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RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA THIS MORNING, NIKKI HALEY’S NEW CHALLENGE TO TRUMP. >> HOW THE FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR IS VOWING TO STAY IN THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT, AND TRUMP’S NEW THREAT TO HER DONORS IS ON ALERT. >> MILLIONS ACROSS THE SOUTH FACE THE THREAT OF FLOODING AFTER HIGH WATER RESCUES FROM

CALIFORNIA TO TEXAS. WHAT TO EXPECT TODAY. >> RETURNING TO THE SKY BOEING JETS NOW SET TO FLY AGAIN AFTER THAT DOOR BLEW OUT IN MID-FLIGHT. WHAT THE FAA IS REVEALING ABOUT SAFETY INSPECTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN. >> THE NEW PROPOSAL TO BAN KIDS UNDER AGE 16 FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.

>> JON STEWART IS BACK. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT HIS RETURN TO LATE NIGHT. >> PLUS, HAVE DIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION GONE TOO FAR . ANOTHER STATE CUTS OFF FUNDING AND LATER PERHAPS NOT SINCE THE BOSTON TEA PARTY HAVE AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH BEEN THIS AT ODDS OVER TEA OR THE TEA TIME

DEBATE. >> THAT’S EVEN FORCED THE U.S. EMBASSY TO GET INVOLVED. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK. THIS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, EVERYONE I’M ANDREA FUJII IN FOR RHIANNON I’M LIONEL MOISE IN FOR ANDREW. >> WE BEGIN WITH THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT AND NIKKI HALEY’S NEW

MESSAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> HER MESSAGE LAST NIGHT BRING IT ON AS HER CAMPAIGN INSISTS SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO STAY IN THE RACE. IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING THE FINANCIAL DONORS WHO ARE SUPPORTING HALEY. >> ABC’S JAY O’BRIEN HAS THE LATEST ON THIS RACE FROM WASHINGTON. JAY GOOD MORNING.

>> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AS NIKKI HALEY VOWS TO STAY IN THE RACE THROUGH HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S PRIMARY NEXT MONTH, SHE’S ISSUING A CHALLENGE THIS MORNING TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NIKKI HALEY. THIS MORNING, NIKKI HALEY DEFIED IT ON HER HOME TURF IN SOUTH

CAROLINA AS SHE FACES INCREASING PRESSURE TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE . >> BRING IT DONALD, SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT. >> AT A RALLY LAST NIGHT, HALEY SAYING HER CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN SHE LOST TO DONALD TRUMP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. >> WE HAVE HAD 200,000 DONORS

FROM ALL 50 STATES, 95% OF THOSE DONATIONS ARE $200 OR LESS. THIS IS ABOUT REAL AMERICANS. >> BUT HALEY LOSING AT LEAST ONE BIG DONOR FOR NOW. READ HOFFMAN, THE BILLIONAIRE CO-FOUNDER OF LINKEDIN, SAYING HE’S HOLDING OFF MAKING ANY NEW INVESTMENTS IN HALEY UNTIL HE SEES A PATH

FOR HER TO WIN. AND NOW TRUMP, APPEARING TO PRESSURE HALEY AGAO HER AS BIRD BRAIN. TRUMP POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ANY HALEY DONORS ARE, QUOTE, PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. >> HE SHOULD FEEL THREATENED WITHOUT A DOUBT. LAST NIGHT, HALEY ALSO RESPONDED TO TRUMP’S VICTORY SPEECH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

WHEN HE TAUNTED HER ON EVERYTHING FROM HER POLICIES TO THE DRESS SHE WAS WEARING. >> AND WHEN I WATCHED HER AND THE FANCY DRESS THAT PROBABLY WASN’T SO FANCY. >> DONALD TRUMP GOT OUT THERE AND JUST THREW A TEMPER TANTRUM. THAT’S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE’S INSECURE IN THE MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN ENDORSED

YESTERDAY BY THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION AFTER MAKING HISTORY WHEN HE JOINED THEIR PICKET LINES IN SEPTEMBER. >> LOOK, I KEPT MY COMMITMENT. BUT WHILE SPEAKING IN MICHIGAN, BIDEN ONCE AGAIN INTERRUPTED BY PROTESTERS CALLING FOR A CEASE FIRE IN GAZA. THE SECOND TIME IN TWO DAYS, BIDEN’S SUPPORT FOR

ISRAEL IN ITS WAR AGAINST HAMAS AMID THAT COUNTRY’S BOMBING OF GAZA, AN UNPOPULAR POSITION WITH MANY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER VOTERS AND ARAB AMERICANS IN THE CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE OF MICHIGAN. BACK TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL IN THE JEAN CARROLL CASE RESUMES AGAIN TODAY IN NEW YORK, WHERE TRUMP COULD

TAKE THE STAND. ANDREA. LOTS TO WATCH. >> JAY. THANK YOU. THE CHAIRMAN OF ARIZONA’S REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS RESIGNED AMID A BRIBERY SCANDAL AND A LEAKED RECORDING. JEFF DEWIT APPEARED TO OFFER SENATE HOPEFUL KARI LAKE A JOB AND OTHER DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR HER STAYING OUT OF THE SENATE RACE. DEWITT CLAIMS THE AUDIO

WAS SELECTIVELY EDITED AND DENIES TRYING TO BRIBE LAKE, WHO IS A PROMINENT SUPPORTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> TURNING NOW TO THE WEATHER, SOME ALREADY FLOODED PARTS OF THE DEEP SOUTH COULD SEE SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF RAIN TODAY, THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED FROM LOUISIANA TO GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NEAR

HOUSTON. LOOK AT THIS. THIS MAN’S SUV SLID OFF A ROAD INTO RUSHING WATER YESTERDAY. DOZENS OF OTHERS HAD TO BE PULLED FROM FLOODED VEHICLES. WE’LL GET A CHECK OF YOUR FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> WE TURN NOW TO BOEING, UNDER SCRUTINY FOR ITS QUALITY AND SAFETY. BUT THIS MORNING THERE’S

A PLAN TO GET A TROUBLED PLANE BACK IN THE SKY. THREE WEEKS AFTER A DOOR BLEW OFF THIS ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT IN. MID-AIR, GROUNDING ALL BOEING 737 MAX NINES AND CANCELING HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS PER DAY, THERE’S A NEW PLAN TO RETURN THOSE PLANES TO THE SKY. THE FAA

IS NOW DETAILING A 12 HOUR INSPECTION PROCESS FOR THE JETS TO GET THEM BACK INTO SERVICE. ALASKA AIRLINES, WITH 65 MAX NINES IN ITS FLEET, SAYS IT PLANS TO FLY THEM AGAIN AS SOON AS TOMORROW. UNITED AIRLINES EXPECTS TO FLY THEM THIS WEEKEND, BUT IT’S NOT BLUE SKIES

JUST YET. FOR BOEING, THE FAA SAYS IT WILL NOT ALLOW AN EXPANSION IN PRODUCTION OR APPROVE ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION LINES FOR THE 737 MAX UNTIL QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES UNCOVERED DURING THIS PROCESS ARE RESOLVED. BOEING CEO FACING TOUGH QUESTIONS ON CAPITOL HILL WI-FI SAFE PLANES. >> WE DON’T PUT AIRPLANES IN THE

AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. I’M HERE TODAY IN THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENCY, BUT A NEW REPORT FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES CLAIMS THE DOOR PLUG THAT FAILED ON THAT FLIGHT, THIS MONTH HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR REPAIR, THEN REINSTALLED IMPROPERLY BY BOEING MECHANICS. >> BOEING CEO DUCKING THAT

QUESTION WHAT IS YOUR COMMENT TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT IT WAS BOEING NOT REFERRING REPORTERS TO INVESTIGATORS NTSB. >> THANK YOU. >> BOEING CEO IS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO CAPITOL HILL AND WILL FACE A PUBLIC HEARING. >> THE SUPREME COURT HAS NOW CLEARED THE WAY FOR AN ALABAMA

MAN TO BE EXECUTED TODAY BY NITROGEN GAS. THE FIRST EXECUTION USING THIS UNTESTED METHOD. THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION ON CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH, BUT COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. THE UN

CLAIMS THE GAS COULD BE CONSIDERED TORTURE. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH AGAINST SO-CALLED DEI PROGRAMS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. ANOTHER STATE IS LOOKING TO CUT FUNDING FROM THEM, BUT NOT WITHOUT PROTEST. HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION, NOT FOR RACIST LEGISLATION.

>> STUDENTS AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SPEAKING OUT AFTER THE STATE’S BOARD OF GOVERNORS, WHICH OVERSEES THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, APPROVED BANNING THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS, OR DEI. >> SO WE’RE HERE TO PROTEST THAT, SHOW THAT THAT’S NOT POPULAR, LIKE STUDENTS DON’T WANT THIS.

>> THE BOARD DEFINING DEI AS ANY PROGRAM, CAMPUS ACTIVITY OR POLICY THAT CLASSIFIES INDIVIDUALS ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER IDENTITY, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. FLORIDA IS AT LEAST THE FIFTH STATE TO TAKE SUCH ACTION, WHILE NEARLY TWO DOZEN OTHER STATES CONSIDER THE ISSUE, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS

LONG CRITICIZED DEI PROGRAMS. >> I THINK THE WAY IT’S ACTUALLY PRACTICED, IT STANDS FOR DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INDOCTRINATION. AND IT’S WRONG. >> OPPONENTS SAY THIS NEW LAW WILL HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT. >> IT INTIMIDATES, THREATENS, AND IN SOME CASES ELIMINATES MULTICOLOR STUDENT CENTERS, JEWISH STUDENT UNIONS, BLACK STUDENT UNIONS, HISPANIC STUDENT

UNIONS, AND OF COURSE, LGBT STUDENT UNIONS. >> THIS REGULATION IS SILENCING PEOPLE FROM BEING THEMSELVES, SILENCING OUR FREEDOMS. THE BACKLASH AGAINST DEI PROGRAMS COMES AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LAST YEAR STRUCK DOWN RACE BASED ADMISSIONS BANS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AS LIONEL ANDREA. >> ALL RIGHT DEREK. THANK YOU.

TURNING NOW TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL HAS DENIED RESPONSIBILITY FOR A DEADLY EXPLOSION AT A UNITED NATIONS FACILITY IN GAZA. THE UN SAYS 800 REFUGEES WERE INSIDE THE SHELTER WHEN THE BUILDING WAS HIT BY A TANK FIRE, KILLING AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE. THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE ARE SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS UNDERWAY

AIMED AT REACHING A CEASE FIRE. >> A NEW REPORT ON RELIGION IN AMERICA REVEALS A NEW FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO A RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. 28% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY HAVE NONE, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY. THEY NOW OUTNUMBER CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS. THE NONES INCLUDE AGNOSTIC ATHEISTS AND THOSE WHO

BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER BUT DON’T ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE HAVE ANOTHER MORNING WITH WIDESPREAD, DENSE FOG, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE PERSISTENT INTO THE DAY FOR MUCH OF THE PLAINS, THE MIDWEST, PARTS OF THE GULF COAST AND

PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. SO SOME TRAVEL DELAYS ARE LIKELY DRENCHING RAIN, EVEN SOME STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FOR THE NEW ORLEANS AREA. WE’VE HAD OVER EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS IN PARTS OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE RAIN WILL ALSO BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST ON THURSDAY,

BUT TEMPERATURES ARE WAY UP COMPARED TO WHERE WE WERE BACK WHEN WE WERE COLD ON SUNDAY. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, THE POPULAR COUGH MEDICINE NOW BEING RECALLED. >> ALSO AHEAD, THE DISTRACTED DRIVER BLAMED FOR THIS WILD CRASH ON A HIGHWAY AND A NEW PUSH TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR

KIDS UNDER Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine.

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Getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters it sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu From America’s number one news, comes the all new ABC News app.

If you love being in the no experience, the all new ABC News app downloaded now. TO. >> A DISTRACTED DRIVER IS BEING BLAMED FOR THIS CRASH. LOOK THERE IN OKLAHOMA THAT SENT A HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER FLYING. THANKFULLY THE OFFICER IS OKAY. ONLY MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED AFTER THE CRASH.

>> SOME ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP IS BEING RECALLED BECAUSE OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THE COMPANY SAYS THE PRODUCTS COULD LEAD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS IN PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. THE RECALL APPLIES TO SEVERAL LOTS OF ROBITUSSIN AND HONEY C F MAX, BOTH A DAY AND NIGHTTIME FORMULAS FOR ADULTS.

>> THERE’S A NEW PUSH TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR CHILDREN TO ACCESS SOCIAL MEDIA. LAWMAKERS FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA ARE NOW TAKING NEW ACTION, BUT THEY COULD RUN INTO LEGAL CHALLENGES AS LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA HAVE APPROVED WHAT COULD BECOME THE MOST STRICT CRACKDOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY. A BILL

PASSED BY THE HOUSE WOULD BAN ANY ONE UNDER AGE 16 FROM SIGNING UP FOR MOST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY HAVE THEIR PARENTS APPROVAL . >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL FENTANYL, AND EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN PARENT OR ATTUNED TEEN HAS A HARD TIME SHUTTING THE DOOR.

>> THE BILL, WHICH PASSED WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, DOES NOT SPECIFY WHICH PLATFORMS WOULD BE AFFECTED, BUT IT TARGETS ANY COMPANY THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY, ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT, OR USES DESIGN FEATURES LIKE ENDLESS SCROLLING, WHICH CRITICS SAY ENCOURAGES COMPULSIVE USE. >> THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP.

>> OPPONENTS SAY THE BILL INFRINGES ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND WILL FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. THE ACLU SAYING THE INTERNET, INCLUDING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, CONTAINS VAST AMOUNTS OF CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH FOR BOTH ADULTS AND MINORS. MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK CITY, WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE

THIS STEP. THE MAYOR HAS NOW DESIGNATED SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. THE CITY’S HEALTH DEPARTMENT ISSUING AN ADVISORY THAT CITES DECLINING MENTAL HEALTH AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. BUT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES LIKE META, WHICH OWNS INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK, HAVE LONG TOUTED THEIR IMPROVED SECURITY FEATURES AND PARENTAL CONTROLS TO PROTECT

CHILDREN. AND SUPPORTERS SAY SOCIAL MEDIA HAS REAL BENEFITS, ALLOWING TEENS TO CONNECT AND FIND PEOPLE WITH LIKE INTERESTS. THE NEW YORK ADVISORY URGES PARENTS TO DELAY GIVING KIDS ACCESS TO A SMARTPHONE UNTIL 14. MEANWHILE, IN FLORIDA, THE BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE STILL NEEDS APPROVAL FROM THE STATE SENATE AND THE GOVERNOR.

>> MORE STATES ARE BANNING PLASTIC BAGS, BUT A NEW STUDY CLAIMS IT MIGHT BE HAVING THE OPPOSITE EFFECT. RESEARCHERS CLAIM AN AFTER NEW JERSEY BANNED PLASTIC BAGS, PLASTIC CONSUMPTION IN THE STATE ACTUALLY INCREASED DUE IN PART TO THE PRODUCTION OF REUSABLE BAGS, WHICH MANY PEOPLE ARE HOARDING IN THEIR HOMES. STILL

SUPPORTERS OF THE BAN SAY THEY HELP ELIMINATE UP TO 300 PLASTIC BAGS PER PERSON PER YEAR. COMING UP, THE BIG MOVE IN THE NFL JUST DAYS BEFORE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND . BUT FIRST, ACTOR MARK RUFFALO’S STUNNING ACCOUNT OF HOW HE REALIZED HE HAD A The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects

That think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to Mexico to hide getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters it sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list.

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What would you do? I guess I just found out. The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? DRIVERS ARE WARNED TO TURN AROUND. >> DON’T DROWN. BUT THIS TESLA DRIVER OBVIOUSLY NEVER GOT THAT ADVICE. THIS HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK DURING THE HISTORIC

FLOODS IN SAN DIEGO. SOMEHOW, THOUGH, THAT TESLA MADE IT, BUT NOT SO LUCKY WAS THIS DRIVER ON TOP OF HER OVERTURNED VEHICLE, WHICH WAS SWEPT AWAY AS SHE TRIED TO CROSS A FLOODED CREEK NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. A HELICOPTER CREW SAFELY RESCUED HER. >> LUCKILY, SHE WAS RESCUED. ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IS OPENING UP

ABOUT BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN TUMOR. MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO. HE SHARED HIS STORY ON A RECENT PODCAST, SAYING HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER HE HAD A DREAM ABOUT HAVING A TUMOR. AND HE WAS RIGHT. DOCTOR SAID IT WAS BENIGN, BUT IT WAS THE SIZE OF A

GOLF BALL. HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT AT THE TIME, SO HE WAITED TO TELL HER UNTIL AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH. AND THEN HE HAD SURGERY. THE TYPE OF TUMOR THAT MARK RUFFALO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IS CALLED A VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA. >> AND SO PEOPLE WITH VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMAS WILL OFTEN HAVE SYMPTOMS LIKE HEARING LOSS,

RINGING IN THE EARS, DISCOMFORT OR PRESSURE IN THE EAR, AND DIZZINESS OR VERTIGO. >> THE LEFT SIDE OF RUFFALO’S FACE WAS ACTUALLY PARALYZED FOR A TIME, AND HE REMAINS DEAF IN ONE EAR. >> NOW TO FOOTBALL AND THE BIG NEWS BEFORE NFL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND IS OUR DANNY NEW, WHO DID THAT?

>> HE DID THAT. HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH HELPED MICHIGAN WIN ITS FIRST TITLE IN 26 YEARS, BUT NOW, JUST TWO WEEKS LATER, HE’S OFF TO DO THAT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. >> MOMENTS AGO, JIM HARBAUGH AS ESPN’S ADAM SCHEFTER REPORTED, HARBAUGH HAS AGREED WITH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS ON A FIVE YEAR

DEAL, MARKING HIS RETURN TO THE NFL AFTER LAST COACHING THE SAN FRANCISCO 49 ERS IN 2014. >> THE NCAA BIG TEN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE HAS SUSPENDED. >> OF COURSE, THIS COMES TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BIG TEN SUSPENDED HARBAUGH FOR THREE GAMES IN THE WAKE OF MICHIGAN’S ALLEGED SIGN STEALING SCANDAL,

WHERE A FORMER STAFFER WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A SCHEME TO VIDEOTAPE FUTURE TEAM OPPONENTS. HARBAUGH COULD HAVE FACED MAJOR NCAA VIOLATIONS IF HE HAD STAYED. >> IT JUST FEELS SO DANG GOOD. >> BUT HEY, IF YOUR CHARGER SUPER FAN MARY ANN DOE, WHOM YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM HER VIRAL

CAMEOS ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, YOUR TEAM JUST GOT A HEAD COACH WHO WAS IN THE SUPER BOWL UNTIL SOMEBODY PROVEN NOT TRUTHFUL, WE CAN’T REALLY THROW A STONE. YOU’RE LIKE, LISTEN, MY TEAM WAS FIVE AND 12 LAST YEAR. CAN I JUST HAVE THIS, PLEASE? CAN I JUST HAVE THIS MOMENT? AND

SPEAKING OF THAT SUPER BOWL JACKSON END ZONE. THE COACH WHO BEAT HIM, HIS BROTHER JOHN HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE IT BACK. THIS WEEKEND. ON SUNDAY, HIS BALTIMORE RAVENS WILL HOST THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS. >> KELCE HAS THE TOUCHDOWN. >> TRAVIS KELCE WILL BE THERE, WHOSE BROTHER JASON BECAME AN

INTERNET HALL OF FAMER LAST WEEKEND WITH HIS SHIRTLESS CELEBRATION RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS BROTHER’S GIRLFRIEND. >> TAYLOR SWIFT SAID SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOU. MAYFIELD IN THE MIDDLE AND INTERCEPTED. >> MEANWHILE, THE LIONS WILL HEAD TO QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF’S HOMETOWN SAN FRANCISCO IN FACT, A CERTAIN NINERS LEGEND EVEN INSPIRED HIS NUMBER.

>> MY DAD SAID, HEY, THAT’S YOUR MONTANA’S NUMBER. YOU SHOULD PICK IT. AND I’M LIKE, ALL RIGHT. AND CHOSE IT AND JUST CONTINUED TO WEAR IT. >> OF COURSE, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED GUYS THAT JIM HARBAUGH PLAYED FOR THE CHARGERS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. >> ALL RIGHT DANNY THANK YOU.

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LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S Reporting from the New Year celebration in Times Square New

York. I’m Alex for Shay. Wherever the story is will take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE AND WE BEGIN WITH THE RETURN OF JON STEWART. YEAH HE’S BACK AT THE DAILY SHOW. >> HE’LL BE HOSTING MONDAY NIGHTS ON COMEDY CENTRAL THROUGH

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. STEWART, AS YOU KNOW, HOSTED THE DAILY SHOW UNTIL 2015, MAKING IT A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. THE SHOW HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF OTHER COMEDIANS, INCLUDING STEPHEN COLBERT AND STEVE CARELL, AND LISTS SAY ELECTION SEASON IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A RETURN. >> JON STEWART AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS REALLY, I THINK

PRESS VIEWERS TO BE MORE SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT, AND TO KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GETTING THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD. >> STEWART’S FIRST SHOW BACK IS FEBRUARY 12TH. AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST HAS SPARKED AN INTERNATIONAL UPROAR OVER T, A

CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR HERE IN THE U.S. WROTE A BOOK ADVISING THE BRITISH TO ADD SALT TO MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA, SAYING IT HELPS REDUCE THE BITTERNESS. >> BUT THE FOLKS ACROSS THE POND ARE UP IN ARMS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON EVEN STEPPED IN TO SAY, ADDING SALT IS NOT OFFICIAL

U.S. POLICY. IT DID TASTE PRETTY GOOD, BUT THIS MORNING, NEXT, AN UNUSUAL ITEM FOR SALE AT HOME DEPOT. AND IT’S APPARENTLY FOR YOUR HOME DECOR. >> IT IS ALL INSPIRED BY BRAVEHEART, THE 1995 MOVIE STARRING MEL GIBSON AS SCOTTISH HERO WILLIAM WALLACE, BILL. LOVE IT OR NOT, HOME DEPOT NOW SELLS

THE WILLIAM WALLACE MEDIEVAL SWORD. >> YEAH, THE ONLINE COMMENTS CALL IT EFFECTIVE AGAINST LANDLORDS A WAY BETTER INVESTMENT THAN RENT. ANOTHER SAYS THIS PIECE OF STEEL SAVED MY LIFE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF IN 1300 A.D, MANY USES THE PRICE $50. NEXT THE FATHER AND SON GETTING ATTENTION FOR THEIR DUETS.

>> YEAH, THEY LOVE TO SING TO THE BEE GEES. TAKE A LISTEN. I REALLY NEED TO LEARN CAUSE, WELL , LIVING IN A WORLD OF FOOLS. >> BREAK. >> HE’S GETTING INTO IT. GABRIEL BOUGHT THAT MICROPHONE FROM A MUSIC STORE IN CHICAGO BECAUSE HIS SIX YEAR OLD SON LOVES TO

SING THEIR VIDEOS NOW, WARMING HEARTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY VERY GOOD. GOOD TO. >> YES. >> ALL RIGHT. FINALLY, A DOORMAN IN NEW YORK CITY IS TAKING SOCIAL MEDIA BY STORM THANKS TO HIS UNIQUE APPROACH, GREETING RESIDENTS IN THE BUILDING AS THEY RETURN, GETTING THEM TO BUST A MOVE IN THE LOBBY. WHY

DOES HE DO IT? HE SAYS HE JUST LOVES HIS PEOPLE, I LOVE IT. >> TOP HEADLINES It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know, that sounds pretty good. Give your help your money. Breaking news pop culture with

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So much on the line, more Americans turn here than any other news cast, ABC News World News Tonight, with David Muir. America’s number one, most watched news cast across all of television, The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here

To Mexico to hide getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters it sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES. NIKKI HALEY IS RALLYING

SUPPORTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, SAYING SHE’S RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE HER LOSS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND SHE ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OF HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM . TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING TO BAN HALEY’S DONORS FROM WHAT HE CALLS THE MAGA CAMP. >> A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY AROUND PHILADELPHIA FOR MURDER SUSPECT

SHANE PRIOR. HE ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY AT A PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. MEANWHILE, IN ARKANSAS, AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR TWO INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM A DETENTION CENTER, INCLUDING A POTENTIAL MURDER SUSPECT, THE MAKER OF RING DOORBELLS SAYS IT WILL STOP TAKING REQUESTS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENTS WHO WANT TO USE VIDEO CAPTURED BY THEIR DEVICES

FOR THEIR INVESTIGATION. >> RING HAS BEEN FACING CRITICISM FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES ALEC BALDWIN IS REQUESTING A SPEEDY TRIAL AS HE FACES INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A MOVIE CREW MEMBER. >> HIS LAWYERS SAY A SPEEDY TRIAL WILL HELP MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION IN TODAY’S WEATHER.

>> RAIN IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY, POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM LOUISIANA TO NORTH CAROLINA, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST WILL ALSO SEE RAIN, SNOW IN THE ROCKIES AND FINALLY THE WORLD WAR TWO VETS NOW GETTING THEIR RECOGNITION WHEN THEY WERE PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT. >> EVEN THEIR LOVED ONES WERE

UNAWARE OF THEIR ROLE IN THE WAR . 100 YEAR OLD BERNIE BLUESTEIN SAYS WHEN HE SIGNED UP FOR A SPECIAL ARMY UNIT DURING WORLD WAR TWO, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD AVOID THE FRONT LINES. IS IT NON-FIGHTING? >> OH, I SAID, THAT’S GOOD. I WON’T HAVE TO. I WON’T HAVE TO

FIGHT. BUT IN FACT, BLUESTEIN WAS ON THE FRONT LINES AS A DECOY. >> BLUESTEIN WAS PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT CALLED THE GHOST ARMY. ITS GOAL LOOKED LIKE A HUGE ARMY UNIT USING INFLATABLE TANKS AND EQUIPMENT, DRAWING GERMAN FORCES AWAY FROM THE REAL FRONT LINES. THE UNIT INCLUDED ARCHITECTS, SET DESIGNERS AND

ARTISTS. >> IT WAS A LITTLE BUNDLE OF STUFF, ALL COMPRESSED BEFORE YOU OPEN THE BUNDLE, SPREAD THE NOZZLES AROUND AND INFLATED IT. >> THE ARTILLERY PIECE WAS GOOD, BUT THAT M4 TANK, THAT WAS THE BEAUTY. THAT WAS A PIECE OF WORK. >> INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIT REMAINED CLASSIFIED UNTIL THE

1990S. BLUESTEIN AN ARTIST FROM THE CHICAGO AREA, KEPT HIS EFFORTS SECRET. HIS OWN SON GREW UP NEVER REALIZING THE ROLE HIS DAD PLAYED IN THE WAR. I WAS IN DISBELIEF. >> I MEAN, I COULDN’T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A UNIT LIKE THAT. >> THE GHOST ARMY IS CREDITED WITH SAVING 30,000 AMERICAN

SOLDIERS DURING THE WAR, AND NOW BLUESTEIN IS ONE OF SEVEN SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE UNIT WHO WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, D.C, IN MARCH TO RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR. >> QUITE A QUITE AN HONOR. I MEAN, I MEAN, HOW MANY PEOPLE GET A MEDAL FROM THE GOVERNMENT, A WELL-DESERVED HONOR ACTOR GARY

SINISE IS PAYING FOR THE SEVEN MEN TO TRAVEL TO D.C. VERY WELL DESERVED. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A GREAT DAY RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA THIS MORNING, NIKKI HALEY’S NEW CHALLENGE TO TRUMP. >> HOW THE FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR IS VOWING TO STAY IN

THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT, AND TRUMP’S NEW THREAT TO HER DONORS IS ON ALERT. >> MILLIONS ACROSS THE SOUTH FACE THE THREAT OF FLOODING AFTER HIGH WATER RESCUES FROM CALIFORNIA TO TEXAS. WHAT TO EXPECT TODAY. >> RETURNING TO THE SKY BOEING JETS NOW SET TO FLY AGAIN AFTER THAT DOOR BLEW OUT IN

MID-FLIGHT. WHAT THE FAA IS REVEALING ABOUT SAFETY INSPECTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN. >> THE NEW PROPOSAL TO BAN KIDS UNDER AGE 16 FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. >> JON STEWART IS BACK. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT HIS RETURN TO LATE NIGHT. >> PLUS, HAVE DIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION GONE TOO FAR

. ANOTHER STATE CUTS OFF FUNDING AND LATER PERHAPS NOT SINCE THE BOSTON TEA PARTY HAVE AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH BEEN THIS AT ODDS OVER TEA OR THE TEA TIME DEBATE. >> THAT’S EVEN FORCED THE U.S. EMBASSY TO GET INVOLVED. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK. THIS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING.

>> GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, EVERYONE I’M ANDREA FUJII IN FOR RHIANNON I’M LIONEL MOISE IN FOR ANDREW. >> WE BEGIN WITH THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT AND NIKKI HALEY’S NEW MESSAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> HER MESSAGE LAST NIGHT BRING IT ON AS HER CAMPAIGN INSISTS SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO STAY IN

THE RACE. IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING THE FINANCIAL DONORS WHO ARE SUPPORTING HALEY. >> ABC’S JAY O’BRIEN HAS THE LATEST ON THIS RACE FROM WASHINGTON. JAY GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AS NIKKI HALEY VOWS TO STAY IN THE RACE THROUGH HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S PRIMARY NEXT

MONTH, SHE’S ISSUING A CHALLENGE THIS MORNING TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NIKKI HALEY. THIS MORNING, NIKKI HALEY DEFIED IT ON HER HOME TURF IN SOUTH CAROLINA AS SHE FACES INCREASING PRESSURE TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE . >> BRING IT DONALD, SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT.

>> AT A RALLY LAST NIGHT, HALEY SAYING HER CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN SHE LOST TO DONALD TRUMP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. >> WE HAVE HAD 200,000 DONORS FROM ALL 50 STATES, 95% OF THOSE DONATIONS ARE $200 OR LESS. THIS IS ABOUT REAL AMERICANS.

>> BUT HALEY LOSING AT LEAST ONE BIG DONOR FOR NOW. READ HOFFMAN, THE BILLIONAIRE CO-FOUNDER OF LINKEDIN, SAYING HE’S HOLDING OFF MAKING ANY NEW INVESTMENTS IN HALEY UNTIL HE SEES A PATH FOR HER TO WIN. AND NOW TRUMP, APPEARING TO PRESSURE HALEY AGAO HER AS BIRD BRAIN. TRUMP POSTING

ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ANY HALEY DONORS ARE, QUOTE, PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. >> HE SHOULD FEEL THREATENED WITHOUT A DOUBT. LAST NIGHT, HALEY ALSO RESPONDED TO TRUMP’S VICTORY SPEECH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WHEN HE TAUNTED HER ON EVERYTHING FROM HER POLICIES TO THE DRESS SHE WAS WEARING.

>> AND WHEN I WATCHED HER AND THE FANCY DRESS THAT PROBABLY WASN’T SO FANCY. >> DONALD TRUMP GOT OUT THERE AND JUST THREW A TEMPER TANTRUM. THAT’S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE’S INSECURE IN THE MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN ENDORSED YESTERDAY BY THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION AFTER MAKING HISTORY WHEN HE JOINED THEIR

PICKET LINES IN SEPTEMBER. >> LOOK, I KEPT MY COMMITMENT. BUT WHILE SPEAKING IN MICHIGAN, BIDEN ONCE AGAIN INTERRUPTED BY PROTESTERS CALLING FOR A CEASE FIRE IN GAZA. THE SECOND TIME IN TWO DAYS, BIDEN’S SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IN ITS WAR AGAINST HAMAS AMID THAT COUNTRY’S BOMBING OF GAZA, AN UNPOPULAR POSITION WITH

MANY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER VOTERS AND ARAB AMERICANS IN THE CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE OF MICHIGAN. BACK TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL IN THE JEAN CARROLL CASE RESUMES AGAIN TODAY IN NEW YORK, WHERE TRUMP COULD TAKE THE STAND. ANDREA. LOTS TO WATCH. >> JAY. THANK YOU. THE CHAIRMAN OF ARIZONA’S REPUBLICAN PARTY

HAS RESIGNED AMID A BRIBERY SCANDAL AND A LEAKED RECORDING. JEFF DEWIT APPEARED TO OFFER SENATE HOPEFUL KARI LAKE A JOB AND OTHER DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR HER STAYING OUT OF THE SENATE RACE. DEWITT CLAIMS THE AUDIO WAS SELECTIVELY EDITED AND DENIES TRYING TO BRIBE LAKE, WHO IS A PROMINENT SUPPORTER OF

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> TURNING NOW TO THE WEATHER, SOME ALREADY FLOODED PARTS OF THE DEEP SOUTH COULD SEE SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF RAIN TODAY, THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED FROM LOUISIANA TO GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NEAR HOUSTON. LOOK AT THIS. THIS MAN’S SUV SLID OFF A ROAD INTO RUSHING WATER YESTERDAY. DOZENS

OF OTHERS HAD TO BE PULLED FROM FLOODED VEHICLES. WE’LL GET A CHECK OF YOUR FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> WE TURN NOW TO BOEING, UNDER SCRUTINY FOR ITS QUALITY AND SAFETY. BUT THIS MORNING THERE’S A PLAN TO GET A TROUBLED PLANE BACK IN THE SKY. THREE WEEKS

AFTER A DOOR BLEW OFF THIS ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT IN. MID-AIR, GROUNDING ALL BOEING 737 MAX NINES AND CANCELING HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS PER DAY, THERE’S A NEW PLAN TO RETURN THOSE PLANES TO THE SKY. THE FAA IS NOW DETAILING A 12 HOUR INSPECTION PROCESS FOR THE JETS TO GET THEM BACK INTO SERVICE.

ALASKA AIRLINES, WITH 65 MAX NINES IN ITS FLEET, SAYS IT PLANS TO FLY THEM AGAIN AS SOON AS TOMORROW. UNITED AIRLINES EXPECTS TO FLY THEM THIS WEEKEND, BUT IT’S NOT BLUE SKIES JUST YET. FOR BOEING, THE FAA SAYS IT WILL NOT ALLOW AN EXPANSION IN PRODUCTION OR APPROVE ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION

LINES FOR THE 737 MAX UNTIL QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES UNCOVERED DURING THIS PROCESS ARE RESOLVED. BOEING CEO FACING TOUGH QUESTIONS ON CAPITOL HILL WI-FI SAFE PLANES. >> WE DON’T PUT AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. I’M HERE TODAY IN THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENCY, BUT

A NEW REPORT FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES CLAIMS THE DOOR PLUG THAT FAILED ON THAT FLIGHT, THIS MONTH HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR REPAIR, THEN REINSTALLED IMPROPERLY BY BOEING MECHANICS. >> BOEING CEO DUCKING THAT QUESTION WHAT IS YOUR COMMENT TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT IT WAS BOEING NOT REFERRING REPORTERS TO INVESTIGATORS NTSB.

>> THANK YOU. >> BOEING CEO IS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO CAPITOL HILL AND WILL FACE A PUBLIC HEARING. >> THE SUPREME COURT HAS NOW CLEARED THE WAY FOR AN ALABAMA MAN TO BE EXECUTED TODAY BY NITROGEN GAS. THE FIRST EXECUTION USING THIS UNTESTED METHOD. THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION ON CONVICTED KILLER

KENNETH SMITH, BUT COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. THE UN CLAIMS THE GAS COULD BE CONSIDERED TORTURE. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH AGAINST SO-CALLED DEI PROGRAMS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. ANOTHER STATE IS LOOKING TO CUT FUNDING FROM THEM, BUT NOT WITHOUT PROTEST. HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION, NOT FOR RACIST LEGISLATION. >> STUDENTS AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SPEAKING OUT AFTER THE STATE’S BOARD OF GOVERNORS, WHICH OVERSEES THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, APPROVED

BANNING THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS, OR DEI. >> SO WE’RE HERE TO PROTEST THAT, SHOW THAT THAT’S NOT POPULAR, LIKE STUDENTS DON’T WANT THIS. >> THE BOARD DEFINING DEI AS ANY PROGRAM, CAMPUS ACTIVITY OR POLICY THAT CLASSIFIES INDIVIDUALS ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, SEX, NATIONAL

ORIGIN, GENDER IDENTITY, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. FLORIDA IS AT LEAST THE FIFTH STATE TO TAKE SUCH ACTION, WHILE NEARLY TWO DOZEN OTHER STATES CONSIDER THE ISSUE, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS LONG CRITICIZED DEI PROGRAMS. >> I THINK THE WAY IT’S ACTUALLY PRACTICED, IT STANDS FOR DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INDOCTRINATION. AND IT’S WRONG.

>> OPPONENTS SAY THIS NEW LAW WILL HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT. >> IT INTIMIDATES, THREATENS, AND IN SOME CASES ELIMINATES MULTICOLOR STUDENT CENTERS, JEWISH STUDENT UNIONS, BLACK STUDENT UNIONS, HISPANIC STUDENT UNIONS, AND OF COURSE, LGBT STUDENT UNIONS. >> THIS REGULATION IS SILENCING PEOPLE FROM BEING THEMSELVES, SILENCING OUR FREEDOMS. THE BACKLASH AGAINST DEI PROGRAMS

COMES AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LAST YEAR STRUCK DOWN RACE BASED ADMISSIONS BANS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AS LIONEL ANDREA. >> ALL RIGHT DEREK. THANK YOU. TURNING NOW TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL HAS DENIED RESPONSIBILITY FOR A DEADLY EXPLOSION AT A UNITED NATIONS FACILITY IN GAZA. THE UN SAYS 800 REFUGEES WERE

INSIDE THE SHELTER WHEN THE BUILDING WAS HIT BY A TANK FIRE, KILLING AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE. THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE ARE SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS UNDERWAY AIMED AT REACHING A CEASE FIRE. >> A NEW REPORT ON RELIGION IN AMERICA REVEALS A NEW FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO A RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. 28% OF AMERICANS

SAY THEY HAVE NONE, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY. THEY NOW OUTNUMBER CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS. THE NONES INCLUDE AGNOSTIC ATHEISTS AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER BUT DON’T ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE HAVE ANOTHER MORNING WITH WIDESPREAD, DENSE

FOG, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE PERSISTENT INTO THE DAY FOR MUCH OF THE PLAINS, THE MIDWEST, PARTS OF THE GULF COAST AND PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. SO SOME TRAVEL DELAYS ARE LIKELY DRENCHING RAIN, EVEN SOME STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FOR THE NEW ORLEANS AREA. WE’VE HAD OVER EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN

OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS IN PARTS OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE RAIN WILL ALSO BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST ON THURSDAY, BUT TEMPERATURES ARE WAY UP COMPARED TO WHERE WE WERE BACK WHEN WE WERE COLD ON SUNDAY. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, THE POPULAR COUGH

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THANKFULLY THE OFFICER IS OKAY. ONLY MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED AFTER THE CRASH. >> SOME ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP IS BEING RECALLED BECAUSE OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THE COMPANY SAYS THE PRODUCTS COULD LEAD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS IN PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. THE RECALL APPLIES TO SEVERAL LOTS OF ROBITUSSIN AND HONEY C F MAX,

BOTH A DAY AND NIGHTTIME FORMULAS FOR ADULTS. >> THERE’S A NEW PUSH TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR CHILDREN TO ACCESS SOCIAL MEDIA. LAWMAKERS FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA ARE NOW TAKING NEW ACTION, BUT THEY COULD RUN INTO LEGAL CHALLENGES AS LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA HAVE APPROVED WHAT COULD BECOME THE

MOST STRICT CRACKDOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY. A BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE WOULD BAN ANY ONE UNDER AGE 16 FROM SIGNING UP FOR MOST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY HAVE THEIR PARENTS APPROVAL . >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL FENTANYL, AND EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN

PARENT OR ATTUNED TEEN HAS A HARD TIME SHUTTING THE DOOR. >> THE BILL, WHICH PASSED WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, DOES NOT SPECIFY WHICH PLATFORMS WOULD BE AFFECTED, BUT IT TARGETS ANY COMPANY THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY, ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT, OR USES DESIGN FEATURES LIKE ENDLESS SCROLLING, WHICH CRITICS SAY ENCOURAGES COMPULSIVE USE.

>> THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP. >> OPPONENTS SAY THE BILL INFRINGES ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND WILL FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. THE ACLU SAYING THE INTERNET, INCLUDING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, CONTAINS VAST AMOUNTS OF CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH FOR BOTH ADULTS AND MINORS. MEANWHILE, IN NEW

YORK CITY, WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP. THE MAYOR HAS NOW DESIGNATED SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. THE CITY’S HEALTH DEPARTMENT ISSUING AN ADVISORY THAT CITES DECLINING MENTAL HEALTH AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. BUT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES LIKE META, WHICH OWNS INSTAGRAM AND

FACEBOOK, HAVE LONG TOUTED THEIR IMPROVED SECURITY FEATURES AND PARENTAL CONTROLS TO PROTECT CHILDREN. AND SUPPORTERS SAY SOCIAL MEDIA HAS REAL BENEFITS, ALLOWING TEENS TO CONNECT AND FIND PEOPLE WITH LIKE INTERESTS. THE NEW YORK ADVISORY URGES PARENTS TO DELAY GIVING KIDS ACCESS TO A SMARTPHONE UNTIL 14. MEANWHILE, IN FLORIDA, THE BILL

PASSED BY THE HOUSE STILL NEEDS APPROVAL FROM THE STATE SENATE AND THE GOVERNOR. >> MORE STATES ARE BANNING PLASTIC BAGS, BUT A NEW STUDY CLAIMS IT MIGHT BE HAVING THE OPPOSITE EFFECT. RESEARCHERS CLAIM AN AFTER NEW JERSEY BANNED PLASTIC BAGS, PLASTIC CONSUMPTION IN THE STATE ACTUALLY INCREASED DUE IN PART

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Stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live DRIVERS ARE WARNED TO TURN AROUND. >> DON’T DROWN. BUT THIS TESLA DRIVER OBVIOUSLY NEVER GOT THAT ADVICE. THIS HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK DURING THE HISTORIC FLOODS IN SAN DIEGO. SOMEHOW, THOUGH, THAT TESLA MADE IT, BUT

NOT SO LUCKY WAS THIS DRIVER ON TOP OF HER OVERTURNED VEHICLE, WHICH WAS SWEPT AWAY AS SHE TRIED TO CROSS A FLOODED CREEK NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. A HELICOPTER CREW SAFELY RESCUED HER. >> LUCKILY, SHE WAS RESCUED. ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IS OPENING UP ABOUT BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN TUMOR. MORE THAN 20 YEARS

AGO. HE SHARED HIS STORY ON A RECENT PODCAST, SAYING HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER HE HAD A DREAM ABOUT HAVING A TUMOR. AND HE WAS RIGHT. DOCTOR SAID IT WAS BENIGN, BUT IT WAS THE SIZE OF A GOLF BALL. HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT AT THE TIME, SO HE WAITED TO

TELL HER UNTIL AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH. AND THEN HE HAD SURGERY. THE TYPE OF TUMOR THAT MARK RUFFALO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IS CALLED A VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA. >> AND SO PEOPLE WITH VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMAS WILL OFTEN HAVE SYMPTOMS LIKE HEARING LOSS, RINGING IN THE EARS, DISCOMFORT OR PRESSURE IN THE EAR, AND DIZZINESS OR VERTIGO.

>> THE LEFT SIDE OF RUFFALO’S FACE WAS ACTUALLY PARALYZED FOR A TIME, AND HE REMAINS DEAF IN ONE EAR. >> NOW TO FOOTBALL AND THE BIG NEWS BEFORE NFL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND IS OUR DANNY NEW, WHO DID THAT? >> HE DID THAT. HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH HELPED MICHIGAN WIN ITS

FIRST TITLE IN 26 YEARS, BUT NOW, JUST TWO WEEKS LATER, HE’S OFF TO DO THAT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. >> MOMENTS AGO, JIM HARBAUGH AS ESPN’S ADAM SCHEFTER REPORTED, HARBAUGH HAS AGREED WITH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS ON A FIVE YEAR DEAL, MARKING HIS RETURN TO THE NFL AFTER LAST COACHING THE SAN

FRANCISCO 49 ERS IN 2014. >> THE NCAA BIG TEN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE HAS SUSPENDED. >> OF COURSE, THIS COMES TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BIG TEN SUSPENDED HARBAUGH FOR THREE GAMES IN THE WAKE OF MICHIGAN’S ALLEGED SIGN STEALING SCANDAL, WHERE A FORMER STAFFER WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A SCHEME TO VIDEOTAPE FUTURE TEAM OPPONENTS.

HARBAUGH COULD HAVE FACED MAJOR NCAA VIOLATIONS IF HE HAD STAYED. >> IT JUST FEELS SO DANG GOOD. >> BUT HEY, IF YOUR CHARGER SUPER FAN MARY ANN DOE, WHOM YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM HER VIRAL CAMEOS ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, YOUR TEAM JUST GOT A HEAD COACH WHO WAS IN THE SUPER BOWL UNTIL

SOMEBODY PROVEN NOT TRUTHFUL, WE CAN’T REALLY THROW A STONE. YOU’RE LIKE, LISTEN, MY TEAM WAS FIVE AND 12 LAST YEAR. CAN I JUST HAVE THIS, PLEASE? CAN I JUST HAVE THIS MOMENT? AND SPEAKING OF THAT SUPER BOWL JACKSON END ZONE. THE COACH WHO BEAT HIM, HIS BROTHER JOHN HAS A

CHANCE TO MAKE IT BACK. THIS WEEKEND. ON SUNDAY, HIS BALTIMORE RAVENS WILL HOST THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS. >> KELCE HAS THE TOUCHDOWN. >> TRAVIS KELCE WILL BE THERE, WHOSE BROTHER JASON BECAME AN INTERNET HALL OF FAMER LAST WEEKEND WITH HIS SHIRTLESS CELEBRATION RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS BROTHER’S GIRLFRIEND.

>> TAYLOR SWIFT SAID SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOU. MAYFIELD IN THE MIDDLE AND INTERCEPTED. >> MEANWHILE, THE LIONS WILL HEAD TO QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF’S HOMETOWN SAN FRANCISCO IN FACT, A CERTAIN NINERS LEGEND EVEN INSPIRED HIS NUMBER. >> MY DAD SAID, HEY, THAT’S YOUR MONTANA’S NUMBER. YOU SHOULD PICK IT. AND I’M LIKE, ALL

RIGHT. AND CHOSE IT AND JUST CONTINUED TO WEAR IT. >> OF COURSE, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED GUYS THAT JIM HARBAUGH PLAYED FOR THE CHARGERS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. >> ALL RIGHT DANNY THANK YOU. COMING UP, THE SWORD FOR SALE AT HOME DEPOT. >> PLUS WHY JON STEWART

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DAILY SHOW. >> HE’LL BE HOSTING MONDAY NIGHTS ON COMEDY CENTRAL THROUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. STEWART, AS YOU KNOW, HOSTED THE DAILY SHOW UNTIL 2015, MAKING IT A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. THE SHOW HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF OTHER COMEDIANS, INCLUDING STEPHEN COLBERT AND STEVE CARELL, AND LISTS SAY ELECTION

SEASON IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A RETURN. >> JON STEWART AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS REALLY, I THINK PRESS VIEWERS TO BE MORE SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT, AND TO KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GETTING THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD.

>> STEWART’S FIRST SHOW BACK IS FEBRUARY 12TH. AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST HAS SPARKED AN INTERNATIONAL UPROAR OVER T, A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR HERE IN THE U.S. WROTE A BOOK ADVISING THE BRITISH TO ADD SALT TO MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA, SAYING IT HELPS REDUCE THE BITTERNESS. >> BUT THE FOLKS ACROSS THE POND

ARE UP IN ARMS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON EVEN STEPPED IN TO SAY, ADDING SALT IS NOT OFFICIAL U.S. POLICY. IT DID TASTE PRETTY GOOD, BUT THIS MORNING, NEXT, AN UNUSUAL ITEM FOR SALE AT HOME DEPOT. AND IT’S APPARENTLY FOR YOUR HOME DECOR. >> IT IS ALL INSPIRED BY BRAVEHEART, THE 1995 MOVIE

STARRING MEL GIBSON AS SCOTTISH HERO WILLIAM WALLACE, BILL. LOVE IT OR NOT, HOME DEPOT NOW SELLS THE WILLIAM WALLACE MEDIEVAL SWORD. >> YEAH, THE ONLINE COMMENTS CALL IT EFFECTIVE AGAINST LANDLORDS A WAY BETTER INVESTMENT THAN RENT. ANOTHER SAYS THIS PIECE OF STEEL SAVED MY LIFE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF IN

1300 A.D, MANY USES THE PRICE $50. NEXT THE FATHER AND SON GETTING ATTENTION FOR THEIR DUETS. >> YEAH, THEY LOVE TO SING TO THE BEE GEES. TAKE A LISTEN. I REALLY NEED TO LEARN CAUSE, WELL , LIVING IN A WORLD OF FOOLS. >> BREAK. >> HE’S GETTING INTO IT. GABRIEL

BOUGHT THAT MICROPHONE FROM A MUSIC STORE IN CHICAGO BECAUSE HIS SIX YEAR OLD SON LOVES TO SING THEIR VIDEOS NOW, WARMING HEARTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY VERY GOOD. GOOD TO. >> YES. >> ALL RIGHT. FINALLY, A DOORMAN IN NEW YORK CITY IS TAKING SOCIAL MEDIA BY STORM THANKS TO HIS UNIQUE APPROACH, GREETING

RESIDENTS IN THE BUILDING AS THEY RETURN, GETTING THEM TO BUST A MOVE IN THE LOBBY. WHY DOES HE DO IT? HE SAYS HE JUST LOVES HIS PEOPLE, I LOVE IT. >> TOP HEADLINES First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on,

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In between a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse, a name, change for the Wienermobile first thing in the morning America this morning. America’s number one, early morning news on, ABC, News live. Give it to me. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”.

Let’s do it. Yes, it’s the show America wants and America needs right now. This is what would you do? Let’s go. How are you? So what will you be watching? Saturday’s on ABC News live. What would you do? I guess I just found out.

The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES. NIKKI HALEY IS RALLYING SUPPORTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, SAYING SHE’S RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE HER LOSS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND SHE ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OF HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM

. TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING TO BAN HALEY’S DONORS FROM WHAT HE CALLS THE MAGA CAMP. >> A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY AROUND PHILADELPHIA FOR MURDER SUSPECT SHANE PRIOR. HE ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY AT A PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. MEANWHILE, IN ARKANSAS, AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR TWO INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM A DETENTION

CENTER, INCLUDING A POTENTIAL MURDER SUSPECT, THE MAKER OF RING DOORBELLS SAYS IT WILL STOP TAKING REQUESTS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENTS WHO WANT TO USE VIDEO CAPTURED BY THEIR DEVICES FOR THEIR INVESTIGATION. >> RING HAS BEEN FACING CRITICISM FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES ALEC BALDWIN IS REQUESTING A SPEEDY TRIAL AS HE FACES INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES

FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A MOVIE CREW MEMBER. >> HIS LAWYERS SAY A SPEEDY TRIAL WILL HELP MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION IN TODAY’S WEATHER. >> RAIN IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY, POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM LOUISIANA TO NORTH CAROLINA, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST WILL ALSO SEE RAIN, SNOW IN THE ROCKIES AND FINALLY THE

WORLD WAR TWO VETS NOW GETTING THEIR RECOGNITION WHEN THEY WERE PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT. >> EVEN THEIR LOVED ONES WERE UNAWARE OF THEIR ROLE IN THE WAR . 100 YEAR OLD BERNIE BLUESTEIN SAYS WHEN HE SIGNED UP FOR A SPECIAL ARMY UNIT DURING WORLD WAR TWO, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD

AVOID THE FRONT LINES. IS IT NON-FIGHTING? >> OH, I SAID, THAT’S GOOD. I WON’T HAVE TO. I WON’T HAVE TO FIGHT. BUT IN FACT, BLUESTEIN WAS ON THE FRONT LINES AS A DECOY. >> BLUESTEIN WAS PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT CALLED THE GHOST ARMY. ITS GOAL LOOKED LIKE A

HUGE ARMY UNIT USING INFLATABLE TANKS AND EQUIPMENT, DRAWING GERMAN FORCES AWAY FROM THE REAL FRONT LINES. THE UNIT INCLUDED ARCHITECTS, SET DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS. >> IT WAS A LITTLE BUNDLE OF STUFF, ALL COMPRESSED BEFORE YOU OPEN THE BUNDLE, SPREAD THE NOZZLES AROUND AND INFLATED IT. >> THE ARTILLERY PIECE WAS GOOD,

BUT THAT M4 TANK, THAT WAS THE BEAUTY. THAT WAS A PIECE OF WORK. >> INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIT REMAINED CLASSIFIED UNTIL THE 1990S. BLUESTEIN AN ARTIST FROM THE CHICAGO AREA, KEPT HIS EFFORTS SECRET. HIS OWN SON GREW UP NEVER REALIZING THE ROLE HIS DAD PLAYED IN THE WAR. I WAS IN DISBELIEF.

>> I MEAN, I COULDN’T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A UNIT LIKE THAT. >> THE GHOST ARMY IS CREDITED WITH SAVING 30,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS DURING THE WAR, AND NOW BLUESTEIN IS ONE OF SEVEN SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE UNIT WHO WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, D.C, IN MARCH TO RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR.

>> QUITE A QUITE AN HONOR. I MEAN, I MEAN, HOW MANY PEOPLE GET A MEDAL FROM THE GOVERNMENT, A WELL-DESERVED HONOR ACTOR GARY SINISE IS PAYING FOR THE SEVEN MEN TO TRAVEL TO D.C. VERY WELL DESERVED. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A GREAT DAY

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Let’s go. How are you? So what will you be watching? Saturday’s on ABC News live. What would you do? I guess I just found out. The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? DRIVERS ARE WARNED TO TURN AROUND. >> DON’T DROWN. BUT THIS TESLA

DRIVER OBVIOUSLY NEVER GOT THAT ADVICE. THIS HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK DURING THE HISTORIC FLOODS IN SAN DIEGO. SOMEHOW, THOUGH, THAT TESLA MADE IT, BUT NOT SO LUCKY WAS THIS DRIVER ON TOP OF HER OVERTURNED VEHICLE, WHICH WAS SWEPT AWAY AS SHE TRIED TO CROSS A FLOODED CREEK NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. A HELICOPTER

CREW SAFELY RESCUED HER. >> LUCKILY, SHE WAS RESCUED. ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IS OPENING UP ABOUT BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN TUMOR. MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO. HE SHARED HIS STORY ON A RECENT PODCAST, SAYING HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER HE HAD A DREAM ABOUT HAVING A TUMOR. AND

HE WAS RIGHT. DOCTOR SAID IT WAS BENIGN, BUT IT WAS THE SIZE OF A GOLF BALL. HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT AT THE TIME, SO HE WAITED TO TELL HER UNTIL AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH. AND THEN HE HAD SURGERY. THE TYPE OF TUMOR THAT MARK RUFFALO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IS CALLED A VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA.

>> AND SO PEOPLE WITH VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMAS WILL OFTEN HAVE SYMPTOMS LIKE HEARING LOSS, RINGING IN THE EARS, DISCOMFORT OR PRESSURE IN THE EAR, AND DIZZINESS OR VERTIGO. >> THE LEFT SIDE OF RUFFALO’S FACE WAS ACTUALLY PARALYZED FOR A TIME, AND HE REMAINS DEAF IN ONE EAR. >> NOW TO FOOTBALL AND THE BIG

NEWS BEFORE NFL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND IS OUR DANNY NEW, WHO DID THAT? >> HE DID THAT. HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH HELPED MICHIGAN WIN ITS FIRST TITLE IN 26 YEARS, BUT NOW, JUST TWO WEEKS LATER, HE’S OFF TO DO THAT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. >> MOMENTS AGO, JIM HARBAUGH AS ESPN’S ADAM SCHEFTER REPORTED,

HARBAUGH HAS AGREED WITH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS ON A FIVE YEAR DEAL, MARKING HIS RETURN TO THE NFL AFTER LAST COACHING THE SAN FRANCISCO 49 ERS IN 2014. >> THE NCAA BIG TEN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE HAS SUSPENDED. >> OF COURSE, THIS COMES TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BIG TEN SUSPENDED HARBAUGH FOR THREE

GAMES IN THE WAKE OF MICHIGAN’S ALLEGED SIGN STEALING SCANDAL, WHERE A FORMER STAFFER WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A SCHEME TO VIDEOTAPE FUTURE TEAM OPPONENTS. HARBAUGH COULD HAVE FACED MAJOR NCAA VIOLATIONS IF HE HAD STAYED. >> IT JUST FEELS SO DANG GOOD. >> BUT HEY, IF YOUR CHARGER

SUPER FAN MARY ANN DOE, WHOM YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM HER VIRAL CAMEOS ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, YOUR TEAM JUST GOT A HEAD COACH WHO WAS IN THE SUPER BOWL UNTIL SOMEBODY PROVEN NOT TRUTHFUL, WE CAN’T REALLY THROW A STONE. YOU’RE LIKE, LISTEN, MY TEAM WAS FIVE AND 12 LAST YEAR. CAN I

JUST HAVE THIS, PLEASE? CAN I JUST HAVE THIS MOMENT? AND SPEAKING OF THAT SUPER BOWL JACKSON END ZONE. THE COACH WHO BEAT HIM, HIS BROTHER JOHN HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE IT BACK. THIS WEEKEND. ON SUNDAY, HIS BALTIMORE RAVENS WILL HOST THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS. >> KELCE HAS THE TOUCHDOWN.

>> TRAVIS KELCE WILL BE THERE, WHOSE BROTHER JASON BECAME AN INTERNET HALL OF FAMER LAST WEEKEND WITH HIS SHIRTLESS CELEBRATION RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS BROTHER’S GIRLFRIEND. >> TAYLOR SWIFT SAID SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOU. MAYFIELD IN THE MIDDLE AND INTERCEPTED. >> MEANWHILE, THE LIONS WILL HEAD TO QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF’S

HOMETOWN SAN FRANCISCO IN FACT, A CERTAIN NINERS LEGEND EVEN INSPIRED HIS NUMBER. >> MY DAD SAID, HEY, THAT’S YOUR MONTANA’S NUMBER. YOU SHOULD PICK IT. AND I’M LIKE, ALL RIGHT. AND CHOSE IT AND JUST CONTINUED TO WEAR IT. >> OF COURSE, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED GUYS THAT JIM HARBAUGH

PLAYED FOR THE CHARGERS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. >> ALL RIGHT DANNY THANK YOU. COMING UP, THE SWORD FOR SALE AT HOME DEPOT. >> PLUS WHY JON STEWART All right, here we go. Alrighty, let’s do it. Yes, it’s the show America wants and America needs

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STEWART, AS YOU KNOW, HOSTED THE DAILY SHOW UNTIL 2015, MAKING IT A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. THE SHOW HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF OTHER COMEDIANS, INCLUDING STEPHEN COLBERT AND STEVE CARELL, AND LISTS SAY ELECTION SEASON IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A RETURN. >> JON STEWART AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS REALLY, I THINK

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Three. What you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon. So, join us afternoon for everything you need to know. I love that. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES. NIKKI HALEY IS RALLYING SUPPORTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, SAYING SHE’S RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE HER LOSS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,

AND SHE ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OF HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM . TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING TO BAN HALEY’S DONORS FROM WHAT HE CALLS THE MAGA CAMP. >> A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY AROUND PHILADELPHIA FOR MURDER SUSPECT SHANE PRIOR. HE ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY AT A PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. MEANWHILE, IN ARKANSAS, AUTHORITIES HAVE

BEEN SEARCHING FOR TWO INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM A DETENTION CENTER, INCLUDING A POTENTIAL MURDER SUSPECT, THE MAKER OF RING DOORBELLS SAYS IT WILL STOP TAKING REQUESTS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENTS WHO WANT TO USE VIDEO CAPTURED BY THEIR DEVICES FOR THEIR INVESTIGATION. >> RING HAS BEEN FACING CRITICISM FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES

ALEC BALDWIN IS REQUESTING A SPEEDY TRIAL AS HE FACES INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A MOVIE CREW MEMBER. >> HIS LAWYERS SAY A SPEEDY TRIAL WILL HELP MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION IN TODAY’S WEATHER. >> RAIN IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY, POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM LOUISIANA TO NORTH

CAROLINA, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST WILL ALSO SEE RAIN, SNOW IN THE ROCKIES AND FINALLY THE WORLD WAR TWO VETS NOW GETTING THEIR RECOGNITION WHEN THEY WERE PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT. >> EVEN THEIR LOVED ONES WERE UNAWARE OF THEIR ROLE IN THE WAR . 100 YEAR OLD BERNIE BLUESTEIN

SAYS WHEN HE SIGNED UP FOR A SPECIAL ARMY UNIT DURING WORLD WAR TWO, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD AVOID THE FRONT LINES. IS IT NON-FIGHTING? >> OH, I SAID, THAT’S GOOD. I WON’T HAVE TO. I WON’T HAVE TO FIGHT. BUT IN FACT, BLUESTEIN WAS ON THE FRONT LINES AS A DECOY.

>> BLUESTEIN WAS PART OF A TOP SECRET UNIT CALLED THE GHOST ARMY. ITS GOAL LOOKED LIKE A HUGE ARMY UNIT USING INFLATABLE TANKS AND EQUIPMENT, DRAWING GERMAN FORCES AWAY FROM THE REAL FRONT LINES. THE UNIT INCLUDED ARCHITECTS, SET DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS. >> IT WAS A LITTLE BUNDLE OF STUFF, ALL COMPRESSED BEFORE YOU

OPEN THE BUNDLE, SPREAD THE NOZZLES AROUND AND INFLATED IT. >> THE ARTILLERY PIECE WAS GOOD, BUT THAT M4 TANK, THAT WAS THE BEAUTY. THAT WAS A PIECE OF WORK. >> INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIT REMAINED CLASSIFIED UNTIL THE 1990S. BLUESTEIN AN ARTIST FROM THE CHICAGO AREA, KEPT HIS EFFORTS SECRET. HIS OWN SON GREW

UP NEVER REALIZING THE ROLE HIS DAD PLAYED IN THE WAR. I WAS IN DISBELIEF. >> I MEAN, I COULDN’T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A UNIT LIKE THAT. >> THE GHOST ARMY IS CREDITED WITH SAVING 30,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS DURING THE WAR, AND NOW BLUESTEIN IS ONE OF SEVEN SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE UNIT

WHO WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, D.C, IN MARCH TO RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR. >> QUITE A QUITE AN HONOR. I MEAN, I MEAN, HOW MANY PEOPLE GET A MEDAL FROM THE GOVERNMENT, A WELL-DESERVED HONOR ACTOR GARY SINISE IS PAYING FOR THE SEVEN MEN TO TRAVEL TO D.C. VERY WELL DESERVED.

>> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A GREAT DAY AND IT’S THURSDAY, JANUARY 25TH. WE KNOW WHERE GOP VOTERS STAND, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY? >> WE START HERE. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN READIES FOR AN ELECTION FIGHT THIS NOVEMBER. THEY ARE OFFICIALLY IN GENERAL ELECTION MODE.

WHY DEMOCRATS WANT BIDEN TO SQUARE OFF WITH DONALD TRUMP. THE U.S. PLAYS A GAME OF WHACK A MOLE WITH MILITANTS IN THE RED SEA. >> IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE THAT THE WAR TEND TO SPILL OVER TO OTHER PARTS OF THE REGION. IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER IS WARNING THE U.S. OF A WIDER

REGIONAL WAR. AND A SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE BORN DEAF MUST LEARN TO PERFORM. GENE THERAPY IS HELPING SOME KIDS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> AND FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” IMAM FLAHERTY. >> GOOD MORNING. BREADS OUT TODAY, BUT I’VE GOT YOU COVERED IN THE MEANTIME.

>> SO THIS WEEK, I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT MUCH OF THE NATION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON A SINGLE QUESTION WHEN IT COMES TO U.S. POLITICS. WHO DO REPUBLICAN VOTERS WANT TO SEE ON THE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER? THE ANSWER, IT SEEMS, IS DONALD TRUMP, AT LEAST AFTER GOP

VOTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RALLIED AROUND HIM AS THE NEXT CANDIDATE. OF COURSE, NIKKI HALEY SAYS THE RACE IS NOT OVER YET, BUT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY JUST HALF OF THE EQUATION BY NOVEMBER. THE OTHER HALF IS PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND HOW HE SEES 2024. TO CATCH US UP TO SPEED ON WHAT

THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS UP TO. LET’S BRING IN ABC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS. KAREN, WHAT WAS THE REACTION FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN ON DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE? >> IT’S GAME ON. THAT WAS THEIR REACTION THAT NOW THIS IS REAL AND IT IS ALL HANDS ON DECK.

AND IT’S THE GENERAL ELECTION. THEY ARE OFFICIALLY GENERAL ELECTION MODE. THE PRESIDENT PUT OUT A STATEMENT ON TUESDAY NIGHT AFTER THE RESULTS WERE IN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND HE SAID IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. AND IT WAS ALSO NOTABLE IN THAT

STATEMENT THAT HE MADE AN APPEAL TO INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS WHO HE SAID MIGHT NOT LIKE WHAT THEY’RE HEARING AND SEEING FROM DONALD TRUMP. JOIN US ON THE OTHER SIDE. THAT’S WHAT HE’S GOING TO HAVE TO DO OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS TO TRY AND WIN THE ELECTION. YOU KNOW, MAKE THOSE PITCHES

TO THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE, WHILE ALSO SAYING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY DEEPLY UNSURE ABOUT THIS RACE RIGHT NOW, THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE, BUT THEY ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT ANOTHER TRUMP PRESIDENCY. AND SO THIS IS IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE THIS IS THE REMATCH

THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTED. >> I MEAN, DOES IT IS IT HELPFUL TO MOVE NIKKI HALEY OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE SHE IS MORE POPULAR WITH MODERATES? >> I LOOK BACK AND WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED HIS REELECTION, HE WAS ASKED BY OUR COLLEAGUE MARY BRUCE, IF HE WOULD BE RUNNING IF DONALD

TRUMP WASN’T RUNNING, DID DONALD TRUMP’S DECISION TO RUN AFFECT YOURS? WOULD YOU BE RUNNING IF HE WASN’T? >> YEAH, I THINK I STILL WOULD BE RUNNING FRESH THEN. SEVEN MONTHS LATER, BACK IN DECEMBER AND AT A FUNDRAISER, THE PRESIDENT SAID IF TRUMP WASN’T RUNNING, I’M NOT SURE I’D BE RUNNING.

NOW, YOU KNOW, THE CAMPAIGN SAYS DON’T MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT. >> BUT IT’S VERY CLEAR THAT SO MUCH OF WHAT IS MOTIVATING PRESIDENT FOR A REELECTION RUN IS THE THREAT OF DONALD TRUMP. >> DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT. YOUR FREEDOM IS ON THE BALLOT. >> AND SO FOR THE CAMPAIGN,

THIS IS THE MATCHUP THAT THEY WANTED BECAUSE, ONE, THEY KNOW THEY’VE ALREADY BEATEN HIM. AND TWO, WHEN YOU ARE AN INCOME MAN WHO HAS POLL NUMBERS LIKE JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW HOVERING AT BEST IN THE UPPER 30S FOR A JOB APPROVAL RATING, THE BEST OPTION YOU CAN PROBABLY HAVE FOR A REELECTION BATTLE

IS TO MAKE IT A CHOICE BETWEEN YOU AND ANOTHER GUY WHO IS SO WELL KNOWN TO AMERICANS AND SO POLARIZING. SO THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN VERY DEEPLY DEMONIZE A CANDIDATE LIKE DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE AMERICANS KNOW HIM SO WELL. THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN WANTS HIM TO BE GETTING ATTENTION.

THEY WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING. AND IF THEY’RE NOT HEARING IT DIRECTLY FROM DONALD TRUMP, THEY’RE GOING TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT HE IS SAYING. >> THESE ARE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS WHICH STRIPPED AWAY DONALD TRUMP. AND BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP, DOCTORS ARE FLEEING THEIR HOME STATES, SETTING UP PRACTICES

IN OTHER STATES, WHETHER IT’S THE PRESIDENT TALKING ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP IS BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE AND BEING PROUD OF HIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR DOING THAT. THEY WANT THAT IN AMERICANS HEADS NOW OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS. >> SO WHAT DOES THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SEE AS THE BIG ISSUES, THOUGH?

>> ABORTION RIGHTS, HE IS GOING TO BE PRESSING THAT. WHAT’S HIS STRATEGY HERE? >> ABORTION IS GOING TO BE VERY BIG BECAUSE THINK ABOUT WHO THAT MATTERS TO. WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE POLLS OVER THE LAST AND A HALF SINCE THE DOBBS DECISION, YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL ELECTIONS, THE MIDTERM

ELECTIONS IN THIS OFF YEAR RACES, WOMEN, YOUNG VOTERS WERE COMING OUT AND VOTING ON THAT ISSUE. THOSE ARE GROUPS THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL NEED TO WIN REELECTION. SO YOU’RE GOING TO HEAR THEM TALKING ABOUT THAT A LOT OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS. THE VICE PRESIDENT THIS WEEK LAUNCHED A REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

TOUR THAT’S GOING TO TAKE HER ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HEARING STORIES AND ALSO REALLY LAUNCHING BROADSIDES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP NOW THAT DOCTORS COULD BE THROWN IN PRISON FOR CARING FOR THEIR PATIENTS. THAT YOUNG WOMEN TODAY HAVE FEWER RIGHTS THAN THEIR MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS . HOW DARE YOU? SO THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THEY

FEEL THEY HAVE TRACTION ON AND IT’S SOMETHING THAT IS, IN THEIR VIEW, VERY BLACK AND WHITE ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID AND COULD DO WITH THE SECOND TERM PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS. THESE ARE THINGS THAT MATTER. SO MUCH TO PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN’T PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE IN THE

WORLD FOR DRUGS THAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS HAVE ALREADY HELPED CREATE. >> THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO BRING DOWN THE COST OF INSULIN, BRING DOWN THE COST OF DRUGS FOR SENIORS. PRICE NEGOTIATION THROUGH MEDICARE, THE IT ACTUALLY HAS REAL IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S WALLETS THAT JOE BIDEN DOESN’T REALLY

GET CREDIT FOR RIGHT NOW. ALSO, THIS WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED THAT THERE WAS A RECORD BREAKING 21.3 MILLION PEOPLE WHO HAD SIGNED UP FOR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE THROUGH THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, OBAMACARE DURING THE LAST OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD. AND THE WHITE HOUSE WAS TOUTING THAT YESTERDAY, SAYING IT’S A BIG DEAL.

PEOPLE ARE PAYING LESS FOR THEIR COVERAGE. THEY ALSO WILL SAY, LOOK, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S OUT THERE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, EVEN JUST LAST WEEK SAYING HE WANTS TO GET RID OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. HE’S STILL CALLING IT A CATASTROPHE. SO THAT’S ANOTHER CONTRAST THAT THEY WANT TO MAKE ON THESE

ISSUES THAT THEY SAY REALLY MATTER TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SITTING AROUND THEIR KITCHEN TABLE. >> AND PRESIDENT BIDEN ALSO GETTING THE UNION VOTE YESTERDAY, THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS ENDORSING HIM. HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THAT? >> THAT’S NOT NEW FOR HIM. IT’S NOT. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GROUP

THAT HAS SUPPORTED HIM BEFORE. THIS IS AN ENDORSEMENT THAT THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN HOPING FOR AND ANGLING FOR. >> HE HAS A BIG SUPPORTER OF THE UAW, OF COURSE. REMEMBER LAST YEAR HE APPEARED ON THE PICKET LINE, MADE THAT STOP WITH STRIKING AUTOWORKERS IN MICHIGAN. >> AND HE TOLD THEM AFTER

THE LABOR DISPUTE WAS RESOLVED THAT HE HOPED THAT THEY REMEMBERED, THAT HE HOPED THAT THEY REMEMBERED HIS SUPPORT COME ELECTION SEASON, AND THEY DID. >> THOSE ARE ENDORSEMENTS MUST BE EARNED. >> JOE BIDEN HAS EARNED IT. AND IT WAS A VERY LIVELY ENDORSEMENT FROM THE UAW PRESIDENT SHAWN FAIN, WHO SAID,

YOU KNOW, THERE’S A CONTRAST IN THIS ELECTION THAT THERE’S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES RIGHT NOW. >> DONALD TRUMP IS A SCAB. >> IT’S NOT THAT EVERYBODY IN THE UAW IS GOING TO VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN. I MEAN, THAT’S NOT HOW UNION ENDORSEMENTS WORK. BUT, YOU KNOW, A SIZABLE

PORTION WILL IF SHAWN FAIN IS SAYING LIKE, YOU KNOW, DO THIS, BUT ALSO GETTING THEM OUT TO VOTE, REALLY MOTIVATING THEM TO GO AND CAST A BALLOT. THE OTHER THING, TOO, AND IS JUST THE ORGANIZING, LIKE WHAT THEY CAN DO IN TERMS OF ON THE GROUND WORD GETTING OUT

A MESSAGE IN A PLACE LIKE MICHIGAN THAT WAS IMPORTANT LAST SUMMER WHEN THE PRESIDENT GOT THE AFL-CIO ENDORSEMENT, TOO. >> AND THAT’S, YOU KNOW, TEN, 12 MILLION UNION WORKERS THAT WERE PART OF THAT. >> IT TAPPED INTO SOMETHING THAT GIVES THE CAMPAIGN A LITTLE SOMETHING ON THE SIDE

THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO DO BECAUSE THOSE UNIONS CAN GO OUT AND DO SOME OF THAT ON THE GROUND WORK IN ORGANIZING FOR THEM. >> SO, KAREN, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE THEN GOING FORWARD? >> I MEAN, HE’S THAT YOU MENTIONED HIS LOWER POLL NUMBERS.

HOW DOES THE OVERCOME THAT? YEAH, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THE POLLS RIGHT NOW, IT’S A REALLY CLOSE RACE AND YOU LOOK AT SOME STATE POLLS IN THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES AND THE PRESIDENT’S TRAILING. >> THEY HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO. THEY HAVE TO CONVINCE

AMERICANS THAT THE ECONOMY IS IN GOOD SHAPE. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN INDICATORS THAT SAY IT IS, BUT PEOPLE AREN’T FEELING THAT RIGHT NOW. AND THAT’S SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING IN AN ELECTION YEAR, IF PEOPLE AREN’T FEELING IT, THAT COULD DRIVE THEIR VOTE. THE CAMPAIGN SAID THIS WEEK

THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY’RE GOING TO BE VERY FOCUSED ON PRESENTING THE CHOICE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP. >> BUT THEY KNOW THAT THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK VERY HARD. >> AND IN FACT, ONE OF THEIR TOP CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS SAID THEY’RE RUNNING LIKE THEY’RE BEHIND, WHICH THEY ARE

IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE POLLS. BUT THAT’S CERTAINLY THE WAY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO APPROACH THIS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY TIGHT RACE. >> THAT’S ABC’S KAREN TRAVERS. KAREN, THANKS SO MUCH. THANKS. >> END. NEXT UP ON “START HERE”, MISSILES KEEP FLYING IN THE

RED SEA. SO WHAT’S THE PLAN? MORE AFTER THE BREAK. >> YOU. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON MY MIND, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS, “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL A TELEVISION FROM AMERICA’S

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UP ON A PATTERN IN THE MIDDLE EAST IRANIAN BACKED MILITANTS IN YEMEN, KNOWN AS THE HOUTHIS, LAUNCHED MISSILES AND ROCKETS AT COMMERCIAL SHIPS IN THE RED SEA, SOME OF THEM WITH U.S. FLAGS. >> THEN THE U.S. STRIKES BACK. >> IN ONE CASE, U.S. AND BRITISH FIGHTER JETS DESTROYED AN UNDERGROUND BUNKER

AND OTHER SITES WHICH U.S. OFFICIALS CELEBRATED AS A MAJOR SUCCESS. >> INITIAL REPORTS FROM THE PENTAGON INDICATE THAT ALL THE TARGETS WERE HIT AND THAT THEY WILL HELP FURTHER DEGRADE THE OFFENSIVE CAPABILITIES. >> BUT APPARENTLY, THE HOUTHIS DIDN’T GET THE MESSAGE BECAUSE YESTERDAY THEY LAUNCHED YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON A U.S. FLAGSHIP.

TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE AND WHY THIS MATTERS, LET’S BRING IN ABC’S SENIOR PENTAGON REPORTER LUIS MARTINEZ LOUIS. YET ANOTHER HOUTHI ATTACK YESTERDAY ON A U.S. SHIP. >> WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE AT THE PENTAGON? WELL, AND THE RESPONSE HERE WAS ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE CAN SHOOT DOWN ANYTHING YOU SEND

THEIR WAY. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. THIS WAS AN AMERICAN DESTROYER THAT HAPPENED TO BE VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS CONTAINERSHIP WAS. AND IT BROUGHT DOWN TWO OF THOSE THREE MISSILES THAT WERE INBOUND FOR THE CONTAINER SHIP. NOW, THAT THIRD MISSILE LANDED IN THE OCEAN. SO IT HARMLESS A SITUATION.

BUT ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO POINT OUT IS THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST ATTACK OF THIS KIND IN MORE THAN FIVE DAYS. SO WHAT WE HAD SEEN PRIOR TO THAT WAS THIS BACK AND FORTH WHERE UNITED STATES WAS CARRYING OUT THESE PREEMPTIVE AIRSTRIKES AND THEN THE HOUTHIS WOULD LAUNCH AGAIN AND, THEN

BACK AND FORTH. AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAD THIS FIVE DAY GAP. AND YOU HAVE TO WONDER, OKAY, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? DOES THAT MEAN IT WAS PREEMPTIVE STRIKES WHEN THOSE MISSILES WERE BEING TARGETED RIGHT THERE ON THEIR LAUNCHERS? DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE UNITED STATES.

EXACTLY DID WHAT ITS WANTED, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY TO PREEMPT ANY STRIKES TAKING PLACE? DOES IT MEAN THAT POTENTIALLY THE HOUTHIS ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE’VE CONSTANTLY HEARD FROM U.S. OFFICIALS IS THAT THE UNITED STATES RETALIATORY STRIKES, AGAIN, WITH OUR

PARTNERS, WAS ALL INTENDED TO ESSENTIALLY DEGRADE THE HOUTHIS CAPABILITY TO DO THESE STRIKES, HAVE STOCKPILES OF ADVANCED WEAPONS PROVIDED TO THEM. IN MANY CASES ENABLED TO THEM, IN MANY CASES BY IRAN. AND WE ARE TAKING DOWN TAKING OUT THESE STOCKPILES. SO NOW WE’VE GOT THIS FIVE DAY GAP. THIS, OF COURSE, IS ONE

INCIDENT. NOW, THE BIG QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TODAY. THESE RESUMED THEIR DAILY STRIKES OR THEY STEP BACK. >> IS THE PENTAGON BEING FORTHCOMING ON ANY U.S. INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON THE HOUTHIS ABILITY TO KEEP STRIKING? >> I MEAN, WE’RE JUST GOING TO KEEP DOING THIS. >> WELL, I THINK THE U.S.

PRESENCE IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON. AND THE U.S. SHIPS ARE GOING TO STAY THERE. THE CAPABILITY IS GOING TO STAY THERE. AND IT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE IF YOU NEED TO RESTORE ESSENTIALLY CONFIDENCE IN THE SHIPPING LANES, THEY NEED TO STAY THERE BECAUSE THE SHIPPING COMPANIES NEED

TO KNOW THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY AROUND SOUTH AFRICA IN ORDER TO MAKE IT BACK TO EUROPE. AND SO I THINK THE U.S. PRESENCE IS GOING TO BE THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE HOUTHIS WILL GET THE MESSAGE?

>> IT’S ALL A MATTER OF PERCEPTION. OBVIOUSLY UNDERSCORES THAT THE HOUTHIS STILL INTEND TO CONDUCT THESE ATTACKS, WHICH MEANS WE’RE OBVIOUSLY STILL GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT, TO HAVE TO DO TO TO PROTECT THAT SHIP. I THINK THAT THESE U.S. STRIKES ESSENTIALLY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, THOUGH, IS RAISE

THE PROFILE THAT THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ALLIES ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT THE SHIPPING LANES REMAIN OPEN. >> WELL, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IRAN IS BANKROLLING ALL OF THESE ATTACKS. THEY’RE BEHIND ALL OF THESE PROXY MILITANT GROUPS. THEY HAVE DEEP POCKETS. SO ABC NEWS GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER

ABOUT THIS, AND HE TIED IT DIRECTLY TO U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL, THE WAR IN GAZA. DO U.S. OFFICIALS SEE IT THAT WAY? DO THEY SEE THESE TWO EVENTS BEING LINKED? >> YOU KNOW, AND THAT’S THE REALLY BIG QUESTION HERE, BECAUSE THE IRANIANS HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC. THOSE THEIR THE HOUTHIS

HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC. THOSE IRAQI MILITIAS HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC, THAT THIS IS ALL DIRECTLY LINKED TO WHAT’S GOING ON BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS IN GAZA. >> THE AGAINST GAZA SHOULD BE STOPPED. AND IF IT IS TO STOP, THEN THE SECURITY WILL BE RESTORED IN THE RED SEA.

THIS IS WHAT THE YEMENIS HAVE TOLD US. >> UNITED STATES OFFICIALS DO NOT SEE THAT AT ALL. THEY’VE BEEN VEHEMENT THAT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT SITUATION. AND I THINK THAT’S A LITTLE BIT OF THEM TRYING TO CONTAIN THE SITUATION. RIGHT, BECAUSE I THINK THEY REALLY KNOW THAT THERE

IS A RISK THAT IF ESPECIALLY COUNTRIES LIKE IRAN, IF THEY MAKE LINKAGES TO WHAT’S GOING ON THERE WITH ISRAEL, THAT THAT COULD BROADEN THE CONFLICT. SO THE LANGUAGE THAT THEY USE ALWAYS THAT, NOPE, THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT’S GOING ON IN GAZA. >> THE BEST SOLUTION TO THIS

SITUATION NOT ESCALATING IS FOR THE HOUTHIS TO STOP THESE ATTACKS. THEY POINT OUT THAT THESE ARE TERRORIST ATTACKS BEING CARRIED OUT AGAINST SHIPPING IN THE RED SEA. THEY POINT OUT THAT THE IRAQI MILITIAS HAVE BEEN A CONSTANT THREAT TO U.S. FORCES INSIDE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA WHEN THEY TARGET THESE U.S. BASES.

BUT THE REALITY IS, IF YOU LOOK BACK AT THE NUMBER OF ATTACKS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE MID-OCTOBER, SHORTLY AFTER ISRAEL WENT INTO GAZA, THESE NUMBERS HAVE JUST SPIKED THROUGH THE ROOF. >> IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE THAT THE WAR CAN IS SPILLOVER TO OTHER PARTS OF THE REGION.

IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT IT WOULD WIDEN. >> SO THE QUESTION REALLY IS, IS IT REALLY INTENDED TO BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT? IS IT TRULY SUPPORT FOR WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HAMAS OR IS IT MORE JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO CREATE WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAUSING A LINE

ACTIVITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST? AND I THINK THAT’S WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO HEAR EXACTLY WHAT THE IRANIAN VIEWPOINT IS. THEY WE ALWAYS HAVE TO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT BECAUSE YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE IRANIAN INTENTIONS ARE, ESPECIALLY IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS.

>> WELL, AND I WANT TO JUST TAKE A BIG STEP BACK. YOU KNOW, WHY DOES ALL OF THIS MATTER? IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW IS A TINDERBOX AND THAT THE U.S. IS TRYING TO HANDLE THIS VERY DELICATELY. IS THE CONCERN THAT THIS WILL ESCALATE? >> I THINK THE CONCERN

OF ESCALATION IS EVERYWHERE. I THINK EVERYBODY’S BEING REALISTIC THAT WHEN YOU’RE SEEING MISSILES FLYING EVERYWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW, THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST TEN RETALIATORY STRIKES AGAINST THE HOUTHIES AND THE NOW THE IRAQI FORCES. I MEAN, THAT’S THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST THAT’S SHOWING US FIREPOWER AT ITS BEST.

BUT IT’S ALSO SHOWING YOU THAT THERE’S A LOT GOING ON OVER THERE AND IT’S A VERY RISKY SITUATION. >> SO I KNOW THAT NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY PROFESSIONALS ARE LOOKING AT WHAT’S GOING ON OVER THERE RIGHT NOW WITH CONCERN. >> BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TO PROJECT THIS REALLY STRONG

IMAGE, THE FACT THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THERE AND THAT IT CAN ENSURE SECURITY. AND I THINK THAT’S THE MESSAGE THAT THEY’RE TRYING TO CONVEY. >> WELL, AND I THINK A LOT OF AMERICANS HERE. OKAY. YEMENI REBELS, HOUTHIES, WHO ARE THEY? >> THEY DON’T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE U.S. MILITARY.

BUT WHEN YOU KNOW THAT THEY’RE BEING BANKROLLED BY IRAN AND THAT IRAN IS ALSO SEEKING A NUCLEAR WEAPON, I THINK IT JUST BECOMES A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, LUIS MARTINEZ AT THE PENTAGON. THANKS, ED. OVERNIGHT, RESEARCHERS PUBLISHED PROMISING NEW FIGURES THAT COULD GIVE HOPE TO MILLIONS OF FAMILIES

WITH CHILDREN WHO ARE BORN DEAF . RESEARCHERS FROM MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL IN BOSTON AND CHINA’S FUDAN UNIVERSITY SAY THEY’VE FOUND A NEW WAY TO USE GENE THERAPY TO RESTORE HEARING TO SEVERAL CHILDREN ENROLLED IN AN EARLY CLINICAL TRIAL. MIGHT LEARN BETTER BY FIVE. >> NOW, IN A VIDEO FROM ONE OF

THE PATIENTS, A MOTHER IS TEACHING HER TODDLER TO SAY, MOM, DAD, GRANDMA AND GRANDPA. AND THAT YEAH, REMEMBER, THIS CHILD WAS BORN DEAF AND THIS WAS HUGE NEWS BECAUSE UNTIL NOW, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A SURGICAL WAY TO CORRECT AN INNER EAR THAT ISN’T FUNCTIONING RIGHT.

SO TO CATCH US UP ON THIS DEVELOPMENT, LET’S BRING IN ABC’S SONY SALZMAN WHO HELPS TO LEAD OUR MEDICAL UNIT, SONY. LET’S JUST START WITH WHAT IS GENE THERAPY? DO YOU ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR DNA? YEAH, AND IT IS EXACTLY THAT. GENE THERAPY IS A RELATIVELY NEW TYPE OF THERAPY WHERE

SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO GO IN AND LITERALLY CHANGE A PERSON’S DNA. SO FAR, THIS HAS BEEN USED PRIMARILY FOR DISEASES THAT ARE GENETIC DISEASES. THERE ARE FDA APPROVED GENE THERAPIES FOR A RARE INHERITED FORM OF BLINDNESS, FOR EXAMPLE. AND RECENTLY THERE WERE TWO MAJOR APPROVALS FOR SICKLE

CELL DISEASE, WHICH IS CAUSED BY GENETIC MUTATIONS. SO IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, FOR HEARING LOSS, THIS NEWS THAT WE’RE HEARING FROM OVERNIGHT, WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE DONE IS THEY’VE GONE IN AND THEY’VE DELIVERED, INJECT ACTION INTO THE INNER EAR OF CHILDREN WITH A HERITABLE FORM OF HEARING LOSS. SO A TYPE OF HEARING LOSS

THAT IS CAUSED BY A FAULTY GENE OR MUTATIONS TO A SPECIFIC GENE . AND WHAT THE STUDY SHOWED IS THAT IN THESE SIX CHINESE CHILDREN THAT WERE GIVEN THIS TREATMENT, FIVE OF THEM HAD THEIR HEARING RESTORED. AND SO FAR, THE SAFETY PROFILE SEEMS TO LOOK GOOD, THE SCIENTISTS SAY.

WELL, AND I SAW SOME REPORTING LAST FALL AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA. THERE WAS AN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO ACTUALLY WAS TREATED WITH THIS. >> IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE’RE ON THE CUSP OF A JUST, YOU KNOW, A VERY BIG LEAP IN SCIENCE HERE TO BE ABLE TO TREAT THIS.

>> HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THIS? >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL AND IT’S PART OF A KIND OF GROWING SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS OF GENE THERAPY. NOW, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS HEARING THERAPY, THERE ARE SEVERAL GROUPS ACROSS THE WORLD THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS.

AND WE’RE JUST NOW STARTING TO LEARN SOME OF THESE VERY PROMISING, VERY PRELIMINARY RESULTS. NOW, THE 11 YEAR OLD BOY YOU MENTIONED HE HAD NEVER BEEN HEARING BEFORE, HE WAS TREATED HERE IN THE U.S. AT THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, ACTUALLY FLOWN IN FOR THIS TREATMENT WITH HIS PARENT.

>> THIS WILL BE A GENE THERAPY PROGRAM THAT HE’S BEEN. >> AND THIS BOY HAD SEVERE HEARING LOSS DEAF IN BOTH EARS, WAS GIVEN THIS INJECTION IN THE INNER EAR. >> AND THEN AFTER THE INJECTION ,THE RESEARCHERS PERFORMED HEARING TESTS AND THE BOY WAS ABLE TO HEAR.

>> YES, THAT’S IF YOU HEARD THAT. >> OH, MY GOD. PRETTY COOL, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNTS THAT WE HAVE, HAS BEEN ABLE TO KIND OF HAVE A LOT OF HEARING RESTORED. AND IN FACT, ANECDOTALLY, WHEN THESE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TREATED. MUCH OF THE REPORTING AFTERWARDS SUGGESTS THAT THEY

FEEL THAT THE WORLD IS ALMOST TOO NOISY, IT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE FOR THEM TO GET USED TO THIS NEW HEARING THAT THEY HAVE AFTER THESE TREATMENTS. >> WELL, AND WITHIN THE DEAF COMMUNITY, WE HAVE HEARD, YOU KNOW, AND ADVOCATES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES SAYING THAT DEAFNESS NECESSARILY

SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CURED. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU’VE HEARD IN REACTION TO THIS THERAPY? >> I THINK THAT’S A REALLY INTERESTING POINT TO BRING UP IN TERMS OF GENE THERAPY IN GENERAL. SO THERE ARE MANY DISEASES FOR WHICH PEOPLE HAVE GROWN UP WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, THEY WERE BORN

WITH THEM AS CHILDREN, EVERYTHING FROM AUTISM TO DEAFNESS. AND BY THE TIME THEY REACH ADULTHOOD, THESE, YOU KNOW, THEY BECOME PART OF THE PERSON’S IDENTITY. IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR, FOLKS HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, AND THEY HAVE A STRONG CULTURE AROUND THEIR DEAFNESS. AND SOME PEOPLE DON’T WANT

TO GIVE THAT UP. IF YOU GAVE THEM A CHOICE. YOU WOULD. YOU WANT TO BE TREATED FOR YOUR DEAFNESS. MANY PEOPLE WOULD SAY NO. SO I THINK THAT WHAT GENE THERAPY DOES IS IT RAISES A LOT OF THESE REALLY INTERESTING KIND OF ETHICAL AND SOCIETAL QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW,

WHETHER OR NOT FOLKS SHOULD BE TREATED NOW. A LOT OF SCIENTISTS WILL TELL YOU IS THAT THEY WANT TO PURSUE THIS SO THAT PEOPLE HAVE OPTIONS. I THINK IT’S — IT’S WONDERFUL THAT FOLKS HAVE BUILT SUCH A RICH CULTURE AND COMMUNITY. AND I THINK SOME PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE CHOICE AND SOME

PEOPLE WON’T MAKE THE CHOICE. BUT THE POINT IS THAT HOPEFULLY IF THIS RESEARCH CONTINUES TO PROGRESS, SOME FAMILIES AND PATIENTS WILL HAVE THAT CHOICE. AND I KNOW YOU’VE COVERED A LOT OF THESE THERAPIES IN THE PAST. AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO GET A REALITY CHECK HERE. HOW SOON BEFORE YOU THINK

THE FDA COULD APPROVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS? >> IS IT MONTHS? IS IT YEARS? THAT’S RIGHT. IT’S MONTHS OR YEARS. RIGHT. SO THE FDA, RIGHTFULLY SO, IS VERY CAUTIOUS. AND THEY’RE PARTICULARLY CAUTIOUS AROUND GENE THERAPY BECAUSE THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW SCIENCE AND WITH GENE THERAPY IN PARTICULAR, THERE

IS A HIGH RISK OF WHAT SCIENTISTS CALL OFF TARGET EFFECTS. IF YOU CHANGE SOMEONE’S GENETICS, YOU HOPE THAT YOU’RE MAKING A VERY TIGHT, TARGETED CHANGE THAT WILL ONLY IMPACT THE THING THAT YOU WANT. BUT THERE IS THIS RISK THAT THERE COULD BE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. AND SO THAT’S WHY, YOU KNOW, WE

HAVE THESE RIGOROUS CLINICAL TRIALS, THESE RESULTS THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT NOW. AND THESE ARE REALLY EARLY DATA, BUT WE’RE GOING TO NEED A LOT MORE DATA BEFORE THE FDA FEELS COMFORTABLE. A LOT MORE PEOPLE TREAT IT AND A LOT MORE TIME SO THAT WE KNOW THAT MONTHS AND YEARS AFTER THEIR TREATMENT,

THEY’RE STILL DOING. THERE’S NO NEW ILLNESS THAT CROPS UP. AND THEN THE FDA WILL WEIGH ALL OF THAT EVIDENCE, DECIDE IF THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE RISKS AND, YOU KNOW, ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE MAKE THEIR APPROVAL DECISION. THAT SAID, IN THE BROAD CATEGORY OF GENE THERAPY, THIS IS SEEN AS ANOTHER REALLY

EXCITING AND POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT SHOWING THAT THIS TYPE OF THERAPY REALLY CAN WORK AND CORRECT SOME OF THESE GENETIC ILLNESSES. >> THAT’S FASCINATING STUFF. ABC SONY SALZMAN SUNNY FOR BEING WITH US. >> OF COURSE. THANK YOU. AND. OKAY, ONE MORE QUICK BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, THE BRITS REACH A BOILING POINT AFTER

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IT’S BEEN MORE THAN 250 YEARS SINCE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES DUMPED IN THE BOSTON HARBOR, ANGERING THE BRITS. WELL, THIS ANOTHER STIR. A U.S. SCIENTIST SUGGESTING THAT THE PERFECT OF TEA NEEDS JUST A PINCH OF SALT. MICHELLE FRANCL IS CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND SHE’S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED STEEP

THE CHEMISTRY OF TEA. >> ACCORDING TO THE BOOK’S DESCRIPTION, FRANCL EXPLORES THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DIFFERENT STYLES OF TEA AND TACKLES, QUOTE, THE AGE OLD QUESTION OF WHEN OR EVEN WHETHER TO ADD MILK. AND SHE CITES HER CHEMISTRY ON HOW TO BREW A BETTER CUP, INCLUDING ADDING A TOUCH

OF SALT SO THAT THE TEA IS NOT SO BITTER. >> WELL, APPARENTLY THE LESSON IN HOW TO BE LESS BITTER DIDN’T SIT WELL. >> MANY BRITS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO SAID THE IDEA WAS SIMPLY APPALLING. SEVERAL POSTS INVOKED THE 1773 BOSTON TEA PARTY THAT IT WAS HIGH TIME AMERICANS STOPPED

RUNNING A GOOD CUP OF TEA WITH SALT WATER. >> IN AN INTERVIEW WITH SKY NEWS, FRANCL SAYS SHE DID HER HOMEWORK READING OVER 500 PAGES OF RESEARCH FOR HER BOOK. >> IT TURNS OUT THAT THIS IS A LONG STANDING TRADITION. THERE IS EVIDENCE AN EIGHTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS FROM CHINA ABOUT ADDING SALT.

BUT THERE’S RECENT RESEARCH THAT SHOWS THAT THE SODIUM IONS THAT HAVE BLOCKED THE BITTER RECEPTORS. YOU CAN SORT OF TELL YOUR TONGUE NOT TO TASTE THE BITTER. >> AT ONE POINT, THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON JUMPED IN TO HAVE FUN WITH THE SPAT, ISSUING A STATEMENT NOTING THAT ADDING

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>> THE NEW PROPOSAL TO BAN KIDS UNDER AGE 16 FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. >> JON STEWART IS BACK. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT HIS RETURN TO LATE NIGHT. >> PLUS, HAVE DIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION GONE TOO FAR . ANOTHER STATE CUTS OFF FUNDING AND LATER PERHAPS NOT SINCE THE

BOSTON TEA PARTY HAVE AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH BEEN THIS AT ODDS OVER TEA OR THE TEA TIME DEBATE. >> THAT’S EVEN FORCED THE U.S. EMBASSY TO GET INVOLVED. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK. THIS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, EVERYONE I’M ANDREA FUJII IN FOR

RHIANNON I’M LIONEL MOISE IN FOR ANDREW. >> WE BEGIN WITH THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT AND NIKKI HALEY’S NEW MESSAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> HER MESSAGE LAST NIGHT BRING IT ON AS HER CAMPAIGN INSISTS SHE HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO STAY IN THE RACE. IN THE MEANTIME, TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING THE FINANCIAL

DONORS WHO ARE SUPPORTING HALEY. >> ABC’S JAY O’BRIEN HAS THE LATEST ON THIS RACE FROM WASHINGTON. JAY GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AS NIKKI HALEY VOWS TO STAY IN THE RACE THROUGH HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S PRIMARY NEXT MONTH, SHE’S ISSUING A CHALLENGE THIS MORNING TO FORMER PRESIDENT

TRUMP AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NIKKI HALEY. THIS MORNING, NIKKI HALEY DEFIED IT ON HER HOME TURF IN SOUTH CAROLINA AS SHE FACES INCREASING PRESSURE TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE . >> BRING IT DONALD, SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT. >> AT A RALLY LAST NIGHT, HALEY

SAYING HER CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN SHE LOST TO DONALD TRUMP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. >> WE HAVE HAD 200,000 DONORS FROM ALL 50 STATES, 95% OF THOSE DONATIONS ARE $200 OR LESS. THIS IS ABOUT REAL AMERICANS. >> BUT HALEY LOSING AT LEAST ONE BIG DONOR FOR NOW. READ HOFFMAN,

THE BILLIONAIRE CO-FOUNDER OF LINKEDIN, SAYING HE’S HOLDING OFF MAKING ANY NEW INVESTMENTS IN HALEY UNTIL HE SEES A PATH FOR HER TO WIN. AND NOW TRUMP, APPEARING TO PRESSURE HALEY DONORS WHILE AGAIN REFERRING TO HER AS BIRD BRAIN. TRUMP POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ANY HALEY DONORS ARE, QUOTE, PERMANENTLY

BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. >> HE SHOULD FEEL THREATENED WITHOUT A DOUBT. LAST NIGHT, HALEY ALSO RESPONDED TO TRUMP’S VICTORY SPEECH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WHEN HE TAUNTED HER ON EVERYTHING FROM HER POLICIES TO THE DRESS SHE WAS WEARING. >> AND WHEN I WATCHED HER AND THE FANCY DRESS THAT PROBABLY WASN’T SO FANCY.

>> DONALD TRUMP GOT OUT THERE AND JUST THREW A TEMPER TANTRUM. THAT’S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE’S INSECURE IN THE MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN ENDORSED YESTERDAY BY THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION AFTER MAKING HISTORY WHEN HE JOINED THEIR PICKET LINES IN SEPTEMBER. >> LOOK, I KEPT MY COMMITMENT. BUT WHILE SPEAKING IN MICHIGAN,

BIDEN ONCE AGAIN INTERRUPTED BY PROTESTERS CALLING FOR A CEASE FIRE IN GAZA. THE SECOND TIME IN TWO DAYS, BIDEN’S SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IN ITS WAR AGAINST HAMAS AMID THAT COUNTRY’S BOMBING OF GAZA, AN UNPOPULAR POSITION WITH MANY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER VOTERS AND ARAB AMERICANS IN THE CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE OF MICHIGAN.

BACK TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL IN THE JEAN CARROLL CASE RESUMES AGAIN TODAY IN NEW YORK, WHERE TRUMP COULD TAKE THE STAND. ANDREA. LOTS TO WATCH. >> JAY. THANK YOU. THE CHAIRMAN OF ARIZONA’S REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS RESIGNED AMID A BRIBERY SCANDAL AND A LEAKED RECORDING. JEFF DEWIT APPEARED TO OFFER

SENATE HOPEFUL KARI LAKE A JOB AND OTHER DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR HER STAYING OUT OF THE SENATE RACE. DEWITT CLAIMS THE AUDIO WAS SELECTIVELY EDITED AND DENIES TRYING TO BRIBE LAKE, WHO IS A PROMINENT SUPPORTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> TURNING NOW TO THE WEATHER, SOME ALREADY FLOODED PARTS OF

THE DEEP SOUTH COULD SEE SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF RAIN TODAY, THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED FROM LOUISIANA TO GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NEAR HOUSTON. LOOK AT THIS. THIS MAN’S SUV SLID OFF A RD INTO RUSHING WATER YESTERDAY. DOZENS OF OTHERS HAD TO BE PULLED FROM FLOODED VEHICLES. WE’LL GET A

CHECK OF YOUR FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> WE TURN NOW TO BOEING, UNDER SCRUTINY FOR ITS QUALITY AND SAFETY. BUT THIS MORNING THERE’S A PLAN TO GET A TROUBLED PLANE BACK IN THE SKY. THREE WEEKS AFTER A DOOR BLEW OFF THIS ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT IN. MID-AIR, GROUNDING ALL BOEING

737 MAX NINES AND CANCELING HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS PER DAY, THERE’S A NEW PLAN TO RETURN THOSE PLANES TO THE SKY. THE FAA IS NOW DETAILING A 12 HOUR INSPECTION PROCESS FOR THE JETS TO GET THEM BACK INTO SERVICE. ALASKA AIRLINES, WITH 65 MAX NINES IN ITS FLEET, SAYS IT

PLANS TO FLY THEM AGAIN AS SOON AS TOMORROW. UNITED AIRLINES EXPECTS TO FLY THEM THIS WEEKEND, BUT IT’S NOT BLUE SKIES JUST YET. FOR BOEING, THE FAA SAYS IT WILL NOT ALLOW AN EXPANSION IN PRODUCTION OR APPROVE ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION LINES FOR THE 737 MAX UNTIL QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES UNCOVERED DURING THIS PROCESS ARE

RESOLVED. BOEING CEO FACING TOUGH QUESTIONS ON CAPITOL HILL WI-FI SAFE PLANES. >> WE DON’T PUT AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. I’M HERE TODAY IN THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENCY, BUT A NEW REPORT FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES CLAIMS THE DOOR PLUG THAT FAILED ON THAT FLIGHT, THIS

MONTH HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR REPAIR, THEN REINSTALLED IMPROPERLY BY BOEING MECHANICS. >> BOEING CEO DUCKING THAT QUESTION WHAT IS YOUR COMMENT TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT IT WAS BOEING NOT REFERRING REPORTERS TO INVESTIGATORS NTSB. >> THANK YOU. >> BOEING CEO IS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO CAPITOL HILL AND WILL FACE A PUBLIC HEARING.

>> THE SUPREME COURT HAS NOW CLEARED THE WAY FOR AN ALABAMA MAN TO BE EXECUTED TODAY BY NITROGEN GAS. THE FIRST EXECUTION USING THIS UNTESTED METHOD. THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION ON CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH, BUT COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE NITROGEN

GAS BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. THE UN CLAIMS THE GAS COULD BE CONSIDERED TORTURE. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH AGAINST SO-CALLED DEI PROGRAMS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. ANOTHER STATE IS LOOKING TO CUT FUNDING FROM THEM, BUT NOT WITHOUT PROTEST.

HERE’S ABC’S DERRICK DENNIS MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION, NOT FOR RACIST LEGISLATION. >> STUDENTS AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SPEAKING OUT AFTER THE STATE’S BOARD OF GOVERNORS, WHICH OVERSEES THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, APPROVED BANNING THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS, OR DEI. >> SO WE’RE HERE TO PROTEST

THAT, SHOW THAT THAT’S NOT POPULAR, LIKE STUDENTS DON’T WANT THIS. >> THE BOARD DEFINING DEI AS ANY PROGRAM, CAMPUS ACTIVITY OR POLICY THAT CLASSIFIES INDIVIDUALS ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER IDENTITY, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. FLORIDA IS AT LEAST THE FIFTH STATE TO TAKE SUCH ACTION, WHILE NEARLY TWO

DOZEN OTHER STATES CONSIDER THE ISSUE, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS LONG CRITICIZED DEI PROGRAMS. >> I THINK THE WAY IT’S ACTUALLY PRACTICED, IT STANDS FOR DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INDOCTRINATION. AND IT’S WRONG. >> OPPONENTS SAY THIS NEW LAW WILL HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT. >> IT INTIMIDATES, THREATENS, AND IN SOME CASES ELIMINATES MULTICOLOR STUDENT CENTERS,

JEWISH STUDENT UNIONS, BLACK STUDENT UNIONS, HISPANIC STUDENT UNIONS, AND OF COURSE, LGBT STUDENT UNIONS. >> THIS REGULATION IS SILENCING PEOPLE FROM BEING THEMSELVES, SILENCING OUR FREEDOMS. THE BACKLASH AGAINST DEI PROGRAMS COMES AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LAST YEAR STRUCK DOWN RACE BASED ADMISSIONS BANS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AS LIONEL ANDREA.

>> ALL RIGHT DEREK. THANK YOU. TURNING NOW TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL HAS DENIED RESPONSIBILITY FOR A DEADLY EXPLOSION AT A UNITED NATIONS FACILITY IN GAZA. THE UN SAYS 800 REFUGEES WERE INSIDE THE SHELTER WHEN THE BUILDING WAS HIT BY A TANK FIRE, KILLING AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE.

THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE ARE SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS UNDERWAY AIMED AT REACHING A CEASE FIRE. >> A NEW REPORT ON RELIGION IN AMERICA REVEALS A NEW FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO A RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. 28% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY HAVE NONE, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY. THEY NOW OUTNUMBER CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS. THE NONES INCLUDE

AGNOSTIC ATHEISTS AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER BUT DON’T ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE HAVE ANOTHER MORNING WITH WIDESPREAD, DENSE FOG, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE PERSISTENT INTO THE DAY FOR MUCH OF THE PLAINS, THE MIDWEST,

PARTS OF THE GULF COAST AND PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. SO SOME TRAVEL DELAYS ARE LIKELY DRENCHING RAIN, EVEN SOME STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FOR THE NEW ORLEANS AREA. WE’VE HAD OVER EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS IN PARTS OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. SOME OF

THE RAIN WILL ALSO BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST ON THURSDAY, BUT TEMPERATURES ARE WAY UP COMPARED TO WHERE WE WERE BACK WHEN WE WERE COLD ON SUNDAY. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, THE POPULAR COUGH MEDICINE NOW BEING RECALLED. >> ALSO AHEAD, THE DISTRACTED DRIVER BLAMED FOR THIS WILD

CRASH ON A HIGHWAY AND A NEW PUSH TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS UNDER Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News

Live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii Charleston, South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland.

Let’s go traveling with the president in Mexico City, wherever the story from the front lines from Southern Israel outside the Gaza Strip in Beirut from the FBI here at 10 Downing Street in London streaming live to you wherever the story is wherever the story is where Over

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The only time I was scared truth and lies the hunted premieres tonight on ABC The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to Mexico to hide getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters

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TO. >> A DISTRACTED DRIVER IS BEING BLAMED FORHIS CRASH. LOOK THERE IN OKLAHOMA THAT SENT A HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER FLYING. THANKFULLY THE OFFICER IS OKAY. ONLY MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED AFTER THE CRASH. >> SOME ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP IS BEING RECALLED BECAUSE OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THE COMPANY SAYS THE PRODUCTS COULD

LEAD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS IN PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. THE RECALL APPLIES TO SEVERAL LOTS OF ROBITUSSIN AND HONEY C F MAX, BOTH A DAY AND NIGHTTIME FORMULAS FOR ADULTS. >> THERE’S A NEW PUSH TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR CHILDREN TO ACCESS SOCIAL MEDIA. LAWMAKERS FROM NEW

YORK TO FLORIDA ARE NOW TAKING NEW ACTION, BUT THEY COULD RUN INTO LEGAL CHALLENGES AS LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA HAVE APPROVED WHAT COULD BECOME THE MOST STRICT CRACKDOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY. A BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE WOULD BAN ANY ONE UNDER AGE 16 FROM SIGNING UP FOR MOST SOCIAL MEDIA

PLATFORMS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY HAVE THEIR PARENTS APPROVAL . >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL FENTANYL, AND EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN PARENT OR ATTUNED TEEN HAS A HARD TIME SHUTTING THE DOOR. >> THE BILL, WHICH PASSED WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, DOES NOT SPECIFY WHICH PLATFORMS WOULD BE AFFECTED, BUT IT TARGETS ANY

COMPANY THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY, ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT, OR USES DESIGN FEATURES LIKE ENDLESS SCROLLING, WHICH CRITICS SAY ENCOURAGES COMPULSIVE USE. >> THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP. >> OPPONENTS SAY THE BILL INFRINGES ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND WILL FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. THE ACLU SAYING THE INTERNET, INCLUDING

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, CONTAINS VAST AMOUNTS OF CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH FOR BOTH ADULTS AND MINORS. MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK CITY, WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP. THE MAYOR HAS NOW DESIGNATED SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. THE CITY’S HEALTH DEPARTMENT ISSUING AN ADVISORY

THAT CITES DECLINING MENTAL HEALTH AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. BUT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES LIKE META, WHICH OWNS INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK, HAVE LONG TOUTED THEIR IMPROVED SECURITY FEATURES AND PARENTAL CONTROLS TO PROTECT CHILDREN. AND SUPPORTERS SAY SOCIAL MEDIA HAS REAL BENEFITS, ALLOWING TEENS TO CONNECT AND FIND PEOPLE WITH LIKE INTERESTS. THE NEW YORK ADVISORY URGES

PARENTS TO DELAY GIVING KIDS ACCESS TO A SMARTPHONE UNTIL 14. MEANWHILE, IN FLORIDA, THE BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE STILL NEEDS APPROVAL FROM THE STATE SENATE AND THE GOVERNOR. >> MORE STATES ARE BANNING PLASTIC BAGS, BUT A NEW STUDY CLAIMS IT MIGHT BE HAVING THE OPPOSITE EFFECT. RESEARCHERS

CLAIM AN AFTER NEW JERSEY BANNED PLASTIC BAGS, PLASTIC CONSUMPTION IN THE STATE ACTUALLY INCREASED DUE IN PART TO THE PRODUCTION OF REUSABLE BAGS, WHICH MANY PEOPLE ARE HOARDING IN THEIR HOMES. STILL SUPPORTERS OF THE BAN SAY THEY HELP ELIMINATE UP TO 300 PLASTIC BAGS PER PERSON PER YEAR. COMING

UP, THE BIG MOVE IN THE NFL JUST DAYS BEFORE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND . BUT FIRST, ACTOR MARK RUFFALO’S STUNNING ACCOUNT OF HOW HE REALIZED HE HAD A Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting

From Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii Charleston, South Carolina on

The 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland. Let’s go traveling with the president in Mexico City, wherever the story from the front lines from Southern Israel outside the Gaza Strip in Beirut from the FBI here at 10 Downing Street in London streaming live to you wherever the story is wherever the story is where Over

The only time I was scared truth and lies the hunted premieres tonight on ABC All right, here we go. Alrighty, let’s do it. Yes, it’s the show America wants and America needs right now. This is what would you do? Let’s go. How are you?

So what will you be watching? Saturday’s on ABC News live. What would you do? I guess I just found out. The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? DRIVERS ARE WARNED TO TURN AROUND. >> DON’T DROWN. BUT THIS TESLA DRIVER OBVIOUSLY NEVER GOT THAT

ADVICE. THIS HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK DURING THE HISTORIC FLOODS IN SAN DIEGO. SOMEHOW, THOUGH, THAT TESLA MADE IT, BUT NOT SO LUCKY WAS THIS DRIVER ON TOP OF HER OVERTURNED VEHICLE, WHICH WAS SWEPT AWAY AS SHE TRIED TO CROSS A FLOODED CREEK NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. A HELICOPTER CREW SAFELY RESCUED HER.

>> LUCKILY, SHE WAS RESCUED. ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IS OPENING UP ABOUT BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN TUMOR. MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO. HE SHARED HIS STORY ON A RECENT PODCAST, SAYING HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AFTER HE HAD A DREAM ABOUT HAVING A TUMOR. AND HE WAS RIGHT. DOCTOR SAID IT WAS

BENIGN, BUT IT WAS THE SIZE OF A GOLF BALL. HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT AT THE TIME, SO HE WAITED TO TELL HER UNTIL AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH. AND THEN HE HAD SURGERY. THE TYPE OF TUMOR THAT MARK RUFFALO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IS CALLED A VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA. >> AND SO PEOPLE WITH VESTIBULAR

SCHWANNOMAS WILL OFTEN HAVE SYMPTOMS LIKE HEARING LOSS, RINGING IN THE EARS, DISCOMFORT OR PRESSURE IN THE EAR, AND DIZZINESS OR VERTIGO. >> THE LEFT SIDE OF RUFFALO’S FACE WAS ACTUALLY PARALYZED FOR A TIME, AND HE REMAINS DEAF IN ONE EAR. >> NOW TO FOOTBALL AND THE BIG NEWS BEFORE NFL CHAMPIONSHIP

WEEKEND IS OUR DANNY NEW, WHO DID THAT? >> HE DID THAT. HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH HELPED MICHIGAN WIN ITS FIRST TITLE IN 26 YEARS, BUT NOW, JUST TWO WEEKS LATER, HE’S OFF TO DO THAT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. >> MOMENTS AGO, JIM HARBAUGH AS ESPN’S ADAM SCHEFTER REPORTED, HARBAUGH HAS AGREED WITH THE LOS

ANGELES CHARGERS ON A FIVE YEAR DEAL, MARKING HIS RETURN TO THE NFL AFTER LAST COACHING THE SAN FRANCISCO 49 ERS IN 2014. >> THE NCAA BIG TEN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE HAS SUSPENDED. >> OF COURSE, THIS COMES TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BIG TEN SUSPENDED HARBAUGH FOR THREE GAMES IN THE WAKE OF MICHIGAN’S

ALLEGED SIGN STEALING SCANDAL, WHERE A FORMER STAFFER WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A SCHEME TO VIDEOTAPE FUTURE TEAM OPPONENTS. HARBAUGH COULD HAVE FACED MAJOR NCAA VIOLATIONS IF HE HAD STAYED. >> IT JUST FEELS SO DANG GOOD. >> BUT HEY, IF YOUR CHARGER SUPER FAN MARY ANN DOE, WHOM YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM HER VIRAL

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There’s a young girl running around here screaming and there’s some guy trying to follow her. The 911 call is a crucial piece of evidence unraveling the mystery could four murders on Long Island be the work of a serial killer. They start find more bodies. Suddenly. It’s an arm a leg

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ABC News live Prime will take you there streaming free on ABC News live. Reporting from The Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m Olivia Reuben, wherever The Story Goes, we’ll take you there. You’re screaming. ABC News live. GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE AND

WE BEGIN WITH THE RETURN OF JON STEWART. YEAH HE’S BACK AT THE DAILY SHOW. >> HE’LL BE HOSTING MONDAY NIGHTS ON COMEDY CENTRAL THROUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. STEWART, AS YOU KNOW, HOSTED THE DAILY SHOW UNTIL 2015, MAKING IT AULTURAL PHENOMENON. THE SHOW HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF OTHER COMEDIANS, INCLUDING

STEPHEN COLBERT AND STEVE CARELL, AND LISTS SAY ELECTION SEASON IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A RETURN. >> JON STEWART AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS REALLY, I THINK PRESS VIEWERS TO BE MORE SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT, AND TO KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT HOW THEY WERE

GETTING THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD. >> STEWART’S FIRST SHOW BACK IS FEBRUARY 12TH. AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST HAS SPARKED AN INTERNATIONAL UPROAR OVER T, A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR HERE IN THE U.S. WROTE A BOOK ADVISING THE BRITISH TO ADD SALT TO MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA, SAYING IT HELPS REDUCE THE BITTERNESS.

>> BUT THE FOLKS ACROSS THE POND ARE UP IN ARMS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON EVEN STEPPED IN TO SAY, ADDING SALT IS NOT OFFICIAL U.S. POLICY. IT DID TASTE PRETTY GOOD, BUT THIS MORNING, NEXT, AN UNUSUAL ITEM FOR SALE AT HOME DEPOT. AND IT’S APPARENTLY FOR YOUR HOME DECOR.

>> IT IS ALL INSPIRED BY BRAVEHEART, THE 1995 MOVIE STARRING MEL GIBSON AS SCOTTISH HERO WILLIAM WALLACE, BILL. LOVE IT OR NOT, HOME DEPOT NOW SELLS THE WILLIAM WALLACE MEDIEVAL SWORD. >> YEAH, THE ONLINE COMMENTS CALL IT EFFECTIVE AGAINST LANDLORDS A WAY BETTER INVESTMENT THAN RENT. ANOTHER SAYS THIS PIECE OF STEEL SAVED

MY LIFE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF IN 1300 A.D, MANY USES THE PRICE $50. NEXT THE FATHER AND SON GETTING ATTENTION FOR THEIR DUETS. >> YEAH, THEY LOVE TO SING TO THE BEE GEES. TAKE A LISTEN. I REALLY NEED TO LEARN CAUSE, WELL , LIVING IN A WORLD OF FOOLS. >> BREAK.

>> HE’S GETTING INTO IT. GABRIEL BOUGHT THAT MICROPHONE FROM A MUSIC STORE IN CHICAGO BECAUSE HIS SIX YEAR OLD SON LOVES TO SING THEIR VIDEOS NOW, WARMING HEARTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY VERY GOOD. GOOD TO. >> YES. >> ALL RIGHT. FINALLY, A DOORMAN IN NEW YORK CITY IS TAKING

SOCIAL MEDIA BY STORM THANKS TO HIS UNIQUE APPROACH, GREETING RESIDENTS IN THE BUILDING AS THEY RETURN, GETTING THEM TO BUST A MOVE IN THE LOBBY. WHY DOES HE DO IT? HE SAYS HE JUST LOVES HIS PEOPLE, I LOVE IT. >> TOP HEADLINES Friday night there are millions of people following you on

Social media yet. You were convicted of helping to kill your mom her entire life had been alive the feeding tube the scars so many medications. It was a brutal death 14 stab wounds to the back. What will Gypsy Rose reveal? Why reveal it now? Why

Didn’t you say anything about it? Then the 2020 Deborah Roberts interview. Wow. Wow, Friday night at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC All right, here we go. Alrighty, let’s do it. Yes, it’s the show America wants and America needs right now. This is what would you do? Let’s go. How are you?

So what will you be watching? Saturday’s on ABC News live. What would you do? I guess I just found out. The what would you do marathon 2:00 to 6:00 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live? The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects

This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu There’s a young girl running around here screaming and there’s some guy trying to follow her. The 911 call is a crucial piece of evidence unraveling the mystery could four murders on Long Island be the work of

A serial killer. They start find more bodies. Suddenly. It’s an arm a leg what is going on here and never once feared for my life when I met him it was the only time I was scared truth and lies the hunted premieres tonight on ABC >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES.

NIKKI HALEY IS RALLYING SUPPORTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, SAYING SHE’S RAISED $1 MILLION SINCE HER LOSS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND SHE ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OF HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM . TRUMP IS NOW THREATENING TO BAN HALEY’S DONORS FROM WHAT HE CALLS THE MAGA CAMP. >> A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY AROUND

PHILADELPHIA FOR MURDER SUSPECT SHANE PRIOR. HE ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY AT A PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. MEANWHILE, IN ARKANSAS, AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR TWO INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM A DETENTION CENTER, INCLUDING A POTENTIAL MURDER SUSPECT, THE MAKER OF RING DOORBELLS SAYS IT WILL STOP TAKING REQUESTS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENTS WHO WANT TO USE

VIDEO CAPTURED BY THEIR DEVICES FOR THEIR INVESTIGATION. >> RING HAS BEEN FACING CRITICISM FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES ALEC BALDWIN IS REQUESTING A SPEEDY TRIAL AS HE FACES INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A MOVIE CREW MEMBER. >> HIS LAWYERS SAY A SPEEDY TRIAL WILL HELP MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION IN TODAY’S WEATHER.

SINISE IS PAYING FOR THE SEVEN MEN TO TRAVEL TO D.C. VERY WELL DESERVED. >> THAT’S WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> HAVE A GREAT DAY AND IT’S THURSDAY, JANUARY 25TH. WE KNOW WHERE GOP VOTERS STAND, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY? >> WE START HERE.

>> PRESIDENT BIDEN READIES FOR AN ELECTION FIGHT THIS NOVEMBER. THEY ARE OFFICIALLY IN GENERAL ELECTION MODE. WHY DEMOCRATS WANT BIDEN TO SQUARE OFF WITH DONALD TRUMP. THE U.S. PLAYS A GAME OF WHACK A MOLE WITH MILITANTS IN THE RED SEA. >> IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE THAT THE WAR TEND TO SPILL OVER

TO OTHER PARTS OF THE REGION. IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER IS WARNING THE U.S. OF A WIDER REGIONAL WAR. AND A SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE BORN DEAF MUST LEARN TO PERFORM. GENE THERAPY IS HELPING SOME KIDS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> AND FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”

IMAM FLAHERTY. >> GOOD MORNING. BREADS OUT TODAY, BUT I’VE GOT YOU COVERED IN THE MEANTIME. >> SO THIS WEEK, I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT MUCH OF THE NATION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON A SINGLE QUESTION WHEN IT COMES TO U.S. POLITICS. WHO DO REPUBLICAN VOTERS WANT

TO SEE ON THE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER? THE ANSWER, IT SEEMS, IS DONALD TRUMP, AT LEAST AFTER GOP VOTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RALLIED AROUND HIM AS THE NEXT CANDIDATE. OF COURSE, NIKKI HALEY SAYS THE RACE IS NOT OVER YET, BUT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY JUST HALF OF THE EQUATION BY NOVEMBER.

THE OTHER HALF IS PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND HOW HE SEES 2024. TO CATCH US UP TO SPEED ON WHAT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS UP TO. LET’S BRING IN ABC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS. KAREN, WHAT WAS THE REACTION FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN ON DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE? >> IT’S GAME ON.

THAT WAS THEIR REACTION THAT NOW THIS IS REAL AND IT IS ALL HANDS ON DECK. AND IT’S THE GENERAL ELECTION. THEY ARE OFFICIALLY GENERAL ELECTION MODE. THE PRESIDENT PUT OUT A STATEMENT ON TUESDAY NIGHT AFTER THE RESULTS WERE IN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND HE SAID IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT DONALD

TRUMP WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. AND IT WAS ALSO NOTABLE IN THAT STATEMENT THAT HE MADE AN APPEAL TO INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS WHO HE SAID MIGHT NOT LIKE WHAT THEY’RE HEARING AND SEEING FROM DONALD TRUMP. JOIN US ON THE OTHER SIDE. THAT’S WHAT HE’S GOING TO HAVE

TO DO OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS TO TRY AND WIN THE ELECTION. YOU KNOW, MAKE THOSE PITCHES TO THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE, WHILE ALSO SAYING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY DEEPLY UNSURE ABOUT THIS RACE RIGHT NOW, THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE, BUT THEY ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT ANOTHER

TRUMP PRESIDENCY. AND SO THIS IS IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE THIS IS THE REMATCH THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTED. >> I MEAN, DOES IT IS IT HELPFUL TO MOVE NIKKI HALEY OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE SHE IS MORE POPULAR WITH MODERATES? >> I LOOK BACK AND WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED

HIS REELECTION, HE WAS ASKED BY OUR COLLEAGUE MARY BRUCE, IF HE WOULD BE RUNNING IF DONALD TRUMP WASN’T RUNNING, DID DONALD TRUMP’S DECISION TO RUN AFFECT YOURS? WOULD YOU BE RUNNING IF HE WASN’T? >> YEAH, I THINK I STILL WOULD BE RUNNING FRESH THEN. SEVEN MONTHS LATER, BACK IN

DECEMBER AND AT A FUNDRAISER, THE PRESIDENT SAID IF TRUMP WASN’T RUNNING, I’M NOT SURE I’D BE RUNNING. NOW, YOU KNOW, THE CAMPAIGN SAYS DON’T MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT. >> BUT IT’S VERY CLEAR THAT SO MUCH OF WHAT IS MOTIVATING PRESIDENT FOR A REELECTION RUN IS THE THREAT OF DONALD TRUMP.

>> DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT. YOUR FREEDOM IS ON THE BALLOT. >> AND SO FOR THE CAMPAIGN, THIS IS THE MATCHUP THAT THEY WANTED BECAUSE, ONE, THEY KNOW THEY’VE ALREADY BEATEN HIM. AND TWO, WHEN YOU ARE AN INCOME MAN WHO HAS POLL NUMBERS LIKE JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW HOVERING

AT BEST IN THE UPPER 30S FOR A JOB APPROVAL RATING, THE BEST OPTION YOU CAN PROBABLY HAVE FOR A REELECTION BATTLE IS TO MAKE IT A CHOICE BETWEEN YOU AND ANOTHER GUY WHO IS SO WELL KNOWN TO AMERICANS AND SO POLARIZING. SO THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN VERY DEEPLY DEMONIZE A CANDIDATE

LIKE DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE AMERICANS KNOW HIM SO WELL. THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN WANTS HIM TO BE GETTING ATTENTION. THEY WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING. AND IF THEY’RE NOT HEARING IT DIRECTLY FROM DONALD TRUMP, THEY’RE GOING TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT HE IS SAYING. >> THESE ARE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

WHICH STRIPPED AWAY DONALD TRUMP. AND BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP, DOCTORS ARE FLEEING THEIR HOME STATES, SETTING UP PRACTICES IN OTHER STATES, WHETHER IT’S THE PRESIDENT TALKING ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP IS BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE AND BEING PROUD OF HIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR DOING THAT. THEY WANT THAT IN

AMERICANS HEADS NOW OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS. >> SO WHAT DOES THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SEE AS THE BIG ISSUES, THOUGH? >> ABORTION RIGHTS, HE IS GOING TO BE PRESSING THAT. WHAT’S HIS STRATEGY HERE? >> ABORTION IS GOING TO BE VERY BIG BECAUSE THINK ABOUT WHO THAT MATTERS TO.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE POLLS OVER THE LAST AND A HALF SINCE THE DOBBS DECISION, YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL ELECTIONS, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS IN THIS OFF YEAR RACES, WOMEN, YOUNG VOTERS WERE COMING OUT AND VOTING ON THAT ISSUE. THOSE ARE GROUPS THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL NEED TO WIN REELECTION.

SO YOU’RE GOING TO HEAR THEM TALKING ABOUT THAT A LOT OVER THE NEXT TEN MONTHS. THE VICE PRESIDENT THIS WEEK LAUNCHED A REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM TOUR THAT’S GOING TO TAKE HER ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HEARING STORIES AND ALSO REALLY LAUNCHING BROADSIDES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP NOW THAT DOCTORS COULD BE THROWN IN PRISON FOR

CARING FOR THEIR PATIENTS. THAT YOUNG WOMEN TODAY HAVE FEWER RIGHTS THAN THEIR MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS . HOW DARE YOU? SO THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THEY FEEL THEY HAVE TRACTION ON AND IT’S SOMETHING THAT IS, IN THEIR VIEW, VERY BLACK AND WHITE ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID

AND COULD DO WITH THE SECOND TERM PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS. THESE ARE THINGS THAT MATTER. SO MUCH TO PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN’T PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE IN THE WORLD FOR DRUGS THAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS HAVE ALREADY HELPED CREATE. >> THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO BRING DOWN

THE COST OF INSULIN, BRING DOWN THE COST OF DRUGS FOR SENIORS. PRICE NEGOTIATION THROUGH MEDICARE, THE IT ACTUALLY HAS REAL IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S WALLETS THAT JOE BIDEN DOESN’T REALLY GET CREDIT FOR RIGHT NOW. ALSO, THIS WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED THAT THERE WAS A RECORD BREAKING 21.3 MILLION

PEOPLE WHO HAD SIGNED UP FOR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE THROUGH THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, OBAMACARE DURING THE LAST OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD. AND THE WHITE HOUSE WAS TOUTING THAT YESTERDAY, SAYING IT’S A BIG DEAL. PEOPLE ARE PAYING LESS FOR THEIR COVERAGE. THEY ALSO WILL SAY, LOOK, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S OUT THERE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL,

EVEN JUST LAST WEEK SAYING HE WANTS TO GET RID OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. HE’S STILL CALLING IT A CATASTROPHE. SO THAT’S ANOTHER CONTRAST THAT THEY WANT TO MAKE ON THESE ISSUES THAT THEY SAY REALLY MATTER TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SITTING AROUND THEIR KITCHEN TABLE. >> AND PRESIDENT BIDEN ALSO GETTING THE UNION

VOTE YESTERDAY, THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS ENDORSING HIM. HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THAT? >> THAT’S NOT NEW FOR HIM. IT’S NOT. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GROUP THAT HAS SUPPORTED HIM BEFORE. THIS IS AN ENDORSEMENT THAT THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN HOPING FOR AND ANGLING FOR. >> HE HAS A BIG SUPPORTER

OF THE UAW, OF COURSE. REMEMBER LAST YEAR HE APPEARED ON THE PICKET LINE, MADE THAT STOP WITH STRIKING AUTOWORKERS IN MICHIGAN. >> AND HE TOLD THEM AFTER THE LABOR DISPUTE WAS RESOLVED THAT HE HOPED THAT THEY REMEMBERED, THAT HE HOPED THAT THEY REMEMBERED HIS SUPPORT COME ELECTION SEASON, AND THEY DID.

>> THOSE ARE ENDORSEMENTS MUST BE EARNED. >> JOE BIDEN HAS EARNED IT. AND IT WAS A VERY LIVELY ENDORSEMENT FROM THE UAW PRESIDENT SHAWN FAIN, WHO SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE’S A CONTRAST IN THIS ELECTION THAT THERE’S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES RIGHT NOW. >> DONALD TRUMP IS A SCAB.

>> IT’S NOT THAT EVERYBODY IN THE UAW IS GOING TO VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN. I MEAN, THAT’S NOT HOW UNION ENDORSEMENTS WORK. BUT, YOU KNOW, A SIZABLE PORTION WILL IF SHAWN FAIN IS SAYING LIKE, YOU KNOW, DO THIS, BUT ALSO GETTING THEM OUT TO VOTE, REALLY MOTIVATING THEM

TO GO AND CAST A BALLOT. THE OTHER THING, TOO, AND IS JUST THE ORGANIZING, LIKE WHAT THEY CAN DO IN TERMS OF ON THE GROUND WORD GETTING OUT A MESSAGE IN A PLACE LIKE MICHIGAN THAT WAS IMPORTANT LAST SUMMER WHEN THE PRESIDENT GOT THE AFL-CIO ENDORSEMENT, TOO. >> AND THAT’S, YOU KNOW, TEN,

12 MILLION UNION WORKERS THAT WERE PART OF THAT. >> IT TAPPED INTO SOMETHING THAT GIVES THE CAMPAIGN A LITTLE SOMETHING ON THE SIDE THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO DO BECAUSE THOSE UNIONS CAN GO OUT AND DO SOME OF THAT ON THE GROUND WORK IN ORGANIZING FOR THEM. >> SO, KAREN, WHAT WOULD

YOU SAY IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE THEN GOING FORWARD? >> I MEAN, HE’S THAT YOU MENTIONED HIS LOWER POLL NUMBERS. HOW DOES THE OVERCOME THAT? YEAH, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THE POLLS RIGHT NOW, IT’S A REALLY CLOSE RACE AND YOU LOOK AT SOME STATE POLLS IN THE KEY BATTLEGROUND

STATES AND THE PRESIDENT’S TRAILING. >> THEY HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO. THEY HAVE TO CONVINCE AMERICANS THAT THE ECONOMY IS IN GOOD SHAPE. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN INDICATORS THAT SAY IT IS, BUT PEOPLE AREN’T FEELING THAT RIGHT NOW. AND THAT’S SUCH AN IMPORTANT

THING IN AN ELECTION YEAR, IF PEOPLE AREN’T FEELING IT, THAT COULD DRIVE THEIR VOTE. THE CAMPAIGN SAID THIS WEEK THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY’RE GOING TO BE VERY FOCUSED ON PRESENTING THE CHOICE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP. >> BUT THEY KNOW THAT THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK VERY HARD.

>> AND IN FACT, ONE OF THEIR TOP CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS SAID THEY’RE RUNNING LIKE THEY’RE BEHIND, WHICH THEY ARE IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE POLLS. BUT THAT’S CERTAINLY THE WAY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO APPROACH THIS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY TIGHT RACE. >> THAT’S ABC’S KAREN TRAVERS.

KAREN, THANKS SO MUCH. THANKS. >> END. NEXT UP ON “START HERE”, MISSILES KEEP FLYING IN THE RED SEA. SO Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there streaming free on ABC

News live. Inside the pen is a slice of human brain. I’ve never seen a place like this in my life. YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> BY NOW YOU MAY HAVE PICKED UP ON A PATTERN IN THE MIDDLE EAST IRANIAN BACKED MILITANTS

IN YEMEN, KNOWN AS THE HOUTHIS, LAUNCHED MISSILES AND ROCKETS AT COMMERCIAL SHIPS IN THE RED SEA, SOME OF THEM WITH U.S. FLAGS. >> THEN THE U.S. STRIKES BACK. >> IN ONE CASE, U.S. AND BRITISH FIGHTER JETS DESTROYED AN UNDERGROUND BUNKER AND OTHER SITES WHICH U.S. OFFICIALS CELEBRATED AS A MAJOR SUCCESS.

>> INITIAL REPORTS FROM THE PENTAGON INDICATE THAT ALL THE TARGETS WERE HIT AND THAT THEY WILL HELP FURTHER DEGRADE THE OFFENSIVE CAPABILITIES. >> BUT APPARENTLY, THE HOUTHIS DIDN’T GET THE MESSAGE BECAUSE YESTERDAY THEY LAUNCHED YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON A U.S. FLAGSHIP. TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE AND WHY THIS MATTERS,

LET’S BRING IN ABC’S SENIOR PENTAGON REPORTER LUIS MARTINEZ LOUIS. YET ANOTHER HOUTHI ATTACK YESTERDAY ON A U.S. SHIP. >> WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE AT THE PENTAGON? WELL, AND THE RESPONS HERE WAS ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE CAN SHOOT DOWN ANYTHING YOU SEND THEIR WAY. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. THIS WAS AN AMERICAN DESTROYER

THAT HAPPENED TO BE VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS CONTAINERSHIP WAS. AND IT BROUGHT DOWN TWO OF THOSE THREE MISSILES THAT WERE INBOUND FOR THE CONTAINER SHIP. NOW, THAT THIRD MISSILE LANDED IN THE OCEAN. SO IT HARMLESS A SITUATION. BUT ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO POINT OUT IS THAT THIS WAS

THE FIRST ATTACK OF THIS KIND IN MORE THAN FIVE DAYS. SO WHAT WE HAD SEEN PRIOR TO THAT WAS THIS BACK AND FORTH WHERE UNITED STATES WAS CARRYING OUT THESE PREEMPTIVE AIRSTRIKES AND THEN THE HOUTHIS WOULD LAUNCH AGAIN AND, THEN BACK AND FORTH. AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAD

THIS FIVE DAY GAP. AND YOU HAVE TO WONDER, OKAY, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? DOES THAT MEAN IT WAS PREEMPTIVE STRIKES WHEN THOSE MISSILES WERE BEING TARGETED RIGHT THERE ON THEIR LAUNCHERS? DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE UNITED STATES. EXACTLY DID WHAT ITS WANTED, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY TO PREEMPT ANY STRIKES TAKING PLACE?

DOES IT MEAN THAT POTENTIALLY THE HOUTHIS ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE’VE CONSTANTLY HEARD FROM U.S. OFFICIALS IS THAT THE UNITED STATES RETALIATORY STRIKES, AGAIN, WITH OUR PARTNERS, WAS ALL INTENDED TO ESSENTIALLY DEGRADE THE HOUTHIS CAPABILITY TO DO THESE STRIKES, HAVE STOCKPILES

OF ADVANCED WEAPONS PROVIDED TO THEM. IN MANY CASES ENABLED TO THEM, IN MANY CASES BY IRAN. AND WE ARE TAKING DOWN TAKING OUT THESE STOCKPILES. SO NOW WE’VE GOT THIS FIVE DAY GAP. THIS, OF COURSE, IS ONE INCIDENT. NOW, THE BIG QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TODAY. THESE RESUMED THEIR DAILY

STRIKES OR THEY STEP BACK. >> IS THE PENTAGON BEING FORTHCOMING ON ANY U.S. INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON THE HOUTHIS ABILITY TO KEEP STRIKING? >> I MEAN, WE’RE JUST GOING TO KEEP DOING THIS. >> WELL, I THINK THE U.S. PRESENCE IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON. AND THE U.S. SHIPS ARE GOING

TO STAY THERE. THE CAPABILITY IS GOING TO STAY THERE. AND IT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE IF YOU NEED TO RESTORE ESSENTIALLY CONFIDENCE IN THE SHIPPING LANES, THEY NEED TO STAY THERE BECAUSE THE SHIPPING COMPANIES NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY AROUND SOUTH

AFRICA IN ORDER TO MAKE IT BACK TO EUROPE. AND SO I THINK THE U.S. PRESENCE IS GOING TO BE THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE HOUTHIS WILL GET THE MESSAGE? >> IT’S ALL A MATTER OF PERCEPTION. OBVIOUSLY UNDERSCORES THAT THE HOUTHIS STILL INTEND TO CONDUCT

THESE ATTACKS, WHICH MEANS WE’RE OBVIOUSLY STILL GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT, TO HAVE TO DO TO TO PROTECT THAT SHIP. I THINK THAT THESE U.S. STRIKES ESSENTIALLY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, THOUGH, IS RAISE THE PROFILE THAT THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ALLIES ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT THE SHIPPING LANES REMAIN OPEN.

>> WELL, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IRAN IS BANKROLLING ALL OF THESE ATTACKS. THEY’RE BEHIND ALL OF THESE PROXY MILITANT GROUPS. THEY HAVE DEEP POCKETS. SO ABC NEWS GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT THIS, AND HE TIED IT DIRECTLY TO U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL, THE WAR IN GAZA.

DO U.S. OFFICIALS SEE IT THAT WAY? DO THEY SEE THESE TWO EVENTS BEING LINKED? >> YOU KNOW, AND THAT’S THE REALLY BIG QUESTION HERE, BECAUSE THE IRANIANS HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC. THOSE THEIR THE HOUTHIS HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC. THOSE IRAQI MILITIAS HAVE BEEN VERY PUBLIC, THAT THIS IS ALL

DIRECTLY LINKED TO WHAT’S GOING ON BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS IN GAZA. >> THE AGAINST GAZA SHOULD BE STOPPED. AND IF IT IS TO STOP, THEN THE SECURITY WILL BE RESTORED IN THE RED SEA. THIS IS WHAT THE YEMENIS HAVE TOLD US. >> UNITED STATES OFFICIALS DO NOT SEE THAT AT ALL.

THEY’VE BEEN VEHEMENT THAT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT SITUATION. AND I THINK THAT’S A LITTLE BIT OF THEM TRYING TO CONTAIN THE SITUATION. RIGHT, BECAUSE I THINK THEY REALLY KNOW THAT THERE IS A RISK THAT IF ESPECIALLY COUNTRIES LIKE IRAN, IF THEY MAKE LINKAGES TO WHAT’S

GOING ON THERE WITH ISRAEL, THAT THAT COULD BROADEN THE CONFLICT. SO THE LANGUAGE THAT THEY USE ALWAYS THAT, NOPE, THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT’S GOING ON IN GAZA. >> THE BEST SOLUTION TO THIS SITUATION NOT ESCALATING IS FOR THE HOUTHIS TO STOP THESE ATTACKS. THEY POINT OUT THAT THESE

ARE TERRORIST ATTACKS BEING CARRIED OUT AGAINST SHIPPING IN THE RED SEA. THEY POINT OUT THAT THE IRAQI MILITIAS HAVE BEEN A CONSTANT THREAT TO U.S. FORCES INSIDE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA WHEN THEY TARGET THESE U.S. BASES. BUT THE REALITY IS, IF YOU LOOK BACK AT THE NUMBER OF ATTACKS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE

MID-OCTOBER, SHORTLY AFTER ISRAEL WENT INTO GAZA, THESE NUMBERS HAVE JUST SPIKED THROUGH THE ROOF. >> IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE THAT THE WAR CAN IS SPILLOVER TO OTHER PARTS OF THE REGION. IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT IT WOULD WIDEN. >> SO THE QUESTION REALLY IS, IS IT REALLY INTENDED TO BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

IS IT TRULY SUPPORT FOR WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HAMAS OR IS IT MORE JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO CREATE WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAUSING A LINE ACTIVITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST? AND I THINK THAT’S WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO HEAR EXACTLY WHAT THE IRANIAN VIEWPOINT IS. THEY WE ALWAYS HAVE TO TAKE IT

WITH A GRAIN OF SALT BECAUSE YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE IRANIAN INTENTIONS ARE, ESPECIALLY IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS. >> WELL, AND I WANT TO JUST TAKE A BIG STEP BACK. YOU KNOW, WHY DOES ALL OF THIS MATTER? IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW IS A TINDERBOX

AND THAT THE U.S. IS TRYING TO HANDLE THIS VERY DELICATELY. IS THE CONCERN THAT THIS WILL ESCALATE? >> I THINK THE CONCERN OF ESCALATION IS EVERYWHERE. I THINK EVERYBODY’S BEING REALISTIC THAT WHEN YOU’RE SEEING MISSILES FLYING EVERYWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW, THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST TEN RETALIATORY

STRIKES AGAINST THE HOUTHIES AND THE NOW THE IRAQI FORCES. I MEAN, THAT’S THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST THAT’S SHOWING US FIREPOWER AT ITS BEST. BUT IT’S ALSO SHOWING YOU THAT THERE’S A LOT GOING ON OVER THERE AND IT’S A VERY RISKY SITUATION. >> SO I KNOW THAT NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY PROFESSIONALS

ARE LOOKING AT WHAT’S GOING ON OVER THERE RIGHT NOW WITH CONCERN. >> BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TO PROJECT THIS REALLY STRONG IMAGE, THE FACT THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THERE AND THAT IT CAN ENSURE SECURITY. AND I THINK THAT’S THE MESSAGE THAT THEY’RE TRYING TO CONVEY.

>> WELL, AND I THINK A LOT OF AMERICANS HERE. OKAY. YEMENI REBELS, HOUTHIES, WHO ARE THEY? >> THEY DON’T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE U.S. MILITARY. BUT WHEN YOU KNOW THAT THEY’RE BEING BANKROLLED BY IRAN AND THAT IRAN IS ALSO SEEKING A NUCLEAR WEAPON, I THINK IT JUST BECOMES A VERY DIFFERENT STORY.

THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, LUIS MARTINEZ AT THE PENTAGON. THANKS, ED. OVERNIGHT, RESEARCHERS PUBLISHED PROMISING NEW FIGURES THAT COULD GIVE HOPE TO MILLIONS OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WHO ARE BORN DEAF . RESEARCHERS FROM MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL IN BOSTON AND CHINA’S FUDAN UNIVERSITY SAY THEY’VE FOUND A NEW WAY TO USE GENE

THERAPY TO RESTORE HEARING TO SEVERAL CHILDREN ENROLLED IN AN EARLY CLINICAL TRIAL. MIGHT LEARN BETTER BY FIVE. >> NOW, IN A VIDEO FROM ONE OF THE PATIENTS, A MOTHER IS TEACHING HER TODDLER TO SAY, MOM, DAD, GRANDMA AND GRANDPA. AND THAT YEAH, REMEMBER, THIS CHILD WAS BORN DEAF AND THIS

WAS HUGE NEWS BECAUSE UNTIL NOW, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A SURGICAL WAY TO CORRECT AN INNER EAR THAT ISN’T FUNCTIONING RIGHT. SO TO CATCH US UP ON THIS DEVELOPMENT, LET’S BRING IN ABC’S SONY SALZMAN WHO HELPS TO LEAD OUR MEDICAL UNIT, SONY. LET’S JUST START WITH WHAT IS GENE THERAPY?

DO YOU ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR DNA? YEAH, AND IT IS EXACTLY THAT. GENE THERAPY IS A RELATIVELY NEW TYPE OF THERAPY WHERE SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO GO IN AND LITERALLY CHANGE A PERSON’S DNA. SO FAR, THIS HAS BEEN USED PRIMARILY FOR DISEASES THAT ARE GENETIC DISEASES. THERE ARE FDA APPROVED GENE

THERAPIES FOR A RARE INHERITED FORM OF BLINDNESS, FOR EXAMPLE. AND RECENTLY THERE WERE TWO MAJOR APPROVALS FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE, WHICH IS CAUSED BY GENETIC MUTATIONS. SO IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, FOR HEARING LOSS, THIS NEWS THAT WE’RE HEARING FROM OVERNIGHT, WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE DONE IS THEY’VE GONE IN AND THEY’VE DELIVERED,

INJECT ACTION INTO THE INNER EAR OF CHILDREN WITH A HERITABLE FORM OF HEARING LOSS. SO A TYPE OF HEARING LOSS THAT IS CAUSED BY A FAULTY GENE OR MUTATIONS TO A SPECIFIC GENE . AND WHAT THE STUDY SHOWED IS THAT IN THESE SIX CHINESE CHILDREN THAT WERE GIVEN THIS

TREATMENT, FIVE OF THEM HAD THEIR HEARING RESTORED. AND SO FAR, THE SAFETY PROFILE SEEMS TO LOOK GOOD, THE SCIENTISTS SAY. WELL, AND I SAW SOME REPORTING LAST FALL AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA. THERE WAS AN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO ACTUALLY WAS TREATED WITH THIS. >> IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE’RE

ON THE CUSP OF A JUST, YOU KNOW, A VERY BIG LEAP IN SCIENCE HERE TO BE ABLE TO TREAT THIS. >> HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THIS? >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL AND IT’S PART OF A KIND OF GROWING SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS OF GENE THERAPY.

NOW, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS HEARING THERAPY, THERE ARE SEVERAL GROUPS ACROSS THE WORLD THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS. AND WE’RE JUST NOW STARTING TO LEARN SOME OF THESE VERY PROMISING, VERY PRELIMINARY RESULTS. NOW, THE 11 YEAR OLD BOY YOU MENTIONED HE HAD NEVER BEEN HEARING BEFORE, HE WAS TREATED

HERE IN THE U.S. AT THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, ACTUALLY FLOWN IN FOR THIS TREATMENT WITH HIS PARENT. >> THIS WILL BE A GENE THERAPY PROGRAM THAT HE’S BEEN. >> AND THIS BOY HAD SEVERE HEARING LOSS DEAF IN BOTH EARS, WAS GIVEN THIS INJECTION IN THE INNER EAR.

>> AND THEN AFTER THE INJECTION ,THE RESEARCHERS PERFORMED HEARING TESTS AND THE BOY WAS ABLE TO HEAR. >> YES, THAT’S IF YOU HEARD THAT. >> OH, MY GOD. PRETTY COOL, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNTS THAT WE HAVE, HAS BEEN ABLE TO KIND OF HAVE A LOT OF HEARING RESTORED. AND IN FACT, ANECDOTALLY, WHEN

THESE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TREATED. MUCH OF THE REPORTING AFTERWARDS SUGGESTS THAT THEY FEEL THAT THE WORLD IS ALMOST TOO NOISY, IT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE FOR THEM TO GET USED TO THIS NEW HEARING THAT THEY HAVE AFTER THESE TREATMENTS. >> WELL, AND WITHIN THE DEAF COMMUNITY, WE HAVE HEARD,

YOU KNOW, AND ADVOCATES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES SAYING THAT DEAFNESS NECESSARILY SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CURED. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU’VE HEARD IN REACTION TO THIS THERAPY? >> I THINK THAT’S A REALLY INTERESTING POINT TO BRING UP IN TERMS OF GENE THERAPY IN GENERAL. SO THERE ARE MANY DISEASES FOR

WHICH PEOPLE HAVE GROWN UP WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, THEY WERE BORN WITH THEM AS CHILDREN, EVERYTHING FROM AUTISM TO DEAFNESS. AND BY THE TIME THEY REACH ADULTHOOD, THESE, YOU KNOW, THEY BECOME PART OF THE PERSON’S IDENTITY. IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR, FOLKS HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, AMERICAN SIGN

LANGUAGE, AND THEY HAVE A STRONG CULTURE AROUND THEIR DEAFNESS. AND SOME PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO GIVE THAT UP. IF YOU GAVE THEM A CHOICE. YOU WOULD. YOU WANT TO BE TREATED FOR YOUR DEAFNESS. MANY PEOPLE WOULD SAY NO. SO I THINK THAT WHAT GENE THERAPY DOES IS IT RAISES A LOT

OF THESE REALLY INTERESTING KIND OF ETHICAL AND SOCIETAL QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT FOLKS SHOULD BE TREATED NOW. A LOT OF SCIENTISTS WILL TELL YOU IS THAT THEY WANT TO PURSUE THIS SO THAT PEOPLE HAVE OPTIONS. I THINK IT’S — IT’S WONDERFUL THAT FOLKS HAVE BUILT SUCH

A RICH CULTURE AND COMMUNITY. AND I THINK SOME PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE CHOICE AND SOME PEOPLE WON’T MAKE THE CHOICE. BUT THE POINT IS THAT HOPEFULLY IF THIS RESEARCH CONTINUES TO PROGRESS, SOME FAMILIES AND PATIENTS WILL HAVE THAT CHOICE. AND I KNOW YOU’VE COVERED A LOT OF THESE THERAPIES IN THE PAST.

AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO GET A REALITY CHECK HERE. HOW SOON BEFORE YOU THINK THE FDA COULD APPROVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS? >> IS IT MONTHS? IS IT YEARS? THAT’S RIGHT. IT’S MONTHS OR YEARS. RIGHT. SO THE FDA, RIGHTFULLY SO, IS VERY CAUTIOUS. AND THEY’RE PARTICULARLY CAUTIOUS AROUND GENE THERAPY

BECAUSE THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW SCIENCE AND WITH GENE THERAPY IN PARTICULAR, THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF WHAT SCIENTISTS CALL OFF TARGET EFFECTS. IF YOU CHANGE SOMEONE’S GENETICS, YOU HOPE THAT YOU’RE MAKING A VERY TIGHT, TARGETED CHANGE THAT WILL ONLY IMPACT THE THING THAT YOU WANT. BUT THERE IS THIS RISK

THAT THERE COULD BE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. AND SO THAT’S WHY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THESE RIGOROUS CLINICAL TRIALS, THESE RESULTS THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT NOW. AND THESE ARE REALLY EARLY DATA, BUT WE’RE GOING TO NEED A LOT MORE DATA BEFORE THE FDA FEELS COMFORTABLE. A LOT MORE PEOPLE TREAT IT

AND A LOT MORE TIME SO THAT WE KNOW THAT MONTHS AND YEARS AFTER THEIR TREATMENT, THEY’RE STILL DOING. THERE’S NO NEW ILLNESS THAT CROPS UP. AND THEN THE FDA WILL WEIGH ALL OF THAT EVIDENCE, DECIDE IF THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE RISKS AND, YOU KNOW, ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE MAKE THEIR APPROVAL

DECISION. THAT SAID, IN THE BROAD CATEGORY OF GENE THERAPY, THIS IS SEEN AS ANOTHER REALLY EXCITING AND POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT SHOWING THAT THIS TYPE OF THERAPY REALLY CAN WORK AND CORRECT SOME OF THESE GENETIC ILLNESSES. >> THAT’S FASCINATING STUFF. ABC SONY SALZMAN SUNNY FOR BEING WITH US. >> OF COURSE. THANK YOU. AND.

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DUMPED IN THE BOSTON HARBOR, ANGERING THE BRITS. WELL, THIS ANOTHER STIR. A U.S. SCIENTIST SUGGESTING THAT THE PERFECT OF TEA NEEDS JUST A PINCH OF SALT. MICHELLE FRANCL IS CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND SHE’S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED STEEP THE CHEMISTRY OF TEA. >> ACCORDING TO THE BOOK’S

DESCRIPTION, FRANCL EXPLORES THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DIFFERENT STYLES OF TEA AND TACKLES, QUOTE, THE AGE OLD QUESTION OF WHEN OR EVEN WHETHER TO ADD MILK. AND SHE CITES HER CHEMISTRY ON HOW TO BREW A BETTER CUP, INCLUDING ADDING A TOUCH OF SALT SO THAT THE TEA IS NOT SO BITTER.

>> WELL, APPARENTLY THE LESSON IN HOW TO BE LESS BITTER DIDN’T SIT WELL. >> MANY BRITS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHO SAID THE IDEA WAS SIMPLY APPALLING. SEVERAL POSTS INVOKED THE 1773 BOSTON TEA PARTY THAT IT WAS HIGH TIME AMERICANS STOPPED RUNNING A GOOD CUP OF TEA WITH SALT WATER.

>> IN AN INTERVIEW WITH SKY NEWS, FRANCL SAYS SHE DID HER HOMEWORK READING OVER 500 PAGES OF RESEARCH FOR HER BOOK. >> IT TURNS OUT THAT THIS IS A LONG STANDING TRADITION. THERE IS EVIDENCE AN EIGHTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS FROM CHINA ABOUT ADDING SALT. BUT THERE’S RECENT RESEARCH THAT SHOWS THAT THE SODIUM IONS

THAT HAVE BLOCKED THE BITTER RECEPTORS. YOU CAN SORT OF TELL YOUR TONGUE NOT TO TASTE THE BITTER. >> AT ONE POINT, THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON JUMPED IN TO HAVE FUN WITH THE SPAT, ISSUING A STATEMENT NOTING THAT ADDING SALT TO BRITAIN’S NATIONAL DRINK IS, IN FACT, NOT U.S. OFFICIAL POLICY.

THE EMBASSY CALLED ON TO, QUOTE, UNITE IN STEEPED SOLIDARITY AND THAT WHEN IT CAME TO TEA, WE STAND AS ONE. AS FOR FRANCL, SHE TOLD A REPORTER DIDN’T MEAN TO STIR UP CONTROVERSY ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> SHE CELEBRATED THE U.S. EMBASSY STATEMENT DECLARING, MY BOOK HAS DIPLOMATIC IMPLICATIONS.

I THINK IT’S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. I THINK I’M GOING TO SIDE WITH MY FELLOW AMERICANS ON THIS IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN AMERICAN CHOCOLATE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN BRITISH CHOCOLATE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, BUT THERE WERE SOME SERIOUS

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Wherever wherever the story is, we’re going to take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. AN ABC NEWS LIVE. >> GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE FIRST. TRUMP ON TRIAL. THE FORM PRESIDENT SET TO APPEAR IN COURT AND HE COULD

TESTIFY IN THE TRIAL TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY FOR DEFAMING E. JEAN CARROLL. WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF HE BREAKS JUDGE’S RULES? I DON’T WANT ON SOUTH CAROLINA NIKKI HALEY HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN HER HOME STATE AND SHE IS RESISTING CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THIS RACE.

ALL OF THIS AS PRESIDENT BIDEN PICKS UP ANOTHER BIG ENDORSEMENT. TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. AND ACCESS DENIED THE NEW PUSH TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR CHILDREN TO LOG ON TO SOCIAL MEDIA. FLORIDA PASSING THE MOST RESTRICTIVE CRACKDOWN IN THE COUNTRY.

WHY ONE LAWMAKER IS CALLING IT A DIGITAL SIGNAL. AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO KEEP YOUR TEEN SAFE. >> AND ALL ABOARD THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP FINALLY READY TO SET SAIL. THE CRUISE GUY IS ON DECK ON ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S ICON OF THE SEAS WITH AN INSIDE LOOK

AT THE FLOATING CITY. BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND NOW EXPECTED BACK IN A COURTROOM. TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO ATTEND HIS CIVIL TRIAL, DETERMINE WHETHER HE’S GOING TO HAVE TO PAY WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING HER IN 2019 WHEN HE DENIED

HER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY THE LATEST FROM OUTSIDE THE COURT IN LOWER MANHATTAN. >> COURT IS RESUMING HERE THIS MORNING. MORGAN AFTER A THREE DAY PAUSE OVER A COVID 19 SCARE AND ASSUMING THE FORMER PRESIDENT DOES TESTIFY, AS HE SAYS HE WILL.

THERE ARE GOING TO BE LIMITS ON WHAT HE CAN SAY. TRIAL’S ALL ABOUT MONEY. HOW MUCH MONEY, IF ANY, TRUMP NEEDS TO PAY E. JEAN CARROLL THE WRITER FOR DEFAMING HER IN 2019 AFTER SHE ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULT AND TRIAL DETERMINED THE ASSAULT DID OCCUR AND THAT

TRUMP STATEMENTS DENYING IT WERE DEFAMATORY. SO ON THE WITNESS STAND, TRUMP IS NOT ALLOWED TO SAY OTHERWISE OR ACCUSED, CAROL, OF LYING OR ACCUSE HER OF HAVING IMPROPER MOTIVES FOR BRINGING A CLAIM. AND THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY THREATENED TO BOOT TRUMP FROM COURT AFTER THE FORMER MADE DISRUPTIVE SIDE COMMENTS

ABOUT THE CASE. THE JURY COULD HEAR. SO THE QUESTION HERE TODAY IS WHETHER TRUMP IS GOING TO COMPLY WITH THOSE RESTRICTIONS ON BOTH HIS BEHAVIOR AND ON HIS TESTIMONY. ATTORNEYS FOR E. JEAN CARROLL HAVE ALREADY EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT TRUMP IS GOING TO USE HIS TESTIMONY TO TURN THE TRIAL

INTO A POLITICAL EVENT AND TO SOW CHAOS. CARROLL SAYS TRUMP IS STILL DEFENDING HER, BOTH ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND IN SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS THAT HE’S MADE FROM THE COURTROOM. AND. MORGAN SHE IS SEEKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION IN COMPENSATION. MORGAN YEAH, WE’LL SEE IF THE FORMER PRESIDENT COMPLIES

WITH THE JUDGE’S ORDERS THERE. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY FROM LOWER MANHATTAN. ERIN, THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, TWO PERSON FIGHT FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IS MOVING TO SOUTH CAROLINA. NIKKI HALEY. SHE’S FOCUSING ON WINNING NEXT MONTH’S PRIMARY IN HER HOME STATE. THAT’S WHERE SHE SERVED AS GOVERNOR.

ALL OF THIS DESPITE CALLS FROM TOP REPUBLICANS FOR HER TO DROP OUT OF THIS RACE. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT HAS THE LATEST FROM CHARLESTON. >> NIKKI HALEY HEADING STRAIGHT TO HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, RESISTING TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. >> WE ARE NOT GOING TO SIT

THERE AND JUST GIVE UP. WE’RE GOING TO SIT THERE AND WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT BECAUSE AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE IN THESE TWO OPTIONS. >> HALEY IS TRYING TO REBOUND AFTER BACK TO BACK LOSSES IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, QUESTIONING DONALD TRUMP’S FITNESS. >> GET ON A DEBATE STAGE

AND LET’S GO BRING IT. DONALD, ME WHAT YOU GOT? AND CALLING OUT VICTORY SPEECH WHERE HE UNLEASHED ON HIS FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR, CALLING HER DELUSIONAL AND AN IMPOSTER. >> HE PITCHED A FIT. HE WAS HE WAS INSULTING. I KNOW THAT’S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE IS THREATENED. >> AND HE SHOULD FEEL

THREATENED WITHOUT A DOUBT. BUT THREATENING ANY PROSPECTIVE DONORS TO HALEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYING ANYBODY THAT MAKES A CONTRIBUTION WILL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. HALEY NOW CAMPAIGNING IN HER OWN BACKYARD. SHE WAS BORN, RAISED HERE, SERVING AS A POPULAR GOVERNOR FOR TWO TERMS. BUT SOUTH CAROLINA HAS SWUNG TOWARD TRUMP.

>> HE’S GOT THE BACKING OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FEEL HIS HE’S TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION, ECONOMY. >> BUT I THINK NIKKI BRINGS MORE IN THE FOREIGN POLICY AREA. AIR FORCE VETERAN JANE LOMBARDO IS SUPPORTING HALEY, BUT CONCEDES THIS IS TRUMP’S. >> DO YOU THINK THAT DONALD

TRUMP WILL BE DOMINANT HERE? UNFORTUNATELY, YES. BUT HE BRINGS IN HE JUST BRINGS TOO MUCH BAGGAGE WITH HER. JAY SAYS HE WILL END UP SUPPORTING THE EVENTUAL REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AND PRESIDENT BIDEN NOW SAYING IT’S CLEAR THAT WILL BE DONALD TRUMP GEARING UP FOR A REMATCH. YOU KNOW, IT’S GREAT TO BE.

BIDEN WELCOMING THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE POWERFUL UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION FOUR MONTHS AFTER TRAVELING TO MICHIGAN TO WALK THE PICKET LINE WITH STRIKING WORKERS. >> AND WHILE I STAND IN SOLIDARITY HERE ON THE PICKET LINE, AS YOUR PRESIDENT SAID, I WANT A PICKET LINE. >> DONALD TRUMP WENT TO A

NONUNION SHOP ON A TAXI. MORGAN THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY STILL A FEW WEEKS AWAY. DONALD TRUMP HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE’S GOVERNOR, THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS HERE. EVEN MOST OF THE HOUSE MEMBERS AND THE RNC CHAIRWOMAN, RONNA MCDANIEL, WHO INITIALLY SAID THAT SHE WOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL IN THIS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, IS NOW

CALLING ON NIKKI HALEY TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. MORGAN. ALL RIGHT. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT IN CHARLESTON FOR US. RACHEL, THANK YOU. WELL, POWERFUL STORMS ARE ON THE MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY TODAY. WE’RE TALKING FLOOD WATCHES IN PLACE FROM TEXAS TO RHODE ISLAND.

SOME AREAS COULD MORE THAN FIVE INCHES OF RAIN. ROB MARCIANO IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, WITH THE LATEST. >> TORRENTIAL RAINS SWAMPING LOUISIANA ROADS LEADING TO FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY WATER PRACTICALLY COVERING THE HOOD OF THIS CAR IN MANDEVILLE. CARS GOING OUT. >> THIS DRIVER ENDING UP IN A DITCH. MILLIONS.

>> THE SOUTH NOW FACING THE THREAT OF FLOODING. NOW HERE AT TEXAS, CARS CAUTIOUSLY NAVIGATING THIS FLOODED UNDERPASS. THIS MAN HYDROPLANING, DRIVING OFF AN EMBANKMENT RIGHT INTO A RIVER. >> THE GROUND COLLAPSING AROUND THIS MASSIVE SINKHOLE AFTER ALL THE RAIN IN LIVINGSTON. THIS CAR BOMBING, THE WATER IN JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, AFTER

ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED UNDERPASS. >> AND IN THE MIDWEST, DRONE FOOTAGE CAPTURING HUGE CHUNKS OF ICE APART ON LAKE MICHIGAN. AND THAT WAS SENIOR METEOROLOGIST ROB MARCIANO. >> WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION

AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSION STRIKE THE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS

TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON, CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY. WHEREVER HIS STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FOR THE FBI BEFORE

HE IS ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING AT ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE.

AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE, STREAMING NEWS STATE POLICE. >> THERE’S A YOUNG GIRL RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE’S SOME GUY TRYING TO FOLLOW HER. >> 911 CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE. UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY COULD FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND BE THE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER? THEY START? FIND MORE BODIES?

SUDDENLY IT’S AN ARM OR A LEG. WHAT IS ON? I NEVER ONCE FEARED FOR MY LIFE WHEN I MET HIM. >> IT WAS THE ONLY TIME I SCARED TRUTH. I’VE SPOKEN. >> IT PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE, GET READY. LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA

WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? THIS GIRL, HOW ARE YOU? YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT THE WHAT WOULD YOU DO MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY

ON ABC NEWS LIVE MY FAVORITE. >> NOW WHY DO SO MANY START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY

PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE.

WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIFE FIRST. RESIDENTS IN GAZA SAY THE REGION’S MAIN SOUTHERN CITY, KHAN YUNIS, IS NOW SURROUNDED BY ARMED ARMED ISRAELI FORCES AND UNDER ALMOST NONSTOP FIRE AS ISRAEL TRIES TO TAKE OUT HAMAS MAIN STRONGHOLD IN THE SOUTH. ALL OF THIS AS THE U.N. SAYS ITS TRAINING CENTER WHERE

HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE TAKING SHELTER IN THE AREA HAS BEEN HIT. CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN HAS THE LATEST FROM TEL AVIV ISRAEL. >> HI, MATT. HEY, MORGAN. WITH THE ISRAELI MILITARY, THAT CITY OF KHAN YUNIS AND SHELLS REPORTEDLY EXPLODING IN A U.N. TRAINING FACILITY THAT WAS BEING USED AS A

SHELTER. THOSE DISPLACED NEARLY 2 MILLION PEOPLE FROM THE NORTH AND OTHER AREAS OF THE STRIP. THE U.N. SAYING THAT NINE PEOPLE WERE KILLED, DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED. THERE IS NOW MUCH MORE FOCUS ON ISRAEL’S CONDUCT, BOTH IN GAZA MILITARILY AND IN THE WEST BANK, AND IT’S IN THE

WEST BANK WHERE 17-YEAR-OLD TAWFIQ JABBAR WAS SHOT LAST WEEK. THERE IS NOW FOCUS ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT INCIDENT. THE ISRAELI MILITARY SAYING THAT HE WAS ENGAGED IN ROCK THROWING, BUT THE ONLY WITNESS THERE WHO IS DRIVING WITH TAWFIQ SAYS THAT HE WAS JUST DRIVING ALONG, THAT IT WAS

COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED, THAT IT APPEARED HE WAS BY UNKNOWN PEOPLE. ISRAELI POLICE, THE MILITARY AND SETTLERS WERE APPARENTLY IN THE AREA AT TIME. AND THAT IS GAINING MOMENTUM JUST AS THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IS SETTING TO CONVENE TOMORROW TO LET OUT AN INTERIM RULING ABOUT ALLEGATIONS OF AND WAR

CRIMES IN GAZA BY ISRAEL. THAT RULING WON’T NECESSARILY HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE FIGHTING, BUT THEY COULD DEMAND FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE, AND THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THOUGH, ANY U.N. RESOLUTION THAT COMES AS A RESULT THAT WILL LIKELY BE VETOED BY THE U.S. AND HERE

IN ISRAEL, THERE IS ALSO PRESSURE ON ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, TO DO MORE TO FREE THE HOSTAGES. WE HAVE SEEN PROTESTS IN THE STREET AND TEL AVIV’S MAIN HIGHWAY AT, KEREM SHALOM, WHICH IS A JUNCTION OF BORDER TERMINAL AID INTO GAZA. IN JERUSALEM, EVERYWHERE, THE FAMILIES TO BE CONGREGATING

AND TRYING TO PUT PRESSURE ON HIM TO BROKER A CEASE FIRE AND A HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION DEAL. AS SOON POSSIBLE. MORGAN YOU KNOW, THAT PRESSURE IS CERTAINLY GROWING. MATT GUTMAN IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. MATT, THANK YOU. WELL, NOW TO OPENING ARGUMENTS BEGINNING IN THE TRIAL FOR THE MOTHER OF A MICHIGAN SCHOOL

SHOOTER, JENNIFER CRUMBLY. HER HUSBAND ARE THE FIRST PARENTS TO BE CHARGED IN A MASS SHOOTING AFTER. THEIR SON ETHAN SHOT AND KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL. THE COUPLE IS BEING TRIED SEPARATELY WITH THE MOTHER ON TRIAL FIRST AFTER TWO YEARS OF DELAYS. ABC’S TREVOR AULT HAS THE LATEST.

>> OPENING ARGUMENTS IN AN UNPRECEDENTED TRIAL. JENNIFER CRUMBLEY FACING FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR HER ALLEGED ROLE IN THE 2021 MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTING CARRIED OUT BY HER SON, IN WHICH HE KILLED FOUR CLASSMATES AND WOUNDED SEVERAL OTHERS. PROSECUTORS SAY JENNIFER AND HER HUSBAND, JAMES CRUMBLY, PURCHASED THE WEAPON USED

IN THE SHOOTING FOR THEIR SON WHO TESTIFIED IT WAS KEPT UNLOCKED. SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY THEY TOLD THE CRUMBLES HAD TO GET THEIR SON HELP AFTER BEING CALLED INTO THE SCHOOL ON THE DAY THE SHOOTING AFTER THE TEEN HAD WRITTEN DISTURBING MESSAGES. >> BUT THE PARENTS DECLINED TO TAKE HIM HOME. THE SHOOTING UNFOLDING

ONLY HOURS LATER. >> THE NOTION THAT A PARENT COULD READ WORDS AND ALSO KNOW THAT THEIR SON HAD ACCESS TO A DEADLY WEAPON, THAT THEY GAVE HIM IS UNCONSCIONABLE. >> AND IT AND I THINK IT’S CRIMINAL. THE JURY FOR JENNIFER’S TRIAL SET. IT FEATURES MULTIPLE PARENTS AND GUN OWNERS, INCLUDING

HUNTER WITH CHILDREN WHO KEEPS HER GUNS AT HER FATHER’S HOUSE FOR SAFETY AND A DOCTOR WHO SAYS HE’S VERY FAMILIAR WITH GUN VIOLENCE. BUT IS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT. >> THERE ARE DIFFERENT LAYERS IN TERMS OF JURORS EXPERIENCES THAT WILL INFLUENCE HOW THEY THE CASE.

SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND ALL THOSE BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCES COME INTO PLAY. >> THE OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL WAS JUST 15 AT THE TIME OF THE MASSACRE. HE’S SINCE PLEADED GUILTY TO MULTIPLE COUNTS OF MURDER, EXPRESSING REMORSE AND REFERRING TO HIMSELF AS A REALLY BAD PERSON. LAST MONTH, FAMILIES

OF RELAYING THEIR GRIEF AT THE HEARING WHERE HE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE. >> AND NOVEMBER 30TH, 2021, IS A DAY THAT HAS FOREVER CHANGED MY LIFE. >> THE DAY I FOUND OUT THAT MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE WAS TAKEN. >> JENNIFER CRUMBLY HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY.

SHE NOW WANTS THE JUDGE TO ORDER HER SON AND THREE PSYCHIATRISTS WHO MET WITH HIM AFTER THE SHOOTING TO TESTIFY AT HER TRIAL. THOUGH HER SON’S ATTORNEYS ARE FIGHTING THAT EVEN AS HE IS NOW APPEALING HIS SENTENCE. >> MORGAN TREVOR AULT. THANK YOU, ELIZABETH. COURT HAS CLEARED THE WAY FOR

AN ALABAMA MAN TO BE EXECUTED TODAY BY NITROGEN. NITROGEN GAS. IT’S THE FIRST EXECUTION USING THE UNTESTED METHOD. THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION ON CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH, BUT HE COULDN’T GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE THIS NITROGEN, NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF LETHAL

INJECTION DRUGS. THE U.N., THOUGH, CLAIMS THE GAS COULD BE CONSIDERED TORTURE. MEANWHILE, THE ATTORNEYS FOR ALEC BALDWIN ARE NOW ASKING FOR TRIAL, SAYING IT WILL, QUOTE, MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION AND SUSPICION AND AVOID THE HAZARDS OF PROVING HIS INNOCENCE. ALL OF THIS COMES AFTER A NEW MEXICO GRAND JURY INDICTED

THE ACTOR. AN INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AND THE DEADLY SHOOTING OF CINEMATOGRAPHER LENA HUTCHINS ON THE MOVIE. REST ON THAT SET THERE. THE REVERSAL, EXACTLY ONE YEAR TO THE DAY AFTER BALDWIN WAS INITIALLY CHARGED WITH COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. BUT THOSE CHARGES LATER DISMISSED APRIL. BALDWIN FACES UP TO 18 MONTHS

BEHIND BARS IF CONVICTED. WELL, A NEW REPORT COULD GIVE THE FEDERAL RESERVE A NEW PIECE OF THE PUZZLE AS THEY LOOK TO DROP INTEREST RATES THIS YEAR. ABC’S ABC NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS HAS MORE ON WHAT YOUR OTHER BUSINESS HEADLINES ARE. ALEXIS, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU WATCHING TODAY?

>> WE ARE WATCHING THIS ECONOMY. MORGAN THAT HAS INCREDIBLE STAMINA EVEN IN THE FACE OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND HIGHER INFLATION. SO ECONOMIC GROWTH SURGED FOR A STRONG FINISH TO 2023. COOLING INFLATION HELPED TO FUEL CONSUMER SPENDING, AND THAT HELPED THE ECONOMY GROW AT A FASTER THAN EXPECTED 3.3% PACE IN THE FINAL

THREE MONTHS OF LAST YEAR. NOW, WHILE THAT IS A STRONG NUMBER, ESPECIALLY IN THE FACE OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES, IT DOES MARK A SLOWDOWN FROM THE NEARLY 5% GROWTH WE SAW OVER THE SUMMER MONTHS FOR ALL OF 20 23, THE ECONOMY GREW AT A SOLID 3.1%. WE MANAGED TO AVOID

THAT RECESSION THAT SO MANY ECONOMISTS WERE PREDICTING. THANKS IN PART TO THE STRONG JOB MARKET AND A RISE IN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE. ELSEWHERE TODAY, THE DOORBELL CAMERA COMPANY RING ANNOUNCED. IT WILL STOP ALLOWING POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO REQUEST DOORBELL CAMERA FOOTAGE FROM USERS THROUGH RING’S NEIGHBORS APP.

THIS MARKS THE END OF A FEATURE THAT HAS DRAWN CRITICISM FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES WHO SAY PRACTICE LED TO MORE INSTANCES OF SOCIAL PROFILING. THE AMAZON OWNED COMPANY DIDN’T GIVE A REASON FOR THE CHANGE, BUT IT DOES GO INTO EFFECT THIS WEEK. >> LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES CAN STILL ACCESS THAT RING VIDEO

USING A SEARCH WARRANT. AND TESLA REPORTING EARNINGS THAT MISSED EXPECTATIONS IS ALSO WARNING OF A SLOWDOWN THIS YEAR IN DEMAND. THE EV MAKER HAS BEEN CUTTING PRICES IN SOME KEY MARKETS OVERSEAS AS IT FACES INCREASED COMPETITION FROM CHINESE ELECTRIC CAR MAKERS. TESLA ALSO ANNOUNCING IT PLANS TO BUILD A LOWER COST VEHICLE

NEXT YEAR IN TEXAS. TESLA’S NEWS COMES JUST DAYS AFTER BOTH FORD AND GM ANNOUNCED A PULLBACK IN THEIR CAR PRODUCTION AMID SLOWER CONSUMER DEMAND. HARD TO HAVE THOSE EVS REALLY CATCH ON QUITE YET. MORGAN AND THEY’RE STILL TRYING TO BOUNCE BACK THAT. ALEXIS, THANK YOU. AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE ANY

FINANCE QUESTIONS FOR ALEXIS, YOU CAN LEAVE A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AT ABC NEWS LIVE. AND SHE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON THURSDAY. WELL, STILL TO COME, WHY COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S CHAMPIONS COACH BOLTS BACK TO THE NFL. PLUS, WE’VE GOT A PREVIEW OF THIS WEEKEND’S PLAYOFF GAMES.

ALSO AHEAD, THE NEW CRACKDOWN, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. PARENTS, YOU’RE GOING TO WANT TO LISTEN UP TO THIS. WHAT STATE WANTS TO KEEP THEM COMPLETELY OFF LIMITS TO YOUR KIDS? WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU WERE

CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS, IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH FOR KIDS STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. GYPSY ROSE REVEAL. WHY IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW.

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GIRL WAS RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE’S SOME GUY TRYING FOLLOW HER. THE 911 CALL IS THE CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY COULD FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND DO THE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER? THIS HOUR, FIND MORE BOX. SUDDENLY IT’S AN ARM OR A LEG. WHAT IS GOING ON?

I NEVER ONCE FEARED FOR MY LIFE. WHEN I MET HIM, IT WAS ONLY TIME I SCARED. >> TRUTH. I’M STILL HUNTED PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC. >> WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC LIVE PRIME WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE.

>> STREAMING FREE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND CYBER CRIME IS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR YOU. I’VE NEVER SEEN A PLACE LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE. WOW WOW. >> REPORTING FROM THE BORDER OF AND MEXICO ON THE DAY OF YOUR GAL. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL YOU THERE.

YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE AND WELCOME BACK INTO ABC NEWS FIRST. A MAJOR SHAKEUP IS RATTLING THE FOOTBALL WORLD AHEAD OF THE NFL’S WEEKEND. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH IS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. FRESH OFF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND TAKING REINS OF THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS.

ABC WILL REEVE HAS THE LATEST. >> WHO’S GOT IT BETTER THAN JIM HARBAUGH? FRESH OFF RETURNING MICHIGAN TO GLORY WITH THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP? >> HE’S BOLTING TO THE NFL, AGREEING TO A REPORTED FIVE YEAR DEAL TO COACH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS. HARBAUGH SPENT NINE YEARS

AS THE COACH AT HIS ALMA MATER. HE WON 89 GAMES. >> HE LOST JUST 25. HE’D COME TO BE PRACTICALLY WORSHIPED IN ANNE ARBOR. BUT THE ALLURE OF RETURNING TO THE NFL PROVED TOO STRONG. ONE DECIDING FACTOR FOR HARBAUGH TO MAKE THE JUMP AND BECOME THE FIRST COACH IN

HISTORY TO WIN A NATIONAL TITLE AND IMMEDIATELY LEAVE FOR THE NFL IS POTENTIAL LOOMING DISCIPLINE FROM THE NCAA. HARBAUGH WAS SUSPENDED TWICE LAST SEASON BY MICHIGAN, THE BIG TEN CONFERENCE FOR VARIOUS ALLEGED INFRACTIONS, INCLUDING HIS ALLEGED ROLE IN THAT SIGN STEALING SCANDAL. AND THE NCAA MAY HAVE PUNISHED

HIM FURTHER, BUT NOW HE’S OUT OF THEIR REACH AND BACK IN THE PROS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2014, WHEN HE COACHED SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS. >> EVERYONE’S LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER HARD WHEN JIM’S CHARGERS HOST OLDER BROTHER JOHN’S RAVENS NEXT SEASON MORGAN. HARDBALL I LIKE THAT WILL REEVE THANK YOU FOR THAT.

MEANWHILE THE LAST FOUR NFL TEAMS LEFT STANDING THIS SEASON ARE GEARING UP FOR THIS WEEKEND’S BIG GAME. SO WE’VE GOT THE DETROIT LIONS. THEY’RE TRYING TO SECURE THEIR FIRST TRIP TO THE SUPER BOWL AND THE TEAM’S 94 YEAR HISTORY, BUT THEY’VE GOT TO FACE OFF AGAINST THE 40 NINERS AND IN OTHER MATCHUPS

THAT PITS TWO SUPERSTAR QUARTERBACKS AGAINST EACH OTHER AS THE CHIEFS FACE BALTIMORE RAVENS. NOW, THE STAR PLAYERS ARE SPEAKING OUT AHEAD OF CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND. >> ABC’S LARA SPENCER HAS THE LATEST. >> THE FOUR REMAINING TEAMS ARE GEARING UP FOR THEIR SHOT AT THE SUPER, BUT THE MOST PRESSURE MIGHT JUST BE ON

DETROIT. THIS WOULD BE AN OUTSTANDING TEST FOR US, BUT IT’S ONE WE’RE READY FOR. IT’S BEEN 32 YEARS SINCE THE LIONS HAVE REACHED NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND THIS TIME THEY’RE LED BY NUMBER ONE DRAFT PICK, QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF. >> TOUCHDOWN. HE’LL BE SQUARING OFF AGAINST

THE VERY LAST PICK IN THE 2022 DRAFT. >> THE 49 ERS, BROCK PURDY, OBVIOUSLY THE BAY AREA AND THE FAITHFUL IN GENERAL. WE WANT THIS GAME BACK. >> THIS IS THE TIMES YOU DREAM OF AS A KID AND GROW UP, YOU KNOW, HOPING TO BE IN THESE FINAL GAMES AND WE’RE ONE WIN

AWAY FROM, YOU KNOW, OUR ULTIMATE GOAL OF GETTING THE SUPER BOWL AND WIN THAT GAME AS WELL. >> LIONS FANS ARE SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT, LIGHTING UP HOMES AND BUILDINGS ACROSS MICHIGAN IN BLUE. AND LONG SUFFERING FANS ARE GOING ALL OUT. >> LET’S GO. GENE AND MIKE BURKS WERE SO CONFIDENT IN THEIR LIONS.

THEY BOUGHT TICKETS TO SAN FRANCISCO EVEN BEFORE DETROIT WON THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF GAME. >> MIKE BOUGHT OUR PLANE TICKETS BEFORE WE EVEN BEAT RAMS TWO WEEKS AGO, AND IT WAS A SECRET. BUT I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM DELTA AIRLINES CONFIRMING OUR FLIGHT. AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT IS THIS?

AND HE SAID, WELL, I WAS TRYING TO SURPRISE YOU, FIGURED, LET’S GO. SO, YOU KNOW, AT ALL COSTS, LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN. MEANWHILE, IN BALTIMORE, TWO OF THE BEST QUARTERBACKS IN THE LEAGUE PREPARING TO BATTLE EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE PLAYOFFS. THE CHIEFS, PATRICK MAHOMES

AND BALTIMORE’S LAMAR JACKSON, WHO HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT EACH OTHER. >> I DON’T LIKE COMPETING WITH HIM AT. >> BUT YEAH, HE’S A GREAT QUARTERBACK. GIVE ME THE MVP FOR A REASON. I MEAN, HE GOES OUT THERE, HE LEADS HIS TEAM, HE SCORES AROUND, HE THROWS, HE DOES

WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. AND THAT’S WHAT A GREAT TO DO. LARA SPENCER WITH THAT, LOOK AHEAD TO THE SUPER BOWL. LARRY, THANK YOU. WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE MOVIES. AMERICAN FUGITIVES CROSSING THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO ESCAPE THE LAW. BUT WHEN IT HAPPENS IN REAL

LIFE, WHO TRACKS THAT DOWN? ABC NEWS MATT RIVERS EMBEDDED WITH A MEXICAN POLICE UNIT KNOWN TO SOME AS THE HUNTERS WHOSE MISSION IS TO BRING THESE FUGITIVES TO JUSTICE. SO WE’RE IN THE CITY OF MEXICALI WHICH IS JUST ACROSS THE BORDER FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BECAUSE THE CITY

IS SO CLOSE TO THE U.S., THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO OUT AT HOME IN THE NEAR FATAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN THEY’RE MET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF.

POLICE HERE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT HAVE BEEN NICKNAMED MINERS. I WOULD BE FREE. THAT’S FOR SURE. PLACE OUT TO THE BORDER DOES NOT MEAN YOU’RE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT. YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE . OFFICIALLY, THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL LIAISON UNIT,

A SMALL TEAM OF STATE POLICE IN BAJA, CALIFORNIA, THE NORTHWESTERN REGION OF MEXICO. UNOFFICIALLY, THEY’VE BEEN CALLED HUNTERS. TO BE CLEAR, DON’T LOVE THE NICKNAME, BUT IT DOES FIT BECAUSE THEIR MISSION IS TO FIND AND DETAIN FOREIGN FUGITIVES. MOSTLY WHO CROSS THE BORDER INTO MEXICO, HOPING TO ESCAPE THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM.

WE EMBEDDED WITH THE U.S. ABOUT A WEEK, AND WE GOT JUST A TASTE OF HOW MUCH WORK CAN TAKE TO MAKE AN ARREST. >> SO WE’VE BEEN DRIVING IN CIRCLES FOR SO NOW IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAD TO STOP AND GET MORE GAS. THERE’S SO MUCH OF THIS IS JUST

WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN . THE JOB IS INTENSE AND FAST PACED. THE UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON THE FBI’S MOST WANTED LIST. >> NO NATION IS JUST GOING IN TO ANOTHER NATION TO PUT HANDCUFFS ON SOMEBODY. WE HAVE TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER, WITH PERMISSION.

WE DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, BUT WITH THE PROPER COOPERATION, WE MAKE THESE THINGS WORK RIGHT. >> THEY HAVE TO HELP US AND WE HELP THEM. >> AND SO THAT UNIT SAYS OFFICERS CAN UP TO TEN SUSPECTS PER MONTH. “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” ALSO WENT STATESIDE TO TALK TO THE

AMERICANS WHO SAY THEY PAY THE PRICE WHEN FUGITIVES AREN’T BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. YOU CAN WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF IMPACT AND “NIGHTLINE”, THE HUNTERS RIGHT NOW ON HULU. NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY THURSDAY. >> WELL, STILL TO COME, THE LATEST CRACKDOWN ON KIDS IN SOCIAL MEDIA. ALSO AHEAD, JUST IN TIME FOR

WEDDING SEASON, WE ARE LIVE WITH THE CRUISE GUY ON BOARD THE WORLD’S CRUISE SHIP. PLUS, ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES, THOSE W-2S SET TO START ROLLING IN. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK BACK. FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE

CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY REVEAL? WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT? IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW.

WOW WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE AMERICA WANTS. AND AMERICA NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WOULD YOU DO NOW? GO. HOW ARE YOU? YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT YOU DO. MARATHON. 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. I. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S

TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC IS MAKING YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN.

>> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> WHENEVER, WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK, IN TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI,

THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE GETTING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY HERE BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU SCREEN MORE NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. >> WE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN

IN THE TWEET. A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMES THE ALL-NEW ABC APP. IF YOU LOVE BEING AN ANIMAL,

YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. >> THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW IN OUR CONNECTED WORLD, MISINFORMATION CAN MASQUERADE AS FACT. ERODING TRUST DIVIDING COMMUNITIES BUT BEHIND EVERY SHARE IS A PERSON WITH A DECISION. >> JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR A MORE NEWS LITERATE.

FIRST, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. YOU ARE LOOKING AT A RAINY, FOGGY NEW YORK CITY ON THIS THURSDAY MORNING. AND OF COURSE, WE’VE GOT A LOT NEWS TO GET TO. SO LET’S GET YOU THIS RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EXPECTED BACK IN COURT

TODAY TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY. WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL COURT IS RESUMING AFTER A THREE DAY PAUSE DUE TO A COVID SCARE. TRIAL IS ONLY ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY, IF ANY, YOU SHOULD TAKE CARE OF DEFAMING HER IN 2019 AFTER SHE ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULTING HER.

CAROL SAYS TRUMP STILL DEFAMING HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. SHE IS SEEKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP BEING RECALLED BECAUSE OF WHAT THE COMPANY CALLS POSSIBLE MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THIS RECALL APPLIES TO ROBITUSSIN, HONEY C MAX, BOTH DAILY AND NIGHTTIME FORMULAS FOR ADULTS. NOW THE COMPANY SAYS

THE PRODUCTS COULD LEAD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS WITH PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND SAYS ANYONE WITH THESE PRODUCTS SHOULD STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY. THE COMPANY ALSO SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF ILLNESS RELATED TO THAT. AND THERE’S A HUGE WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL THAT IS HAPPENING TONIGHT. NINTH RANKED LSU.

LADY TIGERS ARE HOSTING TOP RANKED SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAMES OF THE SEASON. WITH TICKET PRICES ON BACK IN THAT UP SOME SEATS. LISTEN TO THAT SELLING FOR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON THE SECONDARY MARKET. BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH THE FAA

CLEARING THE WAY FOR BOEING MAX NINE TO RESUME FLYING AS EARLY AS WEEKEND. ALL OF THIS COMES AFTER THE FEDERAL AGENCY GROUNDED NEARLY HUNDRED OF THE PLANES FOLLOWING AN ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT WHICH LOST ONE OF ITS PILOTS MID-FLIGHT EARLIER THIS MONTH. OUR TRANSPORTATION, GIO BENITEZ, IS AT REAGAN NATIONAL

AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA WITH THE LATEST. THE FAA RELEASING ITS FINAL INSTRUCTIONS, AIRLINES TO INSPECT MAX NINE. UNITED ALREADY SAYING IT’S PUTTING THE PLANES IN THE AIR BY SUNDAY. ALASKA AIRLINES EVEN EARLIER FRIDAY. THIS AFTER THREE WEEKS OF INVESTIGATING THAT DOOR PLUG THAT OFF THE ALASKA AIRLINES

FLIGHT 16,000 FEET IN THE AIR. >> THE FAA LAYING OUT AN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS, WHICH WILL REQUIRE OTHER THINGS. AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC BOLTS, GUIDE TRACKS AND FITTINGS AND DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF LEFT AND RIGHT MID CABIN EXIT DOOR PLUGS. >> IT’S FOUR BOLTS PROPERLY INSTALLED, PROPERLY TIGHTENED.

AND IF THEY’RE IN AND THEY’RE PROPERLY INSPECTED AND THESE AIRPLANES ARE AS SAFE AS ANY AIRPLANE IN THE SKY. THE IS SIMPLE. REGAINING THE TRUST OF THE FLYING PUBLIC IS THE PART. >> THE FAA ALSO TELLING BONEYARD CAN’T EXPAND ON PRODUCTION OF THE MAXS BEYOND WHAT’S ALREADY BEING BUILT UNTIL.

THERE’S A FULL INVESTIGATION. THE NEWS COMING JUST HOURS AFTER BOEING CEO DAVE CALHOUN TOOK TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> REPLACING PLANES. WE DON’T LET AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT. >> WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. THE MEETINGS WERE AT BOEING’S. BOEING CEO SAYS HE TAKES FULL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS AND ASSURED ME THAT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE WHICH I PRECEDENT SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY REPORTERS ASKING CALHOUN ABOUT A SEATTLE TIMES REPORT CLAIMING THE DOOR PLUG WAS ACTUALLY LAST INSTALLED BY BOEING. NOT THE FUSELAGE MANUFACTURER SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS. >> THANKS SO MUCH. >> CALHOUN WOULDN’T COMMENT.

THE COMPANY POINTING US TO THE NTSB. >> AND RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT, ALASKA AIRLINES AND UNITED ARE WORKING ON THOSE OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GET THESE BACK IN THE AIR BY THIS WEEKEND. AND BOEING IS ACTUALLY GOING TO START FOR TODAY. THEY’RE GOING TO PUT A PAUSE

ON IT JUST TO FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTROL IN BRITAIN, WASHINGTON, AT THEIR FACTORY THERE. AND THAT’S THE FOCUS HERE, QUALITY CONTROL. THAT’S WHAT THE FAA IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT VERY, VERY CLOSELY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS. >> MORE THAN THAT AT GIO BENITEZ AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA.

GIO, YOU. WE TURN NOW TO BREAKING NEWS. AN ALABAMA MAN SCHEDULED TO BE TODAY IS MAKING A LAST DITCH APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT. CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH. YOU SEE HIM THERE SEEKING A STAY AND REVIEW OF HIS CLAIMS THAT USING NITROGEN GAS WOULD CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

THE SUPREME COURT HAD ORIGINALLY CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST EXECUTION, USING THE UNTESTED METHOD AFTER THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION BUT COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN USE NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. WELL, SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES

ARE FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF TO MAKE THEIR PLATFORMS SAFER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. WE’VE BEEN ALL OVER THIS ON NEWS LIVE. WELL, NOW LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA HAVE APPROVED A MAJOR. THEY WANT THESE PLATFORMS OFF LIMITS TO KIDS ALTOGETHER. LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA APPROVING ,WHAT COULD BE THE MOST STRICT

REGULATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY? >> THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD PROHIBIT ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 FROM SIGNING UP. FOR MOST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ,EVEN IF THEY HAVE THEIR PARENT’S APPROVAL. >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL SENTINEL . EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN PARENT

OR ITUNES TEEN A HARD TIME SHUTTING THE DOOR AGAINST THESE ADDICTIVE FEATURES. THE BILL TARGETING ANY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT OR USES ADDICTIVE FEATURES DESIGNED TO CAUSE COMPULSIVE USE. >> THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP. OPPONENTS SAY THE BILL

INFRINGES ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND WILL FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. MEANWHILE, IN NEW CITY, WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP AND CALL OUT THE DANGERS SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE THIS. MAYOR ERIC ADAMS DESIGNATING SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD.

WE CANNOT STAND BY AND LET BIG TECH MONETIZE OUR CHILDREN’S PRIVACY AND JEOPARDIZE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. THE SURGEON GENERAL WARNING UP TO 95% OF YOUTH AGES 13 THROUGH 17 REPORT USING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WITH MORE THAN A THIRD SAYING THEY USE SOCIAL MEDIA ALMOST CONSTANTLY. AND TODAY ANNOUNCED NEW SAFETY

MEASURES AIMED AT TEENAGERS, INCLUDING RESTRICTING PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM STRANGERS ALONG WITH PARENTAL CONTROLS. RIGHT NOW, WE WANT TO BRING IN ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL. JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL. I’M CURIOUS, HOW DO YOU THINK NEW BILL COULD AFFECT KIDS

MENTAL HEALTH? I MEAN, THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS, NOT JUST AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT ALSO THE FEDERAL LEVEL AS WELL, AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND AMONG MANY CIRCLES IN NEUROSCIENCE, PEDIATRIC PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, BECAUSE WE DO SUSPECT THAT THIS SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION THAT PLAGUES SO

TEENS IS HAVING A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THEIR DEVELOPMENT. >> NOW,ITH RESPECT TO HOW THIS BILL IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, HOW IT’S GOING TO BE ENFORCED, IT WILL BE ADHERED TO. >> THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, THEY’RE WILL BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES CAN DO.

AND PARENTS WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THIS AND START TO THINK, WHAT CAN WE DO TO CURB SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN OUR YOUTH? >> SOCIAL MEDIA USE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEEN LINKED TO ISSUES WITH DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS, BODY IMAGE ISSUES. >> 90% OF TEENS IN ONE SURVEY

ADMITTED THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS INTERFERING WITH THEIR SLEEP. AND WE HEARD THE STATISTIC THAT ABOUT 7% OF TEENS USE SOCIAL MEDIA. SOME EVERY SINGLE DAY. >> WELL, DR. PATEL, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTERS OF THIS PARTICULAR OR PEOPLE AGAINST THIS THIS PARTICULAR MEASURE OR SUPPORTERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN GENERAL, THEY SAY THAT THERE

ARE SOME BENEFITS TO SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN IT COMES TO KIDS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE CONNECTION, CAMARADERIE YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT. WHEN THEY MISS OUT ON CERTAIN WITH THESE NEW RULES. I MEAN, WHAT’S YOUR ARGUMENT AGAINST THAT POTENTIALLY? >> AND I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO HAVE A CONVERSATION

ABOUT THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA. ANY WE TALK ABOUT THESE POTENTIAL BANS OR LIMITATIONS BECAUSE TEENS DO REPORT FEELING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION, FINDING ARE PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> THIS IS ALSO AN OUTLET FOR CREATIVITY AND A LOT OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM THAT HELPS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT THE

WORLD AND WHAT’S OUT THERE. >> WE SAW THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC THAT MANY EDUCATORS FOUND CREATIVE USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO GET LESSONS INTO THE HANDS OF TEENS. >> WELL, AND I WILL TELL YOU, WHEN I TALK TO MY PATIENTS, MANY PATIENTS ARE LIVING WITH CERTAIN CHRONIC ILLNESSES. FIND EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY

RIGHT ON SOCIAL MEDIA APP. SO I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THESE POINTS ARE PAID TO. >> BUT WHEN PARENTS HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR TEENS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA, USE THAT THEY ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SOME GOOD UTILITIES THERE AND TRULY IS, AS YOU MENTIONED, ALL ABOUT BALANCE.

ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR, THE PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL THANK YOU MUCH. WELL, COMING UP, WHY JON STEWART IS TO THE DAILY SHOW FOR ELECTION SEASON. ALSO AHEAD, CRUZ GUY, HE’S JOINING US FROM ABOARD THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP. >> NOW AT SEA, DO DO NOTHING

TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM WITH WARM WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE. ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID. HE WAS A MARRIED MAN. THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. YES.

THERE IS NO WAY THIS STORY IS GOING TO END WELL. THAT ROMANCE, THE 2020 LIMITED SERIES MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN NINE CENTRAL AND ABC. AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. WELL IT IS WAVE A SEASON TO CELEBRITY CRUISES. WAVE SEASON IS KIND OF LIKE BLACK FRIDAY. YOU’VE GOT MONDAY PRESIDENTS

DAY SALES AND IT’S ALL IN ONE. AND SO JOINING ME NOW, WE’VE GOT A REAL TREAT TO KICK US OFF FROM THE LARGEST CRUISE SHIP IS STEWARD SHARON. AND HE’S KNOWN AS THE CRUISE GUY. YOU’VE GOT THE SUNGLASSES. YOU’RE BY THE POOL STEWARD. I AM JEALOUS. YOU’RE ON ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S

ICON OF THE SEAS. TELL US WHAT IT IS LIKE BEING ABOARD THAT SHIP. WE ARE SO JEALOUS OF YOU. THIS ONE. >> WELL, I CAN TELL YOU, AFTER THREE HUNDRED AND 21 CRUISES EVEN, I’M IMPRESSED. I’M AT THE HEIGHT OF WAY FOR AND IT’S THE FIRST INFINITY POOL FOR ALL CARIBBEAN’S HAD.

AND WE’RE ACTUALLY SUSPENDED ON DECK 16, 16 STORIES ABOVE THE OCEAN. >> AND IN THE FIRST POOL OF ITS KIND IN THE INDUSTRY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A 250,800 TON SHIP AND IT ONLY HOLDS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 50, 450 500 PASSENGERS, 7000 FOLD. BUT BECAUSE THE SHIP IS SO

LARGE, THERE’S SO MUCH ROOM THAT IT’S JUST UNBELIEVABLY EASY TO NAVIGATE AND SEVERAL YEARS AGO, ROYAL CARIBBEAN BUILT OR BUILT THEIR PRIVATE ISLAND COCOCAY IN THE BAHAMAS. AND IT’S LIKE THEY TOOK COCOCAY PUT IT AT SEA. THE LARGEST WATERPARK IS HERE. YOU KNOW, THE SEVEN POOLS, TEN, NINE OR TEN JACUZZIS.

AND THERE’S JUST SO MUCH TO DO. 40 RESTAURANTS AND BARS AROUND THE. SO, YOU KNOW, IT’S VERY HARD IN ONE WEEK TO BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING THAT THIS SHIP HAS TO OFFER. >> DID YOU SAY 40 RESTAURANTS AND BARS? MY GOODNESS STUART, YOU SAID YOU ALSO SAID THAT YOU’VE BEEN

ON MORE THAN 300 CRUISES. THAT’S INCREDIBLE. SO WE KNOW IT’S THE BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD. THERE’S GOT TO BE SOME PROS AND CONS THAT COME WITH THAT. WHAT ELSE STANDS OUT TO YOU? >> WELL, THE, YOU KNOW, THE THEATER, THE, YOU KNOW, BACK ON DECKS SIX, SEVEN, THE THEY CHANGE THAT.

IT’S A KIDS AREA. I MEAN, THIS THE ULTIMATE VACATION FOR FAMILIES. >> AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY ACTUALLY WOUND UP BUILDING THE AQUA DOME IN THE FRONT OF THE SHIP. IT’S 893,000 CUBIC FEET OF SPACE. IT’S THE ROOF IS 20 FEET WIDER THAN THE ROTUNDA IN THE PANTHEON IN ROME.

AND THERE THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, WATER SHOWS THAT THEY DO TO ENTERTAIN. AND IT’S JUST A AN INCREDIBLE COMPLEX. BUT THERE’S SO MANY AREAS OF THE SHIP THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, WELL IT’S OASIS CLASSIC AND IT’S NOT EVERYTHING ON THIS SHIP IS DIFFERENT. IMPROVED, UPGRADED.

THERE’S SO MANY BRAND NEW AREAS . I MEAN, JUST STANDING IN THE PASSENGER CORRIDORS, YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE WIDTH OF THIS SHIP, THE ROYAL PROMENADE. ON THIS SHIP, THE WIDTH IS IS STAGGERING. AND THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT THEY HAVE ON BOARD, WHETHER IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, LIVE ROCK CONCERTS BY TRIBUTE,

YOU KNOW, TO BROADWAY SHOWS. I MEAN, THEY HAD THE WIZARD OF OZ. THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH. YEAH FOR SURE IT IS TRULY STUNNING AND GIGANTIC. OKAY SO YOU ARE THE CRUISE EXPERT FOR THOSE LOOKING TO BOOK A CRUISE THIS

YEAR WHETHER ON THE ICON OR OTHER SHIPS. WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO GO AHEAD AND, CLICK THAT BOOK BUTTON? WELL, WE’RE ACTUALLY IN THE PEAK SEASON, BUT EVERYTHING’S OUT OF WHACK IN THE SENSE THAT THERE’S JUST TREMENDOUS DEMAND THAT THE CRUISE LINES ARE MORE HEAVILY BOOKED THIS TIME OF YEAR THAN

THEY’VE EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS INDUSTRY. NORMALLY, IT’S 45 TO 50%. BUT RIGHT NOW, THESE CRUISE LINES, THE CRUISE COMPANIES ARE REPORTING OVER 66%, WHICH MEANS THERE’S LESS AVAILABILITY . SO PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT CRUISING THIS YEAR, WHETHER IT’S THE CARIBBEAN, ALASKA, HEADING THE MEDITERRANEAN.

>> AND THEY’VE GOT TO BE MAKING PLANS NOW. AND ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOU, WHAT MAKES A GOOD DEAL? >> I MEAN, SHOULD YOU LOOK FOR AN ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE OR A LA CARTE? WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST? WELL, THE BEST THING TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, CONTACT YOUR CRUISE

AGENT, MAKE SURE THEY’RE FAMILIAR WITH THE CRUISES, MAKE SURE THEY’RE EXPERIENCED, AND THEY’RE YOUR ADVOCATE. BUT I ALWAYS RECOMMEND RESEARCHING ONLINE. BUT DON’T BOOK ONLINE. YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU’RE GOING TO GET THE BEST DISCOUNTS. YOU NEVER KNOW. STUART SCHEER AND THANK YOU ABOARD OF THE SEAS. AND AGAIN, WE ARE SUPER

JEALOUS. FROM PREP FOR US UP THERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND WE WILL RIGHT BACK THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. >> THERE ARE MILLION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU ARE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS. SO MANY MEDICATIONS.

IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEAL? WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. STATE POLICE. THERE’S A YOUNG RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING, AND THERE WAS

SOME GUY TRYING TO FOLLOW HER. >> 911 CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY. BUT FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND BE THE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER. THEY START, FIND MORE BODIES. SUDDENLY IT’S AN ARM. A LEG? WHAT IS GOING ON? I NEVER ONCE FEARED FOR MY LIFE.

WHEN I MET HIM, IT WAS ONLY TIME I SCARED TRUTH. AND I’M STILL HUNTED PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF I WAS GIRL? HOW ARE YOU?

WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE NOW. TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP. THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST

COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR INSIDE THAT, AS A SPORTS REPORTER, I’VE NEVER SEEN A PLACE LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE. WOW.

>> REPORTING FROM MAR-A-LAGO IN FLORIDA, I’M JAY O’BRIEN WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE LIVE, FORMER SHOW HOST JON STEWART IS RETURNING AFTER NINE YEARS TO HOST THE SATIRICAL NEWS TALK SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL PARAMOUNT SAID STEWART WILL HOST THE DAILY SHOW EVERY MONDAY

STARTING NEXT MONTH DUE TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. STEWART WILL ALSO SERVE AS EXECUTIVE. ABC’S CHRIS CONNELLY HAS THE LATEST SHOW. >> THAT WAS THEN AND NOW HE’S BACK. WELL AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT. JON STEWART IS RETURNING TO THE DAILY SHOW HOSTING DAY A WEEK AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCING THROUGH

THE 2024 ELECTION SEASON THE SAME SHOW WHERE ONCE HE REIGNED 17 YEARS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER IN MY LIFE HELD A JOB BY 16 YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS. >> STEWART PLAYED SOCCER, WAS A STUDENT AT WILLIAM AND MARY. COMPARING HIMSELF TO COLLEGE ATHLETE IN HIS STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PROCLAIMING

HIS DAILY SHOW ANCHOR WRITING. AFTER MUCH REFLECTION, I HAVE DECIDED TO ENTER THE TRANSFER PORTAL FOR MY LAST YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY. EXCITED THE FUTURE. THAT FUTURE PUTS HIM BEFORE A PUBLIC THAT MIGHT BE EVEN DIVIDED AND CONTENTIOUS THAN THE LAST TIME HE WAS BEHIND THE DESK. HABIT OF CHANGE.

POLITICAL MORE PRONE TO GET OFFENDED OR UPSET. SO IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE NAVIGATES I’M TAKING UP HIS OLD JOB IN A VERY NEW CLIMATE. CLIMATE CHANGE, NOTWITHSTANDING, THAT SOUND YOU HEAR, IS A SIGH OF RELIEF FROM COMEDY CENTRAL, WHICH IN THE WAKE OF HOST TREVOR NOAH’S DEPARTURE, HAD

YET TO ANNOUNCE A SUCCESSOR. ROY WOOD JR SCENE MELTING HIGHER, A HOST AS NOAH ACCEPTED THE SHOW’S EMMY THIS MONTH. >> HEY, JON STEWART, WHERE WHENEVER YOU ARE, MY FRIEND, THANK YOU FOR CALLING ME UP. >> THE NOW 61-YEAR-OLD STEWART COMING BACK TO THE SHOW THAT MADE HIM A CULTURAL FORCE

ALL THE WAY FROM 1999 ONWARD ON THE DAILY SHOW. STEWART MAKING THE COMEDY SERIES INTO A SOURCE OF NEWS WHOSE REACH AND INFLUENCE EXCEEDED TRADITIONAL TV’S, BECOMING A TRUSTED LEFT OF CENTER CONSCIENCE FOR HIS MANY DEVOTED FANS. >> IT CAME OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE NOT ONLY DEAD BROKE, BUT IN DEBT.

I STILL GET EMOTIONAL JUST THINKING ABOUT JON STEWART AND HIS PROBLEMS. REALLY, I THINK VIEWERS SHOULD BE MORE SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT AND TO KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY HOW THEY WERE GETTING THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD. >> I LOVE A FELLOW MTV ALUM.

STEWART’S ELECTION HERE OF MONDAY’S BEHIND THE DESK BEGINS THE DAY AFTER THE SUPER BOWL. FEBRUARY 12TH. MORGAN. >> AND THAT WAS ABC’S CHRIS CONNELLY. CHRIS, THANK YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS SO ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS XM HOST MIKE LEE IS JOINING ME NOW. MIKE, MY FRIEND, A OF

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS ONLINE. I MEAN, SOCIAL MEDIA LITERALLY BLEW UP YESTERDAY. JON STEWART, OF COURSE, VERY POPULAR AMONG GEN X AND MILLENNIALS LIKE MYSELF. WILL THIS COME BACK? SERIOUS APPEAL TO THE GEN Z AUDIENCE? >> FIRST OF ALL, I’M SO EXCITED TO BE ON WITH YOU. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS

THAT YOU’RE AWESOME. I THINK THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION THAT YOU ASK, AND PARTICULARLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST WHERE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSFER PORTAL. THE TRANSFER PORTAL IS SUCH A GEN Z, IT’S SUCH A MILLENNIAL, IT’S SUCH A USEFUL TERMINOLOGY. >> AND I THINK GOOD THING

ABOUT JON STEWART IS THAT HE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO MAKE GREAT TELEVISION. ALSO, TOO, KNOWS HIS AUDIENCE. HE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THE AUDIENCE TELEVISION IS TO MODERATING OUR SOCIAL DISCOURSE. SO I THINK HE WILL BE ABLE TO FIND A HOME. AND THEN BY ALL GENERATIONS TO WATCH THIS SHOW.

AND I WANT TO DIVE INTO THE CLIMATE BECAUSE CHRIS CONNOLLY WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT IN HIS PIECE. YOU KNOW, STEWART TAPED HIS FINAL EPISODE OF THE DAILY SHOW JUST HOURS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE BACK IN 2016, THAT ELECTION CYCLE. WHAT IMPACT COULD HIS VOICE AND MESSAGING HAVE ON THIS ELECTION CYCLE?

THAT’S A REALLY GREAT ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION, AND I SAW WHAT THE PREVIOUS GUEST WRITTEN MENTIONING IN TERMS OF WE’RE IN A MORE DIVISIVE, POLARIZING, MORE SENSITIVE CULTURE. >> BUT THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF COMEDY AND IN PARTICULAR, THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF SATIRICAL . THAT’S WHY DAVE CHAPPELLE IS ONE OF THE GREATS.

THAT’S WHY JON IS ONE OF THE GREATS WHEN YOU CAN GET SATIRE, RIGHT. COMEDY HELP MODERATE SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND TAKE VERY POLARIZING TOPICS BY, THOUGHTS, AND MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE FOR THE AUDIENCE TO RECEIVE. NO MATTER WHERE YOU SIT ON THE LINE OF HOW THAT JOKE IS DELIVERED.

AND HE IS ONE OF THE BEST TO HELP MODERATE THAT THROUGH THE LENS OF LAUGHTER. >> YEAH, AND HE’S DONE THAT SO WELL OVER HIS CAREER. STEPHEN COLBERT, JOHN OLIVER ALSO ROSE TO FAME BECAUSE OF THEIR TIME ON THE DAILY SHOW AS CORRESPONDENTS THEY’RE NOW SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR OWN LANE.

THEY’VE GOT THEIR OWN LATE NIGHT SHOWS ON TBS, HBO SERIOUS. THEY NOW COULD BE SEEN AS STEWART’S COMPETITION. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THEM? AS YOU KNOW, THIS COMPETITION KIND OF FIZZLES OUT HERE? I MEAN, WHY NOT GET THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN? THINK ABOUT THIS, THOUGH.

IT’S GOING TO BE A MONDAY SHOW, SO NOT A DAILY SHOW. AND AS KNOW, IT’S HARD TO GET INTO A CADENCE WHEN SOMETHING ISN’T DAILY. BUT WHEN IT’S WEEKLY, IT’S HARD TO CREATE DESTINATION TELEVISION. HE HAS A NAME THAT’S GOING TO HELP HIM. BUT I THINK HAVING THOSE ADDED CORRESPONDENTS AND GUESTS

WHO USED BE HERE, WHO HAVE THEIR OWN SHOW COMING BACK TOGETHER AGAIN, I THINK THAT IS A FUN MOMENT. AND WE KNOW JON STEWART IS ALL ABOUT PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES AND HAVING FUN. YEAH, IT WOULD BE SO GREAT TO SEE THE BAND GET BACK TOGETHER AGAIN AND IT’S SO

GREAT TO SEE YOU SO GREAT, MY FRIEND. >> YOU DO? YES. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST MIKE USE, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING. WELL, COMING UP WILL GANSS WILL BE JOINING US HERE TO SPILL ALL OF THE TEA ON WHO IS TEAMING UP ON TV AND WHO’S

SPLITTING THE NEXT SEASON. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY CITY WHERE THE CITY OF THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN A VET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE, THEY BRING ON.

SOMETIMES THEY HIT, SOMETIMES UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME BETTER ON THE EYES. MOST VENOMOUS. THIS IS I MADE MINE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. TONIGHT, THE CLEAN UP AFTER STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE.

MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION . >> “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID, YOU FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMPANY ON ABC NEWS. AND BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR INTERESTS. YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE.

THE NEW ABC NEWS APP, DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> SO FAR, GOOD. AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIFE FIRST. THAT IS THE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WITH HIS FIRST SINGLE TECHNICALLY THE SIX YEARS IT DROPPED OVERNIGHT IT IS CALLED SELFISH WILL HAVE MUCH MORE JUSTIN TOMORROW WITH A DROP WITH MEGAN RYTE BUT FOR

NOW IT IS TIME FOR THE TEE WHERE WE BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE BUZZY STORIES FROM PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT IT EVERYWHERE. OUR FRIEND WILL GANSS IS HERE TO HELP US OUT. WELL, STILL THE TEAM. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU BUST OUT THE PROPS, WHEN IT’S SERIOUS BUSINESS PEOPLE. ALL RIGHT.

DUST OFF THE MANOLO BLAHNIKS PEOPLE. CARRIE BRADSHAW IS BACK, AND THIS TIME SHE’S COMING TO NETFLIX. EVERY SEASON OF AND THE CITY WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON NETFLIX BEGINNING IN APRIL. AND THIS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL BECAUSE THE SERIES IS HBO PROPERTY. IT’S A SPINOFF.

AND JUST LIKE THAT IS GEARING FOR SEASON THREE ON HBO, OF COURSE, ON HBO, MAX. >> NO WORD. ON WHAT NETFLIX IS PAYING TO BRING TERRY, SAMANTHA, CHARLOTTE AND MIRANDA TO THEIR PLATFORM. YOU GOT TO IMAGINE THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY. BUT IF SUITS OR GRAY’S ARE ANY INDICATION, GEN-Z COULD BRING

AND THE CITY BACK AND MAKE IT EVEN THAN EVER. THIS IS WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING WHEN WE BRING OLD FRANCHISES TO NETFLIX, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE’S A BRAND NEW AUDIENCE. SO WE MIGHT BE TALKING A LOT ABOUT CARRIE BRADSHAW. NO COMPLAINTS THERE. AND I CERTAINLY ESPECIALLY WITH THE RAND THIS WEEKEND,

I KNOW WHAT I’LL BE DOING THIS WEEKEND WHILE WATCHING AND THE CITY. I LOVE IT. ALL RIGHT. THE ONLY DUO MORE UNLIKELY THAN AND, THE CITY AND NETFLIX, THOUGH. HOW ABOUT IOWA DEBRIS AND JENNIFER LOPEZ AS IOWA AND J.LO TEAMING UP FOR SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AS HOST AND MUSICAL GUEST, RESPECTIVELY.

OUR WHOLE TEAM WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME DOWN. THE NEWS IS COMING ON THE HEELS OF AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL AWARDS SEASON OUT. THE BEARS STAR BECOMING AN INTERNET ICON OF SORTS. AFTER SHUTTING DOWN WEIRD QUESTIONS ABOUT JEREMY ALLEN WHITE’S KLEIN PANTS AND PRETENDING TO BE FROM IRELAND.

IT’S A WHOLE SITUATION. TRUST ME TO EVEN THANKED IRELAND IN SEVERAL SPEECHES AT THIS POINT DURING AWARDS SEASON. MEANWHILE, J.LO IS GEARING UP FOR THE RELEASE OF HER NEW ALBUM, ANTHEM THIS IS ME NOW I OWN J.LO HIT THE STUDIO EIGHT H STAGE ON FEBRUARY THIRD. WE’VE GOT NEW MUSIC FM J.LO,

NEW MUSIC FROM JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. OVERNIGHT. THE MUSIC GUYS ARE LIKE, WHAT YEAR IS IT? IT FEELS LIKE IN 2010, 2001, MAYBE. YEAH, EXACTLY EXACTLY. BUT WE’RE THANKFUL FOR IT. WE’RE HERE FOR IT. ALL RIGHT. AND IT’S BARELY BEEN 24 HOURS SINCE THE EXPLOSIVE SEASON FOUR FINALE OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES

OF SALT LAKE CITY. AFTER BEING EXPOSED AS BRAINS BEHIND A TROLL ACCOUNT CALLED REALITY VON TEESE. MONICA GARCIA DID NOT APOLOGIZE TO HER CASTMATES AT, THE PART THREE REUNION THAT AIRED ON TUESDAY. IT’S HARD FOR ME TO FOCUS HEATHER GAZE DELIVERING THIS ICONIC MONOLOGUE. SHE DIDN’T APOLOGIZE TO COHEN

EITHER, AND NOW SHE’S FINALLY EXPLAINING WHY SHE DIDN’T DO ANY OF THAT BRAVO NEWCOMER TALKING TO THE CUT, EXPLAINING, QUOTE, I AM NOT GOING TO GIVE A FAKE APOLOGY. AT THAT MOMENT, I DID NOT HAVE IT IN ME TO APOLOGIZE. THE WOMEN WERE RELENTLESS. I FELT LIKE THEY STILL WEREN’T

WILLING TO HEAR ME. WHEN ASKED IF COMING BACK NEXT SEASON NOT COMING BACK NEXT SEASON WAS HER OWN DECISION, MONICA SAYS THAT WOULD BE A CAST AND BRAVO DECISION. IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MY DECISION NOW. REAL HOUSEWIVES EP, ANDY COHEN AND OTHER SHOW ACTS ARE TELLING VARIETY THAT MONICA IS NOT

COMING BACK SEASON FIVE. THEY FELT I KNOW THAT SHE SITUATION EXACTLY. SO I GUESS ANDY SAID THAT IF HAD BEEN ABLE TO SWAY EVEN ONE OTHER CAST MEMBER, THAT WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IF SHE COULD COME BACK BECAUSE THEN SHE HAS SOMEONE TO FILM SCENES WITH.

BUT AT THE END OF THAT REUNION, NONE OF THE WOMEN WERE HAVING IT. SO AND HE’S GOT THE FINAL SAY HERE. EXACTLY. SO MAYBE THERE’S A FUTURE IN WHICH SHE COMES BACK NOT FOR SEASON FIVE, BUT FOR SIX OR SEVEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE A TAMRA JUDGE SITUATION.

BUT FOR NOW, NO MONICA. ONE SEASON WONDER. ONE SEASON ONE. I LOVE THAT. ALL RIGHT. AND I’M GLAD YOU’RE WEARING PINK FOR THIS NEXT STORY BECAUSE. IT MATTERS. ALL RIGHT. JUDGE JUDY HAS BEEN A TV MAINSTAY SINCE 1996. TV GUIDE MAGAZINE NAMING HER THE HIGHEST PAID TV STAR

IN TEN YEARS AGO. SO IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT SHE HAS ANY PROFESSIONAL WHATSOEVER, AND YET SHE DOES. >> JUDY SHEINDLIN TELLING NEWS IT ALL HAS TO DO WITH REESE WITHERSPOON. TAKE A LOOK. MY ONE REGRET, ACTUALLY, WHICH IS A GOOD MOMENT FOR YOU WHEN SHE WAS DOING LEGALLY BLOND,

THEY REACHED OUT THROUGH SOMEONE AND SAID, WE’D LIKE YOU TO BE THE JUDGE. >> IT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER IN MY CAREER. >> I MEAN, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT WAS SO ICONIC. YEAH. IN 2017, FORBES REPORTED THAT SHE BROUGHT IN $147 MILLION THAT YEAR PRETAX.

SO IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT JUDGE JUDY, SHE’S DOING JUST FINE. SHE’S DOING JUST FINE. BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN KIND OF COOL TO SEE HER. AND AS FOR MY OUTFIT, I WOULD DEFINITELY WAS INSPIRED BY REESE WITHERSPOON. SO WE’LL DANCE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST LIKE A TART. AND THANK YOU.

OF COURSE FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M MORGAN NORWOOD, ABC NEWS LIVE. IT’S HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS NEITHER RELIEF. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE

ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEAL? WHY REVEAL IT NOW?

WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. LOOK WHO’S COMING TO AMERICA’S FAVORITE MORNING SHOW. SNOOP DOGG IS WITH MICHAEL LITTLE G TO WAKE UP WITH SNOOP. PLUS, JOHNSON IS HERE. TIME TO END THIS MORNING.

JIMMY OLIVER’S EATING THINGS UP ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TONIGHT ,THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR.

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKING YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. HE WAS A MARRIED MAN.

THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. THERE IS NO WAY THIS STORY IS TO END WELL. BAD ROMANCE THE 2020 LIMITED SERIES MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN GRAND CENTRAL ON ABC. >> FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMPANY ON THE ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR

INTERESTS. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON EVERYBODY THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS

ON ABC NEWS LIVE, BABY. HANK AARON SHOHEI OHTANI LEGENDS OF THE GAME. BUT NOW THE LIST OF GREATS REDEFINED FROM ABC NEWS RECLAIMED THE FORGOTTEN LEAGUE SIDE OF THE STORY OF BASEBALL YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE LIKE THIS. THE AWARD WINNING PODCAST IS BACK. LISTEN, WHEREVER YOU GET

YOUR PODCASTS OR THE QR CODES YOU SEE HERE. REPORTING FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ISOLATE AWAY. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE OR STREAM SOMEONE’S LIFE. >> I AM MORGAN NORWOOD TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIFE. FIRST TRUMP ON TRIAL. THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN COURT. HE COULD TESTIFY IN THE TRIAL

TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY DEFAMING WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF HE BREAKS THE JUDGE’S RULES. ALL EYES ON SOUTH CAROLINA. NIKKI HALEY HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN HER HOME STATE AND SHE IS RESISTING CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. ALL OF THIS AS PRESIDENT

BIDEN PICKS UP A BIG ENDORSEMENT. WE’LL TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS. THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. AND POWERFUL STORMS ON THE MOVE. MILLIONS IN THE SOUTH AND EAST ARE ON ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING. PLUS, MORE EXTREME FOG THIS MORNING FOR AT LEAST 25 STATES. THE QUESTION WE ALL WANT

TO KNOW, WHEN IS THAT BIG WARM UP GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING AT ALL? AND CHAIN REACTION OF GOOD MEAT . THE YOGA INSTRUCTOR MAKING EVERYONE FEEL WELCOME. HER DONATION BASED CLASSES HELP FIND A NEARBY CHILDREN’S BOOKSTORE. TODAY, SHE’S GETTING A SURPRISE GIFT. >> BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP OFF

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND BACK IN A COURTROOM. TRUMP IS ATTENDING HIS CIVIL TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE WILL HAVE TO PAY WRITER ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING HER. BACK IN 2019, WHEN HE DENIED HER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. ABC NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINS ME FROM OUTSIDE THE MANHATTAN COURTROOM, ALONG

WITH ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE ERIN. LET’S START WITH YOU. SO TRUMP SAID THAT HE WAS PLANNING TO TESTIFY BEFORE MONDAY’S WERE POSTPONED. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT WHETHER HE PLANS TO TAKE THE STAND TODAY? WELL, HE SAYS HE DOES. HE’S HERE.

HIS MOTORCADE ARRIVED A SHORT WHILE AGO. THE TRIAL IS JUST NOW GETTING UNDERWAY FOR A FOURTH DAY AFTER A POSTPONEMENT FOR A COVID SCARE. MORGAN BUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE AFTER E. JEAN CARROLL RESTED ITS CASE. THEY HAVE ONE MORE WITNESS TO CALL.

MAYBE SOME SOME DEPOSITION VIDEO TO PLAY OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND THEN THE DEFENSE IS GOING TO BE GETTING TRUMP’S TESTIMONY IS QUITE LIMITED BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY BEEN DETERMINED A PRIOR TRIAL THAT HE DID ASSAULTING JEAN CARROLL AND HE DID DEFAME HER. SO THE JUDGE SAYS THOSE THINGS

CANNOT BE RELITIGATED HERE. HE SAYS THIS TRIAL IS NOT A DO OVER. SO HE’S GOING TO BE LISTENING CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE TRUMP STAYS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF WHAT THE TRIAL’S ABOUT, WHICH IS MONEY, HOW MUCH MONEY, IF ANY, TRUMP SHOULD PAY E. JEAN CARROLL FOR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS HERE.

>> WE’RE NOT ARGUING THE FACTS HERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, JOHN CARROLL SAYS TRUMP IS STILL DEFAMING HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. ALSO ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHE’S SPEAKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION IN INCOMPETENT COMPENSATION. WHAT YOU HEARING FROM TRUMP’S TEAM ON THIS? >> WELL, LOOK, I MEAN, DONALD

TRUMP IS THAT YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CONTROL ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR NOT CONTROL IN PERSON. SO GOOD WITH THAT. THE REALITY IS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO DO AS HE’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO. THAT’S GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING. AS ERIN SAID IN THAT COURTROOM, WE’VE ALREADY THIS JUDGE HAS

SAID, LISTEN, I’LL THROW YOU OUT AND SHOW ME ACTUALLY RESPONDED SAYING, I’D LOVE THAT. THAT BE GREAT, BECAUSE THE REALITY IS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS USING THE COURTROOM AND THE CAMPAIGN TO MERGE AS QUICKLY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. SO AS LONG AS DONALD CAN FIND A WAY TO BE IN COURT, LOOK,

TODAY, HE HAS TO BE THERE BECAUSE HE’S GOING TO TAKE THE STAND. THE REALITY IS HE DIDN’T NEED TO BE THERE THE OTHER DAY. HE DIDN’T DO ANY OF THESE CASES SO FAR. THIS IS DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO MAKE THE POLITICS AND THE COURTHOUSE MATCH. YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY,

WHAT IS HIS STRATEGY? I MEAN, YOU MENTIONED THAT HE’S TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, MIRROR BOTH THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND IN THE COURTROOM HERE. LISTEN, IT’S TO PLAY THE VICTIM, RIGHT? IT’S THE WITCHHUNT. THIS IS YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO BE THERE, RIGHT. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING ME BECAUSE

THEY DON’T WANT ME TO GET BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE TO FIGHT FOR YOU. HIS SUPPORTERS. SO AS MUCH AS TRUMP CAN KEEP THAT TEMPERATURE UP, HE’S GOING TO DO IT FOR SURE. >> AND SO, BRIAN, I WANT TO ASK YOU THIS. WE KNOW COURT IS RESUMING AFTER A BRIEF PAUSE.

THERE WAS THAT COVID SCARE. HOW COULD THIS IMPACT THE CASE IN TERMS OF TIMING? >> IT WON’T IMPACT IT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT. WE HAVE THREE DAY PAUSES AFTER LONG WEEKENDS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC, WE HAD LONGER THAN THREE DAY PAUSES. SO I WOULDN’T ANTICIPATE A MISTRIAL, ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

>> IF ANYTHING, DURING THESE LAST ARGUMENTS OR EVEN CLOSING ARGUMENTS DOWN THE IT’S JUST A REFRESHER. REMIND THEM, HEY, IT’S BEEN A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN WE EXPECTED BUT REMEMBER, ON THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, AND THEN JUST REITERATE THE ARGUMENTS. >> ABSOLUTELY.

SO, AARON, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH JOHN. HOW COMBATIVE THIS THIS THESE HEARINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY THREATENED TO GET TRUMP OUT OF COURT IF HE IS DISRUPTIVE TRUMPS. HE’S ALSO NOT ALLOWED TO ARGUE THAT HE DIDN’T ABUSE. CAROL. THAT’S NOT THE ARGUMENT HERE.

WE’RE LITIGATING THAT IN COURT TODAY. WHAT HAPPENS IF TRUMP DEFIES THE JUDGE? >> THE STAND? WELL, I SUPPOSE THE JUDGE COULD SHUT DOWN HIS TESTIMONY. MORGAN COULD ALSO, IN THEORY, I SUPPOSE, HOLD TRUMP IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. WE’RE NOT SURE WHAT ANY OF THAT WOULD REALLY LOOK LIKE BECAUSE

ALL OF THIS IS KIND OF UNPRECEDENTED. AND I DON’T THINK THE JUDGES IS NOT GOING TO MAKE A SHOW OF THIS. BUT HE COULD WELL STOP. THERE COULD BE AN OBJECTION FROM AN ATTORNEY ON E. JEAN CARROLL SIDE TO STRIKE TRUMP’S ANSWER. BUT THE JURY IS TO HEAR IT NO MATTER WHAT.

YOU CAN ONLY HEAR SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT A WITNESS MOUTH, EVEN IF IT IS STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD. AARON KATERSKY, JOHN SANTUCCI AND BRIAN BUCKMIRE. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US. MEANWHILE, ONE OF TRUMP’S FORMER AIDES IS SET BE SENTENCED FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. PETER NAVARRO, CONVICTED FOR

REFUSING TO TESTIFY AND TURN OVER DOCUMENTS IN THE HOUSE. JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE. LET’S BRING IN SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS FOR MORE ON THIS. KATHERINE NAVARRO IS THE SECOND TRUMP ADVISER TO BE KNOWN TO BE CONVICTED FOR REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH THE COMMITTEE. STEVE BANNON, REMEMBER, WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? A SIMILAR SENTENCE TODAY? IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE TRACKING NOW? WE COULD A SIMILAR SENTENCE. SO CHARGED WITH THE SAME THING, THE SAME AMOUNT OF COUNTS HERE. PROSECUTORS RECOMMENDED THE SAME THING IN BOTH OF THESE CASES. THEY WANT PETER NAVARRO TO BE JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS.

THEY WANT HIM TO PAY A $200,000 FINE. OF COURSE, STEVE BANNON WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS. HE HAS A REPORTED TO PRISON. YET BANNON HASN’T BECAUSE HE IS APPEALING THIS CASE. SO CAN STAY OUT PENDING APPEAL. BUT WHAT’S INTERESTING HERE IS THE JUDGE WHO’S OVERSEEING THIS HAS HISTORICALLY SENTENCED TO BELOW THE GUIDELINES.

AND JANUARY SIX CASES. SO THE QUESTION, OF COURSE, IS HOW LONG DOES HE SENTENCE UP TO SIX MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS. IS IT LOWER THAN THAT? OF COURSE, THAT’S SOMETHING WE’RE NOW. WE CAN EXPECT THAT ANY SENTENCE THAT INVOLVES JAIL TIME THAT PETER NAVARRO WILL LIKELY APPEAL, THAT HE WILL BE

EXPECTED TO APPEAL THAT. AND THEN IT WILL PROBABLY LOOK SIMILAR TO STEVE BANNON. HE COULD MAYBE NOT GO TO JAIL AT ALL PENDING APPEAL. WE’LL JUST HAVE TO SEE. OF COURSE, COURT IN SESSION NOW. THE JUDGE WILL TAKE THE BENCH SOON AND HOLD THIS HEARING FOR THE SENTENCING.

SO WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT THIS IS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. AND WE KNOW THAT YOU’LL BE FOLLOWING IT ALL. SENIOR KATHERINE FAULDERS IN WASHINGTON. KATHERINE, THANK YOU. WELL, THE TWO PERSON FIGHT FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IS NOW MOVING TO SOUTH CAROLINA. NIKKI. SHE’S FOCUSING ON WINNING NEXT MONTH’S PRIMARY IN HER HOME

STATE. OF COURSE, THAT IS WHERE SHE SERVED AS GOVERNOR. DESPITE CALLS FROM TOP REPUBLICANS FOR TO DROP OUT OF THIS RACE. ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS THE LATEST FROM CHARLESTON. >> NIKKI HALEY HEADING STRAIGHT TO HER HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA RESISTING CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE.

>> WE ARE NOT GOING TO SIT AND JUST GIVE UP. WE’RE GOING TO SIT THERE AND WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT BECAUSE AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE IN THESE TWO OPTIONS. HALEY IS TRYING TO REBOUND AFTER TWO BACK TO BACK LOSSES IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE QUESTIONING DONALD TRUMP’S MENTAL FITNESS.

GET ON A DEBATE AND LET’S GO. BRING IT. DONALD. SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT. IN. CALLING OUT TRUMP’S VICTORY SPEECH WHERE HE UNLEASHED ON HIS FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR CALLING HER DELUSIONAL AND AN IMPOSTER HE PITCHED A FIT. >> HE WAS HE WAS INSULTING. I KNOW. THAT’S WHAT DOES WHEN HE IS

THREATENED AND HE SHOULD FEEL THREATENED WITHOUT A DOWN. >> BUT TRUMP THREATENING ANY PROSPECTIVE DONORS TO HALEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYING ANYBODY THAT MAKES A CONTRIBUTION WILL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. >> HALEY NOW CAMPAIGNING IN HER OWN BACKYARD. SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE, SERVING AS THE POPULAR

GOVERNOR FOR TWO TERMS. BUT SOUTH CAROLINA HAS SWUNG TOWARD TRUMP. >> HE’S GOT THE BACKING OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FEEL HIS HE’S TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION, ON THE ECONOMY. BUT I THINK NIKKI BRINGS MORE THE FOREIGN POLICY AREA. >> AIR FORCE VETERAN JANE LOMBARDO IS SUPPORTING BUT CONCEDES THIS IS TRUMP’S

TERRITORY. >> DO YOU THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE DOMINANT HERE? >> UNFORTUNATELY, YES BUT HE BRINGS IT. HE JUST BRINGS TOO BAGGAGE WITH IT. JAKE SAYS HE WILL END UP SUPPORTING THE EVENTUAL REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. AND PRESIDENT BIDEN NOW SAYING IT’S CLEAR THAT WILL BE DONALD GEARING UP FOR A REMATCH.

IT’S GREAT TO BE HOME. BIDEN WELCOMING THE ENDORSEMENT OF POWERFUL UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION FOUR MONTHS AFTER TRAVELING TO MICHIGAN TO WALK THE PICKET LINE WITH STRIKING WORKERS. I WANT TO I STAND IN SOLIDARITY HERE ON THE PICKET LINE AS YOUR PRESIDENT SAID. I WANT A PICKET LINE.

DONALD TRUMP WENT TO A NONUNION AND ATTACKED HUGH MORGAN, THE SOUTH CAROLINA STILL A FEW WEEKS AWAY. DONALD TRUMP HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE’S GOVERNOR. THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS HERE, EVEN MOST OF THE HOUSE MEMBERS AND THE RNC CHAIRWOMAN, RONNA MCDANIEL, WHO INITIALLY SAID THAT SHE WOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL IN THIS

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, IS NOW CALLING ON NIKKI HALEY TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. MORGAN AND WE KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN DEFIANT, SAYING SHE IS IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHAEL SCOTT IN CHARLESTON FOR US. RACHEL, THANK YOU. WELL, NOT TO THE WEATHER POWERFUL STORMS ON THE MOVE

ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY TODAY WITH FLOOD IN PLACE FROM TEXAS TO RHODE ISLAND. SOME AREAS COULD SEE AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES OF RAIN. ROB MARCIANO IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, WITH THE LATEST. >> TORRENTIAL RAIN SWAMPING LOUISIANA ROADS LEADING TO FLASH FLOOD, EMERGENCY WATER PRACTICALLY COVERING THE HOOD

OF THIS CAR IN MANDEVILLE. CARS GOING OUT. >> THIS DRIVER ENDING UP IN A DITCH. MILLIONS. >> THE SOUTH NOW FACING THE THREAT OF FLOODING HERE IN TEXAS. CARS CAUTIOUSLY NAVIGATING THIS FLOODED HIGHWAY UNDERPASS. THIS MAN HYDROPLANING, DRIVING OFF AN EMBANKMENT RIGHT INTO A RIVER. >> THE GROUND COLLAPSING AROUND

THIS MASSIVE SINKHOLE. AFTER ALL THE RAIN IN LIVINGSTON. THIS CAR BOBBING IN THE WATER IN JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. AFTER ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED UNDERPASS. >> AND IN THE MIDWEST, DRONE FOOTAGE CAPTURING HUGE CHUNKS OF, ICE BREAKING APART ON LAKE MICHIGAN. HEY, MORGAN, YOU KNOW, THE SNAP

BACK FROM THE COLD IS CERTAINLY WELCOME, BUT IT’S BRINGING ITS OWN SET OF PROBLEMS, AS WE CAN SEE, FOG, HEAVY RAIN. >> AND THAT RAIN IS GOING TO CONTINUE. WE’RE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE STORM WHEN IT HIT THE WEST COAST EARLIER WEEK, BRINGING THE BIG IMPACTS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ESPECIALLY.

OBVIOUSLY, A DYNAMIC WIRE TAPPING THE GULF OF MEXICO AND REALLY INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL WE’VE SEEN IN THE PAST 36 HOURS. AND THE SAME SPOTS, BECAUSE IT’S MOVING SO SLOWLY DOWN, I-10 WILL CONTINUE TO SEE NOT JUST SOME FLOODING RAIN TODAY, BUT POTENTIALLY SOME SEVERE WEATHER. AND THIS GETS UP INTO

THE NORTHEAST WITH A FLOOD THREAT THERE AS WELL, DOING CLOSE TO THE WEEKEND, MORGAN. >> AND WE KNOW YOU’LL KEEP AN EYE ON IT ALL. SENIOR METEOROLOGIST ROB MARCIANO. ROB, THANK YOU. WELL, COMING UP, HOW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS LIKE ARE IMPACTING WHO IS A CANDIDATE FOR BARIATRIC SURGERY AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE

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AND TODAY SHE’S HERE HER ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON TREASURY SAVINGS BONDS AND SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES. SO I’M ALEXIS STEPHANIE FROM NEW ASKS I’M TRYING TO CASH TREASURY SAVINGS BONDS THAT I GOT AS A KID AND HAVE NOT MATURED. NOT ONE OF MY THREE BANKS WERE HELD ACCOUNTABLE CASH THEM

AND WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE MONETARY GIFTS THAT I NOW CAN’T SEEM TO ACCESS ? >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, STEPHANIE, SADLY, YOUR RESEARCH IS CORRECT MANY BANKS WILL NOT CASH THOSE PAPER SAVINGS BONDS UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT WITH THEM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.

AND EVEN THEN, SOME BANKS WON’T DO IT. NOW, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS THAT I WAS ABLE TO FIND. WELLS FARGO AND TRUIST WILL CASH THOSE SAVINGS, EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT AN ACCOUNT HOLDER, AS LONG AS EACH BOND TOTALS THAN $1,000 AND YOU HAVE PROPER ID. OF COURSE, IF YOUR LAST NAME

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COPIES OF YOUR ID AND I’D RECOMMEND TAKING A PHOTO, SCANNING THE PAPER BONDS BEFORE MAILING THEM IN. >> AND REMEMBER, YOU GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAX ON THE INTEREST YOU EARN FROM THOSE SAVINGS BONDS. >> AND IF THE SAVINGS BOND IS DAMAGED, IT’S ALTERED

IN SOME WAY, YOU PROBABLY WON’T BE ABLE TO CASH IT. >> WORD OF CAUTION THERE. YEAH, GOOD TIPS THERE. OKAY. SO QUESTION NUMBER TWO. LORRAINE FROM VIRGINIA WRITES, MY HUSBAND AND I ARE SENIOR CITIZENS AND RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY. SO DO WE NEED TO FILE A TAX RETURN THIS YEAR?

>> THIS IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION AND ONE THAT CREATES A LOT OF CONFUSION. SO HERE’S THE STORY. >> ABOUT 40% OF SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS WILL HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON THOSE BENEFITS. IF YOU ARE 65 OR OLDER FILING AN INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURN OR, MARRIED, BUT FILING SEPARATELY AND YOUR INCOME’S MORE THAN

$15,700, YOU CAN EXPECT TO PAY TAXES ON YOUR BENEFIT. NOW, IF YOU’RE 65, MARRIED AND FILE A JOINT RETURN, YOUR INCOME HAS TO EXCEED $30,700 FOR YOU TO TYPICALLY HAVE TO FILE A RETURN. THE INCOME THRESHOLD LESS IF ONE SPOUSE THERE IS UNDER 65. >> NOW, IF THE ONLY INCOME

YOU RECEIVED IS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, THEN YOU TYPICALLY DON’T HAVE TO FILE A FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT REQUIRED TO FILE, IT COULD STILL WORTH YOUR WHILE. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU HAVE ANY TAX DEDUCTIONS THAT YOU COULD BENEFIT FROM THINGS LIKE

THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT OR THE CHILD TAX CREDIT, YOU COULD GET SOME MONEY BACK BY FILING. AND ONE THING YOU DON’T WANT TO DO, MORGAN, IS EVER MONEY ON THE TABLE WHEN YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THE IRS. >> ABSOLUTELY, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS THANK YOU. AND IF YOU WANT TO ASK

ALEXIS ANY PERSONAL FINANCE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN LEAVE A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AND SHE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION HERE ON THURSDAY. WELL, TODAY WE ARE TAKING A CLOSER AT THE REVOLUTION NOW UNDERWAY. AND WEIGHT LOSS MEDICINE, THE ROLE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY IS NOW CHANGING WITH THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW WEIGHT LOSS

DRUGS. >> BECKY WORLEY HAS MORE. TRAVIS ARMSTEAD SAYS HE’S FOUGHT HIS WEIGHT HIS WHOLE LIFE. >> MY WHOLE LIFE. >> OBESITY WAS PROBABLY ABOUT SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS OLD. MY HIGHEST WEIGHT WAS AT £450 BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT HE HAD TO LOSE. >> TRAVIS AND HIS DOCTORS DECIDED THAT BARIATRIC WAS

THE BEST OPTION. >> I JUST NEEDED THEIR LITTLE LOSS. I THINK IT HELPED ME A LOT MENTALLY. LIKE I’M PUTTING MY BODY THROUGH THIS AND YOU MAKE SURE THAT IT’S NOT ALL FOR NOTHING. >> TRAVIS IS NOW £170, A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER HIS SURGERY. >> 1,000% AFTER THESE SURGERIES

WORK BY REDUCING THE SIZE OF THE STOMACH. >> IT GOES APPROXIMATELY FROM THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE FOOTBALL TO THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF A BANANA. >> BARIATRIC. DR. CONSTANTINE SPANIELS OF STONYBROOK MEDICINE SAYS THAT IF PATIENTS HAVE A BMI OF 35 OR ABOVE OR A 30 BMI

WITH A CO-MORBIDITY LIKE DIABETES OR HEART DISEASE, THEY CAN BE A CANDIDATE FOR SURGERY. AND RESEARCH SHOWS IT CAN RESULT IN UP TO A 30% REDUCTION IN BODY MASS. AND CAN ADD 3 TO 5 YEARS TO A PATIENT’S LIFE. >> INSURANCE PLANS CONSIDER THIS A COVERED BENEFIT AND BECAUSE THE LONGEVITY

AND POSITIVE EFFECT HAVE BEEN PROVEN FOR DECADES. >> HE SAYS ONLY 1% OF ELIGIBLE PEOPLE GET THE SURGERY. BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE WITH A VERY HIGH BMI, SURGERY MAY BE A BETTER CHOICE THAN WEIGHT MEDICATIONS. >> WE NEED TO DO IS FIGURE OUT FOR EACH PATIENT WHAT IS THE RIGHT APPROACH.

AND I’M HAPPY THAT WE’RE IN A POSITION WE NOW HAVE MORE OPTIONS TO OFFER. >> AS SOMEONE WHO WORKS OBESITY MEDICINE, HOW ARE WE DOING AS A SOCIETY TAKING THE STIGMA OFF OF THIS MEDICAL CONDITION AND, TREATING IT LIKE THE REAL PHYSICAL ISSUE THAT IT IS THE STIGMA AND BIAS AGAINST WEIGHT

HAVE BEEN A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR YEARS. THE BEST THING THAT IS A BYPRODUCT OF, THE GOP ONE MEDICATIONS THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE IS THAT THAT STIGMA HAS BEEN SHATTERED TO A GREAT EXTENT. NOW, WE SPOKE TO A LOT OF DOCTORS ABOUT THIS SURGERY, INCLUDING OUR OWN DR.

JEN ASHTON, AND SOME OF THEIR POINTS ARE THAT BARIATRIC SURGERY IS DONE FOR A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM FDA APPROVED DIDN’T WORK. >> AND SHE SAYS IT’S NOT AN EASY WAY OUT. PATIENTS STILL NEED TO MAKE MASSIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES. BUT FORTUNATELY, SURGERY IS SHOWN TO HAVE IMMEDIATE POSITIVE METABOLIC EFFECTS,

LIKE REVERSING TYPE TWO DIABETES, THINGS THAT ARE INDEPENDENT OF WEIGHT LOSS. >> MORGAN BECKY, THANK YOU. COMING UP, THE HOMETOWN HERO WORKING TO HELP HER COMMUNITY. ONE YOGA POST AT A TIME FRIDAY NIGHT THERE. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM.

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RIGHT NOW. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BACK IN COURT TODAY TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY. WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL COURT IS RESUMING AFTER A THREE DAY PAUSE DUE TO A COVID SCARE. THIS TRIAL IS ONLY ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY, IF ANY, HE SHOULD TAKE YOUR OF DEFAMING HER IN

2019 AFTER SHE ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULTING HER. CAROL SAYS TRUMP STILL DEFAMING HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. SHE’S SEEKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP BEING RECALLED BECAUSE WHAT THE COMPANY CALLS POSSIBLE MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THIS RECALL APPLIES TO ROBITUSSIN. HONEY SMACKS BOTH DAY NIGHTTIME

FORMULAS FOR ADULTS. NOW, THE COMPANY SAYS THE PRODUCTS COULD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS WITH PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND SAYS ANYONE WITH THESE PRODUCTS SHOULD STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY. COMPANY ALSO SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF ILLNESS RELATED TO THAT PRODUCT. AND THERE’S A HUGE WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SHOWDOWN

IS HAPPENING TONIGHT NIGHT THREE LSU LADY TIGERS ARE HOSTING TOP RANKED SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAMES OF THE SEASON WITH TICKET PRICES ON THEIR BACK IN THAT UP SOME SEATS LISTEN TO THAT SELLING FOR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON THE SECONDARY

MARKET BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH THE FAA CLEARING THE WAY FOR BOEING MAX TO RESUME FLYING AS EARLY AS THIS WEEKEND. ALL OF THIS COMES AFTER THE FEDERAL AGENCY GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THE PLANES FOLLOWING ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT, WHICH LOST ONE OF ITS PILOTS MID-FLIGHT THIS MONTH. OUR TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT, GIO BENITEZ,

IS AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA WITH THE LATEST. THE FAA RELEASING ITS FINAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AIRLINES TO INSPECT MAX NINE UNITED, ALREADY SAYING IT’S PUTTING THE PLANES BACK IN THE AIR BY SUNDAY. ALASKA AIRLINES EVEN EARLIER FRIDAY. THIS AFTER THREE WEEKS OF INVESTIGATING THAT DOOR PLUG THAT FLEW OFF THE ALASKA

AIRLINES FLIGHT 16,000 FEET IN THE AIR. THE FAA LAYING OUT AN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS WHICH WILL REQUIRE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC BOLTS, GUIDE TRACKS AND FITTINGS AND DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF LEFT AND RIGHT, MID CABIN EXIT DOOR PLUGS. IT’S FOUR BOLTS, PROPERLY INSTALLED, PROPERLY.

AND IF THEY’RE IN AND THEY’RE PROPERLY INSPECTED, THESE AIRPLANES ARE AS SAFE AS ANY AIRPLANE IN THE SKY. THE FIX IS SIMPLE REGAINING THE TRUST OF THE FLYING PUBLIC IS THE HARDER PART. >> THE FAA ALSO TELLING BOEING IT CAN’T EXPAND ON PRODUCTION OF THE MAXS BEYOND WHAT’S ALREADY BEING BUILT UNTIL THERE

IS A FULL INVESTIGATION. THE NEWS COMING JUST HOURS AFTER BOEING CEO DAVE CALHOUN TOOK TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS ON CAPITOL HILL. I SAY PLANES, WE DON’T SAY AIRPLANES IN THE AIR, THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN THE MEETINGS. WE’RE AT BOEING’S BOEING CEO SAYS HE TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR.

THIS AND ASSURED ME THAT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE, WHICH I ON SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY REPORTERS ASKING CALHOUN ABOUT A SEATTLE TIMES REPORT CLAIMING THAT THE DOOR PLUG WAS ACTUALLY LAST INSTALLED BY BOEING, NOT FUSELAGE MANUFACTURER SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS. >> THANKS SO MUCH. >> CALHOUN WOULDN’T COMMENT. THE COMPANY POINTING US TO

THE NTSB. AND RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT, ALASKA AIRLINES AND UNITED ARE WORKING ON THOSE OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GET PLANES BACK IN THE AIR BY THIS WEEKEND. AND BOEING IS ACTUALLY GOING TO START PRODUCTION FOR TODAY. THEY’RE GOING TO PUT A PAUSE

ON IT JUST TO FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTROL. >> AND RENTON, WASHINGTON, AT THEIR FACTORY. AND THAT’S THE FOCUS HERE, QUALITY CONTROL. THAT’S WHAT THE FAA IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT VERY, VERY CLOSELY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS. MORGAN GOT IT. GIO BENITEZ AT REAGAN NATIONAL

AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA. JOE THANK YOU. WE TURN NOW TO BREAKING NEWS. AN ALABAMA MAN SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED TODAY IS MAKING A LAST DITCH APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT. CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH. YOU SEE HIM THERE SEEKING A STAY AND REVIEW OF HIS CLAIMS THAT USING NITROGEN GAS WOULD CONSTITUTE CRUEL

AND PUNISHMENT. THE SUPREME COURT HAD ORIGINALLY CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST EXECUTION, USING THE UNTESTED METHOD AFTER THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION, BUT COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE IN HIS VEINS. STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF. LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. WELL, SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES

ARE FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF CALLS TO MAKE THEIR PLATFORMS SAFER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. WE’VE BEEN ALL OVER THIS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WELL, NOW LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA HAVE APPROVED A MAJOR CRACKDOWN. THEY WANT THESE PLATFORMS OFF LIMITS TO KIDS ALTOGETHER. >> LAWMAKERS, FLORIDA APPROVING WHAT COULD BE THE MOST STRICT

REGULATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY. >> THE HOUSE PASSING A BILL THAT WOULD PROHIBIT ANYONE THE AGE OF 16 FROM SIGNING UP. FOR MOST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ,EVEN IF THEY HAVE THEIR PARENT’S APPROVAL. >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL LAW. EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN PARENT OR ATTUNED TEEN A HARD TIME

SHUTTING THE DOOR AGAINST THESE ADDICTIVE FEATURES. >> THE BILL TARGETING ANY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY, ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT OR USES ADDICTIVE FEATURES DESIGNED TO CAUSE COMPULSIVE USE. >> THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP. OPPONENTS SAY THE BILL INFRINGES ON PARENTAL AND WILL

FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK CITY, WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP AND CALL OUT THE DANGERS MEDIA LIKE THIS. >> MAYOR ERIC ADAMS DESIGNATING SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. WE CANNOT STAND BY AND LET

BIG TECH MONETIZE OUR CHILDREN’S PRIVACY AND JEOPARDIZE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. THE SURGEON GENERAL WARNING UP TO 95% OF YOUTH AGES 13 THROUGH 17 REPORT USING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WITH MORE THAN A THIRD SAYING THEY USE SOCIAL MEDIA ALMOST CONSTANTLY. >> AND TODAY ANNOUNCED NEW SAFETY AIMED AT TEENAGERS, INCLUDING RESTRICTING PRIVATE

MESSAGES FROM STRANGERS ALONG WITH PARENTAL CONTROLS. RIGHT NOW, WE WANT TO BRING IN ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL JOINING NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL, I’M CURIOUS, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS NEW CAN AFFECT KIDS MENTAL HEALTH? I MEAN, THERE’S BEEN A LOT

OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS, NOT JUST AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT ALSO THE FEDERAL LEVEL AS WELL AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND AMONG MANY CIRCLES IN NEUROSCIENCE, PEDIATRIC PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, BECAUSE WE DO SUSPECT THAT THIS SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION THAT PLAGUES SO MANY TEENS IS HAVING A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THEIR DEVELOPMENT.

>> NOW, WITH RESPECT TO HOW THIS BILL IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, HOW IT’S GOING TO BE ENFORCED, IT WILL BE ADHERED TO. THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT AT THE VERY LEAST THERE HOPEFULLY WILL BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES CAN DO AND PARENTS WILL PAY ATTENTION

TO THIS AND START TO THINK, WHAT CAN WE DO TO CURB SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN OUR YOUTH? >> SOCIAL MEDIA USE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEEN LINKED TO ISSUES WITH DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS, BODY IMAGE ISSUES. 90% OF TEENS IN ONE SURVEY ADMITTED THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS INTERFERING WITH THEIR SLEEP

. AND WE HEARD THE STATISTIC THAT ABOUT 97% OF TEENS USE SOCIAL MEDIA. SOME EVERY SINGLE DAY. >> WELL, DR. PATEL, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTERS OF THIS PARTICULAR PEOPLE AGAINST THIS THIS PARTICULAR MEASURE OR SUPPORTERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN GENERAL, THEY SAY THAT THERE ARE SOME BENEFITS TO SOCIAL

MEDIA WHEN IT COMES TO KIDS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE CONNECTION, CAMARADERIE YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT. WOULD THEY MISS OUT ON CERTAIN THINGS, THESE NEW RULES? I MEAN, WHAT’S YOUR ARGUMENT AGAINST THAT POTENTIALLY? >> AND I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

>> ANY TIME WE WE ABOUT THESE POTENTIAL BANS OR LIMITATIONS BECAUSE TEENS DO FEELING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION FINDING THERE PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> THIS IS ALSO AN OUTLET FOR CREATIVITY AND A LOT OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM THAT HELPS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD AND WHAT’S OUT THERE.

>> WE SAW THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC THAT MANY EDUCATORS FOUND CREATIVE USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO GET LESSONS INTO THE HANDS OF TEENS AS WELL. AND I WILL TELL YOU, WHEN I TALK TO MY PATIENTS, MANY PATIENTS WHO ARE LIVING WITH CERTAIN CHRONIC FIND EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY RIGHT THERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA APP.

>> SO I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THESE POINTS ARE PAID ATTENTION TO. AND WHEN PARENTS HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR TEENS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA USE THAT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SOME GOOD UTILITIES THERE AND IT TRULY IS, AS YOU MENTIONED, ALL ABOUT BALANCE. ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD

CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> WELL, COMING UP, WHY JON STEWART IS RETURNING TO THE DAILY SHOW FOR ELECTION SEASON. ALSO AHEAD, THE CRUISE GUY IS JOINING US FROM ABOARD THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP. NOW AT SEA TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND,

RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID MUIR, LOOK WHO’S COMING TO AMERICA’S FAVORITE MORNING SHOW. SNOOP DOGG IS WITH MICHAEL

ON WHERE TO JUST START TO WAKE UP WITH. PLUS, JOHN CENA’S HERE. MINE, TOO. AND THIS MORNING, JAMIE EATING THINGS UP ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. THINGS GO BACK TO THE SUPER BOWL AND IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT. MY LITTLE MORNING AMERICA FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS

SOURCE BECOMES THE ONLY ABC NEWS AND BREAKING NEWS VIDEO FASTER, SMARTER, AND IT CAN CUSTOMIZE YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS. IF YOU’VE BEEN IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. WITH ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT XPERI AS THE ALL NEW ABC NEWS APP, DOWNLOAD IT NOW! >> ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WINNER

OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL TELEVISION AT STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE TIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS ON ABC NEWS LIVE FROM THE CITY OF MEXICALI . THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LONG BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. RIGHT NOW.

SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WITH A BET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE NICKNAMED. SOMETIMES THEY HIT, SOMETIMES THEY MISS. ONE UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME VETERAN GUYS MOST MORNINGS. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” STREAMING ON HULU. AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE.

WELL, IT IS WAVE SEASON TO CELEBRITY CRUISES. WAVE SEASON IS KIND OF LIKE BLACK FRIDAY. YOU GOT CYBER MONDAY, PRESIDENTS DAY SALES AND IT’S ALL IN ONE. AND SO JOINING ME NOW, WE’VE GOT A REAL TREAT TO KICK US OFF . THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP IS STEWARD’S CHAIR,

AND HE’S KNOWN AS THE CRUISE GUY. YOU’VE GOT THE SUNGLASSES CLEARLY BY THE POOL. STUART, I AM JEALOUS YOU’RE ON ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S ICON OF THE SEAS. TELL US WHAT IT IS LIKE BEING ABOARD THAT SHIP. WE ARE SO JEALOUS OF YOU THIS MORNING. >> WELL, I CAN TELL YOU, AFTER

321 CRUISES, EVEN IMPRESSED I’M AT THE HIDEAWAY POOL AND IT’S THE FIRST INFINITY POOL ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S HAD. AND WE’RE ACTUALLY SUSPENDED ON DECK 16, 16 STORIES ABOVE THE OCEAN. AND IN THE FIRST POOL OF ITS KIND IN THE INDUSTRY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A 250,800 TON SHIP AND.

IT ONLY HOLDS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 50, 450 500 PASSENGERS, 7000 PEOPLE. BUT BECAUSE THE SHIP IS SO LARGE, THERE’S SO MUCH ROOM THAT IT’S UNBELIEVABLY EASY TO NAVIGATE. AND IT’S EVERY YEAR TO THE ROYAL CARIBBEAN BUILT OR REBUILT THEIR PRIVATE ISLAND IN THE BAHAMAS. AND IT’S LIKE THEY TOOK COCOCAY

AND PUT IT AT SEA. THE LARGEST WATERPARK IS HERE. YOU KNOW, THE SEVEN PORTHOLES, A TEN, NINE OR TEN JACUZZIS. AND THERE’S JUST SO MUCH TO DO. 40 RESTAURANTS AND BARS AROUND THE SHIP. SO, YOU KNOW, IT’S VERY HARD IN ONE WEEK TO BE ABLE TO DO

EVERYTHING THAT THIS SHIP HAS TO OFFER. >> DID YOU SAY 40 RESTAURANT AND BARS? MY GOODNESS, STUART, YOU SAID THAT YOU ALSO SAID THAT YOU’VE BEEN ON MORE THAN 300 CRUISES. THAT’S INCREDIBLE. SO WE KNOW IT’S THE BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD. THERE’S TO BE SOME PROS AND CONS THAT COME WITH THAT.

WHAT ELSE STANDS OUT TO YOU? >> WELL, THE, YOU KNOW, THE FEATURES, THE, YOU KNOW, BACK DECKS, SIX, SEVEN, THE BOARDWALK, THE CHAINS THAT IT’S A KIDS AREA. I MEAN, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE VACATION FOR FAMILIES. AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY ACTUALLY WOUND UP BUILDING THE AQUA DOME IN THE FRONT

OF THE SHIP. IT’S 893,000 CUBIC FEET OF SPACE. IT’S THE ROOF IS 20 FEET WIDER THAN THE ROTUNDA IN THE PANTHEON IN ROME. AND THERE THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, WATER SHOWS THAT DO TO ENTERTAIN. AND IT’S JUST A AN INCREDIBLE COMPLEX. BUT THERE’S JUST SO MANY AREAS

OF THE SHIP THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, WELL, IT’S OASIS CLASS AND IT’S NOT EVERYTHING ON THIS SHIP IS DIFFERENT. IMPROVE, UPGRADED. THERE’S SO MANY BRAND NEW AREAS AND I MEAN, JUST STANDING IN THE PAST OR CORRIDORS, YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE WIDTH OF THIS SHIP OF THE ROYAL PROMENADE.

ON THIS SHIP, THE WIDTH IS IS IS STAGGERING. AND THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT THEY HAVE ON BOARD, WHETHER THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, LIVE ROCK CONCERTS BY TRIBUTE BANDS, YOU KNOW TO BROADWAY SHOWS. I MEAN, THEY HAD THE WIZARD OF OZ. THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO THAT,

YOU KNOW, AGAIN, A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH. >> YEAH, FOR SURE. IT IS TRULY STUNNING AND GIGANTIC. OKAY. SO YOU THE CRUISE EXPERT FOR THOSE LOOKING TO BOOK A CRUISE THIS YEAR, WHETHER IT’S ON THE ICON OTHER SHIPS, WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO GO AHEAD AND CLICK THAT BOOK BUTTON?

WELL, WE’RE ACTUALLY IN THE PEAK BOOKING SEASON, BUT EVERYTHING IS OUT OF WHACK IN A SENSE THAT THERE’S JUST SUCH TREMENDOUS DEMAND THAT THE CRUISE LINES ARE MORE HEAVILY BOOKED THIS TIME OF YEAR THAN THEY’VE EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS INDUSTRY. NORMALLY, IT’S 45 TO 50%. BUT RIGHT NOW, THESE CRUISE

LINES, THE CRUISE COMPANIES ARE REPORTING OVER 66%, WHICH MEANS THERE’S LESS AVAILABILITY. BUT PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT CRUISING THIS YEAR, WHETHER IT’S THE CARIBBEAN, ALASKA, HEADING FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN. >> THEY’VE GOT TO BE MAKING PLANS NOW. AND ANOTHER QUESTION YOU WHAT MAKES A GOOD DEAL? >> I MEAN, SHOULD YOU LOOK FOR

AN ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE OR A LA CARTE? WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST? >> WELL, THE BEST THING TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, CONTACT YOUR CRUISE AGENT, MAKE SURE THEY’RE FAMILIAR WITH THE CRUISES, MAKE SURE THEY’RE EXPERIENCED AND, THEY’RE YOUR BEST ADVOCATE. BUT I ALWAYS RECOMMEND RESEARCHING ONLINE.

BUT DON’T BOOK ONLINE. YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU’RE GOING TO GET THE BEST DISCOUNTS. YOU NEVER KNOW. STUART, SHARON, THANK YOU. ABOARD ICON OF THE SEAS. AND AGAIN, WE ARE SUPER JEALOUS. APRIL FOUR UP FOR US UP THERE. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. FORMER DAILY HOST JON STEWART IS RETURNING AFTER NINE YEARS

TO HOST THE SATIRICAL NEWS TALK SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL. PARAMOUNT SAYS STEWART WILL HOST THE DAILY SHOW EVERY MONDAY STARTING NEXT MONTH DUE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. STEWART WILL ALSO SERVE AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. ABC’S CHRIS CONNELLY THE LATEST YEAR. THAT WAS THEN AND NOW HE’S BACK. >> WELL, AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT.

JON STEWART IS RETURNING TO THE DAILY SHOW, HOSTING ONE DAY A WEEK AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCING THROUGH THE 2024 ELECTION THE SAME SHOW WHERE ONCE HE REIGNED 17 YEARS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER IN MY LIFE. HELD A JOB BY 16 YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS. STEWART, WHO PLAYED SOCCER, WAS

A STUDENT AT WILLIAM AND MARY, COMPARING HIMSELF TO A COLLEGE ATHLETE IN HIS STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PROCLAIMING HIS DAILY SHOW LONGER WRITING AFTER MUCH REFLECTION, I HAVE DECIDED TO ENTER THE TRANSFER PORTAL FOR MY LAST YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY EXCITED FOR THE FUTURE. THAT FUTURE PUTS HIM BEFORE

A PUBLIC THAT MIGHT BE EVEN MORE DIVIDED AND CONTENTIOUS THAN THE LAST TIME HE WAS BEHIND THE DESK. >> PEOPLE’S HABITS HAVE CHANGED A LOT MORE POLITICAL AND MORE PRONE TO GET OFFENDED OR UPSET, SO IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE NAVIGATES TAKING UP HIS OLD JOB IN A VERY

NEW CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE. >> NOTWITHSTANDING, THAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS A SIGH OF RELIEF FROM COMEDY CENTRAL, WHICH, IN THE WAKE OF HOST TREVOR NOAH’S DEPARTURE, HAD YET TO ANNOUNCE A SUCCESSOR. ROY WOOD, JR. SEEN MOUTHING HIGHER A HOST AS NOAH ACCEPTED THE SHOW’S EMMY THIS MONTH. >> HEY, JON STEWART, WHERE

ARE YOU ON, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU FOR ME UP. >> THE NOW 60 ONE YEAR OLD STEWART COMING BACK TO THE SHOW THAT MADE HIM A CULTURAL FORCE ALL THE WAY UP FROM 1989 ONWARD ON THE DAILY SHOW. STEWART MAKING THE COMEDY CENTRAL SERIES INTO A SOURCE OF NEWS WHOSE REACH

AND INFLUENCE EXCEEDED TRADITIONAL TV’S, BECOMING A TRUSTED LEFT OF CENTER CONSCIENCE FOR HIS MANY DEVOTED FANS. >> HE CAME OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE NOT ONLY DEAD BROKE, BUT IN DEBT. I AM. >> I STILL GET EMOTIONAL JUST THINKING ABOUT JON STEWART RAN HIS CORRESPONDENCE. >> REALLY? I THINK VIEWERS BE MORE

SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT. AND KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GETTING THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT WORLD. >> I LOVE A FELLOW MTV ALUM, STEWART’S ELECTION HERE OF MONDAY’S BEHIND THE DESK BEGINS THE DAY AFTER THE SUPER BOWL. >> FEBRUARY 12TH.

MORGAN AND THAT WAS ABC’S CHRIS CONNELLY. CHRIS, THANK YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS. SO ABC NEWS AND SIRIUS XM HOST MIKE LEE IS JOINING ME NOW. MIKE, MY FRIEND, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS ONLINE. I MEAN, SOCIAL MEDIA LITERALLY BLEW UP YESTERDAY.

JON STEWART, OF COURSE, VERY POPULAR AMONG GEN X AND MILLENNIALS LIKE MYSELF. WILL THIS COMEBACK SIRIUS APPEAL TO THE GEN Z AUDIENCE? >> FIRST OF ALL, I’M SO EXCITED TO BE ON WITH YOU. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS. YOU’RE AWESOME. I THINK THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION THAT YOU ASK, AND PARTICULARLY

IF YOU LOOK AT HIS SOCIAL MEDIA POST WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSFER PORTAL, THE TRANSFER PORTAL IS SUCH A GEN Z, IT’S SUCH A MILLENNIAL, IT’S SUCH A USEFUL TERMINOLOGY . AND I THINK THE GOOD THING ABOUT JON STEWART IS THAT HE REALLY KNOWS TO MAKE GREAT TELEVISION. HE ALSO, TOO, KNOWS

HIS AUDIENCE. HE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THE AUDIENCE AND TELEVISION IS TO MODERATING OUR SOCIAL DISCOURSE. AND SO I THINK HE WILL BE ABLE TO FIND A HOME AND INVITE ALL DIFFERENT GENERATIONS TO WATCH THIS SHOW. AND I WANT TO DIVE INTO THE CLIMATE BECAUSE CHRIS CONNELLY WAS TALKING

ABOUT THAT IN HIS PIECE. YOU KNOW, STEWART TAPED HIS FINAL EPISODE OF THE DAILY SHOW JUST HOURS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE BACK IN 2016. THAT ELECTION CYCLE, WHAT IMPACT COULD HIS VOICE IN MESSAGING HAVE ON THIS ELECTION CYCLE? >> THAT’S REALLY GREAT. ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION. AND I SAW WHAT THE PREVIOUS

GUESTS WERE. AND IN TERMS OF WE’RE IN A MORE DIVISIVE, POLARIZING, MORE SENSITIVE CULTURE. BUT THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF COMEDY AND PARTICULARLY THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF SATIRIC COMEDY. THAT’S WHY DAVE CHAPPELLE IS ONE OF THE GREATS. THAT’S WHY JON IS ONE OF THE GREATS. WHEN YOU CAN GET SATIRE, RIGHT.

COMEDY CAN HELP MODERATE SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND TAKE VERY POLARIZING TOPICS BY THOUGHTS AND MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE FOR THE AUDIENCE TO RECEIVE NO MATTER WHERE. YOU SIT ON THE LINE OF HOW THAT JOKE IS DELIVERED. AND HE IS ONE OF THE BEST TO HELP MODERATE THAT THROUGH THE LENS OF LAUGHTER.

YEAH, AND HE’S DONE THAT SO WELL OVER HIS CAREER. STEPHEN COLBERT, JOHN OLIVER. THEY ALSO ROSE TO FAME BECAUSE OF THEIR TIME ON THE DAILY SHOW AS CORRESPONDENTS NOW SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR OWN LANE. THEY’VE GOT THEIR OWN LATE NIGHT SHOWS ON TBS, HBO CURIOUS. THEY NOW COULD BE SEEN AS STEWART’S COMPETITION.

WHAT CAN EXPECT FROM THEM? AS YOU KNOW, THIS COMPETITION KIND OF, YOU KNOW, FIZZLES OUT HERE. I MEAN, WHY NOT GET THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN? THINK ABOUT THIS, THOUGH. IT’S GOING TO BE A MONDAY SHOW, SO NOT A DAILY SHOW. AND AS YOU KNOW, IT’S HARD TO GET INTO A CADENCE WHEN

SOMETHING ISN’T DAILY, BUT WHEN IT’S WEEKLY, IT’S HARD TO CREATE DESTINATION TELEVISION. HE HAS A NAME THAT’S GOING TO HELP HIM. BUT I THINK HAVING THOSE ADDED CORRESPONDENTS AND GUESTS WHO USED TO BE HERE AS WE HAVE THEIR OWN SHOW COMING BACK TOGETHER AGAIN, I THINK THAT’S JUST A FUN MOMENT.

AND WE KNOW JON STEWART IS ABOUT PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES AND HAVING FUN. YEAH, IT WOULD BE SO GREAT TO SEE THE BAND GET BACK TOGETHER AGAIN AND SO GREAT TO SEE YOU. >> OH, GREAT, MY FRIEND. HERE’S HOW YOU DO. YES. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST MIKE MYERS.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING US. WELL, COMING UP, WELL, GUESTS WILL BE JOINING US HERE TO SPILL ALL OF THE TEA ON WHO’S TEAMING UP ON TV AND WHO’S SPLITSEWIVES. HOUSEWIVES, SALT LAKE CITY. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON,

IN BARCELONA, VALLE DE TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER

YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE. I HAVE A PACKED CONCERT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T. THIS IS MY TIME. INSIDE THE TENT IS A SLICE OF HUMAN FREEDOM. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS

THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE. WOW. >> TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE.

MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION . “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE

WATCHING SATURDAY ON NEWS LIVE? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS. I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS. MY FAVORITE. >> NOW, WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS? THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE

NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> ABC NEWS LIVE, BREAKING NEWS, EXCLUSIVES LIVE REPORTING

ACROSS THE GLOBE KEEPS STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTHOUSE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TERRY MORAN, WHEREVER THE NEWS IS, WILL TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> SO IF I COULD, I GUESS AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS. FIRST MET IS THE JUSTIN

TIMBERLAKE WITH HIS FIRST SINGLE HEAVILY THIS SIX YEARS IT DROPPED OVERNIGHT AND IS CALLED SELFISH WILL HAVE MUCH MORE ON JUSTIN TOMORROW WITH A DROP WITH MEGHAN RIGHT BUT FOR NOW IT IS TIME FOR THE TEE WHERE WE BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE BUZZY STORIES FROM. PEOPLE I LOVE TALKING ABOUT IT

EVERYWHERE. OUR FRIEND WILL GANSS IS HERE TO HELP US OUT. WILL STILL TO TAKE YOU NOW WHEN YOU BUST THE PROPS, THAT’S WHEN IT’S SERIOUS BUSINESS PEOPLE. ALL RIGHT, DUST OFF THE MANOLO BLAHNIKS PEOPLE. CARRIE BRADSHAW IS BACK. AND THIS TIME SHE’S COMING TO NETFLIX EVERY SEASON OF

AND THE CITY WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON NETFLIX BEGINNING IN APRIL. AND THIS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL BECAUSE THE SERIES IS AN HBO PROPERTY. >> IT’S SPINOFF AND JUST LIKE THAT IS GEARING UP FOR SEASON THREE ON HBO. OF COURSE ON HBO. MAX, NO WORD ON WHAT NETFLIX

IS PAYING TO. BRING CARRIE, SAMANTHA, CHARLOTTE AND MIRANDA TO THEIR PLATFORM. YOU GOT TO IMAGINE THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY. >> IF SUITS OR GRAY’S ANATOMY ARE ANY INDICATION, GEN-Z COULD BRING THE CITY BACK AND MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER THAN EVER. THIS IS WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING WHEN BRING OLD FRANCHISES

TO NETFLIX. ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE’S A BRAND NEW. SO WE MIGHT BE TALKING A LOT ABOUT CARRIE BRADSHAW. NO COMPLAINTS THERE. AND I CERTAINLY ESPECIALLY WITH THE RAND GOING THIS WEEKEND, I KNOW WHAT I’LL BE DOING THIS WEEKEND WAS WATCHING AND THE CITY. I LOVE IT. ALL RIGHT.

THE ONLY DUO MORE UNLIKELY THAN AND THE CITY AND NETFLIX, THOUGH. HOW ABOUT I WOULD DEBRIS AND JENNIFER LOPEZ IO AND J.LO TEAMING UP FOR SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AS HOST AND MUSICAL GUEST RESPECTIVELY. OUR WHOLE TEAM WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME DOWN.

THE NEWS IS COMING ON THE HEELS OF AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL AWARDS SEASON. TRY OUT THE BEAR STAR BECOMING AN INTERNET ICON OF SORTS. AFTER SHUTTING DOWN WEIRD QUESTIONS ABOUT JEREMY ALLEN WHITE’S CALVIN KLEIN PANTS AND PRETENDING TO BE FROM IRELAND, IT’S WHOLE SITUATION. TRUST ME. SHE EVEN THANKED IRELAND

IN SEVERAL SPEECHES AT THIS POINT DURING AWARDS SEASON. MEANWHILE, J.LO IS GEARING UP FOR THE RELEASE OF HER NEW ALBUM IN FILM. THIS IS ME NOW I OWN J.LO. HIT THE STUDIO H STAGE ON FEBRUARY 3RD. >> WE’VE GOT NEW MUSIC FROM J.LO AND, NEW MUSIC FROM JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE OVERNIGHT.

THE MUSIC GODS ARE LIKE, BLESS ,LIKE, YOU’RE INSANE. IT FEELS LIKE IT’S 20, 21. MAYBE NOT EXACTLY. EXACTLY. BUT WE’RE THANKFUL FOR IT. WE’RE HERE FOR IT. ALL RIGHT. AND IT’S BARELY BEEN 24 HOURS SINCE THE EXPLOSIVE SEASON FOUR FINALE OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY. AFTER BEING EXPOSED AS THE

BRAINS BEHIND A TROLL ACCOUNT CALLED REALITY VON TEESE, MONICA GARCIA DID NOT APOLOGIZE TO HER CAST MATES AT THE PART THREE REUNION THAT AIRED ON TUESDAY. IT’S HARD FOR ME TO FOCUS GAMES DELIVERING THIS ICONIC MONOLOGUE. SHE DIDN’T APOLOGIZE TO ANDY COHEN EITHER, AND NOW SHE’S FINALLY EXPLAINING WHY

SHE DIDN’T DO ANY OF THAT. RATHER THAN COME OUT TALKING TO THE COURT, EXPLAINING, QUOTE, I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE A FAKE APOLOGY. AT THAT MOMENT, I DID NOT HAVE IT IN ME TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE THE WOMEN WERE RELENTLESS. I FELT LIKE THEY STILL WEREN’T WILLING HEAR ME.

WHEN ASKED IF COMING BACK NEXT SEASON NOT, COMING BACK NEXT SEASON WAS HER OWN DECISION, MONICA SAYS THAT WOULD BE A CAST AND PROPER DECISION. IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MY DECISION NOW. REAL HOUSEWIVES EP, ANDY COHEN AND OTHER SHOW EXECS ARE TELLING VARIETY THAT MONICA IS NOT COMING BACK FOR SEASON FIVE.

>> THEY FELT, I KNOW THIS SITUATION. EXACTLY. SO I GUESS ANDY SAID THAT IF SHE HAD BEEN ABLE TO SWAY EVEN ONE OTHER CAST MEMBER, THAT WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IF SHE COULD COME BACK BECAUSE, THEN SHE HAS SOMEONE TO FILM SCENES WITH. BUT AT THE END OF THAT REUNION,

NONE OF WOMEN WERE HAVING IT. SO. AND HE’S GOT THE FINAL SAY HERE. EXACTLY SO MAYBE THERE’S A FUTURE IN WHICH SHE COMES BACK NOT FOR SEASON FIVE, BUT FOR SIX OR SEVEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE A TAMRA JUDGE SITUATION. BUT FOR NOW, NO MONICA. ONE SEASON WONDER ONE THINGS I WONDER.

I THAT. ALL RIGHT. AND I’M GLAD YOU’RE WEARING PINK FOR THIS NEXT STORY BECAUSE IT MATTERS. ALL RIGHT. JUDGE JUDY HAS BEEN A TV MAINSTAY SINCE 1996. TV MAGAZINE NAMING HER THE HIGHEST PAID TV STAR. TEN YEARS AGO. SO IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT SHE HAS ANY PROFESSIONAL

REGRETS WHATSOEVER, AND YET SHE DOES. JUDY SHEINDLIN TELLING NEWS. IT ALL HAS TO DO. IT’S REESE WITHERSPOON. TAKE A LOOK. MY ONE REGRET, ACTUALLY, WHICH IS A GOOD MOMENT FOR YOU WHEN SHE WAS DOING LEGALLY BLOND, THEY REACHED OUT THROUGH SOMEONE AND SAID, WE’D LIKE YOU TO BE THE JUDGE.

>> IT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER MET IN MY CAREER. I MEAN, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT WAS SO ICONIC. YEAH. IN 2017, FORBES REPORTED THAT SHE BROUGHT IN $147 MILLION THAT YEAR PRETAX. SO IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT JUDGES. SHE’S DOING JUST FINE. BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN KIND

OF COOL TO SEE HER. AND AS FOR MY OUTFIT, I WOULD DEFINITELY WAS INSPIRED BY REESE WITHERSPOON. SO WE’LL DANCE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST WHAT? >> LIKE IT’S HARD. AND THANK YOU, OF COURSE, FOR STREAMING US. I’M MORGAN NORWOOD, ABC NEWS LIVE TO SEE YOU ANYTIME IN THE LATEST

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HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY REVEALING? WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING? IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW.

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>> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWSROOM AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING US I’M MORGAN NORWOOD AND TODAY ON ABC NEWS FIRST TRUMP ON TRIAL THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN COURT. HE COULD TESTIFY IN THE TRIAL TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY FOR DEFAMING E. JEAN CARROLL WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF HE BREAKS THE JUDGE’S RULES? RELENTLESS BOMBARDMENT.

ISRAELI TANKS ADVANCE IN GAZA, LARGEST CITIES SHELLING AREAS AROUND TO HOSPITALS. ALL OF THIS AS VIDEOS SHOW THE IDF APPEARING TO CLEAR A BUFFER ON GAZA’S EASTERN BORDER. WE HAVE THE LATEST ON THE ISRAEL-HAMAS. AND POINTING FINGERS PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY CALLING FOR AN END TO A NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AFTER RUSSIA

ACCUSES UKRAINE OF SHOOTING A PLANE OUT OF THE SKY. UKRAINE ACCUSES RUSSIA OF DELIBERATE ACTIONS, ENDANGER THE LIVES OF P.O.W.S. THE NEW QUESTIONS AS RUSSIA SAYS IT’S RECOVERED THE BLACK BOXES. BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL NOW BACK IN A COURTROOM, TRUMP IS SEATED

AT THE DEFENSE TABLE OF A CIVIL TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE WILL HAVE TO PAY WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING IN 2019, WHEN HE DENIED HER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI JOINS ME NOW FOR. SO JOHN E. JEAN CARROLL

IS FORMER EDITOR AT ELLE MAGAZINE. WE KNOW TESTIFIED YOU KNOW SAID CAROL WAS BELOVED TO HER READERS, THE MOST PROMINENT COLUMNISTS AND THE SIGNIFICANT THAT TESTIMONY THIS AND I MEAN THE REALITY IS IS THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE JURY THAT HAVE NOT REALLY HEARD THE NAME E. JEAN CARROLL THEY KNOW DONALD TRUMP.

I MEAN, I THINK EVERYBODY IN AMERICA KNOWS WHO DONALD TRUMP IS AT THIS RATE. SO ANYBODY THAT CAN COME IN AND TALK TO THE CHARACTER OF WHO E. JEAN CARROLL IS THAT IS GOING TO HELP THE PLAINTIFFS CLAIM IN COURT. NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY JUST DID, BECAUSE

OBVIOUSLY JUST WRAPPED UP THE TESTIMONY THE PLAINTIFFS TEAM DID FOR E. JEAN CARROLL, THEY PLAYED A LOT OF STATEMENTS IN COURT. MORGAN FROM DONALD TRUMP USING HIS WORDS BOTH ON CAMERA AND HIS SOCIAL MEDIA POST AGAINST HIM AND THOSE POSTS THAT REALLY GOT DONALD TRUMP INTO TROUBLE. >> RIGHT?

THE WHOLE REASON WE’RE TO BEGIN WITH, BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING, I NEVER MADE ANY STATEMENTS ABOUT HIM. BUT AS WE KNOW, DONALD TRUMP’S TWITTER ACCOUNT AND ONCE UPON TIME WHEN HE USED TO USE IT, THAT WAS DONALD TRUMP. SECRET WEAPON OF CHOICE E. JEAN CARROLL CONSTANT FIGURE ON TRUMP’S TWITTER.

>> YEAH, AND TRUMP HAS SAID HE’S GOING TO TESTIFY. >> WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HEAR TODAY? WELL, THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT DONALD TRUMP REALLY GOING TO STAY IN A VERY TIGHT LANE. RIGHT. THE JUDGE HAS SAID, LOOK, WE’RE NOT ARGUING THE FACTS. THIS CASE THAT ALREADY HAPPENED

IN TRIAL ONE, THIS IS TRIAL TWO, BASICALLY, HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD TRUMP NEED TO PAY E. JEAN CARROLL FOR DEFAMATION? THAT IS A VERY NARROW LINE. SO IF TRUMP TRIES TO SAY, I DIDN’T, I NEVER, ETC.. BIG PROBLEM. AND THE JUDGE HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR ALREADY. LISTEN, AT ONE POINT WHEN WE

WERE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS TRIAL, PRIOR TO IT GETTING DELAYED, THE JUDGE ACTUALLY ADMONISHED TRUMP BECAUSE WAS MAKING COMMENTS, YOU KNOW, SAYING IT’S A WITCH HUNT, IT’S A HEAD JOB, ETC.. AND TRUMP SAID, I’LL THROW YOU OUT AT ONE POINT, JUDGE. NO I DID FIRES BACK FOR

TRUMP SAYING, WELL, I’D LOVE THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE IS ALL DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO STIR THE POT, TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE POLITICS AND THE CAMPAIGN COME INTO THIS COURTROOM? >> ABSOLUTELY. AND JOHN, STAY WITH ME FOR A SECOND BECAUSE WE JUST GOT ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AND PRODUCER OLIVIA RUBIN

AT THE COURTHOUSE RIGHT NOW AT THE MANHATTAN COURTROOM. OLIVIA, WHAT’S THE LATEST? WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT? WELL, EVERYONE IN THE COURTROOM IS JUST WAITING FOR E. JEAN CARROLL TEAM TO WRAP UP, FINISHING PUTTING A COUPLE PIECES OF EVIDENCE INTO THE RECORD. THEN THE CASE GETS TURNED OVER

TO DONALD TRUMP AND HE COULD FIRST UP TO TESTIFY IN HIS CASE. ACCORDING TO HIS ATTORNEY, DOMINIC CRAFT. AND THEY PLAN COME FORWARD. SO IT COULD BE DONALD TRUMP’S MOMENT ANY MOMENT. AND MIKE JOHNSON JUST HINTED AT THE QUESTION REALLY IS, WHAT IS HE GOING TO TESTIFY TO BECAUSE HE IS SO LIMITED.

MORGAN AND EXACTLY WHAT HE CAN SAY FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT JOHN JUST LAID OUT. AND IT HASN’T BEEN VERY FIERY BETWEEN HIM AND THE JUDGE. BUT TODAY WE’RE ACTUALLY QUITE A DIFFERENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE COURTROOM. HE’S VERY CALM. HE IS VERY SUBDUED. HE IS VERY RELAXED.

WE’RE NOT SEEING THE SAME OF FIERY MUTTERING UNDER HIS BREATH, REACTING TO EVERY WORD GOING ON IN THE COURTROOM. HE’S QUITE CALM, REALLY. THE ONLY TIME SAW HIM REACT WHEN THEY PLAYED A CLIP OF HIM A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO SAYING THAT HE DIDN’T E. JEAN CARROLL AND HE NODDED ALONG WITH HIS

OWN CLAP AND, SAID, THAT’S TRUE. SO WE’RE ALL SORT OF WAITING TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO GET UP ON TO THAT WITNESS STAND. AND AGAIN, IT REALLY COULD BE ANY MINUTE HERE. YEAH, WE KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE FOLLOWING GET IT FOR US. RUBIN AND JOHN SANTUCCI, THANK

YOU BOTH FOR WEIGHING IN ON THIS FROM THE COURTROOM AGAIN TO THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, TRUMP’S ONLY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT IN 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS FOCUSING HER ATTENTION ON SOUTH CAROLINA. OF COURSE, THAT IS WHERE SHE SERVED AS POPULAR TWO TERM GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY. SHE’S TRYING TO REBOUND FROM TWO BACK TO BACK LOSSES BOTH

IN IOWA AND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. AND SHE AND TRUMP GO HEAD TO HEAD IN HER HOME STATE FOR NEXT MONTH’S PRIMARY POLL. WE TAKE A LOOK AT AVERAGE SHOWS THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS POLLING 62% COMPARED TO HALEY’S 25%. SOUTH HAS AN OPEN PRIMARY, WHICH MEANS REGISTERED VOTERS CAN CAST A BALLOT IN EITHER

THE DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. WELL, MEANWHILE, ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, PRESIDENT BIDEN APPEARS TO BE FOCUSING HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN ON THE ECONOMY AND ABORTION RIGHTS. ALL OF THIS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, SEVERAL INITIATIVES TO PROTECT CONTRACEPTIVES, ABORTION, ACCESS, EMERGENCY ABORTION

CARE, WHILE MARKING 51 YEARS SINCE THE LANDMARK ROE V. WADE DECISION. ABC NEWS WHITE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE HERE. AND THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. SO YOU TALK WITH RADIO HOSTS ACROSS AMERICA EVERY SINGLE DAY . WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THE ABORTION ISSUE AND HOW BIDEN’S

ADMINISTRA IS MAKING THIS A TOP PRIORITY? >> YEAH. MORGAN THIS IS A REALLY BIG ISSUE WEEK BECAUSE THERE WAS CERTAINLY A SENSE THAT THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CAMPAIGN PIVOTED THE GENERAL ELECTION WITH THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. THE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT IT NOW LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP IS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

SO ESSENTIALLY, IT’S GAME ON. >> REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IS ONE BIG ISSUE THAT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SEES CENTER TO THEIR REELECTION MESSAGE. THIS WEEK, WE SAW VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN WISCONSIN ON A REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. SHE’S GOING TO BE TRAVELING ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY OVER

THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, LISTENING TO PEOPLE’S STORIES AND TALKING ABOUT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE AND WHAT THEY SAY A SECOND TERM OF DONALD TRUMP WOULD MEAN. AND THE PRESIDENT ALSO REALLY UP HIS CRITICISM OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT ON THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE AT A RALLY ON TUESDAY.

HE TALKED ABOUT DONALD TRUMP SPECIFICALLY NAME CHECKING HIM 14 TIMES, SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE PROUD TO HAVE PLAYED SUCH A BIG ROLE IN OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE BY NAMING THOSE THREE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. >> THEY FEEL THAT THIS IS BIG ISSUE FOR WOMEN VOTERS, YOUNG VOTERS. >> YOU’VE SEEN THAT IN

ELECTIONS AND IN MIDTERMS. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A LOT, OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS WE HEAD INTO THE ELECTION. AND ABSOLUTELY, HE SPEAKING OF ISSUES, IMMIGRATION ALSO A KEY ISSUE THIS ELECTION SEASON. TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT, YOU KNOW, HE’S DOUBLING DOWN

ON HIS DEMAND FOR STRONGER BORDER. HOW ARE THE NEGOTIATIONS GOING BETWEEN BIDEN AND CONGRESSIONAL OVER BORDER SECURITY? AND OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT’S PUSH FOR AID FOR UKRAINE? >> WE KNOW THAT’S BEEN A BIG TALKER. YEAH, IT’S ALL TIED TOGETHER. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT SUPPORT AID

FOR UNTIL THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT BORDER POLICY CHANGES AND THOSE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEEN GOING ON NOW FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. >> IT SEEMED THIS WEEK LIKE THEY WERE INCHING CLOSER TO THE FINISH LINE. THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD ME JUST TWO DAYS AGO THAT THEY WERE VERY OPTIMISTIC, THAT THEY WERE GETTING CLOSER TO BEING ABLE

TO ANNOUNCE AN AGREEMENT. BUT RIGHT NOW, IT IS LOOKING LIKE THINGS A LITTLE BIT MORE PRECARIOUS. THERE IS NO DEAL TO ANNOUNCE. THERE’S NO BILL TEXT. THE APPROPRIATORS HAVE BEEN MEETING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS, THE MONEY THAT WOULD BE PUT TOWARD ANY AGREEMENT ON THESE MAJOR.

BUT MORGAN, WE DON’T EVEN HAVE DETAILS OF WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT YET. THEY’VE BEEN IT SO CLOSE AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THERE ARE SOME REPORTS, THOUGH, THAT NOW REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THAT MAYBE THEY WOULD WALK AWAY FROM THESE CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THIS IS SUCH A BIG

POLITICAL ISSUE AND IT IS ONE THAT DONALD TRUMP, AS THE LIKELY REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, LIKE TO BE CAMPAIGNING ON OVER THE NEXT YEAR. AND IF THERE IS A BIG BIPARTISAN BORDER AGREEMENT, THAT, OF COURSE, IS SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD CLAIM AS A WIN . >> AND THAT NEUTRALIZES AN ARGUMENT THEN FOR

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. AND WE’LL SEE HOW ALL OF THIS PLAYS OUT HERE IN TRAVERSE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR US. KAREN, THANK. AND TURNING NOW TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE. RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARE POINTING FINGERS AT, EACH ACCUSING EACH OTHER OF BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR A DEADLY PLANE CRASH.

THE KREMLIN SAYS UKRAINE SHOT DOWN ONE OF ITS MILITARY PLANES CARRYING UKRAINIAN PRISONERS OF WAR NEAR THE BORDER. NOW, UKRAINE NOT DENYING IT, SHOT DOWN THE PLANE, BUT IT SAYS RUSSIA DIDN’T FOLLOW ESTABLISHED PROTOCOLS TO ENSURE THE PLANE’S SAFETY. WELL, NOW PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY IS CALLING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION, BUT SAYING HOLD

UP, IT’S RECOVERED THE PLANE’S BLACK BOXES AND IT’S INVESTIGATING ITS OWN. >> SO WE BRING IN ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER SENIOR CIA FIELD OPERATIVE DARRELL BLOCKER JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE. SO, DARYL, UKRAINIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SAYS IT WAS INFORMED OF THE NEED TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF AIRSPACE WHERE

THE PLANE WENT DOWN AND HAS APPARENTLY HAPPENED DURING PREVIOUS PRISONER SWAPS. THEY SAY RUSSIA MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF THESE PRISONERS. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL OF THIS AND? HOW DO THESE EXCHANGES USUALLY WORK? WALK US THROUGH THAT. >> SO THE FOG OF WAR, FIRST

OF ALL, MORGAN, IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT’S CONTRIBUTING TO THIS. >> THERE’S MISSILES FLYING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE BORDERS. THE COULDN’T DEFINITIVELY SAY THAT THEY DIDN’T DO IT. >> SO IT’S BEST TO SAY ANYTHING. BUT BY CALLING IN FOR INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THIS, I THINK THEY’RE FAIRLY CERTAIN

THAT THEY DIDN’T DO IT. BUT THEY ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THEMSELVES BETWEEN THE WARRING PARTIES, BETWEEN THE UKRAINIANS AND THE RUSSIANS. A STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR PRISONER SWAPS, WHICH THEY’VE DONE IN THE PAST. AND APPARENTLY THIS ONE DID NOT ADHERE TO THE PAST PRACTICES. >> AND SO THERE IN BOTH OF THESE COUNTRIES, YOU KNOW,

KIND OF POINT THE FINGER AT EACH OTHER. RUSSIA, NO SECRET, HAS LONG BEEN ACCUSED OF USING THIS INFORMATION IN WARFARE. CURIOUS, HOW COULD THIS IMPACT THE TRAJECTORY OF THE WAR? >> WELL, WHAT’S INTERESTING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS DISINFORMATION MASQUERADE STUFF, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, DENIAL OPERATIONS DATES

BACK TO THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR OF 1917 TO 22. IT CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR VICTORIES, THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, THE PRAGUE, AND OF COURSE, CONTINUES TO TODAY. BUT UKRAINE, OF COURSE, WAS A PART OF RUSSIA FOR A LARGE PART OF THAT. >> SO THEY BOTH KNOW THAT MISINFORMATION WORKS.

>> AND WHAT IT DOESN’T WORK IS TIME. >> WITH TIME ALL FALLS, FALSITIES CAN BE UNCOVERED. AND I THINK THIS THIS IS EITHER TRAGIC OR CERTAINLY SOMEONE MADE A EVEN BIGGER MISTAKE BY SHOOTING DOWN INNOCENT PEOPLE. >> AND OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT RUSSIA HAS RECOVERED THESE BLACK MASK BLACK BOXES.

WE’LL SEE HOW ALL OF THIS PLAYS OUT THERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER SENIOR CIA FIELD OPERATIVE DARRELL BLOCKER. AGAIN, THANK YOU. WELL, WITNESS TESTIMONY IS NOW UNDERWAY IN THE TRIAL OF THE MOTHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER. SHE’S THE FIRST THE FIRST

WITNESS TO TAKE THE STAND WAS TEACHER MOLLY DARNELL, WHO WAS SHOT. JENNIFER CONNELLY AND HER HUSBAND ARE THE FIRST PARENTS TO BE CHARGED IN SHOOTING CARRIED OUT BY THEIR CHILD, ETHAN, THEIR SON. HE SHOT AND KILLED STUDENTS AT THIS HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN 2021. NOW, THE COUPLE BEING TRIED

SEPARATELY WITH THE MOTHER ON TRIAL FIRST AFTER TWO YEARS OF DELAYS. ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR JOINS ME NOW BRIAN BUCKMIRE. SO, BRIAN, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN COURT TODAY? SO TODAY WE ONLY HAD OPENING STATEMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION STARTING OFF THE VERY POWERFUL LINE OF SAYING THAT THIS WAS

THE UNIMAGINABLE BECOMING. AND THAT’S A LOT OF THEIR ARGUMENT THAT THIS WAS FORESEEABLE. THE DEFENSE PUSHING, I DON’T THINK, IN A SMART WAY, STARTING OFF WITH THE TAYLOR SWIFT LINE SAYING THAT BAND-AIDS DON’T FIX BULLET HOLES, ARGUING THAT THIS IS A POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, SO TO SPEAK, TO TRY TO SOLVE

THE ISSUES OF SCHOOL SHOOTING BY GOING THIS PARENTS. AND AS YOU SAID, THE FIRST WITNESS TAKING THE STAND, A TEACHER THERE WHO WAS INJURED IN THIS SHOOTING. >> KIND OF GIVING US A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HAPPENED. AND SO, BRIAN, WHAT DOES THE PROSECUTION HAVE TO PROVE FOR A JURY TO FIND CONNELLY

GUILTY HERE? SO IT’S FOUR KIND OF LIKE PILLARS HERE. ONE THAT THEY PRESENTED DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY WAS THE SHEER . THE SECOND THAT THE DANGER WAS APPARENT TO THE ORDINARY MIND. THE THIRD BEING THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLY NEGLECTED TO ADDRESS OR DIVERT THAT DANGER AND THAT THAT DANGER RESULTED IN THE

DEATHS OF FOUR PEOPLE. >> AND WE’RE JUST TALKING ABOUT OPENING STATEMENTS HERE FROM THE DEFENSE LAWYERS. WE HEARD THAT JENNIFER CONNELLY WILL TESTIFY IN HER OWN DEFENSE . >> WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS AND WHAT DO WE EXPECT TO HEAR? I THINK THE HEART OF THIS CASE, ALONG FROM THE POINTING

THE FINGER AT THE SCHOOL, POINTING THE FINGER AT JAMES CRIMINALLY, THAT’S WHY THIS CASE IS A SEPARATE AND HAVE TO POINT THE FINGER. EVERYONE ELSE IS SAYING THIS WASN’T FORESEEABLE THAT SHE DIDN’T SEE THIS HAPPEN, THAT SHE WASN’T GIVEN THE INFORMATION TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS A REAL ISSUE WITH HER SON.

AND ALSO, CONTEXT IS A BIG THING. AND OPENING, THE DEFENSE SAID WE ALL HAVE SEEN THESE HEADLINES OF THESE TEXT MESSAGES AND THESE CALLS FROM THE MOTHER TO THE CHILD IN THE SCHOOL. BUT WITHIN THE CONTEXT, WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SEE MORE. ALL RIGHT, LET’S ZOOM IN HERE OR ZOOM OUT, RATHER.

THIS IS A LANDMARK CASE, RIGHT? SO WHAT KIND OF PRECEDENT COULD BE SET AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FROM HERE? I THINK IT’S ABOUT RED FLAGS THAT IF THESE PARENTS ARE FOUND GUILTY, THERE WILL BE A LIST OF SAYING, HERE ARE THESE RED FLAGS. AND IF PARENTS DO NOT OBSERVE

THEM AND ADDRESS THEM, THEN THE DANGERS COME FROM THEIR CHILDREN. AND IGNORING THESE RED FLAGS COULD RESULT IN MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES NOT ONLY IN MICHIGAN, BUT POTENTIALLY IN OTHER STATES IN THIS COUNTRY. ALL RIGHT. ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE FOR US ON THIS CASE. THANK YOU. WELL, STILL TO COME,

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>> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST.

STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY, WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS?

>> THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT

A NEWS PODCAST WORTH TO YOU. START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> START HERE AND WELCOME BACK INTO ABC NEWS. FIRST, RESIDENTS IN GAZA SAY THE REGION’S MAIN SOUTHERN

CITY, HONG YUNIS, IS NOW SURROUNDED BY ARMED ISRAELI FORCES AND UNDER ALMOST NONSTOP FIRE AS ISRAEL TRIES TO TAKE UP HAMAS’S MAIN STRONGHOLD IN THE SOUTH. ALL OF THIS AS THE U.N. SAYS ITS TRAINING CENTER WHERE HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE TAKING SHELTER IN THE AREA, HAS BEEN HIT. CHIEF NATIONAL

CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN JOINS ME NOW FROM TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, FOR MORE ON THIS. MATT, THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS, THERE ARE SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT TRYING TO GET ANOTHER PAUSE IN PLACE TO END THE FIGHTING TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE REMAINING HOSTAGES. SO WHAT IS THE LATEST ON THAT?

MORGAN BRAD MCGURK IS IN THE REGION. HE’S BEEN BOUNCING BETWEEN QATAR AND EGYPT. HE’S THE U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY. HE’S BEEN DELEGATED TO TRYING TO JUMPSTART THESE TALKS. THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF OFFERS SENT BACK AND REJECTED BETWEEN HAMAS, ISRAEL, THE LATEST ONE, WHICH APPARENTLY WAS REJECTED

BY HAMAS, OFFERED A TWO MONTH CEASE FIRE BY ISRAEL IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES. ABOUT 100 OF THEM ARE BELIEVED TO STILL BE ALIVE IN PHASES. AND THAT WOULD ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTAIN NUMBER PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN ISRAELI JAILS BEING RELEASED AS WELL. UNCLEAR TO WHERE THE BIG HANG

UP AT THIS POINT IS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED. WHO WOULD RELEASED AND THE LENGTH OF THE CEASE FIRE. HAMAS WANTS ISRAEL OUT OF THE GAZA STRIP ENTIRELY A FULL WITHDRAWAL BEFORE EVEN TALKS BEGIN AND THEY CAN RELEASE HOSTAGES. ISRAEL SAYING NO WAY, WE WANT

A PHASED WITHDRAWAL AND WE WANT EVERYBODY OUT AND THIS IS GOING TO JUST BE A TEMPORARY THING. BUT AGAIN, BOTH SIDES SEEM TO BE INCHING TOWARDS IT. THERE IS MOUNTING PRESSURE ON ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE ACTIONS ALMOST EVERY DAY BY THE FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES

BARRICADING THEMSELVES IN ONE OF ISRAEL’S MAJOR HIGHWAYS, POSTING UP RIGHT. HIS RESIDENCE IN JERUSALEM, HIS RESIDENCE IN CAESAREA, JUST NORTH OF TEL AVIV. THEY’RE TRYING TO AMP UP THE PRESSURE AND MAKE MORE AWARENESS TO THE FACT THAT THESE HOSTAGES ARE STILL THERE. THEY’RE LANGUISHING AND THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE A LOT LONGER.

MORGAN. AND MATT, BEFORE I LET YOU GO, THE UN’S TOP COURT IS EXPECTED TO RWANDA CASE AGAINST ISRAEL TOMORROW. ISRAEL NORMALLY CONSIDERS UN AND INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS UNFAIR AND BIASED. >> HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS CASE AND WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING OUT FOR? THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE AN

INTERIM RULING IN WHICH THE ICJ WILL SAY WHETHER IT BELIEVES THAT THERE IS EVEN ANY FOUNDATION IN THE ALLEGATION BY SOUTH THAT ISRAEL COMMITTED . AND IF THEY FIND THEY COME TO THAT FINDING, THEN IT’S POSSIBLE THEY’LL ASK THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL TO DEMAND THAT ISRAEL CEASE FIRE IMMEDIATELY.

BUT THAT WOULD LIKELY BE VETOED BY THE U.S. STILL, ISRAEL IS TAKING THAT VERY SERIOUSLY. BUT I THINK WHAT’S BECOME CLEAR SO FAR IS THAT THE ONLY THING THAT IS TO STOP THIS CONFLICT AT THIS POINT IS A NEGOTIATED CEASE BASED ON AN EXCHANGE OF ISRAEL PULLING OUT

TO SOME DEGREE, THE GAZA STRIP AND THEN GETTING IN EXCHANGE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOSTAGES, THEY HOPE ALL OF THEM. BUT THAT’S PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY THING RIGHT NOW THAT’S GOING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE, NOT AS MUCH. THE ICJ, OF COURSE, IT WOULD LOOK VERY BADLY FOR ISRAEL IF

THEY COME BACK WITH THE RULING THAT ISRAEL DID IN SOME WAY COMMIT . MORGAN AND WE KNOW THAT YOU’VE GOT EYES ON IT. CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN IN TEL AVIV FOR US. MATT THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, WE’RE LEARNING NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PALESTINIAN TEENAGER KILLED IN THE WEST BANK BY ISRAELI POLICE.

A WITNESS WHO WAS IN A VEHICLE WITH TAWFIK JABBAR AT THE TIME SAYS THE SHOOTING WAS UNPROVOKED. ISRAELI POLICE INITIALLY SAID THEY WERE TARGETING PEOPLE THROWING ROCKS. AND THAT WITNESS ACCOUNT IS ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE STORY. NOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS DEMANDING A TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION INTO HIS DEATH. TELL UNCLE MUHAMMAD.

ABDUL-JABBAR JOINS ME NOW FROM NEW ORLEANS. MOHAMMED, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING. AND I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW DIFFICULT THIS MUST BE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. SO APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE WITH US. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR NEPHEW ANYMORE MORE?

GOOD MORNING, FIRST OF ALL, AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME ON YOUR SHOW. SO FAR, WE’RE HEARING THAT IT’S AN ONGOING AND THEY SAY THAT THE KILLER WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE’VE GOTTEN ZERO DETAILS AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT ABANDON

THEIR MISSIONS IN THEIR COUNTRY AND KEEPS PRESSURING THEM TO DO A FULL, TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION TO BRING THE KILLERS TO JUSTICE. >> AND MOHAMMED, YOUR FAMILY SAYS U.S. EMBASSY OFFICIALS VISITED THE VILLAGE IN THE WEST BANK. THEY PHOTOGRAPHED THE CAR AND EVEN INTERVIEWED RELATIVES. >> WHAT ARE YOU HOPING COMES

OUT OF THIS INVESTIGATION? >> I JUST HOPE IT DOESN’T GO IN VAIN. AND AWARENESS IS BROUGHT TO THE ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ESPECIALLY IN WEST BANK, IN SYRIA, IN PALESTINE, IN THE WEST BANK, AND SURROUNDING AREAS. >> IT’S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO USE.

AND IN THE END, WE WANT WE WANT THIS TO BRING AWARENESS WHERE IT WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN TO AVOID TO HAPPEN TO ANYBODY ELSE. >> I’M NOT GOING TO CAN’T IMAGINE THE HEARTBREAK THAT YOU ,YOUR FAMILY ARE FEELING. MOHAMMED, YOU LIVE HERE IN THE U.S., IN NEW ORLEANS, WHERE

YOUR TARIQ WAS BORN AND RAISED. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE AT HOME TO KNOW ABOUT THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR AND WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE ? >> I MEAN, ISRAEL, HAMAS IS IN GAZA, ALL DIFFERENT TERRITORY IN THE WEST BANK, BUT IT’S IT’S — IT’S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR 75 YEARS.

IT’S I MEAN, THERE’S NO OTHER WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE OTHER THING, THAT BEING A . >> I MEAN, IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. IT’S — IT’S CLEANSING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OF PALESTINE BY KILLING US IN THIS WAY, JAILING THEM AND INHUMANE PRISONS, BRINGING AWARENESS TO THE WHOLE SITUATION.

>> AND AGAIN, I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT YOUR FAMILY IS GOING THROUGH. >> BUT IF YOU COULD JUST TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT. >> WHAT WAS HE LIKE AND WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS COUNTRY TO KNOW? HE WAS A LOVELY KID AND HE’S SUCCESSFUL IN BIG BOY LIKE A BIG TEDDY BEAR.

>> SOMEBODY WOULD LOVE TO HUG. HE WAS FUNNY, GOOFY, ALWAYS SMILING AND, LIGHTS UP THE ROOM WHEN HE WALKS. AND HE BROUGHT A LOT OF JOY TO THIS FAMILY AND TO THIS COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY. A LOT OF JOY THAT THAT WILL BE MISSED IN OUR SO. MOHAMMED JABBAR, THANK YOU SO

MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND OF COURSE, FOR KEEPING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN OUR THOUGHTS. AND A REMINDER THAT THE INTERNATIONAL WILL BE MAKING THAT RULING TOMORROW. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. STAY WITH US. >> TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW SPREADING THE WEST COAST.

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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH IS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. FRESH OFF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND IS TAKING THE REINS OF THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS. ABC’S WILL REEVE HAS THE LATEST. WHO’S GOT IT BETTER THAN JIM HARBAUGH. >> FRESH OFF RETURNING MICHIGAN TO GLORY WITH THE NATIONAL.

HE’S BOLTING TO THE NFL AGREEING TO A REPORTED FIVE YEAR DEAL TO COACH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS. HARBAUGH SPENT NINE YEARS AS THE COACH AT HIS ALMA MATER. HE WON 89 GAMES. >> HE LOST HIS 25. HE’D COME TO BE PRACTICALLY IN ANNE ARBOR. BUT THE ALLURE OF RETURNING

TO THE NFL PROVED STRONG. ONE DECIDING FACTOR FOR HARBAUGH TO MAKE THE JUMP AND BECOME FIRST COACH IN HISTORY TO WIN A NATIONAL TITLE AND IMMEDIATELY LEAVE FOR THE NFL IS POTENTIAL LOOMING DISCIPLINE FROM THE NCAA. HARBAUGH WAS SUSPENDED TWICE LAST SEASON BY MICHIGAN AND THE BIG CONFERENCE FOR VARIOUS

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AMERICA’S NUMBER NEWS SOURCE. I AM MORGAN NORWOOD TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIFE FIRST TRUMP ON TRIAL. THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN COURT WHO COULD TESTIFY IN THE TRIAL TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY FOR DEFAMING WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF BREAKS THE JUDGE’S RULES.

ALL EYES ON SOUTH CAROLINA NIKKI HALEY HITTING CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN HER HOME STATE, AND SHE IS RESISTING CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. ALL OF THIS AS PRESIDENT BIDEN PICKS UP A BIG ENDORSEMENT. TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. AND POWERFUL ON THE MOVE.

MILLIONS IN THE SOUTH AND EAST ARE ON ALERT FOR HEAVY AND FLOODING. PLUS, MORE EXTREME FOG THIS MORNING FOR AT LEAST FIVE STATES. THE QUESTION WE ALL WANT TO KNOW, WHEN IS THAT BIG UP? GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING IT ALL. AND CHAIN REACTION, GOOD MEAT. THE YOGA INSTRUCTOR MAKING

EVERYONE FEEL WELCOME ARE DONATION BASED CLASSES HELP FIND A NEARBY CHILDREN’S BOOKSTORE. >> TODAY, SHE’S GETTING A SURPRISE GIFT. BUT WE DO. WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND BACK IN A COURTROOM, TRUMP IS ATTENDING HIS CIVIL TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE WILL HAVE TO PAY

E. JEAN CARROLL ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING HER. BACK IN 2019, WHEN HE DENIED HER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. ABC NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINS ME FROM OUTSIDE THE MANHATTAN COURTROOM ALONG WITH ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AARON. LET’S START WITH YOU.

SO TRUMP SAID THAT HE WAS PLANNING TO TESTIFY MONDAY’S PROCEEDINGS WERE POSTPONED. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT WHETHER HE PLANS TO TAKE THE STAND TODAY? WELL, HE SAYS HE DOES. HE’S HERE. HIS MOTORCADE ARRIVED A SHORT WHILE AND THE TRIAL IS JUST NOW GETTING UNDERWAY FOR A FOURTH

DAY AFTER A POSTPONEMENT FOR A COVID SCARE. MORGAN BUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN AFTER E. JEAN CARROLL SIDE RESTED ITS CASE. THEY HAVE ONE MORE WITNESS TO CALL, MAYBE SOME SOME DEPOSITIONS OF THE PLAY OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND THEN THE DEFENSE GOING

TO BE GIVING. TRUMP’S TESTIMONY, THOUGH, IS QUITE LIMITED BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY BEEN DETERMINED FROM A PRIOR TRIAL THAT HE DID ASSAULT JEAN CARROLL AND HE DID DEFAME HER. SO THE JUDGE SAYS THOSE TWO THINGS CANNOT BE HERE. HE SAYS THIS TRIAL IS NOT A DO OVER.

SO HE’S GOING TO BE LISTENING CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE TRUMP STAYS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF WHAT THE TRIAL’S ABOUT, WHICH IS MONEY. HOW MUCH MONEY IF TRUMP SHOULD PAY E. JEAN CARROLL FOR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS? YOU KNOW, WE’RE NOT ARGUING THE FACTS HERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, JOHN CARROLL SAYS TRUMP STILL DEFAMING

HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, ALSO ON SOCIAL MEDIA. SHE’S SPEAKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION IN INCOMPETENT COMPENSATION. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM TRUMP’S TEAM ON THIS? WELL, LOOK, I MEAN, DONALD TRUMP IS ONE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CONTROL ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ARE NOT GOING TO TRIAL IN PERSON.

SO GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. THE REALITY IS THAT DONALD TRUMP GOING TO DO AS HE’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO, THAT’S GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING AS ERIN, IN THAT COURTROOM WE’VE ALREADY SEEN, THIS JUDGE HAS SAID, LISTEN, I’LL THROW YOU OUT. AND HE ACTUALLY RESPONDED SAYING, I I’D LOVE THAT BE

GREAT, BECAUSE THE REALITY, MORGAN, IS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS USING THE COURTROOM AND THE CAMPAIGN TO MERGE AS QUICKLY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. SO AS LONG AS DONALD TRUMP CAN FIND A WAY TO BE IN COURT TODAY, HE HAS TO BE THERE BECAUSE HE’S GOING TO TAKE THE STAND.

THE REALITY IS HE DIDN’T NEED TO BE THERE THE OTHER DAY. HE DIDN’T NEED BE ANY OF THESE CASES SO FAR. THIS IS DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO MAKE THE POLITICS AND THE COURTHOUSE MATCH. >> YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY, WHAT IS HIS STRATEGY HERE? I MEAN, YOU MENTIONED THAT HE’S

TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, MIRROR BOTH THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND IN THE COURTROOM HERE. LISTEN, IT’S TO THE VICTIM, RIGHT? IT’S THE WITCHHUNT. THIS IS YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO BE THERE. RIGHT. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING AT ME BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT ME TO GET

BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE TO FIGHT FOR YOU, HIS SUPPORTERS. SO AS MUCH AS TRUMP CAN KEEP THAT TEMPERATURE UP, HE’S GOING TO DO IT FOR SURE. >> SO, BRIAN, I WANT TO ASK YOU THIS. WE KNOW COURT IS RESUMING AFTER A BRIEF PAUSE, THERE WAS THAT COVID SCARE.

HOW COULD THIS IMPACT THE CASE IN TERMS OF TIMING? IT WON’T IMPACT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT. WE HAVE THREE DAY PAUSES AFTER LONG WEEKENDS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC, WE HAD LONGER THAN THREE DAY PAUSES, SO I WOULDN’T ANTICIPATE A MISTRIAL. ANYTHING THAT, IF ANYTHING, DURING THESE LAST ARGUMENTS OR

IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS DOWN THE LINE, IT’S JUST A REFRESHER. REMIND THEM, HEY, IT’S BEEN A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN WE EXPECTED. BUT REMEMBER, ON THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, AND THEN JUST REITERATE THE ARGUMENTS. >> ABSOLUTELY. SO AND WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH JOHN AND HOW

COMBATIVE THIS THIS THESE HEARINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY THREATENED KEEP TRUMP OUT OF COURT IF HE IS DISRUPTIVE. TRUMP IS ALSO NOT ALLOWED TO THAT HE DIDN’T SEXUALLY ABUSE, CAROL. THAT’S NOT THE ARGUMENT HERE. WE’RE NOT LITIGATING THAT IN COURT TODAY. WHAT HAPPENS IF? >> TRUMP DEFIES THE JUDGE

ON THE STAND. WELL, I SUPPOSE THE JUDGE COULD SHUT DOWN HIS TESTIMONY. MORGAN HE COULD ALSO, IN THEORY, I SUPPOSE, HOLD TRUMP IN OF COURT. WE’RE NOT SURE WHAT ANY OF THAT WOULD REALLY LOOK LIKE BECAUSE ALL OF THIS IS KIND OF UNPRECEDENTED. AND I DON’T THINK THE JUDGE

IS LOOKING MAKE A SHOW OF THIS, BUT HE COULD WELL STOP. THERE COULD BE AN OBJECTION FROM AN ATTORNEY ON E. JEAN CARROLL SIDE TO STRIKE TRUMP’S ANSWER. BUT THE JURY GOING TO HEAR IT NO MATTER WHAT, YOU CAN ONLY HEAR SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF A WITNESS MOUTH, EVEN IF

IT IS STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD AARON KATERSKY, JOHN SANTUCCI AND BRIAN BUCKMIRE THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US. >> WELL, THE JEFFERSON FIGHT FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IS NOW MOVING TO SOUTH CAROLINA. NIKKI HALEY, SHE’S FOCUSING ON WINNING NEXT MONTH’S IN HER HOME STATE. OF COURSE, THAT IS WHERE SHE

SERVED AS GOVERNOR DESPITE CALLS FROM TOP REPUBLICANS FOR HER TO DROP OUT OF THIS RACE. ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS THE LATEST FROM CHARLESTON. NIKKI HALEY HEADING STRAIGHT TO HER HOME OF SOUTH CAROLINA RESISTING CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. >> ARE NOT GOING TO SIT THERE

AND JUST GIVE UP. WE’RE GOING TO SIT THERE. WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT BECAUSE AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE IN THESE TWO OPTIONS. >> HALEY IS TRYING TO REBOUND AFTER TWO BACK TO BACK LOSSES. IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE QUESTIONING DONALD TRUMP’S MENTAL FITNESS. >> GET ON A DEBATE STAGE

AND LET’S GO BRING IT DOWN AND SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT AND COMING OUT. TRUMP’S VICTORY SPEECH WHERE HE UNLEASHED ON HIS FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR, CALLING HER DELUSIONAL AND AN IMPOSTER. >> HE PITCHED A FIT. HE WAS HE WAS INSULTING. I KNOW THAT’S WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE IS THREATENED.

AND HE SHOULD FEEL THREATENED WITHOUT A DOUBT. >> BUT TRUMP THREATENING ANY PROSPECTIVE DONORS TO HALEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING ANYBODY THAT MAKES A CONTRIBUTION WILL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE MAGA CAMP. >> HALEY NOW CAMPAIGNING HER OWN BACKYARD. SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE, SERVING AS THE POPULAR GOVERNOR FOR TWO TERMS.

>> BUT SOUTH CAROLINA HAS SWUNG TOWARD TRUMP. HE’S GOT THE BACKING OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FEEL HIS IS TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION AND ECONOMY. BUT I THINK NIKKI BRINGS IN THE FOREIGN POLICY AREA. >> AIR FORCE VETERAN JANE LOMBARDO IS SUPPORTING HALEY, BUT CONCEDES THIS IS TRUMP’S TERRITORY.

>> DO YOU THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE DOMINANT HERE? >> UNFORTUNATELY. BUT HE BRINGS IT. HE JUST BRINGS TOO MUCH BAGGAGE WITH IT. JAKE SAYS HE WILL END UP SUPPORTING THE EVENTUAL REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. AND PRESIDENT BIDEN NOW SAYING IT’S CLEAR THAT WILL BE DONALD TRUMP GEARING UP FOR A REMATCH.

YOU KNOW, IT’S GREAT TO BE HOME BY THE EVENT. THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE POWERFUL UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION. FOUR MONTHS AFTER TRAVELING TO MICHIGAN TO WALK THE PICKET LINE WITH STRIKING WORKERS. >> AND WHILE I STOOD IN SOLIDARITY HERE ON THE PICKET LINE, AS YOU AS YOUR PRESIDENT SAID, I WANT

A PICKET LINE. DONALD TRUMP WENT TO A NONUNION SHOP ON A TACK TO MORGAN, THE SOUTH CAROLINA STILL A FEW WEEKS AWAY. DONALD TRUMP HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE’S GOVERNOR. THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS HERE, EVEN MOST OF THE HOUSE MEMBERS AND THE RNC, RONNA MCDANIEL, WHO INITIALLY SAID THAT SHE

WOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL IN THIS REPUBLICAN, IS NOW CALLING ON NIKKI HALEY TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE. MORGAN AND WE KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN DEFIANT, SAYING SHE IS IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL, SAYING CORRESPONDENT RACHAEL SCOTT IN CHARLESTON FOR US. RACHEL, THANK YOU. NOW TO THE WEATHER.

POWERFUL STORMS ON THE MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY WITH FLOOD WATCHES IN PLACE FROM TEXAS TO RHODE ISLAND. SOME AREAS COULD SEE AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES OF RAIN. ROB MARCIANO IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, WITH THE LATEST. TORRENTIAL RAINS SWAMPING LOUISIANA ROADS LEADING TO FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES. WATER PRACTICALLY COVERING

THE HOOD OF THIS CAR AND MANDIBLE, CARS STALLING OUT. THIS DRIVER ENDING UP IN A DITCH. MILLIONS. >> THE SOUTH NOW FACING THE THREAT OF FLOODING HERE IN TEXAS. >> CARS CAUTIOUSLY NAVIGATING THIS FLOODED HIGHWAY UNDERPASS. THIS MAN HYDROPLANING, DRIVING OFF AN EMBANKMENT RIGHT INTO A RIVER HARVEY.

THE GROUND COLLAPSING AROUND THIS MASSIVE SINKHOLE AFTER ALL THE RAIN IN LIVINGSTON. THIS CAR BOBBING IN THE WATER IN JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. AFTER ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED. AND IN THE MIDWEST, DRONE FOOTAGE CAPTURED A HUGE CHUNKS OF ICE BREAKING APART ON LAKE MICHIGAN. >> HEY, MORGAN, YOU KNOW THIS

THE SNAP BACK FROM THE COLD IS CERTAINLY WELCOME, BUT IT’S BRINGING ITS OWN SET OF PROBLEMS, AS WE CAN SEE. FOG, HEAVY. AND THAT HEAVY RAIN IS GOING TO CONTINUE. WE’RE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE STORM WHEN IT HIT THE WEST COAST EARLY THIS WEEK, BRINGING THOSE BIG IMPACTS TO SOUTHERN

CALIFORNIA, ESPECIALLY, OBVIOUSLY A DYNAMIC PLAYER TAPPING THE GULF OF MEXICO AND REALLY INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL WE’VE SEEN IN THE PAST 36 HOURS. AND THE SPOTS, BECAUSE IT’S MOVING SO SLOWLY DOWN, I-10 WILL CONTINUE TO SEE NOT JUST SOME FLOODING RAIN TODAY, BUT POTENTIALLY SOME SEVERE WEATHER.

AND THIS GETS UP INTO NORTHEAST WITH A FLOOD THREAT THERE AS WELL, VERY BECAUSE OF THE WEEKEND. MORGAN AND WE KNOW YOU’LL KEEP AN EYE ON IT. >> ALSO, YOUR METEOROLOGIST, ROB MARCIANO. ROB, THANK YOU. WELL, COMING UP, HOW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS LIKE ZANTAC ARE IMPACTING WHO IS A CANDIDATE FOR BARIATRIC

SURGERY AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENTS. ALSO AHEAD, DO YOU NEED TO PAY TAXES IF YOU RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS. ALEXIS IS HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AS THOSE W-2S START ARRIVING. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU ARE CONVICTED OF HELPING

TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE WORTH? WHY REVEAL THAT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW.

FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION WORLD TONIGHT. >> DAVID MUIR, ENGLAND

QUARTERBACK, ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE MARKETPLACES ON THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY ABOUT WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. >> IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, BUFFALO, NEW HALLS IN TEXAS. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, REPORTING FROM FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. ACCORDING A SMALL COMMUNITY

OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CITY OF MEXICALI. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING DOWN

HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. RIGHT NOW, SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WITH A DEATH BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE NICKNAMED RINGO. SOMETIMES IT SOMETIMES OF HIS UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON HIS MOST WANTED LIST. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE”, NOW STREAMING ON HULU.

HE WAS A MARRIED MAN. THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. THERE IS NO WAY THIS STORY IS GOING VERY WELL. THAT ROMANCE FOR 2023 INDEED SEEMS NIGHT AT TEN NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. >> FROM AMERICA’S ONE NEWS COMES THE NEW ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER

AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR INTERESTS. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> STATE POLICE. THERE’S A YOUNG GIRL RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE’S SOME TRYING TO FOLLOW HER. THE 911 CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE

OF EVIDENCE TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY. BUT FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND BE THE WORK OF A SERIAL. THEY START, FIND MORE BODIES. SUDDENLY IT’S AN ARM OR A LEG. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I NEVER ONCE FEARED FOR MY LIFE WHEN MET HIM. IT WAS THE ONLY TIME I SCARED TRUTH.

>> MY STUFF. HUNTED PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC . IN OUR CONNECTED WORLD, MISINFORMATION MASQUERADE AS FACT ERODING TRUST, DIVIDING COMMUNITIES. >> BUT BEHIND EVERY SHARE IS A WITH A DECISION. >> JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR A MORE NEWS LITERATE AMERICA FROM AN EMERGENCY NUMBER ONE YOU MUST COME TO THE ALL NEW

ABC NEWS APP IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS DOWNLOAD IT NOW AND WELCOME BACK INTO ABC NEWS LIVE AND IT’S TIME NOW FOR OUR WEEKLY SEGMENT ASK ALEXIS, OUR BUSINESS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS SHARES FINANCIAL ADVICE ON THE TOPICS

THAT MATTER MOST TO AND TODAY SHE’S HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON TREASURY SAVINGS BONDS AND SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES. SO ALEXIS FROM NEW YORK ASKS, I’M TRYING TO CASH TREASURY SAVINGS THAT I GOT AS A KID AND HAVE NOT MATURED, NOT ONE OF MY THREE BANKS WHERE I HOLD ACCOUNTS WILL CATCH THEM.

AND WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL MONETARY GIFTS THAT I NOW CAN’T SEEM TO ACCESS? >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, STEPHANIE, SADLY, YOUR RESEARCH IS CORRECT. BANKS WILL NOT CASH THOSE PAPER SAVINGS BONDS. YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT WITH THEM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.

AND EVEN THEN, SOME BANKS WON’T DO IT. NOW, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS THAT I WAS ABLE TO FIND. WELLS FARGO AND TRUIST WILL CASH THOSE SAVINGS BONDS EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT AN ACCOUNT HOLDER, AS LONG AS EACH BOND LESS THAN $1,000 AND YOU HAVE PROPER ID, OF COURSE, IF

YOUR LAST NAME CHANGED SINCE YOU RECEIVED THOSE BONDS, BE SURE TO BRING PROOF OF NAME CHANGE ALONG WITH YOU. LIKE A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. YOU CAN ALSO CREATE ACCOUNT AT TREASURY DIRECT DOT GOV AND THEN FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. NOW THEY DO REQUIRE THAT YOU SEND IN THE ORIGINAL PAPER BOND

,BUT THEY ONLY REQUIRE COPIES OF YOUR ID AND I’D RECOMMEND TAKING A PHOTO OR SCANNING THE PAPER BONDS BEFORE MAILING THEM IN. AND REMEMBER YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAX ON THE INTEREST YOU EARN THOSE SAVINGS BONDS. AND IF THE SAVINGS BOND IS DAMAGED OR IT’S ALTERED

IN SOME WAY, YOU PROBABLY WON’T BE ABLE TO CASH IT. >> SO WORD OF CAUTION THERE. YEAH, GOOD TIPS THERE. OKAY. SO QUESTION NUMBER TWO, LORRAINE FROM VIRGINIA WRITES, MY HUSBAND AND I ARE SENIOR CITIZENS AND RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY. SO DO WE NEED TO FILE A TAX RETURN THIS YEAR?

THIS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION AND ONE THAT CREATES A LOT OF CONFUSION. HERE’S THE STORY. ABOUT 40% OF SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS WILL TO PAY TAXES ON THOSE BENEFITS. IF YOU ARE 65 OR OLDER, FILING AN INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURN, MARRIED, BUT FILING SEPARATELY AND YOUR INCOME’S MORE THAN $15,700, YOU CAN’T EXPECT

TO PAY TAXES. YOUR BENEFIT NOW, IF YOU’RE 65 MARRIED AND FILE A JOINT RETURN ,YOUR INCOME HAS TO EXCEED $30,700 FOR YOU TO TYPICALLY TO FILE A RETURN THE INCOME THRESHOLD SLIGHTLY LESS. IF ONE SPOUSE THERE IS UNDER 65. >> NOW, IF THE ONLY INCOME YOU RECEIVE IS YOUR SOCIAL

SECURITY BENEFITS, THEN YOU TYPICALLY DON’T HAVE TO FILE A FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN. >> BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT TO FILE, IT COULD STILL BE WORTH YOUR WHILE. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU HAVE ANY TAX DEDUCTIONS THAT YOU COULD BENEFIT FROM, THINGS LIKE THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT OR

,THE CHILD TAX CREDIT, YOU COULD GET SOME MONEY BACK BY FILING AND. >> ONE THING YOU DON’T WANT TO DO, MORGAN, IS EVER LEAVE MONEY ON THE TABLE WHEN YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THE IRS. >> ABSOLUTELY, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS THANK YOU. AND IF YOU TO ASK ALEXIS ANY PERSONAL FINANCE QUESTIONS,

YOU CAN LEAVE A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AND SHE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION HERE ON THURSDAY. WELL, TODAY WE ARE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE REVOLUTION NOW UNDERWAY AND WEIGHT LOSS MEDICINE. THE ROLE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY IS NOT CHANGING WITH THE OF NEW WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS.

>> BECKY WORLEY HAS MORE. >> TRAVIS ARMSTEAD SAYS HE’S FOUGHT HIS HIS WHOLE LIFE. >> MY WHOLE LIFE. AND I WAS PROBABLY SEVEN EIGHT YEARS OLD. MY HIGHEST WEIGHT WAS £450 BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT HE HAD TO LOSE. >> TRAVIS AND HIS DOCTORS DECIDED THAT BARIATRIC SURGERY WAS THE BEST.

>> I JUST NEEDED THAT LITTLE. I THINK IT HELPED ME A LOT MENTALLY. LIKE, HEY, I’M PUTTING MY BODY THROUGH THIS. AND IT WOULD MAKE SURE THAT ISN’T THAT ALL FOR NOTHING. >> TRAVIS IS NOW DOWN £170 A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER HIS SURGERY. >> 1,000% OF THESE SURGERIES

WORK BY REDUCING THE SIZE OF THE STOMACH. >> IT GOES APPROXIMATELY FROM THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF A FOOTBALL TO THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF A BANANA. >> BARIATRIC SURGEON, DR. CONSTANTINE FANI WILLIS OF STONY BROOK MEDICINE SAYS THAT IF PATIENTS HAVE A BMI 35 OR ABOVE OR A 30 BMI WITH A

CO-MORBIDITY LIKE DIABETES OR HEART DISEASE, THEY CAN BE A CANDIDATE FOR SURGERY. >> AND RESEARCH SHOWS IT CAN RESULT IN UP TO A 30% REDUCTION IN BODY MASS AND CAN ADD 3 TO 5 YEARS TO A PATIENT’S LIFE. >> MOST INSURANCE PLANS CONSIDER THIS A COVERED BENEFIT AND BECAUSE THE LONGEVITY

AND POSITIVE EFFECT HAVE BEEN PROVEN FOR DECADES. >> HE SAYS ONLY 1% OF ELIGIBLE PEOPLE GET THE SURGERY. BUT FOR SOME WITH A VERY HIGH BMI, SURGERY MAY BE A BETTER CHOICE THAN WEIGHT LOSS MEDICATIONS. >> YOU NEED TO DO IS FIGURE OUT FOR EACH PATIENT WHAT IS THE RIGHT APPROACH.

AND I’M THAT WE’RE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU NOW HAVE MORE OPTIONS TO OFFER SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN OBESITY MEDICINE? >> HOW ARE WE DOING AS A SOCIETY TAKING THE STIGMA OFF OF THIS MEDICAL CONDITION, TREATING IT LIKE THE REAL PHYSICAL MEDICAL ISSUE, THAT IT IS JUST STIGMA AND BIAS AGAINST

HAVE BEEN A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR YEARS. >> THE BEST THING THAT IS A BYPRODUCT OF THE ONE MEDICATIONS THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE IS THAT THAT STIGMA HAS BEEN SHATTERED TO A GREAT EXTENT. >> NOW, WE SPOKE TO A LOT OF DOCTORS ABOUT THIS SURGERY, INCLUDING OUR OWN DR.

JEN ASHTON, AND SOME OF THEIR POINTS ARE THAT BARIATRIC SURGERY IS DONE FOR A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM FDA APPROVED MEDICATIONS DIDN’T WORK. AND SHE SAYS IT’S NOT AN EASY WAY OUT. PATIENTS STILL NEED TO MAKE MASSIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES. BUT SURGERY IS SHOWN TO HAVE IMMEDIATE, POSITIVE METABOLIC

EFFECTS, LIKE REVERSING TYPE TWO DIABETES, THINGS ARE INDEPENDENT OF WEIGHT LOSS. >> MORGAN BECKY, YOU. WELL, COMING UP, THE HOMETOWN HERO WORKING TO HER COMMUNITY. ONE YOGA POST AT A TIME WHEN THE CITY OF MEDI-CAL THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING DOWN HERE

TO MEXICO TO HIDE FROM SOME OF THEM, END UP GETTING SURPRISED, ONE OF THEM BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF. POLICE NICKNAMED RINGLING RUN. SOMETIMES THEY HIT SOMETIMES IN THIS UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME OF ON THE EYES. MOST. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” NOW STREAMING ON HULU. FRIDAY NIGHT THERE MILLIONS

OF PEOPLE YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WERE GYPSY ROSE? WHY REVEAL IT NOW?

WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S

BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER

ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WE CAN CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY. WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, ARE YOU READY? YOU MUST BE A LITTLE DANGEROUS . THIS IS OUR REALITY NOW. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL,

A NATION AT WAR, WATCHING TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. >> BULLET HOLES ALL UP WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS GOING OFF IN HERE. SOME EXPLOSION JUMPING DOWN. TONIGHT, ISRAEL WAGING A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA. THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR. FOR NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE

STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT LINE IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. PART OF THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. ABC NEWS, WHAT DO YOU SEE? MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY

FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE HERE. IN OUR CONNECTED WORLD, MISINFORMATION CAN MASQUERADE AS FACT. >> ERODING TRUST DIVIDING COMMUNITIES. >> BUT BEHIND EVERY SHARE IS PERSON WITH A DECISION.

>> JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR A MORE NEWS LITERATE AMERICA. >> YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ABC NEWS LIVE. >> BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVES, LIVE REPORTING KEEPS STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. >> I’M REBECCA JARVIS REPORTING FROM THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. AND WHEREVER THE STORY WILL TAKE YOU THERE,

YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS BLOG . AND WELCOME TO ABC NEWS FIRST. ONE WEST PALM BEACH HOMETOWN HERO IS WALKING TO HELP HER COMMUNITY. ONE YOGA POSE AT A TIME. YOGA INSTRUCTOR JADE MANZO PROVIDES ACCESSIBLE CLASSES FOR EVERYONE. AND IT STARTED A CYCLE OF GIVING BACK. ABC’S LARA SPENCER SHOWS IN YOGA.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO FIND YOUR CENTER. BUT FOR MANY ON THE SQUARE IN WEST PALM BEACH, YOGA INSTRUCTOR JADE WANDO IS CARE CENTER. >> SO GLAD ALL OF YOU WERE. FROM THE VERY MOMENT THAT I MET HER, LIKE, I JUST I WAS LIKE, I HAVE GIVE YOU A HUG.

I TELL EVERYBODY, COME SEE JADE. YOU GOT TO SEE JADE AND ONE THING WE KEEP HEARING ABOUT JADE, SHE LOOKS LIKE ME. >> SHE LOOKS LIKE ME. FOR JADE, YOGA IS FOR EVERYBODY. ALL SHAPES, BACKGROUNDS AND ALL ABILITIES. I DON’T HAVE THE THINNEST BODY AND I CAN DO JUST AS MUCH

AS ANYBODY ELSE. NOT TO MENTION, THERE’S NOT A LOT OF BLACK AND BROWN YOGA INSTRUCTORS WHETHER THEY CAN DO EVERY POSE OR NOT. I LIKE FOR THEM TO COME AND JUST FEEL COMFORTABLE IN THEIR BODIES. DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBOR OR WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. JUST WORRY ABOUT YOU.

A YOGA INSTRUCTOR BY TRADE. TWO YEARS AGO, JADE STARTED WEEKLY CLASSES OUTSIDE, WHICH FOR SOME, LIKE REBECCA DIGGS, CAN BE MORE COMFORTABLE THAN IN A TRADITIONAL YOGA STUDIO. MY PREVIOUS YOGA EXPERIENCE, IT WAS VERY FIT, WONDERFUL LOOKING INDIVIDUALS, AND I DIDN’T NECESSARILY FEEL LIKE I FIT IN.

AND HERE IN SPACE WITH JADE, I DEFINITELY FEEL LIKE I FIT IN IN EXACTLY WHO I AM AND TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE ACCESSIBLE. >> THE CLASSES ARE DONATION BASED TRADITIONALLY IN A YOGA STUDIO. CLASSES CAN BE ANYWHERE FROM 18 TO $25 FOR A DROP IN. FOR SOME PEOPLE, THAT’S A DIFFERENCE.

GAS TO WORK OR PICKING YOUR KIDS OR WHATEVER PEOPLE CAN GIVE, JUST GIVE. AND IF YOU CAN’T GIVE IT, STILL COME TO CLASS. I DON’T WANT YOU TO MISS JUST BECAUSE OF THAT. AND RATHER THAN KEEPING THAT MONEY. SHE SPREADS HER SUNSHINE BY PAYING IT FORWARD, DONATING THE MONEY TO THIS NEARBY

CHILDREN’S BOOKSTORE. ROSIE’S REALLY, WHICH SHARES A FAMILIAR THEME. IT’S VERY COOL TO READ A BOOK AND SEE PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE ME AND JUST LIKE JADE, THE OWNER, A POOR NEWCOMER SHARES A MISSION OF ACCESS AND INCLUSION. EVERY SINGLE BOOK IN HERE IS REFLECTIVE OF HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, WHETHER IS BLACK, INDIGENOUS,

LGBTQ, PLUS DISABILITY. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT STORIES ARE SEEING VALUE AND THAT THERE’S ALWAYS A PRINCIPLE LONGING AND EMPOWERMENT. WHEN I COME HERE, I’M LIKE, I WANT EVERY SINGLE BROOKLYN BOOKSTORE. SO FAR, JADE HAS DONATED MORE THAN 30 $500, WHICH GOES TOWARDS BOOKS FOR COMMUNITIES.

I GAVE AND THEN SHE DOES A GOOD THING. WE HOPE IT JUST CONTINUES AND IT FURTHER THAT CYCLE OF GIVING OUR FRIENDS AT LIFESTYLE BRAND AERIE OR SENDING JADE A LITTLE GIFT SHOP ,A BASKET OF FITNESS GEAR PLUS 50 $100 GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR HER TO SPREAD EVEN MORE SUNSHINE AROUND HER COMMUNITY.

CLOTHES ARE HONESTLY PART OF YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE WON’T COME TO A CLASS IF THEY FEEL LIKE DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT PANTS OR IF THEY DON’T HAVE THIS OR THAT, LIKE BEING ABLE TO GIVE THIS TO THEM, THAT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING. I’M REALLY EXCITEDS SO, SO MUCH. JADE, FOR STRETCHING OUT

YOUR TO OTHERS. YOU ARE OUR RAY OF SUNSHINE. >> YOU JUST LOVE TO SEE A GREAT JADE. AND THAT WAS ABC’S LARA SPENCER WITH THAT WONDERFUL REPORT. THANK YOU, LAURA. AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING US, STREAMING WITH US AND MORGAN NORWOOD, ABC LIFE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST

NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES, THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS AND NEITHER DO WE. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> NOT THE CLEAN AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST

COAST, PLUS THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES WRAP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION . >> “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, DAVID MUIR BEING THE QUARTERBACK. ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY

EXCITED WITH THE NEVADA DESERT AND EVERYTHING. SO SAY SUNSHINE. THE WIND IS A LITTLE BIT MY LITTLE HOME ON THE GOOD MORNING AMERICA STATE POLICE. THERE’S A YOUNG GIRL RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE’S SOME GUY TRYING TO FOLLOW HER. THE 911 CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE.

UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY. COULD FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND THE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER? THEY START FINDING MORE BODIES. SUDDENLY IT’S AN OR A LEG. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I NEVER ONCE FEARED FOR MY LIFE. WHEN I MET HIM, IT WAS THE ONLY TIME I SCARED THE TRUTH MYSELF.

>> AND IT PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC. >> FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. >> HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS WAS BRUTAL.

DEATH FOR STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHEN GYPSY ROSE REVEALED. WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW. >> FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC AND AMERICA’S NEWSROOM NEWS SOURCE BECOMES THE ONLY ABC NEWS BREAKING NEWS. INCREDIBLE VIDEO.

FASTER SMARTER AND IT CAN CUSTOMIZE TO YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS IN. WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE WITH ALL THE LESSONS OF THAT EXPERIENCE THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOADED NOW REPORTING FROM THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA COVERING HURRICANE HIDALGO ON IKE EJIOCHI. WHATEVER THE STORY IS,

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> THE SHOOTING ABC NEWS LIVE. I AM MORGAN NORWOOD TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIFE. FIRST WE BEGIN WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON THE CAMPAIGN. AND BACK IN A NEW YORK CITY COURTROOM, TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM IS NOW SET MAKE THEIR CASE AFTER EATING.

CAROL’S ATTORNEY WAS RESTED. TRUMP SAYS HE WILL TESTIFY TODAY IN A CIVIL TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER WILL HAVE TO PAY, CAROL, AN ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING IN 2019 WHEN HE DENIED HER ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN JOINING ME NOW FROM OUTSIDE MANHATTAN COURTROOM.

OLIVIA, TRUMP’S TEAM MADE A MOTION FOR A DIRECT VERDICT ARGUING THAT CAROL’S ATTORNEY DIDN’T ESTABLISH A CASUAL LINK BETWEEN TRUMP’S STATEMENT AND HER CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. THE JUDGE, OF COURSE, DENYING MOTION. >> I’M CURIOUS, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THAT? WELL, IT’S A FAMILIAR MOTION THAT WE’VE SEEN FROM THE LEGAL

TEAM IN MULTIPLE CASES. MORGAN SO IT’S NOT SO SIGNIFICANT. IT’S ALL BUT EXPECTED THAT THIS WOULD BE DENIED. BUT ESSENTIALLY WHAT TRUMP’S TEAM IS TRYING TO ARGUE IS THAT EVEN CAROL’S HAVE NOT MADE A SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH LINK BETWEEN. THE STATEMENTS THAT DONALD TRUMP MADE IN 2019, IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHE PUBLICLY ACCUSED HIM

OF ASSAULT AND THE THREATS AND SORT OF THE TURMOIL THAT SHE THEN WENT THROUGH. HAS SAID TO THE JURY, BECAUSE OF THOSE STATEMENTS FACING THREATS FACING HATE ONLINE AND GOING INTO SORT OF A NEW LIFE WHERE SHE FEARED FOR HER SAFETY. AND DONALD TRUMP’S TEAM HAS SAID THAT HAPPENS AND YOU

CAN’T ATTRIBUTE IT BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SAID THIS ABOUT YOU. YOU WENT ON TELEVISION, YOU TOLD YOUR STORY. AND SO PART OF THAT JUST COMES WITH TERRITORY. SO NOT TOO SURPRISING THAT THE JUDGE WOULD REJECT THAT CLAIM. IT WAS ALL BUT, YOU KNOW, UNUSUAL FOR HIM. YEAH. AND OLIVIA, TAKE ME INSIDE

THE COURTROOM BECAUSE JUST DAYS AGO WE’VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF BACK AND FORTH SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THINGS GET PRETTY. AND THAT THIS PARTICULAR TRIAL, THE JUDGE TRYING TO ESSENTIALLY TAME TRUMP IT SOMETIMES. WHAT’S THE LATEST AND WHAT’S IT LIKE INSIDE THE COURTROOM? GIVE US SOME COLOR.

WE HAVE SEEN A VERY FIERY DONALD TRUMP INSIDE OF THIS COURTROOM. HE VERY TUNED IN TO EVERY SINGLE THING THAT THE WITNESSES ARE SAYING, THE EVIDENCE THAT IS BEING PUT FORTH. AND HE IS STILL VERY ALERT AND VERY, YOU KNOW, IN TUNE WITH THE TRIAL TODAY. BUT IT’S A MUCH MORE SUBDUED

ATMOSPHERE. DONALD TRUMP IS MUCH MORE CALM. HE’S MUCH MORE RESERVED. YOU KNOW, IN PREVIOUS DAYS, YOU COULD HEAR HIM MUTTERING UNDER HIS BREATH. IT LED TO THAT OUTBURST BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND THE JUDGE, WHERE THE JUDGE ESSENTIALLY SAID, YOU’RE WHISPERING THINGS HERE INSIDE OF THE JURY, AND IF

YOU DON’T STOP, THERE’S GOING TO BE ISSUE. AND DONALD TRUMP FIRED BACK SAYING, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE YOU TO THROW ME OUT. NONE OF THAT TODAY IS VERY DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE. BUT THE QUESTION IS GOING TO BE, DOES DONALD TRUMP KEEP THAT SAME COMPOSURE THAT WE’RE SEEING FROM HIM AT THE DEFENSE

RIGHT NOW ONCE HE POTENTIALLY GETS UP ONTO THE WITNESS STAND? AND WITH THAT SAID, OLIVIA, WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM TRUMP’S TESTIMONY? WELL, YOU KNOW, MORGAN, I’VE SEEN DONALD TESTIFY BEFORE. WE WATCHED HIM AND THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL CASE. AND IF THAT’S INDICATION, WE’RE GOING TO GET A DONALD

TRUMP THAT’S GOING TO SPEAK HIS MIND. IF YOU THINK BACK TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S CASE WHEN HE TESTIFIED THERE IN, THE CIVIL FRAUD CASE, HE WAS ATTACKING THE JUDGE FROM THE WITNESS STAND. HE WAS ATTACKING THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM THE WITNESS STAND. HE WAS CALLING THE CASE A SHAM.

THE CASE TOTALLY WORTHLESS AND SHOULD BE OVER. AND OF COURSE, THAT’S NOT WHAT WITNESSES DO WHEN THEY GET ON THE WITNESS STAND. SO IT’S GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID WHEN HE GETS ON THE WITNESS STAND TODAY. AND REMEMBER, HE’S VERY LIMITED IN WHAT HE IS ALLOWED

TO TESTIFY BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS RULINGS FROM THE JUDGE. HE CANNOT SAY HE DID NOT EFFECTIVELY THOUGHT E. JEAN CARROLL HE DIDN’T SAY WHAT HE SAID ABOUT HER WAS TRUE. HE CAN’T SAY SHE’S ACCUSING HIM FOR POLITICAL MOTIVES. SO THOSE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE FROM HIM EVERY SINGLE

DAY UP TO THIS DAY, HE STILL SAYS THINGS PUBLICLY, BUT HE CANNOT SAY THAT ON THE WITNESS STAND. SO THE QUESTION IS CAN HE RESTRAIN HIMSELF FROM DOING SO? YEAH. I MEAN, WE’VE ALREADY HEARD THE JUDGE SAY CLEARLY, WE’RE NOT ARGUING THE FACTS OF THIS CASE. WE’VE ALREADY DETERMINED THAT. YOU KNOW, CURIOUS.

HOW ELSE IS TRUMP’S TEAM EXPECTED TO MAKE THEIR CASE? >> WELL, THEY HAVE ON THE WITNESS STAND RIGHT NOW A FRIEND OF JEAN CARROLL, WHO THEY HAVE CALLED THIS IS THEIR WITNESS BECAUSE REMEMBER, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESENTING HIS CASE NOW. E. JEAN CARROLL TEAM HAS RESTED AND THIS SOMEONE

THAT E. JEAN CARROLL TOLD ALLEGEDLY ABOUT THE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE WAKE OF IT HAPPENING BACK IN THE 90S. SO QUESTIONING HER RIGHT NOW. AND THEN WE DO EXPECT TO OFFER HER COULD BE DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS TRIAL HIS ATTORNEY HARBOR MADE IT

SORT OF CLEAR THAT THEY HAD A VERY MINIMAL CASE TO PUT ON. THEY ONLY HAD TWO WITNESSES. SO IT COULD THIS WITNESS. AND ONCE THEY’RE WRAPPING UP WITH HER, THEN IT COULD BE DONALD TRUMP SORT OF QUICK CASE FROM TRUMP’S SIDE, BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE ONLY ISSUE HERE IS THE DAMAGES.

IT’S NOT REALLY A FACTUAL TRIAL. DID HE ASSAULT HER DID HE DEFAME HER? IT’S ALREADY BEEN RULED HE ASSAULTED HER. IT’S ALREADY RULED DEFAMED HER. AND NOW THE ONLY QUESTION FOR THE JURY IS HOW MUCH DOES HE HAVE TO PAY. YEAH, IT COMES DOWN TO THE MONEY. OLIVIA RUBIN, OUR INVESTIGATIVE

REPORTER OUTSIDE OF THE MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE. OLIVIA, THANK YOU. FROM THE COURTROOM AGAIN TO THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, TRUMP’S ONLY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS FOCUSING HER ATTENTION ON SOUTH CAROLINA. OF COURSE, THAT IS WHERE SHE SERVED AS POPULAR TWO TERM GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY. SHE’S TRYING TO REBOUND FROM

TWO BACK TO BACK LOSSES BOTH IN IOWA AND NEW. AND SHE AND TRUMP GO HEAD TO HEAD IN HER HOME STATE FOR NEXT MONTH’S PRIMARY, 430. IT’S ONLY TAKE A LOOK. THAT AVERAGE SHOWS THE FORMER IS POLLING AT 62% COMPARED TO HALEY’S 25%. SOUTH CAROLINA HAS AN OPEN PRIMARY, WHICH MEANS REGISTERED

VOTERS CAN CAST A BALLOT IN EITHER THE DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. WELL, MEANWHILE, ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, PRESIDENT BIDEN APPEARS TO BE FOCUSING HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN ON THE ECONOMY AND ABORTION RIGHTS. ALL OF THIS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED, ROE VERSUS WADE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED SEVERAL INITIATIVES PROTECT CONTRACEPTIVES,

ABORTION, ACCESS AND EMERGENCY ABORTION CARE, WHILE MARKING 51 YEARS SINCE THE LANDMARK ROE V. WADE DECISION. ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAREN TRAVERS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE HERE. AND YOU FOR BEING WITH US. SO YOU TALK WITH RADIO HOSTS ACROSS AMERICA SINGLE DAY. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT THE

ABORTION ISSUE AND HOW BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING THIS A TOP PRIORITY? YEAH. MORGAN THIS IS A REALLY BIG ISSUE THIS WEEK BECAUSE THERE WAS CERTAINLY A SENSE THAT THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CAMPAIGN PIVOTED TO THE GENERAL ELECTION WITH THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. THE PRESIDENT THAT IT NOW LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP IS

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. SO ESSENTIALLY IT’S GAME ON. AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IS ONE BIG ISSUE THAT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SEES AS CENTER TO THEIR REELECTION MESSAGE. THIS WEEK, WE SAW VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN WISCONSIN ON A REPRODUCTIVE TOUR. SHE’S GOING TO BE TRAVELING ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY OVER

THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, LISTENING TO PEOPLE’S STORIES AND TALKING ABOUT THE CONTRAST ,WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE AND WHAT THEY SAY, A SECOND TERM OF DONALD TRUMP WOULD MEAN. AND THE PRESIDENT ALSO REALLY RAMPING HIS CRITICISM OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT ON THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE AT A RALLY ON TUESDAY.

>> HE TALKED ABOUT DONALD TRUMP SPECIFICALLY NAME CHECKING HIM 14 TIMES, SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE IS PROUD TO HAVE PLAYED SUCH A BIG ROLE IN OVERTURNING ROE VERSUS WADE BY NAMING THOSE THREE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THEY FEEL THAT THIS IS A BIG ISSUE FOR VOTERS, YOUNG VOTERS.

>> YOU’VE SEEN THAT IN SPECIAL ELECTIONS AND IN THE MIDTERMS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS WE HEAD INTO ELECTION. ABSOLUTELY. SPEAKING OF ISSUES, IMMIGRATION ALSO KEY ISSUE THIS ELECTION SEASON. TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT, YOU KNOW, HE’S DOUBLING DOWN

HIS DEMAND FOR STRONGER BORDER SECURITY. HOW ARE THE NEGOTIATIONS GOING BETWEEN BIDEN AND CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS OVER BORDER SECURITY AND, OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT’S PUSH FOR AID FOR UKRAINE? WE KNOW THAT’S BEEN A BIG TALKER. YEAH, IT’S ALL TIED TOGETHER BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT

SUPPORT AID FOR UKRAINE UNTIL THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT BORDER POLICY CHANGES AND THOSE BIPARTISAN NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEEN GOING ON NOW FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. IT SEEMED THIS WEEK LIKE THEY WERE INCHING CLOSER THE FINISH LINE. THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD ME JUST TWO DAYS AGO THAT THEY WERE VERY OPTIMISTIC, THAT THEY WERE

GETTING CLOSER TO BEING ABLE TO ANNOUNCE AN AGREEMENT. BUT RIGHT, IT IS LOOKING LIKE THINGS ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE PRECARIOUS. THERE IS NO TO ANNOUNCE. THERE’S NO BILL TEXT. THE APPROPRIATORS HAVE BEEN MEETING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS, THE MONEY THAT WOULD BE PUT TOWARD, ANY AGREEMENT ON THESE

MAJOR CHANGES. BUT MORGAN, WE DON’T EVEN HAVE DETAILS OF WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT YET. THEY’VE BEEN KEEPING IT SO CLOSE AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THERE ARE SOME REPORTS, THOUGH, THAT NOW REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THAT MAYBE THEY WOULD WALK AWAY FROM THESE CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THIS IS SUCH BIG POLITICAL

ISSUE AND IT IS ONE THAT DONALD TRUMP, AS LIKELY REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, WOULD LIKE TO BE CAMPAIGNING ON OVER THE NEXT. AND IF THERE IS A BIG BIPARTISAN BORDER AGREEMENT, THAT, OF COURSE, IS SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD CLAIM AS A WIN AND THAT NEUTRALIZES AN ARGUMENT, THEN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

>> AND WE’LL SEE HOW ALL OF THIS PLAYS OUT HERE IN TRAVERSE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR US. >> KAREN, THANK YOU. AND TURNING NOW TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE. RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARE POINTING FINGERS AT EACH ACCUSING EACH OTHER OF BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR A DEADLY PLANE CRASH. THE KREMLIN SAYS UKRAINE SHOT

DOWN ONE OF ITS MILITARY PLANES CARRYING UKRAINIAN PRISONERS OF WAR NEAR THE BORDER. NOW, UKRAINE IS NOT DENYING IT SHOT DOWN THE PLANE, BUT IT SAYS RUSSIA DIDN’T FOLLOW, ESTABLISHED PROTOCOLS TO ENSURE THE PLANE’S SAFETY. WELL, NOW PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY IS CALLING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION, BUT RUSSIA IS SAYING HOLD UP

IT’S RECOVERED THE PLANE’S BLACK BOXES AND IT’S INVESTIGATING ON ITS OWN. SO WE BRING IN ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER SENIOR CIA FIELD DARRELL BLOCKER JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE. SO DARYL, UKRAINIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SAYS IT WAS INFORMED OF THE NEED TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF AIRSPACE WHERE

THE PLANE WENT DOWN AND HAS APPARENTLY HAPPENED PREVIOUS PRISONER SWAP. THEY SAY RUSSIA MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF THESE PRISONERS. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL OF THIS AND HOW DO THESE EXCHANGES USUALLY WORK? WALK US THROUGH THAT. >> SO THE FOG OF WAR, FIRST OF ALL, MANY MORGEN IS ONE

OF THE THINGS THAT’S CONTRIBUTING TO THIS. THERE’S MISSILES FLYING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE BORDERS. >> THE UKRAINIANS DEFINITIVELY SAY THAT THEY DIDN’T DO IT, SO IT’S BEST NOT TO SAY ANYTHING. BUT BY CALLING IN FOR AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, THIS, I THINK THEY’RE FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT THEY DIDN’T DO IT.

BUT ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THEMSELVES, BETWEEN THE WARRING PARTIES, BETWEEN THE UKRAINIANS AND THE RUSSIANS. A STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR PRISONER SWAPS, WHICH THEY’VE DONE IN THE PAST. >> AND APPARENTLY THIS ONE DID NOT ADHERE TO THE PAST PRACTICES. AND SO THERE REBELS IN BOTH OF THESE COUNTRIES, YOU KNOW,

KIND OF POINT THE FINGER AT EACH OTHER. RUSSIA, NO SECRET, HAS LONG BEEN ACCUSED OF USING THIS INFORMATION IN WARFARE. CURIOUS HOW COULD THIS IMPACT THE TRAJECTORY OF THE WAR? WELL, WHAT’S INTERESTING IS, YOU KNOW, THIS DISINFORMATION OR MASCARILLAS CARD, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, DENIAL OPERATIONS DATES BACK TO THE RUSSIAN CIVIL

WAR OF 1917 TO 22. IT CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR VICTORIES IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, THE PRAGUE SPRING, AND OF COURSE, CONTINUES TO TODAY. BUT UKRAINE, OF COURSE, WAS A PART OF RUSSIA FOR A LARGE PART OF THAT. >> SO THEY BOTH KNOW THAT MISINFORMATION WORKS AND WHAT IT DOESN’T WORK

IS TIME. >> WITH TIME ALL FALSE FALSITIES CAN BE UNCOVERED. >> AND I THINK THIS THIS IS EITHER TRAGIC MISTAKE OR CERTAINLY SOMEONE MADE A EVEN BIGGER MISTAKE BY SHOOTING DOWN INNOCENT PEOPLE. >> AND, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT RUSSIA HAS RECOVERED THESE BLACK BOX BLACK BOXES.

WE’LL SEE HOW ALL OF THIS PLAYS OUT. DARYL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER SENIOR CIA FIELD OPERATIVE DARRELL BLOCKER. AGAIN, THANK YOU. WELL, WITNESS TESTIMONY IS NOW UNDERWAY IN THE TRIAL OF THE MOTHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER. SHE’S THE FIRST THE FIRST WITNESS TO TAKE THE STAND.

IT WAS TEACHER MOLLY DARNELL WAS SHOT. JENNIFER CRUMBLEY AND HER HUSBAND ARE THE FIRST PARENTS TO BE CHARGED IN A SHOOTING CARRIED OUT BY THEIR CHILD, ETHAN, THEIR SON. HE SHOT, KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT THIS HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN 2021. THE COUPLE, THEY’RE BEING TRIED SEPARATELY WITH THE MOTHER ON TRIAL.

FIRST, AFTER TWO YEARS OF DELAYS, ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR JOINS ME NOW BRIAN BUCKMIRE. SO, BRIAN, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN COURT TODAY? SO TODAY WE ALREADY HAD AN OPENING STATEMENT FOR THE PROSECUTION STARTING THE VERY POWERFUL LINE OF SAYING THAT THIS WAS THE UNIMAGINABLE BECOMING PREDICTABLE.

AND THAT’S A LOT OF THE ARGUMENT THAT THIS WAS FORESEEABLE. THE DEFENSE PUSHING BACK, I DON’T THINK IN THE SMARTEST OF WAYS, STARTING OFF WITH A TAYLOR SWIFT LINE THAT BAND-AIDS DON’T FIX BULLET HOLES, ARGUING THAT THIS IS A POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, SO TO SPEAK, TO TRY TO SOLVE

THE ISSUES OF SCHOOL SHOOTING BY GOING AFTER THE PARENTS. AND AS YOU SAID, THE FIRST WITNESS TAKING THE STAND, A TEACHER THERE WHO WAS INJURED IN THIS SHOOTING, KIND OF GIVING US THE LAY OF THE LAND OF WHAT HAPPENED. >> AND SO, BRIAN, WHAT DOES THE PROSECUTION TO PROVE FOR

A JURY TO FIND JENNIFER LEE GUILTY HERE? SO IT’S PILLARS HERE. ONE, THAT THEY PRESENTED DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY WAS THE SHOOTER. THE SECOND THAT THE DANGER WAS APPARENT, THE ORDINARY MIND. THE THIRD BEING THAT JENNIFER NEGLECTED TO ADDRESS OR DIVERT THAT DANGER AND THAT DANGER RESULT IN THE DEATHS OF FOUR PEOPLE.

WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT OPENING STATEMENTS FROM THE DEFENSE LAWYERS THAT WE HEARD THAT JENNIFER PROBABLY WILL TESTIFY IN HER DEFENSE. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS AND WHAT DO WE EXPECT TO HEAR? I THINK THE HEART OF THIS CASE, ALONG FROM THE POINTING THE FINGER AT, THE SCHOOL

POINTING THE FINGER AT JAMES CURRENTLY, THAT’S WHY THIS CASE IS A AND HAD A POINT TO THINK EVERYONE ELSE IS SAYING THIS WASN’T FORESEEABLE, THAT SHE DIDN’T SEE THIS HAPPEN, THAT SHE WASN’T GIVEN THE INFORMATION TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS REAL ISSUE WITH HER SON. AND ALSO, CONTEXT IS A BIG IN

OPENING STATEMENTS. THE DEFENSE SAID WE ALWAYS SEEN THESE HEADLINES OF THESE TEXT MESSAGES AND THESE CALLS FROM THE MOTHER TO THE CHILD IN THE SCHOOL. BUT WITHIN THE CONTEXT, WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SEE MORE. >> ALL RIGHT, LET’S ZOOM IN HERE OR ZOOM OUT, RATHER. THIS IS A LANDMARK CASE, RIGHT?

SO WHAT KIND OF PRECEDENT COULD BE SET? AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FROM HERE? I THINK IT’S ABOUT RED FLAGS THAT IF THESE PARENTS ARE FOUND GUILTY, THERE WILL BE A LIST OF SAYING, HERE ARE THESE FLAGS. AND IF PARENTS DO NOT OBSERVE THEM AND ADDRESS THEM THEN THE DANGERS THAT COME FROM

THEIR CHILDREN AND IGNORING THESE RED FLAGS COULD RESULT IN INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES, NOT ONLY IN BUT POTENTIALLY IN OTHER STATES IN THIS COUNTRY. ALL RIGHT. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE FOR US ON THIS CASE. THANK YOU. WELL, STILL TO COME, ISRAELI FORCES ADVANCE IN GAZA, SECOND LARGEST CITY. WE’LL TELL YOU WHERE

NEGOTIATIONS FOR ANOTHER POTENTIAL PAUSE STAND AS TANKS SHELLED AREAS NEAR TWO HOSPITALS IN GAZA. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON. >> THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING.

ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL. AND ICELAND. >> LET’S GO.

TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY. THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU THERE EVER. THE STORY, WHEREVER THE STORY

IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, LIVE STREAMING, ABC LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS I CONCERT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE?

I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN SORRY ABOUT AND AS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. >> EVERYWHERE. WOW. ARE HERE. WE ARE READY.

LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW. AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW? ADULTS GO, OH, ARE YOU YOU DAD? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAYS ABC NEWS LIVE WHAT WOULD YOU DO ? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT THEIR MILLION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE THE FEEDING TUBE THE SCARS SO MANY MEDICATIONS

WAS A BRUTAL DEATH 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WORD GYPSY ROSE WERE YOU WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIFE. FIRST, RESIDENTS IN GAZA SAY

THE REGION’S MAIN SOUTHERN CITY HONDURAS IS NOW SURROUNDED BY ARMED ISRAELI FORCES AND UNDER ALMOST NONSTOP FIRE AS ISRAEL TRIES TO TAKE OUT HAMAS MAIN STRONGHOLDS IN THE SOUTH. ALL OF THIS AS THE U.N. SAYS ITS TRAINING WHERE HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE TAKING SHELTER IN THE AREA, HAS BEEN HIT. CHIEF NATIONAL

CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN JOINS ME NOW FROM AVIV, ISRAEL FOR MORE ON THIS. MATT, THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE ARE SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT TRYING TO GET ANOTHER PAUSE IN PLACE TO END THE FIGHTING TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE REMAINING HOSTAGES. SO WHAT IS THE LATEST ON THAT. MORGAN BRAD MCGURK IS THE

REGION. HE’S BEEN BOUNCING BETWEEN QATAR AND EGYPT. HE’S THE U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY WHO’S BEEN DELEGATED WITH TRYING TO JUMPSTART THESE TALKS. THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF OFFERS SENT BACK AND REJECTED BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL, THE LATEST ONE, WHICH APPARENTLY WAS REJECTED BY HAMAS OFFERED A TWO MONTH

CEASE FIRE BY ISRAEL IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES. ABOUT 100 OF THEM ARE BELIEVED TO STILL BE ALIVE IN PHASES. AND THAT WOULD ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTAIN NUMBER PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN ISRAELI JAILS BEING RELEASED . WELL. UNCLEAR TO WHERE THE BIG HANG

UP AT THIS POINT IS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED. WHO WOULD BE RELEASED AND THE LENGTH OF THE CEASE FIRE. HAMAS WANTS ISRAEL OUT, THE GAZA STRIP ENTIRELY A FULL WITHDRAWAL BEFORE EVEN TALKS BEGIN AND THEY CAN RELEASE HOSTAGES. ISRAEL SAYING NO WAY, WE WANT

A PHASED WITHDRAWAL AND WE WANT EVERYBODY OUT. AND THIS IS GOING TO JUST BE A TEMPORARY THING. BUT AGAIN, BOTH SIDES SEEM TO BE INCHING TOWARDS IT. THERE IS MOUNTING PRESSURE ON ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE ACTIONS ALMOST DAY BY THE FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES BARRICADING THEMSELVES IN ONE

OF ISRAEL’S MAJOR HIGHWAYS, POSTING UP OUTSIDE HIS RESIDENCE IN JERUSALEM. HIS RESIDENCE. IT’S HIS RELIGIOUS NORTH OF TEL AVIV. THEY’RE TRYING TO AMP UP THE PRESSURE AND MAKE MORE AWARENESS TO THE FACT THAT THESE HOSTAGES ARE STILL THERE. THEY’RE LANGUISHING AND THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE A LOT LONGER. MORGAN.

AND MATT, BEFORE LET YOU GO, THE UN’S TOP COURT IS EXPECTED TO RULE ON THE CASE AGAINST TOMORROW. ISRAEL NORMALLY CONSIDERS UN AND INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS UNFAIR AND BIASED. HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS CASE AND WHAT WOULD YOU BE WATCHING OUT FOR? THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE AN

INTERIM RULING IN WHICH THE ICJ WILL SAY, A, WHETHER IT BELIEVES THAT THERE IS EVEN ANY FOUNDATION IN THE ALLEGATION BY SOUTH AFRICA THAT ISRAEL AND IF THEY FIND THEY COME TO THAT FINDING, THEN IT’S POSSIBLE THEY’LL ASK THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL TO DEMAND THAT ISRAEL CEASE FIRE IMMEDIATELY.

BUT THAT WOULD LIKELY BE VETOED BY. THE U.S.. STILL, ISRAEL IS TAKING THAT VERY SERIOUSLY, BUT I THINK WHAT’S BECOME CLEAR SO FAR IS THAT THE ONLY THING THAT IS GOING STOP THIS CONFLICT AT THIS POINT IS A NEGOTIATED CEASE FIRE BASED ON AN EXCHANGE OF ISRAEL PULLING OUT TO SOME DEGREE FROM

,THE GAZA STRIP AND THEN GETTING IN EXCHANGE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOSTAGES, THEY HOPE ALL OF THEM. BUT THAT’S PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY THING RIGHT NOW THAT’S GOING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE, NOT AS MUCH THE ICJ. OF COURSE, IT WOULD LOOK VERY BADLY FOR ISRAEL IF THEY COME

BACK WITH A RULING THAT ISRAEL DID SOME WAY COMMIT . >> MORGAN AND WE KNOW THAT YOU’VE GOT EYES ON A CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, MATT GUTMAN IN TEL AVIV FOR US. MATT, THANK YOU. WELL, MEANWHILE, WE’RE LEARNING NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PALESTINIAN TEENAGER KILLED IN THE WEST BANK BY ISRAELI POLICE.

A WITNESS WHO WAS IN VEHICLE WITH TAWFIK JABBAR AT THE TIME SAYS SHOOTING WAS UNPROVOKED. HIS ISRAELI POLICE INITIALLY SAID WERE TARGETING PEOPLE THROWING ROCKS. AND THAT WITNESS ACCOUNT IS ONLY SIDE OF THE STORY. NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE IS DEMANDING A TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION INTO HIS DEATH. TELL SIX UNCLE MOHAMMED JABBAR

JOINS ME NOW FROM NEW ORLEANS. MOHAMMED, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON. AND I CAN’T IMAGINE DIFFICULT THIS MUST BE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. SO APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. US. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR NEPHEW? GOOD MORNING. FIRST OF ALL.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME ON YOUR SHOW. SO FAR, WE’RE HEARING THAT IT’S AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND HOPEFULLY THIS THING THAT THE KILLER WILL BE BROUGHT TO. BUT WE KNOW THAT WE’VE GOTTEN SOME MORE DETAILS AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN’T ABANDON THEIR MISSION IS IN

THEIR COUNTRY AND, KEEPS PRESSURING THEM TO DO A FULL TRANSFER INVESTIGATION TO BRING THE KILLERS TO JUSTICE. >> AND MOHAMMED, YOUR SAYS U.S. EMBASSY OFFICIALS VISITED THE VILLAGE IN THE WEST BANK. THEY PHOTOGRAPHED THE CAR AND EVEN INTERVIEWED RELATIVES. WHAT ARE YOU HOPING COMES OUT OF THIS INVESTIGATION?

>> I JUST HOPE IT DOESN’T GO IN VAIN. AND AWARENESS IS BROUGHT TO THE ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST BANK, IN PALESTINE, IN THE WEST BANK AND SURROUNDING AREAS. >> IT’S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I WISH I KNEW THIS ENEMY AND WE WOULD REALLY WANT

THIS TO BRING AWARENESS WHERE IT WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN TO AVOID IT HAPPEN TO ANYBODY ELSE. >> I’M MAKING I CAN’T IMAGINE THE HEARTBREAK THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE FEELING. MOHAMMED, YOU LIVE HERE IN THE U.S., IN NEW ORLEANS, WHERE YOUR NEPHEW TARIQ, WAS BORN AND RAISED.

WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE AT HOME TO KNOW ABOUT THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR? AND WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE? >> I MEAN, ISRAEL HAMAS IS IN GAZA, MISSION TERRITORY IN THE WEST BANK. BUT IT’S IT’S — IT’S SOMETHING OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR 75 YEARS. >> IT’S I MEAN, THERE’S NO

OTHER WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE OTHER THAN THE . I MEAN, IT’S AS SIMPLE THAT. IT’S TRUE. IT’S CLEANSING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OUT OF PALESTINE BY KILLING THE SERIOUSLY JAILING THEM. AND INHUMANE PRISONS WERE BRINGING AWARENESS TO THE WHOLE SITUATION AND AGAIN, I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT YOUR FAMILY IS GOING THROUGH.

BUT IF YOU COULD JUST TELL US A LITTLE BIT, TAWFIQ, WHAT WAS HE LIKE AND WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS COUNTRY TO KNOW? HE WAS A LOVELY KID. I MEAN, HE WAS 16, BIG BOY, LIKE A BIG TEDDY BEAR. SOMEBODY WOULD LOVE TO HUG. HE WAS FUNNY, GOOFY, ALWAYS

SMILING AND UP THE ROOM WHEN HE WALKS. AND HE BROUGHT A LOT OF JOY TO THIS FAMILY AND TO THIS COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY. A LOT OF JOY THAT THAT WILL BE RELEASED IN AUGUST TWO. MOHAMED AL SABAR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND OF COURSE, FOR KEEPING YOU AND

YOUR FAMILY IN OUR THOUGHTSER TE INTERNATIONAL COURT WILL BE MAKING THAT RULING TOMORROW. >> ■WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. STAY WITH US. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. >> HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN

A LIE. THE FEEDING THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEALS? WHY IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC.

TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID, YOU THINK OF LIKE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES

ON THE PLANET NOW, STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED. WHAT DO YOU SEE MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT.

LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET

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WITH A DECISION. >> JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR A MORE NEWS LITERATE REPORTING FROM MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA, I’M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, OKAY, LET’S TALK SPORTS. A MAJOR SHAKEUP IS RATTLING

THE FOOTBALL WORLD AHEAD OF THE NFL’S CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH IS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. FRESH OFF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND IS TAKING THE REINS OF THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS. ABC’S WILL REEVE HAS THE LATEST. >> WHO’S GOT IT BETTER THAN JIM HARBAUGH FRESH OFF RETURNING MICHIGAN TO GLORY

WITH THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. >> HE’S BOLTING TO THE NFL AGREEING TO A REPORTED FIVE YEAR DEAL TO COACH THE LOS ANGELES CHARGERS. HARBAUGH SPENT NINE YEARS AS THE COACH AT HIS ALMA MATER. >> HE WON 89 GAMES. HE LOST HIS 25. HE’D COME TO BE PRACTICALLY WORSHIPED IN ANNE ARBOR.

>> BUT THE ALLURE OF RETURNING TO NFL PROVED TOO STRONG. ONE DECIDING FACTOR FOR TO MAKE THE JUMP AND BECOME THE FIRST COACH IN HISTORY TO WIN A NATIONAL TITLE AND IMMEDIATELY LEAVE FOR THE NFL IS POTENTIAL LOOMING FROM THE NCAA. HARDBALL WAS SUSPENDED TWICE LAST SEASON BY MICHIGAN AND THE

BIG TEN CONFERENCE FOR VARIOUS ALLEGED INFRACTIONS, INCLUDING HIS ALLEGED ROLE IN THAT SIGN STEALING. AND THE NCAA MAY HAVE PUNISHED HIM FURTHER. BUT NOW HE’S OUT OF THEIR REACH AND BACK IN THE PROS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2014 WHEN HE COACHED THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS. >> EVERYONE’S LOOKING FORWARD

TO ANOTHER HARDBALL WHEN JIM’S CHARGES HOST OLDER BROTHER JOHN’S RAVENS NEXT SEASON. >> MORGAN I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. HORRIBLE WILL REEVE THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M MORGAN NORWOOD, ABC NEWS IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT

AND ANALYSIS CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS TO BE WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. WHAT THE CITY OF BENGHAZI. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING

DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. NOW SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN THEY MET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE NICKNAMED RIO BRAVO. SOMETIMES THEY WORK, SOMETIMES IN THIS UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME VETERAN GUYS MOST VENOMOUS YOUNG PLAYERS. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” NOW STREAMING HULU FRIDAY NIGHT.

THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. >> HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY REVEALED? WHY REVEAL IT NOW?

WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC WAS LIKE FIRST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH THIS YOU ARE LOOKING AT A RAINY, FOGGY NEW YORK CITY ON THIS THURSDAY MORNING.

AND OF COURSE, WE’VE GOT A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. SO LET’S GET YOU THIS RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BACK COURT TODAY TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH HE MUST PAY. WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL COURT RESUMING AFTER A THREE DAY PAUSE DUE TO A COVID SCARE.

THIS TRIAL IS ONLY ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY, IF ANY, HE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF. DEFAMING HER IN 2019 AFTER SHE ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULTING HER, CAROL SAYS TRUMP STILL DEFAMING HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA. SHE’S SEEKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION. ROBERTSON’S COUGH SIRUP BEING RECALLED BECAUSE OF WHAT

THE COMPANY CALLS POSSIBLE MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION. THIS RECALL APPLIES TO ROBITUSSIN, HONEY C MAX. BOTH DAY NIGHTTIME FORMULAS FOR ADULTS. NOW, THE COMPANY SAYS THE PRODUCTS COULD TO LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS WITH PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND SAYS ANYONE WITH THESE PRODUCTS SHOULD STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY. COMPANY ALSO SAYS THERE

HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF ILLNESS RELATED TO THAT PRODUCT. AND THERE’S A HUGE WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SHOWDOWN IS HAPPENING TONIGHT. NINE THREE LSU LADY TIGERS ARE HOSTING TOP WHITE SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAMES OF THE SEASON WITH TICKET PRICES

ON THEIR BACK IN THAT UP SOME SEATS LISTEN TO THAT SELLING FOR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON THE SECONDARY MARKET BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH THE FAA CLEARING THE WAY FOR BOEING MAX TO RESUME FLYING AS EARLY AS THIS WEEKEND. ALL OF THIS COMES AFTER FEDERAL AGENCY GROUNDED NEARLY 200

OF THE PLANES FOLLOWING AN ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT WHICH LOST ONE OF ITS DOOR PLUGS MID-FLIGHT EARLIER THIS MONTH. OUR TRANSPORTATION CORRESPONDENT, GIO BENITEZ, IS AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA WITH THE LATEST THE FAA RELEASING ITS FINAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AIRLINES TO INSPECT MAX NINE UNITED ALREADY SAYING IT’S PUTTING

PLANES BACK IN THE AIR BY SUNDAY. ALASKA AIRLINES EVEN EARLIER FRIDAY. THIS AFTER THREE WEEKS OF INVESTIGATING THAT DOOR CLOCK THAT FLEW OFF THE ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT 16,000 FEET IN THE AIR, THE FAA LAYING OUT AN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS WHICH WILL REQUIRE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC BOLTS, GUIDE TRACKS

AND FITTINGS AND DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF LEFT AND RIGHT, MID CABIN EXIT DOOR PLUGS. IT’S FOUR BOLTS PROPERLY INSTALLED, PROPERLY TIGHTENED. AND IF THEY’RE IN AND THEY’RE PROPERLY INSPECTED, THESE AIRPLANES AS SAFE AS ANY AIRPLANE IN THE SKY. THE FIX IS SIMPLE. >> THE TRUST OF THE FLYING

PUBLIC IS THE HARDER PART. THE FAA TELLING BOEING IT CAN EXPAND ON PRODUCTION OF THE MAX’S WHAT’S ALREADY BEING BUILT UNTIL THERE’S A FULL INVESTIGATION. THE NEWS COMING JUST HOURS AFTER BOEING CEO DAVE CALHOUN TOOK TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> WE AIRPLANES PLACE WE DON’T

SAY AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. >> THE MEETINGS WERE AT BOEING’S REQUEST. >> BOEING CEO SAYS HE TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS AND ASSURED ME THAT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE WHICH I SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY REPORTERS ASKING CALHOUN ABOUT A SEATTLE TIMES REPORT

CLAIMING THAT THE DOOR PLUG WAS ACTUALLY LAST INSTALLED BY BOEING, NOT FUSELAGE MANUFACTURER SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS. >> THANKS MUCH. CALHOUN WOULDN’T COMMENT. THE COMPANY POINTING US TO THE NTSB. >> AND RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT, ALASKA AIRLINES AND UNITED ARE WORKING ON THOSE OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GET PLANES

BACK IN THE AIR BY THIS WEEKEND. AND BOEING IS ACTUALLY GOING TO STOP PRODUCTION FOR TODAY. THEY’RE GOING TO PUT A PAUSE ON IT JUST TO FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTROL IN BRITAIN, WASHINGTON, AT THEIR FACTORY. AND THAT’S THE FOCUS HERE, QUALITY CONTROL. THAT’S WHAT THE FAA GOING TO BE

LOOKING AT VERY, VERY CLOSELY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS. MORGAN GOT IT. GIO BENITEZ AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IN VIRGINIA. JILL THANK YOU. WE TURN NOW TO BREAKING NEWS. AN ALABAMA MAN SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED TODAY IS MAKING A LAST DITCH APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT.

CONVICTED KILLER KENNETH SMITH. YOU SEE HIM THERE SEEKING A STAY AND REVIEW OF HIS CLAIMS THAT USING NITROGEN GAS WOULD CONSTITUTE CRUEL, UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. THE SUPREME COURT HAD ORIGINALLY CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST EXECUTION, USING THE UNTESTED METHOD AFTER, THE STATE TRIED A LETHAL INJECTION BUT COULD NOT GET THE

NEEDLE IN HIS. OTHER STATES ALSO PLAN TO USE NITROGEN GAS BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS. WELL, SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES ARE FACING A GROWING NUMBER OF CALLS TO MAKE THEIR PLATFORMS SAFER. YOUNG PEOPLE. WE’VE BEEN ALL OVER THIS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WELL, NOW LAWMAKERS IN HAVE

APPROVED A MAJOR CRACKDOWN. THEY WANT THESE PLATFORMS OFF TO KIDS ALTOGETHER. LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA APPROVING WHAT COULD BE THE MOST STRICT REGULATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY. THE HOUSE PASSING A BILL THAT PROHIBIT ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 FROM SIGNING UP FOR MOST SOCIAL PLATFORMS, EVEN

IF THEY HAVE THEIR PARENT’S APPROVAL. >> IT’S LIKE A DIGITAL SENTINEL AND EVEN THE MOST PLUGGED IN PARENT OR ATTUNED TEEN HAS A HARD TIME SHUTTING THE DOOR AGAINST ADDICTIVE FEATURES. >> THE BILL TARGETING ANY SOCIAL MEDIA THAT TRACKS USER ACTIVITY ALLOWS CHILDREN TO UPLOAD CONTENT OR USES ADDICTIVE FEATURES DESIGNED

TO CAUSE COMPULSIVE USE. THEY’RE JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KIDS GROWING UP. OPPONENTS SAY BILL INFRINGES ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AND WILL FACE FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES IN COURT. >> MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK CITY ,WE ARE THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP AND CALL OUT THE DANGER OF SOCIAL LIKE THIS.

>> MAYOR ERIC ADAMS DESIGNATING SOCIAL MEDIA AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. >> WE CANNOT BY AND LET BIG TECH MONETIZE OUR CHILDREN’S PRIVACY AND JEOPARDIZE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. >> THE SURGEON GENERAL WARNING UP TO 95% OF YOUTH AGES 13 THROUGH 17 REPORT USING A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

WITH MORE, A THIRD SAYING THEY USE SOCIAL MEDIA ALMOST CONSTANTLY. AND TODAY ANNOUNCED NEW SAFETY AIMED AT TEENAGERS, INCLUDING RESTRICTING PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM STRANGERS ALONG WITH PARENTAL CONTROLS. RIGHT NOW, WE WANT TO BRING IN ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL JOINING NOW FOR

MORE ON THIS. SO DR. PATEL, I’M CURIOUS, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS NEW BILL COULD AFFECT KIDS MENTAL HEALTH? I MEAN, THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION THIS NOT JUST AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT ALSO THE FEDERAL LEVEL AS WELL AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND AMONG MANY CIRCLES AND NEUROSCIENCE,

PEDIATRIC PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, BECAUSE WE DO SUSPECT THAT THIS SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION THAT PLAGUES SO MANY TEENS IS HAVING A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THEIR DEVELOPMENT NOW WITH TO HOW THIS BILL IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, HOW IT’S GOING TO BE A FORCE, IT’LL BE A YEAR OR TWO.

>> THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, THERE HOPEFULLY WILL BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES CAN DO AND PARENTS WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THIS AND START TO THINK, WHAT CAN WE DO? >> CURB SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN OUR YOUTH. SOCIAL MEDIA USE OVER THE PAST

SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEEN LINKED TO ISSUES WITH DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS, BODY IMAGE ISSUES. >> 90% OF TEENS IN ONE SURVEY ADMITTED THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS INTERFERING WITH THEIR SLEEP . AND WE HEARD THE STATISTIC THAT ABOUT 97% OF TEENS USE SOCIAL MEDIA. >> SOME EVERY SINGLE DAY.

>> WELL, DR. PATEL, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTERS OF THIS PARTICULAR OR PEOPLE AGAINST THIS THIS PARTICULAR MEASURE OR SUPPORTERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN GENERAL, THEY SAY THAT THERE ARE SOME BENEFITS TO SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN IT COMES TO KIDS. YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE CONNECTION, CAMARADERIE, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT,

WHEN THEY MISS OUT ON CERTAIN THINGS, THESE NEW RULES. >> I MEAN, WHAT’S YOUR ARGUMENT AGAINST THAT POTENTIALLY? >> AND I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA. >> ANY TIME WE TALK ABOUT THESE POTENTIAL BANS OR LIMITATIONS, BECAUSE TEENS DO REPORT FEELING

A SENSE OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION. >> I MEAN, THERE ARE PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THIS IS ALSO AN OUTLET FOR CREATIVITY AND A LOT OF CITIZEN THAT HELPS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD AND WHAT’S OUT . >> WE SAW THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC THAT MANY EDUCATORS FOUND CREATIVE USES

OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO GET LESSONS INTO THE HANDS OF TEENS AS WELL. >> AND I WILL TELL YOU, WHEN I TALK TO MY PATIENTS, MANY PATIENTS WHO ARE LIVING WITH CERTAIN CHRONIC FIND EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY RIGHT THERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA APP . >> SO I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THESE POINTS

ARE PAID ATTENTION TO. >> AND WHEN PARENTS HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR TEENS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA USE THAT THEY ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SOME GOOD UTILITIES THERE AND IT TRULY IS, AS YOU MENTIONED, ALL ABOUT BALANCE. ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR, THE PHYSICIAN AT STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH DR. ALOK PATEL THANK SO MUCH.

>> WELL, COMING UP, WHY JON STEWART IS RETURNING TO THE DAILY SHOW FOR ELECTION SEASON. ALSO AHEAD, THE CHRIS, HE’S JOINING US FROM ABOARD THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP. NOW IT SEEMS TO NOT CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST.

PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID YOU’RE BEING RECORDED LIKE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET NOW, STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS IS ON THE PHONE.

YEAH, IT’S BEEN A SOURCE OF SUNSHINE A LITTLE BIT. EVEN MORE. JUST A LITTLE BIT. AND I’M GOING TO HAVE TO FACE IN AMERICA FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE SOURCE BECOMES THE ONLY ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER AND IT CAN CUSTOMIZE YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS.

IF YOU’VE BEEN IN THE KNOW YOU’RE GONNA LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH ALL THE BOSSES OF EXPERIAN THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. ABC NEWS PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL TELEVISION STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

>> THE CITY OF BENGHAZI. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. RIGHT NOW, SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED, ONE OF THEM BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE NICKNAMED. SOMETIMES THEY HIT, SOMETIMES THEY MISS.

THE UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME VETERAN GUYS. MOST MORNINGS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” NOW STREAMING ON HULU. AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE FOR. IT IS WAVE SEASON, ACCORDING TO CELEBRITY CRUISES. WAVE SEASON IS KIND OF LIKE BLACK FRIDAY. YOU’VE GOT CYBER MONDAY, PRESIDENTS DAY SALES AND IT’S

ALL IN ONE. AND SO JOINING ME NOW, WE’VE GOT A REAL TREAT TO KICK US OFF FROM THE WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP. IS STEWARD, STARRING IN IS KNOWN AS THE CRUISE GUY. YOU’VE GOT THE SUNGLASSES. YOU’RE CLEARLY BY THE POOL STEWARD. I AM JEALOUS. YOU’RE ON ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S ICON OF THE SEAS.

TELL US WHAT IT IS LIKE BEING ON BOARD THAT SHIP. WE ARE SO JEALOUS OF YOU. THIS ONE, I CAN TELL YOU, AFTER 321 CRUISES EVEN, I’M IMPRESSED. I’M AT THE HEIGHT OF WAVE POOL AND IT’S THE FIRST INFINITY POOL FOR CARIBBEAN’S HAD. AND WE’RE ACTUALLY SUSPENDED ON DECK 16, 16 STORIES

ABOUT THE OCEAN AND IN THE FIRST POOL OF ITS KIND IN THE INDUSTRY. >> BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A 250,800 TON SHIP AND IT ONLY HOLDS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 5450 500 PASSENGERS, 7004. BUT BECAUSE THE SHIP IS SO LARGE, THERE’S SO MUCH ROOM THAT IT’S JUST UNBELIEVABLY EASY TO NAVIGATE.

AND SEVERAL YEARS AGO, ROYAL CARIBBEAN BUILT OR REBUILT THEIR PRIVATE ISLAND, COCOCAY IN THE BAHAMAS AND IT’S LIKE THEY TOOK COCOCAY AND PUT IT AT SEA. THE LARGEST WATERPARK IS HERE. YOU KNOW, THE SEVEN PORTHOLES, A TEN NIGHT OR TEN JACUZZIS. AND THERE’S JUST SO MUCH TO DO .

40 RESTAURANTS AND BARS AROUND THE SHIP. SO, YOU KNOW, IT’S VERY HARD IN ONE WEEK TO BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING THAT THIS SHIP HAS OFFERED. >> DID YOU SAY 40 RESTAURANT AND BARS? MY GOODNESS. STUART YOU SAID YOU ALSO SAID THAT YOU’VE BEEN A MORE THAN 300 CRUISES. THAT’S INCREDIBLE.

SO WE KNOW IT’S BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD. THERE’S GOT TO BE SOME PROS AND CONS THAT COME WITH THAT WHAT ELSE STANDS OUT TO YOU. >> WELL, THE, YOU KNOW, THE FEATURES, THE, YOU KNOW, BACK ON DECKS SIX, SEVEN, THE BOARDWALK, THEY CHANGE THAT. IT’S THE KIDS AREA.

I MEAN, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE VACATION FOR FAMILIES. AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY ACTUALLY WOUND UP BUILDING THE AQUA DOME IN THE FRONT OF THE SHIP IT’S 893,000 CUBIC FEET OF SPACE. IT’S THE ROOF IS 20 FEET WIDER THAN THE ROTUNDA IN THE PANTHEON IN. AND THERE THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW,

WATER SHOWS THAT THEY DO TO ENTERTAIN. AND IT’S JUST A AN INCREDIBLE COMPLEX. THERE’S JUST SO MANY AREAS OF THE SHIP THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, WELL, IT’S OASIS CLASS AND IT’S NOT EVERYTHING ON THIS SHIP IS. DIFFERENT, IMPROVED, UPGRADED. THERE’S SO MANY BRAND NEW AREAS .

I MEAN, JUST STANDING IN THE PASSENGER CORRIDORS AND LOOKING AT THE WIDTH OF, THE SHIP, THE ROYAL PROMENADE ON THIS SHIP, THE WIDTH IS IS IS STAGGERING. AND THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT THEY HAVE ON BOARD, WHETHER IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, LIVE ROCK CONCERTS BY TRIBUTE BANDS ,YOU KNOW, TO BROADWAY SHOWS.

I MEAN, THEY HAD THE WIZARD OF OZ. THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH. >> YEAH, FOR SURE. IT IS TRULY STUNNING AND GIGANTIC. OKAY. SO YOU ARE THE CRUISE EXPERT FOR THOSE LOOKING TO BOOK A CRUISE THIS YEAR, WHETHER

IT’S ON THE ICON OR OTHER SHIPS, WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO GO AHEAD AND CLICK THAT BOOK BUTTON? WELL, WE’RE ACTUALLY IN THE PEAK BOOKING SEASON, BUT EVERYTHING’S OUT OF WHACK IN A SENSE THAT THERE’S JUST SUCH TREMENDOUS DEMAND THAT THE CRUISE LINES ARE MORE HEAVILY

BOOKED THIS TIME OF YEAR THAN THEY’VE EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS INDUSTRY. NORMALLY, IT’S 45 TO 50%, BUT RIGHT NOW, THESE CRUISE LINES, THE CRUISE COMPANIES ARE REPORTING OVER 66%, WHICH MEANS THERE’S LESS AVAILABILITY. SO PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT CRUISING THIS YEAR, WHETHER IT’S THE CARIBBEAN, ALASKA, HEADING TO THE

MEDITERRANEAN. >> THEY’VE GOT TO BE MAKING PLANS NOW. AND ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOU, WHAT MAKES A GOOD DEAL. I MEAN, SHOULD YOU LOOK FOR AN ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE OR A LA CARTE? WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST? WELL, BEST THING TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, CONTACT YOUR YOUR

CRUISE AGENT, MAKE SURE THEY’RE THEY’RE FAMILIAR WITH THE CRUISES, MAKE SURE THEY’RE EXPERIENCED, AND THEY’RE YOUR BEST ADVOCATE . BUT I ALWAYS RECOMMEND RESEARCHING ONLINE. BUT DON’T BOOK ONLINE. YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU’RE GOING TO GET THE BEST DISCOUNTS. YOU NEVER KNOW. STUART SCHEER AND THANK YOU ABOARD ICON OF THE SEAS.

AND AGAIN, WE ARE SUPER JEALOUS. SAFE ROOM PREP FOR US UP THERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. FORMER DAILY SHOW HOST JON STEWART IS RETURNING AFTER NINE YEARS TO HOST THE SATIRICAL NEWS TALK SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL. PARAMOUNT SAYS STEWART WILL HOST THE DAILY SHOW EVERY MONDAY, STARTING NEXT MONTH AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION. STEWART WILL ALSO SERVE AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. >> ABC CHRIS CONNELLY HAS THE LATEST EPISODE. >> THAT WAS THEN AND NOW HE’S BACK. WELL, AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT. JON STEWART IS RETURNING TO THE DAILY SHOW, HOSTING ONE DAY A WEEK AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCING THROUGH THE 2024 REELECTION

SEASON THE SAME SHOW WHERE ONCE HE REIGNED 17 YEARS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER MY LIFE HELD A JOB BY 16 YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS. STEWART, WHO PLAYED SOCCER, WAS A STUDENT AT WILLIAM AND MARY, COMPARING HIMSELF TO A COLLEGE ATHLETE IN HIS STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PROCLAIMING

HIS DAILY SHOW LONGER WRITING AFTER MUCH REFLECTION, I HAVE DECIDED TO ENTER THE TRANSFER PORTAL FOR MY LAST YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY EXCITED FOR THE FUTURE. THAT FUTURE PUTS HIM BEFORE A PUBLIC THAT MIGHT BE EVEN MORE DIVIDED AND CONTENTIOUS THAN THE LAST TIME HE WAS BEHIND THE DESK.

>> PEOPLE’S HABITS HAVE CHANGED ON HIS POLITICAL POINT, OFFENDED OR UPSET, SO IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE NAVIGATE. I’M TAKING UP HIS OLD JOB IN A VERY NEW CLIMATE. CLIMATE CHANGE NOTWITHSTANDING THAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS A SIGH OF RELIEF FROM CENTRAL, WHICH, IN THE WAKE OF HOST

TREVOR NOAH’S DEPARTURE HAD YET ANNOUNCE A SUCCESSOR. ROY WOOD, JR. SEEN MOUTHING HIGHER A HOST AS NOAH ACCEPTED THE SHOW’S EMMY THIS MONTH. >> HEY, JON, WHERE ARE YOU? >> ON, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU FOR CALLING ME UP. THE NOW 61-YEAR-OLD STEWART COMING BACK TO THE SHOW THAT

MADE HIM A CULTURAL ALL THE WAY FROM 1989 ONWARD ON THE DAILY SHOW. STEWART MAKING THE COMEDY CENTRAL SERIES INTO A SOURCE OF NEWS WHOSE REACH AND INFLUENCE EXCEEDED TRADITIONAL TV’S, BECOMING A TRUSTED LEFT OF CENTER CONSCIENCE FOR HIS MANY DEVOTED FAN. >> IT CAME OUT OF THE WHITE

HOUSE NOT ONLY DEAD BROKE, BUT IN DEBT. I, I STILL GET EMOTIONAL JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. >> JON STEWART AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS REALLY, I THINK, PRESSED VIEWERS TO BE MORE SKEPTICAL OF WHAT THEY WERE CONSUMING EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT. AND KIND OF THINK MORE CAREFULLY ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GETTING

THEIR INFORMATION ABOUT THE. >> I LOVE A FELLOW MTV ALUM, STEWART’S ELECTION HERE OF MONDAY’S BEHIND THE DESK BEGINS THE DAY AFTER THE SUPER BOWL. >> FEBRUARY 12TH. >> MORGAN AND THAT WAS ABC’S CHRIS CONNELLY CHRIS, THANK YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS SO ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS

XM HOST MIKE LEE IS JOINING ME NOW. MIKE, MY FRIEND, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS ONLINE. I MEAN SOCIAL MEDIA LITERALLY BLEW UP YESTERDAY. JON STEWART, OF COURSE, VERY POPULAR AMONG GEN X AND MILLENNIALS LIKE MYSELF. WILL THIS COMEBACK CURIOUS APPEAL THE GEN Z AUDIENCE?

>> FIRST OF ALL, I’M SO EXCITED TO BE ON WITH YOU. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS. I DON’T THINK I DID. YOU’RE AWESOME. I THINK THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION THAT YOU ASK. AND PARTICULARLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST WHERE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSFER PORTAL. THE TRANSFER PORTAL IS SUCH

A GEN Z, IT’S SUCH A MILLENNIAL, IT’S SUCH A USEFUL TERMINOLOGY. AND I THINK THE GOOD THING ABOUT JON STEWART IS THAT HE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO MAKE GREAT TELEVISION AND HE ALSO KNOWS HIS AUDIENCE. HE ALSO KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THE AND TALKING THERE IS TO MODERATING OUR SOCIAL DISCOURSE .

AND SO I THINK HE WILL BE ABLE TO FIND A HOME AND INVITE ALL DIFFERENT GENERATIONS TO WATCH THIS SHOW. AND I WANT TO DIVE INTO THE CLIMATE BECAUSE CHRIS CONNELLY WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT IN HIS PIECE. YOU KNOW, STEWART TEACH FINAL EPISODE, THE DAILY SHOW, JUST HOURS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN

DEBATE BACK IN 2016, THAT ELECTION CYCLE. WHAT IMPACT COULD HIS VOICE AND MESSAGING HAVE ON THIS ELECTION CYCLE? >> THAT’S A REALLY GREAT ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION. AND I SAW WHAT THE PREVIOUS GUESTS WERE. AND IN TERMS OF WE’RE IN A MORE DIVISIVE, POLARIZING, RE SENSITIVE CULTURE.

BUT THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF COMEDY AND PARTICULARLY THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF SATIRICAL COMEDY. THAT’S WHY DAVE CHAPPELLE IS ONE OF THE GREATS. THAT’S WHY JON STEWART IS ONE OF THE GREATS. WHEN YOU CAN GET SATIRE RIGHT. COMEDY CAN HELP MODERATE SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND TAKE VERY POLARIZING TOPICS BY THOUGHTS

AND MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE FOR THE AUDIENCE TO RECEIVE. NO MATTER WHERE YOU SIT ON THE LINE OF HOW THAT JOKE IS DELIVERED. AND HE IS ONE OF THE BEST TO HELP MODERATE THAT THROUGH THE LENS OF LAUGHTER. YEAH, AND HE’S DONE THAT SO WELL OVER HIS CAREER.

STEPHEN COLBERT, JOHN OLIVER, THEY ALSO ROSE TO FAME BECAUSE OF THEIR TIME ON THE DAILY SHOW AS CORRESPONDENTS. THEY’RE NOW SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR OWN LANE. THEY’VE GOT THEIR OWN LATE NIGHT SHOWS ON KBS, HBO CURIOUS, THEY NOW COULD BE SEEN AS STEWART’S COMPETITION. WHAT CAN EXPECT FROM THEM?

AS YOU KNOW, THIS COMPETITION KIND OF, YOU KNOW, FIZZLES OUT HERE. I MEAN, WHY NOT GET THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN? THINK THIS, THOUGH. IT’S GOING TO BE A MONDAY SHOW. SO NOT A DAILY SHOW. AND AS YOU KNOW, IT’S HARD TO GET INTO A CADENCE WHEN SOMETHING ISN’T DAILY, BUT WHEN

IT’S WEEKLY, IT’S HARD TO CREATE DESTINATION TELEVISION. HE A NAME THAT’S GOING TO HELP HIM. AND I THINK HAVING THOSE ADDED CORRESPONDENTS, GUESTS WHO USED TO BE HERE, WHO HAVE THEIR OWN SHOW COMING BACK TOGETHER AGAIN ,THINK THAT IS A BIDEN MOMENT. AND WE KNOW JON STEWART IS ABOUT PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

AND HAVING FUN. YEAH, IT WOULD BE SO GREAT TO SEE THE BAND GET BACK TOGETHER. >> AND IT’S SO GREAT TO SEE YOU, MY FRIEND. MY FRIEND. HERE’S ALL YOU DO. YES. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST MIKE USE. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING US.

WELL, COMING UP WILL GANSS WILL BE JOINING US HERE TO STILL ALL OF THE T ON WHO’S TEAMING UP ON TV AND WHO’S SPLITTING FROM THE NEXT SEASON. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES. HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS?

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THAT IS ME, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WITH HIS FIRST SINGLE TAKE A LEAD THAT SIX YEARS IT DROPPED OVERNIGHT AND IT IS CALLED SELFISH WILL HAVE MUCH MORE ON JUSTIN TOMORROW WITH DROP WITH MEGAN RYTE BUT FOR NOW IT IS TIME FOR THE T WHERE WE BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE BUZZY STORIES FROM PEOPLE.

I LOVE TALKING ABOUT IT EVERYWHERE. OUR FRIEND WILL GANSS IS HERE TO HELP US OUT. WILL SPILL THE TEA. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU BUST OUT THE PROPS, THAT’S WHEN IT’S SERIOUS BUSINESS PEOPLE. ALL RIGHT. DUST OFF THE MANOLO BLAHNIKS. CARRIE BRADSHAW IS BACK, AND THIS TIME SHE’S COMING TO NETFLIX.

EVERY SEASON OF AND THE CITY WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON NETFLIX BEGINNING IN APRIL. >> AND THIS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL BECAUSE THE SERIES IS AN HBO PROPERTY. IT’S A SPINOFF. AND JUST LIKE THAT IS GEARING FOR SEASON THREE ON HBO, OF COURSE, ON HBO, MAX. >> NO.

ON WHAT NETFLIX IS PAYING TO BRING. CARRIE, SAMANTHA, CHARLOTTE AND MIRANDA TO THEIR PLATFORM. YOU GOT TO IMAGINE THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY. BUT IF SUITS OR GRAY’S ANATOMY ARE ANY INDICATION, GEN-Z COULD BRING AND THE CITY BACK AND MAKE EVEN BIGGER THAN EVER. THIS IS WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING

WHEN WE BRING OLD FRANCHISES TO NETFLIX, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE’S A BRAND NEW AUDIENCE. SO WE MIGHT BE TALKING A LOT ABOUT CARRIE BRADSHAW. NO COMPLAINTS THERE. AND I CERTAINLY ESPECIALLY THE RAND GOING THIS WEEKEND. I KNOW WHAT I’LL BE DOING THIS WEEKEND. BINGE WATCHING AND THE CITY. I LOVE IT.

ALL RIGHT. THE ONLY DUO MORE UNLIKELY THAN AND THE CITY AND NETFLIX, THOUGH, HOW ABOUT IOWA DEBRIS AND JENNIFER LOPEZ IO AND J.LO TEAMING UP FOR SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AS HOST AND MUSICAL GUEST RESPECTIVELY. OUR WHOLE TEAM WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME DOWN.

THE NEWS IS COMING ON THE HEELS OF AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL SEASON FOR THE BEAR STAR, BECOMING AN INTERNET ICON OF SORTS FOR SHUTTING DOWN WEIRD QUESTIONS ABOUT JEREMY ALLEN WHITE’S CALVIN KLEIN DANCE PRETENDING TO BE FROM IRELAND. IT’S A WHOLE SITUATION. TRUST ME. SHE EVEN IRELAND IN SEVERAL SPEECHES AT THIS POINT DURING

AWARDS SEASON. MEANWHILE, J.LO IS GEARING UP FOR THE RELEASE OF HER NEW ALBUM AND FILM. THIS IS THE NOW AND J.LO HIT THE STUDIO H STAGE ON FEBRUARY THIRD. WE’VE GOT NEW MUSIC FROM J.LO, NEW MUSIC FROM JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. OVERNIGHT. THE MUSIC GODS ARE LIKE BLESSED.

LIKE, HERE IS IT IT FEELS LIKE IT’S 2010 2001, MAYBE. YEAH, EXACTLY. EXACTLY. BUT WE’RE THANKFUL FOR IT. WE’RE HERE FOR IT. ALL RIGHT. AND IT’S BARELY BEEN 24 HOURS SINCE THE EXPLOSIVE SEASON FOUR FINALE OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY AFTER BEING EXPOSED THE BRAINS BEHIND

A TROLL ACCOUNT CALLED REALITY VON TEESE, MONICA GARCIA DID NOT APOLOGIZE TO HER CASTMATES ,THE PART THREE REUNION THAT AIRED ON TUESDAY. IT’S HARD FOR ME TO FOCUS, BUT HEATHER DAY IS DELIVERING THIS ICONIC MONOLOGUE. SHE DIDN’T APOLOGIZE. TO ANDY COHEN EITHER. AND NOW SHE’S FINALLY EXPLAINING WHY SHE DIDN’T DO

ANY OF THAT. THAN COME OUT TALKING TO THE COURT, EXPLAINING, QUOTE, I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE A FAKE APOLOGY AT THAT MOMENT. I DID NOT HAVE IT IN ME TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE. THE WOMEN WERE RELENTLESS. I FELT LIKE THEY STILL WEREN’T WILLING TO HEAR. WHEN ASKED IF COMING BACK NEXT

SEASON AND NOT COMING NEXT SEASON WAS HER OWN DECISION, MONICA SAYS THAT WOULD BE A CAST AND PROPER DECISION. IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MY DECISION. NOW, REAL HOUSEWIVES EP, ANDY COHEN AND OTHER SHOW ACTS ARE TELLING VARIETY THAT MONICA IS NOT COMING BACK FOR SEASON. THEY FEEL I KNOW THIS SITUATIONN

ONE OTHER CAST MEMBER, THAT WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IF SHE COULD COME BACK BECAUSE SHE HAS SOMEONE TO FILM SCENES WITH. BUT AT THE END OF THAT REUNION, NONE. THE WOMEN WERE HAVING IT. SO AND ANDY’S GOT THE FINAL SAY HERE. EXACTLY. SO I THINK MAYBE THERE’S

A FUTURE IN WHICH SHE COMES BACK NOT FOR SEASON FIVE, BUT FOR SIX OR SEVEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE A TAMRA JUDGE SITUATION. BUT FOR NO MONICA. ONE SEASON WONDER WHEN SEASON. I LOVE THAT. ALL RIGHT. AND I’M GLAD YOU’RE WEARING PINK FOR THIS NEXT STORY BECAUSE IT. ALL RIGHT.

JUDGE JUDY HAS BEEN A TV MAINSTAY SINCE 1996. TV GUIDE MAGAZINE NAMING HER THE HIGHEST PAID TV STAR IN. TEN YEARS AGO. SO IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT SHE HAS ANY PROFESSIONAL REGRETS WHATSOEVER. >> AND YET SHE DOES. JUDY SHEINDLIN, TELLING E! NEWS IT ALL HAS TO DO WITH REESE WITHERSPOON.

TAKE A LOOK. MY ONE REGRET, ACTUALLY, WHICH WAS A GOOD MOMENT FOR, YOU WHEN SHE WAS DOING LEGALLY BLOND, THEY REACHED OUT THROUGH SOMEONE AND SAID, WE’D LIKE YOU TO BE THE JUDGE. IT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER MADE IN MY CAREER. >> I MEAN, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO ICONIC. YEAH.

IN 2017, FORBES REPORTED THAT BROUGHT IN $147 MILLION THAT YEAR PRETAX. SO IT’S SAFET JUDGE JUDY. SHE’S DOING JUST FINE. SHE’S DOING JUST FINE. BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN KIND OF COOL TO SEE HER. AND AS FOR MY OUTFIT, I WAS DEFINITELY WAS INSPIRED BY WITHERSPOON. SO WE’LL DANCE.

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I’M LINSEY DAVIS REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. IT’S BECOME ITS MOST POPULAR CAMPAIGN STOP THE COURTROOM. DONALD TRUMP BACK IN NEW YORK FOR HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL AND ONCE AGAIN LASHING OUT

AT E. JEAN CARROLL IN A SERIES OF NEW POSTS. WHO TOOK THE STAND TODAY AND HAVE LAWYERS ARE FIRING BACK. UNRELENTING SEVERE STORM SLAMMING THE SOUTH. TORRENTIAL RAIN, FLASH FLOODING AND A TORNADO THREAT. MELISSA GRIFFIN HAS TAUGHT ME IT ALL UP FOR US. AND BACK IN BUSINESS, THE FAA

CLEARING THE WAY FOR BOEING’S MAX NINE TO RESUME FLYING. THE FALLOUT STEMMING FROM A SERIES OF FRIGHTENING INCIDENTS INVOLVING JETLINERS WHEN THE PLANES WILL BE BACK IN THE SKIES. AND THE FAA HAS NEW RULES FOR AIRLINE INSPECTIONS. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, DONALD TRUMP DETOURING FROM

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE DEFENSE TABLE FOR YET ANOTHER DAY OF TRIAL. TODAY, HE’S IN COURT FOR E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST THE PROSECUTION JUST RESTED ITS CASE AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT. A JUDGE IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE’LL HAVE TO PAY THE FORMER “ELLE” MAGAZINE COLUMNIST ADDITIONAL DAMAGES

FOR DEFAMING HER IN 2019. AND JURY ALREADY FOUND LIABLE FOR THE ASSAULT IN 2020, TO WHICH CAROL SAYS HAPPENED IN A DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM BACK IN THE 90S. OUR SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINING ME NOW FROM OUTSIDE COURT, ALONG WITH OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, AN ASSISTANT DEAN AT YALE JACKSON SCHOOL

OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS ASHA RANGAPPA. AARON, WE’LL START WITH YOU. THE PROSECUTION RESTING, THE DEFENSE WILL NOW CALL ITS FIRST WITNESS. WHAT ARE WE EXPECTING? CAROL MARTIN, WHO IS A TELEVISION JOURNALIST IN NEW YORK FOR 20 YEARS, ONE OF EUGENE CARROLL’S FRIENDS, SOMEONE THAT SHE SPOKE TO ABOUT

THE ASSAULT IN REAL TIME IS ON WITNESS STAND, BUT TESTIFYING AS A HOSTILE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE KYRA AND TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT SHE SENT AROUND THE TIME CAROL FIRST PUBLISHED HER ACCUSATION, DONALD TRUMP AND CAROL’S MESSAGES EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT HER FRIEND WAS ENJOYING THE ATTENTION A LITTLE BIT,

EVEN AT ONE POINT SAYING HER NARCISSISM HAS RUN AMOK AND THAT SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT. AND THE THE DRUG IS HERSELF. AND THE DEFENSE’S WHOLE POINT HERE IS THAT WHAT E. JEAN CARROLL HAS SAID IS THE HARM SHE SUFFERED FROM DONALD TRUMP’S DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IS OVERBLOWN.

AND THEY’RE GOING TO ASK THE JURY NOT TO GIVE HER ANY KIND OF A DAMAGING AWARD WHEN THIS CASE ENDS. CAROL MARTIN IS NOW UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION, TRYING TO BACKPEDAL A LITTLE BIT, SAYING THAT SHE HAS A TENDENCY TO USE LANGUAGE. >> SO, AISHA, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PROSECUTION’S ARGUMENT?

DID THEY MAKE THEIR CASE. YEAH, WELL, I THINK THIS WITNESS SEEMS LIKE ONE THAT MAKES SENSE. WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS TO MITIGATE THE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL CLAIM. AGAIN, THE JUDGE HERE HAS ALREADY DETERMINED THAT TRUMP IS LIABLE WHETHER HE’S AT IS NOT AT ISSUE.

THE QUESTION IS, WAS SHE HARMED BY HIS STATEMENT? AND IF SO, THE JURY HERE IS HERE TO EVALUATE VALUE OF THAT DAMAGE. SO I THINK THIS WITNESS MAKES SENSE WHETHER TRUMP HIMSELF TESTIFYING WILL MAKE SENSE REMAINS TO BE SEEN. >> SO, ERIN, WHAT’S NEXT? THE TRIAL? IS TRUMP GOING TO TAKE

THE STAND? >> HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE WILL. AND ALTHOUGH HIS EFFORTS MAY BE RESTRICTED BY THE PARAMETERS THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY SAID, HIS ATTORNEY SIGNALED IN COURT TODAY THAT SHE WANTS TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS STATE OF MIND WHEN HE MADE STATEMENTS ALREADY DETERMINED TO BE DEFAMATORY ABOUT E. JEAN CARROLL

SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIM. AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD TO SAY HE WAS JUST TRYING TO PROTECT HIMSELF. HE WAS PRESIDENT HERE, SOMEONE ACCUSING HIM OF ASSAULT, AND HE WANTED TO FIGHT BACK HARD, AS IS HIS CUSTOM. JUST LOOK AT HOW HE SPOKE NIKKI HALEY, AFTER HE BEAT HER IN

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. SO YOU COULD IMAGINE QUESTIONS LIKE THAT, HOW FAR THE JUDGE IS GOING TO TO LET THE DEFENSE GO REMAINS TO BE SEEN, BECAUSE HE’S NOT ALLOWED TO ARGUE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL IS A LIAR OR ARGUE THAT THAT THAT SHE SOMEHOW HAS IMPROPER MOTIVES

FOR BRINGING HER CLAIM. >> AND WHETHER IT’S THE COURTROOM OR THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL THAT DONALD TRUMP DOES LOVE TO ATTACK PEOPLE, THAT IS FOR SURE ERIN. ASH, APPRECIATE YOU BOTH. THANK YOU. WELL, FROM MANHATTAN, D.C., WE’RE TRACKING YET ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. FORMER ADVISOR PETER HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS

IN PRISON FOR DEFYING A SUBPOENA. COOPERATE WITH THE JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATION. THE EX-TRUMP AIDE WAS BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS. SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS IS OUTSIDE DISTRICT COURT THERE. SO NAVARRO WAS SENTENCED FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON

AND ORDERED TO PAY A FINE OF, WHAT, 90 $500? >> HOW DID THE COURT COME TO THE SENTENCING? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON, 90 $500. PETER NAVARRO IS ACTUALLY SPEAKING BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT WHISTLE. YOU HEAR SOME PROTESTERS WHO ARE STANDING BEHIND HIM

AS HE SPEAKS TO THE JUDGE LAID OUT WHY HE CAME TO THAT SENTENCE. HE SAID IT’S SIMILAR TO STEVE BANNON THAT OTHER FORMER TRUMP ADVISER WHO WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS TO TWO MONTHS IN PRISON. HE COMPARED THE CIRCUMSTANCES HERE. HE TOLD NAVARRO, YOU’RE NOT A VICTIM.

YOU’RE NOT THE OBJECT OF A POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR OWN MAKING. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THEY INTEND TO APPEAL. THE LEGAL TEAM HAS ALREADY NOTICED THAT A FEW ALSO. I’M SURE HE’S TALKING ABOUT THAT BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW, BUT HE’S NOT EXPECTED TO REPORT TO PRISON IMMEDIATELY.

I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU GO OVER THERE. I KNOW YOU WANT TO GET A PART OF THAT SCRUM. CATHERINE WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH. APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. WE’LL FOLLOW THE CASE, OF COURSE, ALONG WITH YOU ON. NEW DATA SHOWING THAT THE U.S. ECONOMY GREW FASTER THAN EXPECTED IN THE FINAL

THREE MONTHS OF 2023. THE GROWTH COMES AMID EASING INFLATION AND A RESILIENT AMERICAN CONSUMER. DESPITE MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICTING A RECESSION FOR LAST YEAR. OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS IS DIG INTO ALL THE NUMBERS. ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, LET’S BREAK IT DOWN. LET’S BREAK IT DOWN BECAUSE THIS IS AN ECONOMY

THAT CONTINUES TO SHOW ITS STAMP EVEN IN THE FACE OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND HIGHER INFLATION. ECONOMY CONTINUED TO GROW, THE ECONOMY EXPANDED AT A RATE OF 3.3% IN THE FINAL THREE MONTHS OF LAST YEAR. AND ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE ASKED THE CONSUMERS TO THANK THAT. HOLIDAY SPENDING WAS VERY STRONG.

A BUSINESS INVESTMENT ALSO SHOWED SOME STRENGTH LAST IN THAT LAST QUARTER. AND OVERALL, THIS SHOWS THAT THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO GROW AT. A GOOD CLIP. THIS IS A SOLID NUMBER. BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT IT IS A SLOWDOWN, THE NEARLY 5% ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE. WE SAW IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

BUT ALL IN ALL, IT IS DEFYING EXPECTATIONS FOR THAT RECESSION THAT ECONOMISTS KEPT TALKING ABOUT. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE’VE AVOIDED THAT, THANKS IN LARGE PART HERE TO THE STRONG JOB MARKET AND HIRING CONTINUING. >> AND THAT, OF COURSE, IS BOOSTING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK IT SAYS ABOUT 2024?

>> WELL, ARE GOING TO START TALKING ABOUT A RECESSION, I THINK, FOR A WHILE. AND EVEN THAT SOFT LANDING WE WERE TALKING ABOUT INSTEAD START TO FOCUS ON WHEN THE FEDERAL RESERVE MAY START TO CUT INTEREST RATES. SOME ARE SAYING THAT WE MAY SEE THAT CUT IN RATES COME AT THE MARCH MEETING.

MAYBE THE MAY MEETING. THE FED IS MEETING NEXT WEEK TO TALK INTEREST RATES. WE ARE EXPECTING THEM TO KEEP RATES STEADY, BUT THERE ARE A FEW WARNING SIGNS HERE THAT I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT. ONE IS LAYOFFS CONTINUE TO UP RIGHT, ESPECIALLY IN TECH AND MEDIA. JUST TODAY, MICROSOFT, IT WAS

GOING TO LAYOFF 1900 WORKERS IN ITS VIDEO GAME. THAT’S REALLY BECAUSE IT HAD COME TOGETHER WITH ACTIVISION BLIZZARD AND THEY WERE SORT OF A SOME REDUNDANCIES THERE. BUT WE ALSO HAVE RED FLAGS IN THE WAY CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING THEIR MONEY. THEY ARE NOW TAKING A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO PAY OFF

THEIR CREDIT CARD BILLS. DELINQUENCY RATES ARE HIGHER AND THEIR SAVINGS RATE IS NOWHERE NEAR WHERE IT WAS PRE-PANDEMIC. SO WHILE CONSUMERS HAVE BEEN SORT OF THE FUEL BEHIND THE GROWTH, WE’VE BEEN SEEING IN THE ECONOMY, IF THAT SPENDING STARTS TO SLOW DOWN AND CONTINUE TO PILE UP,

WE COULD SEE A MORE ACCELERATED SLOWDOWN IN THE ECONOMY IN THE COMING MONTHS KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT. WE’LL STAY ON TOP OF IT. ALEXIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO EXTREME WEATHER IS ON THE MOVE, THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS STILL ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERED FLASH

FLOODING IN PARTS OF THE STATE HAVE SEEN MONTHS OF THE WORST OF THE RAIN IN JUST THE LAST 72 HOURS ALONE. AND THEN MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG . IT’S SO THICK THAT DRIVERS IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED TO BE VIGILANT. FLOODWATERS ALSO WASHING OUT ROADS IN LOUISIANA.

SOME DRIVERS EVEN FORCED TO AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS. A UP IS ON THE WAY. OUR MELISSA GRIFFIN IS TRACKING ALL THE EXTREME WEATHER. WE’RE ALREADY FEELING THE WATER ATTEMPTS HERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL. MELISSA. >> OH, YEAH.

I MEAN, IT IS FEELING GREAT OUT THERE. IT’S KIND OF GIVE TAKE, THOUGH. WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH SOME CLOUDS AND FOG AND RAINY WEATHER. BUT AT LEAST IT’S WARM OUT THERE. BUT IT’S THE FOG THAT’S REALLY BRINGING A LOT OF ISSUES, ESPECIALLY THE AIRPORTS, OVER 2000 FLIGHTS CANCELED, MAINLY

CHICAGO, MIDWAY AND O’HARE OVER TO DENVER, PLACES THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED THE MOST. DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT AS THIS MOIST AIR MASS CONTINUES BRING HEAVY RAIN TO THE SOUTH. SOME SPOTS ALREADY SEEING OVER HALF A FOOT OF RAIN AND MORE ROUNDS OF RAIN ARE ON THE WAY.

YOU CAN SEE THIS AREA IN DEEP SOUTH HERE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW. YOU’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE THOSE ROUNDS OF RAIN RIGHT OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. SO NEW ORLEANS UP TO MOBILE. BACK UP THROUGH BIRMINGHAM, ATLANTA, YOU’RE IN THAT AS WELL, ALL THE WAY INTO THE CAROLINAS.

THE FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, REALLY THROUGH SATURDAY AS ROUNDS OF RAIN MOVE THROUGH. HERE’S HOW MUCH RAIN WE’RE EXPECTING. 1 TO 3 INCHES EVEN IN PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST WITH ROUNDS OF RAIN INTO THE WEEKEND. HERE YOU COULD SEE NORTH ATLANTA, SOME SPOTS TO SEE 3 TO

5 INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH IS REALLY ONE OF THE BIGGER FLOOD SPOTS AS WE HEAD BACK INTO THE GULF COAST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. BUT, KYRA, AS YOU SAID, THAT WARM UP IS HERE. YOU CAN SEE D.C. IN THE SIXTIES, MAYBE EVEN REACHING 70 BY TOMORROW.

NEW YORK, YOU’RE IN THE 50S, AND IT IS REALLY FEELING GREAT OUT THERE. BUT AGAIN, WE DO GOT TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THAT RAIN AND FOG. I’LL TAKE IT. >> I’LL TAKE THE WARM TEMPERATURES. ABSOLUTELY. MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, THE FAA IS FINALLY RELEASING INSTRUCTIONS,

AIRLINES TO BEGIN CONDUCTING THOSE FINAL INSPECTIONS OF THEIR 737 MAX NINE PLANES. THE AGENCY ANNOUNCING THE MOVE TO ENSURE THE JANUARY FIVE, BOEING 737 NINE MAX INCIDENT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. THE FAA INITIALLY GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THOSE PLANES AFTER A SERIES OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING BOEING JETS, INCLUDING THE MIDAIR BLOWOUT

THAT WE JUST. >> OUR IKE EJIOCHI HAS ALL THE DETAILS FOR US. THE FAA RELEASING ITS FINAL INSTRUCTIONS, AIRLINES, TO ENSURE THOSE PLANES ARE REPAIRED AND SAFE. >> A 12 HOUR INSPECTION PROCESS TO EXAMINE MAX, 19. >> THE AGENCY LAYING OUT AN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS, WHICH WILL REQUIRE, AMONG OTHER

THINGS, AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC BOLTS, GUIDE TRACKS AND FITTINGS AND DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF LEFT AND RIGHT MAKE CABIN EXIT DOOR PLUGS. EACH OF THE AIRLINES WILL MAKE SURE THESE FOUR BOLTS ARE PROPERLY INSTALLED AND TIGHT. AND BOEING WILL BE HELPING WHEREVER NECESSARY. BUT EACH OF THESE AIRLINES KNOWS THAT THEY’RE REPUTATION

IS ON THE LINE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE AIRPLANES ARE SAFE TO FLY. UNITED SAYING IT’S PUTTING THE PLANES BACK IN THE AIR BY SUNDAY WITH ALASKA SAYING THEIR 65 MAX, NINE JETS WILL BE UP FRIDAY. ALL THIS FOLLOWING THREE WEEKS OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THAT DOOR PLUG THAT FLEW OFF

THE ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT 16,000 FEET IN THE AIR. BOEING STILL FACING SCRUTINY. THE FAA TELLING THE COMPANY IT CAN’T EXPAND ON PRODUCTION OF THE MAXS, WHAT’S ALREADY BEING BUILT UNTIL THERE’S A FULL INVESTIGATION. MEANWHILE, BOEING CEO DAVE CALHOUN VOLUNTARILY TO CAPITOL HILL TAKING TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM SENATORS.

WE’VE BASICALLY WE DON’T PUT AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE IN. REPORTERS ASKING CALHOUN ABOUT A SEATTLE TIMES CLAIMING THAT THE DOOR PROBE WAS ACTUALLY LAST INSTALLED BY BOEING NOT THE FUSELAGE MANUFACTURER SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS . >> THANKS SO MUCH. BOEING TELLING ABC NEWS ALL UPDATES ON THE INVESTIGATION

MUST COME FROM THE NTSB. CARL WILL BE BACK ON CAPITOL HILL TODAY FIELDING MORE QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS. HE’S ALSO EXPECTED TO PART IN A PUBLIC HEARING IN THE COMING WEEKS KYRA. >> MIKE, THANKS SO MUCH. >> AND COMING UP, A MINNESOTA STATE TROOPER CHARGED WITH MURDER. NOW THE VICTIM’S FAMILY

IS SPEAKING OUT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE

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FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST

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A STAND IN THE TRIAL AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLY. SHE’S THE MOTHER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL MASS SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY, WHO IS NOW FACING FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AFTER HE OPENED FIRE AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL, KILLING FOUR AND WOUNDING SEVERAL OTHERS. SHE’S ACTUALLY THE ONE FACING MANSLAUGHTER AND SHE’S IN COURT

NOW AFTER GIVING HER SON ACCESS TO THAT GUN. OUR TREVOR AULT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CASE FOREVER. SO JENNIFER WILL TAKE THE STAND. RIGHT. SO WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT HER TESTIMONY WOULD HELP HER HURT HER? >> I MEAN, IT’S ALMOST ALWAYS A GAMBLE KYRA, BY NATURE WHEN YOE

TO TAKE STAND, YOU ARE GOING TO BE YOUR OWN STAR WITNESS. AND IT CAN CERTAINLY HELP IF. YOU’RE WILLING TO SWAY THE JURY OR IT CAN BLOW UP IN YOUR FACE. WHAT IT DOES TELL US IS THAT HER ATTORNEYS AND JENNIFER CRUMBLEY HERSELF ARE CONFIDENT IN HER STORY.

AND BASED ON THE OPENING REMARKS TODAY, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAID THEY ADMIT READILY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THIS SCHOOL SHOOTING IS ABOUT THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE. BUT THEY SAY JENNIFER CRUMBLY WAS UNAWARE OF HER SON’S DETERIORATING MENTAL HEALTH. THEY BLAMED SCHOOL OFFICIALS FOR MISSING A NUMBER OF WARNING SIGNS, INCLUDING ON THE DAY

OF THE SHOOTING WHEN THE PARENTS WERE CALLED IN AND DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THEIR SON HOME. THEY POINTED TO THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO WHO THEY SAY TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE THESE RED FLAGS. AND THEY SAID THAT THEIR SON WAS NOT CONSIDERED A RISK. OF COURSE, THERE’S GOING TO BE

A LOT OF EVIDENCE AND CERTAINLY A VERY HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION IN THIS CASE BECAUSE THE PROSECUTED PROSECUTION HAS PUT TOGETHER LENGTHY LIST OF WARNING SIGNS AND RED FLAGS THAT CRUMBLEY IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER FOR IF SHE’S GOING TO TAKE THE STAND. >> THEY SAY SHE IS RIGHT.

WELL, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEY THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT HER SON’S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR. YOU KNOW, WE’VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE THAT’S OUT THERE. IT TELLS QUITE A DIFFERENT. SO WHAT IS THE JURY HEARD SO FAR? SO, SO FAR, THE WITNESSES THAT HAVE BEEN CALLED HAVE BEEN SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO ARE FACE

TO FACE WITH THE SHOOTER THAT DAY, OBVIOUSLY JUST ESTABLISHING THE HORROR OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS MASSACRE. SO WHAT THE JURY HAS HEARD IN TERMS OF EVIDENCE AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLY SO FAR WAS BASED ON THE OPENING STATEMENTS FROM THE PROSECUTION, WHICH DOESN’T LAY OUT EVERYTHING. BUT WHAT THEY SPECIFICALLY

TALKED ABOUT, NUMBER ONE WAS THE FACT THAT THEY BOUGHT THIS WEAPON FOR THEIR SON FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING. THEY HAD A SOCIAL MEDIA POST FROM JENNIFER CRUMBLEY ABOUT HOW THAT GUN WAS A PRESENT FOR HER SON. THEY WENT TO THE SHOOTING RANGE AND SHE HIT THE BULLSEYE.

THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT DAY WHEN THE PARENTS WERE CALLED IN TO THE SCHOOL, HOW THEIR SON HAD BEEN CAUGHT A GUN THAT WAS AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE WEAPON THAT THE PARENTS HAD PURCHASED. A PERSON ON THE DRAWING WAS WOUNDED. HE WROTE SEVERAL DISTURBING MESSAGES LIKE THE THOUGHTS

WON’T STOP, HELP ME AND MY LIFE IS WORTHLESS. AND ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, WHILE JENNIFER CRUMBLY AND HER HUSBAND, WHO’S ALSO CHARGED AND BEING TRIED SEPARATELY, DID RUSH TO THE SCHOOL, THEY SAID THAT THAT MEETING IN WHICH YOU WOULD ASSUME IT MIGHT TAKE AN HOUR, AN HOUR AND A HALF,

TALKING ABOUT THE DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS WITH SON. ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, IT LASTED 11 MINUTES BEFORE JENNIFER CRUMBLY LEFT. THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT THE PROSECUTION IS GOING TO PRESENT A NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES. JENNIFER CRUMBLY, LAUGHING OFF HER SON, BEING CAUGHT SEARCHING AMMUNITION IN CLASS, TELLING

HIM YOU’VE GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT TO GET. THIS COULD BE QUITE A DIFFICULT TRIAL FOR JENNIFER CRUMBLY, BUT IS VERY TOUGH TO PROVE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND WE’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING AND COULD DEFINITELY SET A PRECEDENT FOR SURE. >> TREVOR AULT THANK YOU SO

MUCH OF DEVELOPING NOW THE FAMILY OF A BLACK MAN KILLED BY A MINNESOTA COP IS SPEAKING OUT. RICKY COBB, THE WAS SHOT AND KILLED DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP IN JULY OF LAST. THAT COP, RYAN LUNDGREN, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE CRIMES NOW, INCLUDING SECOND DEGREE UNINTENTIONAL MURDER. MORGAN NORWOOD IS FOLLOWING

ALL THE DEVELOPING DETAILS. SO, MORGAN, WE HEARD FROM THE FAMILY OF RICKY COBB EARLIER TODAY. RIGHT? WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT THESE NEW CHARGES HERE? THEY SAID PLAINLY, IT’S A START. YOU KNOW, IT’S NOT THE END. THIS IS JUST THE START WHEN IT COMES TO THEM GETTING, JUSTICE. LOOK, YOU KNOW, THEY THINK

THE D.A.’S OFFICE FOR THE DECISION TO PURSUE CHARGES IN THIS CASE, BUT THEY WERE CLEAR IN SAYING THAT THIS IS JUST ONE STEP WHEN IT COMES GETTING JUSTICE FOR THEIR SON. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE. RIGHT. WE HEARD FROM RICKY FATHER RICKY COBB’S FATHER. HE ESSENTIALLY BROKE DOWN ON THE PODIUM THERE.

WE ALSO HEARD FROM HIS TWIN BROTHER. HERE’S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. IT’S HARD EVERY DAY TO WAKE UP TO LOOK MYSELF IN THE FACE. BUT I HAVE TO BECAUSE I LIVE MY PEOPLE IN THE FACE. WE WANT EQUALITY. WE WANT JUSTICE. WE’RE NOT ASKING FOR THE WORLD.

>> WHAT IS HAPPENING FOR WAS RIGHTEOUSLY OURS. >> YES, I WANT TO DO JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY. ONE OTHER THING THAT WE HEARD TODAY HERE FROM HIS ATTORNEY. HE WAS PUSHING BACK ON THE CLAIM THAT OFFICER LANDRIGAN OR TROOPER LANDRIGAN IN THIS CASE WAS DRAGGED AND THE COP INTENDED TO DO SO

AND HURT THE OTHER TROOPERS THAT, YOU KNOW, SAYING RICKY COBB DIDN’T NECESSARILY HAVE TIME TO PROCESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE GUNSHOTS WERE FIRED SO FAST. BUT BOTTOM LINE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALSO DREW COMPARISONS WITH THIS BEING MINNEAPOLIS AND THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE AND THE WRIGHT CASE ALSO DRAWING SOME SIMILARITIES THERE.

BUT AGAIN, BOTTOM LINE, SIMPLY WANT ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE. AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE CHARGES ARE THE FIRST STEP IN THAT JOURNEY TOWARDS THAT HERO AS THE STATE RESPONDING. >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, THE STATE PATROL RELEASED, A STATEMENT SHORTLY AFTER ALL OF THIS HAPPENED, CALLING THE SHOOTING TRAGIC. BUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE SPLIT

SECOND DECISIONS THAT TROOPERS AND OFFICERS LIKE FACE IN THESE SITUATIONS. WE’RE ALSO HEARING FROM LARGER ATTORNEY CHRIS MARDELL. HE CALLED HIS CLIENT, QUOTE, A HERO, SAYING THAT HE WAS SIMPLY TRYING TO PROTECT HIMSELF AND FELLOW OFFICERS. HE IS FAILING TO THE CHARGES DISMISSED, BUT ALSO THE D.A. REMOVED FROM THIS CASE KYRA.

ALL RIGHT. WE’LL FOLLOW IT. MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL LUIS RUBIALES, SPAIN’S ONE TIME SOCCER CHIEF, WILL NOW FACE TRIAL OVER THAT NON-CONSENSUAL KISS OF A STAR DURING THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP MEDAL CEREMONY LAST SUMMER. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS AND JENNIFER HERMOSO NOW HAVE TEN DAYS TO FORMALIZE ACCUSATIONS BEFORE

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DONALD TRUMP BACK IN NEW YORK FOR HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL AND ONCE AGAIN LASHING OUT AT E. JEAN CARROLL IN A SERIES OF NEW POSTS. WHO TOOK THE STAND TODAY AND HAVE TRUMP’S LAWYERS ARE FIRING BACK. UNRELENTING SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THE SOUTH. TORRENTIAL FLASH FLOODING AND A TORNADO THREAT. METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN

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GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, DONALD TRUMP DETOURING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE DEFENSE TABLE FOR YET ANOTHER DAY OF TRIAL. TODAY, HE’S IN COURT FOR E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST THE PROSECUTION JUST RESTED ITS CASE AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

A IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE’LL HAVE TO PAY. THE FORMER “ELLE” MAGAZINE COLUMNIST ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING HER IN 2019. THE JURY ALREADY FOUND TRUMP LIABLE FOR THE ASSAULT IN 2022, WHICH CAROL SAYS HAPPENED IN A DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING BACK IN THE 90S. OUR SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY

JOINING ME NOW FROM OUTSIDE COURT, ALONG WITH OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND ASSISTANT DEAN AT YALE JACKSON SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS ASHA RANGAPPA. AARON WE’LL START WITH YOU. THE PROSECUTION RESTING. THE DEFENSE WILL NOW CALL ITS FIRST WITNESS. WHAT ARE WE EXPECTING? CAROL MARTIN, WHO WAS A TELEVISION JOURNALIST HERE

IN NEW YORK FOR 20 YEARS, ONE OF E. JEAN CARROLL FRIENDS, SOMEONE THAT SHE SPOKE TO ABOUT, THIS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN REAL TIME IS ON THE WITNESS ,BUT TESTIFYING AS A HOSTILE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE KYRA, AND TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT SHE SENT AROUND TIME. CAROL FIRST PUBLISHED

HER ACCUSATION AGAINST TRUMP AND CAROL’S MESSAGES EXPRESS CONCERN THAT HER FRIEND WAS ENJOYING THE ATTENTION A LITTLE BIT, EVEN AT ONE POINT SAYING HER NARCISSISM HAS RUN AMOK, THAT SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT. AND THE THE DRUG IS IS HERSELF AND THE DEFENSE’S WHOLE POINT HERE IS THAT WHAT E. JEAN CARROLL HAS

SAID IS THE HARM SHE SUFFERED FROM DONALD TRUMP’S DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IS OVERBLOWN. AND THEY’RE GOING TO ASK THE JURY NOT TO GIVE HER ANY KIND OF A DAMAGE AWARD WHEN THIS CASE ENDS CAROL. MARTIN IS NOW UNDER CROSS-EXAM NATION, TRYING TO BACKPEDAL A LITTLE BIT, SAYING THAT SHE

HAS A TENDENCY TO USE HYPERBOLIC LANGUAGE. >> SO, AISHA WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PROSECUTION’S ARGUMENT? DID THEY MAKE THEIR CASE? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. WELL, I THINK WITNESS SEEMS LIKE ONE THAT MAKES SENSE THEY WANT TO DO IS TO MITIGATE THE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL CLAIMS. AGAIN, THE JUDGE HERE HAS

ALREADY DETERMINED THAT TRUMP IS LIABLE. WHETHER HE’S AT FAULT IS NOT AT ISSUE. THE QUESTION IS, WAS SHE HARMED BY HIS? AND IF SO, THE JURY HERE IS HERE TO EVALUATE THE VALUE OF THAT DAMAGE. >> SO I THINK THIS WITNESS MAKES SENSE WHETHER TRUMP HIMSELF TESTIFYING

WILL MAKE SENSE REMAINS TO BE SEEN. >> SO, ERIN, WHAT’S NEXT IN TRIAL? IS TRUMP GOING TO TAKE THE STAND? HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE WILL. AND ALTHOUGH HIS EFFORTS MAY BE RESTRICTED BY THE PARAMETERS THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY SAID, HIS ATTORNEY SIGNALED IN COURT TODAY THAT SHE WANTS ASK HIM

QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS STATE OF MIND WHEN HE MADE ALREADY DETERMINED TO BE DEFAMATORY ABOUT ASSAULT CLAIM. AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT TRUMP WOULD WANT TO SAY HE WAS JUST TRYING TO PROTECT HIMSELF. HE WAS PRESIDENT HERE, SOMEONE ACCUSING HIM OF ASSAULT AND HE WANTED TO FIGHT BACK HARD,

AS IS HIS CUSTOM. JUST LOOK AT HOW HE SPOKE ABOUT NIKKI HALEY AFTER HE BEAT HER IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. SO YOU COULD IMAGINE QUESTIONS LIKE THAT, HOW FAR THE JUDGE IS GOING TO LET THE DEFENSE GO REMAINS TO BE SEEN BECAUSE HE’S NOT ALLOWED TO ARGUE

THAT E. JEAN CARROLL IS A LIAR OR ARGUE THAT THAT THAT SHE SOMEHOW HAS IMPROPER MOTIVES FOR BRINGING HER CLAIM. AND WHETHER IT’S THE COURTROOM WHERE THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. DONALD TRUMP DOES LOVE TO ATTACK PEOPLE. THAT IS FOR SURE, ERIN, APPRECIATE YOU BOTH. THANK YOU. WELL, FROM MANHATTAN TO D.C.,

WE’RE TRACKING YET ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. FORMER ADVISOR PETER HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING A SUBPOENA. COOPERATE WITH THE JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATION. THE EX-TRUMP AIDE WAS CONVICTED BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS.

SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS IS OUTSIDE DISTRICT COURT THERE. SO NAVARRO WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON AND ORDERED TO PAY A FINE OF, WHAT, 90 $500? HOW DID THE COURT COME TO THE SENTENCING? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON, 90 $500. PETER NAVARRO IS ACTUALLY SPEAKING BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW.

YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT WHISTLE. YOU HEAR SOME PROTESTERS WHO ARE STANDING BEHIND HIM AS HE SPEAKS TO THE JUDGE LAID WHY HE CAME TO THAT SENTENCE. HE SAID IT’S SIMILAR TO STEVE BANNON THAT OTHER FORMER TRUMP ADVISER WHO WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS, SIX MONTHS IN PRISON. HE COMPARED THE CIRCUMSTANCES

HERE. HE TOLD NAVARRO, YOU’RE NOT A VICTIM. YOU YOU’RE NOT THE OBJECT OF A POLITICAL PERSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCE ISSUES OF YOUR OWN MAKING. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THEY INTEND TO APPEAL, THAT OUR LEGAL TEAM HAS ALREADY NOTICED THAT A FEW I’M SURE HE’S TALKING ABOUT THAT BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW.

BUT HE’S EXPECTED TO REPORT TO PRISON IMMEDIATELY. I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU GO OVER THERE. I KNOW YOU WANT TO GET A PART OF THAT SCRUM CAP AND CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU. APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. WE’LL FOLLOW THE CASE, OF COURSE, ALONG WITH YOU. WELL, NEW DATA SHOWING THAT THE

U.S. ECONOMY GREW FASTER THAN EXPECTED THE FINAL THREE MONTHS OF 2023. THE GROWTH COMES AMID EASING INFLATION AND A RESILIENT AMERICAN CONSUMER. DESPITE MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICTING A RECESSION FOR LAST YEAR. OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT, ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS DIGGING IN TO ALL THE NUMBERS. ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, LET’S BREAK IT DOWN.

LET’S BREAK IT DOWN BECAUSE THIS IS AN ECONOMY THAT CONTINUES TO SHOW ITS STAMINA, EVEN IN THE FACE OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND INFLATION. THIS ECONOMY CONTINUED TO GROW. THE ECONOMY AT A RATE OF 3.3% IN THE FINAL THREE MONTHS OF LAST YEAR. AND ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE ASKED

THE CONSUMER TO THANK FOR THAT. HOLIDAY SPENDING WAS VERY STRONG A BUSINESS INVESTMENT ALSO SHOWED SOME STRENGTH LAST IN THAT LAST QUARTER. AND OVERALL, THIS SHOWS THAT THE ECONOMY CONTINUES GROW AT A GOOD CLIP. THIS IS A SOLID NUMBER. BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT IT IS A SLOWDOWN FROM THE NEARLY 5%

ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE. WE SAW IN THE THIRD QUARTER. BUT ALL IN ALL, IT IS DEFYING EXPECTED ACTIONS FOR THAT RECESSION THAT ECONOMISTS KEPT TALKING ABOUT. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE’VE THAT THANKS IN LARGE PART, KYRA, TO THE STRONG JOB MARKET AND HIRING CONTINUING. AND THAT, OF COURSE, IS BOOSTING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE .

>> SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? IT SAYS ABOUT 2024? ECONOMISTS ARE GOING TO START TALKING ABOUT A RECESSION, I THINK, FOR A WHILE. AND EVEN THAT SOFT LANDING WE WERE TALKING ABOUT INSTEAD START TO FOCUS ON WHEN THE FEDERAL RESERVE MAY START TO CUT INTEREST RATES. SOME ARE SAYING THAT WE MAY SEE

THAT CUT IN RATES COME AT THE MARCH MEETING. MAYBE AT THE MAY MEETING, THE FED IS MEETING NEXT WEEK TO TALK INTEREST RATES. WE ARE EXPECTING TO KEEP RATES STEADY, BUT THERE ARE A FEW WARNING SIGNS HERE THAT I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT. ONE IS LAYOFFS CONTINUE TO BUILD UP RIGHT, ESPECIALLY

IN TECH AND MEDIA. JUST TODAY, MICROSOFT SAID IT WAS TO LAYOFF 1900 WORKERS IN ITS VIDEO GAME DIVISION. THAT’S REALLY IT HAD COME TOGETHER WITH ACTIVISION BLIZZARD AND THERE WERE SORT OF SOME REDUNDANCY, IS THERE? BUT WE ALSO HAVE RED FLAGS IN THE WAY CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING THEIR MONEY.

THEY ARE NOW TAKING A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO PAY OFF THEIR CREDIT CARD BILLS. DELINQUENCY RATES ARE HIGHER AND THEIR SAVINGS RATE IS NEAR WHERE IT WAS PRE-PANDEMIC. SO WHILE CONSUMERS HAVE SORT OF THE FUEL BEHIND THE GROWTH WE’VE BEEN SEEING IN THE ECONOMY, IF THAT SPENDING STARTS TO SLOW DOWN AND LAYOFFS

CONTINUE TO PILE, WE COULD SEE A MORE ACCELERATED SLOWDOWN IN THE ECONOMY THE COMING MONTHS KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT. WE’LL STAY ON TOP OF IT. ALEXIS THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO EXTREME WEATHER IS ON THE MOVE, THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS STILL ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERED FLOODING

IN PARTS OF THE STATE THAT HAVE SEEN MONTHS. THE WORST OF THE RAIN IN JUST THE LAST 72 HOURS ALONE. AND THEN MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG . IT’S SO THICK THAT DRIVERS IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED TO BE VIGILANT. FLOODWATERS ALSO WASHING OUT

ROADS IN LOUISIANA. SOME DRIVERS EVEN FORCED TURN AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS. A UP IS ON THE WAY. OUR MELISSA GRIFFIN IS TRACKING ALL THE EXTREME WEATHER. WE’RE ALREADY FEELING THE WAR ATTEMPTS HERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL. MELISSA OH, YEAH.

>> I MEAN, IT IS FEELING GREAT OUT THERE. IT’S KIND OF GIVE AND TAKE, THOUGH. WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH SOME CLOUDS AND FOG, SOME RAINY WEATHER. BUT AT LEAST IT’S WARM OUT THERE. BUT IT’S THE FOG THAT’S REALLY BRINGING A LOT OF ISSUES, ESPECIALLY IN THE AIRPORTS. OVER 2000 FLIGHTS CANCELED,

MAINLY CHICAGO MIDWAY AND O’HARE OVER TO DENVER, PLACES THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED THE MOST DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT AS THIS MOIST AIR MASS TO BRING HEAVY RAIN TO THE SOUTH. SOME SPOTS ALREADY SEEING OVER HALF FOOT OF RAIN AND MORE ROUNDS OF RAIN ARE ON THE WAY.

YOU CAN SEE THIS AREA IN THE DEEP SOUTH HERE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW. YOU’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE THOSE ROUNDS OF RAIN RIGHT OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. SO NEW ORLEANS UP TO BACK UP THROUGH BIRMINGHAM, ATLANTA, YOU’RE IN THAT AS WELL, ALL THE WAY INTO CAROLINAS. SO THE FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES

OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, REALLY THROUGH AS SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN MOVES THROUGH. HERE’S HOW MUCH RAIN WE’RE EXPECTING 1 TO 3 INCHES EVEN IN PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST WITH ROUNDS OF RAIN INTO THE WEEKEND HERE. YOU CAN SEE NORTH OF ATLANTA, SOME SPOTS COULD SEE 3 TO

5 INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH IS REALLY ONE OF THE BIGGER FLOOD SPOTS AS WE HEAD BACK INTO GULF COAST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. BUT, KYRA, AS YOU SAID, WARM UP IS. YOU CAN SEE D.C. IN THE SIXTIES, MAYBE EVEN REACHING 70 BY TOMORROW. >> NEW YORK, YOU’RE IN THE 50S

AND IT IS FEELING GREAT OUT THERE. BUT AGAIN, WE DO GOT TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THAT RAIN AND FOG . >> I’LL TAKE IT. I’LL TAKE THE WARM TEMPERATURES. ABSOLUTELY MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, THE FAA IS FINALLY RELEASING INSTRUCTIONS TO AIRLINES TO BEGIN CONDUCTING THOSE FINAL INSPECTIONS

OF THEIR 737 MAX NINE PLANES. THE AGENCY ANNOUNCING MOVE TO ENSURE THE JANUARY FIVE, BOEING 737 NINE MAX INCIDENT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. THE FAA INITIALLY GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THOSE PLANES AFTER A SERIES OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING BOEING JETS, INCLUDING THE MIDAIR BLOWOUT THAT WE JUST MENTIONED. OUR IKE EJIOCHI HAS ALL THE

DETAILS FOR US. >> THE FAA RELEASING ITS FINAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AIRLINES TO ENSURE THOSE PLANES ARE REPAIRED AND SAFE. A 12 HOUR INSPECTION PROCESS TO EXAMINE MAX LINES. >> THE AGENCY LAYING OUT AN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS WHICH WILL REQUIRE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC BOLTS, GUIDE TRACKS

AND, FITTINGS AND DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF LEFT AND RIGHT MADE EXIT DOOR PLUGS. EACH OF THE AIRLINES WILL MAKE SURE THAT THESE FOUR BOLTS ARE PROPERLY INSTALLED AND TIGHTENED, WILL BE HELPING WHEREVER NECESSARY. BUT EACH OF THESE AIRLINES THAT THEIR REPUTATION IS ON THE LINE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE AIRPLANES ARE SAFE

TO FLY. >> UNITED SAYING IT’S PUTTING THE PLANES BACK IN THE AIR BY SUNDAY WITH ALASKA AIRLINES SAYING THEIR 65 MAX, NINE JETS WILL BE UP FRIDAY. ALL THIS FOLLOWING A THREE WEEKS OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THAT DOOR. PLUG THAT OFF THE ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT 16,000 FEET IN THE AIR. BOEING STILL FACING SCRUTINY.

THE FAA, THE COMPANY, IT CAN’T EXPAND ON PRODUCTION OF THE MAXS BEYOND WHAT’S ALREADY BUILT UNTIL THERE’S A FULL INVESTIGATION. MEANWHILE, BOEING CEO DAVE CALHOUN VOLUNTARILY TRAVELING TO CAPITOL HILL, TAKING TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM SENATORS. >> WE FIND A SAFE PLACE. DON’T SET AIRPLANES IN THE AIR THAT WE DON’T HAVE 100%

CONFIDENCE IN. REPORTERS ASKING CALHOUN ABOUT THE SEATTLE TIMES REPORT, CLAIMING THAT THE DOOR PLOT WAS ACTUALLY LAST INSTALLED BY BOEING, NOT THE FUSELAGE MANUFACTURER. >> SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS. >> THANKS SO MUCH. BOEING TELLING ABC NEWS ALL UPDATES ON THE MUST COME FROM THE NTSB. >> CALHOUN WILL BE BACK ON

CAPITOL HILL TODAY FIELDING MORE QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS. HE’S ALSO EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN A PUBLIC HEARING IN THE COMING WEEKS. >> KYRA ALL RIGHT, THANKS SO MUCH. AND COMING UP, A MINNESOTA TROOPER CHARGED WITH MURDER. NOW THE VICTIM’S FAMILY IS SPEAKING OUT OUT. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, MILLIONS

OF FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. AND WE’RE GYPSY ROSE REVEALING. WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU ANYTHING

ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, THE CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST

WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. >> DAVID, YOU BEING THE QUARTERBACK, ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY I KNOW, PRETTY SOON MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET

A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY

FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> HE WAS A MARRIED MAN. THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. THERE IS NO WAY THIS STORY IS GOING TO END WELL. BAD ROMANCE, THE 2020 LIMITED

SERIES MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN NINE CENTRAL THREE B.S. FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMPANY ON THE ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO. FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE YOUR INTERESTS. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. >> THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW IN OUR

CONNECTED WORLD. >> MISINFORMATION CAN MASQUERADE AS FACT. ERODING TRUST DIVIDING COMMUNITIES. BUT BEHIND EVERY SHARE IS A PERSON WITH A DECISION. >> JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR A MORE NEWS LITERATE AMERICA. GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. THE FIRST WITNESSES ARE TAKING A STAND IN THE TRIAL AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLY.

SHE’S THE MOTHER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL MASS SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY, WHO IS NOW FACING FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AFTER HE OPENED FIRE AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL, KILLING FOUR AND WOUNDING SEVERAL OTHERS. SHE’S ACTUALLY THE ONE FACING MANSLAUGHTER AND SHE’S IN COURT NOW AFTER GIVING HER SON ACCESS TO THAT GUN.

OUR TREVOR AULT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CASE, TREVOR. SO JENNIFER WILL TAKE THE STAND. RIGHT. SO WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT HER TESTIMONY? >> WOULD HELP OR HURT HER? I MEAN, IT’S ALMOST ALWAYS A GAMBLE, KYRA, BY NATURE WHEN YOU ARE ON TRIAL, IF YOU DECIDE

TO TAKE THE YOU ARE GOING TO BE YOUR OWN STAR WITNESS. AND IT CAN CERTAINLY HELP IF YOU’RE WILLING TO SWAY THE JURY OR IT CAN BLOW UP IN YOUR FACE. WHAT IT DOES TELL US IS THAT HER ATTORNEYS AND JENNIFER CRUMBLY HERSELF ARE CONFIDENT IN HER STORY. AND BASED ON THE OPENING

REMARKS TODAY, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SAID THEY ADMIT READILY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE SCHOOL SHOOTING IS ABOUT THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE. BUT THEY SAY JENNIFER CRUMBLY WAS UNAWARE OF HER SON’S DETERIORATING MENTAL HEALTH. BLAMED SCHOOL OFFICIALS FOR MISSING A NUMBER OF WARNING SIGNS, INCLUDING ON THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING WHEN

THE PARENTS WERE CALLED IN AND DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THEIR SON HOME. THEY POINTED TO THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO THEY SAY TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE THESE RED FLAGS, AND THEY SAID THAT THEIR WAS NOT CONSIDERED A RISK. OF COURSE, THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF EVIDENCE, CERTAINLY A VERY HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION

IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR PROSECUTION HAS PUT TOGETHER A LENGTHY LIST OF WARNING SIGNS AND RED FLAGS THAT CRUMBLEY IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER FOR IF SHE’S GOING TO TAKE THE STAND THEY SAY SHE IS. >> RIGHT. WELL, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEY THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT HER

SON’S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE’VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE THAT’S OUT THERE TELLS QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY. SO WHAT DOES THE JURY HEARD SO FAR? SO, SO FAR, THE WITNESSES THAT HAVE BEEN CALLED HAVE BEEN SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO ARE FACE TO FACE WITH THE SHOOTER THAT DAY, OBVIOUSLY JUST

ESTABLISHING THE HORROR OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS MASSACRE. SO THE JURY HAS HEARD IN TERMS OF EVIDENCE AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLEY SO FAR WAS BASED ON THE OPENING STATEMENTS FROM THE PROSECUTION, WHICH DOESN’T LAY OUT EVERYTHING. BUT WHAT THEY SPECIFICALLY TALKED ABOUT, NUMBER ONE, WAS THE FACT THAT THEY BOUGHT

WEAPON FOR THEIR SON FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING. THEY HAD SOCIAL MEDIA POST FROM JENNIFER CRUMBLEY ABOUT HOW THAT WAS A PRESENT FOR HER SON, HOW THEY WENT TO THE SHOOTING RANGE AND HIT THE BULL’S EYE. THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT DAY WHEN THE PARENTS WERE CALLED INTO THE SCHOOL, HOW THEIR

SON HAD BEEN CAUGHT DRAWING A GUN. THAT WAS AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE WEAPON THAT THE PARENTS HAD PURCHASED. A PERSON ON THE DRAWING WAS WOUNDED. HE WROTE SEVERAL DISTURBING MESSAGES LIKE THE THOUGHTS WON’T STOP, HELP ME AND MY LIFE IS WORTHLESS. AND ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, WHILE JENNIFER CRUMBLY AND HER

HUSBAND JAMES, WHO’S ALSO CHARGED AND BEING TRIED SEPARATELY, DID RUSH TO THE SCHOOL, THEY SAID THAT THAT IN WHICH SHE WOULD ASSUME IT MIGHT TAKE AN HOUR OR AN HOUR AND A HALF TALKING THE DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS WITH THEIR SON. ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, IT LASTED 11 MINUTES BEFORE JENNIFER CRUMBLY LEFT.

THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT THE PROSECUTION IS GOING TO PRESENT A NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES. JENNIFER CRUMBLY, LAUGHING OFF HER SON, BEING CAUGHT SEARCHING AMMUNITION IN CLASS, TELLING HIM, YOU’VE GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT GET CAUGHT. THIS COULD BE QUITE A DIFFICULT TRIAL FOR JENNIFER CRUMBLEY,

BUT IT IS VERY TOUGH TO PROVE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND WE’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING YEAR AND COULD DEFINITELY SET A PRECEDENT FOR SURE. >> TREVOR, ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, DEVELOPING NOW, THE FAMILY OF A BLACK KILLED BY A MINNESOTA COP IS SPEAKING OUT.

RICKY COBB, THE SECOND WAS SHOT AND KILLED DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP IN JULY OF LAST YEAR. THAT COP, RYAN LUNDGREN, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE CRIMES NOW, INCLUDING SECOND DEGREE UNINTENTIONAL MURDER. OUR MORGAN NORWOOD IS FOLLOWING ALL THE DEVELOPING DETAILS. SO, MORGAN, WE HEARD FROM THE FAMILY, RICKY COBB, EARLIER TODAY. RIGHT.

WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT, THESE NEW CHARGES? SURE. THEY SAID PLAINLY IT’S A START, BUT KNOW IT’S NOT THE END. THIS IS JUST THE START WHEN IT COMES TO THEM GETTING JUSTICE. YOU KNOW, THEY THINK THE D.A.’S OFFICE FOR THE DECISION TO PURSUE CHARGES IN THIS CASE ,THEY WERE CLEAR IN SAYING

THAT THIS IS JUST ONE STEP WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING JUSTICE FOR THEIR SON. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE, RIGHT? WE HEARD FROM RICKY FATHER, RICKY COBB’S FATHER. HE ESSENTIALLY BROKE DOWN ON THE PODIUM THERE. WE ALSO FROM HIS TWIN BROTHER. >> HERE’S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.

IT’S HARD DAY TO WAKE UP AND LOOK MYSELF IN THE FACE, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT MY PEOPLE IN THE PLACE WE WANT EQUALITY. WE WANT JUSTICE. WE’RE NOT ASKING FOR THE WORLD WAS IS ASKING FOR WAS RIGHTEOUSLY YES, I WANTED JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY. ONE OTHER THING THAT WE HEARD

TODAY HERE FROM HIS ATTORNEY, HE WAS PUSHING BACK THE CLAIM THAT OFFICER LANDRIGAN OR TROOPER LANDRIGAN IN THIS CASE WAS DRAGGED AND THAT COP INTENDED TO DO SO AND HURT THE OTHER TROOPERS, THAT, YOU KNOW, SAYING ROOKIE COP DIDN’T NECESSARILY HAVE TIME TO PROCESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE GUNSHOTS

WERE FIRED SO FAST. BUT BOTTOM LINE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALSO DREW WITH THIS BEING MINNEAPOLIS AND THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE AND DUTCHIE WRIGHT CASE ALSO DRAWING SOME SIMILARITIES THERE. BUT AGAIN, BOTTOM LINE, THEY SIMPLY ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE. AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE CHARGES ARE THE FIRST STEP IN THAT JOURNEY TOWARDS

THAT EUROPE AS THE STATE PATROL RESPONDING. YEAH, YOU KNOW, THE STATE PATROL RELEASED A STATEMENT AFTER ALL OF THIS HAPPENED, CALLING THE SHOOTING TRAGIC, BUT ALSO ACKNOWLEDGING THE SPLIT SECOND DECISIONS THAT TROOPERS AND OFFICERS ALIKE FACED IN THESE SITUATIONS. WE’RE ALSO HEARING FROM LONERGAN’S ATTORNEY, CHRIS MCDOWELL. HE CALLED HIS CLIENT, QUOTE,

A HERO, SAYING THAT HE WAS SIMPLY TRYING TO PROTECT AND FELLOW OFFICERS HE IS FILING TO GET THE CHARGES DISMISSED, BUT ALSO THE D.A. REMOVED FROM THIS CASE KYRA. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL FOLLOW IT. MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, ALICE, RUBY ALICE, SPAIN’S ONETIME SOCCER CHIEF, WILL NOW FACE TRIAL OVER

THAT NON-CONSENSUAL KISS OF A STAR PLAYER DURING, THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP MEDAL CEREMONY LAST SUMMER. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS AND JENNIFER HERMOSO NOW HAVE TEN DAYS TO FORMALIZE THEIR ACCUSATIONS BEFORE A TRIAL TAKES PLACE. IF FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT. RUBIALES WOULD FACE A PRISON SENTENCE OF 1 TO 4 YEARS. STEPPED

DOWN FROM HIS ROLE AFTER A COURT ISSUED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE WORLDCOURT ISG ORDER AGAINST HIM LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE WORLD CUP FINAL. >> COMING UP ON THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL IN IT TO WIN IT AND E

POSSIBLE SURPRISES WE COULD SEE THE CITY OF MAKING. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LONG BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE FROM SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN THEY’RE LED BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE NICKNAMED REAL ROCK. SOMETIMES THEY SOMETIMES

THEY UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME BETTER ON THE EYES MOST WANTED LIST. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE”, NOW STREAMING ON HULU. FRIDAY NIGHT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE.

THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEAL? WHY REVEAL IT NOW. WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN.

A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WHAT DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET

A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS NEEDED YOUR DAILY FIRST. >> LISTEN.

NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. >> YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS, ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS, EXCLUSIVES, MINES REPORTING ACROSS THE GLOBE KEEPS STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM THE SCENE OF THE DEADLY MEDICAL SHOOTING HERE

IN ATLANTA. I’M STEVE OSUNSAMI. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU ARE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. SO SOME OTHER TOP HEADLINES WE’RE FOLLOWING FOR THIS HOUR ON ABC NEWS LIVE. JURY DELIBERATIONS UNDERWAY IN CALIFORNIA IN THE TRIAL OF A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING A SIX

YEAR OLD BOY DURING, A 2021 ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. OUR AFFILIATE ABC REPORTING THAT THE JURY IS DECIDING WHETHER 26-YEAR-OLD MARCUS ANTHONY ARIAS SHOT HIS WEAPON THAT DAY WITH THE INTENTION TO KILL AIDEN. LEOS ARIAS FACES UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER ALEC BALDWIN DEMANDING A SPEEDY TRIAL AND A

NEW FILING RELATED TO HIS CHARGES IN THE RUSHED MOVIE SET SHOOTING. ATTORNEYS FOR THE ACTOR SAY A FAST TRIAL WILL MINIMIZE VILIFICATION OF BALDWIN. THE ACTOR IS CHARGED WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. FRIEND ON SET SHOOTING THAT KILLED CINEMATOGRAPHER KALEENA HUTCHINS IN NEW MEXICO. HE FACES UP TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED.

MAKERS OF ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP SAY THAT THEY’RE RECALLING SOME PRODUCTS BECAUSE OF CONTAMINATION. THE RECALL COVERS THE DAY NIGHT TIME FORMULA OF ROBITUSSIN, HONEY C, F MAX, ADULT. THE FDA WARNING THAT IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE WHO USE PRODUCT COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING FUNGAL INFECTIONS. MANUFACTURER SAYS THAT THEY

HAVE NO REPORTS OF ILLNESSES TO THE RECALL. NOW THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL. >> THE NFL’S FINAL FOUR TEAMS GEARING UP FOR THIS WEEKEND’S GAMES. AND LARA SPENCER HAS A SPONSOR, RATHER, HAS THE STORIES TO WATCH AS WE HEAD INTO THE CONFERENCE FINALS. >> THE FOUR REMAINING TEAMS

ARE GEARING UP FOR THEIR SHOT AT THE SUPER BOWL, BUT THE MOST PRESSURE MIGHT JUST BE ON DETROIT. THIS WILL BE AN OUTSTANDING TEST FOR US, BUT IT’S ONE WE’RE READY FOR. IT’S BEEN 32 YEARS SINCE THE LIONS HAVE REACHED THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, AND THIS TIME THEY’RE LED BY NUMBER.

>> DRAFT PICK. QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF. TOUCHDOWN. HE’LL BE SQUARING OFF AGAINST THE VERY LAST PICK IN THE 2022 DRAFT. THE 49 ERS, BROCK PURDY, OBVIOUSLY JUST THE BAY AREA AND THE FAITHFUL IN GENERAL. >> WE WANT THIS GAME BACK. THIS IS THE TIMES YOU DREAM

OF AS A KID AND YOU GROW UP KNOW, HOPING TO BE IN THESE FINAL GAMES AND WE’RE ONE WIN AWAY FROM, YOU KNOW, OUR ULTIMATE GOAL OF GETTING THE SUPER BOWL AND WHEN THAT GAME AS WELL. >> LIONS FANS ARE SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT, LIGHTING UP HOMES, BUILDINGS ACROSS MICHIGAN IN BLUE AND LONG

SUFFERING FANS ARE GOING ALL OUT. >> LET’S GO. GENE AND MIKE BROOKS WERE SO CONFIDENT IN THEIR LIONS, THEY’VE GOT TICKETS TO SAN FRANCISCO. EVEN BEFORE DETROIT WON THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF GAME. >> MIKE BOUGHT OUR PLANE TICKETS BEFORE. WE EVEN BEAT THE RAMS TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT WAS SECRET.

BUT I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM DELTA AIRLINES CONFIRMING OUR FLIGHT AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT IS THAT? AND HE SAID, WELL I WAS TRYING TO SURPRISE YOU. I FIGURED, LET’S GO. SO, YOU KNOW, AT ALL COSTS, LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN. >> MEANWHILE, IN BALTIMORE, TWO OF THE BEST QUARTERBACKS IN THE LEAGUE PREPARING

TO BATTLE EACH OTHER FOROR THE CHIEFS, PATRICK MAHOMES AND, BALTIMORE’S LAMAR JACKSON, WHO HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT EACH OTHER. >> I DON’T LIKE COMPETING HIM AT ALL. >> BUT YEAH, HE’S A GREAT QUARTERBACK. YOU GIVE ME THE MVP FOR A REASON. I MEAN, HE’S HE GOES OUT THERE,

HE LEADS HIS TEAM, HE SCORES, HE RUNS IT, REALLY DOES WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. AND THAT’S WHAT A GREAT GREAT TO DO. >> IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT WEEKEND. LARA SPENCER. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR STAYING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS.

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NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED. >> STATE POLICE, THERE’S A YOUNG GIRL RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE’S SOME GUY TRYING TO FOLLOW THE NINE ONE. >> ONE CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE. UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY. COULD FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND BE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER?

THEY START TO FIND MORE BODIES. SUDDENLY IT’S AN OR A LEG. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I NEVER ONCE FEARED MY LIFE. WHEN I MET HIM, IT WAS THE ONLY TIME I WAS SCARED. TRUTH STILL HAUNTED PREMIERES TONIGHT ON ABC. THE CITY OF MAHE. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL

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TO EXPERIENCE THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOADED NOW REPORTING FROM MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. I’M WHEN WE’RE OUT OF STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING THIS LIVE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE IT’S BECOME HIS MOST POPULAR CAMPAIGN STOP THE COURTROOM. DONALD TRUMP BACK IN NEW YORK CITY FOR HIS DEFAMATION CASE.

THE FORMER PRESIDENT ATTACKING E. JEAN CARROLL ON A SERIES OF ONLINE. WITNESSES ON THE STAND TODAY AND WHEN THIS TRIAL WILL COME TO AN END. STRAIGHT AHEAD. PLUS, WICKED WEATHER, POWERFUL STORMS ON THE MOVE SLAMMING THE SOUTH. TORRENTIAL RAIN TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING AND DENSE FOG MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS TRAVEL. METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN

IS TIMING IT OUT FOR US. AND UNPRECEDENTED ALABAMA SET TO CARRY OUT A FIRST OF ITS KIND EXECUTION USING NITROGEN GAS. DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS OUTRAGED AT THE UNTESTED METHOD . WHAT COULD BE A NEW FRONTIER IN HOW STATES EXECUTE DEATH PRISONERS? GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR,

THOUGH, IS DONALD TRUMP DETOURING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE DEFENSE TABLE FOR YET ANOTHER DAY OF TRIAL. HE’S IN COURT FOR E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST HIM. A JUDGE IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE’LL HAVE TO PAY THE FORMER “ELLE” MAGAZINE COLUMNIST ADDITIONAL DAMAGES FOR DEFAMING HER IN 2019.

A JURY ALREADY FOUND TRUMP LIABLE FOR THE IN 2022, WHICH CARROLL SAYS HAPPENED IN DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM BACK IN THE 90S. OUR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT OLIVIA RUBIN JOIN ME NOW FROM OUTSIDE COURT, ALONG WITH FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR NEAMA RAHMANI. OLIVIA, LET’S TALK ABOUT CAROL MARTIN. WHO IS SHE AND DOES SHE

HAVE VALUABLE TESTIMONY HERE? WELL, CAROL MARTIN IS A FRIEND OF E. JEAN CARROLL, A TIME FRIEND WHO E. JEAN CARROLL INITIALLY OUTCRY TO AFTER VIA A ASSAULT FROM DONALD TRUMP, THE 1990 IN BERGDORF GOODMAN. SO SHE’S SOMEONE SHE INITIALLY SPOKE TO ABOUT THE ASSAULT AND SOME WHO’S BEEN ASSOCIATED

WITH E. JEAN CARROLL FOR A LONG TIME. BUT WHY DONALD TRUMP’S TEAM IS INTERESTED IN HER AS A WITNESS IS SHE’S SOMEONE THAT QUITE SPOKE NEGATIVELY ABOUT E. JEAN CARROLL IN PRIVATE TEXT MESSAGES. THE JOURNEY OF E. JEAN CARROLL LAWSUIT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. SHE WROTE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL

WAS A DRUG ADDICT AND THE DRUG WAS HERSELF WROTE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL WAS A NARCISSIST. SHE WROTE THAT E. JEAN CARROLL WOULD LIKE SANTA CLAUS AT A CHRISTMAS DAY PARADE. SO WHAT DONALD TRUMP LIKES HER FOR IS THAT SHE COULD POTENTIALLY SPEAK TO THE NARRATIVE THAT THEY’RE TRYING

TO PRESENT TO THE JURY, WHICH IS THAT E. JEAN CARROLL WAS SOMEONE WHO LOVED THE SPOTLIGHT, SOMEONE WHO WANTED ATTENTION AND SOMEONE WHO ONLY CAME FORWARD TO ACCUSE DONALD TRUMP TO REVIVE WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS A FAILING CAREER. AND THEY’RE SAYING ESSENTIALLY E. JEAN CARROLL BROUGHT THE ATTENTION ON HERSELF

AND THAT IT IS NOT DONALD TRUMP’S JOB TO PAY FOR ANY NEGATIVE BACKLASH THAT SHE RECEIVED. SO THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE HOPING TO GET OUT OF CAROL. MARTIN ON THE STAND THERE. ALL RIGHT. SO NINA, CAROL IS SEEKING AT LEAST $10 MILLION IN COMPENSATION HERE BASED ON WHAT WE’VE HEARD SO FAR.

HOW DO YOU EXPECT THIS TO PLAY OUT? >> WELL, WE KNOW THAT SHE ALREADY IN THE MONEY BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP CAN’T CONTEST THAT THE SEXUAL ASSAULT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. SO IT’S TOP OF THESE DEFAMATION CASES BECAUSE YOU REALLY TALKING ABOUT HUMAN DAMAGES. YOU’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE LOST WAGES OR MEDICAL BILLS.

SO DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHAT THOSE SIX OR MORE JURORS ARE GOING TO DO. BUT SO FAR, IT’S A PRETTY STRONG CASE. SHE’S PRESENTED EVIDENCE THAT HER LIFE WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, HAD EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY THAT SAID THAT SHE REALLY REGAIN HER REPUTATION AND WOULD CAUSE FIVE, MAYBE UPWARDS OF $12 MILLION.

SO I FULLY EXPECT HER TO WIN AND TO GET A SEVEN FIGURE JUDGMENT HERE KYRA. >> WOW SO, OLIVIA, DO YOU THINK TRUMP WILL TAKE THE STAND OR NOT EVEN WATCHING IT HERE? THAT IS THE QUESTION OF DAY RIGHT NOW. WILL DONALD TRUMP TAKE THE STAND, HIS ATTORNEY?

ALINA, ALL OF US THAT IN THE BEGINNING OF TRIAL THAT KNEW WHAT HE IS IN COURT. >> SHE’LL SAID THEY ONLY HAD ONE OTHER WITNESS AND THOSE TWO AND A HALF HOURS LEFT IN DAY TODAY. SO THAT IS THE QUESTION. IF YOU WERE READING THE TEA LEAVES A LITTLE BIT IN THE

ROOM, YOU WOULD SEE THAT DONALD TRUMP HAD A COUPLE MORE ATTORNEYS PRESENT WITH HIM TODAY, ONE OF WHOM IS SUSAN, THAT SHE’S HIS ATTORNEY. IN ANOTHER CASE. SO IF YOU, AGAIN, WANTED TO READ THOSE TEA LEAVES, YOU MIGHT THINK AN UP LEGAL PRESENCE MAYBE MEANS THAT HE

IS PREPARING TO TAKE THE STAND. BUT NO WORD YET. IT SHOULD BE REALLY ANY MINUTE NOW THAT THERE IS A DECISION THAT MATTER, WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE HOW HE DEALS WITH THOSE STRICT GUIDELINES THAT THE JUDGE HAS SET OUT AND IF HE IS ABLE TO KEEP

HIMSELF, IF HE DOES TAKE THIS DOWN TO THAT NARROW WINDOW, THAT HE CAN TESTIFY IN. ALL RIGHT. STAY TUNED. OLIVIA AND NEAMA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FROM MANHATTAN, D.C. WE ARE TRACKING YET ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. FORMER ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING

A SUBPOENA TO COOPERATE WITH THE JANUARY INVESTIGATION . HIS LEGAL TEAM ALREADY APPEALING THE SENTENCING. EX-TRUMP AIDE WAS CONVICTED BACK IN SEPTEMBER ON ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER. SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS OUTSIDE DISTRICT COURT. SO KATHERINE NAVARRO WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS

IN PRISON, 90 $500 OF A FINE. YOUR REACTION? LOOK, THIS TRACKS WITH WHAT WE . WE KNOW THAT FORMER TRUMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON WAS SENTENCED FOR A VERY SIMILAR THING, ALSO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON. SO THIS COME AS A SURPRISE. AND ALSO WE’RE NOT SURPRISED THAT NAVARRO APPEALING THIS.

THE QUESTION, OF COURSE, IS DOES HE STAY OUT OF PRISON PENDING? OF COURSE, BANNON IS ALSO APPEALING HIS SENTENCE. HE IS OUT OF PRISON. SO THAT’S LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THIS CASE. BUT, KYRA, I WILL TELL YOU FROM BEING IN THE COURTROOM, IT DIDN’T SEEM THAT NAVARRO WAS

THAT WITH THIS SENTENCE AND THE JUDGE REALLY TOOK ISSUE WITH THE FACT THAT NAVARRO AND HIS ATTORNEYS HAVE CALLED THIS SPECIFICALLY A POLITICAL PROSECUTOR. THE JUDGE SAID TOMORROW, YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. YOU ARE NOT THE OBJECT OF, THE POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR OWN MAKING.

JUDGE ALSO TOOK ISSUE WITH STATEMENTS THAT NAVARRO HAS MADE WHERE HE’S THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, JOE BIDEN SPECIFICALLY, AND NANCY PELOSI ,SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT HE IS CONVICTED OF THAT, DIDN’T SIT WELL WITH THE JUDGE AS WELL FOR MONTHS. AND THAT’S WHAT WE EXPECTED HERE TO HAPPEN. AND THEN WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS

PENDING KYRA. OKAY. WE’LL FOLLOW IT, KATHERINE FAULDERS. THANKS SO MUCH. SO SOME GOOD NEWS ON GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY. OUR DATA OR NEW DATA, RATHER, AND SHOWING THAT IT GREW FASTER THAN EXPECTED TOWARD THE END OF 2023. AND IT COMES AMID EASING INFLATION AND A RESILIENT AMERICAN CONSUMER.

DESPITE MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICTIONS FOR A RECESSION LAST YEAR. OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS DIGGING INTO ALL THE NUMBERS. ALL RIGHT, LET’S BREAK IT DOWN. I THINK WE CAN SAFELY SAY, KYRA ,THE ECONOMY IS OUT OF THE WOODS WHEN IT COMES TO A RECESSION. IT LOOKS LIKE THE ECONOMY

SURGED INTO THE FINAL MONTHS OF 23, GROWING MUCH MORE RAPIDLY THAN ECONOMISTS HAD EXPECTED. ECONOMY GREW 3.3%. ECONOMISTS WERE LOOKING AT 2%. IT’S A SOLID NUMBER, BUT IT IS A LITTLE BIT SLOWER THAN WHAT WE SAW IN THE THIRD QUARTER WHEN THE ECONOMY GREW AT ABOUT A 5% CLIP.

AND ONCE AGAIN, IT WAS CONSUMER SPENDING THAT HELPED FUEL THE ECONOMY. AS WE CONTINUE TO SPEND DESPITE HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND WE ARE SEEING INFLATION STARTING TO. SO THAT COULD ALSO BE HELPING THINGS. OVERALL, THOUGH, THIS NUMBER REALLY DEFYING EXPECTATIONS FOR A SLOWDOWN AND NOW INSTEAD TALKING ABOUT A RECESSION. ECONOMISTS ARE SAYING,

YOU KNOW, WHEN WILL THE FED START CUTTING INTEREST RATES? SOME SAY IT MIGHT COME AS EARLY AS THEIR MARCH MEETING. OTHERS ARE SAYING WE MAY SEE THAT HAPPEN AT THEIR MAY MEETING. SO NEW HOME SALES JUMPED 28% IN DECEMBER. WHAT DOES THAT TELL US ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF OUR ECONOMY RIGHT.

>> YEAH, AND MORE GOOD NEWS HERE FOR US, KYRA, THAT 8% JUMP IN NEW HOME SALES FOR DECEMBER, THE STRONGEST WE’VE SEEN IN ABOUT A YEAR. AND WHAT HELPED THAT NUMBER A LOT. AND MORTGAGE RATES, THEY FELL BELOW PERCENT IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. AND WE’RE SEEING THAT INSTEAD

OF BUYING EXISTING HOMES, PEOPLE ARE GRAVITATING TOWARD THE NEW HOMES SIMPLY, THERE AREN’T A LOT OF THOSE EXISTING HOMES ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW. A LOT OF HOMEOWNERS ARE HOLDING ONTO THOSE HOMES. THEY DON’T WANT TO SELL THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE THOSE ATTRACTIVE INTEREST RATES. SO INSTEAD, BUILDERS ARE SORT

OF BENEFITING FROM THIS AND FOLKS ARE SNATCHING UP NEW HOMES. I DO WANT TO MENTION THE MEDIAN NEW HOME PRICE STILL REALLY HIGH. >> $413,200. THE GOOD NEWS, I IS THAT IT WAS DOWN ABOUT 14% FROM A YEAR AGO. SO AGAIN, THAT NEW HOME PRICE, $413,200, THAT’S THE MEDIAN,

DOWN NEARLY 14% FROM A YEAR AGO. MANY ECONOMISTS THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE HOME SALES CONTINUE TO BE HIGHER THIS YEAR PARTICULARLY NEW HOME SALES. >> IF WE SEE THOSE MORTGAGE RATES TRENDING LOWER KYRA. OKAY, WE’LL TRACK AND ALEXIS, YOU. WE’RE ALSO TRACKING THE EXTREME WEATHER. IT’S ON THE MOVE, THREATENING

MILLIONS AMERICANS ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING. PARTS OF THAT STATE HAVE SEEN A MONTH’S WORTH OF RAIN IN JUST THE LAST 72 HOURS. MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG ,TOO, SO THICK THAT DRIVERS IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED

TO BE VIGILANT EVEN STAY OFF THE ROADS. FLOODWATERS ALSO WASHING OUT ROADS IN LOUISIANA. DRIVERS FORCED TO TURN AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS. THERE IS A WARM UP ON THE WAY AND WE’RE ALREADY FEELING IT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MELISSA GRIFFIN IS TRACKING IT ALL FOR

US. >> HEY, MELISSA. HEY, KYRA. YEAH, WE’RE FEELING IT HERE IN NEW YORK AS WELL. IT DOES COME WITH SOME FOG AND SOME RAIN TAKING PLACE IN THE SOUTH LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI. THEY’VE BEEN INUNDATED WITH 6 TO 8 PLUS INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY. AND WE’RE NOT DONE YET

WITH MORE RAIN ON THE WAY INTO THE WEEKEND. SO WE HAVE FLOOD WATCHES IN EFFECT NOW FOR 15 STATES FROM LOUISIANA ALL THE WAY INTO PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AND GREAT AS WELL. YOU CAN SEE THOSE DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT ACROSS PARTS OF THE PLAINS RIGHT INTO THE NORTHEAST, TOO.

>> BUT I WANT TO TIME OUT THIS RAIN YOU BECAUSE WE’RE GOING TO SEE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF IT. THE FIRST ROUND IS GOING TO START TO CLEAR OUT IN THE SOUTH TONIGHT. SO YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THAT HEAVY RAIN SHIELD FROM CHICAGO TO THE NORTHEA OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. BUT LOOK AT, THIS YET ANOTHER

ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED FOR THE DEEP SOUTH. THAT’S WE HAVE THIS FLOOD THREAT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS FROM MISSISSIPPI TO BIRMINGHAM, ATLANTA, EVEN INTO NORTH CAROLINA. YOU’RE IN THAT SOME MORE ON THE WAY AS AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL.

BUT IN THE NORTHEAST, IT’S NOT EVEN ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF RAIN. IT’S ABOUT THESE WARM TEMPERATURES THAT ARE GOING TO BE MELTING THAT SNOW. SO YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE RAIN, TOP OF MELTING SNOW RECORDS THAT ARE ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND AND THE THREAT OF ICE JAMS. SO THAT’S WHY WE ALSO

ARE SEEING THAT FLOOD WATCHES ACROSS PARTS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE NORTHEAST. AND HERE UP WE KNOW IT’S SO WARM OUT THERE. >> NOW EVERYONE’S WONDERING HOW LONG THIS IS GOING TO LAST. WELL, LOOK AT THIS. THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY, WE’RE GOING TO START OUT WITH YET ANOTHER WINTER HEAT

WAVE KYRA. >> OKAY GOOD. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU, MELISSA. WELL, AN ALABAMA MAN ON DEATH ROW IS SET TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DIE TONIGHT BY NITROGEN GAS. MAKING A LAST DITCH APPEAL TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, TOO.

KENNETH SMITH IS SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION AT 7 P.M. THE PRISON SAYS HE WAS NOT ABLE TO BE EXECUTED A YEAR AGO BY LETHAL INJECTION BECAUSE THE EXECUTIONERS COULDN’T FIND A VEIN. BUT COME TONIGHT, THROUGH THIS UNTESTED METHOD, MR. SMITH WILL BE FITTED RATHER WITH A MASK AND ADMINISTERED A FLOW OF NITROGEN, EFFECTIVELY

DEPRIVING HIM OF OXYGEN UNTIL HE DIES. SMITH’S ATTORNEYS CALL THE NEW METHOD EXPERIMENTAL, AND IT’S BEEN CONDEMNED AS POSSIBLE TORTURE, EVEN BY THE UNITED NATIONS. OUR SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DEVIN DWYER HAS BREAK IT ALL DOWN. CLEARLY, IT’S EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL. LET’S JUST GIVE A LITTLE BACKGROUND. SMITH IS FACING THIS EXECUTION

STABBING ELIZABETH SENATE. THAT WAS IN 1988 AFTER HER HUSBAND HAD PASTOR OFFERED TO PAY SMITH AND I GUESS TWO OTHER MEN $1,000 TO KILL HER. RIGHT. AND A JURY PREVIOUSLY VOTED 11 TO 1 TO SENTENCE HIM TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. SO WHY IS HE EVEN FACING AN EXECUTION? DEVIN?

>> WELL, THE JUDGE IN THAT CASE, KYRA, OVERRODE THE JURY DISSENT, SENTENCED HIM WITH DEATH. A REMARKABLE THING THAT IS NOW BEEN OUTLAWED IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA. AND IN EVERY A JUDGE CANNOT OVERRIDE A SENTENCE HANDED DOWN BY A JURY. UNFORTUNATE FOR MR. SMITH AT THAT TIME THAT ALABAMA

CHANGED ITS IT WAS NOT MADE RETROACTIVE. SO HIS SENTENCE BY THE JUDGE STILL STANDS. AND HE HAS REPEATEDLY TRIED TO CHALLENGE THAT SENTENCE ON VARIOUS GROUNDS. OF HE WAS UP FOR EXECUTION IN 2022, AS YOU SAID, THAT DID NOT GO WELL. THE STATE TOOK A LOT OF HEAT FOR BOTCHING THAT.

HE WAS JABBED MANY TIMES WITH THE NEEDLE IN A FAILED ATTEMPT TO EXECUTE HIM BEFORE. THE WARRANT RAN OUT. AND NOW TONIGHT, THE STATE IS PREPARING USE A NEW METHOD, AN UNTESTED METHOD ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES USING NITROGEN, HYPOXIA. IT’S A GAS THAT CROWDS OUT, OXYGEN, IF YOU WILL,

AND BASICALLY WILL SUFFOCATE MR. SMITH AND. HE IS CHALLENGING THAT TO THE SUPREME COURT AT THIS 11TH HOUR, KYRA, EVEN THOUGH YESTERDAY THE COURT IN A SEPARATE PETITION DECLINED HEAR HIS CASE AND SAID THIS CAN GO FORWARD. >> TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHY THIS METHOD IS SO CONTROVERSIAL, THIS NITROGEN,

HYPOXIA? WELL, IT HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED AS A METHOD OF EXECUTION. THE UNITED STATES, THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE, ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE, THAT IT HAS BEEN USED IN EUROPE FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE . SO THERE’S SOME DOCUMENTATION OF CASES WHERE HUMAN BEINGS HAVE INGEST THIS THIS GAS TO END THEIR LIVES WILLINGLY.

SOME OF THE EXPERTS IN THIS CASE HAVE SAID THAT THAT WAS PERFECTLY FINE, NOT PAINFUL, BUT DEATH PENALTY ADVOCATES AND MR. SMITH’S ATTORNEYS IN THIS CASE SAY THAT IT COULD AMOUNT TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. THEY SAY THAT THE MASK YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT THEY’LL USE TO EXECUTE MR. SMITH MAY

NOT BE FITTED PROPERLY. THE GAS MIGHT LEAK OUT. HE MAY SUFFOCATE UNDER THE MASK AND THEREFORE THE CONSTITUTION WOULD BE VIOLATED. >> AND THAT’S THEIR 11TH HOUR PLAYING TO THE JUSTICES. WELL, WE’LL SEE IF THE SUPREME COURT INDEED BLOCKS THE EXECUTION WILL FOLLOW IT. DAVID, THANK YOU. >> YOU BET.

COMING UP, CRISIS AT THE BORDER. WHY SENATOR, ARE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS NOW ABOUT A BIPARTISAN DEAL. WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND, UKRAINE REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A

HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERY HOUR FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY. IN ROLLING FORTH, THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ISLIP.

>> LET’S GO. TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHERE THIS STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT, 10 DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER.

THE STORY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, LIVE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S ONE STREAMING NEWS I A CONTRACT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. WHAT’S OUR SECRET? WHAT DO YOU HAVE?

DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY CAMP INSIDE OUT AND IS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED AS THEY’RE TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERY BIT OF IT ANYWAY. >> WOW.

ARE YOU REALLY READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW, AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU, YOU GUYS? SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS? WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. MY FAVORITE SHOW. GLAD YOU’RE STAYING WITH US. LAWMAKERS CAPITOL HILL ARE STRUGGLING TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT NOW. OVER AN $80 BILLION BIPARTISAN TAX DEAL WHICH COULD BRING TO BUSINESSES AND LOW INCOME FAMILIES BY EXPANDING CHILD TAX

CREDIT AND REVERSING RESTRICTIONS ON POPULAR CORPORATE BREAKS. BUT REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON AND SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL ARE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THE PACKAGE ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT RACHAEL RAY IS ON THE HILL WITH MORE DETAILS. SO, RACHEL, LET’S JUST BREAK DOWN THIS POTENTIAL TAX

DEAL AND WHAT EXACTLY IS GETTING IN THE WAY HERE. >> YES, KYRA. SO IN THEORY, THIS PACKAGE WAS PUT TOGETHER TO GIVE BOTH SOMETHING THEY WANT FOR DEMOCRATS, THE EXPANSION OF THE CHILD TAX IS A HUGE PRIORITY. IT’S OBVIOUSLY LIFTED MILLIONS OF, LOW INCOME CHILDREN OUT OF POVERTY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING WANTED FOR REPUBLICANS. THEY HAD THESE POPULAR BUSINESS TAX BREAKS TO INCENTIVIZE THINGS LIKE RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO BASICALLY JUST INVESTING IN YOUR IN YOUR BUSINESS. THE PROBLEM IS NOW, SURPRISINGLY, KIRAN, I’M SURE YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE THIS CONSERVATIVE HOUSE IN THE HOUSE ARE BALKING AND SAYING

THEY DON’T LIKE THIS DEAL AND PUTTING PRESSURE ON MIKE JOHNSON, THE SPEAKER, NOT TO BRING IT UP FOR A VOTE. THEY SAY THAT THIS PACKAGE WOULD ULTIMATELY LET UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WHO COME TO THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY AND HAVE CHILDREN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SORT

OF TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHILD TAX CREDIT. OBVIOUSLY, KIDS WOULD BE AMERICAN CITIZENS SINCE THEY WERE BORN HERE. SO THEY’RE PUTTING UP A STOPLIGHT HERE AND SAYING, WE DON’T WANT THIS. THE QUESTION IS, MIKE JOHNSON, WHO’S GETTING HEAT FROM THESE CONSERVATIVES ALREADY AND WANTS TO KEEP HIS SPEAKERSHIP,

WHO ARE THEY GOING TO LISTEN TO HEAR HIS MEMBERS WHO WROTE THIS BILL OR THE CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE ACTUALLY THREATENING HIM RIGHT NOW? YEAH, NO, THEY’RE ALL GOOD QUESTIONS. AND SENATOR MCCONNELL APPEARS HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BIPARTISAN BORDER DEAL AS WELL. WHAT DO YOU KNOW THERE? WHAT ARE SOURCES TELLING YOU?

YEAH, THIS IS ABOUT AS CYNICAL AS YOU CAN GET WHEN. IT COMES TO WASHINGTON, D.C., SHOWING THEIR COLORS AND THEM NOT BEING. FOR TWO MONTHS. SENATORS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS BIPARTISAN IMMIGRATION DEAL, TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOME SORT OF SOLUTION TO ADDRESS THE BORDER CRISIS. THESE ARE TOWNS THAT ARE

OVERRUN AND IN CHAOS RIGHT NOW. EVEN CITIES, THE COUNTRY ARE FEELING THE PAIN RIGHT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO THIS MIGRANT SURGE. AND PEOPLE WANT A SOLUTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WE SEE VOTERS REALLY CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THEY WANT ACTION. ENTER DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES HERE IN CONGRESS.

THEY ARE NOW MAKING THE CASE THAT NO BORDER DEAL SHOULD BE PASSED. NO SOLUTION SHOULD BE PASSED BECAUSE IT WILL HELP JOE BIDEN IN HIS REELECTION. AND THEY DON’T WANT THAT. MITCH MCCONNELL HAS BEEN A BIG CHAMPION OVERALL OF TRYING TO GET SOME SORT OF BORDER DEAL. BUT YESTERDAY, WE’RE TOLD

SOURCES WHO WERE IN THIS MEETING WITH HIM THAT HE STARTED TO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS HIMSELF AND SAY, LOOK, THE POLITICS HAVE CHANGED. WE DON’T WANT TO UNDERMINE NOMINEE. LAST THING HERE, I WILL SAY TODAY, HE REITERATED THAT HE DOES SUPPORT GETTING TO SOME SORT OF DEAL THE BORDER AND ON UKRAINE.

BUT OBVIOUSLY HE’S SORT OF WAVERING RIGHT. AND THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM FOR HIM. ALL RIGHT, RACHEL BAY, WE’LL FOLLOW IT ALL WITH YOU RIGHT UP THERE ON THE HILL. THANK YOU. >> SO WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT BEATING ALL OTHER GOP CONTENDERS, IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, IT’S BECOMING

MORE AND MORE LIKELY THAT THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION WILL FEATURE A REMATCH BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND NUMBER 45. BUT WITH THE PLETHORA OF PUBLIC OPINION POLLS BEING RELEASED, WE’VE REACHED OUT TO OUR FRIENDS AT FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, OF COURSE, TO HELP US BREAK DOWN WHICH POLLS ARE ACTUALLY REALLY WORTH PAYING ATTENTION TO. FIVETHIRTYEIGHT EDITORIAL

DIRECTOR OF DATA ANALYTICS ELLIOTT MORRIS, JOINS ME NOW TO HELP US OUT. I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, I ALWAYS WONDER HOW MANY SHOULD I BE LOOKING AT? WHICH ONES SHOULD I LOOK AT? YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SUCH A STRICT PROCESS OF WHAT WE CAN EVEN TALK ABOUT IN AIR.

SO LET ME ASK YOU, HOW EXACTLY DO YOU GRADE THESE POLLING ORGANIZATIONS? >> LET’S START THERE. WELL, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT THINK A POLLING ORGANIZATION IS GOOD IF IT MEETS TWO MAIN CRITERIA. THE FIRST WOULD BE, IS IT AN EMPIRICALLY ACCURATE POLL? HAS IT DONE WELL IN PAST ELECTIONS?

DOES IT GET CLOSE TO THE RESULT OF AN ELECTION, A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RECENTLY? AND WE ALSO ACCOUNT FOR THINGS LIKE IS THIS POLL POLLSTER BIASED RELATIVE TO ALL OTHER POLLS? SO IF A IF A POLL IS JUST BEING ACCURATE BECAUSE IT KNOW IS BIASED AND EVERYONE ELSE GOT UNLUCKY, WE TAKE THAT INTO

ACCOUNT TOO. AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER MATH, TOO. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR POLLSTER IS NOT COPYING OTHER POLLSTERS RESULTS. WE WERE DOING THEM ON SCORES FOR ACCURACY IF THEY DID THAT. >> SO THAT’S THE THAT’S THE BIG ONE. HAVING WELL, IN THE PAST. WE ALSO WANT TO KNOW, ARE YOU

SHOWING US YOUR WORK JUST LIKE YOUR EIGHTH GRADE MATH TEST, RIGHT. >> IF POLLSTERS JUST GETTING LUCKY. THE PROBLEM. YEAH. AND THAT’S HOW YOU WORK. IF YOU’RE A REALLY GOOD POLLSTER, YOU SHOULD SHOW ME HOW YOU GOT THAT AIR YOU GOT? I WANT TO KNOW THE QUESTIONS YOU ASKED.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT SENTIMENT IS AMONG AMONG GROUPS IN THE POPULATION. AND WE ADD ALL THAT UP TOGETHER. AND IF YOU DO BOTH OF THOSE IF YOU’RE ACCURATE HISTORICALLY AND YOU’RE SHOWING YOUR WORK HERE, YOU’RE PRETTY DARN GOOD POLLSTER. >> WELL, I’M GLAD WE HAVE YOU

BECAUSE I GET ASKED ALL THE TIME ABOUT POLLS. HOW DO YOU KNOW? HOW DO YOU KNOW EXACT ESPECIALLY IF THE POLLS NOT GOING THE WAY OF HOW THAT PERSON WANTS THE POLL TO LOOK. RIGHT. OKAY. SO WHAT ARE THE BEST POLLSTERS IN AMERICA, YOU THINK? WELL, ACCORDING TO FIVETHIRTYEIGHT’S RANKINGS

OUT TODAY, THE BEST POLLSTER IN AMERICA IS THE “NEW YORK TIMES” SIENA COLLEGE POLL THAT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY THE BEST POLLSTER IN AMERICA IN PREVIOUS FIVETHIRTYEIGHT RANKINGS. WE UPDATE THESE WITH NEW DATA ONCE IN A WHILE. SO THEY’VE STUCK AROUND. THEY STAND OUT AS A VERY HIGH POLLSTER, THEY ARE VERY

ACCURATE AND THEY RELEASE A TON OF INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THEY DO THEIR POLLS. >> LOTS OF OTHER ACCURATE POLLSTERS AND CLEAR UNIVERSITY LIKE THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY POLL AND THE MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY POLL, BOTH OF WHICH ARE VERY PROLIFIC. THEY RELEASE LOTS DATA AND SOME POLLSTERS THAT USE NEWER METHODOLOGIES. >> RIGHT.

THEY’RE NOT CALLING PEOPLE. THEY ALSO DO WELL. POLLSTER IN THIS CAMP WOULD BE YOUGOV, WHICH ALSO DOES A LOT OF POLLS. WE HAVE A LOT OF EVIDENCE THAT THEY’RE ARE GOOD ACCURATE TRANSPARENT POLLSTER. >> WELL THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED ENTERING INTO 2024. ELIOT THANK YOU SO MUCH. HAPPY TO BE HERE.

ALL AND COMING UP, A MANHUNT UNDERWAY IN PHILADELPHIA FOR THE 17 YEAR OLD MURDER SUSPECT WHO’S STILL ON THE RUN. ALL THE DETAILS NEXT. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MAMA.

HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE . THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS WAS BRUTAL. DEATH FOR KILLING, STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WOULD GYPSY BLUES REVEAL. WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW.

FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON NBC TONIGHT TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM. WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION . >> “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”,

DAVID MUIR IN THE COURT LIKE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED. >> WHAT DO SEE? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT

TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST, HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN.

>> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> HE WAS A MARRIED. THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. THERE IS NO WAY THIS STORY IS GOING TO END WELL. THAT ROMANCE, THE 2020 LIMITED

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>> REPORTING FROM THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL, I’M EVA PILGRIM WHEREVER THE STORY IS WILL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . SOME OTHER TOP HEADLINES THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE. A MANHUNT IS UNDER WAY IN PENNSYLVANIA RIGHT NOW AFTER THIS TEENAGE MURDER SUSPECT

ESCAPED FROM THE PARKING LOT OF A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM. PHILADELPHIA POLICE, THE 17 YEAR OLD SHANE PRIOR WAS BEING HELD ON MURDER CHARGES WHEN HE ESCAPED. U.S. MARSHALS BELIEVE PRIOR MAY BE DRIVING A STOLEN FORD F-150 AND IS CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. THE FAA IS CLEARING THE WAY FOR BOEING’S MAX NINE TO RESUME

FLYING AS EARLY AS THIS WEEKEND. THIS COMES AFTER THE FEDERAL AGENCY GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THE PLANES FOLLOWING THAT ALASKA AIRLINES AIRCRAFT, A DARK CLOUD MID-FLIGHT. THE FAA LAYING OUT AN ADVANCED MAINTENANCE PROCESS NOW THAT WILL REQUIRE AN INSPECTION OF SPECIFIC GUIDE TRACKS AND FITTINGS. BUT THE AGENCY IS ALSO BOEING.

IT CAN’T EXPAND PRODUCTION UNTIL A FULL INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED AND MORE LAYOFFS IN THE TECH AND MEDIA SECTORS. MICROSOFT ANNOUNCING MORE THAN 1900 JOBS BEING CUT IN THEIR GAMING DIVISION. THAT’S ABOUT 8% OF ITS XBOX AND NEWLY ACQUIRED ACTIVISION BLIZZARD STAFF. THIS COMES AFTER TECH COMPANIES, INCLUDING EBAY, GOOGLE AND AMAZON,

HAVE ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS. MICROSOFT SAYS THE LAYOFFS ARE PART OF A LARGER EXECUTION PLAN TO REDUCE AREAS OF OVERLAP OF CHILDREN FROM ANXIETY MAY ACTUALLY BENEFIT MORE FROM A FORM OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY THAN ONCE BELIEVED. THAT’S ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT OUT OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, AN

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND OUR DR. ALOK PATEL IS HERE TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN FOR US. SO, DOC, YOU KNOW, THE RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED THIS TREATMENT COULD ACTUALLY RESULT IN CHANGES TO THE BRAIN AS SYMPTOMS. >> SO TELL US ABOUT THIS. >> YOU’RE EXACTLY SO WHAT THIS

RESEARCH REALLY OUTLINES IS THE POTENTIAL BRAIN CIRCUITRY, IF YOU WILL, THAT CAN NOT ONLY POTENTIALLY CAUSE ANXIETY, BUT THAT THE TREATMENT OF CBT ACTUALLY WORKS. >> SO IN THIS STUDY, A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN 60 KIDS WHO HAD ANXIETY, WHO WERE NOT TAKING MEDICATION, WHO BASICALLY HAD THE BRAIN

SCAN BY, AN MRI, AND THEY FOUND INCREASED ACTIVITY IN AREAS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE THINKING, EMOTIONAL REGULATION, CONCENTRATION, ATTENTION AND THAT WERE THEY WERE ACTUALLY RAMPED UP IN KIDS WITH ANXIETY. >> AND THEN AFTER 12 WEEKS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, THAT BRAIN ACTIVITY SLOWED DOWN A BIT. AND REMEMBER THAT CBT IS THE

GOLD STANDARD FOR TREATING ANXIETY. AND THIS JUST REALLY HELPS PUT A STAMP OF APPROVAL ON A FUTILITY AND HOPEFULLY INCREASES ACCESS AND AWARENESS FOR THIS, THAT CAN HELP MILLIONS OF KIDS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANXIETY. >> SO GIVES MORE EXAMPLES OF CBT. WHAT WOULD OUR OUR CHILD BE DOING IF THEY WENT THROUGH

THAT TYPE OF THERAPY? >> SO COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IS PRETTY EFFECTIVE. HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND TRIGGERS FOR THEIR EMOTIONS AND THEN HOW TO BEST REACT TO THEM. SO ESSENTIALLY WITH CHILDREN CHILDREN ARE REALLY WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS OF WHAT IS IT IN THE WORLD THAT CAUSES THEM TO FEEL THESE SENSATIONS,

TO FEEL THAT FEAR, PANIC, TO NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL AND THEN IDENTIFY THE EMOTIONS AND THE MOVEMENTS THAT HAPPEN AFTER THEY GET THOSE TRIGGERS AND, YOU KNOW, SOME THERAPISTS WILL ACTUALLY HELP KIDS IDENTIFY WHAT THEY’RE FEELING AND PUT A NAME TO IT. AS THE CHILD MIND INSTITUTE

CALLS IT CENTRAL TO CALL IT THE IN THEIR BRAIN, AND THEY IDENTIFY HOW TO REACT TO THAT BULLY AND BASICALLY TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES, WHICH IS WHY CBT HAS BEEN USED NOT FOR ANXIETY BUT DEPRESSION, BUT SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND A LOT OF OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

THAT BEING ABLE TO AVOID DRUGS IS SO WONDERFUL. YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT AS A PARENT AND YOU AS A DOCTOR AS WELL. AND, YOU KNOW, NONE OF US WANT OUR KIDS TO FEEL ANXIETY, BUT IT DOES HAPPEN. AND IT’S HARD SOMETIMES TO KNOW THE SIGNS AND THE SYMPTOMS.

SO WHAT DO YOU USUALLY TELL YOUR PARENTS WHEN THEY ONE? >> ONE THING I TELL PARENTS IS TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN KIDS DO NEED A MEDICATION, THAT’S OKAY AS LONG AS THEY’RE GOING THROUGH A BOARD CERTIFIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND THAT SOME ANXIETY SYMPTOMS ARE COMPLETELY NORMAL. >> BUT TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN

ANXIETY SYMPTOMS START TO INTERFERE WITH A CHILD’S LIFE, IT MAY BE TIME TO SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP. >> WHEN CHILDREN START TO HAVE SUCH BAD PANIC, EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS, OR THEY GET THESE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS SUCH AS HEADACHES, STOMACH ACHES, AND THEY CAN’T GO TO SCHOOL OR ENJOY THEMSELVES, YOU WANT TO SEEK HELP?

>> APPRECIATE ALL THE ADVICE. THANKS, DOC. GOOD TO SEE YOU. >> LIKEWISE. AND THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. >> GOT A LOT MORE NEWS AHEAD. DON’T GO FAR FOR THE CITY OF MEXICALI. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THEY CAN AVAIL BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO

TO ABOVE THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN A BET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE LAWYERS,. SOMETIMES THEY HIT, SOMETIMES THEY UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON THE FBI. MOST WANTED LIST. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” AGAINST MEANING ON HULU. FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEALED? WHY REVEAL IT NOW?

WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT? IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS

ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. >> TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD

OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS. YOU GET YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE RIGHT NOW ABC NEWS LIVE.

BREAKING NEWS, DONALD TRUMP TAKING THE STAND IN HIS DEFAMATION. WE ARE LIVE OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE. PLUS, WICKED WEATHER, POWERFUL STORMS ON THE MOVE SLAMMING THE SOUTH. TORRENTIAL RAIN TRIGGERING FLASH AND DENSE FOG MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS TRAVEL. I’M GRIFFIN HAS OUR FORECAST. UNPRECEDENTED ALABAMA, ALABAMA SET TO CARRY OUT A FIRST OF ITS

KIND EXECUTION. USING NITROGEN GAS. DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS OUTRAGE AT THE UNTESTED METHOD. WHAT COULD BE A NEW FRONTIER AND HOW STATES EXECUTE DEATH ROW PRISONERS. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, DONALD TRUMP DETOURING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE WITNESS STAND. THE FORMER PRESIDENT NOW

TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN DEFENSE E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST HIM. A JUDGE IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER TRUMP WILL HAVE TO PAY THE FORMER MAGAZINE COLUMNIST FOR MAKING STATEMENTS BACK IN 2019. A JURY ALREADY FOUND TRUMP LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT BACK IN 2020, TO WHICH CAROL SAYS HAPPENED IN A DEPARTMENT

STORE DRESSING ROOM IN THE NINETIES. EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI JOINS ME NOW WITH MORE. SO TRUMP WAS ONLY ON THE STAND FOR A FEW MOMENTS. WHAT DID HE SAY? WHAT HAPPENED? I MEAN MY WORKOUT WAS LONGER THIS MORNING HERE. IT WAS ABOUT 3 MINUTES OF DONALD TRUMP ON THE STAND.

AND REALLY, IT’S BECAUSE OF THE RESTRICTIONS THIS JUDGE HAD PUT ON DONALD TRUMP EVEN BEFORE DONALD TRUMP TOOK THE STAND THAT JUDGE KAPLAN ACTUALLY QUESTIONED ALINA HABBA ,DONALD TRUMP’S LEAD ATTORNEY ON THIS CASE AND SAID, WHAT IS HE GOING TO SAY? IS HE GOING TO STICK TO THE CONFINES HARBOR SAYING HE WOULD.

>> HE WOULD. AND SURE ENOUGH, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE. ONLY A FEW MINUTES. DONALD TRUMP THAT HE IN NO WAY SO HE SAYS EVER TARGETED E. JEAN CARROLL. HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY AND PRETTY MUCH THAT WAS IT IS REMARKABLE FOR ALL OF

THE FIRE DONALD TRUMP HAS THROWN AT THIS COURT AT PROXY, AT THE PLAINTIFFS AND E. JEAN CARROLL FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT HERE. THIS HAS GONE ON FOR SOME TIME. AND TO THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP, WHO WE KNOW, ENJOYS EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HIS SIDE

OF THE STORY, HE STUCK TO THE CONFINES BECAUSE HE SAW HE NOT WANT TO GET THROWN OUT OF COURT. ALL RIGHT. OUR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, AARON KATERSKY BEEN FOLLOWING IT. HE’S THERE OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE. SO ERIN HAD IT ALL GO DOWN. >> AND ARE YOU HEARING ANYTHING FROM TRUMP’S CAMP? SORRY ABOUT THAT.

LOOKS LIKE WE WERE HAVING A HARD TIME FIRING UP AARON’S MIKE THERE. SORRY. AND, JOHN, ARE YOU HEARING ANYTHING FROM FROM CAMP OR YOU’RE ABLE TO TALK TO AARON AND FIND OUT WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO GET? YEAH, KYRA, I DON’T THINK WE’VE GOTTEN MUCH EXACTLY FROM THIS

JUST WRAPPED WITH IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MOMENTS IS WHY AARON REALLY JUST SPRINTED OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM TO TALK TO YOU. YOU KNOW, I THINK, THOUGH, PROBABLY TALKING TO DONALD TRUMP’S CAMP FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS WANTED HIS MOMENT FOR SURE. BUT HE ALSO HE UNDERSTOOD THE CONFINES OF THIS, THAT,

LOOK, THIS JUDGE THREW OUT ONE OF HIS CAMPAIGN SPOKESPEOPLE EARLIER FOR BEING ON THEIR PHONE, CLEARLY NOT MESSING AROUND. AND I THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP’S WAS LOOK, I’VE GOT MY MOMENT. LET ME JUST GET IN AND GET OUT ,BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, KYRA, THE GOAL OF THIS WAS

SIMPLE, RIGHT DONALD TRUMP WANTED THE IMAGE, AS YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT NOW ON SCREEN, OF HIM HEADING THE NOT BEING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. AND THAT’S WHAT WE GOT OUT OF IT. ALL RIGHT, JOHN, THANKS. >> OVER MANHATTAN, D.C., WE ARE TRACKING YET ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. FORMER ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO

HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING A SUBPOENA TO COOPERATE WITH THE JANUARY INVESTIGATION. HIS LEGAL TEAM ALREADY APPEALING THE SENTENCING. CONVICTED BACK IN SEPTEMBER ON ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS. SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS OUTSIDE DISTRICT COURT.

SO KATHERINE WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON, 90 $500 OF A FINE. YOUR REACTION? LOOK, THIS TRACKS WITH WHAT WE EXPECTED. WE KNOW THAT FORMER TRUMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON WAS SENTENCED FOR A VERY SIMILAR THING, ALSO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON. SO THIS DOESN’T COME AS A SURPRISE.

AND ALSO, WE’RE NOT SURPRISED THAT NAVARRO APPEALING THIS. THE QUESTION, OF COURSE, IS DOES HE STAY OUT OF PRISON PENDING? OF COURSE, BANNON IS ALSO APPEALING HIS SENTENCE. HE IS OUT OF PRISON. SO THAT’S LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THIS CASE. BUT, KYRA, I WILL TELL YOU FROM BEING IN THE COURTROOM, IT

DIDN’T SEEM THAT NAVARRO WAS THAT WITH THIS SENTENCE. AND THE JUDGE REALLY TOOK ISSUE WITH THE FACT THAT NAVARRO AND HIS ATTORNEYS HAVE CALLED THIS SPECIFICALLY A POLITICAL PROSECUTOR. SHOULD A JUDGE SUCH AS TOMORROW, YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. YOU ARE NOT THE OBJECT OF POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR

OWN MAKING. A JUDGE TOOK ISSUE WITH STATEMENTS THAT NAVARRO HAS MADE WHERE HE’S BLAMED JUSTICE DEPARTMENT JOE BIDEN SPECIFICALLY AND NANCY PELOSI SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT HE IS CONVICTED OF. THAT DIDN’T SIT WELL WITH THE JUDGE AS WELL. FOR MONTHS, THOUGH, AND THAT’S WHAT WE EXPECTED HERE TO HAPPEN.

AND THEN WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS PENDING APPEAL KYRA. OKAY. WE’LL FOLLOW IT, KATHERINE FAULDERS. THANKS SO MUCH. SO SOME GOOD NEWS ON GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY. OUR DATA, NEW DATA, RATHER, IS SHOWING THAT IT GREW FASTER THAN EXPECTED TOWARD THE OF 2023. AND IT COMES AMID EASING INFLATION AND A RESILIENT

AMERICAN CONSUMER. DESPITE MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICTIONS FOR A RECESSION YEAR. OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS DIGGING INTO ALL THE NUMBERS. ALL RIGHT, LET’S BREAK IT DOWN. I THINK WE CAN SAFELY SAY, KYRA THAT THE ECONOMY IS OUT OF THE WOODS WHEN IT COMES TO A RECESSION BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE

THE ECONOMY SURGED INTO THE FINAL MONTHS OF 2023, GROWING MUCH MORE RAPIDLY THAN ECONOMISTS EXPECTED. THE ECONOMY GREW 3.3%. ECONOMISTS LOOKING AT 2%. IT’S A SOLID NUMBER, BUT IT IS A LITTLE BIT SLOWER THAN WHAT WE SAW IN THE THIRD QUARTER WHEN THE ECONOMY GREW AT ABOUT A 5% CLIP.

AND ONCE AGAIN, IT WAS CONSUMER SPENDING THAT HELPED TO FUEL THE ECONOMY. AS WE CONTINUE TO SPEND DESPITE HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND WE ARE SEEING INFLATION STARTING COOL, TOO, THAT COULD ALSO BE HELPING THINGS. OVERALL, THOUGH, NUMBER REALLY DEFYING EXPECTATIONS FOR A SLOWDOWN AND NOW INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT A RECESSION,

ECONOMISTS ARE SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHEN WILL THE START CUTTING INTEREST RATES? SOME SAY IT MIGHT COME AS EARLY AS, THEIR MARCH MEETING. OTHERS ARE SAYING WE MIGHT SEE THAT HAPPEN OUT THERE, MAY MEET IT. >> SO NEW HOME SALES JUMPED, WHAT, 8% IN DECEMBER. WHAT DOES THAT TELL US ABOUT

THE STRENGTH OF OUR ECONOMY RIGHT NOW? >> YEAH, AND MORE GOOD NEWS HERE FOR US, KYRA, THAT 8% JUMP IN NEW HOME SALES FOR DECEMBER, THE STRONGEST WE’VE SEEN IN ABOUT YEAR. AND WHAT HELPED THAT NUMBER ALONG MORTGAGE RATES, THEY FELL BELOW PERCENT IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. AND WE’RE SEEING THAT INSTEAD

OF BUYING EXISTING HOMES, PEOPLE ARE GRAVITATING TOWARD THE NEW HOMES SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE AREN’T A LOT OF THOSE EXISTING HOMES ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW. A LOT OF HOMEOWNERS HOLDING ONTO THOSE HOMES. THEY DON’T WANT TO SELL THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE THOSE ATTRACTIVE INTEREST RATES. SO INSTEAD, BUILDERS ARE SORT

OF BENEFITING FROM THIS AND FOLKS ARE SNATCHING UP NEW HOMES. DO YOU WANT TO MENTION THE MEDIAN NEW HOME PRICE? >> STILL REALLY HIGH, $413,200 . THE GOOD NEWS, I GUESS, IS THAT IT WAS DOWN ABOUT 14% FROM A YEAR AGO. SO, AGAIN, THAT NEW HOME PRICE ,$413,200, THAT’S THE MEDIAN,

DOWN NEARLY 14% FROM A YEAR AGO. MANY BELIEVE THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE HOME SALES CONTINUE TO BE HIGHER THIS YEAR, PARTICULARLY NEW HOME SALES. IF WE SEE THOSE MORTGAGE RATES TRENDING LOWER KYRA. >> OKAY. WE’LL TRACK IT, ALEXIS, THANK YOU. WE’RE ALSO TRACKING THE EXTREME WEATHER. IT’S ON THE MOVE THREATENING

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING. PARTS OF THAT STATE HAVE SEEN A MONTH’S WORTH OF RAIN IN JUST THE LAST 72 HOURS. MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG, TOO, SO THICK THAT DRIVERS IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED

TO BE VIGILANT, EVEN STAY OFF THE ROADS. FLOODWATERS ALSO WASHING ROADS IN LOUISIANA. SOME DRIVERS FORCED TO TURN AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS. THERE IS A WARM UP ON THE WAY AND WE’RE ALREADY FEELING IT HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MELISSA GRIFFIN IS TRACKING IT

ALL FOR US. HEY, MELISSA. HEY, KYRA. YEAH, WE’RE FEELING HERE IN NEW YORK AS WELL. >> BUT IT DOES COME WITH SOME FOG AND SOME RAIN. TAKE PLACE IN THE SOUTH, LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. THEY’VE BEEN INUNDATED WITH 6 TO 8 PLUS INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY. AND WE’RE NOT DONE YET

WITH RAIN ON THE WAY INTO THE WEEKEND. SO WE HAVE FLOOD WATCHES IN EFFECT NOW FOR, 15 STATES FROM LOUISIANA ALL THE WAY INTO PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AND GREAT LAKES. WELL. YOU CAN SEE THOSE DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT ACROSS PARTS OF THE PLAINS INTO THE NORTHEAST, TOO.

>> BUT I WANT TO TIME OUT THIS RAIN FOR YOU BECAUSE WE’RE GOING SEE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF IT. THE FIRST ROUND IS GOING TO START TO CLEAR OUT IN THE SOUTH TONIGHT. SO YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THAT HEAVY RAIN SHIELD FROM CHICAGO TO THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. BUT LOOK AT THIS, YET ANOTHER

ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED FOR THE DEEP SOUTH. >> THAT’S WHY WE HAD THIS FLOOD THREAT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS FROM MISSISSIPPI TO BIRMINGHAM, ATLANTA, EVEN INTO NORTH CAROLINA. YOU’RE IN THAT SOME MORE FLOODING ON THE WAY AS AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL.

BUT IN THE NORTHEAST, IT’S NOT EVEN ABOUT AMOUNT OF RAIN. IT’S ABOUT THESE WARM TEMPERATURES THAT ARE GOING TO BE MELTING THAT SNOW. SO YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE RAIN ON TOP OF MELTING SNOW RECORDS ARE ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND RISING AND THE THREAT OF ICE JAMS. SO THAT’S WHY WE ALSO

ARE SEEING THAT’S FLOOD WATCHES ACROSS PARTS OF THE GREAT LAKES INTO THE NORTHEAST. >> AND, KYRA, WE KNOW IT’S SO WARM OUT THERE NOW. EVERYONE’S WONDERING HOW LONG DOES IT’S GOING TO LAST. WELL, LOOK AT THIS. THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY. >> WE’RE GOING TO START OUT WITH YET ANOTHER WINTER HEAT

WAVE KYRA. OKAY, GOOD. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU, MELISSA. WELL, AN ALABAMA MAN ON DEATH ROW SET TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DIE TONIGHT BY NITROGEN GAS. HE’S MAKING A LAST DITCH APPEAL TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

TO KENNETH SMITH IS SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION AT 7 P.M. THE PRISON SAYS HE WAS NOT ABLE TO BE EXECUTED A YEAR AGO BY LETHAL INJECTION BECAUSE THE EXECUTIONERS COULDN’T FIND A VEIN. BUT COME TONIGHT THROUGH THIS UNTESTED METHOD, MR. SMITH WILL BE FITTED RATHER WITH A MASK AND ADMINISTERED A FLOW

NITROGEN GAS EFFECTIVELY DEPRIVING HIM OF OXYGEN UNTIL HE DIES. SMITH’S ATTORNEYS CALL THE NEW METHOD EXPERIMENTAL, AND IT’S BEEN CONDEMNED AS POSSIBLE EVEN BY THE UNITED NATIONS. OUR SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT WILLIAMS, BREAK IT ALL DOWN. CLEARLY, IT’S EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL. LET’S JUST GIVE A LITTLE BACKGROUND. SMITH IS FACING THIS EXECUTION

FOR STABBING ELIZABETH SENATE. THAT WAS IN 1988 AFTER HER HUSBAND, A PASTOR, OFFERED TO PAY SMITH AND I GUESS TWO OTHER MEN, $1,000 TO KILL HER. RIGHT. AND A JURY HAD PREVIOUSLY VOTED 11 AND ONE TO SENTENCE HIM TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. SO WHY IS HE EVEN FACING AN EXECUTION?

>> WELL, THE JUDGE IN THAT CASE, KYRA, OVERRODE THE JURY AND DISSENT, SENTENCED HIM WITH DEATH A THING THAT HAS NOW BEEN OUTLAWED IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA. IN EVERY STATE, A JUDGE CANNOT OVERRIDE A SENTENCE HANDED DOWN BY A JURY. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MR. SMITH AT THAT TIME THAT ALABAMA

CHANGED ITS LAW. IT WAS NOT MADE RETROACTIVE. SO HIS SENTENCE BY THE JUDGE STANDS, AND HE HAS REPEATEDLY TRIED TO CHALLENGE THAT SENTENCE ON VARIOUS GROUNDS. OF COURSE, HE WAS UP FOR EXECUTION IN 2022. AS YOU SAID, THAT DID NOT GO WELL. THE STATE TOOK A LOT OF HEAT FOR BOTCHING THAT.

HE WAS JABBED MANY TIMES WITH THE NEEDLE IN A ATTEMPT TO EXECUTE HIM BEFORE THE WARRANT RAN OUT. AND NOW TONIGHT, THE STATE IS PREPARING TO USE A NEW METHOD, AN UNTESTED METHOD, ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, USING NITROGEN, HYPOXIA IT’S A GAS THAT CROWDS OUT OXYGEN, IF YOU WILL, AND BASICALLY

WILL SUFFOCATE MR. SMITH. AND HE IS CHALLENGING THAT TO THE SUPREME COURT AT THIS 11TH HOUR, KYRA, EVEN THOUGH JUST YESTERDAY, THE COURT, IN A SEPARATE PETITION DECLINED TO HEAR HIS CASE AND SAID THIS CAN GO FORWARD, TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHY THIS METHOD IS SO CONTROVERSIAL . >> NITROGEN, HYPOXIA.

WELL, IT HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED AS A METHOD OF EXECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE, ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE, THAT IT HAS BEEN USED IN EUROPE FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE. SO THERE’S SOME DOCUMENTATION OF CASES WHERE HUMAN BEINGS HAVE INGESTED THIS THIS GAS TO END THEIR LIVES WILLINGLY.

SOME OF THE EXPERTS IN THIS CASE HAVE SAID THAT THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, PERFECTLY FINE, NOT PAINFUL, BUT DEATH ADVOCATES AND MR. SMITH’S ATTORNEYS IN THIS CASE SAY IT COULD AMOUNT TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. THEY SAY THAT THE MASK TALKED ABOUT THAT THEY’LL USE TO EXECUTE. MR. SMITH MAY BE FITTED

PROPERLY, THE GAS MIGHT LEAK OUT. HE MAY SUFFOCATE UNDER THE AND THEREFORE THE CONSTITUTION WOULD BE VIOLATED. >> AND THAT’S THEIR 11TH HOUR CLAIM TO THE JUSTICES. WELL, WE’LL SEE IF THE COURT INDEED BLOCKS THE EXECUTION WILL FOLLOW IT. DEVIN, THANK YOU. >> YOU BET. COMING UP, CRISIS AT THE BORDER.

WHY SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS NOW ABOUT A BIPARTISAN DEAL. WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS. TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH. MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED

NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION WORLD TONIGHT, DAVID MUIR AND, OF COURSE, LACK THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES IN THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED WITH THE GOOD VIBES PICTURES LAST YEAR. SO A LITTLE BUSINESS SHOULD BE JUST A LITTLE BIT A LITTLE BORING A MINUTE WHEN THINGS LIKE THAT CAN RUN

IN AMERICA. GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. THE FIRST WITNESSES ARE TAKING THE STAND IN THE TRIAL. JENNIFER CRUMBLY. SHE’S THE MOTHER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BEST SHOOTER. ETHAN CRUMBLY, WHO IS NOW FACING FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AFTER HE OPENED FIRE AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL, KILLING FOUR AND WOUNDING SEVERAL OTHERS.

SHE’S ACTUALLY THE ONE FACING MANSLAUGHTER AND SHE’S IN COURT NOW AFTER GIVING HER SON ACCESS TO THAT GUN. OUR HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CASE, TREVOR. >> SO JENNIFER, TAKE THE STAND. RIGHT. SO WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT HER TESTIMONY? >> WOULD HELP OR HURT HER? I MEAN, IT’S ALMOST ALWAYS

GAMBLE, KYRA, BY NATURE WHEN YOU ARE ON TRIAL, IF YOU DECIDE TO TAKE THE STAND, YOU ARE GOING TO BE YOUR OWN STAR WITNESS. AND IT CAN CERTAINLY, IF YOU’RE WILLING TO SWAY THE JURY OR IT CAN BLOW UP IN YOUR FACE ,WHAT IT DOES TELL US IS THAT HER ATTORNEYS AND JENNIFER

CRUMBLEY HERSELF ARE CONFIDENT IN HER STORY. AND BASED ON THE OPENING REMARKS TODAY, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ESSENTIALLY SAID THEY ADMIT READILY WHAT WITH THIS SCHOOL SHOOTING IS ABOUT THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE. BUT THEY SAY JENNIFER CRUMBLY WAS COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF HER SON DETERIORATING MENTAL HEALTH. THEY BLAMED SCHOOL OFFICIALS

FOR MISSING A NUMBER OF WARNING SIGNS ON THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING WHEN THE PARENTS WERE CALLED IN AND DECIDED NOT TO TAKE THEIR SON HOME. THEY POINTED TO THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO WHO THEY SAY ARE TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE THESE RED FLAGS. AND THEY SAID THAT THEIR SON NOT CONSIDERED A RISK.

OF COURSE, THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF EVIDENCE AND, CERTAINLY A VERY HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE PROSECUTOR PROSECUTION HAS PUT TOGETHER A LENGTHY LIST OF WARNING SIGNS AND RED FLAGS THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLEY IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER FOR IF SHE’S GOING TO TAKE THE STAND,

WHICH THEY SAY SHE IS. RIGHT. WELL, HER DEFENSE ATTORNEY ARGUED THAT SHE DID KNOW ABOUT HER SON’S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE’VE SEEN THE EVIDENCE THAT’S OUT THERE. IT TELLS QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY. SO WHAT IS THE JURY HEARD SO FAR? >> SO, SO FAR, THE WITNESSES

THAT HAVE BEEN CALLED HAVE BEEN SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO ARE FACE TO FACE WITH THE SHOOTER THAT DAY. OBVIOUSLY JUST ESTABLISHING THE HORROR OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS MASSACRE. SO WHAT THE JURY HEARD IN TERMS OF EVIDENCE AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLEY SO FAR WAS BASED ON THE OPENING FROM THE PROSECUTION, WHICH DOESN’T

LAY OUT EVERYTHING BUT WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT, NUMBER ONE, WAS THE FACT THAT THEY BOUGHT THIS WEAPON FOR THEIR SON FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING. THEY HAD A SOCIAL MEDIA POST FROM JENNIFER CRUMBLEY ABOUT HOW THAT GUN WAS A PRESENT FOR HER SON, HOW THEY WENT TO THE SHOOTING RANGE,

AND SHE HIT THE BULLSEYE. ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT DAY WHEN THE PARENTS WERE CALLED IN TO THE SCHOOL, HOW THEIR SON HAD BEEN CAUGHT DRAWING A GUN THAT WAS AN EXACT REPLICA. THE WEAPON THAT THE PARENTS HAD PURCHASED. A PERSON ON THE DRAWING WAS WOUNDED. HE WROTE SEVERAL DISTURBING

MESSAGES LIKE, THE THOUGHTS WON’T STOP. HELP ME, MY LIFE IS WORTHLESS. AND ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, WHILE CRUMBLY AND HER HUSBAND, JAMES, WHO’S ALSO CHARGED AND BEING TRIED SEPARATELY, DID TO THE SCHOOL, THEY SAID THAT THAT MEETING IN WHICH YOU WOULD ASSUME IT MIGHT TAKE AN HOUR OR AN HOUR AND A HALF

TALKING ABOUT THE DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS WITH THEIR SON. ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, IT LASTED 11 MINUTES BEFORE JENNIFER CRUMBLY LEFT. THIS IS GOING BE ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT THE PROSECUTION IS GOING TO PRESENT A NUMBER OF TEXT. JENNIFER CRUMBLY, LAUGHING OFF HER SON, BEING CAUGHT SEARCHING AMMUNITION IN CLASS, TELLING

HIM, YOU’VE GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT TO GET CAUGHT. THIS COULD BE QUITE A DIFFICULT TRIAL FOR JENNIFER CRUMBLEY. BUT IT IS VERY TOUGH TO PROVE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND WE’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE IN A SHOOTING AND COULD DEFINITELY SET A PRECEDENT FOR SURE. TREVOR AULT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OF DEVELOPING NOW THE FAMILY. A BLACK MAN KILLED BY A MINNESOTA COP IS SPEAKING OUT. RICKY COBB SECOND WAS SHOT AND KILLED DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP IN JULY OF YEAR. THAT COP, RYAN LUNDGREN, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE CRIMES NOW, INCLUDING SECOND DEGREE UNINTENTIONAL MURDER. OUR MORGAN IS FOLLOWING ALL THE

DEVELOPING DETAILS. SO, MORGAN, WE HEARD FROM THE FAMILY OF RICKY COBB EARLIER TODAY. RIGHT. WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT THESE NEW CHARGES? THEY SAID PLAINLY A START, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT’S NOT THE END. THIS IS JUST THE START. WHEN IT COMES TO THEM GETTING JUSTICE. LOOK, YOU KNOW, THEY THINK

THE D.A.’S OFFICE FOR THE DECISION TO PURSUE CHARGES IN THIS CASE. BUT THEY WERE CLEAR IN SAYING THAT THIS IS JUST ONE STEP WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING JUSTICE FOR THEIR SON. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE, RIGHT? WE HEARD FROM RICKY, FATHER RICKY COBB’S FATHER ESSENTIALLY BROKE DOWN ON THE PODIUM THERE.

WE ALSO HEARD FROM HIS TWIN BROTHER. >> HERE’S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. EVERY DAY TO WAKE UP AND LOOK MYSELF IN THE FACE. BUT I HAVE TO LOOK MY PEOPLE IN THE FACE. WE WANT EQUALITY. WE WANT JUSTICE. WE’RE NOT FOR THE WORLD. >> WE’RE JUST ASKING FOR WAS

RIGHTEOUSLY. >> YES, I WANTED JUSTICE AND THERE. ONE OTHER THING THAT WE HEARD TODAY HERE FROM HIS ATTORNEY. HE WAS PUSHING BACK ON THE CLAIM THAT OFFICER LANDRIGAN OR TROOPER LANDRIGAN IN THIS WAS DRAGGED IN A CAR INTENDED TO DO SO AND HURT OTHER TROOPERS THAT, YOU KNOW,

SAYING ROOKIE COP DIDN’T NECESSARILY HAVE TIME TO PROCESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE GUNSHOTS WERE FIRED SO FAST. BUT BOTTOM LINE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALSO DREW COMPARISONS WITH THIS BEING MINNEAPOLIS AND THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE AND THE DUTY RATE CASE ALSO DRAWING SOME SIMILARITIES THERE. BUT AGAIN, BOTTOM LINE, THEY SIMPLY WANT ACCOUNTABILITY

AND JUSTICE. AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE CHARGES ARE THE FIRST STEP IN THAT JOURNEY TOWARDS THAT. YOU’RE AS THE STATE PATROL RESPONDING. YEAH. YOU KNOW, THE STATE PATROL RELEASED A SHORTLY AFTER ALL OF THIS HAPPENED, CALLING THE SHOOTING TRAGIC, ALSO ACKNOWLEDGING THE SPLIT SECOND DECISIONS THAT TROOPERS AND OFFICERS LIKE ARE FACING

IN THESE SITUATIONS. WE’RE ALSO HEARING FROM LARGER GUNS ATTORNEY CHRIS MCDOWELL. HE CALLED HIS CLIENT, QUOTE, A HERO SAYING THAT HE WAS SIMPLY TRYING TO PROTECT HIMSELF AND FELLOW OFFICERS. HE IS FILING TO GET THE CHARGES DISMISSED. BUT ALSO THE D.A. REMOVED FROM THIS CASE KYRA. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL FOLLOW IT.

MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, LOUIS RUBIALES, SPAIN’S ONE TIME SOCCER CHIEF, WILL NOW FACE TRIAL OVER THAT NON-CONSENSUAL KISS OF, A STAR PLAYER DURING THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP MEDAL CEREMONY LAST SUMMER. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS AND JENNIFER HERMOSO NOW HAVE TEN DAYS TO FORMALIZE THEIR ACCUSATIONS BEFORE A TRIAL TAKES PLACE.

IF FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT, RUBIALES WOULD FACE A PRISON SENTENCE 1 TO 4 YEARS. FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SPANISH FEDERATION DOWN FROM HIS ROLE AFTER A COURT ISSUED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE WORLD CUP FINAL. >> COMING UP ON THE ROAD TO THE

SU IT? AND THE POSSIBLE SURPRISES WE COULD SEE WHEN WE RETURN TO TONIGHT. >> CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION.

“WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID MUIR. >> I HAVE A PACKED CONCERT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS WHAT I’VE FOR ABOUT TEN. AS LONG AS THE HUMAN BRAIN. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE

MURDERED. THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE IN ANYWHERE. WOW. ALL RIGHT. >> YOU READY? READY. LET’S DO IT. YES. IT’S THE SHOW, AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU GO? HOW ARE YOU? I LIKE YOU.

SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> NOW, WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE ABC NEWS. THIS IS STARTING BE IN THE NEWS

AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. ABC NEWS LIVE, PRIME WINNER OF THE GRACIE AWARD FOR BEST NEWS PROGRAM IN ALL OF TELEVISION AT STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE

PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS MY REPORTER BREAKING NEW EXCLUSIVES KEEPS STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. I’M MOLA LENGHI, BEIRUT, LEBANON. AND WHEREVER THE STORY GOES, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE WATCHING ABC NEWS. A LOT.

SO SOME OTHER TOP HEADLINES WE’RE FOLLOWING FOR YOU THIS HOUR ON ABC NEWS LIVE. JURY DELIBERATIONS UNDERWAY IN CALIFORNIA IN THE TRIAL OF A MAN ACCUSED KILLING A SIX YEAR OLD BOY DURING A 2021 ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. OUR AFFILIATE ABC REPORTING TO THE JURY IS DECIDING WHETHER 26-YEAR-OLD MARCUS ANTHONY SHOT

HIS WEAPON THAT DAY WITH THE INTENTION TO AIDEN. LEOS ARIAS FACES UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON. ACTOR ALEC BALDWIN DEMANDING SPEEDY TRIAL AND A NEW FILING RELATED TO HIS CHARGES IN THE RUST MOVIE SET SHOOTING. ATTORNEYS FOR THE ACTOR SAY A FAST TRIAL MINIMIZE PUBLIC VILIFICATION OF BALDWIN. THE ACTOR IS CHARGED

WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR AN ON SET SHOOTING THAT KILLED CINEMA TARGET FOR HALYNA HUTCHINS IN NEW MEXICO. HE FACES UP TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. MAKERS OF ROBITUSSIN COUGH SIRUP SAY THAT THEY’RE RECALLING SOME PRODUCTS BECAUSE OF CONTAMINATION. THE RECALL COVERS THE DAY AND NIGHTTIME FORMULA OF ROBITUSSIN HONEY C.F. MAX

ADULT. THE FDA WARNING THAT IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE WHO USE THIS PRODUCT COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING FUNGAL INFECTIONS MANUFACTURER SAYS THAT THEY HAVE NO REPORTS OF ILLNESSES RELATED TO THE RECALL. WELL, THE ROAD TO THE SUPER THE NFL’S FINAL FOUR TEAMS GEARING UP FOR THIS WEEKEND’S BIG GAMES .

LARA SPENCER HAS A SPONSOR RIGHT THERE, HAS THE STORIES TO WATCH AS WE HEAD INTO THE CONFERENCE FINALS. >> THE FOUR REMAINING TEAMS ARE GEARING UP FOR THEIR SHOT AT THE SUPER BOWL, BUT THE MOST PRESSURE MIGHT JUST BE ON DETROIT. >> THIS WOULD BE AN OUTSTANDING

TEST FOR US, BUT IT’S ONE WE’RE READY FOR. BEEN 32 YEARS SINCE THE LIONS HAVE REACHED THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, AND THIS TIME THEY’RE LED BY NUMBER ONE DRAFT PICK QUARTERBACK JARED GOFF. TOUCHDOWN. HE’LL BE SQUARING OFF AGAINST THE VERY LAST PICK IN THE 2022 DRAFT. THE 49 ERS BROK PURDY,

OBVIOUSLY JUST THE BAY AREA AND THE FAITHFUL IN GENERAL. >> WE WANT THIS GAME BAD. THIS IS THE TIMES YOU DREAM OF AS A KID AND GROW UP, YOU KNOW, HOPING TO BE IN THESE FINAL GAMES AND WE’RE ONE WIN AWAY FROM, YOU KNOW, OUR ULTIMATE GOAL OF GETTING

THE SUPER BOWL AND WIN THAT GAME AS WELL. >> LIONS FANS ARE SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT LIGHTING UP AND BUILDINGS ACROSS MICHIGAN IN BLUE AND LONG SUFFERING FANS ARE GOING ALL OUT. >> LET’S GO. JEANNE AND MIKE BURKS WERE SO CONFIDENT IN THEIR LIONS. THEY’VE TICKETS TO SAN FRANCISCO EVEN BEFORE DETROIT

WON THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF GAME. >> MIKE BOUGHT OUR PLANE TICKETS BEFORE. WE EVEN BEAT THE RAMS TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT WAS SECRET. BUT I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM DELTA AIRLINES CONFIRMING OUR FLIGHT. AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT IS THIS? AND HE SAID, WELL, I WAS TRYING SURPRISE YOU.

>> FIGURED, LET’S GO. SO, YOU KNOW, AT ALL COSTS, LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN. >> MEANWHILE, IN BALTIMORE, TWO OF THE BEST QUARTERBACKS IN THE LEAGUE PREPARING TO BATTLE EACH OTHER FORIEFS, PS AND BALTIMORE’S LAMAR JACKSON, WHO HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT EACH OTHER. >> I DON’T LIKE COMPETING AT ALL.

YES. BUT YEAH, HE’S A GREAT QUARTERBACK. HE’S THE MVP FOR A REASON. I MEAN HE GOES OUT THERE, HE LEADS HIS TEAM, HE SCORES. I MEAN, HE RUNS, HE THROWS, HE DOES WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. AND THAT’S WHAT A GREAT TO DO. >> IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT

WEEKEND. LARA SPENCER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU. WE’RE STARTING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND BREAKING ALL STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING, THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, AT ABCNEWS.COM. THAT IS STOPS THERE, TOO.

AND WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. MORE NEWS ON THE OTHER SIDE FRIDAY NIGHT. >> THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU, SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF TO KILL YOUR MOM. >> HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS WAS A BRUTAL

DEATH FOR KILLING STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE REVEALING? WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW ? WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW THREATENING THE WEST

COAST. PLUS, THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. >> AND, OF COURSE, LIKE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY NOW.

PRETTY SOON, MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO YOU. START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> START HERE FROM NUMBER ONE SOURCE BECOMES THE ALL-NEW

ABC NEWS APP BREAKING NEWS INCREDIBLE VIDEO FASTER SMARTER AND IT CAN CUSTOMIZE TO YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS IF YOU’VE BEEN IN THE KNOW. YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH ALL THE LESSONS OF THAT EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> REPORTING IN LAS VEGAS AT THE UNLV’S SHOOTINGS

ON JACLYN LEE. WHEREVER THE STORIES WILL TAKE YOU THERE, YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE BREAKING NEWS TAKING THE STAND DONALD TRUMP UNDER OATH FOR HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL. WHAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. UNRELENTING SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THE SOUTH.

TORRENTIAL RAIN, FLASH FLOODING AND A TORNADO THREAT. METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN IS HERE. AND URGENT SEARCH POLICE IN PHILLY ON MANHUNT FOR A TEENAGE MURDER SUSPECT. THE 17 YEAR OLD CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. HOW HE GOT AWAY AND WHERE AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING THE FUGITIVE. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, DONALD

TRUMP DETOURING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE WITNESS STAND. THE FORMER PRESIDENT NOW TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN IN E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST HIM. A JUDGE IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER TRUMP WILL HAVE TO PAY THE FORMER “ELLE” MAGAZINE FOR MAKING DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IN 2019. A ALREADY FOUND TRUMP LIABLE

FOR THE ASSAULT IN 2020, WHICH CAROL SAYS HAPPENED IN A DEPARTMENT DRESSING ROOM BACK IN THE 90S. NBC SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINING US FROM OUTSIDE COURT ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND CONTRIBUTOR AND LAW PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE, KIMBERLY WHALEY. ERIN, LET’S START WITH YOU.

WHAT DID TRUMP HAVE TO SAY. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ON AND OFF THE WITNESS STAND AFTER ABOUT 3 MINUTES TODAY, KYRA, AND HE SAID HE 100% STOOD BY EARLIER STATEMENTS HAS MADE CALLING E. JEAN CARROLL A LIAR AFTER SHE ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULT. THE JUDGE PUT UP A FAIRLY

GUARDRAILS ON TRUMP’S TESTIMONY, SAYING HE COULD NOT DENY ASSAULTING HER BECAUSE AN EARLIER TRIAL ESTABLISHED THAT HE DID. IT COULD NOT CALL HER A LIAR AND COULD NOT IMPUGN HER MOTIVES OR SAY SHE WAS POLITICAL OR SOME OPERATIVE. HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO REPEAT HIS DEFENSE UTTERING STATEMENTS

ON THE WITNESS STAND, AND SO HE LEFT THE STAND, AFTER THREE QUESTIONS BY HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ALINA HARBOR MUTTERING TO HIMSELF THAT THIS WAS NOT AMERICA AND HE’S ALREADY LEFT COURT FOR THE DAY AND WE DON’T THINK HE’S COMING BACK HERE MUTTERING TO HIMSELF THE WHOLE WAY OUT.

KIM, DO YOU THINK TRUMP TAKING THE STAND HELPED TO HURT HIM? >> NO I DON’T THINK IT HELPED HIM IN TERMS OF THE OUTCOME OF THIS PARTICULAR CASE. BUT MY GUESS IS HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED, WHICH IS THAT THE IS HEARING ABOUT HIS ONGOING LIES, THAT THIS DIDN’T ACTUALLY OCCUR .

BUT REMEMBER, THIS TRIAL IS ONLY ABOUT DAMAGES. IT’S ESTABLISHED THAT HE DEFAMED HER. AND SO IT’S A LITTLE CURIOUS THE JUDGE ALLOWED DONALD TRUMP TO TESTIFY AS TO HER. AND HE’S GOT TO HE SLIPPED IN THROUGH HIS LAWYER REITERATING HIS DEPOSITION TESTIMONY THAT SHE DIDN’T HE DIDN’T DO WHAT SHE CLAIMED SHE DID.

SO I DON’T THINK THIS HELPED WITH THE JURY. BUT AGAIN, DONALD TRUMP’S PLAYING, FRANKLY, TO TO US IN THE MEDIA AND THE BROADER POLITICS OF IT RATHER THAN THE LAW. >> RIGHT. HERE WE ARE AGAIN TOPPING OUR NEWSCAST, TALKING ABOUT IT ,JOHN. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE THE STAND.

SO WHY DID HE FOR THE EXACT PURPOSE OF WHY TALKING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW? IN PART, I MEAN, WELL, THIS IS ALSO NOW CAMPAIGNING IN 2024, KYRA, WHICH MEANS INSTEAD OF GOING ON THE TRAIL, WE GO TO A COURTROOM. WE’VE DONE THIS SEVERAL TIMES AND WE’RE GOING TO DO IT

A COUPLE MORE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR. LOOK, THIS IS HOW DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE NEXT YEAR. AND FRANKLY, IF NIKKI HALEY DROPS OUT, IF THE ONLY WAY DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CAMPAIGN UP UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, BECAUSE EVERY TIME HE IS IN A COURTROOM

ALMOST INSTANTLY, KYRA, AN EMAIL IS BLAST OUT SUPPORTERS. I’M ON IN A COURTROOM TODAY. I HAVE TO BE HERE. I CAN’T BE OUT THERE WITH YOU. FUNDRAISE, GIVE ME MONEY. KEEP GOING. AND THAT’S WHAT DONALD TRUMP PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IS SPENDING MONEY ON. IT’S NOT TO RENT A BUS

AND DRIVE AROUND TO DO A TOUR. IT’S TO HIRE LAWYERS FOR ALL OF THESE CASES GOT GOING. AND KYRA, HERE’S THE OTHER FACT. ALL OF THESE CASES FAR HAVE BEEN CIVIL. WE’RE ABOUT TO MAKE A HARD TURN COME THE FIRST CRIMINAL CASE IN MANHATTAN, D.A. CASE THAT IS SCHEDULED BEGIN.

AND SO FAR, NOTHING IS HURTING HIM ERIN. JOHN KIM, GUYS. FROM MANHATTAN TO D.C., WHERE WE TRACK ARE FROM MANHATTAN, RATHER, TO D.C. HERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL, WE’RE ACTUALLY TRACKING ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. THIS ONE IS SURROUNDING FORMER ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO. HE’S BEEN SENTENCED A MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING

A SUBPOENA TO COOPERATE. THE JANUARY SIX INVESTIGATION. HIS LEGAL TEAM ALREADY APPEALING THE SENTENCING THE EXTRA TRUMP AIDE, SAME RIGHT HERE WAS CONVICTED BACK IN SEPTEMBER JR. ON ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS. SENIOR REPORTER IS OUTSIDE THAT COURTROOM. NAVARRO WAS SENTENCED

FOUR MONTHS AND ALSO ORDERED TO PAY THIS FINE OF $9,500. SO WHAT’S NEXT? >> WELL, LOOK, NONE OF THIS IS SURPRISING IN TERMS OF WHAT IS NEXT. WE KNOW, AS YOU NOTED, KYRA, THAT NAVARRO’S LEGAL TEAM HAS ALREADY SAID THAT THEY WILL APPEAL THIS. THE QUESTION IS, WILL NAVARRO

REMAIN OUT OF PRISON PENDING APPEAL. WE KNOW THAT FORMER ADVISER STEVE BANNON OBVIOUSLY IS VERY SIMILAR CASE. THEY GOT THE SENTENCE OF FOUR MONTHS. HE IS APPEALING HIS CASE. HE REMAINED OUT OF PRISON. SO THAT IS WHAT’S NEXT IN TERMS OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. NOW, INSIDE OF THE COURTROOM,

THE JUDGE WASN’T PARTICULARLY PLEASED THAT NAVARRO HAS CALLED THIS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THE JUDGE TOLD HIM. NAVARRO, YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM. YOU ARE NOT AN OBJECT OF A POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR OWN MAKING. HE WAS SYMPATHETIC IN SOME REGARD TO SOME OF NAVARRO’S ARGUMENTS. BUT AGAIN, THIS SENTENCE

OF FOUR MONTHS, NOT AT ALL SURPRISING CONSIDERING THAT STEVE BANNON, THE FORMER VISOR, HAD THAT SAME SENTENCE. OF COURSE, THE QUESTION IS PENDING APPEAL. NAVARRO STAY OUT OF JAIL, KYRA. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL FOLLOW IT. CATHERINE, THANKS. ALSO, EXTREME WEATHER IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING.

IT’S ON THE MOVE NOW AND IT’S THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERED FLASH FLOODING IN PARTS OF THE STATE THAT HAVEN’T SEEN RAIN LIKE THIS AGES. MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG AS WELL, SO THICK THAT DRIVERS

IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED NOT EVEN TO GET ON THE ROADS. FLOODWATERS WASHING OUT ROADS IN LOUISIANA. SOME DRIVERS THERE FORCED TO TURN AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS THERE. A WARM-UP ON THE WAY AND ONCE A GRIP, IT HAS BEEN TRACKING THAT FOR US.

ALL THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. WE’RE ALREADY FEELING IT HERE. >> SAY YOU’RE FEELING IT IN PARTS OF NEW YORK. SO THAT’S A GOOD SIGN. IT IS A GREAT SIGN. I’VE SEEN PEOPLE OUTSIDE WEARING SHORTS TODAY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID FIFTIES AND INTO D.C. COULD SEE 70 BY TOMORROW.

>> BUT WE KIND OF TALK THE DANGEROUS WEATHER FIRST BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS, A BRAND NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THEY’RE ALREADY IN THAT FLOOD WATCH AS WELL IN TEXAS, LOUISIANA. MORE THAN HALF A FOOT OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AND THAT FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST

THROUGH TONIGHT. MORE ROUNDS OF RAIN ON THE WAY. DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN A BIG CONCERN. WELL, STRETCHING ACROSS THE MIDWEST INTO THE NORTHEAST AS THIS WARM AIR MASS MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. ROUNDS OF RAIN EXPECTED AND THIS RAIN IS GOING TO MOVE NORTH THROUGH TONIGHT. SO CHICAGO TO NEW YORK CITY,

YOU’RE GOING TO SEE SOME ICY CONDITIONS IN NEW ENGLAND BY TOMORROW MORNING. AND LOOK AT THIS BY YET ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN FOR THE DEEP SOUTH. SO WITH TONIGHT AND SATURDAY THAT THESE AREAS ARE GOING TO SEE MORE RAIN ANYWHERE FROM NEW ORLEANS, BIRMINGHAM INTO ATLANTA. YOU’RE INCLUDED IN THAT.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE GOING TO SEE AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME OF THESE SPOTS. BUT IN THE NORTHEAST AND IN THE GREAT LAKES, WHERE THEY’VE SEEN SNOW. WE’RE GOING TO SEE THAT SNOW MELTING RIVERS, RISING ICE JAMS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE

WARM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH RAIN ON THE WAY. THESE ARE THE KIND OF FLOODING ISSUES YOU COULD SEE, WHICH IS WHY FLOOD ARE ALSO ISSUED, ISSUED IN THESE AREAS. BUT, KYRA, WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT THE WARM WEATHER. WE GOT TO END WITH SOME GOOD NEWS AND. >> LOOK AT THESE TEMPERATURES.

IT’S REALLY GOING TO STAY WARM RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND. >> NEWS. MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE FIRST WITNESSES ARE ACTUALLY TAKING THE STAND IN THAT TRIAL AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLY. SHE’S THE MOTHER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL MASS SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY. AND SHE NOW FACES FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER

AFTER HER SON OPENED FIRE AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN 2021, KILLING FOUR PEOPLE AND WOUNDING SEVERAL OTHERS. JENNIFER IS IN COURT FOR HER SON, ACCESS TO THAT GUN. OUR TREVOR OLDS HAS FOLLOWING THE CASE. SO, JENNIFER CRUMBLY, I GUESS WE’LL TAKE THE STAND IS WHAT WE’VE LEARNED.

SO HER TESTIMONY, DO YOU THINK IT’LL HELP OR HURT HER IN THIS CASE? >> I MEAN, ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLY AND HER ENTIRE DEFENSE TEAM ARE BETTING EVERYTHING ON HER OWN TESTIMONY. AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM THAT TESTIMONY IS IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE QUITE EMOTIONAL

JUST BASED ON WHAT WE’VE IN THIS TRIAL SO FAR TODAY. BUT WE’RE VERY EARLY ON IN THE STAGES OF CALLING WITNESSES AT ONE POINT EARLIER THIS MORNING. THE PROSECUTION PLAYED SOME SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE FROM THE MASSACRE, THE SCHOOL, THE DAY THAT THAT SHOOTING HAPPENED. AND AS IT WAS PLAYED PORTION

WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE LIVESTREAMED BECAUSE OF THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF THEM, NOT WANTING TO HAVE THAT FOOTAGE OUT THERE TO THE WORLD. >> WE DO KNOW THAT JENNIFER AND HER ATTORNEY WERE BOTH CRYING TO THE POINT THAT THE JUDGE ACTUALLY ADMONISHED BOTH OF THEM FOR APPEARING TOO EMOTIONAL IN THE COURTROOM.

IF THAT’S HAPPENING OVER SOME SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE. YOU MIGHT IMAGINE WE’RE GOING TO SEE SOMETHING MAYBE EVEN FURTHER THAN THAT. >> JENNIFER CRUMBLY TAKES THE STAND, WHICH HER ATTORNEY SAYS SHE WILL. NOW, ACCORDING TO HER DEFENSE, THAT THIS WAS A MOTHER WHO WAS SIMPLY UNAWARE OF THE MENTAL HEALTH TROUBLES THAT HER

SON WAS HAVING. PUT A LOT OF THE BLAME ON THE SCHOOL THAT THOSE TRAINED OFFICIALS DIDN’T PASS ALONG A LOT OF THE RED FLAGS AND THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING WHILE JENNIFER CRUMBLING WAS CALLED THERE, ACCORDING TO HER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, THE SCHOOL SAID THAT HER SON WAS NOT CONSIDERED

A THREAT AND WAS ALLOWED TO GO BACK TO CLASS. >> OF COURSE THEY’RE GOING TO SHE’S GOING TO HAVE TO STAND UP TO SOME VERY DIFFICULT AND TOUGH IF SHE DOES TAKE THE STAND HERE. >> SO HER DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS ARGUING THAT SHE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT HER SON’S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR.

BUT SINCE THE CASE BEGAN UP TO NOW, WE HAVE SEEN ALL TYPES OF PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT THE PROSECUTION IS NOW USING TO MAKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ARGUMENT. SO WHAT EXACTLY HAS THE JURY HEARD SO FAR? >> SO, SO FAR IN TERMS OF EVIDENCE THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLY MIGHT HAVE BEEN AWARE

OF HER SON’S MENTAL HEALTH TROUBLES OR HAD SOME CONCERNS, HAS BEEN LIMITED TO THE OPENING STATEMENTS? BECAUSE SO FAR, THE WITNESSES THAT WE’VE HEARD EVEN IN THE EARLY STAGES WITH OFFICIALS IN THE INVESTIGATION LAYING OUT THE PURCHASE, THE WEAPON WHICH JENNIFER CRUMBLY AND HER HUSBAND JAMES, GIFTED THE GUN

USED IN THE SHOOTING TO THEIR SON FOUR DAYS BEFORE SHOOTING HAPPENED. AND WE DO ALSO KNOW THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING, AS I MENTIONED, BOTH PARENTS WERE CALLED THERE BECAUSE SOME TEACHERS HAD DISCOVERED A DISTURBING DRAWING THAT THE SHOOTER HAD DONE THAT EXACT GUN THAT THEY HAD PURCHASED FOR HIM

A PERSON WHO WAS SHOT. SEVERAL DISTURBING LIKE HELP ME, THE THOUGHTS WON’T STOP. BLOOD EVERYWHERE LIKE THAT. >> NOW WE KNOW THE PARENTS WERE CALLED TO THE SCHOOL. THEY DECLINED TAKE HIM HOME THAT DAY. AND ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, THAT MEETING ONLY LASTED ABOUT 11 MINUTES BEFORE THEY LEFT WITHOUT THEIR SON.

>> ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS IN THE OPENING STATEMENTS AFTER JENNIFER CRUMBLEY LEARNED THAT A SHOOTING HAPPENING AT THE SCHOOL, NUMBER ONE, SHE TEXTED HER SON, DON’T DO IT. AND ALSO, SHE HAD WHEN SHE WAS NOTIFIED OF THAT DRAWING EARLIER IN THE DAY, SHE HAD MESSAGED HER HUSBAND EMERGENCY AND THAT SHE WAS VERY CONCERNED

THIS DRAW. SO PROSECUTORS VERY CLEARLY LAYING OUT THE CASE THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING, THEY HAD A NUMBER OF REASONS TO BE CONCERNED. BUT ALSO, WE, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE THAT THEY’VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT LEADING UP TO THE TWO YEARS LEADING UP TO THIS TRIAL, THERE ARE A LOT

OF MISSED WARNING SIGNS AND EVEN TEXT MESSAGES, MAYBE WAIVING OFF THE FACT THAT THEIR SON WAS SEARCHING FOR AMMUNITION OR MIGHT BE HAVING SOME HALLUCINATIONS OR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, TOO. THAT’S SOMETHING JENNIFER CRUMBLY WILL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR WHEN SHE’S ON THE STAND HERE. >> TELL YOU WHAT, IF THESE PARENTS ARE ACCOUNTABLE,

IT’S REALLY GOING TO SET A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER PARENTS AND GUARDIANS OF MASS SHOOTERS. >> YEAH. ALL RIGHT, TREVOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR THAT TEENAGE MURDER SUSPECT, PENNSYLVANIA. POLICE SAY 17-YEAR-OLD SHANE PRYOR ESCAPED FROM A HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA, HE WAS

ACCUSED OF MURDERING A WOMAN BACK IN 2020. COPS CALLING HIM DANGEROUS MEXICAN. FROM OUR ABC STATION IN PHILADELPHIA HAS MORE DETAILS FOR US NOW. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. IT’S BEEN MORE THAN 24 HOURS. U.S. MARSHALS AND PHILADELPHIA POLICE STILL SEARCHING FOR 17-YEAR-OLD SHANE PRYOR. HE’S A MURDER SUSPECT.

HE’S BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD, LOCKED UP IN 2020 IN A JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES CENTER. AND HE WAS IN THEIR CARE YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOR CARE. HE WAS ABLE TO RUN AWAY FROM A TRANSPORT VAN AND HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE.

POLICE BELIEVE HE MIGHT HAVE USED BYSTANDER CELL PHONE TO CALL FOR A RIDE AND GET AWAY. NOW, PRYOR’S MOTHER AND HIS ATTORNEY ARE BEGGING HIM TO TURN HIMSELF IN. AND WE’RE HEARING FROM THE ALLEGED VICTIM’S FAMILY A WOMAN WHO WAS MURDERED IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA IN 2020. THEY SAY THIS FEELS LIKE A RE

TRAUMATIZATION THAT THEIR SISTER, THEIR LOVED ONE, HAS BEEN MURDERED. YET AGAIN, THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THE 17 YEAR OLD SUSPECT. AND MAGGIE KENT IN PHILADELPHIA . >> BACK TO YOU KYRA. ALL RIGHT, MAGGIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND COMING UP, THE FDA WITH BRAND NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSPECTIONS.

737 MAX, NINE PLANES. WILL THEY FLY SOON? FIND OUT WHEN. >> WE RETURN. WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING.

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YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD, SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST

THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE, EARLY NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S

GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS. WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING.

>> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> IF A IS RELEASING INSTRUCTIONS, AIRLINES NOW TO BEGIN CONDUCTING THOSE FINAL INSPECTIONS OF 737 MAX NINE PLANES, THE AGENCY ANNOUNCING THE MOVE SAYING JANUARY FIVE, BOEING 7379 MAX INCIDENT MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. THE FAA GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THE PLANES AFTER A SERIES

OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING. BOEING JETS, INCLUDING THAT MIDAIR DOOR BLOWOUT ON THE ALASKA AIRLINES AIRCRAFT EARLIER THIS MONTH. >> OUR TRANSPORTATION REPORTER SAM SWEENEY JOINING ME NOW. SO THE FAA IS HOPING THIS MOVE WILL EVENTUALLY CLEAR THE WAY FOR ALL THOSE PLANES TO FLY AGAIN. RIGHT. YOU THOSE INSPECTIONS HAVE ALREADY STARTED

AND AIRLINES ARE HOPING TO HAVE THOSE PLANES IN THE AIR AS EARLY AS TOMORROW. UNITED AIRLINES JUST TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE GOING TO USE THEM TO SPARE AIRCRAFT ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND THEN THEY WILL BE BACK ON THEIR PERMANENT SCHEDULE ON SUNDAY. ALASKA AIRLINES, ALSO ONE OF

THE BIG CARRIERS, THEY WILL HAVE SOME OF THEIR PLANES IN THE AIR AND THEN THEY WILL ROLL A FEW MORE OUT EACH DAY OVER NEXT WEEK OR SO UNTIL THEY GET FULLY RAMPED UP AND BACK ON SCHEDULE. THEY HAVE SUFFERED THOUSANDS OF CANCELLATIONS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL.

SO THIS IS GOOD NEWS. IT’S GOING TO TAKE ABOUT 8 TO 12 HOURS PER PLANE TO EITHER INSPECT AND OR FIX THEM. BUT YOU CAN BET THAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THESE AIRCRAFT PIECE BY PIECE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE SAFE BEFORE THEY RETURN. SO HOW ARE THE AIRLINES RESPONDING?

>> I MEAN, THEY’RE THRILLED. THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE AND THAT THEY’VE FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM AND THEY WON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS AGAIN. AS I SAID, THEY HAVE BEEN CANCELING THOUSANDS FLIGHTS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO ALL OF THEIR PASSENGERS HAVE BEEN IMPACTED.

THEY’VE HAD TO SHOVEL THINGS AROUND. THEY’VE HAD SOME WIGGLE ROOM WITH THEIR AIRCRAFT. BUT YOU CAN’T COVER ALL OF THOSE PLANES. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE AN IMPACT. AND FINALLY, SOME RELIEF. ALL RIGHT, SAM SWEENEY SOME GOOD NEWS. APPRECIATE. THANK YOU. INDEED. CAUGHT ON CAMERA, TWO-YEAR-OLD IN CALIFORNIA WANDERING

THE STREETS AFTER BEING LEFT ALONE BY A CARJACKING SUSPECT. POLICE SAY THE CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED WHILE INSIDE HIS MOTHER’S CAR NEAR OAKLAND ON TUESDAY. THAT CHILD WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND SAFE AND THEN REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY. WHO’S PAYING? OUR ABC AFFILIATE THERE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS THE STORY. >> THIS SHOCKING VIDEO,

THE MOMENT HE SUSPECT DRIVING A STOLEN VEHICLE, SUDDENLY WITH A TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY IN HIS LAP CARRIES, HIM OUT OF THE CAR, LEAVES THE BOY AND DRIVES OFF. THE TWO YEAR OLD BOY IS LEFT WONDERING ALONE. LESS THAN A MINUTE LATER, A BUS DRIVER STOPS AND CALLS FOR HELP.

>> HE FOUND THE CHILD IN A VEHICLE, PULLED OVER AND DROVE THE CAR, BOUNCING AND SLIDING LIKE NO JUVENILE. ABOUT TWO YEARS ON. >> PEOPLE IN THE AREA BEGIN TO COME OUT OF THEIR BUSINESSES TO HELP THE TWO YEAR OLD. >> IT JUST HAPPENED JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE MY FRONT DOOR RIGHT THERE.

THESE THINGS HAPPEN. DON’T REALLY SURPRISED ME ANYMORE BECAUSE IT’S JUST CRIME IS ON THE UPSWING. >> THIS IS THE EMOTIONAL MOMENT WHEN THE BOY WAS REUNITED, HIS MOM IN SAN LEANDRO. HE HAD BEEN IN THE BACKSEAT, THEIR VEHICLE WHEN THEIR CAR WAS STOLEN OUTSIDE THEIR HOME IN OAKLAND.

WE PIECED TOGETHER HOW THE BOY WAS FOUND IN SAN LEANDRO. FOR FROM HOME. TURNS OUT A POLICE OFFICER IN SAN LEANDRO HAD BEEN LISTENING TO THE OAKLAND POLICE RADIO. >> I ACTUALLY HEARD THAT OAKLAND INVESTIGATING A STOLEN VEHICLE THAT MAY HAVE INVOLVED THE CHILD BEING TAKEN WITH IT.

SO ONCE OUR OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO MAKE THAT CONNECTION, WE NOTIFIED OPD THAT WE HAD AN INFANT FOUND. >> POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE AND CONFIRMED THE TWO YEAR OLD WAS THE SAME BOY WHO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED IN THE STOLEN VEHICLE. >> IT’S A GREAT FEELING, I THINK, FOR ALL THE OFFICERS

INVOLVED WHO WERE ABLE TO REUNITE THE CHILD WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. IT’S ALWAYS GREAT TO BE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT A HAPPY ENDING FOR A KID AS A MOTHER. >> AS A MOTHER HELD HER TWO YEAR OLD, SHE GAVE POLICE A KEY TOOL TO GO AFTER THE SUSPECT IN HER.

SHE LEFT HER IPHONE AND AIRPODS KEY DEVICES IN THIS SEARCH, HER CELL PHONE AS WELL AS HER AIRPODS STILL INSIDE OF HER VEHICLE. SO SHE WAS FORTUNATE THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO GET A FRIEND’S PHONE AND UTILIZE THE FIND MY IPHONE APPLICATION. AND LUCKILY THE TWO YEAR OLD

CHILD WAS DROPPED OFF AND THEY WERE ABLE TO BE REUNITED. >> THE MOTHER TRACKED HER PHONE MILES AWAY FROM SAN LEANDRO. HER CAR WAS ALL THE WAY IN MARIN COUNTY AND MCDONALD’S PARKING LOT. >> THE MOTHER WAS ABLE TO GIVE US CONTINUOUS UPDATES AT ONE POINT SHOWING THAT THE DEVICES

APPEARED TO BE ON SEVERAL BOULEVARD. OUR SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RESPONDED AND LOCATED VEHICLE UNOCCUPIED IN THE MCDONALD’S PARKING LOT. THE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE SHOWED A MALE AND A FEMALE EXIT THE STOLEN VEHICLE AND THEN LEAVE GOING NORTHBOUND BEHIND MCDONALD’S. >> THE CAR WAS RECOVERED. >> AND NOW TIBURON POLICE AND MARIN COUNTY DEPUTIES WERE

SET ON FINDING THE SUSPECT. >> PLAINCLOTHES DETECTIVES, ALONG WITH TIBURON PD, WERE ABLE TO LOOK IN THE AREA AND TWO SUBJECTS SITTING AT A BUS STOP NEAR ROCK HILL ROAD ALGEBRA ON BOULEVARD. >> BACK IN OAKLAND, THE MOTHER AND HER TWO YEAR SON ARE RECOVERING WHILE THANKFUL

THAT EVEN THOUGH HER SON WAS KIDNAPPED, STRANGERS AND OFFICERS, THE BAY AREA NATURE HE CAME HOME. >> WE DON’T AN ISLAND WE’RE NOT ISOLATED. WE UTILIZE THE HELP OF OTHER AGENCIES AND WE OFTEN EXTEND OUR HELP AS WELL. >> IN SAN LEANDRO. >> HE’S BEEN ON ABC SEVEN NEWS AND LOSE.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW STORY . WELL, LUIS RUBIALES, SPAIN’S ONE TIME SOCCER CHIEF, NOW FACE TRIAL OVER HIS NON-CONSENSUAL KISS OF A STAR PLAYER DURING THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP MEDAL CEREMONY SUMMER. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS AND JENNIFER HERMOSA NOW HAVE TEN DAYS TO FORMALIZE THEIR ACCUSATIONS BEFORE A TRIAL ACTUALLY TAKES

PLACE. IF FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT. RUBIALES WOULD FACE A PRISON SENTENCE OF 1 TO 4 YEARS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SPANISH FEDERATION STEPPED DOWN FROM HIS ROLE AFTER A COURT ISSUED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE WORLD CUP FINAL. COMING UP, GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN.

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AN ABC LIVE. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, A CALIFORNIA JURY HAS JUST FOUND 26-YEAR-OLD MARCUS ANTHONY ARIS GUILTY OF KILLING SIX-YEAR-OLD AIDEN LEOS AFTER A 2021 ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. ARIAS NOW FACES UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON. TONIGHT AN ALABAMA MAN ON DEATH ROW SAID TO BE THE FIRST

AMERICAN TO DIE BY NITROGEN. KENNETH SMITH’S ATTORNEYS MAKING A LAST MINUTE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT, HOPING TO STOP THE EXECUTION. HIS ATTORNEYS HAVE CALLED THE NEW METHOD EXPERIMENTAL, AND IT’S BEEN CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS UNDER THE NEW METHODS. SMITH WILL WEAR A MASK THAT WILL ADMINISTER NITROGEN

GAS THAT WILL DEPRIVE HIM OF OXYGEN UNTIL HE DIES. HEART GOES HOLLYWOOD. FRESH OFF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE YEAR A MICHIGAN, JIM HARBAUGH IS RETURNING TO THE NFL AS THE NEW HEAD COACH OF THE L.A. CHARGERS. HIS LAST GO AROUND THE NFL WAS WHEN HE SERVED AS HEAD COACH OF

THE 40 NINERS UNTIL 2014. I THINK WE KNEW WE’D STAY IN THE GAME. WHILE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION HAS ORDERED TECH GIANTS AMAZON, GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THEIR PARTNERSHIPS WITH TWO OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR AI COMPANIES, OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS IS HERE TO TELL US WHY.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS? SO KYRA, THE FTC HAS ISSUED HERE WHAT ARE CALLED COMPULSORY ORDERS TO FIVE COMPANIES. TECH HEAVYWEIGHTS AMAZON, GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT, THE AIR STARTUPS, ANTHROPIC AND OPEN AIR. THE AGENCY IS GIVING THEM 45 DAYS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING INVESTMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS. NOW, LOOK, BIG TECH CANNOT BUY

THESE TOP EIGHT COMPANIES OUTRIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN’T PASS MUSTER WITH ANTITRUST REGULATORS WHO ARE CALLING THESE PARTNERSHIPS QUASI MERGERS THAT THEY SAY ALLOW BIG TECH TO EXERT ITS INFLUENCE IN THE AIR SPACE AND SQUASH COMPETITION. NOW MICROSOFT’S WANTS IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CHATGPT MAKER OPENAI MADE HEADLINES LAST YEAR. YOU’LL REMEMBER WHEN

THE SOFTWARE GIANT PLAYED AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN GETTING OPEN. >> CEO SAM ALTMAN REINSTATED AFTER HE WAS ABRUPTLY FIRED BY THE STARTUP’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS. MICROSOFT HAS NEVER PUBLICLY SAID JUST HOW MUCH IT’S INVESTED IN OPEN A.I. EXCEPT TO SAY IT’S A, QUOTE, COMPLICATED. NOW THE FTC WANTS TO MAKE SURE

THESE LARGE TECH COMPANIES WITH DEEP POCKETS DON’T HAVE OUTSIZED INFLUENCE OVER A.I. STARTUPS. LAST YEAR, FTC CHAIR LINA KHAN THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD, QUOTE, NOT HESITATE TO CRACK DOWN ON HARMFUL BUSINESS PRACTICES INVOLVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SUCH AS USING A.I. GENERATED VOICES TO PROMOTE THINGS LIKE FRAUD PHONE SCAMS. BUT KHAN ALSO MADE QUITE

CLEAR THAT THE BROADER CONSOLIDATION OF MARKET POWER INTO A HANDFUL OF AI LEADERS DESERVES GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT SCRUTINY. WE COULD POSSIBLY SEE HERE, KYRA, THAT AFTER ALL OF THIS REGULATION WILL BE COMING DOWN THE PIKE. >> AND REGULATION. I MEAN, IT’S BEEN THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR IT AND A LOT

OF PEOPLE THINKING IT’S NECESSARY, RIGHT? >> YEAH, I MEAN, IT’S STILL A NASCENT INDUSTRY. AND SO I THINK THE LAWS AND THE REGULATIONS ARE TRYING TO KEEP UP IT. BUT WE DO KNOW AS HELPFUL AS IT CAN BE, IT CAN BE A DANGEROUS AND THE FTC JUST WANTS TO MAKE

SURE IT’S IN THE RIGHT HANDS AND NOT NOT SITUATION WHERE IT’S A MONOPOLY AND IN THE HANDS OF A FEW POWERFUL. WELL, WE’LL FOLLOW THE DEBATE FOR SURE. ALEXIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU AND THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. >> I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. I’M BREAKING NEWS TO ALL

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DAVID MUIR REPORTS. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD. WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY TURN. INSIDE IS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR HIM. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED, WHICH IS I MEAN,

KNOW, TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. ANYWHERE. WOW. >> MAN, WITH THE GOOD VIBES, THIS IS A LOSS. >> YEAH. IS SO SAD. THAT’S GOING TO BE READ AS A LITTLE BIT. MY LITTLE BOY IN THE MIDDLE. >> GOOD MORNING, AMERICA.

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MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS. MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS? THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN NOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY

THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . ABC NEWS, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE RIGHT NOW, ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS TAKING THE STAND. DONALD TRUMP UNDER OATH, HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL. WHAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.

UNRELENTING SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THE SOUTH. TORRENTIAL RAIN, FLASH FLOODING AND A TORNADO THREAT. METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN IS HERE. AND URGENT SEARCH POLICE IN PHILLY ON A MANHUNT FOR A TEENAGE MURDER SUSPECT. THE 17 YEAR OLD CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. HOW HE GOT AWAY AND WHERE AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING FOR THE FUGITIVE.

GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, DONALD ,DETOURING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO THE WITNESS STAND. THE FORMER NOW TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. AND E. JEAN CARROLL CIVIL CASE AGAINST HIM. A JUDGE IS SET TO DETERMINE WHETHER TRUMP WILL HAVE TO PAY. THE FORMER “ELLE” MAGAZINE

COLUMNIST FOR MAKING DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IN 2019, A JURY ALREADY FOUND TRUMP LIABLE FOR THE ASSAULT, WHICH CARROLL SAYS HAPPENED IN DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM. BACK IN THE 90S, ABC SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINING US FROM OUTSIDE COURT, ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND CONTRIBUTOR AND LAW AT THE

UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE, KIMBERLY WHALEY. ERIN, LET’S START WITH YOU. >> WHAT DID TRUMP HAVE TO SAY? FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ON AND OFF THE WITNESS STAND AFTER ABOUT 3 MINUTES TODAY, KYRA, AND HE SAID HE WON HUNDRED PERCENT, STOOD BY EARLIER STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE CALLING E. JEAN CARROLL

A LIAR AFTER SHE ACCUSED OF ASSAULT. THE JUDGE PUT UP A FAIRLY HIGH GUARDRAILS ON TRUMP’S TESTIMONY, SAYING HE COULD NOT DENY ASSAULTING HER BECAUSE AN EARLIER TRIAL ESTABLISHED THAT HE DID, IT COULD NOT CALL HER A LIAR, COULD NOT IMPUGN HER MOTIVES OR SAY SHE WAS POLITICAL OR SOME DEMOCRATIC

OPERATIVE. HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO REPEAT HIS DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS ON THE WITNESS STAND. AND SO HE LEFT THE STAND AFTER THREE QUESTIONS BY HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ALINA HABBA, MUTTERING TO HIMSELF THAT THIS WAS NOT AMERICA. AND HE’S LEFT COURT FOR THE DAY AND WE DON’T THINK HE’S COMING

BACK HERE MUTTERING TO HIMSELF THE WHOLE WAY OUT. KIM, DO YOU THINK TRUMP TAKING STAND HELPED TO HURT HIM? >> NO, I DON’T THINK IT HELPED HIM IN TERMS OF THE OUTCOME OF THIS PARTICULAR CASE. BUT MY GUESS IS HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED, WHICH IS THAT THE PUBLIC IS HEARING ABOUT HIS

ONGOING LIES, THAT THIS DIDN’T ACTUALLY OCCUR. BUT REMEMBER THIS TRIAL IS ONLY ABOUT DAMAGES. IT’S ESTABLISHED THAT HE DEFAMED HER. AND SO IT’S A LITTLE CURIOUS. THE JUDGE ALLOWED DONALD TRUMP TO TESTIFY, ASKED HER HER DAMAGES. AND HE’S GOT TO HE SLIPPED INTO HIS LAWYER, REITERATE HIS DEPOSITION TESTIMONY

THAT SHE DIDN’T HE DIDN’T DO WHAT SHE CLAIMS SHE DID. SO I DON’T THINK THIS HELPED WITH THE JURY. BUT AGAIN, TRUMP’S PLAYING, FRANKLY, TO TO US AND THE MEDIA AND THE BROADER POLITICS OF IT RATHER THAN THE LAW. >> ALL RIGHT. HERE WE ARE AGAIN, TOPPING OUR NEWSCAST, TALKING ABOUT IT.

JOHN, HE DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE STAND, SO WHY DID HE FOR THE EXACT PURPOSE OF WHY WE’RE TALKING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW IN PART. I MEAN, WELL, THIS IS ALSO NOW CAMPAIGNING IN 2024, KYRA, WHICH MEANS INSTEAD OF GOING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, WE GO TO A COURTROOM. WE’VE DONE THIS SEVERAL TIMES

AND WE’RE GOING TO DO IT A COUPLE MORE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR. LOOK, THIS IS HOW DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE NEXT YEAR. AND FRANKLY, IF NIKKI HALEY DROPS OUT, THAT’S THE ONLY WAY DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CAMPAIGN UP UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, BECAUSE

EVERY TIME HE IS IN A COURTROOM ALMOST INSTANTLY, KYRA, AN EMAIL IS BLAST OUT. >> SUPPORTERS. I’M ON IN A COURTROOM TODAY. I HAVE TO BE HERE. I CAN’T BE OUT THERE WITH YOU FUNDRAISE. GIVE ME MONEY, KEEP GOING. AND THAT’S WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IS SPENDING MONEY ON.

IT’S NOT TO RENT A BUS, DRIVE AROUND AND DO A TOUR. IT’S TO HIRE LAWYERS FOR ALL OF THESE CASES HE’S GOT GOING. AND, KYRA, HERE’S THE OTHER FACT. ALL OF THESE CASES SO FAR HAVE BEEN CIVIL. WE’RE ABOUT TO MAKE A HARD TURN COME. MARCH THE FIRST CRIMINAL CASE,

THE MANHATTAN D.A. CASE THAT IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN. >> AND SO FAR, NOTHING IS HURTING HIM. ERIN, JOHN KIM, THANKS, GUYS. FROM MANHATTAN TO D.C., WHERE WE ARE TRACK ARE FROM MANHATTAN, RATHER, TO D.C. HERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL, WE’RE ACTUALLY TRACKING ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED TRIAL. THIS ONE IS SURROUNDING FORMER

ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO. HE’S BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING A SUBPOENA TO COOPERATE. THE JANUARY SIX INVESTIGATION. HIS LEGAL TEAM ALREADY APPEALING THE SENTENCING. THE EXTRA TRUMP AIDE, SAME RIGHT HERE, WAS CONVICTED BACK IN SEPTEMBER ON ONE COUNT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND A SECOND COUNT

FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS. SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS IS OUTSIDE THAT COURTROOM. NAVARRO WAS TO FOUR MONTHS AND ALSO ORDERED TO PAY THIS FINE OF $9,500. SO WHAT’S NEXT? WELL, LOOK, NONE OF THIS IS SURPRISING IN TERMS OF WHAT IS NEXT. WE KNOW, AS YOU NOTED, KYRA,

THAT NAVARRO’S LEGAL TEAM HAS ALREADY SAID THAT THEY WILL APPEAL THIS. THE QUESTION IS, WILL NAVARRO REMAIN OUT OF PRISON PENDING APPEAL. WE KNOW THAT FORMER ADVISER STEVE BANNON OBVIOUSLY IS VERY SIMILAR CASE. THEY GOT THE SAME SENTENCE OF FOUR MONTHS. HE IS APPEALING HIS CASE. HE REMAINED OUT OF PRISON SO

THAT IS WHAT’S NEXT IN TERMS OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. NOW, INSIDE THE COURTROOM, THE JUDGE WASN’T PARTICULARLY PLEASED THAT NAVARRO HAS CALLED THIS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THE JUDGE TOLD HIM, NAVARRO, YOU ARE A VICTIM. YOU ARE NOT AN OBJECT OF A POLITICAL PROSECUTION. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR OWN MAKING.

HE WAS SYMPATHETIC IN SOME REGARD TO SOME OF NAVARRO’S ARGUMENTS. BUT AGAIN, THIS SENTENCE, FOUR MONTHS, NOT AT ALL SURPRISING CONSIDERING THAT STEVE BANNON, THE FORMER ADVISER, HAD THAT SAME SENTENCE. OF COURSE, THE QUESTION IS, PENDING APPEAL, WILL STAY OUT OF JAIL CAROL. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL FOLLOW. CATHERINE, THANKS.

ALSO, EXTREME WEATHER IS. SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE’RE FOLLOWING. IT’S ON THE MOVE NOW AND IT’S THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ACROSS THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERED FLASH FLOODING IN PARTS OF THE STATE THAT HAVEN’T SEEN RAIN LIKE THIS IN AGES. MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES NOW DEALING WITH EXTREME FOG

AS WELL, SO THICK THAT DRIVERS IN SOME AREAS ARE BEING URGED AND NOT EVEN TO GET ON THE ROADS. FLOODWATERS ARE ALSO WASHING ROADS IN LOUISIANA. SOME DRIVERS THERE FORCED TO TURN AROUND TO AVOID THE HIGH WATER. BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS. THERE IS A WARM UP ON THE WAY

AND MOST OF GRIFFIN HAS BEEN TRACKING THAT FOR US ALL THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. >> WE’RE ALREADY FEELING IT HERE. YOU SAY YOU’RE FEELING IT IN PARTS OF NEW YORK, SO THAT’S A GOOD SIGN. >> IT IS A GREAT SIGN. SEEN PEOPLE OUTSIDE WEARING SHORTS TODAY WITH TEMPERATURES

IN THE MID FIFTIES IN D.C. COULD SEE 70 BY TOMORROW. >> BUT WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS WEATHER FIRST BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS, A BRAND NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THEY’RE ALREADY IN THAT FLOOD WATCH AS WELL. TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MORE THAN

HALF A FOOT OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AND THAT FLOOD CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST THROUGH TONIGHT WITH MORE ROUNDS OF RAIN ON THE WAY. DENSE FOG ADVISORIES REMAIN A BIG CONCERN AS WELL, STRETCHING ACROSS THE MIDWEST INTO THE NORTHEAST AS THIS WARM AIR MASS MOVES ACROSS REGION. ROUNDS OF RAIN EXPECTED

AND THIS RAIN IS GOING TO MOVE NORTH TONIGHT. SO CHICAGO TO NEW YORK CITY, YOU’RE GOING TO SEE SOME ICY CONDITIONS IN NEW ENGLAND BY TOMORROW MORNING. AND LOOK AT THIS BY SATURDAY. YET ANOTHER OF RAIN FOR THE DEEP SOUTH. SO WITH TONIGHT AND SATURDAY THAT THESE AREAS ARE GOING

TO SEE MORE RAIN ANYWHERE FROM NEW ORLEANS, BIRMINGHAM INTO ATLANTA. YOU’RE INCLUDED IN THAT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE GOING TO SEE AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME OF THESE SPOTS. BUT IN THE NORTHEAST AND IN THE GREAT LAKES WHERE THEY’VE

SEEN SNOW, WE’RE GOING TO SEE THAT SNOW MELTING RIVERS, RISING, ICE JAMS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE WARM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH MORE RAIN ON THE WAY? THESE ARE THE KIND OF FLOODING ISSUES YOU CAN SEE, WHICH IS WHY FLOOD WATCHES ARE ALSO ISSUED IN AREAS. >> BUT, KYRA, WE’RE SO EXCITED

ABOUT THE WARM WEATHER. WE GOT TO END WITH SOME GOOD NEWS. AND LOOK AT THESE TEMPERATURES. IT’S REALLY GOING TO WARM RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND NEWS. MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE FIRST WITNESSES ARE ACTUALLY TAKING THE STAND IN THAT TRIAL AGAINST JENNIFER CRUMBLY. SHE’S THE MOTHER OF THE

HIGH SCHOOL MASS SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY. AND SHE FACES FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AFTER HER SON OPENED FIRE AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN 2021, KILLING PEOPLE AND WOUNDING SEVERAL OTHERS. JENNIFER IS IN COURT FOR GIVING HER SON ACCESS TO THAT GUN. OUR TREVOR AULT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CASE.

SO JENNIFER CRUMBLY, I GUESS WE’LL TAKE THE STAND NOW IS WHAT WE’VE LEARNED. SO HER TESTIMONY, DO YOU THINK IT’LL HELP OR HURT HER IN THIS CASE? >> I MEAN, ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLY AND HER ENTIRE DEFENSE TEAM ARE BETTING EVERYTHING ON HER OWN TESTIMONY.

AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT THAT TESTIMONY IS IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE QUITE EMOTIONAL JUST BASED ON WHAT WE’VE SEEN IN THIS TRIAL SO FAR TODAY. >> BUT WE’RE VERY EARLY ON IN THE STAGES OF CALLING WITNESSES. AT ONE POINT EARLIER THIS MORNING, THE PROSECUTION PLAYED SOME SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE FROM

THE MASSACRE FROM THE SCHOOL THE DAY THAT THAT SHOOTING HAPPENED. AND AS IT WAS PLAYED, PORTION WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE LIVE STREAMED BECAUSE OF THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF THEM, NOT WANTING TO HAVE THAT FOOTAGE OUT THERE TO THE WORLD. WE DO KNOW THAT JENNIFER AND HER ATTORNEY WERE BOTH

CRYING TO THE POINT THAT JUDGE ACTUALLY ADMONISHED BOTH OF THEM FOR APPEARING EMOTIONAL IN THE COURTROOM. IF THAT’S HAPPENING OVER, SOME SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE. YOU MIGHT IMAGINE WE’RE GOING TO SEE SOMETHING, MAYBE EVEN FURTHER THAN THAT ONCE JENNIFER GRUMBLY TAKES THE STAND, WHICH HER ATTORNEY SAYS WILL NOW, ACCORDING TO HER DEFENSE,

THAT THIS WAS MOTHER WHO WAS SIMPLY UNAWARE OF THE MENTAL HEALTH TROUBLES THAT HER WAS HAVING. THEY PUT A LOT OF THE BLAME ON THE SCHOOL THAT THOSE TRAINED OFFICIALS DIDN’T PASS ALONG A LOT OF THE RED FLAGS AND THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING, WHILE JENNIFER WAS CALLED THERE, ACCORDING

TO HER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, THE SCHOOL SAID HER SON WAS NOT CONSIDERED A THREAT AND WAS ALLOWED TO GO BACK TO CLASS. COURSE THEY’RE GOING TO SHE’S GOING TO HAVE TO STAND UP TO SOME VERY DIFFICULT AND TOUGH IF SHE DOES TAKE THE STAND KYRA. >> SO HER DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS

ARGUING THAT SHE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT SON’S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR. BUT SINCE THE CASE BEGAN UP TO NOW, WE HAVE SEEN ALL TYPES OF PIECES, EVIDENCE THAT THE PROSECUTION IS NOW USING TO MAKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ARGUMENT. SO WHAT EXACTLY HAS THE JURY HEARD SO FAR? SO, SO FAR, IN TERMS

OF EVIDENCE THAT JENNIFER CRUMBLY MIGHT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF HER SON’S MENTAL HEALTH OR HAD SOME CONCERNS, HAS BEEN LIMITED TO THE OPENING STATEMENTS BECAUSE SO FAR. THE WITNESSES THAT WE’VE HEARD HAVE BEEN IN THE EARLY STAGES WITH OFFICIALS IN, THE INVESTIGATION LAYING OUT THE PURCHASE OF THE WEAPON,

WHICH JENNIFER CRUMBLEY AND HER HUSBAND JAMES, AND GIFTED THE GUN USED IN THE SHOOTING TO THEIR SON FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED. >> NOW, WE DO ALSO KNOW THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING, AS I MENTIONED, BOTH PARENTS WERE CALLED THERE BECAUSE TEACHERS HAD DISCOVERED A DISTURBING DRAWING THAT THE

SHOOTER HAD DONE THAT EXACT GUN THAT THEY HAD PURCHASED FOR HIM. A PERSON WHO WAS SHOT. SEVERAL DISTURBING MESSAGES LIKE HELP ME THE THOUGHTS WON’T STOP BLOOD EVERYWHERE, THINGS LIKE THAT. >> NOW WE KNOW THE PARENTS WERE CALLED TO THE SCHOOL. THEY DECLINED TO TAKE THEM HOME THAT DAY.

AND ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, MEETING ONLY LASTED ABOUT 11 MINUTES BEFORE THEY LEFT WITHOUT THEIR SON. >> ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, THOUGH, IN THE OPENING STATEMENTS AFTER JENNIFER CRUMBLY LEARNED THAT A SHOOTING WAS HAPPENING AT THE SCHOOL, NUMBER ONE, SHE TEXTED HER SON, DON’T DO IT. AND ALSO, SHE HAD WHEN SHE WAS

NOTIFIED OF THAT DRAWING EARLIER IN THE DAY, SHE HAD MESSAGED HER HUSBAND EMERGENCY AND THAT SHE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT DRAWING. SO PROSECUTORS VERY CLEARLY LAYING OUT THE CASE THAT THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING THEY HAD A NUMBER OF REASONS TO BE CONCERNED. BUT ALSO, WE KNOW, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE THAT THEY’VE

ALREADY TALKED ABOUT LEADING UP TO THE TWO YEARS LEADING UP TO THIS TRIAL, THERE ARE A LOT OF MISSED WARNING SIGNS AND EVEN TEXT MESSAGES, MAYBE WAVING OFF THE FACT THAT THEIR SON SEARCHING FOR AMMUNITION OR MIGHT BE HAVING SOME HALLUCINATIONS OR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, TOO. THAT’S SOMETHING JENNIFER

CRUMBLY WILL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR WHEN SHE’S ON THE STAND CAROL. >> TELL YOU WHAT, IF THESE PARENTS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, IT’S REALLY GOING TO SET A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER PARENTS AND GUARDIANS OF THE. >> YEAH. ALL RIGHT, TREVOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW, THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR

THAT TEENAGE MURDER SUSPECT IN. POLICE SAY 17-YEAR-OLD SHANE FRYER ESCAPED FROM A HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA. HE WAS ACCUSED OF MURDERING A WOMAN BACK 2020. COPS CALLING HIM DANGEROUS AND. MAGGIE KENT FROM OUR ABC STATION IN PHILADELPHIA HAS MORE DETAILS FOR US NOW. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, KYRA. IT’S BEEN MORE THAN 24 HOURS.

U.S. MARSHALS AND PHILADELPHIA POLICE STILL SEARCHING FOR 17-YEAR-OLD SHANE PRIOR. >> HE’S A MURDER SUSPECT. HE’S BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD, LOCKED UP IN 2020 IN A JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES CENTER. AND HE WAS IN THEIR CARE YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOR CARE.

HE WAS ABLE TO RUN AWAY FROM A TRANSPORT VAN AND HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE. POLICE BELIEVE HE MIGHT USED A BYSTANDER CELL PHONE TO CALL FOR A RIDE AND. GET AWAY. NOW PRIOR’S MOTHER AND HIS ATTORNEY ARE BEGGING TO TURN HIMSELF IN. AND WE’RE HEARING FROM THE ALLEGED VICTIM’S FAMILY,

A WOMAN WHO WAS MURDERED IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA IN 2020. THEY SAY THIS FEELS LIKE A RE TRAUMATIZATION THAT THEIR SISTER, THEIR LOVED ONE, HAS BEEN MURDERED YET AGAIN. THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THE 17 YEAR OLD SUSPECT. >> AND MAGGIE KENT IN PHILADELPHIA. BACK TO YOU, KYRA.

ALL RIGHT, MAGGIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND COMING UP, THE FAA WITH BRAND NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSPECTIONS ON 737 MAX, NINE PLANES. >> WILL THEY FLY SOON? FIND OUT WHEN WE RETURN. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU, SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL

YOUR MOM. >> HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS. IT WAS BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE WITH AND WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT? DID THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW? WOW. WOW.

FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, A CLEAN UP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND SNOW. THE WEST COAST. PLUS THE PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE AS ISRAELI RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”

WITH DAVID MUIR IN THE QUARTERBACK, ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES ON THE PLANET. NOW STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED. >> SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES.

A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARE MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE

STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES. >> NUMBER ONE NEWS COMES THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP. IF YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. >> ALL NEW ABC NEWS APP

DOWNLOAD IT NOW IF A IS IN TO AIRLINES NOW TO BEGIN CONDUCTING THOSE FINAL INSPECTIONS OF 737 MAX NINE PLANES, THE AGENCY ANNOUNCING THE MOVE SAYING JANUARY FIVE, BOEING 7379 MAX INCIDENT MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. THE FAA INITIALLY GROUNDED NEARLY 200 OF THE PLANES AFTER A SERIES OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING

JETS, INCLUDING THAT MIDAIR DOOR BLOWOUT ON THE ALASKA AIRLINES AIRCRAFT EARLIER THIS MONTH. >> OUR TRANSPORTATION REPORTER JOINING ME NOW. SO THE FAA IS HOPING THIS MOVE WILL EVENTUALLY CLEAR THE WAY FOR ALL THOSE PLANES TO FLY AGAIN, RIGHT? YES, CAROL, THOSE INSPECTIONS HAVE ALREADY STARTED AND AIRLINES ARE HOPING TO HAVE

THOSE PLANES BACK IN THE AIR AS EARLY AS TOMORROW. UNITED AIRLINES JUST TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE GOING TO USE THEM AS SPARE AIRCRAFT ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND THEN THEY WILL BE BACK ON THEIR PERMANENT SCHEDULE ON SUNDAY. ALASKA ALSO ONE OF THE BIG CARRIERS, THEY WILL HAVE SOME

OF THEIR PLANES IN THE AIR TOMORROW AND THEN THEY WILL ROLL A FEW MORE OUT EACH DAY OVER NEXT WEEK OR SO UNTIL THEY GET FULLY RAMPED UP AND BACK ON SCHEDULE. THEY HAVE SUFFERED THOUSANDS OF CANCELLATIONS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS. SO THIS IS GOOD NEWS.

IT’S GOING TO TAKE ABOUT 8 TO 12 HOURS PER PLANE TO EITHER INSPECT AND OR FIX THEM. BUT YOU CAN BET THAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THESE AIRCRAFT PIECE BY PIECE, MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE SAFE BEFORE THEY RETURN. >> SO HOW ARE THE AIRLINES RESPONDING? >> I MEAN, THEY’RE THRILLED.

THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE AND THAT THEY’VE FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM AND THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS. AGAIN, AS I SAID, THEY HAVE BEEN CANCELING THOUSANDS FLIGHTS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO ALL OF THEIR PASSENGERS HAVE BEEN IMPACTED. THEY’VE HAD TO SHOVEL THINGS AROUND.

THEY’VE HAD SOME WIGGLE ROOM WITH THEIR AIRCRAFT. BUT YOU CAN’T COVER ALL OF THOSE PLANES. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IMPACTED. AND FINALLY, SOME RELIEF. ALL RIGHT, SAM SWEENEY SOME GOOD NEWS. APPRECIATE. THANK YOU. INDEED. CAUGHT ON CAMERA, TWO-YEAR-OLD IN CALIFORNIA WANDERING THE STREETS AFTER BEING LEFT

ALONE BY A CARJACKING SUSPECT. POLICE SAY THE CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED INSIDE HIS MOTHER’S CAR NEAR OAKLAND ON TUESDAY. THAT CHILD WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND SAFE AND THEN REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY. LEWIS PENA BARR, ABC AFFILIATE THERE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS THE STORY. >> THIS SHOCKING VIDEO SHOWED THE MOMENT A SUSPECT DRIVING

A STOLEN VEHICLE SUDDENLY STOPS WITH A TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY IN HIS LAP CARRIES. HIM OUT OF THE CAR, LEAVES THE BOY AND DRIVES OFF. THE TWO YEAR OLD BOY IS LEFT WONDERING ALONE. LESS THAN A MINUTE, A BUS DRIVER STOPS AND CALLS FOR HELP. >> HE THE CHILD IN A VEHICLE

AND PULLED OVER AND DROVE THE CAR IT IN FLORIDA TO FIND NO JUVENILE. BUT TWO YEARS ON, PEOPLE IN THE AREA BEGIN TO COME OUT OF THEIR BUSINESSES TO HELP THE TWO YEAR OLD. >> IT JUST HAPPENED JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE MY MY FRONT DOOR RIGHT THERE. THESE THINGS HAPPEN. DON’T REALLY SURPRISED ME

ANYMORE BECAUSE IT IS JUST CRIME IS ON AN UPSWING. >> THIS IS THE EMOTIONAL MOMENT WHEN THE BOY IS REUNITED WITH HIS MOM IN SAN LEANDRO. HE HAD BEEN IN THE BACK SEAT OF THEIR VEHICLE WHEN THE CAR WAS STOLEN OUTSIDE THEIR HOME IN, OAKLAND. WE PIECED TOGETHER HOW THE BOY

WAS FOUND IN SAN LEANDRO, FOUR MILES FROM HOME. TURNS OUT A POLICE OFFICER, SAN LEANDRO, HAD BEEN LISTENING TO THE OAKLAND POLICE RADIO. >> ACTUALLY HEARD THAT OPEN WAS INVESTIGATING A STOLEN VEHICLE THAT MAY HAVE INVOLVED THE CHILD BEING TAKEN WITH IT. SO ONCE OUR OFFICERS WERE ABLE

TO MAKE CONNECTION, WE NOTIFIED LAPD THAT WE HAD AN INFANT FOUND. >> POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE AND CONFIRMED THE TWO YEAR OLD WAS THE SAME BOY WHO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED IN THE STOLEN. IT’S A GREAT FEELING, I THINK, FOR ALL THE OFFICERS INVOLVED WHO WERE ABLE TO REUNITE

THE CHILD WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. AND IT’S ALWAYS GREAT TO BE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT A HAPPY ENDING FOR A KID AS A MOTHER, AS THE MOTHER HELD HER TWO YEAR OLD, SHE GAVE POLICE A KEY TOOL TO GO AFTER THE SUSPECT IN HER CAR. SHE LEFT HER IPHONE AND AIRPODS

KEY DEVICES IN THIS SEARCH, HER CELL PHONE AS WELL AS HER AIRPODS WERE STILL INSIDE OF HER VEHICLE. SO SHE WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO GET A FRIEND’S PHONE AND UTILIZE THE FIND MY IPHONE APPLICATION. AND LUCKILY, THE TWO YEAR OLD CHILD WAS DROPPED OFF AND THEY

WERE ABLE TO BE REUNITED. >> THE TRACKED HER PHONE MILES AWAY FROM SAN LEANDRO. HER CAR WAS ALL THE WAY IN MARIN COUNTY AND IN MCDONALD’S PARKING. THE MOTHER WAS ABLE TO GIVE US CONTINUOUS UPDATES AT ONE POINT SHOWING THAT THE DEVICES APPEARED TO BE ON TIMBER ON BOULEVARD.

OUR SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RESPONDED AND LOCATED THE VEHICLE UNOCCUPIED IN THE MCDONALD’S PARKING LOT THAT SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE SHOWED A MALE AND A FEMALE EXIT THE STOLEN VEHICLE AND THEN LEAVE, GOING NORTHBOUND BEHIND MCDONALD’S. >> THE CAR WAS RECOVERED AND NOW TIBURON POLICE AND MARIN COUNTY DEPUTIES WERE SET ON FINDING THE SUSPECT

PLAYING CLOSED. DETECTIVES, ALONG WITH TIBURON PD WERE ABLE TO LOOK IN THE AREA AND FOUND TWO SUBJECTS SITTING AT A BUS STOP NEAR ROCK HILL ROAD ON JAY O’BRIEN BOULEVARD BACK IN OAKLAND, THE MOTHER AND HER TWO-YEAR-OLD SON ARE RECOVERING WHILE, THANKFUL THAT EVEN THOUGH HER SON WAS KIDNAPPED,

STRANGERS AND OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE BAY AREA MADE SURE HE CAME HOME. WE OPERATE AN ISLAND. WE’RE NOT ISOLATED. WE UTILIZE THE HELP OF AGENCIES AND WE OFTEN EXTEND OUR HELP AS WELL. >> IN SOME LEANDRO. >> ABC SEVEN NEWS AND LUIS, THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THAT STORY.

WELL, LUIS RUBIALES, SPAIN’S ONE TIME SOCCER CHIEF, WILL NOW FACE TRIAL OVER HIS NON CONSENT OR KISS OF A STAR PLAYER DURING THE WOMEN’S WORLD MEDAL CEREMONY LAST SUMMER. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS AND JENNIFER HERMOSA NOW HAVE TEN DAYS TO FORMALIZE THEIR ACCUSATIONS . A TRIAL ACTUALLY TAKES PLACE. IF FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT.

WOULD FACE A PRISON SENTENCE OF 1 TO 4 YEARS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SPANISH FEDERATION STEPPED DOWN HIS ROLE AFTER A COURT ISSUED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM. LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE WORLD CUP FINAL. COMINGCKDOWN. WHY THE FEDS ARE INVESTIGATING THE MAKER OF CHATGPT.

AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST COMPANIES. >> THE CITY OF GREAT VALUE. THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LONG BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE

NICKNAMED ROCK. SOMETIMES THEY WORK, SOMETIMES UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON THE FBI. MOST WANTED LIST. THIS IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> FRIDAY NIGHT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WOULD OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM.

HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS. SO MANY. IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT REALLY GYPSY ROSE WERE. WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW ? WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE

AND CENTRAL ON ABC. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR HERE FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR

EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS NEEDED YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. REPORTING FROM MONTEREY PARK,

CALIFORNIA, I’M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS HOUR ON ABC NEWS LIVE. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, A CALIFORNIA JURY JUST FOUND 26-YEAR-OLD MARCUS ANTHONY ARIS GUILTY OF KILLING SIX-YEAR-OLD

AIDEN LEOS AFTER A 2021 ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. ARIAS NOW FACES UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON. TONIGHT, AN ALABAMA MAN ON DEATH SET TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DIE BY NITROGEN GAS. KENNETH, ATTORNEYS MAKING A LAST MINUTE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT, HOPING STOP THE EXECUTION. HIS ATTORNEYS HAVE CALLED

THE NEW METHOD EXPERIMENTAL, AND IT’S BEEN CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. UNDER THE NEW METHODS, SMITH WILL WEAR A MASK THAT WILL ADMINISTER NITROGEN GAS THAT WILL DEPRIVE HIM OF OXYGEN UNTIL HE DIES. OUR HEART GOES HOLLYWOOD, FRESH OFF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, JIM HARBAUGH IS RETURNING

TO THE NFL AS THE NEW HEAD COACH OF THE L.A. CHARGERS. HIS LAST GO AROUND THE NFL WAS WHEN HE SERVED AS HEAD COACH OF THE 40 NINERS UNTIL 2014. IF WE KNEW, WE’D STAY IN THE GAME WHILE THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION HAS ORDERED TECH GIANTS, AMAZON, GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT TO PROVIDE

INFORMATION ON THEIR PARTNERSHIPS WITH TWO OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR AI COMPANIES, OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS IS HERE TO TELL US WHY. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THIS. SO, KYRA, THE FTC HAS ISSUED HERE WHAT ARE CALLED COMPULSORY ORDERS TO FIVE COMPANIES. TECH HEAVYWEIGHTS, AMAZON, GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT IN THE AIR

STARTUPS, ANTHROPIC AND OPEN AIR. THE AGENCY IS GIVING THEM 45 DAYS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING INVESTMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS. NOW, LOOK, BIG TECH CANNOT BUY THESE TOP AI OUTRIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN’T PASS MUSTER WITH ANTITRUST REGULATORS WHO ARE CALLING THESE PARTNERSHIPS QUASI MERGERS THAT THEY SAY ALLOW BIG TECH

TO EXERT ITS INFLUENCE IN THE AIR SPACE AND SQUASH COMPETITION. >> NOW, MICROSOFT’S LONG TIME WITH CHATGPT MAKER OPENAI MADE HEADLINES LAST YEAR. YOU’LL REMEMBER WHEN THE SOFTWARE GIANT PLAYED AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN GETTING OPEN A.I. CEO SAM ALTMAN REINSTATED . HE WAS ABRUPTLY FIRED BY THE STARTUP’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

MICROSOFT HAS NEVER PUBLICLY SAID JUST HOW MUCH ITS INVESTED IN OPEN A.I. EXCEPT TO SAY IT’S A, QUOTE, COMPLICATED. NOW THE FTC WANTS TO MAKE SURE THESE LARGE TECH COMPANIES WITH DEEP POCKETS DON’T HAVE OUTSIZED INFLUENCE OVER. A.I. STARTUPS. LAST YEAR, FTC CHAIR LINA KHAN SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT

WOULD, QUOTE, NOT HESITATE TO CRACK DOWN ON HARMFUL BUSINESS PRACTICES INVOLVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SUCH AS USING AI GENERATED VOICES TO PROMOTE THINGS LIKE AND PHONE SCAMS. BUT KHAN ALSO MADE QUITE CLEAR THAT THE BROADER CONSOLIDATION OF MARKET POWER INTO A HANDFUL OF AI LEADERS DESERVES GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT SCRUTINY AND WE COULD POSSIBLY

SEE HERE CURE THAT AFTER ALL OF THIS REGULATION WILL BE COMING DOWN THE PIKE AND REGULATION. >> I MEAN IT’S BEEN THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR IT AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THINKING IT’S NECESSARY, RIGHT? >> YEAH. I MEAN, IT’S STILL A NASCENT INDUSTRY. SO I THINK THE LAWS AND THE

REGULATIONS ARE TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH. BUT WE DO KNOW AS HELPFUL AS IT CAN BE, IT CAN BE A DANGEROUS TOOL. AND THE FTC JUST WANTS TO MAKE SURE IT’S IN THE RIGHT HANDS AND NOT A SITUATION WHERE IT’S A MONOPOLY AND IN THE HANDS OF A FEW POWERFUL.

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SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES WE’RE WATCHING AT ABC NEWS LIVE THIS HOUR. LOTS OF NEWS INVOLVING DONALD IN THE COURTROOM TODAY. A GEORGIA JUDGE OVERSEEING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ELECTION APPEARANCE CASE HEARD A MOTION FILED BY CODEFENDANT JEFFREY CLARK, THE FORMER DOJ OFFICIAL, REQUESTING ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FULTON COUNTY

D.A.’S OFFICE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THIS COMES AS TRUMP HAS NOW JOINED A MOTION SEEKING TO DISQUALIFY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THAT CASE FANI WILLIS ALLEGING SHE HAD AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE OF THE PROSECUTORS. ALL THE WHILE, THE DEFENSE RESTED IN HIS DEFAMATION CASE. IN NEW YORK, OUR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, OLIVIA RUBIN, JOINING

ME NOW TO BREAK THAT DOWN FOR US. SO WHAT’S THE LATEST IN GEORGIA AND NEW YORK CITY? VERY BUSY DAY, AS YOU SAID. CARE FOR DONALD TRUMP? LET’S START IN GEORGIA. SO LIKE YOU SAID, HIS ATTORNEY HAS NOW JOINED IN ON THAT MOTION ACCUSING THE FULTON COUNTY D.A. OF HAVING

THE INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HER TOP PROSECUTOR AND REALLY BENEFITING FINANCIALLY FROM IT. BUT HE IS ADDING ON TO THAT. HERE ARE TRUMP’S ATTORNEY ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT THE COMMENT THAT THE FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY MADE ABOUT THE ALLEGATIONS AT A CHURCH, NOT IN COURT SAYING THAT IT WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED, ESSENTIALLY

ADD TO THE REASONS WHY HE SHOULD BE REMOVED AS A PROSECUTOR ON THIS CASE THAT SHE INTENTIONALLY TRIED TO INJECT RACE THE CASE IN A WAY THAT THEY SAY IS GOING TO FURTHER BIAS ANY POTENTIAL JURY THAT COULD HEAR THIS CASE. SO PILING ON TO THE ISSUES FOR FULTON COUNTY D.A. FANI WILLIS

AND THEN IN NEW YORK, SORT OF COMING TO THE END HERE ON THE E. JEAN CARROLL CASE, AS YOU SAID, DONALD RESTED HIS CASE AFTER E. JEAN CARROLL EARLIER RESTED CASE. DONALD TRUMP TOOK THE STAND ONLY FOR 3 MINUTES, GARY, BECAUSE HE WAS SO LIMITED IN WHAT HE COULD SAY.

BUT ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS HE WAS ASKED BY HIS ATTORNEY WAS, DID YOU EVER INTEND FOR ANYONE TO HARM E. JEAN CARROLL WITH YOUR STATEMENT THAT AFTER E. JEAN CARROLL PRESENTED THE EVIDENCE AND SHE GOT THREATS IN THE WAKE OF DONALD TRUMP’S STATEMENTS ABOUT HER IN 2019, IN THE WAKE OF HER

ACCUSATION, SO HE SAID NO, I DIDN’T. HE SAID I WAS JUST TRYING TO DEFEND MY FAMILY AND PRESIDENT. THESE ARE TOMORROW. CLOSING STATEMENTS IN THE CASE THAT WRAPS UP A VERY BUSY WEEK FOR DONALD TRUMP IN COURT. >> SURE DOES. AND IT’S NOT GOING TO STOP THERE.

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Customizable to your interests. If you love being in the know, you’re gonna love this experience. The all new ABC News app, download it now, >> Eva: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3.” AS MORE AND MORE STATES LOOK FOR WAYS TO SHIELD CHILDREN FM THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA THERE’S

A NEW BILL IN OHIO AIMED AT FINANCIALLY SAFEGUARDING YOUNG INFLUENCERS. >> DeMarco: LET’S BRING IN THE TWO OHIO LAWMAKERS BRINGING THE CHARGE. GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS. THANKS FOR BEING ON. >> THANKS FOR HAVING US. >> DeMarco: A LOT OF KIDS ARE

MAKING A LOT OF MONEY WITH FEW PROTECTIONS. TELL US MORE ABOUT THE ABOUT AND WHY IT’S NEEDED IN OHIO. >> SURE. THIS BILL IS SIMILAR TO WHAT WE ALREADY DO FOR TRADITIONAL CHILD ACTORS IN A TRADITIONAL SETTING. SOCIAL MEDIA HAS BECOME THE NEW SETTING FOR CHILD AGCTORS.

OUR BILL IS AIMED AT GIVING THEM SOME PROTECTIONS THEY’RE NOT AFFORDED RIGHT NOW FOR THE WORK THEY’RE PUTTING IN. THEY’RE PUTTING IN SERIOUS HOURS, MAKING SERIOUS MONEY FOR THEIR FAMILIES. OUR BILL IS AIMED AT SETTING ASIDE SOME OF THAT MONEY IN A

TRUST SO IT’S THERE FOR THEM WHEN THEY TURN 18. >> Eva: REPRESENTATIVE GRIM, NOT EVERY PARENT IS AN INFLUENCER. HOW DO YOU DETERMINE WHAT FALLS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS? >> SURE, AS REPRESENTATIVE McNALLY SAID IT’S AIMED WITH ADULT BLOGGERS MAKING MONEY. IF YOU’RE POSTING YOUR

DAUGHTER’S DANCE RECITAL ON YOUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK PAGE, THAT ISN’T GOING TO APPLY TO YOU. HOWEVER, IF YOU’RE MAKING MONEY WITH AD CLICKS, SAY YOU HAVE A SERIES OR ARE DOING SOMETHING WITH YOUR CHILD ONLINE AND YOU’RE GENERATING REVENUE, THAT’S GOING TO APPLY.

YOU WANT TO — THAT IS GOING TO HAVE — THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO PUT THAT IN A TRUST. IT’S A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT THEY EARN IN A TRUST THAT THEY CAN ACCESS WHEN THEY TURN 18. >> DeMarco: REPRESENTATIVE McNALLY, WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT

THE YOUNG INFLUENCERS THAT WENT VIRAL AND NOW THEY’RE ADULTS? >> IT’S HOW THIS BILL CAME TO US IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT WAS AN INFLUENCER WHO HAS COME OF AGE AND IS FROM OHIO AND WHO HAS BEEN HELPING US ON THIS BILL. SINCE WE STARTED ROLLING THIS

BILL OUT, WE HEARD FROM A LOT OF OTHER INFLUENCERS WHO WANT TO TESTIFY IN FAVOR OF THIS BILL DURING THE COMMITTEE PROCESS HERE AND WE’VE HEARD JUST A LOT OF STORIES ABOUT THE FORMER INFLUENCERS WHO ARE COMING OF AGE AND REALIZING THEY WERE

TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. NOT NECESSARILY BY THEIR PARENTS, BUT AN ADULT WHO WAS MAKING MONEY OFF THEM AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT. >> Eva: YOU TALKED ABOUT THE AD CLICKS THAT HAPPENED WITH A LOT

OF THESE SOCIAL MEDIA SITES. A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE THEIR MONEY OFF THOSE AD CLICKS, THOSE SPONSORS. HOW ARE SPONSORS GOING TO PLAY A ROLE IN MAKING SURE THIS MONEY IS SET ASIDE FOR THESE KIDS? IS THERE A PLACE FOR THAT? >> THERE ISN’T REALLY A ROLE FOR THEM.

ALL THE MONEY IS COMING TO THE PARENTS WHO ARE RUNNING THE ACCOUNT, THE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT. THEY’RE THE ONES SIGNING THE DEALS WITH THE BRAND SPONSORS. THEY’RE THE ONES SETTING UP THE ACCOUNTS WITH TWITTER, FACEBOOK OR YOUTUBE, WHEREVER THEY’RE SHOWCASING THEIR MATERIAL.

SO IT WILL JUST — THE ONUS IS ON THE PARENT RUNNING THE BUSINESS, BECAUSE IT’S A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT THEY’RE RUNNING, TO SET UP THAT ACCOUNT FOR THE CHILD THAT THEY’RE USING IN THEIR VIDEOS AND MAKE SURE THAT PERCENTAGE OF MONEY THAT THE

CHILD IS EARNING IS BEING SET ASIDE FOR THEM. >> DeMarco: SPEAKING OF MONEY, REPRESENTATIVE GRIMM WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE CRITICISM THAT THIS BILL ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO BE WAY TOO INVOLVED IN FAMILY FINANCES? >> SO WE HAVE LAWS IN PLACE IN

OTHER STATES AROUND CHILD ACTORS. SO FOR EXAMPLE, IN CALIFORNIA WE HAVE THE ACT SINCE THE LATE 1930s THAT REQUIRES A 15% BE PUT IN TRUST FOR CHILD ACTORS. THAT ALSO GOES INTO HOW MANY HOURS THEY CAN WORK. IT’S REALLY LIKE THIS, LIKE THOSE CHILD ACTOR LAWS IN OTHER

STATES. WE’RE MAKING SURE KIDS ARE PROTECTED AND KIDS DO DESERVE WHAT THEY EARN WITH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY’RE MAKING ONLINE. ALSO, ANOTHER THING THAT THIS ACT DOES IS MAKE SURE THAT CHILDREN DO CONTROL THEIR IMAGE ONLINE. THEY’RE ABLE TO GET SOMETHING REMOVED THAT WAS MAYBE

EMBARRASSING FOR THEM ONCE THEY TURN 18. AGAIN, WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT KIDS ARE COMPENSATED FOR WHAT THEY GET AND ABLE TO CONTROL THEIR IMAGE ONLINE. >> DeMarco: REPRESENTATIVES FROM OHIO GRIMM AND McNALLY, GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS. WE APPRECIATE IT. >> THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU. >> DeMarco: JUST AHEAD ON “GMA3,” HE’S CONNECTING ON A DEEP LEVEL WITH YOUNG MEN OF COLOR. >> Eva: THE FORMER NFLR BEHIND THE MALE MOGUL INITIATIVE. Tonight the clean up after the storm with more wind rain and

Snow threatening the West Coast plus the push for a ceasefire as Israeli families wrap up the pressure more Americans turn to the most-watched news cast on television World News Tonight with David Muir. The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here

Which could do watch. Read, where can I get a great deal on? What? I’m just dying to buy. Oh, it’s all right here. GMA life get the latest celebrity, Buzz Deals and Steals, and the coolest lifestyle tips from GMA, I love that so much steam weekends on, ABC News live, In the quarterback,

One of the biggest on climb Rock faces on the planet now. It’s starting to get very excited. ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT

TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES Friday night there are millions of people following you on social media yet. You were convicted of helping to kill your mom her entire life had been alive the feeding tube the scars so many medications. It was a brutal death 14 stab wounds to the

Back. What will Gypsy Rose reveal? Why reveal it now? Why didn’t you say anything about it? Then the 2020 Deborah Roberts interview. Wow. Wow, Friday night at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC Reporting from The Fulton County. Georgia Courthouse, I’m Reena Roy rubber. The story is will take you there. You’re

Streaming, ABC News live. >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK. THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH US. AFTER TURNING IN HIS CLEATS, FORMER NFL PLAYER WALTER M MENDEHALL IS THE FOUNDER OF THE MALE MOGUL INITIATIVE TRANSFORMING LIVES AS WE SPEAK. >> THE INITIATIVE SEEKS TO TRANSFORM THE WAY YOUNG MEN LIVE

THEIR LIVES. IT STARTED WITH FIVE KIDS AT A LOCAL CHURCH IN 2017 AND IS NOW SERVING 3,000 YOUNG PEOPLE, PROVIDING OVER 200 PLUS JOBS. MY NFL CAREER DIDN’T WORK OUT THE WAY I THOUGHT IT WOULD. I HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHO I WAS

AND MY IDENTITY OUTSIDE OF FOOTBALL AND THERE IS WHERE I REALIZED THAT I LOVED TEACHING. I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW HOW I COULD IMPACT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE IN A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY. >> A LOT OF YOUNG MEN IN CHICAGO DON’T HAVE SOMETHING OTHER THAN

WHAT THEY SEE AROUND THEM. MALE MOGUL FORCES YOU TO FIND A DIFFERENT PART OF YOURSELF THAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU HAD. >> WE GO INTO THE SCHOOLS AND TEACH LEADERSHIP. WE HAVE OUT OF SCHOOL PROGRAMMING, A SUMMER WORKFORCE, WE HAVE GAP YEAR PROGRAMMING.

>> I BECAME A PART OF THE INITIATIVE WHEN WALTER CAME TO OUR SCHOOL. HE TAUGHT US ENTREPRENEURSHIP. I BONDED WITH WALTER BECAUSE HE WAS A BLACK MAN AND HE WAS SO POSITIVE AND HE DIDN’T SELL DRUGS. HE DIDN’T RAP. I WAS LIKE MAYBE I COULD DO THIS.

THAT’S HOW I BECAME A MENTOR. >> I’M A SOPHOMORE NOW AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY. I WAS RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER. I DIDN’T HAVE TOO MANY POSITIVE MALE ROLE MODELS AROUND ME. WALT CAME TO MY SCHOOL. BEING ON THE WEST SIDE OF CHICAGO, IT’S SO DIFFICULT.

YOU’RE NOT GETTING THAT EXPOSURE. >> WE NEED MORE MEN TAKING YOUNGER MEN UNDER THEIR WINGS, HELPING THEM TO DISCOVER WHO THEY ARE, PUTTING THEM IN POSITIONS TO SUCCEED. WHAT WE TRY TO DO AT THE MALE MOGUL INITIATIVE IS AFFIRM THEM,

LOVE THEM, LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY’RE VALUABLE AND TEACH THEM SKILLS THAT CAN HELP THEM TO SUCCEED IN THEIR LIVES. >> DeMarco: WALTER’S SO RIGHT. IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO REACH BACK. BRAVO. >> Eva: GIVE BACK. >> DeMarco: WHEN WE COME BACK, DR. JEN’S STEPS FOR KEEPING PETS

SAFE THROUGH THE WINTER. >> Eva: PLUS, THE HOLLYWOOD PROPS GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION. WHAT THESE ICONIC MOMEMENTOS AR GOING FO The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to Mexico to hide

Getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters it sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu Friday night there are millions of people following you on

Didn’t you say anything about it? Then the 2020 Deborah Roberts interview. Wow. Wow, Friday night at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC He was a married man. The affair was the worst kept secret. There is no way this story is going to end. Well that Romance

The 2020 limited series Monday night at 10:00 9:00 Central on ABC ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES In the quarterback,

One of the biggest on climb Rock faces on the planet now. It’s starting to get very excited. From America’s number one news, comes the all new, ABC, News app, breaking news, Incredible video faster smarter and customizable to your interests. If you love being in the know,

You’re gonna love this experience. The all new ABC News app, download it now, >> Eva: DR. JEN IS BACK WITH PROMISING RESEARCH FOR CHILDREN WITH ANXIETY. THEY SAY AFTER THERAPY THE CHILDREN EXPERIENCED POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE BRAIN. >> Dr. Jen: WHEN YOU LOOK AT A

STUDY FROM A SCIENTIFIC STANDPOINT YOU HAVE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT. THIS STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY TOOK A STEP EXPLAINING HOW, THE MECHANISM OF HOW AND WHY COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR TREATING ANXIETY IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION, WHICH

INVOLVES FOCUSING ON CHANGING THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS, COPING STRATEGY BASICALLY, HOW IT WORKS. THEY PUT TEENAGERS WITH ANXIETY INTO A FUNCTIONAL MRI WHICH LOOKS AT DIFFERENT AREAS OF BRAIN AS THEY GET ACTIVATED. THEY SAY THAT, YES, CHILDREN WITH ANXIETY HAD INCREASED

ACTIVATION IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE BRAIN. AFTER 12 WEEKS OF CBT THERAPY THERE WAS A LESS CONCENING OF SF THOSE AREAS. IT SHOWS WE KNOW WHAT AREAS THESE CORRESPOND TO IN TERMS OF FUNCTION. WE SEE THE RESULTS WITH CBT. WHEN WE DIDN’T SEE THE RESULTS,

THAT PROVIDED AREAS FOR FURTHER MANAGEMENT OR TREATMENT. REALLY INTERESTING AND NICE TO SEE THE SCIENCE CONNECT THE DOTS. >> DeMarco: HOW DO YOU SPOT ANXIETY IN A CHILD? >> Dr. Jen: PARENTS KNOW THEIR CHILDREN. IF YOU HAVE SIGNS OF IRRITABILITY, ANGER, DISRUPTION

OF SLEEPING, YOUNGER CHILDREN COMPLAIN OF THEIR TUMMY HURTING OR HEAD HURTING, TALK TO YOUR CHILD’S PEDIATRICIAN. THEY’RE SAYING THIS IS A TRUE STOMACH ACHE There’s a young girl running around here screaming and there’s some guy trying to follow her. The 911 call is a crucial piece of evidence unraveling

The mystery could four murders on Long Island be the work of a serial killer. They start find more bodies. Suddenly. It’s an arm a leg what is going on here and never once feared for my life when I met him it was

It sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu Tonight the clean up after the storm with more wind rain and snow threatening the West Coast plus the push for a ceasefire

As Israeli families wrap up the pressure more Americans turn to the most-watched news cast on television World News Tonight with David Muir. From America’s number one news, comes the all new, ABC, News app, breaking news, Incredible video faster smarter and customizable to your interests. If you love being in the know,

You’re gonna love this experience. The all new ABC News app, download it now, GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. >> HE WAS A MARRIED MAN. THE AFFAIR WAS THE WORST KEPT SECRET. THERE IS NO THIS STORY IS GOING TO END WELL THAT ROMANCE

THE 2020 LIMITED SERIES MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. >> FRIDAY NIGHT THERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM. HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS, SO MANY MEDICATIONS, IT WAS

A BRUTAL DEATH, 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE WITH YOU? WHY IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC, YOU GET TO WATCH THREE. >> WHERE CAN I GET A GREAT DEAL?

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TRACKING FOR YOU RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE THIS EXTREME WEATHER ON THE MOVE THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ACROSS, THE SOUTH. DAYS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN IN TEXAS TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING WITH PARTS OF THAT STATE SEEING A MONTH’S WORTH OF RAIN IN JUST 72 HOURS. MEANWHILE, THUNDERSTORMS AND SNOW CAUSING HAVOC AT THE

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AND RESIDENTS THERE ASKED TO AVOID AREA AS A SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM HAS COME ON SITE. THE CONGREGATION AT CHURCH IS BELIEVED TO BE NEARLY 175 YEARS OLD. ACTUALLY, THE AGE OF THAT CHURCH. THE CAUSE OF THE COLLAPSE IS NOT YET KNOWN. AND THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH

ACTUALLY CONFIRMED THAT ONE PERSON WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME COLLAPSE, BUT THAT EVERYONE IS BELIEVED TO BE OKAY AND ADDED ON THE CHURCH’S FACEBOOK PAGE, THE LORD IS AWARE OF THE SITUATION HE IS NOT SHAKEN AND NEITHER ARE WE. NOW THAT’S FAITH. THANKS FOR STAYING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS.

YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES, THE ABC NEWS APP, AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO >> Eva: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” BILLBOARD SIZED CONGRATS IN ORDER FOR OUR “GMA3” CONTRIBUTOR ROCSI DIAZ. SHE’S RIGHT THERE.

SHE’S LIT UP THERE IN TIMES SQUARE STARRING AS ANGEL IN “DUTCH II.” IT’S COMING OUT SOON. I WISH YOU COULD HEAR THE SOUND. >> Dr. Jen: WHAT DOES THAT WOMAN NOT EXCEL AT? >> Eva: EVERYTHING. SHE’S AMAZING AT EVERYTHING. >> DeMarco: WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM

YOU WHEN YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR DR. JEN. CAN YOU GROW OUT OF AN AMOXICILLIN ALLERGY? >> Dr. Jen: THIS IS REALLY POPULAR AMONG CHILDREN, ANYWHERE FROM 10 TO 20% HAVE THIS ALLERGY. IT’S A COMMONLY USED ANTIBIOTIC. THEY SAY THAT BECAUSE THEIR

CHILD MAY HAVE GOT A RASH AT SOME POINT IN LET’S SAY A WEEK OF TREATMENT WITH THIS ANTIBIOTIC. IN MANY CASES IT TURNS OUT NOT TO BE A TRUE DRUG ALLERGY. IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE IN TOUCH WITH YOUR PEDIATRICIAN. IF YOU’RE ADULT AND YOU WERE

TOLD YOU WERE ALLERGIC WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD, IF YOU’RE AN ADULT IT BEHOOVES YOU TO GET TESTED FORMALLY WITH AN ALLERGIST. WE NEED TO KNOW IF WE CAN USE A MAIN STAY ANTIBIOTIC INSTEAD OF GOING TO SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE EXOTIC BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE. COMMON PROBLEM. >> Eva: YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR WELLNESS? >> Dr. Jen: HAS TO DO — YOU KNOW I LOVE OUR FUR BABIES. HOW TO KEEP OUR PETS SAFER IN THE COLD WEATHER. THEY CAN BE SENSITIVE. TIPS FROM MY VETERINARIAN COLLEAGUES, PROTECT THEIR PAWS.

THEY CAN BE REALLY SENSITIVE TO SALT OR COLD AND FREEZING. OF COURSE GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THAT, TRY TO LIMIT THE OUTDOOR TIME, PARTICULARLY IF IT’S REALLY COLD WEATHER. SWEATERS, YES. MY FRIEND SAYS, IF YOU’RE COLD, YOUR DOG IS COLD. A SWEATER FOR YOUR DOG IS A GOOD

IDEA. THEN YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY CHEMICALS LIKE ANTIFREEZE ARE NOT ON THEIR LEVEL, JUST LIKE WITH KIDS. >> DeMarco: I LOVE TO SEE THE DOGS WITH THE SHOES. DO YOUR DOGS HAVE SHOES? >> Eva: ALBERT WON’T WEAR SHOES. HE LOVES HIS SWEATER.

>> Dr. Jen: MINE WON’T EITHER. I SEE A FUTURE FASHION SEGMENT FOR DOGS. >> DeMarco: FOR YOUR FUR BABIES. FOLKS, WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. HIT US UP ON INSTAGRAM WITH YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS FOR DR. JEN @ABCGMA3. >> Eva: WHEN WE COME BACK, RELATIONSHIP RED FLAGS.

BREAKING FREE FROM TOXIC PEOPLE. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> DeMarco: AND LATER, FROM MARTY McFLY’S HOVER BOARD TO JACK’S AX IN “THE SHINING,” THE >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A

LISTEN. NOW THAT’S I have a point of contact. They’re expecting us this our secret world. We have do you think we’re going to be safe? I don’t know. This is more curved inside up and is a slice of human brain. These are asssinations of people are going to be murdered.

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The new ad campaign fast? Straight forward with some fun in between a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse, a name, change for the Wienermobile first thing in the morning America this morning. America’s number one, early morning news on, ABC, News live. Tonight the clean up after the storm with more wind rain and

Snow threatening the West Coast plus the push for a ceasefire as Israeli families wrap up the pressure more Americans turn to the most-watched news cast on television World News Tonight with David Muir. Which could do watch. Read, where can I get a great deal

On? What? I’m just dying to buy. Oh, it’s all right here. GMA life get the latest celebrity, Buzz Deals and Steals, and the coolest lifestyle tips from GMA, I love that so much steam weekends on, ABC News live, Everything is so fast. ♪ WATCH ME ♪ >> Eva: WELCOME BACK.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE WORD NARCISSIST THROWN AROUND, BUT WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN? OUR NEXT GUEST HOPES TO PINPOINT AND HEAL THOSE TRAUMA BONDS IN HER NEW BOOK “RUN LIKE HELL”. >> DeMarco: ISN’T THAT A TITLE? THE AUTHOR DR. NADINE MACALUSO,

EXWIFE OF THE WOLF OF WALL STREET BECAME A THERAPIST TO HELP OTHERS. SHE’S JOINING US NOW. PLEASE WELCOME DR. NADINE MACALUSO. [ APPLAUSE ] >> DeMarco: HOW DO YOU DEFINE A NARCISSIST? WE NEED HELP. >> EVERYBODY NEEDS HELP THESE DAYS. A NARCISSIST FEELS ENTITLED TO

GET WHAT THEY WANT. THEY’LL USE CHARISMA, DOMINATION, MANIPULATION AND LIES TO GET WHAT THEY NEED. THEY’RE OBSESSED WITH GAINING MONEY, POWER AND PLEASURE. >> Eva: WHAT ARE THE RED FLAGS WE SHOULD LOOK FOR? >> ONE OF THE RED FLAGS IS LOVE BONDING.

THAT’S WHEN THEY GIVE YOU EXCESSIVE ADMIRATION AND FLATTERY AND LAVISH YOU WITH GIFTS AND TRIPS. WHAT HAPPENS IS THE MASK STARTS TO FALL AND YOU SEE THEY’RE VERY CONTROLLING AND AGGRESSIVE. THEY DON’T RESPECT YOUR BOUNDARIES. WHEN THEY HURT YOU, THEY DON’T EVEN CARE. THEY’RE NOT ACCOUNTABLE.

>> DeMarco: YOU SAY WE CAN HAVE SOME TRAITS THAT COULD ATTRACT NARCISSISTS TO US. WHAT IS THAT? >> A LOT OF THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH, THEY’RE HIGHLY AGREEABLE AND HIGHLY CONSCIENCE. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY’RE LOYAL AND KIND AND HAVE EMPATHY. THEY HAVE A LOT OF INTEGRITY AND

THEY’RE DRIVEN TO HAVE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. WHAT HAPPENS IS THOSE BEAUTIFUL TRAITS GET WEAPONIZED BY THE NARCISSIST. >> Eva: GETTING OUT OF A SITUATION WITH A NARCISSIST CAN BE KIND OF COMPLICATED. WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO FIND THEMSELVES

IN A SITUATION AND WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR THEIR FRIENDS? >> YEAH, YEAH. FOR — IF THEY WANT TO GET OUT, THEY NEED TO GO TO A THERAPIST THAT’S AN EXPERT IN NARCISSISM. THEY NEED A LOT OF SUPPORT. WHEN YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT’S

WITH A NARCISSIST, I THINK THE NICEST QUESTION TO ASK THEM IS, DO YOU WANT TO BE HELPED OR HEARD? DON’T OFFER SUCH EXTREME ADVICE TO THEM BECAUSE THEY FEEL SO SHAMEFUL ABOUT BEING IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. >> DeMarco: LET ME ASK YOU THIS, CAN A NARCISSIST CHANGE?

IS IT POSSIBLE? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I’M IN THE BUSINESS OF CHANGE. SO I LIKE TO THINK THAT EVERYBODY CAN CHANGE AND SO I’M HOPEFUL, BUT THEY HAVE TO GO TO THERAPY. THEY HAVE TO WANT TO CHANGE. >> DeMarco: THAT’S THE KEY.

>> THAT IS THE KEY. >> DeMarco: THANK YOU SO MUCH. “RUN LIKE HELL,” I LOVE THE NAME. >> THAT’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IF YOU MEET A NARCISSIST AND SEE THOSE RED FLAGS, RUN LIKE HELL. >> DeMarco: NADINE’S BOOK IS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE BOOKS ARE

SOLD. >> Eva: THAT’S SUCH GOOD ADVICE. >>> UP NEXT ON “GMA3,” GOING, GOING, GONE. >> DeMarco: SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S AUCTION. WE’LL HAVE MORE Friday night there are millions of people following you on social media yet. You were convicted of helping to kill

Roberts interview. Wow. Wow, Friday night at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC Tonight the clean up after the storm with more wind rain and snow threatening the West Coast plus the push for a ceasefire as Israeli families wrap up the pressure more Americans turn to the most-watched news cast on television World News Tonight

With David Muir. The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to Mexico to hide getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters it sometimes they miss the most

Unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu Which could do watch. Read, where can I get a great deal on? What? I’m just dying to buy. Oh, it’s all right here. GMA life get the latest celebrity, Buzz Deals and

Steals, and the coolest lifestyle tips from GMA, I love that so much steam weekends on, ABC News live, >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES.

A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S BACK TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S In our connected World

Misinformation can masquerade as fact. eroding trust dividing communities but behind every share is a person with a decision join the movement for a more news literate America. What’s your emergency? Get him out now? He takes a special someone to want to live this life seared up. We’re heading inside

The business of saving lives. We gotta call 911 no matter how dark that gets. We are here together 911 coming March 14th to ABC We’re reporting on board a u.s. Navy destroyer in the Eastern Mediterranean. I’m Maggie Rulli, wherever the story is will take you there. You’re watching ABC News live.

>> DeMarco: WE’RE BACK WITH A STAR-STUDDED SEGMENT. WE’RE NOT TALKING CELEBS, BUT THE EXCLUSIVE MOVIE PROPS FROM SOME OF THE BIGGEST FILMS IN HISTORY. >> Eva: HERE TO SHOW OFF SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST FAMOUS MEMORABILIA, PLEASE WELCOME BRAD TEPLITSKY. [ APPLAUSE ]

>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> DeMarco: LET’S GO FOR IT. I REMEMBER THE SCENE WHEN MICHAEL J. FOX TOOK THE HOVERBOARD FROM THE LITTLE GIRL. TALK ABOUT IT. HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH? >> WE’VE OFFERING THIS UP FOR $35,000, BUT IT SHOULD GO FOR 60.

THIS PROP IS LOVED BY SO MANY FANS. YOU GO TO A CONVENTION AND MICHAEL J. FOX IS THERE, A SEA OF HOVER BOARDS IF YOU CAN IMAGINE. THEY’LL WAIT IN LINES FOR HOURS FOR MICHAEL TO SIGN THEM. >> Eva: THIS IS HEAVY.

HOW DID HE GET THAT OFF THE LITTLE GIRL? >> DeMarco: UP TO $60,000. >> I BELIEVE. >> Eva: WHAT’S NEXT? >> THIS IS YODA’S STICK. >> DeMarco: CAN WE PICK IT UP? >> Eva: I JUST DID. DIDN’T EVEN ASK. >> YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS STICK. YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. INSIDE THE STICK IS GIMMER JUICE. IT HELPED YODA. HE WOULD SUCK ON THAT TO SUSTAIN HIMSELF BECAUSE IT HAD THE JUICE. >> Eva: SHOULD WE BE SAVING THIS FOR BABY YODA? >> YES, WE SHOULD. THERE YOU GO.

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED GIMMER JUICE? >> DeMarco: I HAVEN’T. >> YOU HAVE A CHANCE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? >> DeMarco: IS AX FROM “THE SHINING.” >> HE TRAPPED SHELLY DUVAL IN THE BATHROOM AND SAID, HERE’S JOHNNY. >> Eva: WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN

THAT SITUATION? >> IT’S NOT A REAL AX. IT’S A STUNT AX MADE OF HARD FOAM. >> Eva: INTERESTING. THIS NEXT ONE I’VE BEEN EYEING SINCE THE BEGINNING. >> PICK US UP. >> Eva: WE KNOW WHAT THIS IS, HARRY POTTER. >> IT’S AN ELDER WAND.

IT’S MADE OF ELDER WOOD. THAT WAND IS FOR ALL THE WIZARDS. >> DeMarco: YOU SAID IT LIGHTS UP. >> IT DOES, BUT IT NEEDS A BATTERY. THE MOST POWERFUL WAND THERE IS. YOU FEEL ANY DIFFERENT HOLDING IT? >> Eva: NO, BUT I HAVEN’T GOT A

LOT OF SLEEP THIS WEEK. >> THIS IS THE PROP OF ALL PROPS. “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS,” BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR. IT’S NEVER BEEN TO AUCTION BEFORE. >> Eva: JUST SEEING THIS IS CREEPY. THIS MOVIE GAVE ME NIGHTMARES. >> DeMarco: HOW MUCH COULD

SOMETHING LIKE THIS GO FOR? >> OVER $100,000 WE’RE HOPING. >> DeMarco: THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WILL PAY THAT? >> ABSOLUTELY. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT MOVIE IT’S FROM. HE’S ICONIC, THAT ACTOR. HE PORTRAYED HANNIBAL LECTOR SO WELL. >> DeMarco: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH

THIS? DO YOU KEEP IT BEHIND GLASS? >> THAT’S WHAT MOST PEOPLE DO. >> DeMarco: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT. >> OUR AUCTION IS FEBRUARY 17th. GO TO AUCTIONS.COM. >> DeMarco: THE ITEMS HERE WILL BE UP FOR AUCTION FEBRUARY 17th. PREBIDDING IS NOW OPEN. GET YOUR COINS TOGETHER.

>> Eva: WHEN WE COME BACK, NEW MUSIC FROM PLATINUM SELLING MUSICIAN PETE YORN. >> DeMarco: WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS. THE SINGER, SONG WRI APPEARING IN THE First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on, everybody in that home is, okay, to catch you up with what

Morning. America’s number one, early morning news on, ABC, News live. The city of Mexicali there are some u.s. Criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to Mexico to hide getting surprised when they’re met by a specialized group of police. Nicknamed Ringo Hunters

It sometimes they miss the most unique has even caught some that around the FBI’s most wanted list. This is impact by Nightline now streaming on Hulu Friday night there are millions of people following you on social media yet. You were convicted of helping to kill

Roberts interview. Wow. Wow, Friday night at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC He was a married man. The affair was the worst kept secret. There is no way this story is going to end. Well that Romance the 2020 limited series Monday night at 10:00 9:00 Central on ABC ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER

ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES All right, here we go. Alrighty, let’s do it. Yes, it’s the show America wants and America needs

You’re gonna love this experience. The all new ABC News app, download it now, You’re watching America’s number one streaming news ABC News live breaking news exclusives live reporting across the globe keeps streaming with ABC News live. ♪ WATCH ME DANCE ♪ >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3.”

WE LOVE ENDING THE SHOW WITH A GREAT PERFORMANCE. WE HAVE ONE FROM AN ARTIST WHO JUST RELEASED A NEW SINGLE. >> Eva: YOU CAN CATCH HIM IN THE FILM “KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.” PLEASE WELCOME SINGER, SONG WRITER PETE YORN. [ APPLAUSE ]

>> Eva: YOU HAVEN’T REALLY SLEPT. YOU HAD A SOLD-OUT SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY LAST NIGHT. HOW WAS IT? >> IT WAS GREAT. IT WAS REALLY FUN. IT WAS MY SECOND TIME ON STAGE SINCE I CLEANED UP MY ACT. IT WAS MY SECOND SOBER SHOW IN 18 YEARS.

I GET UP THERE AND I’M LIKE, WHOA. IT WAS GREAT. >> Dr. Jen: CONGRATULATIONS. >> Eva: AND SOLD OUT. >> IT WAS. LOTS OF NICE PEOPLE. >> DeMarco: CONGRATULATIONS. ALSO YOUR BIG SCREEN DEBUT “KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.” HOW DID YOU SCORE THIS ROLE?

>> I THINK THEY LIKED MY WEIRD FACE. I HAD KNOWN MARTY FOR A LONG TIME. THEY SAID THEY WANTED MUSICIANS TO PLAY OUTLAWS IN THE MOVIE. MY HAT GOT TOSSED IN THE REMOTE LEARNING RING. I AUDITIONED A FEW TIMES. IT WAS DURING LOCKDOWN, DURING QUARANTINE.

I HAD FUN WITH IT. IT WAS SO LONG BEFORE THEY MADE THE MOVIE. I DIDN’T TELL ANYONE BECAUSE I FIGURED I WOULD END UP ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR. UNTIL I SAW IT ON THE BIG SCREEN, I DIDN’T BELIEVE IT. >> DeMarco: YOU PLAY A BAD GUY.

YOU’RE A GOOD GUY IN REAL LIFE. >> I’M ALL RIGHT. >> Dr. Jen: TELL US ABOUT YOUR SONG. >> IT’S CALLED “SUNDAY SUNDAY.” IT’S LIKE A REALLY STRIPPED BACK SIMPLE SONG THAT MEANS A LOT TO US. JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE TO PLAY IT.

>> Eva: LET’S GET TO IT. HERE’S PETE YORN WITH “SUNDAY SUNDAY.” ♪ ♪ ♪ ALWAYS SO MUCH HARDER THAN YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ♪ ♪ YOU’LL THROW IT ALL AWAY WHEN THEY COME CALLING ♪ ♪ NEVER THE ONE FOR A LONG GOOD-BYE ♪ ♪ LEAVE BEFORE THE END ♪

♪ THEN YOU’RE OFF RUNNING ♪ ♪ SHOULD HAVE STAYED TOGETHER, BUT YOU HELD IT SO TIGHT ♪ ♪ HIDDEN SO WELL IT FOOLED ME ♪ ♪ YOU’RE WALKING ON THE EDGES OF LIFE ♪ ♪ SELLING THAT SAME OLD SMILE ♪ ♪ JUST TO GET BY ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪

♪ SOME DAY SOME DAY I’LL TRY ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪ ♪ SOME DAY SOME DAY I’LL TRY ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ YOU TOLD ME YOU’RE LIKE A FAMILY ALWAYS FALLING DOWN ♪ ♪ ALL THIS TIME IN AN ENDLESS NIGHT ♪ ♪ WITH A WEARY HEART ♪

♪ SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT WAS TRUE BUT YOU HELD IT SO TIGHT ♪ ♪ HIDDEN SO WELL YOU FOOLED ME ♪ ♪ NOW YOU’RE WALKING ON THE EDGES OF LIFE SELLING THAT SAME OLD SMILE ♪ ♪ JUST TO GET ME ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪

♪ SOME DAY SOME DAY I’LL TRY ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪ ♪ SEE THE LOOK IN YOUR EYES ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪ ♪ SOME DAY SOME DAY I’LL TRY ♪ ♪ [ APPLAUSE ] >> DeMarco: BEAUTIFUL. >> Eva: BEAUTIFUL. >> DeMarco: SMOOTH AS BUTTER. WE APPRECIATE THAT.

YOU CAN STREAM “SOME DAY SOME . “KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON” IS PLAYING IN SELECT THEATERS. >> Eva: THAT’S “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” I’M EVA PILGRAM. >> DeMarco: I’M DeMARCO MORGAN. >> Dr. Jen: I’M DR. JEN ASHTON. >> DeMarco: FROM ALL OF US HERE

AT ABC NEWS AND PETE YORN, HAVE A GREAT AFTERNOON. WE’LL SEE YOU TOMORROW. ♪ SELLING THE SAME OLD SMILE JUST TO GET BY ♪ ♪ OOOOOH ♪ ♪ SOME DAY SOME DAY I’LL TRY ♪ >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS.

THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S BACK TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH

LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S Tonight the clean up after the storm with more wind rain and snow threatening the West Coast plus the push for a ceasefire as Israeli families wrap up the pressure more Americans turn to

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>> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. I’M MORAN IN WASHINGTON AND RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE, DONALD TRUMP THE WITNESS STAND IN E. JEAN CARROLL DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST HIM WHAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT TOLD THE COURT ABOUT HIS DENY AND HER SEX ASSAULT CLAIMS AS HE MOVES CLOSER TO THE REPUBLICAN FOR PRESIDENT.

>> AND AN ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TREASURY SECRETARY JANET YELLEN. HER TAKE ON BETTER THAN EXPECTED GDP REPORT AND WHETHER THE ECONOMY ACHIEVE THAT SOFT LANDING FROM HISTORICALLY HIGH INFLATION. PLUS, THEY’RE KNOWN AS THE HUNTERS. HOW AN ELITE POLICE UNIT IN MEXICO IS TRACKING DOWN ALLEGED FUGITIVES WHO CROSS

THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO TRY AND ESCAPE THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW. BUT WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN WITH DONALD TRUMP TAKING THE STAND IN THE E. JEAN CARROLL DEFAMATION TRIAL TWO DAYS AFTER HIS SECOND STRAIGHT VICTORY IN THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT TESTIFIED IN HIS OWN DEFENSE FOR JUST

ABOUT 3 MINUTES TODAY. HE TOLD THE COURT HE DENIED JEAN CARROLL’S ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO DEFEND HIMSELF. JURORS ARE SET TO DECIDE WHETHER HE OWES ADMISSION OR DAMAGES TO HER FOR DEFAMING HER BY CALLING HER A LIAR AFTER . SHE PUBLICLY ACCUSED HIM OF ASSAULTING HER IN

A DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM BACK IN THE 1990. SHE’S SEEKING MORE THAN $10 MILLION. >> NOW. THE JURY IN AN EARLIER TRIAL ALREADY AWARDED HER 5 MILLION DOLLARS AFTER THEY CONCLUDED DONALD TRUMP DID INDEED SEXUALLY ABUSE AND DEFAME HER. >> THIS IS A CHAPTER. TRUMP IS APPEALING THAT DECISION, BUT HE’S

IN TRIAL ON THIS. >> JOINING US WITH THE LATEST, ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER LIBBY RUBIN LIVE OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE IN MANHATTAN ALONG WITH ABC LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, TRIAL ATTORNEY AND AUTHOR BRIAN BUCKMAN. OLIVIA, FIRST TO YOU. YOU WERE IN THE COURTROOM. TRUMP ON THE WITNESS STAND, NOT FOR LONG BUT WHAT HAPPENED.

VERY QUICK, TERRY, 3 MINUTES UNDER TEN. QUESTION AND DONALD TRUMP WAS VERY LIMITED AS WE THE AD NAUSEUM AND WHAT EXACTLY HE COULD SAY. AND POTENTIALLY THAT’S THE REASON HE WAS ONLY ON THE STAND FOR 3 MINUTES. BUT HE DID SAY THAT. >> HE STOOD BY EARLIER A STATEMENT IN WHICH HE SAID

THAT, YOU KNOW, HIS HE WAS DEFENDING HIMSELF ABOUT WHAT HE SAID ABOUT JEAN CARROLL WAS TRUE AND THAT HE DID NOT KNOW HER. OF COURSE HE COULDN’T SAY THAT ON THE STAND. ALL HE COULD SAY IS THAT HE STOOD BY HIS EARLIER HIS EARLIER STATEMENTS. >> AND THERE WERE A NUMBER

OF TIMES WHERE HE APPEARED TO RUN AFOUL OF WHAT EXACTLY HE WAS ALLOWED. SAY HE DREW OBJECTIONS FROM E. JEAN CARROLL TEAM AND. THE JUDGE SUSTAINED HIM. I WANT TO GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE. WHEN HE WAS ASKED IF HE STOOD BY THE EARLIER REMARKS, HE SAID 100% YES.

BUT HE WENT FURTHER TERRY, AND HE SAID SHE SAID SOMETHING I CONSIDER A FALSE ACCUSATION. REMEMBER, THAT’S NO LONGER AT ISSUE IN THIS CASE, AS YOU CALLED IT, IT’S CHAPTER TWO. IT’S ALREADY BEEN RULED THAT THE ALLEGATION WAS TRUE. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY FOR A ASSAULT AND LIABLE FOR DEFAMATION.

SO HE THAT WAS ONLY HE WAS NOT TO SAY AND THE JUDGE STRUCK IT FROM THE RECORD, TOLD THE JURORS TO DISREGARD. >> WELL, OLIVIA, YOU’RE SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP CROSSED THE LINE THERE. MEAN, THAT IS KIND OF A MAN BITES DOG STORY. THAT’S WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THEM.

AND BRIAN, I WANT TO GO TO YOU. THESE TRIALS ARE GREAT FOR DONALD TRUMP POLITICALLY, RIGHT. THE INFLECTION POINT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE WAS THE FIRST INDICTMENT BY THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THAT’S WHEN THE POLLS CHANGED. THAT’S WHEN HE BECAME THE FRONT RUNNER. BUT IN THIS CASE, LEGALLY,

WHAT DID HE DO FOR HIS OWN LEGAL ON THE STAND TODAY? >> AND I THINK THAT’S THE POINT. LEGALLY I DON’T THINK HE GAVE ANYTHING TO HIMSELF HERE FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT IN A DEFENSE HE DIDN’T PUSH OR TOWARDS REDUCING ANY AMOUNT OF DAMAGES. IF ANYTHING, OBJECTIONS AND THE WAY THEY WERE SUSTAINED,

AS OLIVIA WAS POINTING OUT, MIGHT COME BACK TO HIM IN THE SENSE THAT A JURY MIGHT THINK, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET’S ADD A FEW MORE DOLLARS HERE TO PUNITIVE DAMAGES. SO I DON’T THINK HE TOOK ANY STEPS FORWARD POTENTIALLY, A STEP OR TWO BACKWARDS. >> ALL RIGHT, OLIVIA, BRIAN,

THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THAT REPORT FROM THAT TRUMP COURTROOM. NOW WE’RE GOING TO TURN TO ANOTHER TRUMP RELATED CASE, A FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISER TO THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP. PETER NAVARRO, HIS NAME. HE’S BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DEFYING A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA TO COOPERATE WITH THE HOUSE SELECT

COMMITTEE TO, INVESTIGATED THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL. THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE HAS ALSO ORDERED NAVARRO TO PAY A $9,500 FINE, CALLING THE SENTENCE A REFLECTION OF, QUOTE, RESPECT FOR LAW. PETER NAVARRO IS NOW SECOND FORMER TRUMP ADVISER TO BE CONVICTED OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR THE JANUARY SIX PANEL.

STEVE BANNON, HE WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON IN 2022. HE’S AVOIDED THIS SENTENCE SO FAR. HE’S APPEALING THAT CONVICTION . FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WERE SEEKING A SIX MONTH PRISON SENTENCE, ALONG WITH A $200,000 FINE FOR NAVARRO. THE JUDGE CAME DOWN FROM THAT AGENT’S SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS US NOW.

SO, KEVIN, WHAT WERE THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM NAVARRO SENTENCING HEARING TODAY, AS IS HIS THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE TO TESTIFY THAT HE HAD EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP HAD GIVEN IT TO HIM, ALL FELL APART AND HE GOT A PRISON? HE DID. AND IT WASN’T AT ALL SURPRISING. TERRY, THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY

DECIDED HERE. FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON, HE HAS TO PAY A FINE. YOU MENTIONED STEVE BANNON IS SIMILAR TO BANNON IN THAT SENTENCE THAT HE WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON. AND THE JUDGE REALLY TOOK ISSUE, TERRY, WITH THE FACT THAT NAVARRO HAS CLAIMED THIS IS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION,

THAT HE’S GONE ON THE AIRWAVES AND SAID THAT AS MUCH, THAT HE’S ESSENTIALLY HIS PROSECUTION ON THE FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT, JOE BIDEN. AND JUDGE ESSENTIALLY SAID THAT’S JUST NOT TRUE. HE SAID, YOU’RE NOT A VICTIM. YOU’RE NOT THE OBJECT OF A POLITICAL PROSECUTION.

THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR OWN MAKING. AND WE’RE IN QUOTES DIRECTLY FROM THE JUDGE. SO I DIDN’T HAVE MUCH SYMPATHY FOR HIM IN THAT RESPECT. OF COURSE, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BEFORE NAVARRO EVEN LEFT THE COURTROOM, HIS LAWYERS APPEALED. SO WE CAN EXPECT THAT, OF COURSE, AS THAT’S HAPPENING AND STEVE BANNON CASE AS WELL,

I THINK THE BIG QUESTION IS WHETHER HE STAYS OUT OF JAIL AS THAT APPEAL HAPPENS. >> WELL, CATHERINE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE CONTEMPT FOR CONGRESS, MEAN THAT’S NOT JUST METAPHORICAL, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE DEFIED SUBPOENAS, NOT MANY PROSECUTIONS. IT TENDS NOT TO BE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS.

THE PROSECUTORS, THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE BRANCH, DON’T WANT TO REALLY GET INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. AND IN THE STEVE BANNON CASE, THEY DID. NAVARRO ARGUED HE WASN’T THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIDN’T COMPLY WITH THE SUBPOENA, EVEN FROM THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING JANUARY 6TH. HE’S SAYING THERE’S A DOUBLE STANDARD HERE.

>> WHAT WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT? THAT’S HE’S SAYING HE’S SAYING THERE’S A DOUBLE STANDARD AND THAT THERE WERE OTHERS WHO DIDN’T COMPLY. BUT WHO IS REFERRING TO FORMER SENIOR ADVISERS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF, MARK MEADOWS, HIS DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, DAN SCAVINO.

TERRY, AS YOU RECALL, WE TALKED EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THIS. MARK MEADOWS. >> NOW, WHILE HE DID NOT TESTIFY, WHILE HE STONEWALLED CONGRESS, HE DID PROVIDE TEXT MESSAGES. HE PROVIDED AT LEAST SOME EVIDENCE TO THAT COMMITTEE THAT THE JUDGE ACKNOWLEDGED THERE TODAY THAT WERE ESSENTIALLY A ROADMAP FOR THE INVESTIGATION.

THAT’S NOT AT ALL WHAT. NAVARRO DAN ESSENTIALLY DIDN’T EVEN ANSWER THEM. HE DIDN’T ENGAGE AT ALL. HE DIDN’T SAY, OKAY, MAYBE THIS IS PRIVILEGED. MAYBE THAT IS PRIVILEGED. LET’S HAVE A DIALOG. THAT IS WHAT THE JUDGE TOOK ISSUE WITH AND WHAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENED WITH NAVARRO AND STEVE BANNON

THEN WHAT HAPPENED WITH MARK MEADOWS, FOR EXAMPLE? >> THAT WAS CRYSTAL KATHERINE FAULDERS. >> I WONDERED ABOUT THAT. THANKS VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. WELL, TO THE ECONOMY NOW. NEW DATA SHOWS THE U.S. ECONOMY GREW AT A MUCH FASTER PACE THAN EXPECTED FOR A STRONG FINISH TO 2023. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT SAYS

THE ECONOMY GREW 3.3% IN THE LAST QUARTER, BLOWING PAST THE EXPECTED RATE OF 2%. >> THE GROWTH COMES AMID AN EASING INFLATION AND AMERICA CONSUMER SPENDING MORE. DESPITE MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICTING A RECESSION FOR LAST YEAR. AND ALL THIS COMES AS TREASURY SECRETARY JANET IS PUSHING BACK AGAINST REPUBLICAN CRITICISM OF BIDEN’S ECONOMIC RECORD.

SHE’S SAYING THAT THE CURRENT GROWTH WE ARE SEEING VINDICATES BIDEN’S STEPS TO GET THE ECONOMY ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH STIMULUS SPENDING. >> SO ALISON ELIZABETH SCHULZE HAD THE CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH TREASURY YELLEN FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND SHE JOINS US NOW WITH MORE FROM CHICAGO.

>> ELIZABETH, GREAT, GET OUT. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF WHAT SECRETARY YELLEN HAD TO SAY? WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW? >> YOU KNOW, TERRY, IT’S UNSURPRISING GIVEN THESE GDP NUMBERS, THIS STRONG GROWTH THAT WE SAW COMING OUT OF THE ECONOMY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER

AND OVERALL THROUGH LAST YEAR, THAT THERE WASN’T THAT RECESSION THAT WAS WIDELY ANTICIPATED, THAT THE TREASURY SECRETARY WANTED TO COME OUT AND, SAY THINGS ARE GOING WELL. CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING, BUSINESSES ARE INVESTING. AND THIS IS AN ECONOMY THAT DEFIED EXPECTATIONS AND TIME AGAIN. THE TREASURY SECRETARY WANTED TO MAKE THE POINT AND THEIR

STRONGEST WORDS YET, TERRY, SHE TOLD ME SHE DOES NOT ANTICIPATE A RECESSION THIS YEAR, EVEN AS WE CONTINUE TO SEE SOME IMPACT ON CONSUMERS. >> HOWEVER, SHE TOLD ME THE ECONOMY THAT HAS BEEN GROWING AT A GOOD, HEALTHY PACE . CONSUMERS AND HOUSEHOLDS FEEL ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR OWN PERSONAL

FINANCIAL SITUATION AND ABOUT THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK TO SPENDING IN A WAY THAT’S CREATING JOBS, IS CREATING GROWTH AND IS PROVIDING THEM WITH INCOME TO GO ON DOING THAT. SO I SEE REASON WHY THEY CAN’T CONTINUE. I THINK IS GOING TO BE A VERY GOOD ECONOMIC YEAR. THAT SAID, THERE ARE ALWAYS

RISKS, BUT NO REASON RIGHT NOW WHY THERE WOULD BE A RECESSION. THERE’S NO OBVIOUS REASON WHY THERE WOULD BE. AND, YOU KNOW, WE’VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT THE RISK OF HIGHER RATES, THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL HIGHER COSTS FOR A LOT OF DAY TO DAY ESSENTIALS, HOUSING, RENT, EVEN PRICES,

THE GROCERY STORE ARE STILL GOING UP. AND WHAT JANET YELLEN TOLD ME, THAT SHE SEES THOSE PRICE INCREASES ABATING, ESPECIALLY SHE SINGLED OUT RENT TERRY. SHE SAYS SHE THAT’S TO STOP AT SOME POINT, HOPEFULLY THIS YEAR. SHE ALSO SAID GROCERY PRICES AREN’T GOING UP AS MUCH AS THEY WERE.

SO REALLY A CONCERTED EFFORT HERE TO TRY MAKE THE CASE FOR THE STRENGTH IN THE ECONOMY. BUT OF COURSE, THERE HAS BEEN A DISCONNECT THAT A NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING THAT STRENGTH THEORY. >> ABSOLUTELY. DISCONNECT IS REALLY A FACT OF LIFE. NOW, ECONOMISTS AND FOREIGN

LEADERS, THEY LOOK AT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. THEY SAY IT’S GOING GREAT. AMERICANS LOOK AT THE ECONOMY OVERWHELMINGLY. THEY SAY BIDEN’S DOING A BAD JOB ON IT. SO WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THAT. BUT I WONDER, WHAT DOES JANET SEE AS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THIS ECONOMY?

>> AND DOES SHE SAY THAT VOTERS JUST DON’T GET IT OR OR THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO GET BETTER RIGHT DOWN THE LINE, AS YOU SUGGEST? >> RIGHT. SO SHE SAID FIRST OF ALL, SHE SAID SHE DOES CONSUMER SENTIMENT IMPROVING. SO SHE SAID WE’RE STARTING TO SEE SIGNS OF CONSUMERS, SEE

THEIR FINANCES GETTING BETTER. AND THE HOPE IS THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE AS THE YEAR GOES ON. IMPLICITLY, AS THAT IS THE HOPE THAT THAT WILL GET BETTER BY NOVEMBER BY THE ELECTION. AND SHE SAID IT’S GETTING BETTER EVERY MONTH. BUT AS FAR THE RISK, TERRY, AND THIS WAS REALLY RARE FOR

THE TREASURY SECRETARY, SHE DOESN’T WADE DIRECTLY INTO POLITICS, BUT SHE DID TAKE A DIRECT SHOT AT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHAT SHE SEES AS A THREAT TO THE ECONOMY. AND NOT SURPRISING FROM A CABINET MEMBER OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. BUT SHE SAID TAX CUTS ARE SOMETHING THAT WOULD NOT BENEFIT THE MIDDLE CLASS.

SHE EXPLICITLY SINGLED OUT THE POLICIES UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AS HAVING BENEFITED THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS AND CORPORATIONS AND TRIED TO MAKE THE CASE THAT IF THAT IS IN THE PIPELINE FOR THE NEXT YEAR, THAT’S SOMETHING THAT COULD CONTRIBUTE TO FURTHER INEQUALITY IN THE ECONOMY AND THAT’S A RISK.

I ALSO DID ASK HER ABOUT THAT PERSONAL DEBT. WE’VE SEEN CREDIT CARD BALANCES FOR INDIVIDUALS NOW, YOU KNOW, HOUSEHOLDS ARE CARRYING CREDIT CARD BALANCES OFF OF $1,000,000,000,000. SHE DIDN’T SEEM WORRIED ABOUT THAT, TERRY, AS FAR AS A RISK GOES, SHE SAID CONSUMER SPENDING IS STILL GETTING

BACK TO ITS LEVELS THAT IT WAS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. FOR NOW, THOUGH, SOME OF THE BIGE SEES ARE ON THE ON THE FRONT END POLICIES THAT COULD BE ENACTED BY ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION. >> SO, ELIZABETH, I WANT TO ASK YOU, WE’VE GOT THIS GREAT GROWING ECONOMY, RIGHT FOR A YEAR.

USUALLY THAT BRINGS DEFICITS DOWN BECAUSE THERE’S ECONOMIC ACTIVITY THAT TAXES FLOW IN, BUT THE DEFICIT IS BALLOONING UNDER BIDEN AS IT DID UNDER TRUMP. YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DOING THIS? >> WELL, WHAT IS WHAT DOES YELLEN THINK? AND IT’S BEEN STRIKING. THE REALITY IS THE ADMINISTRATION’S NOT DOING

ANYTHING ABOUT. THIS IDEA THAT THE DEBT COULD BE A THREAT AND WE HAVE A $34 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT RIGHT NOW. IT IS JUST NOT TOP OF MIND FOR POLICYMAKERS. CERTAINLY, WE DID SEE AN INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, THAT PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT PASSED THAT WAS MORE FOCUSED ON, TRYING TO BALANCE OUT SOME OF

THE BUDGET ISSUES BY RAISING ON CORPORATIONS. AND AGAIN, THE TREASURY SECRETARY POINTED TO HOW THE DEFICIT WENT UP BECAUSE CORPORATIONS GOT TAX CUTS UNDER TRUMP. BUT THIS IS A TREND THAT, AS YOU POINT OUT, TERRY, WE HAVE SEEN UNDER BOTH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THE DEBT CONTINUING TO BALLOON

AND NOTHING TO BE ABOUT IT. FROM THE ADMINISTRATION’S POINT OF VIEW AND FROM CONGRESS POINT OF VIEW, THE IS THAT AT SOME POINT THE QUESTION IS, WILL YOU CUT SPENDING OR WILL YOU RAISE TAXES? AND THERE IS JUST NO APPETITE FOR HIGHER TAXES. THERE IS NOT A LOT OF APPETITE

TO CUT SPENDING RIGHT NOW UNTIL THAT HAPPENS. THAT’S LIKELY GOING TO KEEP GOING UP, TERRY. YEAH, AT SOME POINT WE’VE GOT TO PAY THE PIPER. ELIZABETH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT GREAT INTERVIEW. WELL, THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, BILL BURNS, HE’S GOING TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE TO MEET WITH OFFICIALS FROM

QATAR, EGYPT AND ISRAEL FOR TALKS ON A POTENTIAL AGREEMENT TO, FREE HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA. THIS WILL BE THE THIRD TIME BURNS HAS TRAVELED ABROAD TO PUSH NEGOTIATIONS FORWARD, ACCORDING TO TWO U.S. OFFICIALS. THIS AGREEMENT FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL THE REMAINING HOSTAGES WOULD BE IN EXCHANGE FOR

A PROLONGED PAUSE IN A CEASE FIRE. BASICALLY, AS MANY AS SIX AMERICAN HOSTAGES ARE STILL BELIEVED TO BE ALIVE INSIDE. GAZA, OF THE 136 HOSTAGES BEING HELD SINCE SEVEN. WE TURN NOW TO THE EXTREME WEATHER WHERE POWERFUL STORMS ARE ON THE MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY AND.

>> HEAVY RAIN TRIGGERED FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES AND WASHED OUT ROADS. PARTS OF TEXAS HAVE RECEIVED A MONTH’S WORTH OF RAIN IN THE LAST 2 HOURS AND AT LEAST 25 STATES FROM NEW MEXICO TO NEW YORK ARE COVERED IN A BLANKET OF EXTREME FOG TODAY. WHILE TEMPERATURES THESE GUYS

HAVE RISEN 30 TO 40 DEGREES FROM LAST WEEKEND. THIS IS METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN IS HERE WITH MORE. >> MELISSA AND TERRY, WITH ALL THOSE WARM TEMPERATURES COMES, FOG AND A FLASH FLOOD THREAT THAT CONTINUES RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND, I WANT TO TIME OUT THESE TWO ROUNDS OF RAIN.

NOW, FIRST OFF TONIGHT INTO THE OVERNIGHT, WE’RE GOING TO SEE THIS HEAVY RAIN SHIELD LIFT FROM THE SOUTH AND INTO PARTS OF THE GREAT LAKES IN THE NORTHEAST, CHICAGO TO NEW YORK, ICY CONDITIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. AND LOOK AT THIS, ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN TO HIT THE DEEP SOUTH

AS WE HEAD INTO SATURDAY. SO A FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES FROM LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI, INCLUDING BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ATLANTA EVEN AS FAR NORTH AS THE CAROLINAS. AND ALL OF THIS RAIN MOVES INTO THE YET AGAIN FOR ROUND TWO AS WE HEAD INTO SUNDAY. AND WHEN YOU HAVE FLOOD WATCHES AS WELL IN PLACES LIKE

THE NORTHEAST AND GREAT LAKES. YOU HAVE WARM TEMPERATURES ON TOP OF RAIN. THAT’S GOING TO CAUSE MELTING SNOW, RISING RIVERS AND ICE JAMS. SO THAT’S A WHOLE NEW SLEW OF PROBLEMS WHEN COMES TO FLOODING. AND AGAIN, ADDITIONAL 3 TO 5 INCHES IN PARTS OF THE SOUTH .

TERRY, WE GOT TO END WITH THE GOOD NEWS, AND THAT IS THOSE WARM TEMPERATURES. IT IS IN THE 50S AS WE HEAD TO THE WEEKEND IN NEW YORK AND 70 IN D.C. TOMORROW, TERRY. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, MELISSA, VERY MUCH. WE’RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK RIGHT NOW. COMING UP, ABC NEWS EMBEDS

WITH AN ELITE DIVISION OF THE MEXICAN POLICE TO TRACK DOWN AMERICANS WHO HAVE ESCAPED THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO ELUDE LAW ENFORCEMENT. WHAT THAT THEY CALL THEM ARE DOING TO FIND THOSE SUSPECTS WHEN WE COME BACK. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE

ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE, A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE, THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, THEN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS

LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII, FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2020 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHERE THE STORY FROM, THE FRONT LINE FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FROM FBI REPORTING FROM THE FORCES

ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER . THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE.

>> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. I HAVE A TRACK PARTICLE. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THAT AND IS A SLICE OF CALIFORNIA’S. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED.

THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO THAT IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE OF ANYWHERE. WOW. ARE YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANT AND AMERICA NEEDS IT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO IS GO, HOW ARE YOU? THANK YOU. YES. WHAT WILL YOU WATCHING

SATURDAY’S ON ABC NEWS LIVE WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT WHAT WOULD YOU DO MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON. >> ABC NEWS LIVE MY FAVORITE SHOW. >> WELCOME BACK. IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE MOVIES OR MAYBE A MARTY ROBBINS SONG. AMERICAN FUGITIVES CROSSING

THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO ESCAPE THE LAW. BUT WHEN IT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE, WHO TRACKS THEM DOWN? ABC NEWS MATT RIVERS EMBEDDED WITH A MEXICAN POLICE UNIT. NOW TO SOME AS HUNTERS WHOSE MISSION IS TO BRING THESE FUGITIVES TO JUSTICE. SO WE’RE IN THE CITY OF MEXICALI, WHICH IS JUST

ACROSS THE BORDER FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. AND BECAUSE THIS CITY IS CLOSE TO THE U.S., THERE ARE SOME U.S. CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK THEY CAN EVADE LAW ENFORCEMENT BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. >> I CAME HERE TO PERFORM FOR THE NEW YORK BATTLE. KEEP MY FOOT ON THE FOREST.

SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED BY THE BET BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE HERE IN THE STATE OF BAJA, CALIFORNIA NICKNAMED THE , HUNDREDS. I WILL BE FREE, THAT’S FOR SURE . LENGTH AFTER THE BORDER. NOT MEAN YOU’RE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT.

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE . OFFICIALLY, THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL, A SMALL TEAM OF STATE POLICE IN BAJA, CALIFORNIA, THE NORTHWESTERN MOST REGION OF MEXICO. UNOFFICIALLY BEEN CALLED THE HUNTERS. TO BE CLEAR, THEY DON’T LOVE THE NICKNAME, BUT IT DOES FIT BECAUSE THEIR MISSION IS TO

FIND AND DETAIN FOREIGN FUGITIVES. >> MOSTLY AMERICANS CROSS THE BORDER INTO MEXICO, WOULD BE ESCAPE THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM. >> WE WITH THE UNIT FOR ABOUT A WEEK AND WE GOT JUST A TASTE HOW MUCH WORK IT CAN TAKE TO MAKE AN ARREST. SO WE’VE BEEN DRIVING

IN CIRCLES FOR SO LONG NOW IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAD TO STOP AND GET MORE GAS. AND SO MUCH OF THIS JOB IS JUST WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO. THE JOB IS INTENSE AND PACED AND THE UNIT HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON THE FBI MOST WANTED LIST.

>> NO NATION IS JUST GROWING INTO ANOTHER TO PUT HANDCUFFS ON SOMEBODY. WE HAVE TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER WITH PERMISSION. WE DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, BUT WITH THE PROPER COOPERATION. WE MAKE THESE THINGS WORK RIGHT. THEY HAVE TO HELP US. >> AND WE HELP THEM. >> WELL, THIS UNIT SAYS

OFFICERS. THE UNIT SAYS OFFICERS CAN CATCH UP TO TEN SUSPECTS A MONTH. “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” SPOKE WITH AMERICANS WHO SAY THEY PAY THE PRICE WHEN ALLEGED FUGITIVES AREN’T BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. AND SO YOU CAN WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE”, THE HUNTERS RIGHT NOW ON HULU. EPISODES DROP EVERY THURSDAY.

>> WELL, COMING UP, A FORMER NFL PLAYER CONNECTING WITH YOUNG MEN OF COLOR TO HELP THEM SUCCEED. WE’LL INTRODUCE YOU TO THE MAN BEHIND THE MALE MODEL. >> FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM.

HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS SO MANY MEDICATIONS, IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH. 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK. WHAT WAS GYPSY ROSE WHERE HE LIVED? WHY REVEAL IT NOW. WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW.

>> FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE AND CENTRAL ON ABC IN MACAU, LIKE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE ROCK FACES IN PLANET. NOW I’M STARTING TO GET VERY EXCITED NOW TO TONIGHT, THE CLEANUP AFTER THE STORM WITH MORE WIND, RAIN AND THREATENING THE WEST COAST. PLUS THE PUSH FOR A CEASE

FIRE AS. ISRAELI FAMILIES RAMP UP THE PRESSURE. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”. DAVID HUMOR, WHAT YOU SEE. >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT

TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD, OUR MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY

FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FROM AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE SOURCE BECOMES THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO FASTER, SMARTER AND IT CAN CUSTOMIZE TO YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS.

WE LOVE AND KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. ALL THE BUZZ IS ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE THE ALL-NEW ABC NEWS APP. >> DOWNLOAD IT NOW. REPORTING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN DIMITRI, UKRAINE. I’M MATT GUTMAN. WHEREVER THIS STORY IS. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING

ABC NEWS LIVE. >> A SPORTS STORY FOR YOU. AFTER TURNING IN HIS CLEATS, FORMER NFL PLAYER WALTER MENDENHALL SAYS HE’S NOW TACKLING SOMETHING AFTER A WARNING. HE’S THE FOUNDER OF THE CHICAGO BASED MAIL MOBILE INITIATIVE, AN AWARD WINNING THAT IS TRANSFORMING LIVES. >> THE MAIL MOBILE INITIATIVE

TO POSITIVELY TRANSFORM THE WAY YOUNG MEN LIVING LEAN COMMUNITIES. MALE MOBILE STAR WITH FIVE KIDS AT A LOCAL CHURCH. IN 2017. THAT HAS BLOSSOMED TO SERVING OVER 3000 YOUNG PEOPLE, PROVIDING OVER 200 PLUS JOBS. >> MY NFL CAREER DIDN’T WORK OUT THE WAY THAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD.

>> I HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHO I WAS AND MY IDENTITY OUTSIDE OF FOOTBALL. AND THERE IS WHERE I REALIZED THAT I LOVE TEACHING. SO I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW HOW I COULD IMPACT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE IN A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY. >> LOT OF YOUNG MEN IN CHICAGO DON’T REALLY HAVE SOMETHING

OTHER WHAT THEY SEE AROUND THEM NO MORE. IT’S LIKE IT FORCES YOU TO FIND A DIFFERENT PART OF YOURSELF THAT YOU NEVER BEEN TO REALLY GO INTO THE SCHOOLS. >> AND WE TEACH LEADERSHIP. WE THEN HAVE PROGRAMMING, A SUMMER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. >> WE HAD TEN YEAR PROGRAMMING,

BUT I BECAME A PART OF THAT INITIATIVE WHEN WALTER CAME TO OUR SCHOOL HE TAUGHT US ENTREPRENEURSHIP. BUT I REALLY BONDED WITH WALTER BECAUSE HE WAS A BLACK MAN AND HE WAS SO POSITIVE. HE DIDN’T SELL DRUGS. HE DIDN’T GRAB. I’M LIKE, MAN, MAYBE I COULD DO THIS. >> I DID.

THAT’S HOW I BECAME A MENTOR. I’M A SOPHOMORE NOW, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY AND THIRD GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENT. I WAS RAISED BY A SINGLE. I DIDN’T REALLY HAVE TOO MANY POSITIVE ROLE MODELS AROUND ME . YOU KNOW, I LOST MY UNCLE AND HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED. THAT’S WHEN WALL CAME TO MY SCHOOL.

AND I GREW UP ON THE WEST SIDE OF CHICAGO. I IT’S SO DIFFICULT. AND YOU’RE NOT GETTING THAT EXPOSURE. I’M NOT SURE YOU’D BE OF SOMETHING THAT’S BIGGER THERE. >> SO WE NEED MORE MEN TAKING YOUNGER MEN UNDER THEIR HELPING THEM TO DISCOVER WHO THEY PUTTING THEM IN POSITIONS TO SUCCEED.

WHAT WE TRIED TO DO AT THE MALE MODEL INITIATIVE IS AFFIRM THEM. WE LOVED THEM, LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY’RE VALUABLE AND TEACH THEM SKILLS THAT HELP THEM TO SUCCEED IN THEIR LIVES. >> PAYING IT FORWARD IN THE NFL, INTO THE LIVES OF THOSE YOUNG MEN.

>> GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THEM. WE’VE MUCH MORE NEWS AHEAD HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. IN TODAY’S BIG STORY, DONALD TRUMP TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN DEFENSE IN E. JEAN CARROLL DEFAMATION CASE HIM. WHAT HE TOLD THE COURT AND HOW THIS TRIAL OTHERS COULD END UP HAVE ENDED UP BOOSTING HIS AS

HE MOVES CLOSER TO THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. AND OUR SPOTLIGHT, NEW YORK’S MAYOR DECLARES SOCIAL MEDIA A PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON WHETHER IT’S TIME FOR RECKONING OVER THE REPORTED DANGERS FOR TEENS AND CHILDREN CHILDREN. FOR THE CITY OF THERE ARE SOME US CRIMINAL SUSPECTS THAT THINK

THEY CAN OBTAIN LAW BY COMING DOWN HERE TO MEXICO TO HIDE. RIGHT NOW, SOME OF THEM END UP GETTING SURPRISED WHEN THEY’RE BACKED BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP OF POLICE THINK THEY BRING ON SOMETIMES THE HELP, SOMETIMES THE MOST HAS EVEN CAUGHT SOME THAT ARE ON THE EYES. MOST MORNINGS IN NEW YORK, THIS

IS “IMPACT X NIGHTLINE” NINTH STREAMING ON HULU FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET YOU CONVICTED OF HELPING TO KILL YOUR MOM HER ENTIRE LIFE HAD BEEN A LIE. THE FEEDING TUBE, THE SCARS SO MANY MEDICATIONS IT WAS A BRUTAL DEATH 14 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BACK.

WHAT WERE GYPSY BLUES REVEALED? WHY REVEAL IT NOW? WHY DIDN’T YOU ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN? THE 2020 DEBORAH ROBERTS INTERVIEW. WOW. WOW. FRIDAY NIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT

HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN, FAST STRAIGHT WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

AMERICA MORNING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC. >> WHY? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM? ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE MORNING AND GET DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S

GET INTO IT LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKING YOUR DEBUT FIRST. >> LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T COMING.

>> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE. >> STATE POLICE IS A YOUNG GIRL RUNNING AROUND HERE SCREAMING AND THERE WAS SOME GUY TRYING TO FOLLOW HER. THE NINE ONE ONE CALL IS A CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE. UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY. WITH FOUR MURDERS ON LONG ISLAND, THE WORK OF A

SERIAL KILLER THIS HOUR, FIND MORE BODIES. SUDDENLY IT’S AN ARM OR A LEG? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I NEVER ONCE FOR MY LIFE. WHEN I MET HIM, IT WAS THE ONLY TIME I WAS SCARED. >> TRUTH AND LIES STILL HAUNTED. IT PREMIERES TONIGHT ON. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. WE READY?

LET’S DO. YES. IT’S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW, GIRL? HOW ARE YOU? YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS JUST FOUND OUT WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> NOW WE ARE HERE ISRAEL A NATION AT WAR IN ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR FOR LIVE COVERAGE STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT LINE IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE.

>> ABC NEWS LIVE. DONALD TRUMP TESTIFIES A NEW YORK COURTROOM AS HE ONCE AGAIN USES HIS LEGAL TROUBLES TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. I’M TERRY MORAN IN WASHINGTON. AND IN TODAY’S BIG STORY, THE REPUBLICAN FRONTRUNNER TAKES, THE STAND IN JEAN CARROLL’S DEFAMATION CASE AGAINST HIM. WILL THIS AND OTHERS

ACTUALLY END UP BOOSTING HIS CAMPAIGN THAT HAVE SO FAR? I’LL SPEAK ABOUT THAT WITH PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN MARK UPDEGROVE. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, NEW YORK CITY’S MAYOR DECLARES MEDIA A THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON WHETHER IT’S TIME FOR A RECKONING OVER THE IMPACT ON TEENS AND CHILDREN.

BUT BEGIN WITH OUR BIG STORY TONIGHT. DONALD TRUMP TAKES THE WITNESS STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE IN A MANHATTAN COURTROOM JUST TWO DAYS AFTER HIS SECOND STRAIGHT PRIMARY VICTORY IN THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE. TRUMP TESTIFIED TODAY IN THE LATEST E. JEAN CARROLL DEFAMATION AGAINST HIM. >> AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS

ON THE STAND FOR LESS THAN 3 MINUTES WHILE, HE STILL MANAGED TO BREAK THE JUDGE’S LIMITS ON WHAT HE COULD SAY. HE CLAIMED THAT HER WERE FALSE. >> SAID HE WANTED DEFEND HIMSELF AND THE PRESIDENCY. THERE WAS ALREADY A JURY VERDICT THAT HER ALLEGATIONS WERE TRUE. SO HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO DO

THAT. >> JURORS ARE SET TO DECIDE WHETHER HE CAROL, ADDITIONAL DAMAGES NOW FOR CALLING HER A LIAR AFTER SHE PUBLICLY HIM OF ASSAULTING HER IN A DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM BACK IN THE 1990S. SO THAT JURY IN THE PREVIOUS TRIAL FOUND, HE DID INDEED SEXUALLY ABUSE AND DEFAME AEGEAN CAROL.

THERE WERE THE $5 MILLION. TRUMP IS APPEALING THAT DECISION. AND AS THIS NEW CASE AND AS OTHER LEGAL CASES PLAY OUT IN NEW YORK, HERE IN WASHINGTON ,IN FLORIDA AND IN GEORGIA, WILL DONALD TRUMP END UP USING THEM AS A SPRINGBOARD TO HELP WIN BACK THE WHITE HOUSE? SURE LOOKS LIKE IT.

SO JOINING ME NOW FOR ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN MARK UPDEGROVE, MARK, I WANT TO TAP INTO YOUR VIEW OF OUR HISTORY. WE HAVE SPECTACLE, WHICH DONALD TRUMP IS REVELING AND HE’S GETTING HAILED TO THE COURT ON ALL KINDS OF ALLEGATIONS FROM ASSAULTING AND NOW DEFAMING A WOMAN TO TRYING

TO OVERTURN THE DEMOCRACY, TO STEALING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL, LYING ABOUT IT. >> AND YET HE’S WINNING. HAVE WE EVER SEEN A POLITICIAN WITH THIS KIND OF THAT THESE KINDS OF DISGRACES FOR ANY OTHER DON’T MATTER? NO, IT’S. >> AND I THINK THE HE DEFIES LOGIC AND IN EVERY RESPECT HE’S LIKE NO CANDIDATE WE’VE

EVER. >> PLAIN AND SIMPLE OF THIS. THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST TRUMP, THOUGH FIT SO BRILLIANTLY INTO HIS NARRATIVE ,WHICH IS THE DEEP STATE. EVERYONE’S TO GET ME A STORY THAT SEEMS TO RESONATE WITH A CERTAIN SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION. AND WHEN HE SAYS THAT, I THINK

HE SAYS THE I’M GOING TO TAKE THE HIT HERE, I’M GOING TO FEND OFF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THIS DEEP STATE ATTACK AGAINST ME. SO IT HAPPEN TO YOU. I’M GOING TO DEFEND THEM AGAINST YOU ULTIMATELY. AND IT SEEMS TO RESONATE WITH A LARGE SEGMENT OF HIS BASE. SO THERE’S NO DOUBT, TERRY,

THAT HE WILL CONTINUE THAT IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN HIS CAMPAIGN. YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ASK YOU A BIG QUESTION HERE. SO TRUMP, YOU KNOW, IS SAYING IT’S RIGGED THE EVERYTHING EVERYTHING THAT GOES AGAINST HIM IS RIGGED. POLL NUMBERS, THE RATINGS FOR THE APPRENTICE, THE 2016 IOWA CAUCUSES OUT TO THE 2020 ELECTION.

EVERYTHING’S RIGGED. AND I WONDER IF HIS DEFIANCE HERE, WHICH IS SO SUCCESSFUL FOR HIM POLITICALLY UNDERMINES OUR INSTITUTIONS IN GENERAL PEOPLE BELIEVING EVERYTHING’S RIGGED. YEAH, I THINK THAT’S THE RISK AND WE’RE SEEING THAT CONFIDENCE IN OUR INSTITUTIONS AS A CONSEQUENCE, I THINK OF DONALD TRUMP AND THIS MESSAGE THAT HE CONTINUES

TO TO TO PERPETUATE. BUT YOU’RE RIGHT, TERRY. HE HAS BEEN SOUNDING THIS MESSAGE FOR YEARS, WHETHER IT BE BEING SNUBBED BY THE EMMYS, BY NOT GETTING WON FOR HIS HIT SHOW, THE APPRENTICE, HE SAID THAT IOWA CAUCUS WAS RIGGED IN 2016 WHEN TED CRUZ WON. >> HE SAID THAT THE WOULD

BE RIGGED IF HILLARY CLINTON WON IN 16. HE HELD OUT THE NOTION THAT IF SHE WON, CERTAINLY THE SYSTEM WAS RIGGED AGAINST HIM. AND, OF COURSE, WE SAW HAPPENED IN 2020. AND IT SIMPLY DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER BECAUSE UNLIKE ANY OTHER CANDIDATE, I THINK DONALD TRUMP IS MORE OF AN IDEA OF DEFIANCE.

HE’S ALMOST AN ORANGE MIDDLE FINGER. AND AGAIN, FOR THOSE DISAFFECTED VOTED IN THIS COUNTRY, FOR THOSE WHO FEEL ALIENATED. THAT MESSAGE TO RESOUND AND HE STIRS THAT ANGER OUT THERE. OF COURSE, I’VE NEVER WON THE LOTTERY. SO I GUESS THE LOTTERY RIGGED AS WELL. BUT ASIDE ASIDE FROM WHAT SEEMS

TO BE ALMOST A FARCICAL, YOU KNOW, REFRAIN THAT HE SAYS EVERYTHING THAT DOESN’T GO WELL FROM THIS RIGGED, YOU KNOW, IT DOES LOOK LIKE WE COULD SEE A REMATCH BETWEEN TRUMP AND PRESIDENT BIDEN IN NOVEMBER. SO HOW WOULD THIS POLITICAL RIVALRY STACK UP AGAINST THOSE PAST PRESIDENTIAL MAC MATCHUPS?

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THE STAKES ARE HERE? IT’S HAPPENED SEVEN OTHER TIMES IN HISTORY, TERRY, BUT IT HASN’T HAPPENED FOR 60 PLUS YEARS. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS WHEN DWIGHT EISENHOWER, THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, SQUARED OFF AGAINST HIS DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER, ADLAI STEVENSON, BOTH IN 1952, WHEN BOTH WERE BATTLING FOR

THE WHITE HOUSE AND IN 1956, WHEN AN INCUMBENT, DWIGHT EISENHOWER, WAS BATTLING ONCE AGAIN AGAINST ADLAI STEVENSON. >> IN BOTH CASES. DWIGHT EISENHOWER PREVAILED BEFORE THAT. >> YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE TURN OF THE PREVIOUS WHEN WILLIAM MCKINLEY SQUARED OFF AGAINST WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN TWICE IN 1896, AND IN 1900,

WILLIAM WILLIAM MCKINLEY WON BOTH OF THOSE CONTESTS. >> SO IT’S A MIXED BAG. AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE THE CHALLENGER BEATS THE INCUMBENT AS WELL. THAT HAPPENED WITH GROVER CLEVELAND, HE SQUARED OFF AGAINST BENJAMIN. BENJAMIN HARRISON LOST ONE TIME, WON THE OTHER TIME. SO THAT’S THE LAST

NONCONSECUTIVE PRESIDENT WE HAVE. TRUMP WOULD BE THE NEXT IF HE WERE TO BEAT JOE BIDEN LATER THIS YEAR. SO IT’S NOT UNPRECEDENTED THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED, BUT IT’S A LONG TIME SINCE WE’VE SEEN TWO CANDIDATES SQUARE OFF AGAINST EACH OTHER. AND A LOT OF IT IS UNPRECEDENTED, BUT IT’S

ALMOST TOM’S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WE’VE SURVIVED SIMILAR KINDS RACES, AT LEAST IN THAT SENSE. MARK UPDEGROVE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THAT PERSPECTIVE, DEXTER. WELL, NOW LET’S BRING THIS BIG STORY TO OUR PANEL. AND JOINING US TODAY IS NEWS CONTRIBUTOR SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST MIKE MUSE, ABC POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR, FORMER

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SARAH ISGUR AND PRESIDENT OF NEXT GEN AMERICAN AMERICA, CHRISTINA RAMIREZ. THANK YOU ALL. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, OP ED COLUMNIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. L.Z. GRANDERSON SO THANKS TO ALL. >> SHERRILYN, WE BEGIN WITH YOU . DO THESE CASES, ALL OF THEM, DO THEY MATTER TO REPUBLICANS

AT ALL, DO YOU THINK, AT THIS POINT? I THINK THEY ABSOLUTELY MATTER. DOES NOT THE WAY I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT THEM TO. AND THEY MATTER IN THE SENSE THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TELLING REPUBLICANS THAT, THE LEFT, THE ESTABLISHMENT, REPUBLICANS, THE ELITES WANT COME AFTER THEM AND THEIR WAY

OF LIFE, AND THAT HE’S THE ONE PREVENTING IT. SO THEN NO SURPRISE THAT THEY WOULD SUE HIM, PROSECUTED. IT’S PROOF OF THE THESIS THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TELLING THESE VOTERS. >> AND CHRISTINE, WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS AND MODERATES AND INDEPENDENTS. DO THESE LEGAL CASES DO

THEY HELP BIDEN MAKE HIS CASE THEM, OR IS THERE A SENSE, EVEN AMONG INDEPENDENTS AND MAYBE EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS THAT TRYING TO INDICT GUY OUT OF THE PRESIDENCY ISN’T THE WAY TO DO IN OUR DEMOCRACY? AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF YOU WANT TO DEFEAT THEM, YOU’VE

GOT TO DO IT AT THE BALLOT BOX . >> WHAT DO YOU THINK? WELL, I MEAN, LOOK WHAT WE’VE SEEN EVEN FROM THE POLLING OF REPUBLICANS THEMSELVES, THAT IF HE IS FOUND GUILTY ON ONE OF THESE COUNTS, THAT A QUARTER OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM. SO THAT’S WHY HE’S TRYING

TO WRAP UP THESE CASES AND WIN THE NOMINATION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS A LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRATEGY TO DEFEND HIMSELF, TO INSULATE HIMSELF. LOOK, WITH 91 COUNTS AND FOUR CASES AGAINST HIM, ALL HE CAN TRY AND DO IS LIE AND TRY AND MISLEAD THE REPUBLICAN BASE

THAT THIS A WITCH HUNT, THAT HE IS SOME KIND OF MARTYR OUT OF THIS. BUT E. JEAN CARROLL ALREADY HAD A CIVIL CASE DECIDED IN FAVOR THAT HE WAS LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HER. SO I THINK THIS IS A BIG MESSAGE FOR A LOT OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS AND SWING VOTERS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN,

THAT DONALD TRUMP IS NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, OUTRAGEOUS, BUT THAT HE’S A DANGEROUS. AND THIS KIND OF MESSAGE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE POSITIONS ON ABORTION, ARE VERY ANTI-WOMEN. AND SO IT’LL BE INTERESTING WHAT WE SEE WOMEN DO. >> HMM. KEY VOTING BLOC THERE, MIKE. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER DONALD

TRUMP FIRST SHOWED UP FOR AN APPEARANCE IN COURT AFTER BEING INDICTED BY THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY. HE WAS FURIOUS. HE WAS DEVASTATED. >> IT. YOU CAN SEE NOW, NOW THAT WE’RE DOWN TO HIS BENEFIT HE SEEMED TO ENJOY HIMSELF. DO YOU THINK THE CONSTANT AND RIGHT LOOK WHAT WE’RE DOING

HERE DISTRACTS FROM THE ISSUES THAT THEY REALLY WANT TO HEAR ABOUT? >> THAT’S AN AWESOME QUESTION, BUT IT DEPENDS UPON WHICH VOTER YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE MATT GUTMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THIS IS WHAT IS DRIVING THEM MORE TOWARDS AND DARING TOWARD FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> HE USES THESE COURT CASES AS A CAMPAIGN STOP IN WAYS THAT WE’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE . AND IF YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA, THE POLLING SUGGESTS THAT ONCE THE INITIAL INDICTMENT OUT, YOU BEGAN TO SEE AN UPTICK IN HIS POLL NUMBERS. AND IT’S BODE WELL FOR HIM FOR THE PRIMARY RACE.

NOW, WE LOOK AT THE INDEPENDENT AND MODERATE VOTERS. THIS IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE FOR HIM GOING FORWARD IF HE IS THE NOMINEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, GOING INTO A GENERAL ELECTION, THEN THESE CASES WILL BECOME A DISTRACTION . >> THE ISSUES THAT HE MAY FIND IN VULNERABLE AMONGST

INDEPENDENT AND MODERATE WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING FORWARD. >> L.Z., I’M GOING TO I’M GOING TO PURSUE THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING. TRUMP SHOOK HIS HAND AS HE LEFT COURT TODAY, SAYING, THIS IS NOT AMERICA. DOES HE HAVE A POINT? I’M SURE HE DOES. FOR SOME PEOPLE.

YOU KNOW, TERRY, I REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE STILL APPROACHING COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT OR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, L.Z., WE’LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT AND GET BACK TO THIS STORY. RIGHT. IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN STORIES OF THE CAMPAIGN. MIKE, CHRISTINA, SARA, AND L.Z.

VERY MUCH. COMING UP, PUTTING MENTAL HEALTH IN THE SPOTLIGHT. NEW CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS DECLARING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN CAUSING HOW HE PLANS TO PROTECT YOUNG PEOPLE ONLINE. RIGHT AFTER THIS. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE. ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE

ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORWARD THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE

TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET

LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS REPORTER

THEY’RE EXPECTING US THIS HOUR. SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY INSIDE OUT. AND THERE’S A SLICE OF HUMAN BLOOD. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM ON THEIR

IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE THEY NETWORK. WOW. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE. YOU READY? LET’S DO IT. YES, IT’S THE SHOW WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS ONE WITH YOU. LET’S GO. HOW ARE YOU? YEAH. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAY IS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

>> I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> I MEAN KNOW, WHEN YOU SEE MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING YOU STAR HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW, THAT’S

THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. WE’VE SEEN TANK AFTER TANK POURING INTO THIS AREA. THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. BULLET ALL UP WALL WITHIN MINUTES OF THE AIR RAID SIRENS

GOING OFF. >> YOU CAN HEAR SAME EXPLOSION DOWN HERE TONIGHT. ISRAEL, A FIERCE BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR FOR. >> NONSTOP LIVE COVERAGE STREAM. ABC NEWS LIVE REPORTING SOUTHERN ISRAEL FROM THE FRONT FRONTLINES IN DOWNTOWN IN BEIRUT. >> WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE.

ABC NEWS LIVE WITH THE GOOD, BAD LUCK. >> SO FAR, NO SIGN OF THE LITTLE SMILE IN THE MORNING. >> THEN WHEN FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, THERE’S A LOT GOING. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER

ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WHAT DOES MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA TO TAKE THIS STEP AND CALL OUT THE DANGERS SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE THIS? CAN I STAND BY AND LET BIG TECH MONETIZE OUR CHILDREN’S PRIVACY CAN JEOPARDIZE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH? >> THAT WAS NEW YORK CITY

MAYOR ERIC ADAMS DECLARING SOCIAL MEDIA, QUOTE, AN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN. THEY ARE ADAM’S MESSAGE PROTECT YOUTH FROM HARM ONLINE. COME TO SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES FACE MOUNTING PRESSURE TO MAKE THEIR PLATFORMS SAFER. LAWMAKERS IN FLORIDA ALSO ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM. THEY’RE CALLING FOR PLATFORMS TO BE OFFLINE TO ALL KIDS UNDER 16 ALTOGETHER OFF LIMITS.

>> U.S. SURGEON GENERAL VIVEK MURTHY ISSUED AN ADVISORY LAST YEAR WARNING THAT EXCESSIVE SOCIAL MEDIA USE COULD BE A PROFOUND RISK TO YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH, MAYBE TO ALL OUR MENTAL HEALTH. LET’S BRING BACK OUR PANEL. MIKE, SARAH, CHRISTINA, THIS THING THIS TIME. SO, MIKE, LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT ,MAYOR ADAMS,

HE’S PRIORITIZING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH. HE’S GOT A LOT ON HIS PLATE, GOT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. HE’S GOT OTHER THINGS. WHY THIS, DO YOU THINK? >> LOOK, THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE THAT IS FACING THE GLOBAL SOCIETY AS A WHOLE, NOT JUST HERE IN AMERICA. AND I THINK, THOUGH, THAT FOR

ME, TERRY, THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT MENTAL HEALTH FOR YOUTH FROM A COMPREHENSIVE POSITION, THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM, AND JUST NOT PLACE THE BLAME ON BIG TECH PLATFORMS MUST BE SHOULD WE HOLD BIG TECH PLATFORMS ACCOUNTABLE TO ENSURING THAT THEY’RE PROTECTING YOUTH WHILE THEY ARE ON THE. ABSOLUTELY.

BUT WE ALSO TOO, HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR YOUTH WHILE THEY’RE ENTERING THE CAPE AND 12 SYSTEMS AND WHAT KIND OF MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT THAT WE PROVIDING FOR THEM WHAT GRAD SCHOOL, WHAT TYPE OF AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES ARE THERE OUT THERE FOR YOU TO PARTICIPATE

IN, IN PARTICULAR AS PARTICULAR THIS IS CUTTING BUDGETS WITHIN OUR CITY. WHAT IS LEFT FOR OUR YOUTH, FOR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMMING? THIS MAYOR HAS ALSO CUT BUDGETS FOR OUR LIBRARY SYSTEM. HOW CAN WE THEN DIVERT FUNDING TO CREATE PROGRAMMING IN LIBRARIES TO GET OUR KIDS OFF LINE FROM ONLINE TO OFFLINE

AND ACTUALLY TO READING AND DOING MORE AT THE LIBRARY, AND ALSO TO WHAT IS PARENTS ROLES AND THIS POSITION. SO I THINK JUST TO PUT THIS ON, THE BIG TECH COMPANY IS NOT SOLVING THE ISSUE AS AS A AT LARGE. THAT’S A GREAT POINT THAT IT

IS A SOCIETY WIDE PROBLEM. LOTS OF THINGS NEED TO GET DONE. BUT CHRISTINE, I WANT TO ASK YOU, YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT OF NEXT GEN AMERICA, THESE ALGORITHMS THAT DRIVE THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, THEY’RE DEVIOUS. I MEAN, EVIL, THE EYES OF SOME BECAUSE THEY THEY THEY WANT

YOU TO BE ANGRY, BE DEPRESSED, TO BE FRUSTRATED. >> THEY THEY WANT TO LEAVE YOU TO POSTS THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE MOST ENGAGEMENT. >> YOU’LL STICK WITH THEM. AND THAT TENDS TO BE NEGATIVE FEELINGS. IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN ABOUT THAT? >> YEAH, I MEAN, THERE’S A LOT

THAT CAN BE DONE. WE TO REMEMBER THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO. LOOK, I LEAVE THE COUNTRIES, PEOPLE IN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. WE WORK WITH INFLUENCERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ALL THE TIME ORGANIZING YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT WE CAN’T HAVE A SYSTEM THAT THE COST OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS.

AND RIGHT NOW IT’S THE WILD WEST. WE’RE ASKING SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TO REGULATE THEMSELVES. AND GUESS WHAT? THEY HAVEN’T REALLY BEEN DOING IT. AND SO WE’VE SEEN IT NOT JUST IN PLACES NEW YORK, BUT IN UTAH THAT ARE LED BY REPUBLICANS. IT’S NOT A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN ISSUE.

>> IT IS A FAMILY AND PARENTS ISSUE. AND SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING IS BECAUSE, LOOK, THE DATA IS SHOWING EVEN INTERNALLY WITH MEADOWS OWN DATA, THAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IS DRIVING UP DEPRESSION, LONELINESS, ANXIETY, ANOREXIA BULIMIA. THESE ARE NOT GOOD SIGNS FOR A GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

SO THERE IS A LOT MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. AND I THINK THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF EXPERIMENTATION CONTINUE TO HAPPEN AND. AGAIN, NOT A RED OR BLUE ISSUE. SO I THINK RIGHT NOW YOU’RE SEEING MEDIA START TO PUT OUT ADS SAYING WE WANT TO REGULATE OURSELVES.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE AFRAID OF GOVERNMENT DOING IT FOR THEM. WE NEED GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT’S REGULATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS THAT ARE GOING AFTER OUR KIDS. >> YEAH, THOSE STATISTICS THAT YOU MENTIONED ARE SHOCKING WHEN YOU SEE THE LINE OF YOUNG WOMEN IN PARTICULAR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN REPORTING

DEPRESSION AND THEN WANTING TO HURT THEMSELVES, JUST GO STRAIGHT UP AS THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION, WHAT GOES FORWARD? SARAH, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE EFFORTS THAT ARE BEING MADE IN THE CHRISTINA MENTIONED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA IS TAKING ACTION TO SUPPORT

YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. >> IS THIS IS THIS A BIPARTISAN ISSUE? IS THIS A RECKONING ACROSS THE THAT MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT YOU AS MIKE MENTIONED BUT ALSO REGULATION OF THESE COMPANIES COULD BE COULD BE SOMETHING WE COULD DO TOGETHER. RED STATES AND BLUE STATES DEFINITELY DON’T LIKE

SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES, BUT THEIR SOLUTIONS ARE EXACTLY OPPOSITE FROM ONE ANOTHER. AND SO FAR THESE REGULATIONS HAVE MET WITH A LOT OF SCRUTINY AT LEAST FROM THE JUDICIAL BRANCH. SO FAR, NONE THAT I’M AWARE OF HAVE REALLY SURVIVED JUDICIAL SCRUTINY. NOW, OF COURSE, ONE CASE IS HEADED TO THE SUPREME COURT.

AND FULL DISCLOSURE, MY HUSBAND IS INVOLVED IN THAT CASE. BUT IS THAT ERIC ADAMS HAS DONE IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. IT’S NOT ON CONTENT, IT’S NOT ON WHO’S ON SOCIAL MEDIA. RATHER, IT’S ON THIS ADDICTIVE QUALITY AND THAT THE ALGORITHM IS THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN WE CAN’T HIT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

NOW, THAT’S INTERESTING. IT’S ONLY TRYING ABOUT ONE OTHER STATE THAT’S CURRENTLY MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE COURTS AS WELL THAT WILL BE A UNIQUE ANGLE, THOUGH. AGAIN, WE’LL WHETHER HE JUST RUNS AFOUL OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THESE COMPANIES RIGHT TO HAVE A PRODUCT WITH SPEECH ON IT.

>> TERRY, IF I CAN JUMP IN, IN THE SENSE THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WAY THAT TECHNOLOGY SET UP, THE WAY THE ECONOMY, THE WAY THE TECHNOLOGY IS SET UP WITH US OR OUR GOVERNMENT, WE’RE LOOKING AT THIS AND THIS IS ONLY A UNITED STATES ISSUE. BUT WE HAVE TO GET FROM

A GEOPOLITICAL ISSUE, PARTICULAR AS A EUROPEAN UNION, HAS ALREADY MOVED FORWARD WITH POLICIES GOING FORWARD TO HELP REGULATE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. AND SO THE UNITED STATES. BUT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE MINDFUL OF WHAT IS OUR GEOPOLITICAL PARTNERS DOING WITH TECHNOLOGY IN CONVERSATIONS, WHAT DOING HERE WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

ABSOLUTELY ARTIFICIAL. THEY DON’T HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT. WE DO. BUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS GOING TO GET A HOLD OF ALL OF US PRETTY SOON. WE’LL SEE HOW HARD THAT WILL BE. MIKE, SARAH, CHRISTINA, THANKS VERY MUCH. >> AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION. APPRECIATE IT. WELL, COMING UP ON OUR LAST

CALL, WITH MICHIGAN’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NOW IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR, HEAD COACH JIM HARBAUGH HEADS FOR LOS. WE’LL BREAK DOWN THE HAPPINESS IN HOLLYWOOD, IN THE HEARTBREAKING IN OUR AFTER THE BREAK. >> FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU ON MEDIA, YET YOU WERE CONVICTED OF HELPING KILL YOUR MOM.

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