Kick off our exclusive dancing with the stars reveal. The cast bus arriving just moments ago. Youre about to find out why its the biggest season ever and it starts now only on gma. And we do say good morning, america. We want tot get to the breaking news as we come on the air live on the west coast. A commuter train colliding with a vehicle in los angeles. 30 people injured. Abcs cecilia vega joins us on the phone. Reporter the scene is still unfolding an details are still coming in. Heres what we know and what were seeing. There are three metro train car that is via leaptly toppled off of the track. They are turned on their side. They have flipped off of the tracks. This happened just before 6 00 a. M. This is a commuter train, people heading to work from california. About 70 miles outside of los angeles. This train was bound for los angeles. We know as you said multiple injuries. Police are telling us that more than 30 people are hurt. We are seeing at this scene people being rushed away on gurneys taken to ambulances. This is a active triage situation happening right now. Were seeing three different colored tarps on the tracks. Red where people are being treated with the most serious injuries. The most people that were seeing right now are on these yellow tarps. They have the moderate injuries. Also green tarps where well seeing people walking about. Where this train hit, it hit some kind of vehicle. Were seeing a shell of a vehicle. Perhaps, a tractortrailer. This was split in two. Its charred. Its mangled and completely burned. Obviously, this has brought Train Service to a halt robin. Again, people were headed to work this morning on this commuter train when this happened. As we were saying at least three cars derailed. Over 30 patients are being treated. Well keep everybody up to date. We get to the new winter storm. Snow and ice across the south and the deep freeze from illinois all the way to maine. Ginger is here to track it all for us. Ginger. Im about ready to stop stepping outside and having tears come out from the wind and cold. It is 4 in new york city. The windchill is subzero and we are not alone. People from maryland all the way to New Hampshire sending me pictures of their dashboards and saying, seriously, look at this. It feels like 20 below in binghamton, erie, 19 below. Pittsburgh broke records and then we talk about the snow and ice in the south. That picture was just from north of austin, texas. Now theyre dealing with another storm coming their way. Winter weather advisories in place for dallas and everywhere east and you can see why. Those two storms now one thats already in the south, one thats coming from the four corners there going to go ahead and move on. Our Steve Osunsami is just north of atlanta in adairsville where theyre seeing it at this point, steve. Reporter good morning, ginger. Heres whats making driving difficult this morning. What started off as freezing rain has now turned into ice and then snow. Across north georgia alone this nearly 100 schools have classes cancelled or delayed. Overnight White Knuckle drivers losing control. Trucks, cars and even planes slipping and then crashing. He should have not slammed on his brakes. Reporter in dallas this semi hit a patch of ice and nearly fell off the highway. And at the dallas ft. Worth airport, the ice led to thousands of canceled flights and then this. An American Airlines jet sliding off the runway, 68 passengers and crew were frightened but were unhurt. Thank this everlasting winter for hundreds of accidents monday. This latest arctic blast bringing dangerous travel from coast to coast. In amarillo, a 37vehicle pileup. We wanted to get together and do some good for some people. Reporter it took five jeeps with the drivers working together to help free tractor trailers that jackknifed across the highway. We freed the highway so thats pretty good accomplishment. Reporter in the northeast the falling ice is crashing on to cars. Id say a foot long probably half a foot wide like this. Reporter this man was hurt when a large piece of ice fell off a truck and into his windshield while he was driving. He needed 30 stitches and is recovering this morning. Weather might also be to blame for this explosion in new jersey. A tanker blew up after the driver lost control flipping it over an exit ramp. I looked across the way and theres like a towering inferno of smoke. Reporter all of this is shaping of for a nasty commute this morning. On the way here we passed by one wreck which will be one of many today. The veteran affair secretary is under fire after he was captured on camera making false claim. Robert mcdonald is apologizing saying he was in the special forces and Martha Raddatz has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, robin. This comes after the suspension of nbc anchor Brian Williams for exaggerating experiences in iraq and accusations of exaggeration then strong denials from foxs bill oreilly about his war coverage. But this morning, it is a member of the president s cabinet who is under fire. He is the head of our nations troubled Veterans Affairs, the man brought in to clean up the department, but now bob mcdonald has created some trouble of his own. That is mcdonald in a cbs report last month talking to Homeless Veterans claiming service in the countrys elite u. S. Special forces. Army . What unit . Special forces. Special forces. What years . I was in special forces. Reporter but that is simply not true. Mcdonald is a veteran and west point graduate but he did not serve in special forces, a tightknit highly Trained Group which includes navy s. E. A. L. S and green berets, some of whom called mcdonald out for making that claim. Overnight, mcdonald admitted his error in a statement saying i incorrectly stated that i had been in special forces. That was inaccurate and i apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. I have Great Respect for those who have served our nation in special forces. The apology was quickly acknowledged by the white house. We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work hes doing to promote the health and wellbeing of our nations veterans. While mcdonald seems to have the backing of the white house it is the veterans whose support he needs and making claims when he was in an elite group when he was not could hurt that. George. Well watch, thanks. We turn to health news and what could be a game changer in fighting the recent explosion of peanut allergies. A study shows feeding peanut products to infants can cut the risk of developing the allergy and we bring in dr. Richard besser. This goes against everything weve been hearing. Every once in a while a study comes out and you say, wow. This goes against everything i was taught as a pediatrician and what ive been telling parents. Weve been saying to parents that the best way to prevent peanut allergy in your children is hold off on peanuts for the first three years of life. Turns out that was wrong. In this study they took 640 babies between 4 months and 11 months, they were all at high risk of peanut allergies. Half said no peanut for the first five years of life, the other they said peanuts three times a week and followed them. At five years those who are peanuts three times a week, 80 fewer of them had peanut allergies. What was behind the explosion . You and i didnt have this . You know, one of the thoughts is that weve made the world too clean for children. This idea that our children need to be exposed to things early in life so that our immune system tones down. It gets used to seeing these things so when it sees them later it doesnt develop all these reactions that were seeing right now. What should parents do with this new information . If your child has Food Allergies or at high risk they need to be skin tested before you do anything here because they may already have an allergy but for other children, you want to start them being exposed to a wide variety of foods when theyre babies and thats very, very important. Weve changed how we feed babies now. No milk, no honey but Everything Else is good to go for babies in the first year of life. Parents can have a lot of questions and will you be taking them on twitter this morning. All morning. Now to that bizarre kidnapping and attempted bank robbery in connecticut. Two suspects still at large after paralyzing one neighborhood there. Abducting a Bank Executive, tying up his mother at their home threatening to kill both of them. Abcs gio benitez is in new britain, connecticut. With the very latest on all this. Good morning, gio. Reporter good morning to you, robin. Investigators right now believe these crooks were trying to get into the vault here at this Small Community bank really using some hollywood tactics to get it done. This morning, the search is on for two men believed to have held a Bank Executive and his mother hostage in a dramatic bank robbery scheme that paralyzed parts of connecticut evacuating apartments and locking down schools. Theres no question that this was a very scary situation. Reporter just after 8 a. M. Monday, Police Responding to a report of a Home Invasion at this house in bristol. Belonging to a local banks chief financial officer, Matthew Yussman seen here in his facebook profile. It infiltrated with the s. W. A. T. Team, police from plainville came. Police from newington and brought one of those big humvees. Reporter sources telling abc news two men tied yussmans 70yearold mother to a bed inside that house leaving something that looked like an explosive device under the bed and they put another device on yussman forcing him to drive 20 minutes to the achieve credit union where he is an executive threatening to detonate the device under his mothers bed and kill him if he didnt empty the vault. Yussman never making it into the bank but managing to call a colleague who called police. They encountered an adult male in a Motor Vehicle who had what appeared to be an explosive device strapped to his person. Reporter authorities rendering the devices safe. The two suspects getting away without hurting yussman or his mother. The investigation does remain very fluid, very active and is expected to continue into the near future. Reporter and right now, those two men are still on the loose but police say that there is no threat to the community right now this morning. Again, mom and son are okay this morning. That is what is most important but youre saying the authorities about the suspects, no real leads here . Reporter well, right now police arent telling us a whole lot but we dont even know at this point if they know who these guys even are. All right, gio, thanks very much. We turn to that scare at Wesleyan University where a dozen kids have been hospitalized, two in Critical Condition after taking a bad batch of molly. Abcs david wright has the story. Reporter this morning, authorities here in middletown are trying to trace the source of drugs that caused a serious situation. Your patient is a 20yearold male, chief complaint, overdose. Reporter a close call for a dozen kids at this elite new england college. Its very just shocking. Reporter early sunday morning ambulances rushed eight patients from two dorms and this coed campus club known as the eclectic house to a local hospital. Four more checked themselves in. Got another one on foss hill. An overdose. Reporter the symptoms consistent with an overdose of a designer drug known as molly. Fast heart rate, high blood pressure. Agitation, hallucinations, but that can quickly progress to more severe symptoms. Reporter molly is the street name for a crystaline powder form of mdma or ecstasy home made in a lab and often cut with other drugs. Toxicologists say an overdose can cause liver, kidney or heart failure. Two of the wesleyan cases were serious enough that the patients had to be airlifted to hartford hospital. Keep in mind you never know what youre going to get. Theres no guarantees and a drug dealer is not going to tell you whats in that magic pill theyre selling you. Reporter the wesleyan president now issued a campuswide statement, please, please stay away from illegal substances and warning one mistake can change your life forever. For Good Morning America, david wright, abc news, middletown, connecticut. Thanks to david for that. Gma weekend anchor dan harris in for amy with the other top stories. Good morning, everybody. Well start with breaking news. The latest active aggression from isis kidnapping at least 90 christians in syria. Activists say Islamic State fighters took them monday as they overran several villages in northeastern syria. Not clear what they plan to do with them. This abduction followed the recent beheadings of 21 egyptian christians in libya. A big setback for Chris Christie the governor of new jersey. And potential president ial candidate. A state judge says he broke the law when he slashed 1. 6 billion in payments to the state pension fund. He now has to make up the difference. Christie has promoted himself as a governor who cuts spending without raising taxes. A wild pursuit near los angeles. A man wanted for reckless driving sped away from police weaving through traffic reaching 135 miles an hour even hitting a pedestrian. Police finally rammed the truck causing it to lose control and slam into another car. The driver surrendered after a 30minute standoff. His passenger was not hurt. And look at this horrifying crash in boston. A pickup truck slamming into a light pole on the highway flying off the upper deck and plunging down to the lower deck beneath. Oncoming cars hit their brakes to avoid another crash. Amazingly this driver survived and he has now been charged with drunk driving. Fog may be to blame for the boat crashing into a restaurant in florida. The people inside ran for their lives after hearing the loud crash. Seven people were on the boat at the time. Two of them got hurt but not badly. Also from florida this morning a rescue team led by seaworld worked overnight to save more than a dozen manatees that got stuck in a 36inch storm drain. Manatees are often attracted to warmer water in drainpipes during winter. This morning nasa says that streak of light seen overnight in the sky over montana, idaho and utah was not a meteor but likely the remains of a rocket that launched a chinese satellite, the burning rocket was about 90 miles above earth at the time. Finally, tired of shoveling snow this winter . Look at one guy in canada, look at what he did. He trained his Labrador Retriever to do it for him. Her name is elsa fittingly and fittingly she loves the snow. Here she is clearing the backyard hockey rink. Interestingly, i have taught our three cats to do a similar trick where they stare at me blankly with barely concealed content while i attempt to clean up the hairballs they have coughed up on the rug. Not quite the same thing but a similar spirit, i think. Maybe next year. I love how elsa was wagging her tail. She does love the snow. Now to drier weather in the southwest perhaps. Not dry. It was actually just north of los angeles. Look at this with me. Hail in Southern California. You can see it covering the ground here in this persons backyard and a land spout that youre looking at and the same low pressure system is going to move off to the east. 63 will be the high in las vegas. This is after a day where they had snow on the ground in some of the suburbs. Los angeles goes to 74. Remember i was telling you guys, brilliant sunshine in l. A. After we had such a rainy and cool weekend. 63, san francisco. Almost 70 in san diego. Phoenix will be in the 60s. That low is very close. You know who feels warm . The folks waking up in fog. Tampa, just over a quarter mile of visibility. One mile in naples and one mile in key west but it is going to burn off to a beautiful day. Spring break type weather. Talking 80s from miami back to ft. Myers. West palm beach. Daytona, a little cooler and then that stationary front makes everybody colder north of there. That little icy pocket we watch in the deep south. Well get your local forecast. Good morning, i am meteorologist mike nicco with the bay area play crow Climate Change forecast. Get ready for sun and dry air and calmer conditions this afternoon 50 afternoon and patchy fall and showers on friday and saturday and on light side. Lowtomid 60s is the cool spot along the cost and 65 to 68 for the rest us. 30s inland and no freezing cold them tonight. The sevenday forecast show up to 70s by thursday and lowtomid 60s and breezy with showers on friday 24 days until the official start of spring but somebody is getting a jump start. Walk through that path and dream of warmer weather. Great idea. It is a great idea. Made me happy. That helps a little bit. A little. Okay, coming up on gma, the latest on the las vegas mother murdered on her front lawn. The suspect is in court and her husband is speaking out this morning. Also ahead, one of the winners of that massive Powerball Jackpot, she is here, a mother of four telling us all about her big plans. Its an abc news exclusive. 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