walking the green, the jaw-dropping pictures having everyone fleeing the fairway. will this gator take a bite out of the golfers game? and good morning, america. how about that gator. i say we give him the putt. yeah. yes. give him everything. mulligan! anything he wants. that was something. it was. but we ll begin with that news breaking overnight. two officers shot outside the police station in ferguson, missouri. you re looking at the scene there just moments ago. the officers were rushed to the hospital. this all happening just hours after the police chief stepped down. abc s pierre thomas is in washington with the very latest. good morning, pierre. reporter: good morning, robin. officers shot and the city of ferguson a tinder box, a town still in crisis despite the resignation of its police chief amid racial strife. [ gunfire ] reporter: bullets flying just after midnight in ferguson, missouri. okay there was just gunfire and now cops have guns dra
developments in the controversy over hillary clinton s jon jonathan karl is reporting that house speaker john boehner is poised to announce a new investigation. reporter: hillary clinton may have hoped she put the e-mail controversy behind her with the press conference. but the investigations are now about to begin. top house republicans tell abc news they expect speaker john boehner to announce a new house investigation next week into hillary clinton s e-mail practices as secretary of state. including her admitted destruction of some 30,000 e-mails that she determined to be purely personal. as for how mrs. clinton has handled the controversy so far, it seemed like a case study in how not to do damage control. she did not want to have two phones. she couldn t be like, hey, man, could you hold this other phone for me? reporter: nine days of silence. and then the reason she finally gave for not using government e-mail at all? it would have been inconvenient. i thought u
will she be forced to return to italy. swallowed whole. take a look at this. this bus falling into a massive sinkhole. how everyone managed to get out safely before it floated away down the river. and we do say good morning, america. it s good to have david and t.j. with us on this wednesday morning. a lot of new developments this morning in that midair mystery. that s a look at the debris field on the mountain in the french alps where that plane carrying 150 people went down. the wreckage, as you can imagine scattered over a wide area. stunning robin how little is left of that plane. this is a live shot of the staging area where helicopters are taking off right now to go to the crash site and, of course, where the bodies will be brought back. we are learning more about the passengers on board the flight including the 16 students from one high school class. we have full team coverage this morning and abc s terry moran starts us off at that school in germany. terry, good
good evening. and we begin tonight with two breaking stories. the americans who were on board that jet when it crashed. but first tonight, the army argent charged with desertion. bergdahl the u.s. soldier held hostage by the taliban for five years. we saw him blinking in the sunlight. set free in the dramatic exchange. the u.s. handing over five taliban prisoners to gain his freedom. after the handoff, patted down by a member of u.s. special operations forces before boarding that chopper and flying to freedom. but tonight, that freedom could be short lived. late today, the u.s. army revealing the charges that could lead to life in prison. abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz, leading us off. reporter: the possibility of a life sentence shows just how serious the charges are. desertion with the intent to avoid hazardous duty, endangering his fellow soldiers left to face the enemy without him. endangering the safety of a command unit or place carries a ma
behavior. i never thought of myself as a racist. i never considered it a possibility. but the bottom line is that the words said in that chant were mean hateful and racist. the lawmaker who organized yesterday s meeting says she believe s levi pettit s apology is genuine and she forgives him. the senate takes up work today on the federal budget one day after the house passed its version. it relies on $5 trillion in cuts over the next decade. much of the savings from medicaid food stamps and welfare. the two versions will have to be merged in to one before the april 15th deadline. speaking of budgeting, a couple from pennsylvania has a lot of it to do after a big lottery win or maybe they don t. joseph and jodi are $7 million richer thanks to a scratch off ticket. he was sent the ticket by his dad. it was tucked in to a get well card because he was recovering from surgery. my dad does that too. he said he couldn t celebrate too much because he was supposed to relax.