The man posing with the hijacker revealing the real reason he took that socalled selfie causing outrage around the world with the image taking us now inside those terrifying moments as he was held hostage for six hours. How the suspect decided who could leave and the moment he finally broke free. And we do say good morning, america. Happy friday. Its been great to have david muir with us all week long. You make it so fun. Double duty. The man in that photo thats been seen virtually around the world will join us. Ben innes was held hostage on that plane and says theres more to that photo than meets the eye telling us the real reason he took it and also revealing how he was finally able to escape. Thats coming up here. It is, but first we want to get to those storms stretching from the gulf coast up to the midatlantic. Tens of millions of americans in their path. At least four reported tornadoes in the south causing major damage. Abcs Steve Osunsami is in hard hit decatur, alabama. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning, robin. The family that lives here was home during all of this. A husband wife and two dogs and say it sounded like a jet engine and was all over in just a few seconds. The high winds blew this carport towards the house and into this tree destroying it. Its pretty clear that what happened here was a tornado that hopscotched from home to home. Its getting bigger right now. Reporter tornadoes overnight left families homeless. Tearing through at least three states in the south. You could see the funnel clouds threatening cities and skies above alabama. Its coming this way. Reporter and over mississippi. The rain and wind hit so hard it forced drivers to pull over and wait it out. And in priceville, alabama, theyre waking up to trees crushing homes and vehicles flipped or tossed. We took off running. I heard nothing but a train. I said this is it. Stuff started falling. Reporter families spent the night in the dark in new hope, mississippi, trying to save what they could after a tornado struck there too. Oh, my god. Reporter the hail came down fast. Ow. Reporter in arkansas student has to hightail it or get pelted hard and in kentucky, drivers were caught off guard by this, a massive bolt of lightning. There were nearly 160 reports of Severe Weather and amazingly overnight it doesnt appear anyone was hurt. Robin. Good to hear that, steve. We go outside to ginger tracking where the storm is headed next. Ginger. And, robin, it is a mild morning here in new york city and theres a reason for that. We are ahead of that same storm system that stretches pretty far across the nation. You can see where the Severe Weather threat along that cold front lies. South of us really the delmarva peninsula back through new orleans. So along the gulf coast, the panhandle of florida all could see the Severe Weather through the day today. The isolated tornados, the large hail, damaging winds but dont forget this thing is slow moving so there will be flash flood potential. The flood watches stretching again through much of the deep south. You could see more than 4 inches of rain in some of those areas highlighted in yellow. Guess what, behind the cold front it gets cold. Im talking april cold waking up in new york city on wednesday morning to 27 degrees and a mix of rain and snow. So weve got big changes in the forecast. Ill detail that coming up. Somebody picked her vacation well and shes sitting next to me. The countdown is on. Now to the race for president. Donald trump meeting with Republican Leaders while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take their battle right here to new york. Senator Bernie Sanders is standing by live. Well talk to him in just a minute here but first Abcs Cecilia Vega here with the latest on the race this morning. Good morning, cecilia. Hey, david, good morning. Both sides in that big meeting seemed pleased with what happened behind closed doors but this morning donald trump still has a big problem on his hands, the controversy over those abortion remarks is not going away. Donald trump all waves and smiles as he left gop headquarters on capitol hill. The frontrunner who has battled with his own party now says hes united with party leaders. Very good meeting. We met with Reince Priebus and the staff and theyre very good people. Actually a terrific meeting, i think and its really a unity meeting. Reporter it was set days before his latest controversy. Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a principle. The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah, there has to be some form. Reporter the billionaire later backing down saying doctors, not women, should be punished. And overnight issuing a mea culpa, sort of. It could be i misspoke but this was a long, convoluted subject. Reporter but his opponents are not backing down. Being prolife is not only about defending the unborn children but defending the mothers. Reporter the controversy stretching across the aisle. Overnight clinton blasting not just trump but sanders response to him. Last night senator sanders agreed that Donald Trumps comments were shameful but then he said, they were a distraction from and i quote, a serious discussion about the serious issues facing america. To me this is a serious issue. Reporter while also taking on a sanders protester. She win, we lose. Oh i know the bernie people came to say that. Were very sorry youre leaving. Reporter an activist accusing clinton of taking money from the oil and gas industry. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about me. Im sick of it. Reporter both sides vying for votes in new york. The vermont senator packing in a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. If we win here in new york, we are going to make it to the white house. Reporter even making a surprise appearance with stephen colbert. What are you doing to this worker . Help me, bernie. Reporter and it will be a heated fight here in new york. Sanders was born in brooklyn, clinton, of course, was a twoterm senator here. She is leading in the polls right now but as you heard, david, sanders said if we can win in new york he can make it awe the way to the white house. Then that surprise appearance on colbert. Hes with us now. Bernie sanders back on gma. Great to have you back. Good to be with you. Right to the headlines about donald trump. What he said about abortion, punishment and women, if its banned later reversing himself. You heard Hillary Clinton there and she point the out you said trumps words were shameful but you said its a distraction from serious discussion. Lets put it into the context. You do believe its a serious issue. Do i believe its a serious issue . Ive been spending my political life fighting for the right of women to control her own body. I have 100 voting record pro Choice Voting record and if elected president not only will i continue to defend the womans right to choose but take on those republican golfers all over the country trying to restrict age take away that right. What secretary clinton did is take things out of context. Im 100 prochoice. You talk about taking on the republican golfers. I wanted to talk about a promise you made before in the campaign saying, quote, youre looking at someone who has never run a negative tv ad in his life, never will. Right. If you get this nomination and youre running against donald trump youre not going to run a negative ad. What i will do is contrast my record to republicans who want to cut Social Security, want to cut medicare, believe that Climate Change is a hoax, want to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 0. 1 . So i will contrast my record but i think the American People want to hear about the issues relevant to their lives, not about savage attacks against other people. All income and wealth is going to the top 1 . People are working longer hours for lower wages and they want change, a president who will take on the 1 , take on wall street. Thats what our campaign is about. I wanted to ask about that moment. It appeared to be a sanders supporter who secretary clinton was asked if she would honor a pledge not to take fossil fuel money for her campaign. Lets take another look at her reaction here. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about me. Im sick of it. Your reaction to that this morning . Im not crazy about people disrupting meetings but the fact of the party is secretary clinton has taken significant sums of money from the fossil fuel industry. She raises her money with a super pac and gets a lot of money from wall street, from the drug company, from the fossil fuel industry. On the other hand we have received over 6 Million Individual Campaign Contributions averaging 27 apiece. Im proud of the way we are raising money. The clinton camp celebrates their individual donations too as you know. Wisconsin is next, then new york. By the way, we have twice as many individual. Twice as many for the record. You were born here in new york. Yes, i was. Secretary clinton was senator here. This is going to be quite a fight. We heard you say if we win here in new york well make it to the white house. If you dont win here in new york, is it over. Oh, god no. No, there are many, many states to go. We are fighting hard in wisconsin, we think we got a real shot to win here in new york and then its on to many, many other states. We have won six out of the last seven caucuses. We have closed the gap in national polls. In terms of contests with donald trump last cnn poll had us 20 points ahead. Much further ahead than secretary clinton. We think we got a real shot to win. Im sure you have watched this a couple of times at least. Hillary clinton in the clip being parodied sounding a lot like, well, you. Take a listen. Im angry too because the top 10 of the top 1 control 90 in this country and ive always said that. Senator, you think being in the race you have forced secretary clinton to evolve her message. I think if you look at issue after issue after issue, she has moved very much closer to us but i think the real what people really have got to look at and who has been there for decades, who has time after time tooken on taken on the special interests whether its wall street, the drug companies, the moss sill fuel industries, if people check the record theyll find Bernie Sanders was there a lot earlier than Hillary Clinton. Senator sanders, always great to have you on. Thank you very much. Robin. All right, david. Thank you. Now to big relief overnight after that terrifying abduction. A woman taking a 7weekold from her mom at a popular mall near philadelphia. Fortunately the little baby was rescued and the woman was caught, thanks to Surveillance Video and social media. Abcs eva pilgrim is at that mall in pennsylvania. Happy ending. Good morning, eva. Reporter good morning, robin. This is every moms Worst Nightmare. A random stranger walking off with another womans infant coming out of this very door. This story spreading quickly on social media. Tips flooding in, thankfully this morning that baby is with his mom safe. Pure panic, now relief for one mother, a 7weekold baby boy stolen from this philadelphia area mall safe at home this morning. I want to give a special thanks to the Upper Merion Township Police department and everybody on social media that helped me get my baby back. I want to thank you so much. Reporter this video shows the moment this woman runs out of the mall with little Ahsir Simmons in her arms. The woman, a total stranger befriended them. Started talking with them, spent some time with them. Eventually they all wound up at the food court. Reporter when baby ahsir started crying the new friend offers to pick him up and help calm him as his mom deals with other children. Suddenly the woman takes off baby in arms. An amber alert issued hour after hour going by when finally late last night baby ahsir is found safe. The woman who took him behind bars this morning. Thanks to everybody that shared pictures and the poster, everything. Thank you all so much. For allowing me to get my baby back safe. Reporter so far no clues this morning as to why that woman took the baby. Robin. Eva, grateful mother right there. You could see her praising social media for getting her baby back. Reporter yeah, robin, social media playing a big role in this getting the word out. The woman was telling her friends and family showing off the baby so the combination of those two things helping police bring that baby home. Robin. All right, eva, thank you. Impossible to imagine. We will turn to a Police Training exercise that turned deadly. A man opening fire on a state trooper in virginia. Killing the trooper before also being killed in a shootout with police. Two other bystanders were wounded. Abcs david kerley is in richmond this morning with the latest for us. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, david. The bus station here in richmond is still closed this morning as Virginia State police mourn the loss of one of their own, a Training Mission that turned tragic. What start out as a standard Police Training program quickly turned into a deadly rampage at the richmond Greyhound Bus station. Trooper chad dermyer, a former marine seen at his Police Academy graduation in 2014 was taking part in the drill which tests Police Officers scouting for suspicious activity at Public Transit sites. Just seconds after he approached a man inside the doors of the station, that man pulls a gun and opens fire shooting dermyer at close range multiple times. All units be advised we have an active shooting. Reporter as two other troopers began firing back, two female bystanders hit in the hail of bullets. This man was like get down, get down. Threw me to the ground. He was like, crawl, crawl. Reporter the shooter retreats to the term untils restroom. As soon as i came out the bathroom he started shooting. Reporter taken to the hospital he dies of his wounds. An fbi s. W. A. T. Team descends on the scene sweeping it to make sure theres no other let. Greyhound terminal multiple victims. Reporter trooper dermyer later dies in the hop. Those two female bystanders hit by bullets both in recovery this morning. The trooper was not wearing a bulletproof vest at the time which was acceptable practice for this kind of Training Mission. Authorities have identified the dead suspect. They are not officially releasing his name so far. David and robin. All right. Terrifying scene. We swish gears and to turn to what a lot of people talking about. May be april 1st but march madness hotter than ever. The final four kicking off this weekend. And syracuse could become a cinderella story but not everyone is rooting for the fairy tale ending. Abcs t. J. Holmes is here with the excitement. Good morning to you, t. J. I just cant stand it, im so psyched this morning. Guy, all right, this is how great the final four is that the major underdog in the final four happens to be one of the winningest programs in all of basketball history, yes, syracuse not used to playing the role of cinderella but this year that slipper is fitting beautifully. The heat is on in houston as the maddest march ever cops down to this, underdog original, wildcats, boomer sooner and this the nights marquee matchup, syracuse against mighty North Carolina as the lone surviving number one seed, the tar heels are now the oddson favorite to win the championship. Richardson, three. Reporter syracuse had by far the rockiest road to the final four. Head coach jim boeheim was suspended for nine games earlier in the game and the program was cited for various ncaa violations. Being out nine games is a severe punishment for a coach. Reporter many critics cried foul when syracuse even made it into the tournament. For this tarnished cinderella found a way to keep dancing. Jim boeheim and syracuse have done it. Reporter vegas gives the orangemen a 101 shot of claiming the title as the number ten seed it would be the lowest seeded team to ever win it all. A lot of peoples expectations for us wasnt to go this far so i think the pressure is out the window for us. Reporter the other game is a headtohead between two feelgood program, oklahoma and villanova. Oklahoma led by superstar guard buddy hield. Buddy hield. Reporter hield who grew up in the bahamas learning to shoot using a milk crate as a makeshift hoop is being compared to none other than steph curry so exactly how is villanova planning to stop the unstoppable senior . You just think this guy is superman. Our guys have a different perspective on this Oklahoma Team that maybe the national fan base. Reporter who you got . Who you got. I like North Carolina. Oh, come on. Syracuse. My bad. But, you know, your daughter sabine is here. We should talk about the womens final four in indianapolis. Okay. Come on, tommy. Bring sabine in. Uconn has won ten times and going for a record 11th. Theyre playing and theres threw newcomers to the final four as you see right there. Syracuse, washington, oregon state all going to the final four. Shes just processing. Shes a razor back. Its really hard to upstage t. J. But his daughter just did it. Yeah. All right. Beautiful. Lets get outside to ginger. I want to be next to sabine. You can do weather with me. Were good. We need more face time for her. Real quick, i guess weve got td getaways. Reporter good morning, everyone, david murphy here with an update from accuweather. We had earlier showers that are now moving away from north yesterday. There are additional showers on the way west of gettysburg. Cloudy skies in between the rain drops him were looking at spotty showers this morning. Late this afternoon there could be a popup thunderstorm.