The brand riding high after the successful Super Bowl Ad. I can be a little cocky but now facing some backlash for what their ceo said about snacks for women. And good morning, america. We are live for our viewers in the west. I guess it wouldnt be a super bowl without a little controversy. Mmhmm. Yeah, it was somebody riding high after that super bowl, george. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback nick foles, super bowl mvp celebrating his win at the disney parade of all places, of course, he even fistbumped mickey. Kind of a fist bump. Its flu season too so, you know, dont give mickey the flu, nick. Thats right. Hes got a big paw. Its been quite a wild ride for him. Well start with the market opening now. Back in positive territory after recordbreaking drop and the closing bell rang on monday the dow jones was down 1175 points. Abcs chief Business CorrespondentRebecca Jarvis starts us off. How quickly things can change on wall street. Its safe to say its a fool errand trying to call whats going to happening minute by minute. The dow back up today at 230 points. This volatility is scary for investors. It is. If you look at the context, over time the markets still, even after the sell off in recent days, the Dow Jones Industrial average is up over the last nine years 160 . If you look over the last year, even if you put your money into the 401 k in the last year that money should still be in positive territory because the market is up 20 . The economy is still very strong. Weve been seeing that strength continue month after month. 88 straight months of job gains. In the month of january the economy created 200,000 jobs. Wage growth growing at its fastest pace in eight years. The Housing Market some people will say could the be where the financial crisis was. Were in a very different place. Today you have a Housing Market relatively strong. An improving jobs market. Improving wages. For most people thats the thing that people care about. They want to know am i going to be getting paid more by my company in the future. The good news is we area seeing some of that. A number of companies have this year announced theyll be giving raises to their employees. Thats where most americans feel the real economy, in their paychecks. Thats where were seeing the improvements. And the market is up this morning. 225 points right now. As you said, its a fool easter rand. You cannot time the market. As the average person, its about the long term. Historically we have these bounce backs. Yes. Rebecca i know youll be keeping a close eye on it for us. Absolutely. Lets get over to george. Thank you. Overnight, several new developments in the russia investigation and i want to bring in jon karl. The big headline, president s legal team now taking a stand against Robert Mueller advising the president against a wideranging interview with the special counsel. Reporter theres a lot of negotiation going on here. Mueller has made it clear he wants to talk to the president. His legal team is trying to negotiate to have simply a written q a. Theyve told the president it would be a bad idea to go into a fullrange interview with the special counsel. A very risky thing. And, george, ive got to tell you, i have spoken to some of the president s closest outside advisers. They say it would be a disaster but believe ultimately he will not be able to avoid sitting down with the special counsel. Chris christie on gma said he didnt think the president should testify either. And in the meantime, were seeing the president s former chief strategist, steve bannon, hes not going to appear before the House Intelligence Committee today. Reporter theres a lot of back and forth. He had been before the Committee Earlier and refused to answer any questions about his interactions with the president in the white house or during the transition. Now bannon is saying hes not going to come unless the terms of the interview can be worked out. A lot of negotiating going on there. But i can tell you this, george, bannon has told others that he knows that although he can play this game with the committee, there is no way that he can avoid answering all questions with the special counsel. Executive privilege works with congress. It doesnt work when youre sitting down with the special counsel. Meantime, the controversy over that House Intelligence Committee memo dealing with the wiretapping of the former Foreign Policy adviser carter page continues. The democrats, they have now voted to release the democrats memo as well. Thats on the president s desk. Reporter it is. It was a unanimous vote. All the republicans. All the democrats voted to release it. Now the president has five days to decide whether or not he wants to block it. Advisers tell me hes inclined to allow it to be released. Well see. Okay, jon karl, thank you very much. Were joined by the man at the center of this memo controversy, carter page. Thanks for joining us. You say this republican memo that was released shows the abuse of your civil rights was worse than you imagined. Why . It just there is no basis for it. If you think about our constitution, you know, due process rights, freedom of, you know First Amendment rights, it was just shredded, the constitution. As you know you cant get a warrant like this, a wiretapping warrant like this unless they can demonstrate probable cause that you were working as a foreign agent. And you actually had been on the fbis radar for working for russia for several years. The target of a russian recruitment effort back in 2013, the fbi interviewed you about that, correct . It was a witness to a case that they were doing. So i was supporting the fbi. You gave documents to someone they charged with espionage. This is sort of spin. I was gave them i was teaching a course down broadway here at nyu. I told them a couple of things i was talking about in my i gave them a couple of my notes from or the documents that i gave my students, so in terms of it sounds when you say giving documents to a quote unquote spy it does sound it sounds a lot worse than reality. But thats reality. You also wrote just a couple months after that in september 2013 to an Academic Press this was reported by Time Magazine over the past half year ive had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin. You were recruited at one point by a russian agent. Then you wrote yourself that you were an informal adviser to the kremlin so that leads people to believe is this guy working with russia . Well, you know, first of all its the g20 summit was in st. Petersburg that year, and they were bringing people from around the world. So a lot of people were from literally australia, uk these are your words. I served as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin. Youre advising the kremlin. There was a lot of people advising. We were part of an informal group. Meeting in geneva. In paris. We had a meeting in the new york stock exchange. The first meeting was in the new york stock exchange. The center of capitalism. Right . You can understand how that would raise questions and lead to probable cause on the one hand. At one point you say youre an adviser to the kremlin and then youre an advisor trump. The probable cause based on all the evidence that keeps dripping out and now has been further substantiated with the friday first memo is it was based on that dodgy dossier which was, you know, a political stunt which is unfortunate, which is false evidence. So if you talk about obstruction of justice, thats real the democrats have said it was not based just on that dossier. They said there were other reasons. This was an application that was renewed at least three times by people who worked for President Trump as well by judges appointed by republican president s. Well, itll be interesting. I appreciate the New York Times putting in their request for the they want all the underlying documents. I look forward to i hope they get it. What do you think that will show . I have no idea. What i have seen thus far is complete ridiculousness. The fact that this dodgy dossier, and news reports when the same paper, the New York Times was pitched this information by mr. Steele and they said, you know, no way. But youve been under surveillance from the court since october of 2016. Since that time have you ever spoken to donald trump . I never spoke with him since. I never spoke with him any time in my life. You have never spoken to donald trump in your life. No. No email, no text, nothing like that. Never. Carter page, thanks very much. Thanks, george. Over to michael. Thank you, george. Now to that winter blast leading to massive pileups across the midwest, killing at least 13 people. A dancing with the stars tour bus in one of those. Thankfully no one seriously injured. But now, a new storm is moving in. Alex perez is in chicago with more. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning, michael. Complicating things underneath all of this fresh snow in many areas theres a dangerous layer of ice. Once this snow started falling, it kept coming, creating some massive problems. This morning, the deadly blast of Winter Weather being blamed for 13 deaths across the midwest. Snow, ice, and whipping winds leading to a string of crashes along highways like i35 in iowa. Where this massive pileup left at least one person dead. Probably 20 or 30 cars started piling up. Reporter the collision involving almost 50 vehicles including a tour bus carrying some of the cast and crew of dancing with the stars. Only minor injuries were reported. Prompting last seasons winner jordan fisher to send out this tweet, thanking god for the safety of our crew. Down this stretch of missouri highway, overturned semis and cars left entangled. The icy asphalt on nebraska roads leaving vehicles without traction, some spinning out of control. In massachusetts, this school bus slammed into a home. This car in chicago losing control on a busy highway spinning across multiple lanes before crashing into the median. Across the midwest, the morning commute is expected to be a mess and were not in the clear just yet. Another more widespread storm is already on the way. Michael . All right, thank you, alex. Youre right. A new storm is forming in the south targeting the northeast. Ginger, you have been tracking all of that. Weve got advisories and watches from sherman, texas to rumford, maine. And you can see why this storm is going to make its way. It started in parts of the rockies and now it will bring ice. And im talking ice from Northern Arkansas right through, say, paducah, kentucky. And the timing is today through tomorrow morning then the low is right here. It could be a very messy start from washington, d. C. Right through new york city, guys, its not just the snow, in some places 6 to 12 inches but ice on top of it. In some areas you could see up to a half inch. Michael . Thank you, ginger. Always the ice. The ice is the one thing you kind of misjudge sometimes as a driver. Youre right about that. Now to the nationwide flu epidemic. One of the deadliest in years experts say it will get worse before it gets better. One School District in georgia hit especially hard. At least 50 School Bus Drivers are recovering from the flu. Abcs Adrienne Bankert is here with the latest. Good morning, adrienne. Reporter good morning. The harsh reality is that schools all over the country arent just having their campuses disinfected but after some Young Children and in a recent case a teacher died, theyll have grief counselors on hand to comfort students and staff. This morning, Heather Hollands family in shock. The beloved second grade teacher dead after complications from the flu. Everybody talked very highly of her. So, its really tough. Reporter holland had been sick less than a week. Admitted and then released from a hospital. Two days later rushed back by paramedics. But it was too late. She leaves behind a husband and two Young Children. Also in north texas in ft. Worth Brian Herndon barely survived the flu and pneumonia hospitalized over four weeks on a breathing tube. One minute youve got the flu and the next minute youre septic. Reporter his organs shut down. Blood clots forced doctors to perform multiple amputations. 7yearold Savannah Jesse of columbus, indiana, died suddenly after testing positive for the flu just one day after being rushed to the hospital. Everybody is devastated. You never expected it to happen to you. Reporter in new york city two children confirmed dead from flurelated illness. One 8yearold emily baez who lived here in queens. I feel bad for her parents. Reporter nearly 15,000 have been hospitalized for flurelated illnesses, double the number from last season. The highest ever seen. According to the cdc, at least 53 children have died from the flu across the u. S. Doctors say the best defense is still a flu shot. So even if you already have the flu, but didnt get vaccinated, the cdc recommends you get a flu shot once youre better since you could still come down with a different strain of the flu. Very dangerous this season. I know, they keep emphasizing its not too late to get the shot. Okay, adrienne. We move on to newly released 911 calls from that train crash in south carolina. It reveals the chaos on board as the train barreled onto the wrong track. Abcs Steve Osunsami has the latest. Everything is everywhere. We wrecked on a train. Reporter these were the calls from the train for someone to come help and to come fast. Theres babies on here bleeding out their heads. Its a lot of people are hurt. Reporter its just moments after an amtrak train on its way to miami crashed head on into a Freight Train sitting on the tracks in south carolina. Federal investigators say that the train engineer realized the rail switch was set wrong, sending his train to the track where the Freight Train was parked. But by the time he put on the brakes, it was already too late. That switch should have been lined so that that amtrak could have continued southbound as planned. Reporter amtrak says that csx was controlling the switches on that track manually. And that late saturday or early sunday, after they moved one of their Freight Trains from the main line, the switch was not flipped back. When amtrak 91 arrived, it, too, was shifted onto that same sidetrack and in less than 700 feet slammed into the parked Freight Train at more than 50 miles an hour. How many are injured . I cannot count right now. I cannot walk through because the car is bent. The seats came up off the floor, glass came out all over the train. Just bodies laying everywhere on top of one another. Reporter the trains are running normally this morning. People are getting on their way at the train station directly behind me. Two people were killed. And more than 100 hurt. Were told that switch was locked with a padlock. George . Oh, my goodness. Thanks very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Now to the worlds most powerful rocket getting ready for liftoff. Youre looking live at the massive falcon heavy, spacex is planning to launch it towards mars this afternoon. Victor oquendo joins us now from the launch site in titusville, florida. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael. There is that falcon heavy rocket. Today is the big day for spacex. Founder elon musk will launch not one, but two of his babies into space. The rocket with one of his cars inside. Inside will be a cherry red roadster, a little bigger than this matchbox car. Take a look at this animation video released by spacex that will show the mission. The falcon heavy rocket is massive. It is larger than anything that has launched since the saturn 5 mission that nasa used for the apollo moon landings. The goal here is to orbit mars. This is an Unmanned Mission aside from the test dummy. Im sure you heard it there. This Mission Comes complete with a soundtrack appropriately set to david bowies life on mars. Abc news got access to the rocket on the launchpad. So much history here. Now a new generation of rocket just about ready for liftoff. Launch is scheduled for 1 30. People have come from all over the world to see this. Even Harrison Ford is here after all, the falcon heavy was named after the millennium falcon in star wars. Victor, whats the total cost here . Reporter well, theres a big number to that. 90 million. Elon musk is spending a whopping 90 million to send his red car to the red planet. All right. Victor, thank you. Back to ginger. Theres heavy rain in the south from that new storm. Yes, they need it so there are pockets of extreme and severe drought from anywhere from mississippi through alabama and georgia. With this cold front going to come two to three inches of rain. Your local weather in 30 seconds. Good morning im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Your accuweather highlights, maybe a sixth consecutive day of record high sunshine. Cooler, and the weekend cooler also. 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