Be. Two days until the big me. A bunch of fans getting ready. Ere there they are. Oh, yeah theyre go is joining us later this the only person to beate the super bowl and who was there for one ofwas. It. Ye yes, we did. We did. The on sunday will have a chance dr that . Only when asked to. I reallytn but when brings et y does. Showdown over t republican memo and his own st justice den against a release of that memo. Want to go right to our chief st justice correspondent pierre th. This is an extraordinary attack from the presi yes, good morning, george. The president is on theleadership an investigators of thnd the Justice Department have politicized the ed sacred investigative favor of democrats and against republic would have been ho uneinkable just ani house poised to authorize the as release of that controversial gop memo against the wishes of the fbi, President Trump is ignoring questions. R. Mr. President , what about thei fbs grave him . Rep a speech c. Rnc. Did anybody not see stateof the union . Because even the haters good reviews on that one. Reporter not mentioning thatmo w memo which sources tell abc newsgges suggests the fbi showed li political bias a the ident. Es the president suggesting after the state of the union that he wantemo made public. Just release the memo. Oh yeah dont worry,0 . Reporter but christopher wraydisagrees and fbi offici about their grave concerns about omissions and the mos memos accuracy wray backed by the more 13,000 member F Agents Association shfor womenfbi. House Speaker Paul Ryan says the memo is not an indictment of if e made and if individuals did something wrong, then it is our job as the legislatentoversight over the on e the House Intelligence Committee say the memo is pure politics. It seems to be based in an effort to undermine bob mueller to protect the president. Ha i have not seen a shred of evidence that would suggest thateretheres been an abuse in the russia reporter the report was written by republicans on that committee. Chaired by congressman devin nunes, an ally of President Trump who served his transi sources tell abc news it accuses of acting inappropriately when it sought arv surveillance war of6 for a former Trump Campaign adviser suspected of being a russian agent. Critics say the document cherrypicked and a Top Republican on the senate te Intelligence Committee is now openly supporting the fbict director who is in defiance of the president. I would tell you there is no i fbi director that hasnt faced undue political pressure and i think hes handling the pressure well. Reporter former fbi director james comey last night weighing in with a tweet, quote, should appreciate the fbi speaking up. Wis i wish more of oureaders wouldheart, american historyows shows that in the lon run, weasels and liars never hold the field. So as long as good people stand up. George weasel liars . This is clearly now completely rs personal between comey and the id president. Between comey and the id president. Youve been coverin justice years. E the president in that said its th unthinkable what hes accusing the leadership of the fbi and the Justice Department of doing, but whats really unthinkable here is this kind of open warfare, open attack from the esid president. Reporter this is extraordinary and you have the fbi director laying out his independence in open defiance ofe the president. Theyre all waiting to s this memo is going to be leas released. Comey and the been, you know weighing in from the outside. Now we expect wray to respond the president this memo comes out, george and, again, theyre waiting on the memo to eeleased and to it. Okay pierre, th anks White House Correspondent jon karl. Jon, i dont think this twe s was part of the in thisand there was a behindthescenes lobbying Department Directed at the white trying to lowerns tensions even knew the mo memo was coming out. But they know how upset the president talk as if there is open warfare between the president and the upper reaches of the fbi and the Justice Department. Think about th george talking about the fbi director theney general and several other top at e th t 48 hours have come in here and pleaded th with the white house to block the release of this memo. Even the director of national te intelligence w of these people appointed by the president , we know the president li believes in a deep state conspiracy against him. Now it appears he believes that ep state conspiracy includesle that he himself put in place. The second tweet, he seems to be pushing t democrats are all behind this surveillance of the Trump Campaign, that the hillary mp Campaign Funded this dossier, that convinced the obama mi administration to do some ei surveillance of the Trump Campaign officials. Yet, this was something approvedby by the president s own Deputy Attorney general. Reporter which is thats ro Rod Rosenstein and that is s whats going to put him under so much pressure here the original order comes before rosenstein t but he reapproves ithes it again after the president is te elected so hes approving ei surveillance of a top Trump Campaign former associate while e the president is in the white us house. Thats why he is under so much fire. Jon one final question other white house aides who have seen the memo think it might not be as powerful as the president thinks. Reporter theres definitely a concern that this could turn into turn out to be quite a dud and, remember george as this memo was reported the one in thing we already know about this memo and repeated every time it is mentioned is that the fbi believes it is misleading. That it paints an incorrect ct picture of what has happened. Which is why they have grave concerns about it. N ka jon karl, thanks very much. Michael. George, you know we keep talking about unchartered territory and these tweets this morning it stunned me. Er we were planning a different show this morning until this came in around 6 40 because as iid said to jon, everybody behind the scenes at the white house knew this was coming but were trying to lower the tensions ande the president just ratcheted it right up this morning. All right. All right, thank you, george. Now to that blast of Winter Weather thats moving through the midwest and the northeast just in time for the big game to bring snow overnight and, nger ginger youve been tracking this system. You know were watching it, chae michael. Of course from norfolk, virginia, the rain this morning t up through parts of ken nut and rhode island. Youre seeing some snow transition into massachusetts too. This is what it looks like on e the roads in Suffolk County, newrk. York. This is new york city im talking about is 6 inches above er average and weve been having little hits that help add up. At what youll notice are the temperatures. Starting the morning just about freezing or subfreezing it feelslder colder than that but by this in evening, when you get done with nn dinner its 00 p. M. Itll feel ke like 1 below in new york city. In 4 in washington, d. C. At that bitter cold settles in vi obviously not just for the east coast. Coas look at philadelphia feeling ke like 1 tonight. Detroit, 2. Ch chicago, you dont get out of it and minneapolis, there for the game already. s thats nothing compared to whats going to happen and i will talk about that forecast coming up michael. Thank you. All my friends in minneapolis are sending me screen shots of like the weather, minus this. Im like you win. T. J. Was doing the same thing for us. Its freezing. Well check in with t. J. Later. We turn to the latest on s that School Shooting in los angeles that left four students wounded and a 12yearold under rest arrest. Clayton sandell is there at the ho school and, clayton, police are now saying they believe it was an accident. Reporter thats right, robin and this morning that girl is g being held in Juvenile Hall as ve investigators try and figure outere where and how she got a gun and y why she brought it here. This morning, questions about why a preteen girl allegedly brought a loaded handgun to her l. A. Middle school. Gunshots were heard on location. Reporter shooting two assm classmates, an adult and two other kids injured by guying glass and metal. Th the call thursday morning triggering a massive response ce officers searching students one by one. She just said they were on lockdown and he was in tears. I i prepare for things like this but that was my own kid. Reporter one struck a yea 15yearold boy in the head. He is expected to survive. Gunshot wounds to the head are very lethal. E the vast majority do not do ll. Well. In this particular circumstance this child was extremely lucky. Y ofe the not hit any vital structures that were an immedia life. Reporter overnight police arresting the girl for scha discharging a gun at school but pe appears the shooting was students who saw it say the sameing. Thing. Was it an an accident. Because they thought it was y toy gun. Okay. But then it shot. R arent saying how the girl was able to t get the gun inside the school t but Officials Say the campus is safe and classes will be back in session this morning. Bi robin. All right clayton, thank you very much. The latest on the deadly fluidem epidemic and cdc expected to release new numbers on how it is spreading and effectiveness of e the vaccine andjanis hase the story. Such a brutal season. Last week they say high flu activity was reported in 39 states. So far 37 children have died from the flu nationwide and thatmber number is expected to rise when we get those weekly figur frome the cdc this afternoon. We also expect to learn more t about the effectiveness of this ar years flu vaccine today. The cdc Just Announced it is about 30 effective against this years dominant strain but canadian Officials Say that figure may be as low as 10 to 20 in that country. At that would be in line with st australia where early estimates suggested it was only 10 ct effective. Guy, weve heard it before. If you havent had your flu shot cdc says still get it, even if its 10 to 20 fe effective it will still lessen the severity. Thousands of fans are heading to minnesota for the super bowl. Lot a lot of us will be getting th together. People in close quarter, and thats how it spreads. Cannot give that warning enough. Thank you. You know what now to a ar scary moment on the court last night. Just after the Denver Nuggets zz buzzerbeating victory over Oklahoma City a fan, you can seee, s there, steps onto the court. Gets right in the face of Oklahoma City thunder star russell westbrook. He appears to be screaming before westbrook tries to push him away. He said he had to push the ay player man away to protect himself. s its unacceptable for them to come on the floor. Weve seen this scene many timesfore before. Nba game the rights are right on the floor and many feel like i bought this seat but at the me same time im this close. Im a part of the action but thats a little too close. Get off the court. Me come on. With the nba theyre right er there. We were down you know lower and the fans are up but they throw stuff at you and say thingshat if you were facetoface without that uniform on they wouldnt say at that. Guarantee you, george. I wouldnt say it anyways. Not at all. Speaking of that how about we talk about the super bowl . Ame two away patriots eagles getting theirices in and those gameplans,ot to already set, right . Ready to go. So was Justin Timberlake previewing his halftime show. T. J. Holmes is there in chilly nn minneapolis. All the details. Od good morning, t. J. R reporter good morning to you, guys. Yo how you doing . Got we got a lot going on here. Lot a lot of people are buzzing in town about a lot of stuff but i dont know if buzzing is the right word. I it is 8 below as i go on air with you here this morning. But for some reason you walk ou around and look at Patriots Fans and they look warm and fuzzy . Why, their guy Rob Gronkowski got the word and is cleared to of course tom bradys favorite target and you ask coach belichick about him playing and listen to this he ve gave. Well, i dont think we released the Injury Report so whatever it is, it is. Why is he always messing with us guys . Atev whatever the report is i guess to play. s hes always playing mind games with everybody, the opponent ande the media but gronkowski was cleared to play. That was vintage belichick. He doesnt give you much er. Ever. Whats the atmosphere like er there this minneapolis for the . Game . This is the best i cant pu put it in words. E the best way to put it is this this is what its like here. Guy, it is its debilitating. S folks here in minnesota are some of the sweetest folks you will ever meet but the excitement is il building and im talking to a lot of eagles fans and they want ey they want that win to finally go over the hump but you got patriots fan who represent, we know they represent well so its a funun place and getting an introduction to minneapolis if you havent been there before. What is it like for the players on the friday before. Its calming like when younall finally sequester you areself ay away from your family in town and all want to get in on the excitement and youre like, i want to relax. Ny t many today starts the day when you get away from everybody. You can no heavyduty practice. You still have to practice t but after practice its like family, go away. We were here for business and this is what were here for, to win is this game and by going out and trying to party and enjoy it i have plenty of time when im not in the super bowl other years. I would not be going out. T. J. , a lot ofway sunday night which means, not a very productive monday for a lot of the country. Ot reporter well look a lot of people take monday off anyway. T, but, yes that is called super m sick monday expecting 16. 5 Million People to call in sick on monday after the game. Especially the folks in boston and especially the folks in ilad philadelphia. They will likely call in sick. Ethe winds or se loses theyll call in sick but aup couple million in lost productivity just between those two city just those city now,some people might not show up t. Who didal cisery. This is challenger. You have seen this eagle at many a Football Game around the country hanging with us all morning talking about challenger some more as we go throughout the day. Beautiful. That was on time. That was perfect. Well get back to you in a little bit. Eli manning, you know him a tt little bit. L hell be with us. Ginger whats that super bowl forecast looking like. The forecast is forecast is cold, guys i wanted to tell you about the coldest outdoor game before this one was in new orleans 1972. I thought that was surprising, just a note. You want to check out whats going to happen on sunday. That arctic blast settles in hard. Minneapolis says you want to see what we can do. Temperatures are seven. If youre not used to that, windchill will make it feel 15 below. Winds at 15 miles per hour. Thats the big picture and you can get your local weather in 30 seconds. First, though, the weekend getaways brought to you by downy. Reporter hi, everybody weve a couple of snow showers on Storm Tracker 6 live hd double scan and finally changing over to snow at the shore. All this is whining down and temperatures are dropping to the freezing mark not northern suburbs and i95. Be careful for a freeze up on roads that didnt manage to dry. Temperatures in the 30s and dropping into the 20s through the day and evening. Windchills overall will be in the teens. Tomorrow 33. 44 on sunday. Going on his way. That would be a kangaroo thats a kangaroo. Taking out a woman on a bicycle. Her name is rebecca. She is okay. Shes laughing about it now. Wow. Thats scary. She did need some stitches on her knee but my goodness. Scary. Thanks for sharing that. I know. Thanks ginger. Coming up we have that case so many parents are watching. A teen sentenced after attacking her friend saying because it was a fictional character c slender man. Now her mother speaking exclusively to abc saying she never saw the warning signs. errn how fasdod when your kids are playing on the court . Well have some tips. Od arthritis. Before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. Xeljanz xr is a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. It can reduce pain swelling and further joint damage even without methotrexate. 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