Famous for defending women is here to defend him. And banding together to help hurricane victims. Some of the biggest stars in the world, Jennifer Lopez, marc anthony and more releasing a brandnew song overnight. Now the man behind it, hamilton creator, linmanuel, is here first on gma. Good morning, america. How about that spirit from linmanuel . He is going to be here all to help out puerto rico. This new set to maria from with the west side story but has the flavor of the islands that is in so much need. Helping out other people. And brought his dad with him. Excited about that. Millions are bracing as well because Tropical Storm nate strengthening in the caribbean right now heading right towards the gulf coast. And states of emergencies have been declared in louisiana, alabama and florida. The storm is forecast to become a hurricane before it makes landfall this weekend. Its already deadly claiming at least 22 lives across Central America. Our chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking
Famous for defending women is here to defend him. And banding together to help hurricane victims. Some of the biggest stars in the world, Jennifer Lopez, marc anthony and more releasing a brandnew song overnight. Now the man behind it, hamilton creator, linmanuel, miranda, is here first on gma. Miranda, is here first on gma. Good morning, america. How about that spirit from Linmanuel Miranda. He is going to be here all to help out puerto rico. This new set to maria from west side story but has the flavor of the islands that are in so much need right now. Helping out other people. And brought his dad with him. Excited about that. Millions are bracing as well because Tropical Storm nate strengthening in the caribbean right now heading right towards the gulf coast. And states of emergencies have been declared in louisiana, alabama and florida. The storm is forecast to become a hurricane before it makes landfall this weekend. Its already deadly claiming at least 22 lives across Central Ame
Down. What he says the league knew all along only on gma. So crazy in love and beyonce and jay z expecting twins. The superstar family growing by two. Fans crazy in love with the news. This photo of the big reveal breaking a huge social media record. Her message about motherhood this morning. Your loves got me looking so crazy right now and good morning, america. Could not miss it on twitter or instagram yesterday. Yes, she is set to have twins, blue ivy will be a big sister. Well have a lot about that later. We have a lot of breaking news to get to first. The president calling out australia and iran overnight. More on that in a moment. Yeah, the president s tweets continued through the morning. Very tough talk both iran and australia are re violent protests erupting at uc berkeley. The campus locked down as more than a thousand rallied against the appearance of a controversial editor from breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos. They escalated and the speech was canceled and President Trump weig
Expected to last about 12 hours. The crane is being brought in to help with recovery process. We learned early this morning about 1258 the crane is being brought in to help with recovery process. We learned early this morning about 12 58 am, 12 58 pm, but it had to be halted because there were concerns about deputies. And, that the building was not quite secure. They had to pull everyone out, we did learn a few hours ago, that the process is back underway. Reporter thats what has changed. What has stayed the same as the number of people confirmed dead is at 26. They have been busy working to identify 11 of those victims have been identified. That is up from eight. We do not have those three new names to bring you. They say that they have identified the location where the fire is health started. But the cause is unknown. Again, there was a work stoppage but we learned minutes ago, that that had been lifted. And i want to introduce you to the sheriff alameda county. Thank you for taking
Very first time. Why him and why now . Weve got those answers. Its on abc, ive been asked to host it. Abcs biggest late night star is kind of the obvious choice. Is jimmy kimmel the right choice . He has a lot of celebrity clout. Sort of a nobrainer. Jimmy tweeted, yes, i am hosting the oscars. Its not a prank. If it is, my academy will be short and sweet. Hes a proven hit. I just want the show to go well. I hope the jokes go over. I hope everybodys happy at the end. We last spoke to jimmy all right, kimmel. Kimmel has been auditioning for this role for quite some time. Hes put on his postoscar show he gets his alist friends to all play along. . . The producing team for 2017s Academy Awards reportedly only considered a few candidates other than kimmel. Not on that short list . Kevin hart, who has been jonesing for the job. Im thrilled my next step is to come back and host. This past years oscar host chris rock even joked about hosting. Last year it was the lowest rated in the past 11 y