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WJLA Good Morning America March 28, 2017

Conservatives who derailed his health care bill. And breaking news, under offambush. Two Police Officers attacked in their car overnight shot on the job outside of a florida apartment and rushed to the hospital. The urgent manhunt for the suspects this morning. And tom brady bombshell. Patriots owner robert kraft revealing his star quarterback isnt going anywhere any time soon. He assured me hed be willing to play six, seven more years. The super bowl star on the verge of turning 40, could he become the oldest and greatest nfl star ever . Good morning, america. A lot of news to get to but its great to have david muir for another six, seven years at least. That will make me about 47, 48 just like tom brady. Ill be a little o actually. Check out not only the fans excited although no word from tom brady yet but bob krafs saying there would be no one happier than i and hoping coach belichick sticks around and coaches into his 80s. Dont count them out. Anything is possible. Well have more on that ahead. First we want to get to that Severe Weather hitting the south. More than 160 storm reports as powerful winds and damaging rain move through several states and ginger zee has the latest. Good morning, ginger. Good morning to you, michael. They will be so busy looking at all of potential tornado damage today. And gunnersville, alabama, see that blowing wind and dangerous hail smashing windshields in mississippi and this flipping cars in tennessee. So, this is what we saw as of yesterday. Now were going to go ahead and focus on a new storm that is putting itself together in the plains coming over the rockies, its got a coal front dry line all the classic setup for a Severe Weather potential and th this region, southwest of Oklahoma City into parts of north texas, down to san angelo and then moves east. This is day after day of Severe Weather threat. It goes into the little rock area, shreveport is in it by wednesday. So much more to come with the Severe Weather forecast but we have to get straight to Adrienne Bankert who is in deindicate turville, tennessee, this morning. Reporter good morning to you. We want to show you what a possible tornado or those strong Straight Line wins can do. This building behind us shredded. The walls and roof ripped apart. Officials say the system was so strong a number of mobile homes pretty much imploded. Overnight, 15 million americans in the crosshairs. Severe storm systems ripping across the south. Funnel clouds forming across wernecke ki. Drivers struggling to see the roads through the torrential rains. High winds destroying this large brick sign and turning trees to trash on busy in mississippi, dangerous twisters tearing through the area. This ominous funnel cloud spotted right off this highway. This heavy hailstorm in alabama forcing everyone indoors. This is creepy. I have never seen in in the 11 years weve lived here. Reporter for those on the road visibility is reduced to near whiteout conditions and high winds and heavy rains interrupting this baseball game in North Central alabama. Golf ball size hatestones pelting swimming pools from mississippi and alabama to texas. Where larger, more dangerous baseballsize ones shatter this car windshield. And you know what, just like this building that was shredded, we know that several homes have been damaged here in decaturville, some severely. No one has been reported injured really under the bullseye that ginger has been talking about with another strong system set to roll through. Robin. Thank you, adrienne. Thinking of everyone down that way. Now to that big headline out of washington about russia and the election. There are new calls for the republican congressman whos leading the investigation, devin nunes to step aside after he confirmed heeld a secret meeting on white house grounds. Abcs senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega has more on that. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter good morning to you. Those calls for him to step down are growing louder. Democrats say he has tarnished Congress Investigation into russias election meddling but the president , hes tweeting saying the trump russia story is a hoax. Overnights Top Republican leading what is supposed to be an independent investigation into russias election meddling going into selfdefense mode. There was no sneaking around krt rangelman devin nunes facing questions about impartial at and the House Intelligence Committee chairman says h information allegedly showing intelligence officials may have inadvertently picked up the communications of the president and his Transition Team was actually given to him by someone on the white house grounds. Im not going to tell you where i was at on the grounds because, of course, those are all classified facilities. Reporter nunes, a member of the president s Transition Team is not naming names. Look, im not going to get into the process of how we do our sources and methods. Reporter that secret meeting happened last week. Just hours before nunes briefed reporters on capitol hill about his findings and then rushed to the white house to brief the president , the white house also not willing to out nunes source. Im not going to get into who he met with or why he met with. I think thats something hes clear and ill let him answer. Reporter the backlash swift with democrats calling on the chairman to step aside. Mr. President , it could very well be the case that chairman nunes was Briefing Members the administration about an investigation of which they are the subject. Reporter the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee adding to the chorus. I think it would be in the chairmans interest as well as the committees for him to recuse himself. Reporter nunes says he had to leave congress to view these documents here on the white house grounds because they could only be shownen a secure Network Connected to the executive branch and still has not made the content of those documents known, robin, even to others in congress involved in that investigation into russia. They want to know. Also, cecilia, we know that the president is set to sign another executive order today. Reporter yeah, this is a really controversial one that would roll back basically a number of president obamas Climate Change regulations. The white house says that those rules have been a burden to the economy. They are promising to bring back coal jobs but a number of experts are questioning whether the president can fulfill that promise and bring back all of these jobs. All right, cecilia, thank going to make a lot of headlines today. Lets turn to our chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl with more. The president was up overnight with a tweet storm and clearly not over the stinging defeat of his promise to repeal and replace obamacare. Still pointing fingers this morning . Reporter absolutely, david. About 10 00 as night the tweets started. On health care, the first one taking aim republicans who defied him on the health care bill. The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a win and then hinting that he is ready to work with democrats in the next tweet, the democrats will make a deal with me on health care as soon as obamacare folds. Not long. Dont worry, we are in very good shape. So, david, the not so subtle threat here to the republicans who defied him is that he is ready to go right by them and start working with at least some didnts. But, jon, as you know, interesting he brings up the democrats because you pressed the white that can really happen. Will President Trump and democrats be able to Work Together on taxes, infrastructure or do democrats sense and opening given the defeat over obamacare . Reporter well, i pressed sean spicer on that yesterday in a very interesting response, david. He basically told me that there would be a need of a course correction here at the white house, a very rare admission from the white house that they would have to change course if they were to actually be able to work with democrat of course, the president has gotten to calling Chuck Schumer a clown and worked almost entirely with republicans so far so this would be a big change. One idea floated this morning by the online publication axios reporting that the white house may consider doing infrastructure next, a big spending bill that would be likely to bring along some democrats and make a lot of republicans very uncomfortable. All right, jon karl, well watch all day at the white house, jon, thanks so much. Robin. David, wall street also reac washington. The failure of the Republican Health care bill. The stocks now riding an eightday losing streak. Our chief economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis is here with more on that. Good morning, rebecca. Hey, robin, good morning. This is the longest losing streak since 2011. You see that eightday losing streak has cost the dow 1. 9 . We want to put this into context. Since election day the dow surged 12 on expectations President Trumps agenda, deregulation, lower taxes and Infrastructure Spending will help business. But pulling repeal and replace of obamacare was a first major test and it failed. Which has some investors now on edge now wondering can the president actually deliver on his promises and, robin, about the prospects for tax reform. Are we seeing something with the overnight markets that is encouraging about today . Reporter it is encouraging. Stocks look like theyll take a breather as wall street really tries to get a sense of what happens next, robin. Rebecca, thank you. Now well turn to the against isis, robin and americanled air strikes in moosle and accusations that the air strikes may have killed hundreds of iraqi civilians in mosul. If confirmed this could be one of the deadliest instance of unintended death since the war began. Lets get right to martha raddatz. Shes live with us from washington. Martha, what do we know about what happened and has there been any shift in tack tiffs under the new president. Reporter this was not just one building that was hit but witnesses say a city block was destroyed. I think the thing to remember is this is an urban environment. Theres no more challenging battlefield than that. Some iraqi officers said the u. S. Has been quicker to strike targets of late but the military says the rules of engagement have not changed since donald trump became president and what theyre looking at is whether there was a secondary explosion caused by Explosives Left there purposefully by isis or whether this was just a terrible mistake, david. Martha, as you know we were all waiting for secretary of in. He was asked about those civilian deaths. Reporter he was, david. He said there is no military force in the world more sensitive to civilian casualties that they do everything humanly possible to protect innocent people, unlike isis. But mattis knows firsthand having fought in fallujah which was a packed urban environment that the enemy can hide behind women and children and thats why theyre investigating to fine the truth in this case. Martha raddatz with us this morning from washington. Thanks, martha. Over to robin. David, well turn now to a foiled plot at a maryland high school. An 18yearold student facing charges for planning a potentially deadly attack after her father uncovered the plot in her diary. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the details for us. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. Today this high school in this small town is relieved and the parents of the suspect are being hailed as heroes. The plot, police y, potential School Massacre involving these weapons. A shotgun, explosives, pipes for a pipe bomb planned by an 18yearold honor student Nichole Cevario who apparently detailed it in a chilling diary. It was clear she planned to have been at least 79 thwarted School Massacre plots and in more than half of them the wouldbe attackers mention columbine. Being involved in these plots is rare. Of the 160 active shooters we looked at only six involved females. In this case the young suspect is undergoing an Emergency Mental Health evaluation. Robin. That is to be expected. Thank you very much. Thank goodness for that father stepping in like that. Now amy has the mornings other top stories starting with two officers shot in florida. We have dramatic video showing that moment when two undercover miami Police Officers were rushed to the hospital after being shot during a gang surveillance operation. They were dropped off in a pickup truck and were able to limp into the hospital. Thankfully they are in stable condition and police are searching for those two suspects. A deadly fire in oakland is raising new questions about building inspections. Three people were killed when this transitional housing facility went up in flames. Code violations were found just last week. This comes just months after 36 people died in a warehouse fire in that same city. Well, the state of michigan has agreed to spend 87 million to replace thousands of pipes in flint that are tainted with lead. Its part of a deal to settle a federal lawsuit. And overseas new security procedures are in place at Windsor Castle following the attack outside British Parliament last week. Barriers set up along the route of the changing of the guard ceremony. The mother of the london attacker says she is shocked and saddened by her sons actions. And finally for some college kids an 8 00 a. M. Class is optional after a late night of partying, right . But not for one guy. Luke maye, he was, of course, the hero of uncs win sunday night sending them to the final four look at that with that shot. Oh. No doubt, plenty of celebrating that followed but just 12 hours later at 8 00 a. M. On monday luke shows up for his business 101 classnd standing ovation. He has not missed one class yet, an allaround awesome guy. He may miss mondays game from the championship game. Womens final four now set, south carolina, like the men going on to the final four and uconn, the defend be champ, that winning streak keeps going going to dallas as well. Where is that bell . I am wearing Mississippi State maroon. I will bring back the bell thursday. Thats what were looking forward to. On the court and off the court as well. You know what, now we go to las vegas. The las vegas raiders, everybody, yeah, i said it right. The Oakland Raiders have received permission from the nfl to move to sin city but they werent packing their bags just yet. T. J. Holmes, you have more. Stra, the city of oakland refused to give taxpayer money to build a new stadium for the raiders so you know what happened vegas stepped in and said we got cash million in. Viva las vegas. Home to world famous casino, tigers, even britney spears. And now the city is getting a pro football team. Monday the nfl gave the green light to the Oakland Raiders to move to sin city. For years the nfl was concerned putting players and referees too close to a betting culture of the gambling capital would corrupt the game. That opinion appears to be fading. Still a surprise because the nfl had always publicly been against gambling. Reporter the main reason for the move an outdated stadium. The raiders wanted a new one but oakland Officials Say they wouldnt use taxpayer money to build it. We worked very hard and never want to see a relocation of a franchise. Reporter Las Vegas Made them an offer they couldnt refuse. Promising tourist tax to build a new 2 billion stadium. Oakland and the raiders have had a very rocky relationship. The team left oakland in 1982, came back in 1995 and now theyre leaving again. One thing money cannot buy is a loyal fan base. Reporter but for the football fans of las vegas, nothing but excitement. I still cant believe were im actually getting my team here in my backyard. Reporter to your point theyre not going for another two years so theyll keep playing in oakland sew its like getting a divorce and still having to live in the house with our ex for two years. Aint going to work. I have no comment on that one. Thats right. Lets go back to ginger now. Rainy day here in the northeast, ging in yi, it is. Ive had so many people say, you know, my app says its going to rain all week. It wont. That doesnt happen. What i did want to show you that low ceiling in new york city. You can see it from brooklyn and of course have nationals opening day today mostly cloudy. Morning showers. Pm thunderstorms. Highs 7074 winds sw 48 mph tonight gradual clearing. Lows 4954 winds n 515 mph wednesday mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Cooler, but seasonable. Highs 6467 winds n 510 mph coming up we have an abc news exclusive. The family of that filmmaker who died diving with sharks now speaking out. Also the outrage growing over this video shot by a mother showing a tsa agent patting down her son with a disability. The question this morning, did he go too far . Come on back. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. 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