party. it's our big royal exclusive. and double trouble. the babbling of the babies this morning. good morning, america. boy, you know, we've been giving sam a hard time all week long about this storm coming and now it's just about here. >> sam is not here, he got out of here because we're giving him a hard time. does not feel like the last day of march at all. also, a case of bad sportsmanship. a tennis pro player's meltdown. he aimed the ball in the stands aimed at a crying baby in the stands. i love this story out of california. one romeo to serenade his potential prom date in class. the storm headed for the northeast. sam is down in atlanta and has the latest this morning. good morning, sam. hey, robin. yeah, we're down in atlanta for great stuff. let's get to the boards. there's one or two things going on for the mid-atlantic or the northeast, this is a snowmaker. already eight states have gone to warnings this morning. there will be more than 6 inches, in some case, up to a foot of snow in new england. here's who gets snow. right along the coastline, philly, new york, boston. even in portland, maine, it will be more of a mixed event. look at this, more than a foot of snow. this is not the first time we've had an april fool's day storm. and it not the first time that there's been snow in new england in april. but this is going to be a big one and it's going to affect a lot of people. this going to have strong gusty winds with it as well. we'll go through all the hits of this storm, what time it starts. in d.c., baltimore, 2:00 in the afternoon. by 9:00 at night, in new york city, you'll start to see your first precip falling. we'll go over the changeover times. also, strong to severe spring storms again in florida today we'll talk about, george. >> wild weather continues. thanks, we'll turn now to libya, where just days after president obama told the nation we have stopped gadhafi's deadly advance his forces are capturing key cities. the rebels appear to be in full chaotic retreat, almost to where they were were strikes began. we have also learned that the cia is on the ground to assist. first, alex marquardt is live in libya. >> reporter: good morning, george, as one of the top officials quits and flees the country and gadhafi forces on the rise. rebel fights are driving straight into an ambush, met with heavy gunfire from gadhafi forces. >> go, go, go! >> reporter: and immediately retreating. >> incoming. keep driving. >> we can't do anything. >> reporter: cars fled the eastern city of ajdabiya overnight, almost all of the remember gains now erased. after a lightning fast advance to the door step of gadhafi's hometown of sirte, rebels have lost ground. that's where her family came from this morning, telling us it was too dangerous to stay. we're terrified. we wanted to get out because of the kids she said. the bombs and the shelling were everywhere. and there's little help from above. fewer signs of the air strike that paved the rebels' advance. but with these gains for gadhafi comes a major setback. last night, one of his closest allies made his own full retreat. libyan foreign minister musa kusa fled to london. gadhafi's only daughter issa, her blond hair earning her the nickname, the claudia schiffer of africa. once rarely seen on the media, she's taken to tv and the streets, echoing her father's message, we will not back down. in the face of that, the opposition is wondering where are the air strikes. nato's mission is to protect civilians so why aren't they doing that? a scared and frustrated mood in benghazi this morning, george. >> okay. let's go to jake tapper. jake, what we learned yesterday, the president assigned a secret directive off of assisting the rebels and the cia is providing some kind of assistance. what more do we know about what the president has authorize eau? >> some of the cia operatives were already there. a very significant event, he signed it a few weeks ago. it authorizes covert aid to the libyan opposition, to the rebels. including arming them, although president obama has not -- pardon the pun -- pulled the trigger yet. that has paved the way for arming the rebels if he chooses to. >> and the president may be hesitating out of concern, not really sure who the remembers are, whether there are al qaeda elements inside of the rebel forces and that could lead to blowback committfrom people whoe our enemies in the future? >> that's right, the white house is confident that the former representation of the libyan forces is there. but as you mentioned the fear of blowback, we armed the rebels in afghanistan 30 years ago, a loss of these came back to haunt us by becoming al qaeda. >> jake, what's the defection of the foreign minister, leaving libya to go to london, how significant is this? >> they think it's very significant. he's gadhafi's closest adviser. he can provide much information to nato. and also they see it as somebody that his leaving signifies some serious cracks in the remaining gadhafi inner circle. >> yeah, they thought they'd be hearing rumors of that for some time. thank you very much. to japan, to the nuclear crisis where that crippled plant is causing big concerns about the food supply. officials are testing soil in regions hit hard as they try to determine if spring farming can begin. our neal karlinsky has the latest from tokyo. good morning, neal. >> reporter: good morning, robin. farming is a sensitive topic around here because of contamination. they've found unusual levels of radiation in a town northwest of the reactors. emergency crews are now hoping to put an under water camera into the radioactive water that is leaking trying to get a look at the source and possibly the spent fuel rods inside. that is where the workers from the radiation are saying crying is useless. outsidthe plant, a nation struggles with the basics. food has become a source of growing certain. so far 90 nine individually tested food products including spinach, milk, cabbage and celery have turned up with some radio activity. the news has left shoppers like this confused. >> it's a lack of information. so what is perhaps today, they said also that was not true. >> reporter: this store manager says he spends too many every day just trying to convince customers the food he sells is safe. >> i'm not a scientist, but i drink the milk. i eat the food. so if it's bad for you, it will be bad for me as well. >> reporter: the key is to avoid food from the area near the reactors. and already that food has been banned here in japan and overseas as well. robin. >> all right, neal, thank you. and the reports this morning that very low levels of radiation are now turning up in american milk. to put this in perspective, we brought in our dr. richard besser. dr. b., we've been talking that radioactive iodine can get into the milk. how worried should we be about this right now? >> it's very hard to hear about radiation in milk and not be concerned. let me put it in perspective. the amount of radiation found is .8 peko. the amount of radiation in a banana, radioactive potassium, it's thousands of times higher than found in the milk right now. the amount is very, very small. >> we know that the type of iodine it is, radioactive iodine, it's coming from japan? >> that's right. i pay attention to the reports coming out of there, in case the levels go up. there is a little good news, once they're able to control this reactor, radioactive iodine does not stay around for long. it's half life is 80 days. it's gone. >> people want to know how long do we keep monitoring this and be concerned? >> yeah, with the increased monitoring it makes me feel much more comfortable that if the level gets up to the concern of a warning around milk we would take that very seriously. >> very low levels. if you're having your cereal, don't panic? >> it's miniscule. i drank milk this morning. i'll continue to give milk to my children. >> and eating bananas, too, right? >> i have. we're going back to washington where tea party forces are rallying at the capitol today demanding that the republicans from november follow through on big budget cuts. jon karl will be there for all the action. he joins us with a discovery that they cause discomfort for some of the members of congress and members of the tea party. >> that's right, with promises of making those big spending cuts, a new report out this morning says that some of them have been on the government goal for years. the tea party movement is all about slashing federal spending. but at least five house members with tea party connections have themselves collected more than $100,000 each in federal farm subsidies, totaling more than $8 million since 1995. one of them, congressman steven fincher of frog jump, tennessee. you directly had about $110,000 in subsidies. according to a new study by the environmental working group, interest family farm has received more than $3 million in federal subsidies since 1995. more than $100,000 of those taxpayer dollars going directly to fincher himself. >> are you willing to see all your subsidies go away? >> we need a better system than now. >> but are you willing to stand up and say, not anymore? >> we need a better farm program and need to streamline it. >> so that's not a yes? >> we need to look at many, am options. >> reporter: all told, 23 current members of congress have been on the agriculture dole for more than 15 years, they or their families receiving more than $12 million. most of that money went to republicans. >> this is a group of people coming into congress with tea party support who in fact are partaking of big government. >> reporter: but one of them, congressman stutzman of indiana, says he wants the subsidies eliminated. you wanted the subsidies cut? >> there's no need, it manipulates the market. >> reporter: eliminating all farm subsidies would save real money. in 2009 alone, federal farm subsidies was more than $16 billion. and almost $246 million in the last three years. will they be cut? they might be but so far not a big target. >> the government runs out of money next friday. but there was progress last knew, vice president biden on capitol hill saying that republicans and democrats have split the difference on the amount of spending cuts they're going for. that's a tentative deal, jon, i don't know if it's going to fly in the house. >> reporter: yeah. but it is a significant breakthrough. these talks have all but reached an impasse. the deal would be $33 billion in spending cuts over the six months. but they haven't worked out the specifics of those cuts. and as you said, the big question here is whether or not john boehner can sell that compromise to members of house. >> that's going to be tough. -i was getting a lot of rumblings last night from house republicans who say it's not enough. >> reporter: it's not as much as republicans were demanding and the guys who just got elected don't like classic washington compromise. >> that government shutdown could come next week. let's go to juju chang with the news. good morning, everyone. we begin with encouraging news on the job front. a new survey of the nation's companies find that slightly half plan to hire in the next six months. and a separate report shows companies adding more than 200,000 jobs this month. do you need a job or have one? tell us by to witting pound got a job or pound need a job. our survey closes at 6:00 p.m. eastern. despite angry protests, lawmakers in ohio have approved a bill restricting the union rights of state workers. it will require workers to pay 15% of health insurance cuts. in alabama this surveillance video is now the subject of a police brutality case. it shows birmingham police beating a suspect even though his hands are in the air and raised. the minimum force was used. one of daytime tv's top stars is on the mend this morning. judge judy was rushed to the hospital because of intestinal pain. she later called tmz and said she was exhausted and needed a day to chill. today is opening day for major league baseball. these six games are on the roster, including world series champions giants playing on espn. opening day was moved up, it's not your imagination this year, so that the world series can finish before november. my husband is on his way to the bronx. >> your beloved yankees hosting the tigers. it's more like football weather. >> exactly. >> but you were down at spring training, weren't you? >> we are. you know what this mean, it's little league season. >> good to have you back, juju. let's get to sam who's in atlanta this morning, sam? hey good morning. let's talk about this big snow system because it is going to be a big new england snowmaker. let's get right to the boards. we'll show you basically and talk about the time line as well. it will come in in the form of rain on the coastline because the storm system has warm wet air on the coastline but in the higher elevations in the mountains it's going to hit to up a foot of snow. let me remind you the april fool's day in 1979 in boston was supposed to leave without a lot of snow. boston got 25 inches from from that storm. if is goes farther out to sea than we believe it will deliver snow in those major cities. we're going to watch it hour by hour right now. it's expected to be a mix. this is the second day in a row for strong to severe storms in florida. orlando go pounded and big storm damage. today, tampa, jacksonville, orlando orlando, ft. myers. gray, damp, and cool. little bit of drizzle out there right now. you can see low clouds. showers later today. are in the 30's. unseasonably cool. es.e time, 43 degre wear layers. tomorrow, breezy, warmer, >> and we are live in the georgia aquarium this morning, following that snowstorm as well, robin, we're going to wake everything up in georgia. >> looking forward to that, sam. now, we have the ultimate example of whatnot to do with cry babies on the tennis court. when tennis pro david ferrer was distracted, he actually decided to lob a ball at a baby. i'm not kidding you. >> reporter: david ferrer, the spanish tennis player, was getting creamed, and he was not happy about it. making matters worse, a baby crying in the stands. >> a baby crying. ferrer's going to serve through it. >> reporter: so right here, in the middle of the second set, after he loses his serve, look at this, ferrer sends a ball flying towards the crying infant. >> he whacked that ball way up in the seats. >> reporter: the ball did not land anywhere near the crying baby, but still, not nice. >> he's hitting it towards the baby. you can't do that. that's where he got the boos. >> reporter: in the the tom hanks's version of "a league of your own" -- >> there's no crying in baseball. >> reporter: like john mcenroe who practically invented the art of the tennis meltdown. as it turns out ferrer's decision to knock that ball in that direction did succeed in stopping the baby from crying. it did not, however, stop ferrer from losing which he blames not on the baby but on a case of indigestion. for "good morning america," dan harris, abc news. >> he would never make it in basketball with all the screaming when you try to shoot a free throw. >> i'm surprised. >> the dad, even though he had the sunglasses on, he was looking at him saying i oughta -- >> yeah. coming up, prince harry which you have never seen before, his exclusive one-on-one with bob woodruff. talking about his adventure on ice. and getting ready to stand up for his big brother and the bachelor party. and you won't believe what our tests reveal. times two, it's really there. >> and they're here. you're getting calls from his teacher he's impulsive in class. and his inattention makes focusing on homework tough. i know how it is because my son has adhd too. i didn't know all i could do to help manage his adhd. our doctor suggested a treatment plan with non-stimulant intuniv. 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