Dude, seriously, lets go. Racing to pull the balloon to a safe landing. The dramatic rescue caught on ram ka. And star wars is here. Okay. For what . Hollywood on lockdown for the huge premier. Oscars. All right, lets light it up. Fans line upper more than a week to get the first look. You might need this. The force about to awaken live this morning on gma. We do say good morning, america. The force is with us. The big star wars world premier tonight. Were celebrating this morning with one of the stars. Rolling out the red carpet. A lot more on that ahead this morning. Look at bb8 coming. Hell the one of the most popular. Central park packed. There it is. People running in shorts. Take a look at this, as well. Mountain skreek ski resort in new jersey. Thats last year. Here it was on sunday. Nothing. Nothing at all. We all know about green bay. Coldest place in the world to play football. Not yesterday. They dont wear shirts even when its cold. Even when its the frozen tundra. Those cheeseheads are serious. No doubt. Ginger will have more. Lets go to kendis gibson, hes in lufkin, texas. Powerful storms there. Reporter george, powerful being the key word. This give use a sense of how powerful the storms were. This, right here, 1 of 64 Freight Train cars tossed around. Across the highway, there goes another one. All across the highway over the weekend. Today, a massive cleanup effort under way here as well as other parts of texas. Thats a tornado. A weekend of wicked weather terrifying texas. Everywhere. Reporter three tornadoes touching down. Tornado just hit my neighborhood. Reporter that home completely obliterated. The homes to the left and right, missing the twister. At least 50 houses suffering damage. The mayor of lindale declaring a diszaster. I think the lord sent us away and he spared us. Reporter this morning, as people are left cleaning up, the red cross on the scene to help. And here in lufkin, that tossed Freight Train. We had really heavy winds. Reporter winding picking up and fliging 64 car on their sides. And to the north, kansas looking a lot like a frozen tundra. Blizzardlike conditions sent cars sliding off the road. This tractor trailer getting crews struggling to keep up. Texas d. O. T. Officials cleared the highway just in time for the morning rush hour. But with 62 more of these cars to go, it will be days before theyre all upright. Robin . Quite a scene. Kendis, thank you. The weather a headline here for a different reason. Record heat in the east. Temperatures hitting the 70s in some areas on sunday, including the new york area. Its going to be warm on christmas. Lets head outside to ginger. This mild and warm pattern is going nowhere. Just the fact that i can stand here in a dress in mid december and not be chilled at all, you know somethings up. Lets look up at lake superior. You can see last year, the snow and the ice covering it. Now, ice free. It looks almost tropical. Weve been allowed this kind of tropical warm air coming up. Dozens of highs broken over the cleveland hit 70. New york city central park, 67. The jet stream, all through next week. Blocking the polar air. It wont block santa. It will be much above average. Were talking 10 to 20 degrees by the time we reach mid and end george . Wow, that is something. The race for president now. Sed set to face off tomorrow night. Ted cruise is surging in the polls. Nationally. Reporter good morning. One of the iowa polls shows senator cruz with a tenpoint lead. Trump who usually loves the polls when hes winning, calling that poll biased towards him. Hes still the frontrunner nationally, as you can see. On the eve of the debate, the big story is ted cruz. This morning, a shakeup in the gop race for president. Backtoback polls showing senator ted cruz now the man to dornld trump not happy about it. You look at how he has dealt with the senate. He goes in there a little bit like a maniac. Reporter cruise reacting on social media. Posting a vivid yo of the famous maniac dance scene. Shes a maniac maniac at your love reporter but trump not laughing offer the audio of cruz speaking behind closed doors with donors surfaced, questioning if trump was fit to be commander in chief. Thats a question of strength. But its also a question of judgment. Reporter trump striking back. Tweeting i was disappointed that ted cruz would speak behind my back, get caught. Cruz goes into the debate with target on his back. The only budge hes voted for is a budget that cut defense spending. Snl taking a look at the gop race with blast from the past. Rubio and cruz, sounds like a miami law firm. If youve been injured on the job, call rubio and cruz. Reporter will ferrell reprise ing his role as george w. Bush. Jobing he is entering the race. They wnt someone who is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Reporter controversy has been brewing. He took on the media and moderators. Tomorrow, well see if he take on trump. Were all going to be tuning in. We are. Lets talk to jon karl. Cruz really firming up his support. Yeah, the story of both of these new iowa pols is ted cruz. Hes surging. Jumping more than 20 points since october in that des moines while trumps numbers have essentially remained the same. If you look deeper into the polls, you see cruz has more potential to keep rising. Fox news poll, 30 say they would never vote for donald trump. Only 6 say they would never vote for ted cruz. The most unpopular republican in bush. Ted cruz is above 50 if you add up some of the numbers. The last one before the christmasnew years freeze. It is crucial. Once again. Donald trump will be at center stage. George, five debates. All five, donald trump has been in the middle because he still has a commanding lead in the national polls. For the first time, ted cruz will be standing next to him. Because he has surpassed marco rubio in the pols. Ill be looking for how both trump and marco rub ye go at ted cruz. He now in competition to be the and Chris Christie back on the big stage as well. Abc news sponsoring the neck democrating debate this saturday. And National Security is sure to be a hot topic. President obama heads to the pentagon this morning for a meeting on the campaign against isis. As we learn major government lapses opened the door for one of those San Bernardino killers to enter the country. Brian ross is here with that. Reporter good morning, robin. Nishls the u. S. And europe deal with warnings about possible isis attacks to disrupt the christmas holidays. New question this is morning about where the pakistani woman involved in the San Bernardino shooting rampage should have been allowed to come here in the first place. In london, they say they have credible intelligence reports that isis leaders want a over the weekend, two men were arrested for the manufacture or transport of explosive or toxic gases as a search continued for four others. In california this morning, the fbi is not saying what, if anything, it found in its now completed search of this lake. Still investigating if more attacks could be coming in the u. S. And now, abc news has learned that a secret u. S. Policy prevented immigration investigators last year from looking for Tashfeen Maliks extensive social media messages that the fbi says included talk of jihad and martyrdom. During that time period, immigration officials were not allowed to view social media as part of the screening process. Reporter john co hen, now an abc news consultant, says homeland officials asked for new but they were opposed by the Departments Office of civil rights and civil lishties. The primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if disclosed publicly. Reporter malik received her fiance visa last year in just three weeks, with no check done for whether she had any online messages. Had they checked her out more, maybe she wouldnt have got an visa. Maybe those people in San Bernardino would be alive. Reporter if a statement to abc news this morning, the department of Homeland Security says it has started three pilot programs to search the social media of visa applicants. Insiders say its still not a widespread policy. And major impediment. A lot of people are scratching their heads. Not widespread yet. A Deadly Police shooting in los angeles is getting scrutiny sheriffs deputies opened fire on an armed man. Police say video shows he was Still Holding his gun. Ryan owens has the story. [ gunfire ] reporter two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies unleashing hail of gunfire. 33 rounds in all. Their target this man. We will not show you the rest of the video. Cops keep firing even after he had fall on the the ground and is crawling away. 911, somewhat your emergency. Theres a black male walking down the street shooting a gun in the air. Reporter this is 28yearold Nicholas Robinson earlier. Armed with a gun. Street. We dont know. How many times did he shoot into the air . At least six, seven times in the air. Reporter the deputies said they repeatedly told him to put down the gun. When he walked away there them and toward this crowded gats station, deputies say, they fired. Two people, two women and three children in a car at gas pump within five feet of him at the time. If he goes into the gas station and takes hostages or shooting somebody, well have a different topic to talk about. Like why didnt the Police Officers do something . Reporter robertsons family questioning whether he had to die. Some members of the Community Coming out the to protest. They shot him in the shoulder. He was crawling to this gas station. They could have tasered him. Reporter in response on sunday, the Sheriffs Department reelsing this freeze frame from a nearby camera. Even when he was on the the pavement, even after initially shot, that gun never leaves his hands. Investigators think this all fight with his wife. This morning, hes survived by children. George . Okay, ryan. Thank you. Lets go to amy for todays other top stories. Starting with a new fbi investigation. Attack on two mosques south of los angeles are under investigation as hate crimes. Vandals defaced the mosques with spray paint and left a fake hand grenade outside one of them. A fire police say was deliberately set by a man now in custody. Police outside paris said a man entered a school and stabbed a kindergarten student this morning. The teach sir okay. The suspect, wearing a mask and gloves, fled the scene on foot. There are new details in the october crash of the russian plane that killed 224 people over egypts sinai peninsula. Russia and eastern governments say a bomb brought it down. This morning, egyptians Officials Say they have found no a Southwest Airlines flight had to make an Emergency Landing in san antonio because part of the wing that reduces drag appeared to be at an odd angle. One passenger said people were screaming in panic. The plain was able to land safely. Swamped today. Year. 640 million cards, letters, packages expected to be mailed. That will only add to the woes of one perturbed postman. Under siege by gobblers. Day. Theyve become so belligerent. Hes forced to fend them off with a tenfoot pole. You couldnt hear him in the video. He just looks and goes, every day. Can you imagine . Every day facing that. On. Hes got dinner for a week. Just lead them home. Thats a nobrainer. Thats one way of looking at thank you. Thank you, amy. It is the biggest movie who knows, maybe ever. The star wars world premier is in los angeles tonight. The blockbuster opening for the rest of us at the end of the week. Nick watt is in the center of the galaxy in hollywood. Good morning, nick. Reporter good norng, robin. There are already star wars die hard fans camped out outside the chinese theater, hoping to snag the best seats for opening night, which isnt until thursday. Before then, the premier that starts in 14 hours and about 15 minutes. Get ready. Okay. For what . Reporter for the stars aligning at tonights premier, security is tighter than the oscars. Four blocks of hollywood boulevard closed since last thursday. Happy star wars. Reporter its nine days already these fans have been in line. Caroline and andrew from australia are serious. On thursday. Whos officiating . We have a good friend who is a celebrant and is named obi sean. Reporter the force wakens will debut on over 4,000 screens this week. Back in 77, star wars opened on 32. An instant hit, darth vader was soon leaving his footprints here outside the theater. George lucas watched the the first one from here. Are you kidding me . This is the place to be. Feels great reporter in 1999, for the phantom menace the line was born. I met my husband in line. Result . This is the result. Already. When that comes up on the screen, a little kid inside me is saying, is this really theres a center of the nerddom, thats right here. Reporter these nerds, their word, not mine, are making money for a childrens charity. It rained overnight. Its chilly by l. A. Standards. They have another 80 hours to go. Im not sure i can take it. Can you guys . Nerd is a high compliment for them. Were going to a special screening tomorrow in new york. We cant get details. Its so top secret zplp no phones. They take them when you walk in the door. This is all lockdown. Cant blame them for that. Were given instructions. Not going to say anything on wednesday. No, we cant. 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