Were kicked off an overbooked delta plane and threatened with jail after being forced to give up a seat they purchase for their baby. This is a federal offense. You and your wife will be in jail. What the family is now saying this morning. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to. We do. This thursday morning, that big announcement from Buckingham Palace. You see it there live. Prince philip is retiring from public life. Well have more on that ahead. It is International Firefighters day and michael is with the fdny on his way to a very special event that honors the boldest and the bravest and we can see youre in Great Company there, michael. I am here with denis leary, robin and george. Say hello, denis. Hi, guys. Gearing up for our big firefighter challenge heading to salute our boldest and bravest and im going to do something i never thought id do and ill do it on live tv and you dont want to miss it, but you dont want to miss it. Yeah, im a little scared but im not scared. Hes not scared because im the one who has to do it. Hell commentate the whole thing. You know what, ill throw it back to you and see you in a little bit. I guarantee you we wont miss that. News out of washington, hours away from the big vote and their new bill to replace the obamacare act has enough support to pass the house. President trump will sign an executive order relaxing restrictions on political activity by churches and charities making good on a Campaign Promise and heads to new york this afternoon, his first trip back to his hometown since the inauguration. First to capitol hill where the Health Care Vote will get under way. The republicans making some major changes overnight. Adding an 8 billion amendment to help cover preexisting conditions. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce has more details for us. Good morning there, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. Well, for seven years House Republicans have been waiting for this day and now after weeks of debate, phone calls, even some arm twisting and personal pitches from the president , House Republicans are poised to act on their signature promise to the american people, to repeal and replace obamacare. Overnight the House Majority leader confident, republicans are on the cusp of victory. Were going to pass it. Were going to pass it. Lets be optimistic whether life. Reporter announces they have enough votes to hold the vote. You feel good about it . I feel great about the count. Reporter the last big Sticking Point concerns the bill would undermine protections for americans with preexisting conditions but on wednesday two key republicans struck a deal with the white house to bring the bill back to life. With this addition that we brought to the president and sold him on in over an hour meeting in here with him there were both yeses on the bill. Reporter a new amendment giving states 8 billion over five years to help cover americans with preexisting conditions. Is this funding enough to protect people with preexisting conditions . I asked the question whether the funds would be sufficient and the answer was, yes. Reporter the medical Community Overwhelmingly disagrees saying thats just a drop in the bucket. The American Medical Association warning that people with preexisting conditions will get secondclass Health Care Coverage if they are able to obtain coverage at all. House republicans have spent weeks tweaking the plan in order to obtain enough support to finally dismantle the Affordable Care act. The current bill phases out obamacare subsidies in favor of tax credits to help americans buy insurance. Ends penalties over time with americans without insurance and phasing out the expansion of medicaid and lets states opt out of other provisions. Like Maternity Care and even ambulances. Now, democrats are blasting the bill saying it will have dire consequences. The original version was projected to leave 24 million more americans uninsured over the next decade. Now, House Republicans are moving forward today before the new version has been analyzed meaning we still dont know exactly how Many Americans stand to lose coverage or how much this bill will cost. And we do know, mary, this bill still faces an uphill battle in the senate. Reporter yeah, if this goes on to the senate it is likely to be ripped apart. They are going to scrutinize this all over again on everything from medicaid to how americans will pay for their coverage. This is a big day for republicans but the bigger fight, robin, is far from over. It is. All right, mary, thank you. Lets get more from our chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. A couple months ago when they pulled the bill the president seemed to give up but got reengaged over the last several days. Reporter he did in a personal and direct way, take the case of congressman billy long. A relatively Junior Member from the state of missouri, who was a no vote after he announced he was no, the president spent 20 minutes on the phone with him the night before last going over his concerns and then he brought him here to the white house with that small group, spent over an hour as you heard in the oval i proposal to address his the president has been doing this over and over again with individual members of congress and small the kind of stuff president obama hated to do. This president seems to relish it. As mary suggested in some way house members are flying blind with the vote and dont know the full cost of the bill, dont know how many people it will cover. I was struck yesterday, you were in the Briefing Room with sean spicer. He seemed to admit that which means it could face multiple different challenges in the senate. Reporter it certainly remember, there are only 52 republicans in the senate so its a very small margin of error. Really any republican senator can put this in jeopardy, george. And there are a number of concerns. You heard mary mention some of them. What it does with medicaid. Overall concerns on cost and coverage. But i think it would be a mistake to assume as many do that this would be dead on arrival in the senate. Republicans have been campaigning on this for seven years. Theyre working on addressing this issue. I think there is a chance that they can get this done in the senate even though the odds are very large. The criticism from senators has been more muted this time around, okay, jon karl, thanks very much. And, george, the president not only facing a big day for health care, hes also heading here to new york city this afternoon. Where security is stepping up ahead of his meeting with australias Prime Minister. Now, before he heads here, he is planning to sign that executive order focused on political activity by churches and charities. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega with those details for us. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hi, robin. Good morning to you. This will be all part of the national day of prayer that takes place later today here at the white house. The president expected to sign this executive order that essentially eases restrictions on religious organizations that participate in politics. This has to do with that sixdecadeold rule known as the Johnson Amendment that the president promised to destroy. Lets look at what this new executive order would do. It allows churches and other religious groups to support or oppose candidates without risking their taxexempt status and offers regulatory relief for religious objectors to an obamacare era mandate that required contraception. As part of health plans but it had been scaled back by the courts and not told details on what relief would entail. But still a lot of people are not pleased with this and a lot of protests are planned when the president comes back to new york city for the First Time Since his inauguration. Tell people about the preparations here in the city. Reporter youre exactly right. Law enforcement preparing for big protest, this, as you know, will be the first trip for the president back to his home in new york city. Hes going there today to meet with australias Prime Minister. Part of that will take place on that decommissioned aircraft carrier, the uss intrepid. We are told among the things they will be talking about today that allimportant issue of north korea. Yes, and being here back in new york city, of course, hell be visiting with his family and opened up about his family in a recent interview. Reporter a rare opening up from the president. This took place in bloomberg. The president says that the first lady and his son barron, his 11yearold son will be moving here to the white house, robin. He says they just got barron into a good school here in washington. All right, cecilia, thank you. Well find out soon what it is. We move on to james comey grilled on capitol hill over his decision to publicly reopen the Hillary Clinton email investigation just 11 days before the election and the continuing investigation into any ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas covers the fbi. Good morning. Reporter good morning, george. Weve never seen comey quite this animated. This emotional as he gave his most detailed account yet about his impact on last years election. Tell me what you would do. Reporter an emotional james comey in perhaps his most dramatic testimony as fbi director. Look, this is terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election. Reporter referring to that bombshell moment in late october when he made the decision to reignite the closed investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. Wounds that still run deep. Just this week clinton in part blaming comey for her november loss. I was on the way to winning the election had been on october 27th id be your president. Reporter thats the day that comeys staff requested an urgent meeting telling him they discovered thousands of potential new Clinton Emails in connect with the sexting investigation of anthony weiner, the husband of one of clintons top aide, huma abedin. We may be finding the golden missing emails that would change this case. Reporter with that the fbi director said he faced a critical dilemma. Would you speak or would you conceal . Speak would be really bad. Theres an election in 11 days. Lordy, that would be really bad. Reporter that meant notifying congress the clinton case was back open 11 days before the election which was surely to leak and concealing, keeping the investigation secret concealing in my view would be catastrophic. Not just to the fbi, but well beyond and honestly as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, weve got to walk into the world of really bad. I would make the same decision. Reporter the renewed clinton investigation ultimately yielded nothing significant. Thank you, all. Reporter democrats are angered at even as he investigated Clinton Comey never revealed he was also investigating alleged ties between Trump Associates and russia in the days before the election. Comey offered no apologies refusing to give details on that case but that investigation is ongoing and now takes center stage. George. Thats right. More hearings next week. President trump is now tweeting this morning about susan rice, president Obamas National Security adviser, shes not testifying. She says she will only testify if its a bipartisan request. So far it is not. Up early tweeting again. All right, george. Now to breaking news overnight, the royal family summoning staff to Buckingham Palace for an emergency meeting about Prince Philip. Our chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran is outside the palace with those details. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It feels like the end of an era here. For 70 years almost every time we saw Queen Elizabeth in public engagements there by her side supporting her, her husband, Prince Philip, the duke of edinburgh but this morning the palace announcing that beginning in the autumn Prince Philip will no longer carry out most public engagements. He will be stepping back from public life and so beginning in the autumn when we see Queen Elizabeth at those engagements shell be going it alone. A stunning announcement this morning from Buckingham Palace. Prince philip, the duke of edinburgh will be stepping down from public life starting this august. The announcement a source of intense speculation overnight as the queen called her household to a meeting just hours ago setting off wild rumor mongering that the family could be announcing an illness, an abdication or a possible marriage proposal. Just yesterday the 95yearold Prince Philip was seen greeting well wishers and cutting the ceremonial ribbon at this cricket event. But his health has become a frequent source of speculation the last few years. This past Christmas Phillip and the queen who had been married for 69 years delayed their annual holiday after both coming down with heavy colds. He was also hospitalized several times since 2008 with chest pains. He has been by his wifes side while she has reigned for nearly seven decades. He gave it all up to do his job to be the support for the queen. I doubt they could do it without each other. Reporter when he turned 90 he mentioned his desire to step back from public life and spoke about his most important duty. So your first duty first and foremost to support the queen. Yes. What does that involve . Helping her and supporting her, doing anything that is valuable to her. Reporter what this means is that the royal family is now in a period of transition. Prince charles and camilla will take on a bigger role as will the younger royal, prince william, kate and prince harry. George. As you said the end of an era. Thanks very much. We bring the folks back home to that record flooding in the midwest. Rivers have burst from heavy rains damaging hundreds of homes, closing roads and highways and alex perez is on the scene in missouri. Good morning, alex. Reporter hey, good morning. Here in this neighborhood the river and this street has become one. Its been a nonstop operation to keep the water from getting inside homes. Overnight, a flash flood emergency for arkansas residents. With entire communities like pocahontas swallowed by overflowing water. Today they have identified nine levee breaches. It is so going to hit the bridge. Reporter the current sending this cabin on the loose slamming right into a bridge. Oh, my god. Reporter in missouri residents still on high alert. You could see the debris that the river has swept on top of the bridge. Reporter as the Merrimack River continues to swell now 27 feet above flood stage damaging at least 200 homes nearby with many roads and highways across the state shut down. Eureka, emergency crews and at least 2,000 volunteers worked around the clock filling over 250,000 sandbags. The results of all those volunteers working, the sandbags held. The pumps are still working and theres no water in these businesses. Its going to get stuck. Reporter in louisiana all students on this bus safe after this scary situation, stuck in floodwaters at an intersection before the bus tipped to the side. After severe storms dropped about 8 inches of rain in some areas. And no relief here just yet. More rain expected today before they can finally begin assessing the damage here. George. Yeah, those waters are high. Alex, thanks very much. Amy with todays other top stories. Manhunt over in maryland. Thats right. Police in maryland captured escaped prisoner david watson. They used night vision to track him to a Drainage Pipe where they say he had been hiding. He had been on the run since last week when he escaped while being transferred serving a 100year sentence for attempted murder. Well, two people are dead after a shooting inside a sports bar in arlington, texas. Police say a man shot and killed an employee after an argument and another customer with a concealed handgun shot the gunman possibly saving other lives. Investigators near boston say a freak suv crash that left three people dead was a tragic accident, not intentional. The suv suddenly accelerated smashing through the wall of a car auction. One of those killed was an employee and mother of three. It was just her first day on the job. Well, in oklahoma a school bus dash cam captured this crash. Look at that. A truck veering into oncoming traffic flipping over. Three people were injured but everybody on that bus was okay. An important warning if you use gmail. A scam is targeting up to 1 billion accounts. It comes in the form of an email from someone you know asking to open a google doc. Do not open it. It is a worm that could steal all of your data. All of your contacts information. Google says it is now taking action to stop it. Finally, we want to recognize a Police Officer who went the extra mile to protect and serve. When atlanta officer shane milton caught a 12yearold stealing a pair of 2 shoes for her sister, he decided to investigate. He took her home and found a family in dire need. Not only did he buy them all pizzas and drinks he is helping to collect clothes for the children, redefining the term