Tennessee. At least 24 People Killed and dozens still missing this morning. As survival stories emerge, the hero fire chief who saved a 7yearold trapped by live wires. And now the new threat moving in. Our team is live in the storm zone. Race to contain the coronavirus. As cases climb past 100 here in the u. S. , a dozen firefighters and Police Officers now in isolation with flulike symptoms after helping patients at the center of washingtons outbreak and now the price gouging fears. Bottles of purell selling for more than 100. Dr. Jen is here answering all the Big Questions this morning. Tiktok trouble. The new skull break challenge leading to criminal charges after a 13yearold boy was seriously injured. I feel alive and walk the line. Nik wallenda risking it all hours from now preparing to walk over one of the worlds most active volcanoes on a wire just over one inch thick. Were there live. And we do say, good morning, america. Very late night for you and the political team. It was,
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Of snow. Vaping crisis. The alarming new numbers, more than 800 cases across the country. The huge surge in just one week. Eee warning. High schools across the country forced to reschedule Outdoor Activities. Friday night Football Games moved to daylight as cases of the deadly mosquitoborn virus rise from michigan massachusetts. Missing money mystery. The Delta Airlines baggage handler arrested accused of stealing nearly 300,000 right from the tarmac. But the question this morning, where is that cash . From the floor to super bowl liv, jlo now set to take center stage at the halftime show with superstar shakira. Whenever, wherever what theyre revealing now about the 2020 super bowl show. Good morning, america. Happy friday to everybody out there. What a show that will be, jlo and shakira in miami for super bowl liv. We were talking about it, shes like, oh, the hips dont lie. Im so ready. Every latina in the country is ready for that lineup. We are super excited about that. First we wan
Direct pitch for the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. Heres one of the quotes. Theres a lot of talk about bidens son, quote, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. Whatever you can do with the attorney general that would be great. The attorney general hes referring to is attorney general barr. The president used the name of attorney general barr and Rudy Giuliani who he said would be looking into the matter. He said both men would reach out to the president of ukraine and ask him to get started on this. The president of ukraine said he was going to investigate the matter. They had a fairly extensive conversation about this. The president mentioned he wanted to enlist the attorney general. What has the attorney general said about the fact the president mentioned him in the phone call. A rather extraordinary set of events took place after the Inspector General got word of the whistleblower complaint. He referred it to
At dash cam video showing an outofcontrol suv pulling a uhaul, right there slams into two firefighters. It happened in stringtown, oklahoma. Police say the suv lost control on a wet road. It crashed into another vehicle, then the trailer swung around there and hit the firefighters. Amazingly, they only suffered minor injuries. Turning now to the tragic new developments in that deadly fire aboard a scuba dive excursion boat off california. Were learning new details about who was on board that boat. Heres abcs will carr. Reporter families worst fears confirmed. All 34 people trapped in that burning dive boat are now presumed dead. This new coast guard video shows the smoldering ship as it sinks. As of 9 40 a. M. This morning, coast guard has suspended search efforts pending further development. It is never an easy decision to suspend search efforts. Reporter the desperate search has now turned into a grim recovery operation with dive teams combing the wreckage sitting at the bottom of th