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KGO Good Morning America February 26, 2018

Burst into flames in the overhead compartment. A passenger and Flight Attendant scrambling to put out the blaze. And Lisa Marie Presleys shocking claim. Elvis daughter now saying nearly all of her 100 million inheritance is gone. Where did it all go . And good morning, america. We hope you had a good weekend. They needed good news at Marjory Stoneman douglas high, and they got it over the weekend. Check it out there. That is the hockey team for the high school. They won the state championship on sunday. Its amazing after all theyve gone through. So much excitement there. They were the underdogs in the tournament. They came back to win it all. And one of the students said, now were going to bring the trophy back to the Best High School in america. And a lot of the guys, a lot of the players dyed their hair blond in honor of a classmate they lost. Inspirational story there. Big time. Were going to have more on that ahead. But first, we begin with the dangerous weather stretching from texas to the ohio valley. At least 12 tornadoes touching down in four states, including kentucky. Those rising rivers leading to rescues. Abcs marcus moore starts us off in paducah, kentucky, where the governor has declared a state of emergency there. Good morning, marcus. Reporter robin, thats right. The mayor of paducah has declared a state of emergency because of the rising river. They want to protect the homes and businesses in the city. This is what they have done. Theyve put up these massive floodgates along the flood wall. The first time theyve done this in seven years. Overnight, crews in kentucky working to put up the last of several new floodgates as the river continues its rise. The swollen rivers across the region submerging peoples homes. Forcing evacuations and rescues. More than 100 water rescues in kentucky alone. The flooding from a nearby river leaving this ohio home waterlogged. At least a dozen confirmed twisters touching down across four states. Tornado warnings sounding the alarm. Youve got a house that completely has collapsed on itself. We heard glass shattering. And it blew out a couple of these posts on the porch and drove them through the house. Reporter the complete devastation on display this morning. We were all scared. We didnt know what to do. We were just getting everybody safe until we could find out what was going on. Certainly your heart goes out to them as they are looking through whats left, the rubble of what was once a home. Reporter buildings left ripped apart. Homes shredded and destroyed. In some cases, only the cement foundations remained. You can see a door as well in that pond. Reporter and in arkansas, parts of the roof of this motel torn away. At least four people are dead, including three in kentucky, where the governor has declared a state of emergency. And back here in paducah, kentucky, the real concern is how quickly the river is rising thats why the flood gates are in place until the river goes down. But its not expected to crest until wednesday. Thats right. Okay, marcus. Those concerns will last most of this week. Another storm is on the way. Rob is tracking the latest. Good morning, rob. Good morning, robin. Unfortunately we do have more storms lined up. This one in the south will track mostly to the south. The damage done in louisville. The wettest february on record. The ohio expected to crest there later today. The problem is we also have rivers north of there that are still in flood stage. Major flood stage. Record flood stage. All the water needs to flow downstream to the gulf of mexico. The mississippi wont crest until later on this week, early next week. The next system comes on wednesday, brings another round of rain, severe storms. Four to five inches over those areas that are still flooded. Northeast storm coming this weekend, too. You got it, rob. Thank you. Were going to go down to washington, where President Trump is holding a meeting with the nations governors. At last nights ball he said last night the parkland shooting would be the first thing they would discuss. Cecilia vega joins us with more on that. Cecilia, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. The meeting with the governors happens here in just a few hours. But this morning, the president seems to be at odds with the nra over raising the minimum age to purchase long guns. Theyre opposed to that idea, even though the president says theyll end up backing it. At a black tie gala overnight, President Trump told the nations Governors School safety is a top priority. Well be talking about parkland. And the horrible event that took place last week. I think well make that first on our list. Reporter among his ideas, a proposal to train and arm potentially hundreds of thousands of educators. And over the weekend, the president told fox news, had teachers in parkland, florida, been armed, there would have been more survivors. Most of the people would be a whole different story. Reporter but floridas own governor, now among those flatly rejecting the idea. I want our teachers to teach. And i want our Law Enforcement officers to be able to protect the students. I want each group to focus on what theyre good at. Reporter and this morning, the nations most powerful gun lobby faces growing backlash. At least 16 companies, like delta airlines, metlife insurance, and wyndham hotels, have ended programs with the nra. The group is Standing Firm in its opposition of raising minimum age to purchase semiautomatic weapons. Like the one used in parkland. Something President Trump says he would consider. Perhaps well do something having, you know, on age, because, it doesnt seem to make sense that you have to wait until youre 21 years old to get a pistol. But to get a gun like this maniac used in the school, you get that at 18. I mean, that doesnt make sense. Frankly, i explained that to the nra. Reporter but the nra says that plan is far from a done deal. I know that people are trying to find daylight between President Trump and 5 million lawabiding gun owners all across the United States. These are just things hes discussing right now. So far, nothing has been proposed yet. Reporter about arming americas teachers, even ivanka trump says shes not sure if Arming Teachers is a good idea. She was asked if guns in schools would make americas children safer. She said, honestly, i dont know. There would have to be an incredibly High Standard for who could bear arms in schools, george . Meantime, over the weekend, we learned the feud between the president and mexico over that border wall has broken out. Reporter turns out, there was a very testy phone call between President Trump and mexicos enrique pena nieto. That phone call took place last week. They were supposed to set up a visit for pena nieto. But a senior official tells us that the president went off script and brought up the border wall. Enrique pena nieto stuck to his script and said that mexico is not paying for it. By the end of that phone call, that visit was not happening, george. Michael. Thank you, george. As the white house and Congress Face pressure to act on gun control, students of families are preparing to return to Stoneman Douglas. Allowed inside the school for the First Time Since the shooting. And while they are trying to recover, calls are growing for the sheriff to resign. Abcs Victor Oquendo has more from parkland. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael, the sheriff has made it very clear, hes not going anywhere. This morning, teachers and faculty making their way back to campus. As they get ready for classes to resume on wednesday. But for the students, it was an emotional return. Almost there. Well get you in. Reporter new this morning, an inside look. Students returning to Stoneman Douglas high school for a special orientation sunday. Sharing this video with abc news. Walking through that familiar campus under uncommon circumstances. Coming back to where everything occurred. Its just scary. Reporter it was the first time back on School Grounds since the massacre that left 17 dead nearly two weeks ago. I cannot stop looking at that building. I cannot stop imagining what was going on inside that building. It tears me up inside. Reporter Florida Governor rick scott now calling for the States Department of Law Enforcement to launch an investigation into the shooting response. The Broward Sheriffs Office saying theyll cooperate. Meanwhile, 74 gop state lawmakers sent a letter to governor scott, urging him to suspend sheriff scott israel, who is a democrat, accusing the department of ignoring repeated warning signs about suspected shooter nikolas cruz. Despite the mounting questions, the sheriff telling cnn hes not going anywhere. It was a shameful, politically motivated letter that had no facts. And of course, i wont resign. Reporter but in the face of so much heartache and loss, a huge win. And some muchneeded uplifting news for the parkland community. The Stoneman Douglas eagles hockey team coming from behind to win the state championship sunday. We just came out and played hard. Gave everything we got. This wasnt for us. This was for the 17 victims. We played for them. So passionate. So emotional. Its all for them. Reporter the team is now heading to a national tournament. But listen to what they did when they got back to campus. They took their medals that they won yesterday. They placed them around the crosses for each of the victims at the growing memorial outside of Stoneman Douglas. Michael . Amazing gesture. There are claims, victor, from the Coral Springs Police Officers, when they arrived on the scene, several Broward County sheriffs deputies did not or would not enter the building. Reporter sheriff israel told cnn that as of right now, hes only seen one deputy that did not take action, and that was the School Resource officer, scott peterson. He says if he finds any wrongdoing, on behalf of any other deputies, hell deal with the officers the same way he dealt with peterson. Michael. Thank you so much, victor. George. Back to school in florida. Congress back to work in washington today, facing growing calls to act against gun violence. Want to bring in mary bruce. Mary, on any gun control issues, the gop leaders in congress have bj pretty quiet. Reporter Republican Leaders have been notably largely silent. Look, right now, despite the tremendous political pressure, the growing calls to act, once again, congress right now appears poised to do nothing. There are plenty of options on the table, including improving background checks or banning bump stocks. But theres no clear consensus right now. No votes on the schedule. Look, Republican Leaders are likely to be very hesitant to do anything that puts them at odds with the nra or many of their constituents, unless theyre certain they have the backing of the president. The president has floated many ideas, including raising the age to purchase these assaultstyle weapons, maybe arming trained teachers, there are questions about what legislation he would be on board with. George, congress is not going to act here unless theyre certain that the president will lead the charge. That might not be enough. Okay, mary. On saturday, we saw the release of the democratic memo that rebuts claims from the president and other republicans that somehow the surveillance of some people connected to his campaign was tainted. Reporter democrats have now released their longawaited version of the memo. Its a heavily redacted document. They say it debunks the republicans claims that the fbi and doj abused government surveillance powers when spying on a former Trump Campaign adviser. This all comes from the house intelligence committee. Traditionally a bipartisan panel, but theyve been struggling to conduct work under the increasingly partisan sniping. Its about as divided as you can get. Mary, thank you. Robin. Were going to the turn to the end of the winter games. Norway taking home a record 39 medals. Followed by germany, canada, and the United States in fourth. 23 total medals. Nine of them gold. Our Senior National correspondent matt gutman is there, for all the excitement and the spectacular closing ceremony. That ceremony also put americas relationship with north korea in the spotlight. Reporter it certainly did, robin. There was almost a dizzying array of diplomacy happening in the closing ceremonies. Probably as many security personnel there as spectators. But first, of course, all that pomp and pageantry. There were drones and pandas. A kpop band. Then came the athletes. The American Team led by jessie diggins. Watching it all, ivanka trump, just an arms length away from north koreas spy chief. Moments after they settled down, an announcement from north korea from kim jongun calling the tough new sanctions against north korea an act of war. And then startlingly, just minutes after that, another announcement from north korea suggesting that it would be willing to have its delegation on the ground talk to the american delegation. The white house said ivanka trump didnt meet with any North Koreans and said that any talks would have to lead to north korea abandoning the nuclear program. Robin. But wait, theres more. Intrigue at the games. Involving russia, matt . Reporter right. South korean officials believe that russian cyberspies hacked the olympic websites. Thousands of cyberattacks during the games. Making it very difficult for folks to print out tickets during the opening ceremony, putting that olympic website on the fritz. Officials also believe that the russians made it look like the North Koreans did it. Called a false flag operation. Analysts believe this was payback against the Olympic Committee for banning russias participation officially in the games over this ongoing doping scandal. Robin . All right, matt. Safe journey back home. Thank you. Michael . Thank you, robin. We turn to that frightening video on a flight overseas. A carryon bag bursts into flames in the overhead bin of the airline. The flight crew threw water and juice at the fire. Which broke out as people were boarding. It was apparently caused by a passengers portable charger. Most likely powered by lithium ion batteries. Last thing you think about. You put your phone up there and throw that up there and next thing you know fire on the plane. They did act quickly. Back here at home, crews are cleaning up from a deadly avalanche in washington state. It swept over a group of five snowmobilers. One was killed, others were injured. Kayna whitworth has the story. Reporter good morning. A scary deal. Two separate avalanches. Killing one, trapping 65 people in their homes over the weekend in washington state. Right now crews are working to clear the roads at Crystal Springs snow park outside seattle, after an avalanche killed a 32yearold man. He was with a group of five snowmobilers. They had stopped for lunch at the base of the slope when that wall of snow came crashing down. And we have pictures there, they were taken as the sudden rush of snow buried the two snowmobiles. The area was in an avalanche warning. Heavy snowfall over the weekend made mountainsides vulnerable to avalanches. We have one captured on video. A 25foot to 30foot wall of snow piling over the road. That one there trapping people in their homes. Right now, conditions extremely hazardous. This morning, authorities are warning everyone to be aware of avalanche dangers. George. That is remarkable video. Kayna, thank you so much. Happened so fast. Amazing to see that. Now to the startling claim from lisa marie presley, the daughter of elvis, saying nearly all of her 100 million inheritance is gone. Shes suing her former manager. And t. J. Holmes is here with the story. Good morning. And shes music royalty in this country, right . The sole heir to the guy we call the king. She was the sole person to inherit his 100 million fortune. She got it when she was 25 back in 1993, was worth 100 million. She says it has 14,000 left in the trust. How did we get here . She sold 85 of her interests in Elvis Presley enterprises in 2005. 85 . She doesnt own a majority. She didnt own a lot of things. She got 100 million in that sale. Her former Business Manager she says mismanaged her money, made a bad investment that went bankrupt, and now she only has 14 grand left in that trust at this point. 14 . We see these stories too often. Thats unbelievable. Hes one that still makes a lot of money. The top list of dead Celebrities Making money. Even 15 i would think would be a fair amount of money now. Youd think so. But most of the money, 35 million to 45 million, comes from graceland. He didnt own the rights to most of his music, guys. A lot of that money is not coming in. That you would expect to be coming in. Wow. Back to rob with the storm coming to the northeast later this week, rob . Its the same storm we mentioned earlier. It will bring more rain across the Tennessee Valley and the ohio river valley. Areas that dont need it. Maybe severe storms, too. But thursday, friday, it develops into a coastal low. And it could be a mess friday into saturday with wind, coastal flooding, snow mixed in. The strongest storm we have seen in the northeast in a couple of weeks. Well be d

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