College student held captive in north korea for more than a year finally home with his family. But mysteriously in a coma. Landing in ohio hours ago carried off the plane rushed to the hospital. The secret talks that led to his release and his familys message this morning. And a dramatic rescue caught on camera. Two women struggling in a dangerous rip current when a hero officer and surfers jumped in to save them. Hold on to the board. We got you. The warning as you head to the beach. Good morning, america. There is a lot going on this wednesday morning starting with that horrific scene in london. There it is right there, that london highrise active search and rescue operation right now. Horrific and scary scene at that, george. Deadly fire erupted as hundreds of people were sleeping inside. Witnesses say they saw people dangling from the windows and families were trying to escape. I know. When you watch these scenes like this, so hard and the smoke is stretching for miles. Officials calling this an unprecedented incident. Abcs James Longman has been on the scene for us all night. Good morning, james. Reporter good morning, robin. Im about 150 yards away from the building. As you can see its still smoldering. Pockets of fire still ablaze after 11 hours and theres concern this morning about the stability of that building. We understand so far six fatalities have been confirmed but that number is likely to rise and there are still a number of elderly and children missing. This has been a catastrophic fire. Balls of fire bursting from the windows. Crazy happening. Reporter panicked calls for help from inside. Let me out. Reporter and frantic acts to break away. Residents dean dropping down makeshift ropes trying to estate. This guy is sending a rope. Dont do it. Reporter more than 200 firefighters battling the raging inferno in this Apartment Building at least 24 floors high. We have now taken over 50 patients to hospitals across london. Reporter countless residents trapped inside the highrise in the heart of london throughout the night. We could hear people screaming help me. Reporter one partially blind elderly man trapped on the 11th floor. Cameras capturing him terrified as he waits for help and still others missing. Your brother is trapped. Weve gone around the hospital. Reporter hundreds of firefighters struggle to take down the blaze but the building is so tall, much of the fire is impossible to contain. Please move back, everybody. Reporter firefighters pushing bystanders back from the scene. From here you can see debris falling off the building and theyve moved the Police Cordon back because theres real fears it may collapse. Thick black smoke towering high and far throughout the city. People were still sleeping on the higher floors and didnt have a clue what was going on. Im not sure if half of them even got out. Reporter theres been no mention of terrorism as the cause of this so far, but no one really knows what started this fire but a number of issues around the safety of this building going back years so a lot of questions for the investigation going forward. Robin. Yeah, people want answers, james. Boy, london has been through so much recently. They have been hit hard. Also overnight the American College student Otto Warmbier held captive in north korea since last january returned home to the u. S. After diplomats learned hes been in a coma for more than a year treated at the university of Cincinnati Medical Center and linzie janis is there. Good morning. Reporter good morning. We are still waiting on word from warmbiers family and from doctors here who have been evaluating him overnight. What we know is that his parents found out a week ago that their son has been in a coma for 15 months. How he ended up in that state is a mystery. Overnight, the medevac flight carrying American College student Otto Warmbier landing in ohio. The 22yearold in a coma and in urgent need of medical care after being held prisoner in north korea for nearly 18 months. Members of his family hugging each other and crying after seeing him. Warmbier carried off the plane by hand. An ambulance taking him to the hospital. A state Department Official saying theyre aware of reports warmbier contracted botulism. But could not confirm what caused his medical condition. Warmbiers release coming after secret talks between u. S. And north korean officials last month in oslo. Then according to the state department, north korea revealing his condition to them last week. The president s direction the department of state has secured the release of Otto Warmbier. Reporter warmbier was on a tour of north korea in january 2016 when he was arrested after being caught on Surveillance Video allegedly trying to steal a political banner from a hotel in pyongyang. The regime parading him before cameras. Warmbier breaking down as he begged for leniency. I have made the worst mistake of my life. But please act to save me. Please, think of my family. Reporter instead, he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in a north korean prison. His parents saying they learned just a week ago that their son had been in a coma since shortly after his televised sentencing in march of last year and in a bizarre twist the news of their sons release coming the same day as Dennis Rodmans arrival in north korea. Just want to open the door. Reporter now, warmbiers family has issued a statement saying we want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime in north korea. The family is expected to give a News Conference updating us on his condition by tomorrow morning. Youll hear what they have to say. Warmbiers release and the news of his condition coming at a time of heightened tensions, as you know, with north korea. Lets go to martha raddatz. Martha, with his release many are wondering how the u. S. Will respond given that there are still other americans being detained there. Reporter there are, robin. Like all of us, u. S. Officials are outraged by the treatment of this young man and there is growing concern about the three others still imprisoned. Two of them were taken just in the last couple of months. Tony kim and kim hack sung teaching at pyongyang university, the third prisoner there for two years is kim dong chul, a businessman sentenced to ten years of hard labor and we do know from detainees who have been released in the past that prisoners are badly mistreated with stark condition, constant interrogations and the u. S. Will continue, robin, to press for their release, more urgently now than ever. Absolutely and as linzie mentioned we know that Dennis Rodman is back there in north korea. No reason to believe theres any relationship between his visit and warmbiers release, but the american authorities even realize that rodman was making this trip again . Reporter they knew he was there but right as Otto Warmbier was being flown out rodman was arriving and later seen watching a north korean Womens Basketball game and saying he was promoting peace. U. S. Officials are making clear he was not on an official visit. A bizarre coincidence to be sure but perhaps he was invited to north korea because kim jongun wanted to distract attention from the treatment of warmbier bermuda but that will remain a major issue as the u. S. Tries to get north korea to halt its Nuclear Weapons program and free those other prisoners, robin. Yes, it will remain a major issue. Thank you. There is more breaking news out of washington. Nearly 200 Democratic Congressional leaders are filing a lawsuit against President Trump over his business dealings with foreign governments. It is the largest number of lawmakers to sue a president ever. This morning Senate Republicans wrestling with their version of Obamacare Repeal after meeting with the president when he called the house bill he once praised mean and urged the senators to make it more generous and the president celebrates his first birthday in the white house turning 71. All coming in the wake of the grilling of Jeff Sessions. Questions on the russia investigation, the firing of james comey and his conversations with the president. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has all the details. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, good morning. Sessions came prepared to fight what he called an attack on his reputation based on unfounded innuendo. He was defiant on a mission to clear his name. The suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian government to hurt this country, which i have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable lie. Reporter he pushed back on whether he intentionally misled the senate during confirmation hearings about whether he met with russians. Colleagues, that is false. My answer was a fair and correct response to the charge as i understand it. I was responding to this allegation that we had meet surrogates had been meeting with the russians on a regular basis. Reporter did he have a third meeting with the Russian Ambassador at the Mayflower Hotel in 2016 . Something he never fully acknowledged. I dont recall it. Certainly i can assure you nothing improper if i had had a conversation with him and its conceivable that occurred, i just dont remember it. Reporter at least one republican scoffing at the very suggestion of sessions as a russian spy. Have you ever in any of these fantastical situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous . Reporter some senators were frustrated he refused to answer questions about his conversations with President Trump, especially about russia and comey. I believe the American People have had it with stonewalling. I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the department of justice. Reporter and more questions about sessions recusal. The senator wanted to know if sessions did Something Else that worried comey. The question is, mr. Comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic and he couldnt talk about them. What are they . Why dont you tell me . There are none. There are none. Reporter but sessions did confirm he left comey in the room with the president alone after a february meeting that comey later expressed concern about. Robin. All right, pierre, thank you. For more on attorney general Jeff Sessions testimony and what the Trump Administration is saying well go to cecilia vega and, cecilia, whats the reaction were seeing from the white house . Reporter robin, the president was traveling yesterday for most of his testimony so he missed it but they do say, the white house says what he did see he is pleased with. One question that came up during that testimony is whether the president would fire, might fire special counsel robert mueller. That, of course, came up after the president s close friend suggested that that is something he is considering. The white house, robin, now says the president has no intention of doing that but theyre not exactly ruling this one out yet. Something else they have to deal with, the president facing yet another lawsuit, this one brought on by democrats on capitol hill. Reporter yeah, nearly 200 of them in this suit that they expect to file today. This is believed to be the most members of congress to ever sue a sitting president. They say he is violating the constitution by profiting from his foreign business dealings, so far, robin, no comment from the white house but earlier this week when two democratic attorney generals filed suit they said it was partisan politics behind that one. Cecilia, thank you very much. George. Lets talk about it with dan abrams. Lets start with that lawsuit right there. So the president facing lawsuits on three fronts all on the same issue from a Civil Rights Group and businesses in new york and d. C. From those attorneys general in maryland and d. C. And now these members of congress. Which one actually has the best chance of moving through the courts. Well, i think the big question is, where is the harm . Meaning which one of these lawsuits has the best chance of saying, the people who are suing have actually been hurt as a result of this argument that the president is somehow benefiting. Personally from this activity. So i think that likely the answer would probably be the maryland, d. C. Case but, look, none of these are easy. This did a whole new area of law and this issue of sort of showing standing which is this question of who can sue is going to be a difficult question, i think, in any of these lawsuits. The real vulnerability for the president , even if these lawsuits dont go all the way or dont reach a final judgment against him the idea that in discovery his tax returns will be right, see, the first question becomes does a judge allow the case to move forward at all. And if the answer to that is, yes, meaning as you point out discovery, that would allow the plaintiffs to get access to relevant information. And part of that relevant information could be his tax returns, which youve got to believe that in some of these cases the goal here may be we dont think well win in emoluments case, but, boy if we could get access to his tax returns that in and of itself could be a big win. The Senate Intelligence committee made it clear theyre not done with attorney general Jeff Sessions. He wouldnt answer so many questions saying i dont want to answer but didnt claim executive privilege. Again, executive privilege is something for the president to claim yet the attorney general seems to be saying, i cant answer these questions because the president might invoke executive privilege at a later date. But that means theres an open question, the president either has to invoke it or not. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Amy with the mornings other top stories starting with this manhunt. There is a 70,000 reward being offered in the search for those two georgia inmates. Donnie rowe and rickie dubose overpowered two guards, grabbed the guns and killed them. One belongs to a white supremacist gang and police are worried they will kill again. After stealing a car they were spotted 30 miles away and broke into a home to change clothes. Meanwhile, in oklahoma overnight authorities recaptured a murder suspect and another inmate who escaped through a ventilation system. The second escape at that jail. Two others still on the run. The pentagon is expected to announce President Trump has given defense secretary james mattis the authority to set u. S. Troop levels in afghanistan. And mattis is believed to be leaning toward deploying several thousand more american troops to take on the taliban and isis. Congress has approved the v. A. Reform bill. It will make it easier for the Veterans Affairs department to fire employees and will give more protection to whistleblowers. President trump promised to hold workers accountable after some veterans died waiting for appointments. And we have an update on a story we first told you about last month. American airlines is now canceling that plan to reduce legroom on some of its planes. It originally planned to cut legroom for economy passengers by up to two inches so it could add more seats on its new 737s but the airline says angry feedback. Really, angry . Forced them to change course. Can you imagine people upset about that . Shocking. My knees are happy. How about that. Thanks, amy. Thank you, amy. Now to an amazing rescue that was caught on camera. Two beachgoers were caught in a rip current but saved by hero officer and surfers and abcs gio benitez is on the scene at Rockaway Beach in new york. Good morning, gio. Reporter michael, good morning to you. Incredible, the two sisters say they were going into the water to wash off the sand when a powerful rip current knocked them over and dragged them out to sea. Panic on the shore, watch this cell phone video showing the dramatic rescue of two people stuck in rip currents in danger of drowning. But a 23yearold nypd officer happened to be right there. It was all good timing. Im down here for the summer. We have large crowds coming in all right billy lauria stripped off his belt and gun and jumped in the water. When he realized there was more than one, he enlisted the help of surfers. We got you, stay calm. Reporter one of the rescued now speaking out. I panicked, im going to drown. Im going to drown. He saved my life and my kids life. Reporter this wont be the last rip current emergency. So experts remind us if you get caught up in one just dont swim directly to the shore. Swim parallel to the shore and get out of it first. Michael. All right, thank you, gio. Boy, happy ending to that. 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