Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20170417 : compare

Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20170417

Occasions. How his brother convinced him to get help. And its a boy. April the giraffe finally gives birth. More than 1 Million People around the world watch. April and the zoos owner join us live. Only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Hope you had a happy easter. Youre dressed for easter this morning. I still am. Theyre in the spirit at the white house as well. Getting ready for the big tradition, the easter egg roll. More than 0,000 people expected to show up this morning. Much more on that this morning. First, the manhunt after the horrific crime posted on facebook, five states are on alert this morning. Alex perez is in cleveland, ohio, with the latest. Reporter good morning, robin. Police are pleading with the suspect to turn himself in. The fbi and local investigators have been working through the night to catch up to him. Im about to kill this guy right here. Reporter this morning, the fbi and police in a manhunt looking for man in a coldblooded act of murder. We know who he will and hell eventually be caught. Reporter officials issuing an aggravated murder warrant for steve stephens. They plef he shot and killed 74yearold robert godwin. On sunday afternoon, stephens allegedly approached the elderly man, savagely killing him just seconds after telling him hes about to shoot him because of a woman. All right can you do me a favor . Can you say joy lane . Joy lane . Yeah. Shes the reason why, this is about to happen to you. Reporter the homicide too disturbing for us to show. One male shot. Gsw to the face. This man right here was a good man. And i just hate i hate that hes gone. Reporter five states on high alert this morning as the search intensifies. Overnight, a ping from stephens cell phone detected near er i e, pennsylvania. Authorities say steechs posted on facebook that he had lost everything due to gambling. I just snapped, man. Reporter in another post sunday, before what stephens calls the easter day slaughter, he says he killed at least 13 people. Thats what i did. We want this to end with as much peace as we can bring to this right now. We want him to turn himself in. Reporter hes believed to be driving a white ford fusion. Authorities say steechs posted the crime after it happened and did not Facebook Live it as initially thought. Authorities this morning reminding the public, hes considered armed and very dangerous, robin . Yes, he is. We bring in abc news consultant, former fbi special agent brad garrett. What are authorities doing . The real key is going to be, i think, tracking his cell phone. Ill pinged in erie county, pennsylvania. Thats why you have this fivestate alert. The disturbing part is he kills a total stranger. You dont have a direction to go maybe of other potential targeting for him. You also dont know the mind set of this guy. What is really driving him. He worked at this facility with children. His girlfriend, apparently, made comments she didnt see any signs of this. So what really happened to this guy. I dont buy that he snapped. This stuff builds up over a period of time and then they launch. You have to be careful you want people to be aware. And n the particular states. You dont want for this guy to possibly be knowing that theyre closing in on him. So how do you balance the two . You balance the two by the following. You tell the public, look, you need to tell us if you see this car or this guy. And then back off, call local Law Enforcement. Let them handle it. You need the eyes and ears of the public to probably catch him. We have talked about this before. And, the crime by itself is horrendous. The fact that it was posted online just adds to it. Is there anything that can be done to prevent crimes like this from being posted . Facebook is actually fairly good at capturing these things and pulling them off. Theyve done it a lot with pornography and other superviolent things. To an extent. Think about the billions of postings every day. They have software to pull certain things out. I dont know that they do on something quite like this immediately. Youll be back on another case. Thank you. A lot of other top stories. President trump responding to the tax day protests over the weekend. Its the first day on the Supreme Court for new justice kne neil gorsuch. The Vice President visited the korean Demilitarized Zone. He issued a stark warning, saying all options are on the table after north koreas failed missile test. Martha raddatz is in seoul with the latest. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, george. Strong words from the Vice President here in seoul. Warping north kia not to test the resolve of the United States or its strength. Overnight, Vice President mike sense touching down for a visit to the most fortified border in the world. The Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. Amid an escalating nuclear standoff. Pence, on a tenday tour of asia, less than 200 feet from the north korean border, catching a glimpse of the territory and the north Korean Forces who guard it. Just one day after the failed missile launch. All options are on the table as we continue the stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of south korea with the denuclearization of the peninsula. Reporter the north korean test ended immediately after launch. A black eye for Supreme Leader kim jonguns regime. The dictator rolled out what appeared to be a deadly arsenal of independenter continental ballistic missiles. The big question this morning, did a u. S. Cyberattack bring down the missile . A former british cabinet member seems to think so. Theres a very strong belief that the americans, threw cyber methods, have been very successful at interrupting these tests and making them fail. Reporter no proor of that and no comment from the white house. But National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster told me, time is running out. This problem is coming to a head. And so its time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option to try to resolve this peacefully. Reporter but Vice President pence made clear today that while President Trump, too, hopes to resolve this peacefully, the military option does remain on the table. The world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. North korea would do well not the test his resolve. Or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region. Reporter a warning that comes as north korea prepares a sixth underground nuclear test in hopes of some day perfecting a Nuclear Missile capable of reaching the u. S. Vice president pence also repeated Rex Tillersons warning today that time for strategic patience with north korea is over. Robin . Thank you, martha. For more, our contributor, colonel steve ganyard, a former Fighter Pilot and state department official. The test was a failure. Still a lot of concern. You see the parade. The large canister. Thats what people are talking about. Thats what scared people, robin. If you look at the size of the canister, which we think theres a missile or going to be a missile. Bigger means longer range. That means it can get closer to the United States. It looks like a chinese missile that we know can get to the United States. Thats where the concern was. We dont want to scare foeblgs at home. This doesnt mean well have nux coming down in San Francisco and seattle tomorrow. If you see them marching across the pacific, this is why the Nuclear Problem with north korea is not just regional. Its an american problem. Is there going back to the canister, it could be a fake. It could be. They want us to think theres a missile inside. They generally say if this is what it looks like, this is what its going to become. Theyve said publicly, thats the aspiration. The nuclear test. Thats what were concerned about. Thats the next step. Well wait to see. You have to have a missile to deliver the nuke. You have to have the nuke itself. The next thing is the underground test. The administration said yesterday there will be severe consequences if they light it off. Well have to wait and see the action of the white house. Thank you, guys. The crisis if syria. A devastating suicide bombing has killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children. T terry moran tracking the story. Reporter this might, might be a faint, faint dplimer of hope in the war in syria. The kremlin announcing that diplomats from russia, the United States, and the United Nations will meet next week to discuss the syrian crisis. This comes as good news after the showdown over the missile strikes if syria ten days ago. The defeat of isis in syria is within sight. The u. S. Is trying to get russia to plan for syrias future without bashar al assad. This bombing targeted the group of buses part of a population swap, part of an agreement that had been made. Reporter its just appalling, george. This morning, still no claims of responsibility for the bombing. Pope francis condemning this attack. On saturday, part of deal to evacuate besieged civilians, a convoy of buses left two governmentcontrolled towns. A vehicle loaded with food stopped. Children swarmed around. Another vehicle packed with explosives rammed the convoy. More than 120 people killed. Including 68 children. The war goes on. The con voice have resumed. Now washington, d. C. , and President Trump is back in the Nations Capital this morning, after spending easter in maralago. Hes preparing for the white house easter egg roll. Also facing fallout for the protests demanding he release his tax returns. Mary bruce has more on all that. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. After spending a quiet holiday with his family, this morning, the president will celebrate with more than 20,000 guests here on his backyard. The white house, this morning. Its buzzing with activity. Getting ready for the easter egg roll. Across the country, a far less festive mood, from protesters demanding the president do something they feel is far overdue. This morning, President Trump is back if washington, after spending east we are his family at maralago. The president celebrating the holiday. While being dogged by another annual event. Tax day. [ crowd chanting ] reporter across the country, thousands taking to the streets, demanding the president release his tax returns. Snmt chanting snmd. All hey hey, ho ho, donald trump has got to go. Reporter pro and antitrump demonstrators clashed amid fireworks and pepper spray. From coast to coast, sorry, easter bunny. The trump chicken taking over. The president is being accused of being too chicken to show his tax returns. I showed mine. You show yours. What is he hiding . We need to know. Dont you think . We need to know. Its ridiculous. Reporter fighting back on twitter sunday, the president asked, now tax returns are brought up again. Saying someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over. But this florida woman told our david wright, shes raising her voice for free. I think hell see it. I think hell construe it as Something Else, that were paid protesters. Reporter as he closes in on his first 100 days in office, President Trump is trying to get his agenda and staff back on track. Hes told steve bannon and Jared Kushner to work out their differences. Their powerer play playing out on saturday night live. Take him back to hell. Have a seat at your new desk. I would like to to just fix everything. If you need me, ill be over here at my desk, okay . Reporter now, the president tweeted the election is over. This week, hes headed back to a state that was key to his victory. Wisconsin. Lets talk more with jon karl. Our chief political analyst, matthew dowd as well. The protests. You see the president s opponents trying to push several different levers. Protests, new lawsuits about his tax returns. A big effort to try to compel the president to release his taxes through congress. And, george, that wont work as long as you have republicans controlling congress. What i do see happening is more republicans saying they would be willing to support a bill that would say that the next president s of the United States would need to be compelled to release his taxes. You have states considering bills like that as well. Matthew dowd, the resis tapt will face a test as well. A key special election in georgia to fill the seat of former congressman tom price who now runs health care for the president. Well, yeah. We have had one already, george, the special election in kansas. The democrat overperformed in a district that is very republican. It was a canary in a coal mine. The democrat is ahead. If a democrat wins the district in georgia, theres real chance democrats could take back congress in 2018. I dont know the president was watching. Safe to say he would disagree with matts analysis of kansas. He put out a tweet yesterday saying the recent kansas election, congress, was a really big media event until the republicans won. New theyre playing the the same game with georgia. Bad. Trump carried that district in kansas by 7 point ps. They won it by 6. It was a scare. The democrats didnt invest in that race. This georgia race is critical. Were a long way from the midterm elections. If the democrats can win that, sthat the kind of race they need to win to retake congress. Its an indicator they could. The flip side is also true. If they cant win in georgia, its a republican district. Its more narrowly republican. Theyll have a tough time winning control of congress. This comes up against the backdrop of the foreign crises. The strike on syria the strike on afghanistan. The saber. Rattling with korea. Yeah, the interesting thing is, they Vice President seemed to affect Donald Trumps aprufl ratings in the country. Within the first days after inauguration, the majority of the country disapproved. Today, after all the actions hes taken, a majority of the country still disapproves. The country is seeing the actions in a prism from their own view point. People that dont like him see them as erratic and dangerous. People that like him see them as strong and decisive. Even is waiting for the Foreign Policy strategy. It does seem to have brought more organization to the core of the white house, though. Yeah, ill tell you, george. These things on the National Stage could do more to define the trump presidency. Thank you very much. To ginger with Severe Weather and flooding in the plains and midwest. Such an act i have weekend over the plains. I want to showu can see that vig there, so picturesque and fortunate that the more than 160 severe storm reports came in places that were less populated. Flash flooding pictures in cincinnati ohio, a lot of rain happening north of chicago up to madison. Thats the national outlook, but flyers the select cities brought to you by sprint. Reporter good morning, everyone, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan shows you showers pushing into Chester County. They will be New Castle County before too much longer. Sprinkles here and there elsewhere. A good portion of the area is in for the additional shower activity later this morning. Dry over the ben franklin bridge, mild with temperatures from the mid 50s up to 600 so. Later today, 74 clouds and sun, spotty showers through the morning into the early afternoon. 87 wow. It was hot. I didnt know it was that hot. 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