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all day long washington will be consumed by the decision to fire james comey. jon karl starts us with the latest. good morning. jon. what a day and morning and night. reporter: good morning, george. this firing has stunned nobody more than james comey himself. comey first heard on tv. while in the meeting a letter from the president was hand delivered to fbi headquarters in washington. that letter from the president was read to comey over the phone. you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately. the president wrote, you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. the president also addressed the fbi investigation into russian meddling in the election. i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation. the reasons were outlined in a letter from the deputy attorney general who wrote that comey grossly mishandled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation saying among other things that this jul ....
watergate as president trump prepares to nominate a new fbi director and meets with the russian foreign minister this morning. our entire team is breaking it down, a special edition of gma starts now. good morning, america. what a stunning decision from president trump. firing fbi director james comey only the second time in american history a president has taken that step. we are covering all the fallout this morning from the white house to the capitol to the fbi. the decision took comey by surprise. he found out from tv on a recruiting trip to los angeles. he thought it was a joke at first. take a look at his plane landing in d.c. hours ago after he got the news. we are covering every possible angle of this story. attorney general jeff sessions is expected to soon name an interim fbi director to replace james comey and the president preparing to nominate a permanent replacement. the chair of the senate intelligence committee is campaign aides if they continue ig ....
lauryn ricketts is here with your forecast. yesterday was a gorgeous day. we made it into the mid to upper 60s. we re already sitting at 63 right now. we have a few clouds out there and that s what you can expect as we continue through the day. definitely a light wind. it will be a beauty of a day. low 70s is where we ll top out. another great day, clouds on the increase. we have a chance for some rain showers and some heavy rain. we ll have to watch for flooding once again and temperatures are going to drop quite a bit. we ll watch that rain, time it out, let you know when you can expect to bring that umbrella with you in a few minutes. lauryn, thank you. we have store two stories we re following. a two week old baby died you can see police on the street of pomeroy road in southeast washington. sources familiar with the investigation told news 4 they went there for a report of a baby not breathing. they found the two week old boy in distress. medics tried to give ....
reporter susan hogan with more on this. as we were to first report online earlier today, general motors is offering a free fix to thousands of vehicles, this is a direct result of a federal investigation into whether the car maker went far enough with its initial recalls more than two years ago. the investigation comes after an additional 128 gm owners complained to the national highway traffic and safety administration that their headlights failed, but their vehicles were not part of the recall. in one complaint the owner of a 2007 chevy trail blazer says he was almost killed when the low beam headlight went out while driving at night but the recall does not include his vehicle. the owner of a 2006 buck lacrosse said our headlights quick working and even the make, model and year of their car was included, their vin number was not in april, was called a recall query. to set the scope of the initial recalls. looking into the possibility that another 317,000 more vehicl ....
[ chanting ] group is gathering to demand an investigation into the trump campaign s alleged collusion with russia in the 2016 election. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. i m andrea roane. political washington is reeling from the surprised sacking of fbi director james comey. the president said in a tweet, republicans and democrats will soon be thanking me for firing fbi director james comey. members on both sides of the aisle questioning the timing. director comey was leading the bureau into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia and as seth lemmon reports, many wonder about the future of the investigation. moments ago, president donald trump explained why he fired james comey. why did you fire director comey? because he wasn t doing a good job, very simply. reporter: the white house is vigorously defending president donald trump s decision to fire fbi director james comey. he has to have confidence in the impartiality and the non- po ....