Their big splash. Shake it off shake it off rock n roll showdown. Taylor, beyonce, iggy, all vying for musics biggest prize but will they have to shake it off . Oh wont you stay with me will sam smith rock the music world and score a major upset with a grammy . Stay with him. And good morning, america. Award season is here. Music on tap this sunday night with the grammys. Cant wait for that. Also, talk about award season we have a huge i mean humongous announcement concerning the oscars. You dont want to miss that. Thats coming up. Now lets go to ginger with more on the rain out west. Not just the rain. The wind. Gusting to 70 miles per hour. Check out the radar here. Just all over the west coast here from Northern California up through coastal oregon. Thats the Morning Hours and the next 24 hours. We have not only high Wind Warnings and adviseoryies from parts of california, through nevada, the northern rockies, a couple in washington state. Those haveare for the sustained winds. 30 to 535 miles an hour fusing to 60 or 70. The north bay area im worried about. The 101, santa rosa. Some of those places will have flooding in the next 24 hours. A surge of moisture that will bring all of the flooding toe penal that for all the way through your friday and early saturday morning. And then, well start to dry out. How much rain can you anticipate . Look at this . Near monterey, some four to six inches. A little bit less as you go farther south. Crescent city in the 12plus. Rob snn. All right, ginger, thank you. To the latest in the transasia plane crash, at least 35 people killed, 8 still missing. Authorities in taiwan revealing what took place in the final seconds before the plane went down. Abcs david kerley has the latest for us and joins us. Reporter its the black boxes and they are very telling with one engine down, the pilots apparently shut down the good engine. The final moments of the transasia flight, its clear the turboprop just doesnt have enough power before clipping a bridge and crashing into taipeis river . Why . Trouble with one engine, but then a possible fatal mistake. It looks as if they may have shut down the wrong engine. We are collecting factual information. Reporter this morning, that blockbuster revelation from the blac of pene just five seconds after the atr72 takes off the crew knows something is wrong. Ten seconds in, an engine warning light, the right engine goes to idle. And more than 30 seconds into the flight, the pilots pull back the throttle on the left engine, the good one, and try to restart it. Its essentially a glider. Reporter that as more survivals come to light including the cab driver and the car hit by the wing. Abcs Hamish Macdonald saw the aftermath. You can see where the wing smashed into it. The forensic investigator told us that if the car was any further forward or any lower to he wouly reporter cab driver asseved. 15 people in thraft now, the t very prompt in releasing this information. But theyre not drawing any ons the Investigation Continues but, well turn to a new measles scare in another major c five babies from a Day Care Center in chicago contracted the disease. At least ten more may have been exposed. Abcs chief health and medical eb good morning, george. These babies, they were too young to be vaccinated. And around the country, official this is morning are facing the challenge of convincing some parents that vaccination is more this morning, more measles this day care at a chicago bb hurtha fie have been diagnosed witthe 3 up to ten other infants are at risk and these are children that are probably not vaccinated because they are many of them are under the age necessary to receive their first vaccination. Reporter Major Medical groups like the cdc trying to convince parents that childhood vaccinations not only protect their children but everyone elses babies from the infectious diswell in the last decade rumors of a tie between autism and vaccines led parents in 19 states to legally opt out of vaccines for personal beliefs. Those rumors now discredited. Autism speaks, the countrys preeminent science and advocacy group, saying thursday, vaccines do not cause autism. We urge that all children be fully vaccinated. Take a look at mississippi. With no optout pro visions. The state has a 99 kindergarten vaccination rate. And has had no cases of measles since 1992. Compare that to california where more than 17,000 parents refuse vaccinations last year alone. Its vaccination rate just 92 with 99 measles cases since december. This california resident says he would rather her son have the measles than the vaccine. So far, hes been happy and healthy. I dont see any reason to inject unknown toxins into his system. That doesnt seem necessary to me. Reporter this measles vaccine has been used for decades and has been found to be safe and effective. And the wonderful thing about it, it protects not only the person receiving it. But also those like the babies in this day care who are too young to be vaccinated themselves. And leads to the question how could it get into the Day Care Center . From a day care worker or an older sibling. When these workers come back theyll require that theyre all fully vaccinated. And so many questions out there. Youll take them again oner. O now to that deadly commuter train disaster outside new york city. Moments before the including a 911r he and questions about how mother of three go hecks. Abcs linsey dan th seen in hawthorne, new york, reporter good morning, rob you see the sou passing through right now and investigators plan to bere sverrday one top priority determining the circumstances that caused elle brody to drive her on these railroad tracks. Among other things, they plan on looking at her cell phone records at the time of the tracks. Was she perhaps distracted . Also the fact this was a newcar through debris and pieces of third rail inside the interior o train, new details are emerging about the actions leading up to the charred remains. Report of an explosion on the trac. Clues into the mystery of how ellen brody ended up driving her car on to the tracks. Because the traffic was heavy, we were backed up. Reporter as the driver right behind ellen brody, rick hope, watched the whole horrifying ordeal. First he says the gate came down and he saw her get out of her car. He describes what happened next to gannetts lohud website. I gestured to her to come back. She turns, walks, gets back in the car. Slight hesitation. And then moves forward, and that that instant, the train came. Reporter Officials Say there was an accident that night on a nearby highway which diverted traffic to this road with the Railroad Crossing but the lights at the crossi the flashing and a few secoas designed, the crossing arms activated. Reporter in an interview thursday with steven small, the trains engineer, he told investigators he saw the suv drive on to the tracks and activated the brake. And sounded the horn for four seconds. But it was too late. It could not stop in time. He was later credited with the s and just, you know, in his mind, i wish i could have saved more. Reporter ellen brody, the mother of three, will be laid to thing. Rob snn all right, linsey, thank you well go to amy with the other top stories that are thank you very much. I appreciate that. Ornou ane we begin with questions about the security of turbotax, a program used by m o n. Thisig te of minneso ace tax returns filed on turbot because of what officials cllppaud. They say some users logged into the site only to find a return had already been prepared in their name. Similar cases have been reported in 19 other states. And china may be to blame for the massive data breach at anthem, the s snd Largest Health insu investigators say the cyberattack which compromised the personal iorma to ln of chinese ha the breach is evidence ofe growing cybertaga experts say many of the companies are unprepared. President obama is preparing to ask congress to authorize military force against isis. New video showlane jordan bombg isning jordan has promised this is only the beginning of its campaign agains and breaking overnight, a possible truce in eastern ukraine. The government and prorussian rebels have agreed to form a allo civso f1 o today european leadrs a moscow presenting a pe to president putin. And a bne in the sports world. Debate is raging about an nba stars comm fem reelasts chris paul was slapped with a technical foul after questi a call made by lauren holtkamp, one of the leagues two female ffi paul called her ruling terrible and ridiculous and said this might not be for her. Many critics this morning calling that remark sexist. And a nasty crash for bode miller just back from his hiatus. He crashed after hooking his arm o ooh. Happened during a race in e samstnjuy but then he later tweeted this picture calling the surgery a success. T finally, spe p, tt r its a touching moment of human kindness that shows a teenager who just bought a necktie at aon. A shopper snapped this picture as the teen was heading to first Job Interview at the chickfila restaurant downo c other employees then gathered give himadv say during the interview, telling him how to give a strong hand shake. Some were tearyeyed as they sent him off and so this morning we decided up of cil im not kidding d and were waiting. Well find out next week. The application is in review so fingers crossed. You got me a littlof1 great story. It was really sweet because he asked for a clipon tie and they said they didnt have one. And then o thank y n notnto the nbc anchor has now apologized after veterans criticized him for falsely claiming he was on a helicopter in iraq that was hit by a rocket rocketpropelled grenade. David wright is here with that its war story Brian Williams has told time and again in various forms. But soldiers that were there say thats not how they remember it, forcing williams to apologize. I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago. Repobc ly corrected a story he ran last friday night. I want to apologize. I said i was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by rpg fire. I was instead in a following aircraft. Reporter that st tribute to a soldier whose platoon williams claimed sav his lif stae iraq war when williams and his team were beddu. S. The news anchor took his old war buddy, now retired to a new york rangers game. Ladies and gentlemen, during the iraq invasion u. S. Arm command Sergeant Major tim turpak was responsible for th safety of Brian Williams and nbc news ter chinook helicopter was hit and crippled by enemy fire. Reporter a heartwarming reunion spoiled after nbc posted the story to its facebook page. Sorry, dude, i dont remember you being on my aircraft, Flight EngineerLance Reynolds wrote in the comments. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we landed to ask me what had happened . Door gunner mike okeeffe even called Brian Williams a liar. R cia w is back in kuwait city after a close call the reporter in 2003 williams initial reports were vague about whether his helicopter was hit. But his dateline version has this detail. On the ground we learned the chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky. Reporter over the years, however, his story has changed. On alec baldwins radio show. Did you think you would die . Briefly. Sure. id an were hit by firno k rpg and ak47. Reporter there are conflicting accounts by chopr pilots who claim to have flown williams and his crew that day. The controversy as been trending on twitter for two days. Brianwilliamsmisremembers. Late night comedians are starting to weigh in, too. Williams said the helicopter part was true butoin peroer f a reporter nbc news has had no comment beyond williams onair apology for last fridays piece. On last nights broadcast no mention at all of the story. Still, a lot of Unanswered Questions out there. And we should note that stars and stripes magazine broke this story picking up comments from the nbc facebook page. Okay, david, thank you. Now to a new mexico man who thought he won the jackpot and was told dont go spending it just yet. See, there was a misprint on the ticket and he was told, no, he didnt win. With more than 500,000 on the line he is fighting back. Take aok a man and more than 500,000 he believes is his. He won. He matched the same 1, the number 1 on the top of this ticket. Reporter 65yearold john wines, a retired heating and airconditioning technician thought he hit the jackpot on his ruby 75 scratchoff ticket he bought last december. You can see it here. According to the rules, for every number 1 or 2 he is supposed to win the prize for the amount underneath. Unfortunately, the new Mexico Lottery has decided theyre not playing it because its a misprint. Reporter but the lottery claims his jackpot is really a jack not. Pointing this out. Officials told wines thats an error on his ticket making his win invalid. We believe the statute is very clear that the game is about matchin he hed mber they need to pay. Or basically, theyre cheaters. Reporter but instead of trying his luck again at the lotnes ooki for luccourhe n Mexico Lottery for 500,625, thats the amount he believes the Winning Ticket is worth. And while new mexico state lottery officials told our affiliate on wednesday they cant comment on pending litigation, the lawsuit is not just about the fortune to be had. He says they also want to make sure this kind of misfortune dst nyon yeah, so we say hes not w goe. Likehave we certainly will. Ginger, temperatures plunging all over the east coast. Oh, my toes are already frozen. Yes, its cold. Wind chill advisories from parts of wes virginia up to maine. Thats becaus you get this cold yo exposed skin, it can become dangerous. Especially in new england. Buffalobelow. The feels like ifn chicago, 5. St. Louis, feels like the 20s. If youre traveling to the east, it will be cold at least for one more day. 15 below the feels like in saranac lake. Sunday night into monday, the snow moves through. The northern great lakes. Eventually, just north of new york city is where we see some of the heaviest snow totals come in. A lot of totals bringing this farther north and west. New england, 10plus inches. Good morning, i am meteorologist mike nicco with the bay area forecast. You can see it is breezy and we are waiting for the half rain to roll in. It will roll in this morning and hang around through evening. It will scattered to lighter showers tomorrow and the second round of heavy rain and thunder is possible on sunday. Temperatures are very mild today, lowtoupper 60s and with the rain tapering to light showers we are still in the midtoupper 50s. The sevenday forecast shows it will finally be dry on mond now, amy, i did send you a gift. Its just it got there a little late. See, you were in phoenix and its 83 today. Youre going to do it, arent you . Happy birthday. Somebody really sent her a gift. Just tweeted my freshman Year High School yearbook page. Well have to share that. Also coming up here on gma, we have three members of the coast guard involved in a deadly shootout. The explosive incident under investigation this morning. 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