in comedy but you can straight up talk about it which is awesome. We want to see it so we wont let anybody wait any more. Lets take a look. I carved these candles and cast spells on them. I dont know if its positive intention or creative visualization or magic but they work for a lot of people. Some of my regulars call me the witch. What kind . All kinds. Some for love and work but some fun ones too like i want my own unicorn. They arent magical. Theyre overpriced candles for rich idiots who have Nothing Better to do. [ applause ] being that you wrote this, how much is that scene based on reality . Do you and your friends use Something Like that in i did go to a candle store. Sometimes as a woman in a culture you feel disempowered and you want to find a way to feel confident. I have done wacky stuff and have gone to enchantments and buy candles and make wishes and just having an intention can make a big difference. When you make wishes with your friends its more powerful because your friends support you and i made a lot of wishes to make this movie and now it happened and im on your show. [ applause ] i really do believe that you can manifest by really wishing and hoping for something and the candle just makes the room smell really good when you do it. Exactly. Were lucky to have you on the show. Thank you. Congratulations. Acting, producing, doing it all. Its half magic. You can check heather out in theaters and available on video on demand and digital hd today. All right. Make sure you guys check it owl. Well be right back. Announcer there is only one dol dolly parton and now wednesday say good morning to dolly when she takes over the morning and gma as only she can. Wednesday, its dolly parton live. Only on abcs Good Morning America. 24 karat magic Good Morning America is brought to you by alka seldzer plus maximum strength lick which gels. Anastasia recuperating from surgery watching dancing with the stars, we surprised her with mark ballas, her favorite dancer on that inspired her so what is this moment when you were out here dancing with her and just the look in her eyes. It was an honor and got me really excited. I dance on tv all the time but that was really exciting. Im so happy to be here. Thank you for having he. Thats great. Theyre asking for more dance. More dance. Dance again. More. 24 karat magic in the air good morning, 8 56 a. M. , friday, february 23. Im tamala edwards. Lets head over to karen rogers to take a last look at traffic starting on the schuylkill expressway. Reporter no accidents on the schuylkill expressway thats good news, better than earlier, but nonetheless were jammed. Westbound traffic is heading toward center city. Youre jammed from broad to past the vine. The earlier accident on the schuylkill expressway near the vine has cleared. Better news at least. We had an accident westbound on the schuylkill expressway that has cleared. Slow speeds on i95, ten, 11 Miles Per Hour its a slow ride in. The vine street expressway, westbound traffic is jammed heading toward the schuylkill expressway. A new accident popped up in sicklierville on the Atlantic City expressway westbound past berlin cross keys an accident blocking the left lane. Slow traffic there, tam. Lets go outside to david murphy an see how much more rain. Reporter were looking at it right now, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan the northern suburbs beginning to get dry around reading and western Chester County starting to see the end of the current batch. Roads are wet and it is chilly, too, temperatures 38 degrees. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, looks like well climb to a high of 46 today. Probably wont get there until early this evening. Cloudy and cool and intermittent drizzle all the way. Tomorrow, steady rain at night, milder high of 58. 62 sunday, but a rainy start sunday. 25 school buses have been destroyed by a fire in the Lehigh Valley. A flames tore through a garage leaving hundreds of students without transportation forcing the School District to cancel its classes. Well have a live report at noon as investigators look for causes. Time to have a little fun, live with kelly and ryan is up next. Im tamala edwards. Have a great friday. Get the best internet with the best shows and get the best of both worlds. Fios by verizon gives you the Fastest Internet available for only 79. 99 a month online with a two year agreement, and your netflix is on us for one year. And with the gigabit connection on the 100 fiberoptic network, you can stream on up to 100 devices at once. So get the Fastest Internet available, plus netflix, plus up to200 tv channels, plus phone, plus a twoyear price guarantee. All for just 79. 99 per month. Its time to fiber optics your netflix. Go to getfios. Comto switch today. Announcer its live with kelly and ryan today from the drama gotham, ben mckenzie. In one of the stars of the new series good girls, mae whitman. And the hottest toys from and now, here are kelly ripa and Ryan Seacrest [cheers and applause] [cheers and appl