Jim harbaugh loves old school 8 pleated khakis but his wife, well, she hays them. How this fashion feud was ironed out. Here we are in one of the middle big the football weekends of the year and should be talking about defensive strategy but were talking about pleated khakis which i have seen ron wear on air. Not on air, though. So it is the coach from San Francisco and his wife is weighing in and we know that bianna hat a similar story at home. Well get to that later. Lets just say im sympathetic. Leave it there. Also coming up in this broadcast in morning take a look at this amazing picture. A bolt of lightning striking a giant iconic statue of christ. Well tell you about the damage coming up. Apparently that isnt the first time lightning has stricken that statue as well. And imagine a Little Leaguer scores the winning run and is sued by his coach for what happened during the onfield celebration. What the boys dumbfounded father is saying about the half Million Dollar lawsuit. Breaking news. That terror attack in kabul, afghanistan targeting foreigners. Learning two americans were among the almost two dozen killed. The newest member of our team haimish mcdonald is following breaking developments. Welcome to abc and good morning. Reporter good morning. The death toll stands at 2 1 including two american civilians working for the American University of afghanistan. No names released because the families are still being informed. One was in the political signs faculty and other in Student Affairs this. Occurred at a lebanese restaurant in perhaps the wealthiest and possibly the safest part of kabul. Anyone thats been there can tell you whoever carried it through had to go through a number of security checkpoints to get there much the police chief responsible for the area has been stood down pending an investigation and the taliban has claimed responsibility, they say its a revenge attack, dan. An operation carried out earlier this week in which multiple civilians they say were killed. Frightening shift. Usually they go after hard targets. This time a soft target. Hamish, thank you very much for your reporting. We have another breaking story. This one out of texas. A pilot of a medevac helicopter in the middle of a Critical Mission transporting a patient blinded by a laser pointed directly into the cockpit. What happened next . Theres a federal investigation this morning and abcs susan saulny is on the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dan. A medical Helicopter Team was in the process of trying to save a life already when all of a sudden they needed to save one of their open. It was a rescue that nearly went wrong. This morning federal authorities and dallas person are looking for the person who blinded this medevac helicopter a laser pointer. Michael peruto was severely burned when a smartphone on the ground shined a green laser into the cockpit hitting him in the eyes. Prue pruett suffered a severe burn forcing him to make a landing so he could be rushed to the hospital. It can produce such a high amount of energy. It can be permanent damage. Reporter its been on the rise with at least 75 reported this month after more than 3,000 last year. Pilots are extraordinarily vulnerable to this because theres nothing that you can wear that will flash close. Reporter the suspect could face a penalty of up to 250,000 and five years in prison. Interfering with flight crew is a federal crime. The fbi has looked into these and located some of them, arrested. Several have been prosecuted. Reporter still many are not aware with the risks of a laser. You wouldnt think of a laser bringing down an airplane full of pilot. You could end up killing 400 people. You take the vision from a pilot, that aircrafts ability to land is greatly compromised. Reporter and the passengers on board are all lucky to be alive but authorities are cracking down on these incidents to prevent them from getting any worse. Bianna. Yeah, some states are trying to enact stiffer penalties. Susan, thanks to you. Well turn out west now where finally progress is being made against the destructive wildfire thats forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes outside los angeles. An epic drought, the worst in a century is fueling the blaze and forcing the governor to declare an emergency for the state. Abcs david wright has the latest from the fire zone. Reporter this unusual midwinter wildfire has meant devastating loss for some. This mans home was spared but his shed and his neighbors house are gone. The important thing is my wife and two girls are safe. Reporter california officials are now dreading what may be an endless summer of fire season. Im declaring an emergency in the state of california. Reporter Governor Brown confirmed the most populous tate in the nation is in crisis. Were facing perhaps the worst drought that california has ever seen. Reporter the drought has a direct connection to the wildfires weve been seeing because these hills are bone dry. Twothirds of the state is prone to burn. The three men accused of starting this blaze now face federal charges and up to five years in prison. Authorities say they started a campfire to keep warm. Even though there were red flag warnings. They werent trying to burn anything down. This was not intentional in any way. Reporter state officials are powerless to bring on the rain that so desperately is needed but hope scitizens will be more responsible. Hopefully itll rain eventually but in the meantime, we have to do our part. Reporter if voluntary conservation doesnt work mandatory measures may follow. A looming crisis of which this fire is only a symptom. For good morning america, david wright, abc news, azusa, california. A lot of other news developing so back over to ron. Let us. Good morning to you, dan and bianna. Sara, good morning. President obama announced major changes to the telephone surveillance program. The changes involve americans as well as people abroad. And the president also addressed his critics to say the nsa program violated privacy laws. I believe critics are right to point out that without proper safeguards this type of program could be used to yield more information about our private lives. The new guidelines will still allow the government to collect phone numbers of hums of millions of americans as well as details of who they called and when but will no longer be stored by the government. If the government wants the database it will be held somewhere else. New details this morning about the number of priests in the child sex abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church. According to documents obtained by the appreciated press former Pope Benedict defrocked 384 priests for molesting children. A drattic increase in the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009. The vatican prepared the documents to defend itself before a Committee Investigating how the church handled sex abuse allegations against priests. The West Virginia company blamed for the Chemical Spill that left 300,000 without safe drinking water, well, they have filed for bankruptcy protection. Freedom industries is facing multiple lawsuits as well you could imagine as well as state and federal investigations following that spill that contaminated the states largest water system, water restrictions lifted for most residents but pregnant women have been advised to drink bottled water still. Some amazing pictures out of brazil, the iconic christ the redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro was damaged when it was struck by a lightning thumb. The right thumb on the statue was damaged, chinned during a violence thunderstorm that swept lew rio thursday night. Another finger was chipped during another storm last month. The statue once went a fastive 4 million renovation back in 2010. And want you to look at this. Police looking for this guy. Hes cruising around an a skateboard through a target store in clearwater. Thats not why hes wanted. Hes steen shall see him leaving the store with a 32inch television. He didnt pay for that. He then is going to hop back on his skateboard and roll as way with his tv in hand through the parking lot there. There you see him. Police say he was last seen zipping down the street. You guessed it still on i skateboard and i guess we dont have to say allegedly but actually with it in his possession allegedly. Happy 50th birthday to michelle obama. She tweeted this picture on friday. Her actual birthday holding up her brandnew aarp card. Tonight, there will be a big celebration at the white house where the president whos older than 50 is hosting the festivities and told guests to wear comfortable shoes and eat before they head over to the white house where a lot of dancing is sure to be on the agenda. Just serving cocktails and desert. Uhhuh. Less to eat easy and less work for me to do. Funnels of bears as well. Too bad you werent invited. The invitation didnt get to me. Really. I got mine. Thanks, ron. Sara, you can come. Well turn overseas and the big buildup for the sochi Winter Olympics much less than three weeks away and the ongoing security concerns. Our George Stephanopoulos is the First American journalist to interview russian president Vladimir Putin ahead of the games and asked him how keep u. S. Athletes and spectator safe from terrorists. Translator if we express or show any weakness, if we show we are afraid we will encourage those terrorists in attaining their goals. S job of the olympics host is to ensure security of the participants in the olympics and visitors to this festival of sports and we will do whatever it takes. Youve put so much into the olympics going bab into 2007. So i wonder now how do you define success in sochi and is your personal honor and reputation at stake . Translator no, no, you see, i want it it to be this nations success. Its not my personal ambition. Its the direct direct interest. Concentrated interest of the state and of the people. Naturally when i see it and when we do, of course, i take pleasure in it but once again, it isnt to satisfy some ambition. Following the collapse of the ussr, following hard and lets put it bluntly, bloodsoaked developments in the caucasuses,e need to understand and capable of pulling out major largescale projects. And do so on schedule and with good quality. And not in the area or shall we say not only in the area of improving your defense tools but also in the humanitarian area including such as top level sports. Us the russian president has a lot riding on the olympics, the most expensive yet. 50 billion. And you could see more of his interview with Vladimir Putin tomorrow on abcs this week. Yes, going to be a big interview and talk about Edward Snowden and the crackdown on gays and lesbians. Well tune in tomorrow. Meanwhile, a wild, hi highspeed chase with two vehicles screaming down a tenmile stretch of a very busy highway and outofcontrol road rage and others were making calls to 911 and linzie janis is here with more. Just imagine going down the highway with two cars not just chasing each other, weaving this and out of traffic awe ramming each at other at 100 miles of hour. This twisted pile of metal is the result of an extreme case of road rage. The first 911 call coming in at 6 37 p. M. On wednesday night. Theres two cars thatting looks like road rage. They went crazy. Reporter the caller reporting two cars driving dangerously on washington states interstate 90 near the city of issaquah. And one of them just pardon me . One of them just what . Just hit the other one. Reporter the two speeding su. Versus begin slamming into each other multiple times as if trying to run each other off the road. Both of them are extremely dang dangerous. Reporter the terrifying scene playing out for ten miles endangering everyone on that road. More than a dozen 911 calls came in. I have no idea what the hell they were doing. They almost hit me. They were chasing each other. One was obviously trying to follow the other extremely closely. They were weaving in and out of traffic. Then this. They just hit each other. Reporter a final collision. The two su. Versus flipping over less mangled in the Center Median in the town of bellevue. Police say 29yearold desi beltran was driving this Ford Explorer and inside this ford, 32yearold hugo yanez. He had two passengers, a 27yearold woman said to be beltrans exgirlfriend and her 2yearold son. Its remarkable and a testimony to the increasing safety feature of vehicles that all the occupants were okay. Both drivers were treated for minor injuries and arrested. The cars totaled and putted away. Yanez quickly tried to flee the scene. They believe it was sparked by a domestic dispute. Both were in court fly. Yanez charged with two counts of hitandrun, his bail set at 20,000. Beltran was charged with a count of felony demost tick violent assault. His set at 2 million. And a 2yearold in the car. Shocking. Well turn to a developing story that has families in california on high alert for a Mountain Lion back on the prowl. Caught on camera. Helpless dogs proving no match for this clawed killer and gonzalmarci gonzalez has the story. Reporter this Mountain Lion preying on pets in a community outside los angeles is back. Mountain lion came by he went through the bench and the bushes herron. Reporter this home surveillance camera captured these images of the Mountain Lion earlier this month walking towards the outdoor area where his 80pound boxer named rocky was sleeping. The dog disappearing, no trace of him ever found. Its been rough, you know, the family is going through emotions. Reporter now weve learned just ten days later the Mountain Lion returned. The nextdoor neighbors as duke their chihuahua mix was attacked. We saw him. Hopped over with the dog in its mouth. The california fish and Wildlife Service says the extreme drought is sending more wild animals into residential areas in search of water and food. While wildfire experts explain attacks on humans are rare, neighbors are worried. Demanding that something be done to keep their pets and their families safe. Theres a lot of kids in the neighborhood, you know, and its very dangerous to be out. Now we know its serious that its something that has to be taken care of. And the california fish and Wildlife Service tells abc news under the law they cannot capture and relocate the Mountain Lion because its a protected species so for now were told theyre posting flyers and warning residents to be cautious. Tricky situation. Marci, thank you. A big change for the warrior prince. Harry will no longer be piloting an apache helicoptin a combat z. Moving to a desk job. Upside to his personal life leaving him with more time for the woman many think may be the next royal bride and abcs lama hasan has the story from london. Hey, lama. Reporter hey, good morning to you, dan. Oh, how i wish i had a crystal ball to give you that bit of information, sadly, i dont but here is what we know. This is the next phase of harrys work life. Technically hes still in the army. He is still heavily involved with military duties. Just means for now he wont be doing them from the front line. Freespirited venture around the world globetrotter, military attack pilot. And now prince harry my family be sitling down. Captain wales, a copilot during his three years with the Army Air Corp is doing what he wants. Thats right, harry is getting out of the cockpit and into a desk chair. According to Kensington Palace he will be taking a staff officer role in the british army helping to plan special events while retaining his rank as captain. The fact that hes been active of course gives him that real insight into what these people face when theyre on the front lines and what happens when theyre wounded and after, the fact it gives him this wonderful opportunity to do the Warrior Games and hes incredibly passionate about it. Reporter he attended the Warrior Games in colorado where over 300 injured troops competed. He told reporters bringing all athletes in here. Reporter while his new london address may allow him to focus pore on Charity Planning all of us will be focused on the time it allows him to spend with his girlfriend of 19 months, cressida bonas. The two were spotted at a burger joint for a lowkey date. As harry walks away from his days in action could he be setting his sights on taking this walk . I think absolutely this is a start of a new phase for harry and new phase for harry and cressida. Reporter so wedding bells arent in the air just yet but this new desk job means hell be able to help wounded servicemen and women and fulfill his royal duties and spend quality times with his girlfriend not to mention do a bit of babysitting for his nephew, george. Both settling down. Harry getting a desk job. William going back to school. We want to welcome in bill kelly where wsyx from columbus, ohio. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. We start out with some record temperatures. What a day it was yesterday. 87 in oceanside. Santa barbara, 85. Your old record was 0 degree. Sacramento at 71 and when you look at the forecast today if you were in california, man, it is going to be another warm one, 70 in sacramento. The record is 68. 83 in l. A. And as you know this time of year you could wear a coat to the beach with that marine layer, not today. You need the sunscreen for sure. On the flip side we bring you over to the midwaste and upper plains where know is in the forecast. Not a ton of snow. Were looking at a few inches up through the roy ohio river valley, getting into new england. Look at this in boston. Not expecting much for you in boston but we are going to see aly bit. If you are into the Higher Elevations you could see a couple of inches. Atlanta, waking up 26. Grab the jacket before heading out. Temperatures will warm up. Dry but it will certainly be colder than normal out there. 50s in florida. That is the look at whats going on