Applause applause applause lady gaga. Live, live, times square. Good morning america, starts, starts now and good morning, america. Oh, my goodness, what a way to kick off the week. Take a look at times square this morning. It is all about lady gaga. She is going to be here live in just a little bit. You see the countdown clock there. The fans have been lining up all night long, all for that World Premiere of her blockbuster new video applause. Oh, it is impossible not to smile today, to get moving on this monday morning, and we have seen so many startling looks from gaga over the past few years. We asked what will she look like when she shows up this morning . Any bets . How could you imagine . Itll be great. One person. There it is. We do know though, however, what the throne looks like. It is a 500pound customized chair. Theres a plastic coating over some of that. The Technology Wont be too uncomfortable. Its called lucite, the technical term, that is the throne and sam is back from
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair will receive a message. The messenger mr. Speaker, a message from the senate. The secretary mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The secretary i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed s. 1998, cited as the d. H. S. Audit requirement target act of 2012, in which the concurrence of the house is requested. The speaker pro tempore the chair now recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones
Have been swept away. The water in parts of texas and oklahoma swallowed up cars and roadways. Highways are littered with abandoned vehicles. Homes were knocked off their foundations. At least nine people are reported killed. More than a dozen are missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter its the worst flooding this region has ever seen. This aerial video shows the remains of a bridge completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. The river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees, washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87mile stretch. Wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway, has taken the biggest hit. A dozen still remain missing. Will conley is the county commissioner. We have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river land, looking for any survivors. Through air, b
Off over rome, on a runway in amsterdam, on the tarmac in johan johannesburg. Its a ghostly reminder everything ordinary can morph in an instant. Todays search has just gotten under way with 13 planes and 11 ships all looking for the aircraft. Sophisticated sonar equipment has been brought in. Time could not be more urgent because the pingers on the planes black boxes likely have only a couple of days of battery life left. Theres also some major news out of fort hood tonight. The father of one of the injured soldiers told cnn affiliate wlbt that the shooter specialist ivan lopezs stopped by the bases Personnel Office to pick up a leave form shortly before his killing spree but was told to pick up the form the next day. He later returned to that office, and he opened fire. That fathers son was hit four times. Lopezs family released a statement today, his father saying quote my son must not have been in his right mind. He wasnt like that. Tonight well drill down on the Mental Health issu
Motive . Hello, there, everyone. Im john berman. I am michaela pereira. It is 11 00 out east and 8 00 a. M. Where you are. I am already in trouble. We are four weeks in after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared. The search turns in another direction, below the surface. Crews have dropped a pinger locator in the water. It is trying to pick up the chirps from the missing jets flight data recorders. It canic p up sound from two nautical miles away. Even if the boxes are 20,000 feet under the water. The technology should detect the pings. This, of course, all assuming tho tha tho that those beacons are emitting any signals at all. The batteries could be dead. There is also an underwater robot getting ready to go. It will search the seabed for wreckage if the ping locator picks up any signals. The crews can only guess where the plane might have hit the water. The equipment could be going in the wrong direction for all we know. Searchers taking a shot in the dark and in the deep. The be