[ sirens] and fore. Highspeed police chase caught on camera. Right in the middle of the fairway. Players scrambling to get out of the way. How did they get so off course . And we do say good morning, america. On this thursday morning and a Third Straight night of tornadoes in the midwest. Take a look at this. Another set of tornadoes side by side. This time in south dakota. Very similar to what we saw in nebraska. We went to right get to that Severe Weather. Abcs Steve Osunsami is on the scene in Wessington Springs, south dakota. Good morning, steve. Reporter this is whats left of a car dealership. Its hard to tell which direction the tornado came because the whole place looks stepped on. I want you to take a good look right over there. There looks to be a trailer on top of other cars and all this rubble. It shouldnt be there. This whole town reeling from the tornado that hit here overnight. No, no, no, no. Reporter overnight the sky was falling again over families in the dakotas and in the midwest. 15 tornadoes reported in south dakota alone. Listen to it. Wow. You can hear the roar. Oh, my god. Were so close. Reporter and look closely. Another set of twin twisters like large whips from the heavens snapping through these small open towns bringing violent winds to families near crow lake. Two on the ground at once. Two on the ground at once. Reporter this was the tornado that struck Wessington Springs damaging more than a dozen homes. Oh, [ bleep ]. Reporter sending sparks flying as it mowed down electric substations. These are photos families took with their cell phones. It was coming right at them. This morning three businesses here are destroyed including this car dealership. Two people were hurt, but everyone here survived. This marks the third agonizing night of tornadoes in the heartland. On monday thesis ter twisters tore through pilger, nebraska. Oh, my god. Reporter the National Weather service confirmed a total of four tornadoes nearly leveled that small town. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt here. Everyone walked out alive, and the governor has sent in the National Guard. George . Wow, so lucky. Uhhuh. Very much so. Now to the crisis in iraq and reports this morning islamic militants have taken over the countrys biggest oil refinery. As president obama meets with congressional leaders to weigh his options, abcs jon karl is standing by. Hes there at the white house, but first lets go to abcs martha raddatz, who is live this morning in baghdad. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, robin. The u. S. Is getting more and more involved here. Weve got those Ground Troops over at the u. S. Embassy, and this morning, fighter jets above us. This morning, u. S. Fighter jets from the Aircraft Carrier uss bush in the persian gulf are flying Surveillance Missions acro across iraqi skies looking for armed militants. The warplanes backed up by additional Surveillance Aircraft and drones patrolling the skies around the clock, providing the u. S. Military on the ground realtime images from the pentagon to baghdad. But the u. S. Says there are still gaps in intelligence making largescale air strikes difficult without significant civilian casualties. This image shows part of the reason why. From the ground, distinguishing the enemy isis militants from the civilians around them is difficult. From the air its nearly impossible. These forces are very much intermingled. Its not as easy as looking at an iphone video of a convoy and then immediately striking it. Reporter but the clock is ticking. This morning, iraqs Largest Oil Refinery has reportedly fallen into the hands of the militants who can now cut power across parts of iraq and control the sale of gasoline. Which is why the Iraqi Government is now pleading for u. S. Air strikes but that is not likely to happen any time soon, george, if at all. Well, lets talk to jon karl now at the white house. Martha, thank you. President obama had his first meeting with congressional leaders on the crisis and, jon, the president did make it pretty clear in that meeting he doesnt expect to come to congress now for new authorization for military action. Reporter he sure did, george. What he said is that none of the options that he is now considering would require congressional authorization and that is the clearest indication yet that the idea of a major air campaign against militant targets in iraq is simply off the table. The leading option now under consideration and likely to happen is for the president to send a very small contingent of about 100 special Operation Forces to iraq to advise the iraqi military. If there are any air strikes at all, george, it would be very small, kind of like the targeted strikes weve seen in yemen and pakistan. The president pushing very hard for the Prime Minister of iraq to open up his government. He wants real change there. Reporter yeah, and theyve been explicit, publicly and privately, that there will be no major air strikes like the ones the iraqis are asking for unless that government first takes steps to reach out to the sunnis and others to get a process of reconciliation under way. They think thats the only longterm solution in iraq. Jon, thanks very much. Now top stories from amy. Good morning. We begin with a major outage on facebook shutting out millions of users around the globe. This was the message posted early in morning, sorry, something went wrong. Were working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. The site with 1. 2 billion users crashed for about a half hour. The outage also affecting mobile sites and apps and as we came on air this morning, facebook released this statement saying we resolved the issue quickly and were now back to 100 . Sorry for any inconvenience. It did not say, however, what caused that problem. Well, another automaker is under investigation for faulty ignition switches similar to the problem that forced General Motors to recall millions of its cars. This time its chrysler. More than a million minivans and suvs are affected regulators say the ignition key could jostle out of position, cut power and disable air bags. Meantime, lawmakers grilling General Motors ceo mary barra. Theyve revealed that emails that show a gm employee warned the company about a possible ignition problem with the chevy impala nearly ten years ago, but that car was not recalled until this week. Well, a frightening scene in los angeles. A woman escaped from this car. Look at that dangling four stories high off the edge of a parking garage. Apparently she hit the gas instead of the brake. Luckily those cables stopped the car from actually falling. And another deadly crash involving a private jet. This time a plane veering off the runway in huntsville, alabama, bursting in flame killing three. The cause of that crash under investigation. And the owner of the Washington Redskins is vowing to fight a federal trademark ruling that denies protection from the teams name. The u. S. Patent office has ruled the name is disparaging to native americans and, therefore, cannot be trademarked. The teams appeal could take years. And a major accomplishment in the major leagues. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw threw his first career nohitter against the rockies. The only other nohitter of the season so far was also thrown by a dodger, josh beckett. Horrible and vulgar how one spanish newspaper is describing spains shocking world cup loss to chile. The defending champs are now eliminated from later rounds and that excitement unfortunately turned violent when hundreds of chilean fans stormed the stadium pushing over a wall to get into the stands. 85 were arrested. The action resumes today with all three matches on our sister network, espn. And finally, imagine youre enjoying a relaxing day on the golf course when this happens, a drug suspect in a pickup truck comes racing through leading police on a highspeed chase right into the fairway. Golfers scrambling out of the wray as the truck and several squad cars tore up the grass. The suspect was arrested a short time later but those officers are now being investigated for possibly violating protocol. This from our clever producer, maybe they should have gone to the driving range instead. Oh. Z. I had to attribute that one. I was wondering if you were going to read that or not. Thats why i stated that. Thanks, ken. Lots of new hazards on that course. Over to robin. I love how she threw the producer under the bus. Way to go. All right, you two. To medical news and possible breakthrough in the fight against heart attacks. The leading killer in this country. Researchers have made a discovery that could lead to the first new drugs to combat Heart Disease in decades and abcs chief health and medical editor dr. Richard besser, i know youre excited. Tell us. Its exciting. This our blood we have different types of fat, cholesterol, triglycerides and others and most of the work on preventing Heart Disease has focused on cholesterol. They look at the genes of people who had very low triglycerides and found they had a mutation in a particular gene and if you had a mutation in that gene, your risk of Heart Disease was 40 lower than other people. Thats a dramatic decline. So learning this could lead to a new class of drugs. How would that be different . The focus now has been on statins. We know people who take them to reduce Heart Disease and that deals mainly with cholesterol but we know that meme who are on statins if they have a high triglyceride are still at risk for a heart attack so this gives the people a target to say, can we focus on this gene and by doing that drop their triglycerides and lower their risk of Heart Disease further. If you have heart issues whats your advice . Its going to be years before this takes place, so a heart healthy life, you know, good diet and exercise, knowing your Blood Pressure and taking care of that and knowing your Family History because that will predict a lot what your risk is. Well have you back to discuss other things in the program. Such an interesting advance. A new approach for fighting bullying. A fourth grader and his family are suing a classmate and his parents for bullying. Abcs Mara Schiavocampo has the story. Reporter a case of alleged school yard bullying that has become a case in court. This morning a fourth grader at a chicago Area Elementary School suing a fellow student. Parents matthew and deveri del core filing the suit, identifying the student as c. A. Bullied their son for the entire school year. Quite an incident for us to go through this in our house and have our son waking up at night screaming about not wanting to go to school and crying and, you know, feeling that he wasnt safe at school. Reporter the lawsuit which also names the accused students parents, the School District and the principal says c. A. Bullied him on a weekly basis, hitting, pumping, choking, elbowing, kicking, pushing, spitting, threatening to kill him and tripping hill on the stairs. Very traumatic situation for my client, its a traumatic situation for his parents. Reporter the del cores said they filed several Police Attacks and say administrators did nothing to stop them. At first we were pretty confident the school would address it but after a while it became frustrating knowing nothing was done. Reporter in a statement the School District says we value the safety and security of each and every one of our students and Staff Members and take bullying prevention very seriously. A serious issue now moving from the classroom to the courts. In a new development the alleged victims mother says she was fire the from her job as a cafeteria worker at the school because of this suit. The family says they will continue to fight that in court, as well. Now, in the bullying case theyre seeking damages of at least 50,000. We did reach out to the accused students family for comment but did not hear back. Very unusual case here. It does seem like the family went to the lawsuit as a last resort. They tried a lot and documented everything. Went to the police so they established a pattern of complaints and, unfortunately, they said their child continued to be beat up. Mara, thanks very much. Every School District has a different policy in dealing with it. They handle it individually so the parents couldnt get the resources they need. Thank you. Now to that could be what could be the next big thing. Amazon making a bold move into the phone business unveiling a smartphone with a brandnew feature, 3d display and abcs Neal Karlinsky has the story. Reporter in a world crowded with cool, new phones, the amazon fire introduced wednesday has been able to break through the noise and actually get people excited. The answer is yes [ cheers and applause ] reporter its standout feature, 3d, a screen that seems to leap off the phone. It has the normal camera and has a frontfacing camera but the secret sauce, they say, the four additional cameras in front which read where your head is, where your face is and that is what they say gives it the 3d effect when you look at the screen. You can see it moving as i move the phone around. Theres a little astronaut jumping around and tentacles coming around the planet. Very cool, very 3d. Reporter the other standout feature is firefly, a way to identify virtually anything by looking at it with the phones camera or by listening to it with the microphone. Its no coincidence firefly makes it a powerful tool for shopping since every item you look at pops up like a web search. Its a buck, itll tell you the name of the book and where to get it. I think this phone is not just about the phone itself, i think its really about pushing amazons services. Reporter amazon reinvented how we shop, how we read and even makes its own tv shows now, streams movies and music and wants to use drones for Home Delivery someday. Which is why many believe its not about the phone, its about offering you one more tool in an amazon world. For Good Morning America, Neal Karlinsky, abc news, seattle. See what happens with all that. Now to royal history being made. In spain where King Juan Carlos has passed the crown to his crown to prince felipe after 40 years on the throne and sara haines has all the pomp from todays coronation. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] reporter this morning, a new reign in spain, King Felipe Vi and Queen Letizia crowned. In the streets pure jubilation as the couple drove by in their royal rollsroyce. Their destination, the palace. [ cheers and applause ] the new monarchs waved from a balcony along with their two little princesses, eleanor and sofia. Queen letizia looking regal and radiant dressed in an elegant white dress coat. A true cinderella story. Shes a blue collar beauty and he a blueblood prince educated at georgetown taking over from his father king for nearly 40 years. The new queen, a youthful 41. A journalist who reported for cnn and Spanish Television married to a High School Teacher when she met felipe on assignment. And soon left her marriage and her career for the strapping prince. Prince felipe and letizia have been married for ten years. They have been on 73 trips officially and have visited 38 countries. Reporter while her divorce makes her a rare figure in the monarchy her middle class background compare her to another famous royal, and like kate she is quickly becoming a fashion icon, a woman of the people now a symbol of the people, as well. The former king, 76yearold and the new royals will help rally the country trying to shrug off a doubledip recession and 26 Unemployment Rate and based on the cheers were hearing this morning looks like they had a lot of support. Had to get over the loss in the world cup too. Another little nip you had to bring that up. It was supposed to be an upper, not a downer, george. So they got over it. Yeah, yeah. Lets get to some incredible pictures of lightning, a look at where the storms will be today. Lee goldberg from wabc. Ginger zee has one more day of honeymooning. Great to have you here. Thanks for inviting me back. Ginger back for j. Lo tomorrow. Honeymoon details to follow. This is above columbus, ohio. Lightning detection showing nearly 26,000 strikes, just since midnight, incredible storms. Pictures from damage in ohio in lynghurst and obliterated parts of this home. Two areas, one over the midatlantic, d. C. Recovering from storms overnight, bigtime winds there and Power Outages and over the heartland into the Northern Plains once again. Thats your national forecast. Your local forecast just 30 seconds away. Reporter good morning, im meteorologist karen rogers with your accuweather update. Dry right now after the storms overnight. Lets take you outside, 73 degrees, we have lots of clouds and peeks of sunshine as we look at the center city skyline. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, lots of clouds today, a couple of peeks of sunshine, some showers at any point this afternoon and maybe a thunderstorm. 84 degrees is the high. Later we clear out, lowering humidity, tomorrow n thanks to lee for that. Coming up on gma the california businessman sentenced for trying to have his model wife killed. Their emotional facetoface