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ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING THE GULF COAST, BATTERING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, SHATTERING SKYSCRAPER WINDOWS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 100MPH. THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS. THE DEATH TOLL, DESTRUCTION AND WHERE THE STORM HEADS NEXT. >> NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT. THE PHOTO SHOWING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING AT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO’S HOME. WHAT THE JUSTICE IS NOW SAYING. >> FOUR HOUR WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND NO BARCODE SIGNS FOR PRESCRIPTIONS. THE GROWING FALLOUT FROM YET ANOTHER MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK TARGETING THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. >> THE STUNNING VIDEO OF A TRUCK DRIVER DANGLING OFF THIS BRIDGE ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER AFTER A CRASH. NOW SHE SPEAKS OUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT AS SHE WENT CAREENING OVER THE EDGE. >> INSULTS FLYING ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS. >> CALM DOWN. >> YOU PLEASE DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN. >> CALM DOWN BECAUSE Y’ALL TALK NICE AND THEN YOU OUT OF CONTROL. >> HOW ONE INSULT ABOUT A FELLOW LAWMAKERS EYELASHES IGNITED CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL LAST NIGHT . >> NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. CRITICS CALLING IT SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC. NOW A CATHOLIC GROUP AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL, RESPONDS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THE FARMER WITH A VERY UNUSUAL HARVEST, UNCOVERING A BIG PIECE OF SPACE JUNK WHAT HE PLANS TO DO WITH IT. >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. I’M RHIANNON ALLY, AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. >> IN FOR ANDREW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING PARTS OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS, WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE BEING REPORTED IN NEW ORLEANS, BUT IT’S HOUSTON, INCLUDING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, THAT HAS BEEN HIT THE HARDEST. >> OVERNIGHT, DEADLY STORMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE GULF COAST. >> IT’S BAD. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB WENT OFF IN THE HOUSTON AREA. >> VIOLENT WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING KILLING AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE. MASSIVE TREES TOPPLING INTO THE STREETS AND CRUSHING HOMES AS RESCUERS RUSHED TO HELP DOWNED POWER LINES EXPLODING OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING. WHILE ROWS OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS WERE LEFT MANGLED BY THE STORM, MORE THAN A MILLION TEXANS LEFT IN THE DARK AS THE HOWLING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS BATTERED THE REGION. >> I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES. DOWNTOWN IS A MESSIT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. SO STAY AT HOME IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, STREETS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS, 100 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BLOWING OUT WINDOWS IN THESE HIGH RISES. >> THE WALL OF THIS BAR CRUMBLING, LEAVING A GAPING HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHILE THE DOORS AND WINDOWS OF THIS BUILDING RATTLED VIOLENTLY AS IT WAS BATTERED BY DEBRIS. >> I WAS FREAKED OUT. NO, IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED OF, LIKE, THE ROOF WAS GONNA GET TORN OFF. I WAS SCARED SOMETHING’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT WAS SCARY. >> THE DELUGE EVEN MAKING ITS WAY INTO MINUTE MAID PARK, THE HOUSTON ASTROS COVERED STADIUM THIS MORNING. SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED . OFFICIALS URGING NONESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES TO STAY HOME. AND THE THREAT ISN’T OVER YET. AREAS FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA COULD SEE SEVERE FLOODING TODAY. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYONE DEALING WITH THAT. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> THE OTHER BIG STORY WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING, A POTENTIAL GOTCHA MOMENT AT THE TRUMP HUSH MONEY TRIAL. WHAT MICHAEL COHEN SAID ON THE STAND YESTERDAY COULD END UP BEING A KEY MOMENT IN THIS CASE. ABC’S PERRY RUSSOM HAS MORE ON THAT STORY. PERRY. GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AND ONE DRAMATIC AND POSSIBLY CRUCIAL MOMENT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY ACCUSED MICHAEL COHEN OF LYING TO THE JURY THIS MORNING. LEGAL EXPERTS SAY A TENSE EXCHANGE BETWEEN MICHAEL COHEN AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCH YESTERDAY COULD BE A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. I THINK IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DAY. >> IT WAS A FASCINATING DAY. >> DURING CROSS-EXAMINATION, BLANCH FOCUSED ON A PHONE CALL IN OCTOBER 2016, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. COHEN PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT DURING THAT CALL, HE TOLD TRUMP THE PLAN TO PAY OFF STAR STORMY DANIELS WAS MOVING FORWARD. BUT YESTERDAY, BLANCH SHOWED THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES THAT SUGGEST COHEN ACTUALLY CALLED TRUMP’S BODYGUARD, KEITH SCHILLER, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING PRANK CALLS FROM A TEENAGER RAISING HIS VOICE. BLANCH SAYING THAT WAS A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. YOU CAN ADMIT IT, COHEN RESPONDED. NO, SIR, I CAN, BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE THAT’S ACCURATE, ADDING, I BELIEVE I ALSO SPOKE TO MR. TRUMP ABOUT THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER. BLANCH FIRED BACK, WE ARE NOT ASKING WHAT YOU BELIEVE. THIS JURY DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED. BLANCH ALSO POINTED OUT THE LENGTH OF THE PHONE CALL, ASKING COHEN YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME IN THAT ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS TO UPDATE MR. SCHILLER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU WERE HAVING WITH THIS HARASSING PHONE CALL, AND ALSO UPDATE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE STATUS OF THE STORMY DANIELS SITUATION. BUT COHEN STUCK TO HIS STORY, INSISTING THE SHORT CALL COVERED BOTH ISSUES. THE DEFENSE ALSO TRIED TO CHIP AWAY AT COHEN’S CREDIBILITY, PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO TURNED ON TRUMP WHEN HE DIDN’T GET A JOB OFFER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> ANY TIME YOU HAVE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU, THEIR CREDIBILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. HE’S LIED SO MANY TIMES, SO MANY PLACES. >> TRUMP IS ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO CONCEAL THE PAYMENT TO DANIELS BEFORE THE ELECTION. HE DENIES THE ENCOUNTER AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. COURT IS NOT IN SESSION TODAY. COHEN RETURNS TO THE STAND MONDAY. THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE POSSIBLE AS SOON AS TUESDAY. STILL NO WORD IF TRUMP WILL TESTIFY. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT, PERRY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SOME BREAKING NEWS. OVERSEAS POLICE IN NORTHERN FRANCE HAVE FATALLY SHOT A MAN. THEY SAY SET FIRE TO A SYNAGOGUE. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, OFFICERS SHOT THE MAN AFTER HE APPROACHED HIM WITH A KNIFE. THE FIRE IS OUT. DAMAGE TO THE SYNAGOGUE IS DESCRIBED AS SIGNIFICANT. >> A NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAD AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING IN HIS YARD JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH RIOT AT THE CAPITOL. THE INVERTED FLAG IS OFTEN VIEWED AS A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL USED BY SOME TRUMP SUPPORTERS. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBTAINED THIS PHOTO OF THE FLAG AT ALITO’S HOME. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN JUST BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION, AS THE COURT WAS CONSIDERING AN ELECTION CASE. BUT JUSTICE ALITO IS BLAMING HIS WIFE, ALITO, SAYING I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONAL INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. ALITO DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> NOW, NOW TO ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK AFFECTING HEALTH CARE AT THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. THIS ATTACK, IMPACTING WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT PATIENT CARE. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING HOSPITALS IN CHAOS. THAT’S HOW SOME NURSES AND PATIENTS ARE DESCRIBING OPERATIONS AT ASCENSION FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN THE WAKE OF LAST WEEK’S RANSOMWARE ATTACK. >> THIS IS TRULY A CRISIS SITUATION. >> THE CYBER ATTACK HAS AFFECTED 140 HOSPITALS AND DOZENS OF SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES IN 19 STATES, IMPACTING EVERYTHING FROM ORDERING TESTS TO READING LABS AND SCANS. WITH ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS BLOCKED, STAFF ARE FORCED TO WRITE NOTES ON PAPER. >> SHE’S CHARTING IT. SHE’S WRITING IT BY HAND, SO IT WAS, IT WAS A LONG WAIT. >> ASCENSION OFFICIALS SAY THEY DON’T HAVE A TIMELINE ON WHEN SYSTEMS WILL BE FULLY BACK ONLINE, SAYING DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, PATIENT SAFETY CONTINUES TO BE OUR UTMOST PRIORITY. IT’S JUST THE LATEST CYBER ATTACK IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR. EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN ATTACK ON CHANGE HEALTH CARE DISRUPTED SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE. THE COMPANY ENDED UP PAYING A $22 MILLION RANSOM. NURSES ARE ON EDGE. >> THEY CANNOT SCAN THE MEDICATIONS, SO YOU CAN’T SCAN THE PATIENT’S ARMBAND OR THE BARCODE ON THE MEDICATION TO MATCH TO SEE IF THAT IS EVEN A CORRECT ORDER OR DOSE. NURSES ARE WORRIED ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AND ALSO ABOUT THEIR OWN NURSING LICENSE, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SAFETY CHECKS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE HAVE BASICALLY BEEN ELIMINATED, AND ASCENSION COULD NOW FACE LEGAL ACTION. >> ACCUSED OF FAILING TO PROTECT PATIENT DATA, THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF THE HACK. RHIANNON. LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, THANKS TO ANDREA FUJII FOR THAT. THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO DANGLED OVER A BRIDGE 100FT ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER, IS TALKING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME, CYDNEY THOMAS TELLS OUR LOUISVILLE AFFILIATE WAS THAT WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK HIT HER ON THE BRIDGE, SHE LOST HER STEERING AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS BRACE HERSELF. >> I FELT MYSELF GOING OVER. I’M LIKE, I’M GONNA HAVE TO JUMP. I CAN’T SWIM EITHER. I DIDN’T KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS. I THOUGHT THAT THE TRAILER WAS STILL ON THE BRIDGE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. IT WAS LIKE THIS. >> WOW. SHE WAS DANGLING OVER THAT RIVER FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL RESCUE CREWS HOISTED HER BACK UP INTO THE BRIDGE. >> GLAD SHE’S OKAY. TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE’RE STILL TRACKING A SERIOUS FLOOD THREAT INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE GULF COAST AREA, DAMAGING WIND, HAIL, AND EVEN A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE AREA AROUND THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. EVEN SATURDAY, MORE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA, AN INCREASING FLOOD RISK THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN INTO SATURDAY IN THESE AREAS. OVERALL THOUGH, WE’RE TURNING DRIER FARTHER TO THE WEST. COOLER IN THE NORTHEAST. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, HOW ONE AIRLINE IS TRYING TO GET US TO PAY ATTENTION DURING THE IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. >> BUT FIRST, NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER A CRITICIZED AS SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC BY A CATHOLIC GROUP LINKED TO THE SCHOOL RESPONSE. >> PLUS, WE HEAR FROM THE MAN WHO RECEIVED THE FIRST BRAIN IMPLANT FROM NEURALINK, HELPING HIM CONTROL A COMPUTER WITH HIS THOUGH 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 ABCews 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. 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Now there’s just so much happening in our world so much at stake at the start of every morning and that’s why it Good Morning America. We’re right here, and we got you. We got you we got you. OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA. >> TRAFFIC IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS ALWAYS CHALLENGING , BUT THINGS GOT EVEN SLOWER WHEN A BEAR APPEARED ON THIS FREEWAY NORTH OF LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK. TOOK SOME TIME AND TOOK A LITTLE STROLL IN FRONT OF SOME CARS BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE HILLS. >> WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM A MAN WHO IS LIVING WITH A LIFE CHANGING BRAIN IMPLANT. NOLAN ARBAUGH WAS PARALYZED IN A SWIMMING ACCIDENT, BUT HE HAD A CHIP IMPLANTED INTO HIS BRAIN LAST YEAR, MADE BY ELON MUSK’S COMPANY, NEURALINK. THE IMPLANT ALLOWS HIM TO CONTROL DEVICES WITH HIS BRAIN. HE SPOKE TO ABC’S WILL REEVE. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL, AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU JUST PLAYED SOME MUSIC. YEAH, MAN. THAT’S AWESOME. >> THE DEVICE SUFFERED A MALFUNCTION RECENTLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED. AND LATER ON, GOOD MORNING AMERICA EXPLAINS WHY HE TOOK A RISK ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH OVER NFL PLAYER HARRISON BUTLER’S COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH. THERE IS A NEW DISPUTE OVER HIS TREATMENT ONLINE. THIS MORNING, MISSOURI’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER HE SAYS AN OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT FOR THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY POSTED PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HARRISON BUTLER. HE’S THE SUPER BOWL WINNING KICKER FOR THE CHIEFS, FACING A FIRESTORM OVER HIS RECENT COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, WHICH INCLUDED THIS COMMENT ABOUT WOMEN. >> I WOULD VENTURE TO GUESS THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE MOST EXCITED ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE CHILDREN YOU WILL BRING INTO THIS WORLD. >> CRITICS ALSO CALLING HIS GRADUATION SPEECH HOMOPHOBIC, NOT THE DEADLY SIN SORT OF PRIDE THAT HAS AN ENTIRE MONTH DEDICATED TO IT. BUTLER SPOKE AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE, A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN KANSAS. THE OFFICIAL KANSAS CITY ACCOUNT ON X LATER TWEETED, JUST A REMINDER THAT HARRISON BUTLER LIVES. AND THEN THE POST LISTED BUTLER’S HOMETOWN. THE ACCOUNT LATER DELETED THAT TWEET AND APOLOGIZED. THE MAYOR CALLING THE POST INAPPROPRIATE. MISSOURI’S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, OUTRAGED, NOW VOWING TO ENFORCE THE MISSOURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO ENSURE MISSOURIANS ARE NOT TARGETED FOR THEIR FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, BUTLER IS FUELING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THE SAME WAY WE WANT RESPECT. >> WHEN COLIN KAEPERNICK TAKES A KNEE RIGHT? WE WANT TO GIVE RESPECT TO PEOPLE WHOSE IDEAS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OURS. >> THE WIFE OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CEO POSTING AFFIRMING MOTHERHOOD AND PRAISING YOUR WIFE IS NOT BIGOTED. BUT THE FOUNDING INSTITUTION OF BENEDICTINE COLLEGE SAYS BUTLER’S COMMENTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE SCHOOL AS ITS FOUNDERS ENVISIONED, SAYING INSTEAD OF PROMOTING UNITY, HIS COMMENTS SEEM TO HAVE FOSTERED DIVISION, THIS STUDENT SEEMING TO AGREE MOST OF THE WOMEN WERE LOOKING BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER. >> DID HE JUST COME HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS AND HIS VIEWS ON WOMEN? >> WELL, THE SPEECH IS ALSO DIVIDING FOOTBALL FANS. SALES OF HIS JERSEY ARE BOOMING. AN ONLINE PETITION DEMANDS, THOUGH, THAT THE CHIEFS RELEASE HIM. >> COMING UP, CAITLIN CLARK’S HOME OPENER LAST NIGHT. NOT EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS HOPING FOR. >> ALSO AHEAD, CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. >> OKAY, MOVE TO STRIKE THROUGH. I MOVE TO STRIKE. I MOVE TO STRIKE. ORDER! >> THE LADY. >> ONE LAWMAKER INSULTS ANOTHER’S EYELASHES. THEN THINGS Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. 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OH, HAD THE THREE BALL RIM OUT A FRUSTRATING HOME DEBUT FOR CAITLIN CLARK. >> SHE SCORED ONLY NINE POINTS IN A 102 TO 66 BLOWOUT LOSS TO THE NEW YORK LIBERTY, NOW TO THE US CAPITOL AND CHAOS ERUPTING DURING WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RATHER ROUTINE HEARING UNTIL SOMEONE MENTIONED FAKE EYELASHES. >> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSING TO TURN OVER A RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH A SPECIAL COUNSEL. BUT LAST NIGHT’S HEARING ERUPTED INTO CHAOS WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WENT OFF TOPIC OR. >> OH. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY. >> WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT TRIED TO STOP GREENE’S LINE OF QUESTIONING, GREENE COMMENTED ON CROCKETT’S QUOTE, FAKE EYELASHES. >> DO YOU DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR? YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE ABOUT? I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR. WELL, YOU DON’T WANT TALKING ABOUT. >> I THINK YOU’RE FAKE. EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. HOLD ON, HOLD ON. >> LISTEN, GREENE SHOUTING A REFUSAL TO APOLOGIZE. OTHER LAWMAKERS THEN COMING TO CROCKETT’S DEFENSE. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO TAKE DOWN MISS GREENE’S WORDS. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT HER WORDS DOWN OR OH OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL? >> OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY BABY GIRL I DON’T THINK WE ARE. >> THEN MORE CHAOS. AFTER CROCKETT APPEARED TO INSULT GREENE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING, IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY BLEACHED BLOND, BAD BUILT, BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES, CORRECT? >> A WHAT NOW? >> CHAIRMAN? I MAKE A I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. >> CROCKETT LATER POSTED. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MENTALLY DEFICIENT PEOPLE WHO CAN’T READ AND FOLLOW RULES OR JUST DON’T GIVE A, SOMEHOW END UP IN CONGRESS. 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HOUSTON IS WAITING IN THE WINGS AND SAN ANTONIO IS ONCE AGAIN THE FASTEST GROWING CITY. >> AND GET THIS, DETROIT’S POPULATION GREW FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1957. NEXT, SOME NEW LIFE FOR SO-CALLED BRICK AND MORTAR STORES. >> WAYFAIR, KNOWN AS AN ONLINE RETAIL GIANT, IS OPENING A GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHYSICAL STORE. IT’S SET TO OPEN NEXT WEEK NEAR CHICAGO. IT’S PART OF A TREND RETAIL STORE OPENINGS ACTUALLY OUTPACED CLOSURES RECENTLY. >> NEXT, A FARMER FINDING A HUGE PIECE OF SPACE JUNK. >> THIS HAPPENED IN RURAL CANADA. THE SPACE DEBRIS IS SIX FEET WIDE. EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S PART OF A SPACE ROCKET. THE FARMER SAYS HE WANTS TO SELL IT TO BUILD A HOCKEY RINK. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE PRICE NEXT. A NEW ATTEMPT TO KEEP YOU FROM TUNING OUT AS YOU TAKE OFF. >> WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. UNITED AIRLINES HAS PRODUCED A NEW IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. IT’S LIVE ACTION USING A BLUE BALL TO GO FROM ONE SCENE TO THE NEXT. THE AIRLINE THINKS THIS WILL KEEP YOU FOCUSED. EXPERTS SAY FUNNY VIDEOS PRODUCED BY OTHER AIRLINES HAVE NOT BEEN AFFECTED, THOUGH. >> FINALLY, A NEW DAD GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS. >> PRO GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SANK AN INCREDIBLE 167 YARDS SHOT. THIS WAS HIS VERY FIRST DRIVE AFTER WELCOMING HIS NEW SON. A BIG CONGRATS TO HIM ON BOTH GOOD LUCK 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 the biggest Stars music Trends, and of course, good food 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. >> 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 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. With so much at stake. 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, Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this HELP. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER A VIOLENT STORM ROARED THROUGH HOUSTON, DAMAGING BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN AND KNOCKING OUT POWER TO MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE BEING URGED TO STAY OFF THE ROADS OVERSEAS. >> HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES ARE NOW PASSING THROUGH A NEWLY BUILT U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. OFFICIALS SAY U.S. TROOPS WILL NOT COME ON SHORE, BUT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE AID OPERATION IS NOT WITHOUT RISK. IT COMES AS A SMALL GROUP OF ISRAELIS CONTINUE TRYING TO BLOCK AID TRUCKS FROM ENTERING GAZA. >> THE TSA IS WARNING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL WILL BE THE BUSIEST SINCE 2010. THURSDAY WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY FOR AIR TRAVEL, AND OFFICIALS SAY THE SUMMER WILL BE THE BUSIEST EVER FOR AIR TRAVEL, WITH 15% MORE TRAVELERS THAN LAST YEAR. >> TODAY’S WEATHER, MORE SEVERE STORMS ON THE GULF COAST, FLOODING AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE, AND MORE RAIN ACROSS THE EAST AND IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, A MAN IS SHARING HIS INCREDIBLE CONNECTION WITH A LIONESS. >> HE SPOKE TO DANNY NOON. >> LOOK OUT! >> OH, THEY’RE FRIENDS. >> WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE HUGGED BY A LION? >> IT DOESN’T FEEL AS CUDDLY AS IT LOOKS. I THINK SOMETIMES. >> VALBRUNA HERE IS A GERMAN BORN CONSERVATIONIST WHO LIVES IN BOTSWANA’S KALAHARI DESERT. >> AND YES, HE IS A BEST FRIEND. SLASH ADOPTED LIONESS DAUGHTER NAMED SAGA. >> I LOVE HER LIKE YOU KNOW, LIKE I GUESS, LIKE SOMEONE WOULD LOVE THEIR CHILD. >> NOW, VAL DID NOT SET OUT TO RAISE A LION 12 YEARS AGO. HE RESCUED SAGA AFTER SHE WAS BORN IN CAPTIVITY UNDER UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE OWNER ASKED ME TO TRY AND HAND RAISE THE LAST SURVIVING CUP, WHICH WAS LYING AROUND WITHOUT BEING FED BY THE MOM FOR ABOUT TWO DAYS. A TEN DAYS OLD VAL STARTED BOTTLE FEEDING SAGA HIMSELF, AND NOW, MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, SHE’S A FULLY GROWN LADY WHO GETS TO HUNT AND LIVE ON HIS 17,000 ACRE PRIVATE WILDLIFE AREA. YEAH, ALSO, SHE GETS LOTS OF GOOD. PETS. TECHNICALLY, THERE ARE FENCES IN PLACE, BUT VAL SAYS SAGA COULD GET OUT IF SHE WANTED TO. OTHER LIONS COME IN AND SAY HI ALL THE TIME, BUT SAGA IS USED TO ENCLOSED AREAS OVER THE YEARS AND PROBABLY NOT SURPRISINGLY, VIDEOS LIKE THESE HAVE MADE SAGA AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STAR WITH MORE THAN 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS ACROSS PLATFORMS. >> I HOPE THAT SAGA STORY WILL CREATE AWARENESS FOR WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION AND THROUGH VAL’S MAIN COMPANY CALLED THE MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT, HE TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE REACH HE AND SAGA NOW HAVE TO HELP PROTECT THE AFRICAN WILDLIFE THAT THIS GERMAN BORN MAN HAS GROWN TO LOVE. I DON’T THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD THE ENERGY IF IT WASN’T FOR HER AND GUYS. >> MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT DOES HOST STUDENTS AND VISITORS TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT NATURE THERE. BUT JUST FYI, IT IS A 2.5 HOUR DRIVE FROM THE NEAREST VILLAGE, SO YOU GOT TO PLAN YOUR TRIP OKAY? >> AND YOU CAN’T HUG THE LIONESS. WHAT? YEAH, IT’S ON THE WEBSITE. DANNY TOLD ME. NO HUGSW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING THE GULF COAST, BATTERING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, SHATTERING SKYSCRAPER WINDOWS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 100MPH. THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS. THE DEATH TOLL, DESTRUCTION AND WHERE THE STORM HEADS NEXT. >> NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT. THE PHOTO SHOWING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING AT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO’S HOME. WHAT THE JUSTICE IS NOW SAYING. >> FOUR HOUR WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND NO BARCODE SIGNS FOR PRESCRIPTIONS. THE GROWING FALLOUT FROM YET ANOTHER MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK TARGETING THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. >> THE STUNNING VIDEO OF A TRUCK DRIVER DANGLING OFF THIS BRIDGE ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER AFTER A CRASH. NOW SHE SPEAKS OUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT AS SHE WENT CAREENING OVER THE EDGE. >> INSULTS FLYING ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS. >> CALM DOWN. >> YOU PLEASE DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN. >> CALM DOWN BECAUSE Y’ALL TALK NICE AND THEN YOU OUT OF CONTROL. >> HOW ONE INSULT ABOUT A FELLOW LAWMAKERS EYELASHES IGNITED CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL LAST NIGHT . >> NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. CRITICS CALLING IT SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC. NOW A CATHOLIC GROUP AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL, RESPONDS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THE FARMER WITH A VERY UNUSUAL HARVEST, UNCOVERING A BIG PIECE OF SPACE JUNK WHAT HE PLANS TO DO WITH IT. >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. I’M RHIANNON ALLY, AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. >> IN FOR ANDREW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING PARTS OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS, WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE BEING REPORTED IN NEW ORLEANS, BUT IT’S HOUSTON, INCLUDING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, THAT HAS BEEN HIT THE HARDEST. >> OVERNIGHT, DEADLY STORMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE GULF COAST. >> IT’S BAD. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB WENT OFF IN THE HOUSTON AREA. >> VIOLENT WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING KILLING AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE. MASSIVE TREES TOPPLING INTO THE STREETS AND CRUSHING HOMES AS RESCUERS RUSHED TO HELP DOWNED POWER LINES EXPLODING OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING. WHILE ROWS OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS WERE LEFT MANGLED BY THE STORM, MORE THAN A MILLION TEXANS LEFT IN THE DARK AS THE HOWLING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS BATTERED THE REGION. >> I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES. DOWNTOWN IS A MESSIT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. SO STAY AT HOME IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, STREETS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS, 100 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BLOWING OUT WINDOWS IN THESE HIGH RISES. >> THE WALL OF THIS BAR CRUMBLING, LEAVING A GAPING HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHILE THE DOORS AND WINDOWS OF THIS BUILDING RATTLED VIOLENTLY AS IT WAS BATTERED BY DEBRIS. >> I WAS FREAKED OUT. NO, IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED OF, LIKE, THE ROOF WAS GONNA GET TORN OFF. I WAS SCARED SOMETHING’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT WAS SCARY. >> THE DELUGE EVEN MAKING ITS WAY INTO MINUTE MAID PARK, THE HOUSTON ASTROS COVERED STADIUM THIS MORNING. SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED . OFFICIALS URGING NONESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES TO STAY HOME. AND THE THREAT ISN’T OVER YET. AREAS FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA COULD SEE SEVERE FLOODING TODAY. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYONE DEALING WITH THAT. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> THE OTHER BIG STORY WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING, A POTENTIAL GOTCHA MOMENT AT THE TRUMP HUSH MONEY TRIAL. WHAT MICHAEL COHEN SAID ON THE STAND YESTERDAY COULD END UP BEING A KEY MOMENT IN THIS CASE. ABC’S PERRY RUSSOM HAS MORE ON THAT STORY. PERRY. GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AND ONE DRAMATIC AND POSSIBLY CRUCIAL MOMENT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY ACCUSED MICHAEL COHEN OF LYING TO THE JURY THIS MORNING. LEGAL EXPERTS SAY A TENSE EXCHANGE BETWEEN MICHAEL COHEN AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCH YESTERDAY COULD BE A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. I THINK IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DAY. >> IT WAS A FASCINATING DAY. >> DURING CROSS-EXAMINATION, BLANCH FOCUSED ON A PHONE CALL IN OCTOBER 2016, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. COHEN PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT DURING THAT CALL, HE TOLD TRUMP THE PLAN TO PAY OFF STAR STORMY DANIELS WAS MOVING FORWARD. BUT YESTERDAY, BLANCH SHOWED THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES THAT SUGGEST COHEN ACTUALLY CALLED TRUMP’S BODYGUARD, KEITH SCHILLER, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING PRANK CALLS FROM A TEENAGER RAISING HIS VOICE. BLANCH SAYING THAT WAS A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. YOU CAN ADMIT IT, COHEN RESPONDED. NO, SIR, I CAN, BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE THAT’S ACCURATE, ADDING, I BELIEVE I ALSO SPOKE TO MR. TRUMP ABOUT THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER. BLANCH FIRED BACK, WE ARE NOT ASKING WHAT YOU BELIEVE. THIS JURY DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED. BLANCH ALSO POINTED OUT THE LENGTH OF THE PHONE CALL, ASKING COHEN YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME IN THAT ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS TO UPDATE MR. SCHILLER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU WERE HAVING WITH THIS HARASSING PHONE CALL, AND ALSO UPDATE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE STATUS OF THE STORMY DANIELS SITUATION. BUT COHEN STUCK TO HIS STORY, INSISTING THE SHORT CALL COVERED BOTH ISSUES. THE DEFENSE ALSO TRIED TO CHIP AWAY AT COHEN’S CREDIBILITY, PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO TURNED ON TRUMP WHEN HE DIDN’T GET A JOB OFFER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> ANY TIME YOU HAVE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU, THEIR CREDIBILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. HE’S LIED SO MANY TIMES, SO MANY PLACES. >> TRUMP IS ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO CONCEAL THE PAYMENT TO DANIELS BEFORE THE ELECTION. HE DENIES THE ENCOUNTER AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. COURT IS NOT IN SESSION TODAY. COHEN RETURNS TO THE STAND MONDAY. THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE POSSIBLE AS SOON AS TUESDAY. STILL NO WORD IF TRUMP WILL TESTIFY. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT, PERRY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SOME BREAKING NEWS. OVERSEAS POLICE IN NORTHERN FRANCE HAVE FATALLY SHOT A MAN. THEY SAY SET FIRE TO A SYNAGOGUE. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, OFFICERS SHOT THE MAN AFTER HE APPROACHED HIM WITH A KNIFE. THE FIRE IS OUT. DAMAGE TO THE SYNAGOGUE IS DESCRIBED AS SIGNIFICANT. >> A NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAD AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING IN HIS YARD JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH RIOT AT THE CAPITOL. THE INVERTED FLAG IS OFTEN VIEWED AS A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL USED BY SOME TRUMP SUPPORTERS. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBTAINED THIS PHOTO OF THE FLAG AT ALITO’S HOME. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN JUST BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION, AS THE COURT WAS CONSIDERING AN ELECTION CASE. BUT JUSTICE ALITO IS BLAMING HIS WIFE, ALITO, SAYING I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONAL INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. ALITO DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> NOW, NOW TO ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK AFFECTING HEALTH CARE AT THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. THIS ATTACK, IMPACTING WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT PATIENT CARE. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING HOSPITALS IN CHAOS. THAT’S HOW SOME NURSES AND PATIENTS ARE DESCRIBING OPERATIONS AT ASCENSION FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN THE WAKE OF LAST WEEK’S RANSOMWARE ATTACK. >> THIS IS TRULY A CRISIS SITUATION. >> THE CYBER ATTACK HAS AFFECTED 140 HOSPITALS AND DOZENS OF SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES IN 19 STATES, IMPACTING EVERYTHING FROM ORDERING TESTS TO READING LABS AND SCANS. WITH ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS BLOCKED, STAFF ARE FORCED TO WRITE NOTES ON PAPER. >> SHE’S CHARTING IT. SHE’S WRITING IT BY HAND, SO IT WAS, IT WAS A LONG WAIT. >> ASCENSION OFFICIALS SAY THEY DON’T HAVE A TIMELINE ON WHEN SYSTEMS WILL BE FULLY BACK ONLINE, SAYING DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, PATIENT SAFETY CONTINUES TO BE OUR UTMOST PRIORITY. IT’S JUST THE LATEST CYBER ATTACK IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR. EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN ATTACK ON CHANGE HEALTH CARE DISRUPTED SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE. THE COMPANY ENDED UP PAYING A $22 MILLION RANSOM. NURSES ARE ON EDGE. >> THEY CANNOT SCAN THE MEDICATIONS, SO YOU CAN’T SCAN THE PATIENT’S ARMBAND OR THE BARCODE ON THE MEDICATION TO MATCH TO SEE IF THAT IS EVEN A CORRECT ORDER OR DOSE. NURSES ARE WORRIED ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AND ALSO ABOUT THEIR OWN NURSING LICENSE, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SAFETY CHECKS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE HAVE BASICALLY BEEN ELIMINATED, AND ASCENSION COULD NOW FACE LEGAL ACTION. >> ACCUSED OF FAILING TO PROTECT PATIENT DATA, THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF THE HACK. RHIANNON. LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, THANKS TO ANDREA FUJII FOR THAT. THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO DANGLED OVER A BRIDGE 100FT ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER, IS TALKING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME, CYDNEY THOMAS TELLS OUR LOUISVILLE AFFILIATE WAS THAT WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK HIT HER ON THE BRIDGE, SHE LOST HER STEERING AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS BRACE HERSELF. >> I FELT MYSELF GOING OVER. I’M LIKE, I’M GONNA HAVE TO JUMP. I CAN’T SWIM EITHER. I DIDN’T KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS. I THOUGHT THAT THE TRAILER WAS STILL ON THE BRIDGE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. IT WAS LIKE THIS. >> WOW. SHE WAS DANGLING OVER THAT RIVER FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL RESCUE CREWS HOISTED HER BACK UP INTO THE BRIDGE. >> GLAD SHE’S OKAY. TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE’RE STILL TRACKING A SERIOUS FLOOD THREAT INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE GULF COAST AREA, DAMAGING WIND, HAIL, AND EVEN A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE AREA AROUND THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. EVEN SATURDAY, MORE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA, AN INCREASING FLOOD RISK THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN INTO SATURDAY IN THESE AREAS. OVERALL THOUGH, WE’RE TURNING DRIER FARTHER TO THE WEST. COOLER IN THE NORTHEAST. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, HOW ONE AIRLINE IS TRYING TO GET US TO PAY ATTENTION DURING THE IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. >> BUT FIRST, NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER A CRITICIZED AS SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC BY A CATHOLIC GROUP LINKED TO THE SCHOOL RESPONSE. >> PLUS, WE HEAR FROM THE MAN WHO RECEIVED THE FIRST BRAIN IMPLANT FROM NEURALINK, HELPING HIM CONTROL A COMPUTER WITH HIS THOUGH We’re trying to get answers for the community at large. Even if maybe some of the community doesn’t feel like they need those answers. I have covered child homicides before and now my daughter’s autopsy will be made public 1 day. Those who? I Can you stick good mornings in America? Can you feel the knife wounds that Inspire filled with hope kindness Joy surprises in so much fun start your day with good winning. America’s ray of sunshine highlighting the best of America and helping make dreams. Come true is so happy it is so good and ready to smile and put the good into your Morning America because you know, what will make the morning better a little ray of sunshine. Whenever Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde, Texas Edinburgh Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the cranium refugees here in Warsaw committing to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream your news only 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 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. OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA. >> TRAFFIC IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS ALWAYS CHALLENGING , BUT THINGS GOT EVEN SLOWER WHEN A BEAR APPEARED ON THIS FREEWAY NORTH OF LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK. TOOK SOME TIME AND TOOK A LITTLE STROLL IN FRONT OF SOME CARS BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE HILLS. >> WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM A MAN WHO IS LIVING WITH A LIFE CHANGING BRAIN IMPLANT. NOLAN ARBAUGH WAS PARALYZED IN A SWIMMING ACCIDENT, BUT HE HAD A CHIP IMPLANTED INTO HIS BRAIN LAST YEAR, MADE BY ELON MUSK’S COMPANY, NEURALINK. THE IMPLANT ALLOWS HIM TO CONTROL DEVICES WITH HIS BRAIN. HE SPOKE TO ABC’S WILL REEVE. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL, AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU JUST PLAYED SOME MUSIC. YEAH, MAN. THAT’S AWESOME. >> THE DEVICE SUFFERED A MALFUNCTION RECENTLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED. AND LATER ON, GOOD MORNING AMERICA EXPLAINS WHY HE TOOK A RISK ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH OVER NFL PLAYER HARRISON BUTLER’S COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH. THERE IS A NEW DISPUTE OVER HIS TREATMENT ONLINE. THIS MORNING, MISSOURI’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER HE SAYS AN OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT FOR THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY POSTED PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HARRISON BUTLER. HE’S THE SUPER BOWL WINNING KICKER FOR THE CHIEFS, FACING A FIRESTORM OVER HIS RECENT COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, WHICH INCLUDED THIS COMMENT ABOUT WOMEN. >> I WOULD VENTURE TO GUESS THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE MOST EXCITED ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE CHILDREN YOU WILL BRING INTO THIS WORLD. >> CRITICS ALSO CALLING HIS GRADUATION SPEECH HOMOPHOBIC, NOT THE DEADLY SIN SORT OF PRIDE THAT HAS AN ENTIRE MONTH DEDICATED TO IT. BUTLER SPOKE AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE, A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN KANSAS. THE OFFICIAL KANSAS CITY ACCOUNT ON X LATER TWEETED, JUST A REMINDER THAT HARRISON BUTLER LIVES. AND THEN THE POST LISTED BUTLER’S HOMETOWN. THE ACCOUNT LATER DELETED THAT TWEET AND APOLOGIZED. THE MAYOR CALLING THE POST INAPPROPRIATE. MISSOURI’S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, OUTRAGED, NOW VOWING TO ENFORCE THE MISSOURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO ENSURE MISSOURIANS ARE NOT TARGETED FOR THEIR FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, BUTLER IS FUELING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THE SAME WAY WE WANT RESPECT. >> WHEN COLIN KAEPERNICK TAKES A KNEE RIGHT? WE WANT TO GIVE RESPECT TO PEOPLE WHOSE IDEAS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OURS. >> THE WIFE OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CEO POSTING AFFIRMING MOTHERHOOD AND PRAISING YOUR WIFE IS NOT BIGOTED. BUT THE FOUNDING INSTITUTION OF BENEDICTINE COLLEGE SAYS BUTLER’S COMMENTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE SCHOOL AS ITS FOUNDERS ENVISIONED, SAYING INSTEAD OF PROMOTING UNITY, HIS COMMENTS SEEM TO HAVE FOSTERED DIVISION, THIS STUDENT SEEMING TO AGREE MOST OF THE WOMEN WERE LOOKING BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER. >> DID HE JUST COME HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS AND HIS VIEWS ON WOMEN? >> WELL, THE SPEECH IS ALSO DIVIDING FOOTBALL FANS. SALES OF HIS JERSEY ARE BOOMING. AN ONLINE PETITION DEMANDS, THOUGH, THAT THE CHIEFS RELEASE HIM. >> COMING UP, CAITLIN CLARK’S HOME OPENER LAST NIGHT. NOT EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS HOPING FOR. >> ALSO AHEAD, CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. >> OKAY, MOVE TO STRIKE THROUGH. I MOVE TO STRIKE. I MOVE TO STRIKE. ORDER! >> THE LADY. >> ONE LAWMAKER INSULTS ANOTHER’S EYELASHES. THEN THINGS GE With so much at stake. 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, Give it to me. Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this If you want a relationship a happy relationship you need to be in control of that relationship is 1 of many male Supremacy influencers. 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Whenever Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde, Texas Edinburgh Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the cranium refugees here in Warsaw committing to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live YOU YOU? >> WHEELER SETS APART. OH, HAD THE THREE BALL RIM OUT A FRUSTRATING HOME DEBUT FOR CAITLIN CLARK. >> SHE SCORED ONLY NINE POINTS IN A 102 TO 66 BLOWOUT LOSS TO THE NEW YORK LIBERTY, NOW TO THE US CAPITOL AND CHAOS ERUPTING DURING WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RATHER ROUTINE HEARING UNTIL SOMEONE MENTIONED FAKE EYELASHES. >> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSING TO TURN OVER A RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH A SPECIAL COUNSEL. BUT LAST NIGHT’S HEARING ERUPTED INTO CHAOS WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WENT OFF TOPIC OR. >> OH. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY. >> WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT TRIED TO STOP GREENE’S LINE OF QUESTIONING, GREENE COMMENTED ON CROCKETT’S QUOTE, FAKE EYELASHES. >> DO YOU DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR? YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE ABOUT? I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR. WELL, YOU DON’T WANT TALKING ABOUT. >> I THINK YOU’RE FAKE. EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. HOLD ON, HOLD ON. >> LISTEN, GREENE SHOUTING A REFUSAL TO APOLOGIZE. OTHER LAWMAKERS THEN COMING TO CROCKETT’S DEFENSE. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO TAKE DOWN MISS GREENE’S WORDS. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT HER WORDS DOWN OR OH OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL? >> OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY BABY GIRL I DON’T THINK WE ARE. >> THEN MORE CHAOS. AFTER CROCKETT APPEARED TO INSULT GREENE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING, IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY BLEACHED BLOND, BAD BUILT, BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES, CORRECT? >> A WHAT NOW? >> CHAIRMAN? I MAKE A I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. >> CROCKETT LATER POSTED. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MENTALLY DEFICIENT PEOPLE WHO CAN’T READ AND FOLLOW RULES OR JUST DON’T GIVE A, SOMEHOW END UP IN CONGRESS. THE BICKERING THERE DELAYED PROCEEDINGS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. >> ALL RIGHT, COMING UP, THE NEW FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE U.S, PLUS THE NEW DAD WITH QUITE THE SHOWING ON THE GREEN We’re trying to get answers for the community at large. Even if maybe some of the community doesn’t feel like they need those answers. I have covered child homicides before and now my daughter’s autopsy will be made public 1 day. Those who? I >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. 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NEXT, SOME NEW LIFE FOR SO-CALLED BRICK AND MORTAR STORES. >> WAYFAIR, KNOWN AS AN ONLINE RETAIL GIANT, IS OPENING A GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHYSICAL STORE. IT’S SET TO OPEN NEXT WEEK NEAR CHICAGO. IT’S PART OF A TREND RETAIL STORE OPENINGS ACTUALLY OUTPACED CLOSURES RECENTLY. >> NEXT, A FARMER FINDING A HUGE PIECE OF SPACE JUNK. >> THIS HAPPENED IN RURAL CANADA. THE SPACE DEBRIS IS SIX FEET WIDE. EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S PART OF A SPACE ROCKET. THE FARMER SAYS HE WANTS TO SELL IT TO BUILD A HOCKEY RINK. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE PRICE NEXT. A NEW ATTEMPT TO KEEP YOU FROM TUNING OUT AS YOU TAKE OFF. >> WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. UNITED AIRLINES HAS PRODUCED A NEW IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. IT’S LIVE ACTION USING A BLUE BALL TO GO FROM ONE SCENE TO THE NEXT. THE AIRLINE THINKS THIS WILL KEEP YOU FOCUSED. EXPERTS SAY FUNNY VIDEOS PRODUCED BY OTHER AIRLINES HAVE NOT BEEN AFFECTED, THOUGH. >> FINALLY, A NEW DAD GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS. >> PRO GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SANK AN INCREDIBLE 167 YARDS SHOT. THIS WAS HIS VERY FIRST DRIVE AFTER WELCOMING HIS NEW SON. A BIG CONGRATS TO HIM ON BOTH GOOD LUCK We’re trying to get answers for the community at large. Even if maybe some of the community doesn’t feel like they need those answers. I have covered child homicides before and now my daughter’s autopsy will be made public 1 day. Those who? I Give it to me. >> 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 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. If you want a relationship a happy relationship you need to be in control of that relationship is 1 of many male Supremacy influencers. You see him as this guy that has money as girls basically, he’s a god it’s compound with prosecutors say he ran a sex trafficking business from we’re not the first affluent wealthy men who have Been unfairly attacked you think he he raped you. They never meant for any of this to be public says there’s something wrong going around here. HELP. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER A VIOLENT STORM ROARED THROUGH HOUSTON, DAMAGING BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN AND KNOCKING OUT POWER TO MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE BEING URGED TO STAY OFF THE ROADS OVERSEAS. >> HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES ARE NOW PASSING THROUGH A NEWLY BUILT U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. OFFICIALS SAY U.S. TROOPS WILL NOT COME ON SHORE, BUT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE AID OPERATION IS NOT WITHOUT RISK. IT COMES AS A SMALL GROUP OF ISRAELIS CONTINUE TRYING TO BLOCK AID TRUCKS FROM ENTERING GAZA. >> THE TSA IS WARNING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL WILL BE THE BUSIEST SINCE 2010. THURSDAY WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY FOR AIR TRAVEL, AND OFFICIALS SAY THE SUMMER WILL BE THE BUSIEST EVER FOR AIR TRAVEL, WITH 15% MORE TRAVELERS THAN LAST YEAR. >> TODAY’S WEATHER, MORE SEVERE STORMS ON THE GULF COAST, FLOODING AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE, AND MORE RAIN ACROSS THE EAST AND IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, A MAN IS SHARING HIS INCREDIBLE CONNECTION WITH A LIONESS. >> HE SPOKE TO DANNY NOON. >> LOOK OUT! >> OH, THEY’RE FRIENDS. >> WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE HUGGED BY A LION? >> IT DOESN’T FEEL AS CUDDLY AS IT LOOKS. I THINK SOMETIMES. >> VALBRUNA HERE IS A GERMAN BORN CONSERVATIONIST WHO LIVES IN BOTSWANA’S KALAHARI DESERT. >> AND YES, HE IS A BEST FRIEND. SLASH ADOPTED LIONESS DAUGHTER NAMED SAGA. >> I LOVE HER LIKE YOU KNOW, LIKE I GUESS, LIKE SOMEONE WOULD LOVE THEIR CHILD. >> NOW, VAL DID NOT SET OUT TO RAISE A LION 12 YEARS AGO. HE RESCUED SAGA AFTER SHE WAS BORN IN CAPTIVITY UNDER UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE OWNER ASKED ME TO TRY AND HAND RAISE THE LAST SURVIVING CUP, WHICH WAS LYING AROUND WITHOUT BEING FED BY THE MOM FOR ABOUT TWO DAYS. A TEN DAYS OLD VAL STARTED BOTTLE FEEDING SAGA HIMSELF, AND NOW, MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, SHE’S A FULLY GROWN LADY WHO GETS TO HUNT AND LIVE ON HIS 17,000 ACRE PRIVATE WILDLIFE AREA. YEAH, ALSO, SHE GETS LOTS OF GOOD. PETS. TECHNICALLY, THERE ARE FENCES IN PLACE, BUT VAL SAYS SAGA COULD GET OUT IF SHE WANTED TO. OTHER LIONS COME IN AND SAY HI ALL THE TIME, BUT SAGA IS USED TO ENCLOSED AREAS OVER THE YEARS AND PROBABLY NOT SURPRISINGLY, VIDEOS LIKE THESE HAVE MADE SAGA AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STAR WITH MORE THAN 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS ACROSS PLATFORMS. >> I HOPE THAT SAGA STORY WILL CREATE AWARENESS FOR WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION AND THROUGH VAL’S MAIN COMPANY CALLED THE MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT, HE TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE REACH HE AND SAGA NOW HAVE TO HELP PROTECT THE AFRICAN WILDLIFE THAT THIS GERMAN BORN MAN HAS GROWN TO LOVE. I DON’T THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD THE ENERGY IF IT WASN’T FOR HER AND GUYS. >> MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT DOES HOST STUDENTS AND VISITORS TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT NATURE THERE. BUT JUST FYI, IT IS A 2.5 HOUR DRIVE FROM THE NEAREST VILLAGE, SO YOU GOT TO PLAN YOUR TRIP OKAY? >> AND YOU CAN’T HUG THE LIONESS. WHAT? YEAH, IT’S ON THE WEBSITE. DANNY TOLD ME. NO HUGSW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING THE GULF COAST, BATTERING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, SHATTERING SKYSCRAPER WINDOWS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 100MPH. THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS. THE DEATH TOLL, DESTRUCTION AND WHERE THE STORM HEADS NEXT. >> NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT. THE PHOTO SHOWING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING AT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO’S HOME. WHAT THE JUSTICE IS NOW SAYING. >> FOUR HOUR WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND NO BARCODE SIGNS FOR PRESCRIPTIONS. THE GROWING FALLOUT FROM YET ANOTHER MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK TARGETING THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. >> THE STUNNING VIDEO OF A TRUCK DRIVER DANGLING OFF THIS BRIDGE ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER AFTER A CRASH. NOW SHE SPEAKS OUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT AS SHE WENT CAREENING OVER THE EDGE. >> INSULTS FLYING ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS. >> CALM DOWN. >> YOU PLEASE DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN. >> CALM DOWN BECAUSE Y’ALL TALK NICE AND THEN YOU OUT OF CONTROL. >> HOW ONE INSULT ABOUT A FELLOW LAWMAKERS EYELASHES IGNITED CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL LAST NIGHT . >> NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. CRITICS CALLING IT SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC. NOW A CATHOLIC GROUP AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL, RESPONDS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THE FARMER WITH A VERY UNUSUAL HARVEST, UNCOVERING A BIG PIECE OF SPACE JUNK WHAT HE PLANS TO DO WITH IT. >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. I’M RHIANNON ALLY, AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. >> IN FOR ANDREW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING PARTS OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS, WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE BEING REPORTED IN NEW ORLEANS, BUT IT’S HOUSTON, INCLUDING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, THAT HAS BEEN HIT THE HARDEST. >> OVERNIGHT, DEADLY STORMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE GULF COAST. >> IT’S BAD. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB WENT OFF IN THE HOUSTON AREA. >> VIOLENT WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING KILLING AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE. MASSIVE TREES TOPPLING INTO THE STREETS AND CRUSHING HOMES AS RESCUERS RUSHED TO HELP DOWNED POWER LINES EXPLODING OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING. WHILE ROWS OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS WERE LEFT MANGLED BY THE STORM, MORE THAN A MILLION TEXANS LEFT IN THE DARK AS THE HOWLING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS BATTERED THE REGION. >> I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES. DOWNTOWN IS A MESS. IT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. SO STAY AT HOME IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, STREETS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS, 100 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BLOWING OUT WINDOWS IN THESE HIGH RISES. >> THE WALL OF THIS BAR CRUMBLING, LEAVING A GAPING HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHILE THE DOORS AND WINDOWS OF THIS BUILDING RATTLED VIOLENTLY AS IT WAS BATTERED BY DEBRIS. >> I WAS FREAKED OUT. NO, IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED OF, LIKE, THE ROOF WAS GONNA GET TORN OFF. I WAS SCARED SOMETHING’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT WAS SCARY. >> THE DELUGE EVEN MAKING ITS WAY INTO MINUTE MAID PARK, THE HOUSTON ASTROS COVERED STADIUM THIS MORNING. SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED . OFFICIALS URGING NONESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES TO STAY HOME. AND THE THREAT ISN’T OVER YET. AREAS FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA COULD SEE SEVERE FLOODING TODAY. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYONE DEALING WITH THAT. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> THE OTHER BIG STORY WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING, A POTENTIAL GOTCHA MOMENT AT THE TRUMP HUSH MONEY TRIAL. WHAT MICHAEL COHEN SAID ON THE STAND YESTERDAY COULD END UP BEING A KEY MOMENT IN THIS CASE. ABC’S PERRY RUSSOM HAS MORE ON THAT STORY. PERRY. GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AND ONE DRAMATIC AND POSSIBLY CRUCIAL MOMENT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY ACCUSED MICHAEL COHEN OF LYING TO THE JURY THIS MORNING. LEGAL EXPERTS SAY A TENSE EXCHANGE BETWEEN MICHAEL COHEN AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCH YESTERDAY COULD BE A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. I THINK IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DAY. >> IT WAS A FASCINATING DAY. >> DURING CROSS-EXAMINATION, BLANCH FOCUSED ON A PHONE CALL IN OCTOBER 2016, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. COHEN PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT DURING THAT CALL, HE TOLD TRUMP THE PLAN TO PAY OFF STAR STORMY DANIELS WAS MOVING FORWARD. BUT YESTERDAY, BLANCH SHOWED THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES THAT SUGGEST COHEN ACTUALLY CALLED TRUMP’S BODYGUARD, KEITH SCHILLER, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING PRANK CALLS FROM A TEENAGER RAISING HIS VOICE. BLANCH SAYING THAT WAS A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. YOU CAN ADMIT IT, COHEN RESPONDED. NO, SIR, I CAN, BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE THAT’S ACCURATE, ADDING, I BELIEVE I ALSO SPOKE TO MR. TRUMP ABOUT THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER. BLANCH FIRED BACK, WE ARE NOT ASKING WHAT YOU BELIEVE. THIS JURY DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED. BLANCH ALSO POINTED OUT THE LENGTH OF THE PHONE CALL, ASKING COHEN YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME IN THAT ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS TO UPDATE MR. SCHILLER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU WERE HAVING WITH THIS HARASSING PHONE CALL, AND ALSO UPDATE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE STATUS OF THE STORMY DANIELS SITUATION. BUT COHEN STUCK TO HIS STORY, INSISTING THE SHORT CALL COVERED BOTH ISSUES. THE DEFENSE ALSO TRIED TO CHIP AWAY AT COHEN’S CREDIBILITY, PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO TURNED ON TRUMP WHEN HE DIDN’T GET A JOB OFFER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> ANY TIME YOU HAVE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU, THEIR CREDIBILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. HE’S LIED SO MANY TIMES, SO MANY PLACES. >> TRUMP IS ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO CONCEAL THE PAYMENT TO DANIELS BEFORE THE ELECTION. HE DENIES THE ENCOUNTER AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. COURT IS NOT IN SESSION TODAY. COHEN RETURNS TO THE STAND MONDAY. THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE POSSIBLE AS SOON AS TUESDAY. STILL NO WORD IF TRUMP WILL TESTIFY. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT, PERRY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SOME BREAKING NEWS. OVERSEAS POLICE IN NORTHERN FRANCE HAVE FATALLY SHOT A MAN. THEY SAY SET FIRE TO A SYNAGOGUE. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, OFFICERS SHOT THE MAN AFTER HE APPROACHED HIM WITH A KNIFE. THE FIRE IS OUT. DAMAGE TO THE SYNAGOGUE IS DESCRIBED AS SIGNIFICANT. >> A NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAD AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING IN HIS YARD JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH RIOT AT THE CAPITOL. THE INVERTED FLAG IS OFTEN VIEWED AS A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL USED BY SOME TRUMP SUPPORTERS. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBTAINED THIS PHOTO OF THE FLAG AT ALITO’S HOME. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN JUST BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION, AS THE COURT WAS CONSIDERING AN ELECTION CASE. BUT JUSTICE ALITO IS BLAMING HIS WIFE, ALITO, SAYING I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONAL INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. ALITO DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> NOW, NOW TO ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK AFFECTING HEALTH CARE AT THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. THIS ATTACK, IMPACTING WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT PATIENT CARE. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING HOSPITALS IN CHAOS. THAT’S HOW SOME NURSES AND PATIENTS ARE DESCRIBING OPERATIONS AT ASCENSION FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN THE WAKE OF LAST WEEK’S RANSOMWARE ATTACK. >> THIS IS TRULY A CRISIS SITUATION. >> THE CYBER ATTACK HAS AFFECTED 140 HOSPITALS AND DOZENS OF SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES IN 19 STATES, IMPACTING EVERYTHING FROM ORDERING TESTS TO READING LABS AND SCANS. WITH ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS BLOCKED, STAFF ARE FORCED TO WRITE NOTES ON PAPER. >> SHE’S CHARTING IT. SHE’S WRITING IT BY HAND, SO IT WAS, IT WAS A LONG WAIT. >> ASCENSION OFFICIALS SAY THEY DON’T HAVE A TIMELINE ON WHEN SYSTEMS WILL BE FULLY BACK ONLINE, SAYING DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, PATIENT SAFETY CONTINUES TO BE OUR UTMOST PRIORITY. IT’S JUST THE LATEST CYBER ATTACK IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR. EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN ATTACK ON CHANGE HEALTH CARE DISRUPTED SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE. THE COMPANY ENDED UP PAYING A $22 MILLION RANSOM. NURSES ARE ON EDGE. >> THEY CANNOT SCAN THE MEDICATIONS, SO YOU CAN’T SCAN THE PATIENT’S ARMBAND OR THE BARCODE ON THE MEDICATION TO MATCH TO SEE IF THAT IS EVEN A CORRECT ORDER OR DOSE. NURSES ARE WORRIED ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AND ALSO ABOUT THEIR OWN NURSING LICENSE, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SAFETY CHECKS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE HAVE BASICALLY BEEN ELIMINATED, AND ASCENSION COULD NOW FACE LEGAL ACTION. >> ACCUSED OF FAILING TO PROTECT PATIENT DATA, THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF THE HACK. RHIANNON. LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, THANKS TO ANDREA FUJII FOR THAT. THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO DANGLED OVER A BRIDGE 100FT ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER, IS TALKING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME, CYDNEY THOMAS TELLS OUR LOUISVILLE AFFILIATE WAS THAT WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK HIT HER ON THE BRIDGE, SHE LOST HER STEERING AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS BRACE HERSELF. >> I FELT MYSELF GOING OVER. I’M LIKE, I’M GONNA HAVE TO JUMP. I CAN’T SWIM EITHER. I DIDN’T KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS. I THOUGHT THAT THE TRAILER WAS STILL ON THE BRIDGE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. IT WAS LIKE THIS. >> WOW. SHE WAS DANGLING OVER THAT RIVER FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL RESCUE CREWS HOISTED HER BACK UP INTO THE BRIDGE. >> GLAD SHE’S OKAY. TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE’RE STILL TRACKING A SERIOUS FLOOD THREAT INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE GULF COAST AREA, DAMAGING WIND, HAIL, AND EVEN A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE AREA AROUND THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. EVEN SATURDAY, MORE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA, AN INCREASING FLOOD RISK THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN INTO SATURDAY IN THESE AREAS. OVERALL THOUGH, WE’RE TURNING DRIER FARTHER TO THE WEST. COOLER IN THE NORTHEAST. 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So listen now to our new podcast pop culture mom’s wherever you get your podcast. Right. Now there’s just so much happening in our world so much at stake at the start of every morning and that’s why it Good Morning America. We’re right here, and we got you. We got you we got you. OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA. >> TRAFFIC IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS ALWAYS CHALLENGING , BUT THINGS GOT EVEN SLOWER WHEN A BEAR APPEARED ON THIS FREEWAY NORTH OF LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK. TOOK SOME TIME AND TOOK A LITTLE STROLL IN FRONT OF SOME CARS BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE HILLS. >> WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM A MAN WHO IS LIVING WITH A LIFE CHANGING BRAIN IMPLANT. NOLAN ARBAUGH WAS PARALYZED IN A SWIMMING ACCIDENT, BUT HE HAD A CHIP IMPLANTED INTO HIS BRAIN LAST YEAR, MADE BY ELON MUSK’S COMPANY, NEURALINK. THE IMPLANT ALLOWS HIM TO CONTROL DEVICES WITH HIS BRAIN. HE SPOKE TO ABC’S WILL REEVE. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL, AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU JUST PLAYED SOME MUSIC. YEAH, MAN. THAT’S AWESOME. >> THE DEVICE SUFFERED A MALFUNCTION RECENTLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED. AND LATER ON, GOOD MORNING AMERICA EXPLAINS WHY HE TOOK A RISK ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH OVER NFL PLAYER HARRISON BUTLER’S COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH. THERE IS A NEW DISPUTE OVER HIS TREATMENT ONLINE. THIS MORNING, MISSOURI’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER HE SAYS AN OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT FOR THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY POSTED PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HARRISON BUTLER. HE’S THE SUPER BOWL WINNING KICKER FOR THE CHIEFS, FACING A FIRESTORM OVER HIS RECENT COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, WHICH INCLUDED THIS COMMENT ABOUT WOMEN. >> I WOULD VENTURE TO GUESS THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE MOST EXCITED ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE CHILDREN YOU WILL BRING INTO THIS WORLD. >> CRITICS ALSO CALLING HIS GRADUATION SPEECH HOMOPHOBIC, NOT THE DEADLY SIN SORT OF PRIDE THAT HAS AN ENTIRE MONTH DEDICATED TO IT. BUTLER SPOKE AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE, A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN KANSAS. THE OFFICIAL KANSAS CITY ACCOUNT ON X LATER TWEETED, JUST A REMINDER THAT HARRISON BUTLER LIVES. AND THEN THE POST LISTED BUTLER’S HOMETOWN. THE ACCOUNT LATER DELETED THAT TWEET AND APOLOGIZED. THE MAYOR CALLING THE POST INAPPROPRIATE. MISSOURI’S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, OUTRAGED, NOW VOWING TO ENFORCE THE MISSOURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO ENSURE MISSOURIANS ARE NOT TARGETED FOR THEIR FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, BUTLER IS FUELING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THE SAME WAY WE WANT RESPECT. >> WHEN COLIN KAEPERNICK TAKES A KNEE RIGHT? WE WANT TO GIVE RESPECT TO PEOPLE WHOSE IDEAS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OURS. >> THE WIFE OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CEO POSTING AFFIRMING MOTHERHOOD AND PRAISING YOUR WIFE IS NOT BIGOTED. BUT THE FOUNDING INSTITUTION OF BENEDICTINE COLLEGE SAYS BUTLER’S COMMENTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE SCHOOL AS ITS FOUNDERS ENVISIONED, SAYING INSTEAD OF PROMOTING UNITY, HIS COMMENTS SEEM TO HAVE FOSTERED DIVISION, THIS STUDENT SEEMING TO AGREE MOST OF THE WOMEN WERE LOOKING BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER. >> DID HE JUST COME HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS AND HIS VIEWS ON WOMEN? >> WELL, THE SPEECH IS ALSO DIVIDING FOOTBALL FANS. SALES OF HIS JERSEY ARE BOOMING. AN ONLINE PETITION DEMANDS, THOUGH, THAT THE CHIEFS RELEASE HIM. >> COMING UP, CAITLIN CLARK’S HOME OPENER LAST NIGHT. NOT EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS HOPING FOR. >> ALSO AHEAD, CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. >> OKAY, MOVE TO STRIKE THROUGH. I MOVE TO STRIKE. I MOVE TO STRIKE. ORDER! >> THE LADY. >> ONE LAWMAKER INSULTS ANOTHER’S EYELASHES. THEN THINGS 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 story is we’re going to take you there who are streaming ABC News live ABC News live your streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere America’s number one streaming news. 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 the biggest Stars music Trends, and of course, good food 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. I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this YOU YOU? >> WHEELER SETS APART. OH, HAD THE THREE BALL RIM OUT A FRUSTRATING HOME DEBUT FOR CAITLIN CLARK. >> SHE SCORED ONLY NINE POINTS IN A 102 TO 66 BLOWOUT LOSS TO THE NEW YORK LIBERTY, NOW TO THE US CAPITOL AND CHAOS ERUPTING DURING WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RATHER ROUTINE HEARING UNTIL SOMEONE MENTIONED FAKE EYELASHES. >> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSING TO TURN OVER A RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH A SPECIAL COUNSEL. BUT LAST NIGHT’S HEARING ERUPTED INTO CHAOS WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WENT OFF TOPIC OR. >> OH. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY. >> WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT TRIED TO STOP GREENE’S LINE OF QUESTIONING, GREENE COMMENTED ON CROCKETT’S QUOTE, FAKE EYELASHES. >> DO YOU DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR? YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE ABOUT? I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR. WELL, YOU DON’T WANT TALKING ABOUT. >> I THINK YOU’RE FAKE. EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. HOLD ON, HOLD ON. >> LISTEN, GREENE SHOUTING A REFUSAL TO APOLOGIZE. OTHER LAWMAKERS THEN COMING TO CROCKETT’S DEFENSE. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO TAKE DOWN MISS GREENE’S WORDS. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT HER WORDS DOWN OR OH OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL? >> OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY BABY GIRL I DON’T THINK WE ARE. >> THEN MORE CHAOS. AFTER CROCKETT APPEARED TO INSULT GREENE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING, IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY BLEACHED BLOND, BAD BUILT, BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES, CORRECT? >> A WHAT NOW? >> CHAIRMAN? I MAKE A I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. >> CROCKETT LATER POSTED. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MENTALLY DEFICIENT PEOPLE WHO CAN’T READ AND FOLLOW RULES OR JUST DON’T GIVE A, SOMEHOW END UP IN CONGRESS. THE BICKERING THERE DELAYED PROCEEDINGS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. >> ALL RIGHT, COMING UP, THE NEW FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE U.S, PLUS THE NEW DAD WITH QUITE THE SHOWING ON THE GREEN Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this With so much at stake. 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, Get ready, America every Friday hottest Trends Styles and must have what’s the right stuff to buy right now. I really love that it’s time to buy the right stuff. Yes. And save big time to the right stuff Fridays on GMA you’re going to love it. 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 the biggest Stars music Trends, and of course, good food 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. Whenever Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde, Texas Edinburgh Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the cranium refugees here in Warsaw committing to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live I’m erielle reshef in Norwalk, Connecticut, wherever the story is will take you there your streaming ABC News live. PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA? >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE. WE BEGIN WITH THE UNITED STATES ON THE VERGE OF GETTING A NEW THIRD BIGGEST CITY. >> NEW FIGURES FROM THE CENSUS SHOW THE WINDY CITYS ON TRACK TO LOSE ITS STATUS. CHICAGO’S POPULATION DROPPED BY ABOUT 80,000IN A ONE YEAR PERIOD. HOUSTON IS WAITING IN THE WINGS AND SAN ANTONIO IS ONCE AGAIN THE FASTEST GROWING CITY. >> AND GET THIS, DETROIT’S POPULATION GREW FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1957. NEXT, SOME NEW LIFE FOR SO-CALLED BRICK AND MORTAR STORES. >> WAYFAIR, KNOWN AS AN ONLINE RETAIL GIANT, IS OPENING A GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHYSICAL STORE. IT’S SET TO OPEN NEXT WEEK NEAR CHICAGO. IT’S PART OF A TREND RETAIL STORE OPENINGS ACTUALLY OUTPACED CLOSURES RECENTLY. >> NEXT, A FARMER FINDING A HUGE PIECE OF SPACE JUNK. >> THIS HAPPENED IN RURAL CANADA. THE SPACE DEBRIS IS SIX FEET WIDE. EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S PART OF A SPACE ROCKET. THE FARMER SAYS HE WANTS TO SELL IT TO BUILD A HOCKEY RINK. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE PRICE NEXT. A NEW ATTEMPT TO KEEP YOU FROM TUNING OUT AS YOU TAKE OFF. >> WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. UNITED AIRLINES HAS PRODUCED A NEW IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. IT’S LIVE ACTION USING A BLUE BALL TO GO FROM ONE SCENE TO THE NEXT. THE AIRLINE THINKS THIS WILL KEEP YOU FOCUSED. EXPERTS SAY FUNNY VIDEOS PRODUCED BY OTHER AIRLINES HAVE NOT BEEN AFFECTED, THOUGH. >> FINALLY, A NEW DAD GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS. >> PRO GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SANK AN INCREDIBLE 167 YARDS SHOT. THIS WAS HIS VERY FIRST DRIVE AFTER WELCOMING HIS NEW SON. A BIG CONGRATS TO HIM ON BOTH GOOD LUCK Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war in Rolling Fork This Tornado tore through this town from Lewiston Maine a scene of a horrific mass shooting from the scene of that deadly missile strike ABC News live everywhere and Iceland. Let’s go on the 2024 campaign Trail here at 10 Downing Street, wherever the story is. We’re going to take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live BBC News live your streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere. Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this We’re trying to get answers for the community at large. Even if maybe some of the community doesn’t feel like they need those answers. I have covered child homicides before and now my daughter’s autopsy will be made public 1 day. Those who? I 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 the biggest Stars music Trends, and of course, good food 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. HELP. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER A VIOLENT STORM ROARED THROUGH HOUSTON, DAMAGING BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN AND KNOCKING OUT POWER TO MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE BEING URGED TO STAY OFF THE ROADS OVERSEAS. >> HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES ARE NOW PASSING THROUGH A NEWLY BUILT U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. OFFICIALS SAY U.S. TROOPS WILL NOT COME ON SHORE, BUT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE AID OPERATION IS NOT WITHOUT RISK. IT COMES AS A SMALL GROUP OF ISRAELIS CONTINUE TRYING TO BLOCK AID TRUCKS FROM ENTERING GAZA. >> THE TSA IS WARNING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL WILL BE THE BUSIEST SINCE 2010. THURSDAY WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY FOR AIR TRAVEL, AND OFFICIALS SAY THE SUMMER WILL BE THE BUSIEST EVER FOR AIR TRAVEL, WITH 15% MORE TRAVELERS THAN LAST YEAR. >> TODAY’S WEATHER, MORE SEVERE STORMS ON THE GULF COAST, FLOODING AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE, AND MORE RAIN ACROSS THE EAST AND IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, A MAN IS SHARING HIS INCREDIBLE CONNECTION WITH A LIONESS. >> HE SPOKE TO DANNY NOON. >> LOOK OUT! >> OH, THEY’RE FRIENDS. >> WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE HUGGED BY A LION? >> IT DOESN’T FEEL AS CUDDLY AS IT LOOKS. I THINK SOMETIMES. >> VALBRUNA HERE IS A GERMAN BORN CONSERVATIONIST WHO LIVES IN BOTSWANA’S KALAHARI DESERT. >> AND YES, HE IS A BEST FRIEND. SLASH ADOPTED LIONESS DAUGHTER NAMED SAGA. >> I LOVE HER LIKE YOU KNOW, LIKE I GUESS, LIKE SOMEONE WOULD LOVE THEIR CHILD. >> NOW, VAL DID NOT SET OUT TO RAISE A LION 12 YEARS AGO. HE RESCUED SAGA AFTER SHE WAS BORN IN CAPTIVITY UNDER UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE OWNER ASKED ME TO TRY AND HAND RAISE THE LAST SURVIVING CUP, WHICH WAS LYING AROUND WITHOUT BEING FED BY THE MOM FOR ABOUT TWO DAYS. A TEN DAYS OLD VAL STARTED BOTTLE FEEDING SAGA HIMSELF, AND NOW, MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, SHE’S A FULLY GROWN LADY WHO GETS TO HUNT AND LIVE ON HIS 17,000 ACRE PRIVATE WILDLIFE AREA. YEAH, ALSO, SHE GETS LOTS OF GOOD. PETS. TECHNICALLY, THERE ARE FENCES IN PLACE, BUT VAL SAYS SAGA COULD GET OUT IF SHE WANTED TO. OTHER LIONS COME IN AND SAY HI ALL THE TIME, BUT SAGA IS USED TO ENCLOSED AREAS OVER THE YEARS AND PROBABLY NOT SURPRISINGLY, VIDEOS LIKE THESE HAVE MADE SAGA AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STAR WITH MORE THAN 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS ACROSS PLATFORMS. >> I HOPE THAT SAGA STORY WILL CREATE AWARENESS FOR WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION AND THROUGH VAL’S MAIN COMPANY CALLED THE MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT, HE TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE REACH HE AND SAGA NOW HAVE TO HELP PROTECT THE AFRICAN WILDLIFE THAT THIS GERMAN BORN MAN HAS GROWN TO LOVE. I DON’T THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD THE ENERGY IF IT WASN’T FOR HER AND GUYS. >> MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT DOES HOST STUDENTS AND VISITORS TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT NATURE THERE. BUT JUST FYI, IT IS A 2.5 HOUR DRIVE FROM THE NEAREST VILLAGE, SO YOU GOT TO PLAN YOUR TRIP OKAY? >> AND YOU CAN’T HUG THE LIONESS. WHAT? YEAH, IT’S ON THE WEBSITE. DANNY TOLD ME. NO HUGS. >> IT IS FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, AND THE BUSINESS WATCHDOG IS STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS. >> WE START HERE. IN A RESOUNDING DECISION, THE SUPREME COURT KEEPS THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU IN PLACE. THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS THERE’S BEEN A REAL IMPACT ON AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LIVES. BUT COULD THIS ALSO NOW SET THE STAGE FOR MORE LAWSUITS? WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THE DECISION. CONGRESS HAS A TRANSCRIPT OF THIS INTERVIEW. DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT AN ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY. BUT DO THEY NEED THE TAPES? A NEW STANDOFF OVER EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IS ESCALATING. AND IS THAT NEW EMPLOYEE WORKING FOR YOU FROM ANOTHER STATE OR FROM NORTH KOREA? THIS WAS A NETWORK OF PEOPLE WHO NORTH KOREA DISPATCHED OVER A SPAN OF YEARS. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THERE’S A NEW SCAM ENRICHING KIM JONG UN. FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS "START HERE". I’M BRAD MIELKE. >> ONE OF THE LEGACIES OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF THE LATE AUGHTS. >> ONE OF THE FEW THINGS CONSUMERS GOT OUT OF IT IS A GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBLE FOR BANKS, CORPORATIONS, LOANS. ALL THESE THAT HAD MADE SO MANY PEOPLE FEEL POWERLESS. >> THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. >> BUT THIS YEAR, THERE WAS A REAL CHANCE IT COULD CEASE WORKING AS WE KNOW IT. >> THIS ALL CAME DOWN TO THE SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY, AND IN A 7 TO 2 DECISION, THE JUSTICES DECIDED TO KEEP IT AS IS. LET’S BRING IN ABC SENIOR WASHINGTON REPORTER DEVIN DWYER WHO COVERS THE COURT. >> DEVIN, WHAT WAS AT STAKE HERE? >> THIS IS A MAJOR CASE FOR CONSUMERS IN THIS COUNTRY, BRAD, I MEAN, THIS, AS YOU SAID, IS THE INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US FROM PREDATORY AND ABUSIVE PRACTICES. IT’S A REGULATOR, IT’S A WATCHDOG AND IT WAS A SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBAMA BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. >> I REALIZE IT’S PROBABLY NOT THE THING THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE, BUT IT’S ONE THAT OVER TIME IT’S GOING TO SAVE YOU A LOT OF OTHER AMERICANS, A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY. >> ELIZABETH WARREN WAS, A CHAMPION OF THIS, OF THE EVERYMAN AND IN THE FACE OF THE BIG BANKS AND CORPORATE AMERICA THAT HAD INFLICTED SO MUCH HARM ON US AT THAT TIME OF THE CRISIS. AND SO THIS IS AN AGENCY THAT HAS HELPED WRITE HUNDREDS OF REGULATIONS ON EVERYTHING FROM CONSUMER LOANS TO CREDIT CARD FEES TO HOME MORTGAGES. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DISCLOSED, HOW MUCH CAN THEY CHARGE YOU IF YOU OVERDRAFT ON A CHECK? AND SO FAR, BRAD, I MEAN, IT HAS WON MORE THAN 17 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS IN RESTITUTION FINE FOR CORPORATE WRONGDOING OVER THE YEARS AND HELPED CANCEL THE DEBTS OF 200 MILLION AMERICANS THROUGH THESE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS OF ITS RULES. SO THE AGENCY AND THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS THERE’S BEEN A REAL IMPACT ON AMERICANS AND AMERICAN LIVES IN THE FACE OF CORPORATE AMERICA, WHICH SOME HAVE LONG SEEN AS BEING TOO UNBRIDLED AS THEY OPERATE IN OUR DAY TO DAY. AND SO THIS DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY TO FEND OFF THIS EXISTS CHALLENGE TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE CFPB AND HOW IT’S FUNDED BY CONGRESS WAS A MAJOR WIN NOT ONLY FOR THE AGENCY, BUT FOR DEMOCRATS. >> AND A LOT OF CONSUMER ADVOCATES SAY FOR CONSUMERS AS WELL. >> WHAT WAS THE CASE? BECAUSE I’M USED TO CASES ABOUT LIKE THEY MADE THIS DECISION OR THAT DECISION. >> THIS WAS KIND OF ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE THING ITSELF. WELL, THIS WAS A CASE THAT WAS BROUGHT BY A GROUP OF PAYDAY LENDERS TAKING ISSUE WITH A SPECIFIC RULE ISSUED BY THE CFPB. >> THE GOVERNMENT AGREES THAT CONGRESS COULDN’T JUST AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO SPEND WHATEVER WANTS, BUT THAT’S EFFECTIVELY WHAT CONGRESS DID HERE. >> BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE COURT WAS LOOKING AT HOW THE CFPB IS FUNDED. AS YOU KNOW, MOST AGENCIES AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS EVERY YEAR HAVE TO GO TO CONGRESS, MAKE THE CASE, HERE’S MY BUDGET, HERE’S HOW MUCH WE NEED. AND CONGRESS, UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, HAS POWER OF THE PURSE. THEY APPROPRIATE MONEY EVERY YEAR FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF OUR GOVERNMENT. WELL, WHEN CONGRESS IN 2008 DESIGNED THE CFPB, THEY WANTED TO INSULATE IT FROM THAT POLITICAL PROCESS TO MAKE IT SAFER AND MORE INDEPENDENT. AND THEY FUNDED THE CFPB THROUGH THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, GIVING IT A PERMANENT FUNDING STREAM FROM THAT. YOU KNOW, THE BANK SYSTEM, IF YOU WILL, TO COVER SOME OF THE COSTS OF HOW THEY OPERATE. CONGRESS HAS NEVER AUTHORIZED AN AGENCY TO PICK ITS OWN PERPETUAL APPROPRIATION. AND IF IT CAN DO THAT FOR THE CFPB, IT CAN DO IT FOR EVERY OTHER AGENCY TO THE GROUP OF PAYDAY LENDERS CHALLENGING THE CFPB SAID THAT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL. IT TAKES CONGRESS OUT OF THE EQUATION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. IT DOESN’T ALLOW ENOUGH OVERSIGHT BY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HOW MUCH MONEY SHOULD BE ALLOCATED ON A GIVEN YEAR. AND SO THEY SOUGHT TO STRIKE IT DOWN. BUT THE SUPREME COURT WASN’T BUYING IT. THIS WAS A 7 TO 2 DECISION WRITTEN BY THE COURT’S MOST CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE, CLARENCE THOMAS. >> I GET YOUR POINT THAT IS DIFFERENT, THAT IS UNIQUE, THAT IT’S ODD THAT THEY’VE NEVER GONE THIS FAR, BUT THAT’S NOT HAVING GONE AS FAR IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM. >> WHO BASICALLY SAID THE TEXT AND THE HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION SAY THAT AN APPROPRIATION IS AN APPROPRIATION. AND IF CONGRESS DESIGNED THE AGENCY, THIS WAY, THEY OBVIOUSLY ALLOCATED APPROPRIATED SOME AMOUNT OF MONEY THROUGH THE FEDERAL RESERVE. YES, IT’S INDIRECT. BUT HE SAID APPROPRIATED IS APPROPRIATED. AND IF CONGRESS WANTS TO CHANGE IT, THEY CAN AND THEREFORE IT SHOULD STAND. >> THAT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE CLARENCE THOMAS, NO LIBERAL AT ALL, AND YET HE’S BEEN SO CONSISTENT, BASICALLY BEEN LIKE, HEY, YOU GOT TO PASS A LAW. >> AND IN THIS CASE, A LAW WAS PASSED, I GUESS. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE CFPB GOING FORWARD, THOUGH, THEN? BECAUSE, LIKE, DO THEY? IS THIS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THIS GROUP THAT MIGHT HAVE FELT LIKE THEY WERE ON LIFE SUPPORT? >> WELL, IT LIFTS THE UNCERTAINTY AROUND THE EXISTENCE OF THE AGENCY, SAID THIS CASE YESTERDAY. BRAD, YOU KNOW, MEANS THAT THAT THE CFPB IS HERE TO STAY A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A SEPARATE CASE THAT WAS A LOT LIKE THIS ONE, TAKING AIM AT THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ITS LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE. IT SUFFERED A MIXED DECISION THERE. BUT THE CFPB IS AROUND AND WILL REMAIN IN PLACE. AND NOW THE FOCUS SHIFTS TO THE REGULATIONS THAT IT’S WRITING. THE AGENCY YESTERDAY SAID THIS DECISION WILL ENSURE THE STABILITY OF OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS. THEY WILL BE FULL STEAM AHEAD, REGULATING BANKS, ENSURING FAIR ,TRANSPARENT AND COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACES. BUT THE INDUSTRY NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DECISION. BRAD IS PROMISING AGGRESSIVE LITIGATION AND AGAINST ALL DIFFERENT SORTS OF RULES LITIGATION THAT’S BEEN ON HOLD . WHILE THE COURTS HAVE TAKEN A LOOK AT THE MERE EXISTENCE OF THE AGENCY. >> WELL, NOW THEY’RE GOING TO GET DOWN INTO SOME OF THESE CAN. OH, LIKE WE WEREN’T SUING YOU BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW YOU’D EXIST. >> BUT NOW THAT YOU DO EXIST, WE’RE SUING YOU, RIGHT? WE’RE GOING TO WE’RE GOING TO WE’RE GOING TO GO POINT BY POINT AND SEE YOU IN FEDERAL COURT OVER WHETHER WE CAN MANDATE THE REMOVAL OF MEDICAL BILLS FROM AMERICANS CREDIT REPORTS. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THE CFPB WANTS TO DO. >> SO A LOT MORE FIGHTING AHEAD. IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO SHAKE OUT IN THE COURT. BUT FOR THOSE WHO WHO WANTED TO SEE THIS AGENCY SURVIVE, THE SUPREME COURT INSURED YESTERDAY THAT IT WILL AND YOU WERE POINTING OUT 72 HERE AND I THINK IN 18 OF 23 CASES SO FAR THIS YEAR, THIS SUPREME COURT HAS NOT JUST BEEN LOPSIDED, IT’S BEEN UNANIMOUS. SO A LITTLE BIT OF HARMONY HERE, EVEN THOUGH WE DESCRIBE THE COUNTRY AS SO DIVIDED, THESE JUSTICES COMING TOGETHER ON THIS AND OTHERS. DEVIN DWYER IN WASHINGTON, THANK YOU. >> THANKS, BRAD. >> NEXT UP ON "START HERE", IF YOU’RE GOING TO HOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONTEMPT, WHO WOULD EVEN PROSECUTE HIM? THE STANDOFF OVER A BIDEN INTERVIEW AFTER THE BREAK. >> 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 MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING FOR IT. 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 FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FOR THE FBI REPORTING FROM IT. 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 OUR AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS TONIGHT GETTING DAY INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION RIGHT NOW. >> THERE’S JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD, SO MUCH AT STAKE AT THE START OF EVERY MORNING, MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL. THAT’S NOT ALWAYS SO EASY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE COME IN. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. WE WANT YOU TO NOW, EVERY MORNING WE’RE RIGHT HERE AND WE GOT YOU. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. >> AND I DO SAY THE BELL BOTTOMS THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. >> WOW. >> IT’S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY COULD GIVE IT TO YOU. HOW YOUR MONEY BREAKING NEWS, POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS. MUSIC TRENDS AND OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD "GMA3" 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. ME TONIGHT. >> KNOCK KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER OR FABIO. STAND AND TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEED 20, 20. TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS A TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. 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. WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE LIVE STREAMING FREE ON ABC NEWS LIVE . >> IN RECENT YEARS CONGRESS HAS HAD A PROBLEM WHEN THEY TELL SOMEONE TO TESTIFY, THEY’RE OF COURSE USED TO THAT PERSON APPEARING BEFORE THEM POLITELY AND PROMPTLY. >> WHEN YOU GET A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA, THAT’S NOT A REQUEST. YOU CAN BE FOUND IN CONTEMPT IF YOU DON’T COME. IT’S TECHNICALLY AGAINST THE SOMETHING CHANGED DURING THE TRUMP YEARS, THOUGH. >> THE WHITE HOUSE STARTED SAYING NO MORE OFTEN. THEY WITHHELD DOCUMENTS CITING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. >> FRIENDS OF THE ADMINISTRATION STARTED REFUSING TO HEARINGS LED BY DEMOCRATS, EVEN WHEN SUBPOENAED. >> BUT HERE’S THE THING THIS TREND HAS NOT ENDED WITH TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IN RECENT YEARS. MORE WITNESSES HAVE BALKED AT COMING IN FOR QUESTIONING. THEY DON’T DEEM LEGITIMATE. AND THEN THERE WAS THE INVESTIGATION INTO HOW JOE BIDEN’S HANDLED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. AT ONE POINT, HE HAD A SIT DOWN WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT HUR. CONGRESS HAS ASKED TO HEAR THE AUDIO FROM THAT INTERVIEW. WELL, YESTERDAY, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID WAIT FOR IT. NO, THIS IS SET OFF A FIRESTORM AND RAISES THE SERIOUS POSSIBILITY OF CONTEMPT CHARGES ,PERHAPS EVEN FOR THE NATION’S TOP PROSECUTOR. ABC’S CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE IS AT THE WEST WING RIGHT NOW. >> MARY, WHAT HAPPENED HERE? >> WELL, THE PRESIDENT IS USING HIS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TO TRY AND BLOCK HOUSE REPUBLICANS FROM ACCESSING THE AUDIO OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, ROBERT HUR, RELATED TO HIS HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. THE WHITE HOUSE IS ACCUSING REPUBLICANS OF TRYING TO MANIPULATE THE TAPES FOR POLITICAL GAIN AFTER THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, AS YOU’LL RECALL, DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT AS AN ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY. >> I HAD TO CONSIDER THE PRESIDENT’S MEMORY AND OVERALL MENTAL STATE AND HOW A JURY LIKELY WOULD PERCEIVE HIS MEMORY AND MENTAL STATE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL, CITING THE FACT THAT AT ONE POINT HE HAD TO BE PROMPTED BY PEOPLE IN THE ROOM TO RECALL THE YEAR OF HIS SON, BEAU’S DEATH. HOW DARE HE RAISE THAT, FRANKLY ,WHEN I WAS ASKED A QUESTION, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WAS THERE EVER A BUSINESS? >> THE ADMINISTRATION CONCERNED AND DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL ECHOING THAT CONCERN THAT THIS AUDIO WOULD JUST BE CHOPPED UP AND REPLAYED IN POLITICAL ADS TO TRY AND GIVE REPUBLICANS A BOOST. BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE FALL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IS ALREADY OUT THERE. AND OF COURSE, THE SPECIAL COUNSEL DECLINED TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. BIDEN, THOUGH, IS NOW USING THIS PRIVILEGE, WHICH IS SOMETHING REMEMBER THAT DONALD TRUMP ALSO DID AT THE REQUEST OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MERRICK GARLAND, WHO IS ALSO WARNING THAT POLITICS IS AT PLAY HERE. >> WE HAVE GONE TO EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS TO ENSURE THAT A COMMITTEES GET RESPONSES, THEIR LEGITIMATE REQUESTS, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE. >> BUT ALSO CAUTIONING THAT RELEASING THE AUDIO COULD HAVE LASTING IMPACTS ON FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS, THAT RELEASING THESE KIND OF RECORDINGS COULD MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE DOJ TO CONVINCE OFFICIALS TO SIT DOWN FOR A TAPED INTERVIEWS. >> THIS COMMITTEE CANNOT BE DETERRED IN PROCEEDING WITH THE CONTEMPT, BUT AS YOU SAID, REPUBLICANS ARE NOT DROPPING. >> THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT BEING IMPARTIAL. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GETTING PROSECUTED. WE KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN MIAMI. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS AND HE ISN’T BECAUSE OF THAT STATEMENT FROM THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. >> THEY ARE NOW TRYING TO HOLD THE AG IN CONTEMPT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER THE TAPES AFTER HE REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THEIR SUBPOENA. >> WOW. SO WHERE DOES GARLAND FIT IN THINKERS THAT BIDEN IS SAYING THIS IS PROTECTED BY EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE I’M KEEPING THIS IS GARLAND C DEFENDING THAT OR YOU’RE SAYING YOU SHOULD HAND IT OVER ANYWAY? >> MERRICK GARLAND I THINK THE HOPE WAS THAT BY ASSERTING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, IT WOULD PREVENT ALL OF THIS. BUT REPUBLICANS ARE MOVING AHEAD. NOW, LOOK, EVEN IF THEY DO HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT, THE RESOLUTION WOULD THEN HAVE TO GO TO THE FULL HOUSE FOR A VOTE. THAT APPROVAL ISN’T CERTAIN GIVEN. REPUBLICANS NARROW MAJORITY THERE. AND ALL OF THE DIVISIONS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. SO THIS STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO. THE BOTTOM LINE, IT’S NOT CLEAR MERRICK GARLAND IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE HELD IN CONTEMPT. AND WHAT WOULD COME OF ALL OF THIS. >> BUT CERTAINLY WHAT IT IS DOING IS SETTING OFF YET ANOTHER BIG POLITICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORT. IT WAS GOING TO SAY, IS THERE PRECEDENT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS ,NO, YOU CAN’T HAVE THAT LIKE YOU, YOU ALREADY HAD THE TRANSCRIPT, BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE THE TAPE? >> LOOK, THERE CERTAINLY IS PRECEDENT GOING BACK TO THE CLINTON YEARS OF AUDIO BEING RELEASED AND THEN BEING USED AS A POLITICAL CUDGEL. >> IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT THE MEANING OF THE WORD IS. YES, I THINK BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS KIND OF THING, AND BOTH ARE TRYING TO LEARN SOME LESSONS AS WELL AND REALLY RAMPING UP THE STAKES WITH THIS THREAT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. AND BUT STEVE BANNON, THE OLD ADVISER TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE WAS FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. HE WAS CONVICTED CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. >> HIS LAST APPEAL DIED RECENTLY. AND SO JUST THIS WEEK, PROSECUTORS HAVE TOLD THE JUDGE OVERSEEING BANNON’S CASE THAT HE’S HAD HIS CHANCE HE SHOULD GO TO PRISON. THAT’S HOW BIG A CONTEMPT CHARGE CAN END UP BEING DOWN THE ROAD. BUT AGAIN, LIKE YOU SAID, MARY, STILL A LOT OF STEPS TO HAPPEN HERE. >> MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU. THANKS, BRAD. >> NOW, WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THE SCRUTINY THE DOJ IS FACING TODAY, BUT THEY’VE APPARENTLY BEEN BUSY BECAUSE YESTERDAY THEY ALSO ANNOUNCED THEY’RE BRINGING CHARGES IN WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS A STAGGERING FRAUD SCHEME DESIGNED TO HELP OUT NORTH KOREA. ABC’S ALEX MALLIN COVERS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. ALEX, WHAT IS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALLEGING? >> SO, BRAD, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNSEALED THE SWEEPING INDICTMENT YESTERDAY CHARGING THREE NORTH KOREAN I.T. WORKERS AND A U.S. CITIZEN LIVING IN ARIZONA. AND WHAT THEY ALLEGE IS REALLY A STAGGERING FRAUD. THIS COMPLEX SCHEME WHERE ESSENTIALLY THESE WORKERS APPLIED FOR THESE POSITIONS, THESE TELEWORK POSITIONS AT COMPANIES THAT WERE PROPPED UP DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC BACK IN OCTOBER 2020 AND THEN FOR THREE STRAIGHT YEARS. THEY ESSENTIALLY WORKED AS TELEWORKERS AT A RANGE OF FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES AND GENERATED ABOUT $6.8 MILLION IN PROFIT, ACCORDING TO THIS INDICTMENT. SO ESSENTIALLY, THIS WORKER THAT WAS IN ARIZONA WAS HAD WHAT THEY CALLED A LAPTOP FARM, WHERE SHE WAS BASICALLY FACILITATING THESE WORKERS, BEING ABLE TO OPERATE FROM OVERSEAS, WORKING FOR THESE COMPANIES WHO LARGELY THIS INDICTMENT SAYS DID NOT KNOW THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE WORKING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DPRK. >> WE’RE SO USED TO HEARING LIKE CYBER SCHEMES BEING LIKE SCAMMING. IT SOUNDS LIKE THESE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY DOING WORK, JUST THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED BE DOING WORK AND GETTING AMERICAN MONEY. >> THIS INDICTMENT DOESN’T REALLY GET INTO THE WORK THAT THESE WORKERS WERE OR WERE NOT DOING, BUT IT’S A REALLY STAGGERING. THE COMPANIES THAT THEY WERE WORKING FOR. THE INDICTMENT DETAILS A TOP FIVE NATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK AND MEDIA COMPANY. UNCLEAR IF IT’S OUR OWN NETWORK, A PREMIER SILICON VALLEY TECH COMPANY. AN UNNAMED AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE MANUFACTURER. AND WHAT THEY CALL AN ICONIC AMERICAN CAR MANUFACTURER THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GO INTO THEIR SYSTEMS AND TAKE AWAY, YOU KNOW COMPANY DATA. SO THIS IS REALLY JUST SOMETHING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS HAD ITS EYE ON DATING BACK TO 2022. WE ACTUALLY SAW THAT THEY PUT OUT AN ALERT PREVIOUSLY SAYING FOR PEOPLE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS TYPE OF SCHEME. BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE’VE SEEN THIS INDICTMENT THAT REALLY DETAILS THE THIS NETWORK THAT, AGAIN, WAS PROPPED UP THROUGH JUST A KIND OF RANDOM WOMAN WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY OPERATING THIS WHOLE NETWORK AND FACILITATING IT OUT OF ARIZONA. >> THE INDICTMENT COVERS MORE THAN JUST HER. RIGHT. BUT LIKE, IF THESE PEOPLE IN NORTH KOREA, YOU KNOW, CHANCE, YOU ACTUALLY END UP DETAINING THOSE PEOPLE, RIGHT? >> YEAH. I MEAN, I THINK THAT WHAT WE KNOW OF THIS INDICTMENT IS THEY ACTUALLY DON’T INCLUDE THE REAL NAMES OF THE NORTH KOREANS WHO ARE CHARGED HERE. THEY SAY THAT BASICALLY THIS WAS A NETWORK OF PEOPLE WHO NORTH KOREA DISPATCHED OVER A SPAN OF YEARS, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, THEY SAY, ACROSS THE GLOBE WHO ARE TRYING TO ENGAGE IN SIMILAR SCHEMES. THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS OFFERING A $5 MILLION REWARD FOR THE IDENTITIES, ACTUAL IDENTITIES OF THESE PEOPLE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO THEIR ARREST. BUT AGAIN, WE DON’T HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH NORTH KOREA, AND IT’S UNCLEAR WE DO WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THESE PEOPLE MIGHT BE OPERATING OUT OF. >> AND I GUESS I’M WONDERING AT THE END OF THE DAY, HOW CONCERNING SHOULD THIS BE TO COMPANIES AROUND THE U.S. THAT HIRE REMOTE WORKERS? BECAUSE THAT’S GOT TO BE LIKE AN EVER INCREASING NUMBER OF COMPANIES WHERE YOU DON’T ACTUALLY WELCOME THAT EMPLOYEE IN IN PERSON FOR THEIR ORIENTATION. >> I GUESS THE MESSAGE HERE FOR MANY COMPANIES IS MAKE SURE YOU TURN THE CAMERAS ON AT ALL TIMES DURING THE ZOOM MEETINGS. I THINK THAT BASICALLY THE GOVERNMENT IS IS MAKING THIS INDICTMENT PUBLIC AS A WARNING SIGN THEIR COMPANIES AROUND THE COUNTRY, IT’S WHETHER THEY’RE CONTACTING THOSE COMPANIES THAT HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS PARTICULAR SCAM. BUT IN ONE INSTANCE, THEY ACTUALLY NAMED TWO U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE ABLE TO FIND AND THWART THIS SCHEME. SO THERE ARE WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO PUT IN THE SAFEGUARDS TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE NOT ALSO VICTIMS OF SCAMS LIKE THIS. >> IT’S REALLY FASCINATING, LIKE YOU SAID, IT’S SOMETHING THAT COULD ONLY BE HAPPENING IN SORT OF POST 20, 20 LAND. ALL RIGHT. ALEX MALLIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANKS, BRAD. OKAY, ONE MORE QUICK BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, IS IT STILL A SANDWICH? IF YOU GOT TO TILT YOUR HEAD JUST TO EAT THE THING? >> ONE LAST THING IS NEXT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORK. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET’S GO BACK ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. >> THE STORY IS WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ,ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> IT’S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? >> YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. >> YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS, POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS. MUSIC TRENDS AND OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD "GMA3" WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTER DO FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> I LOVE THAT. MAYBE THE SCOOP. THIS SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE . I LOOK AT THAT. OH MY GOSH. WELL, WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN, OUR HAMMER. AND IT DOESN’T GET ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE IN THIS. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS, "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR. AMERICA’S NUMBER MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. >> HI, I’M MANDY. AND I’M SABRINA. AND WE’RE MOMS JUGGLING TONS OF STUFF EVERY DAY. >> LIKE ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? >> WE LOVE? REALLY LOVE POP CULTURE. SO LISTEN, NOW OUR NEW PODCAST, POP CULTURE MOMS, WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, THEY CALL HIM THE BEAUTY QUEEN KILLER. HE’S TARGETING YOUNG WOMEN IN MALLS. I AM SINGLE. I WANT TO ENJOY THE COUNTRY OF A MEMBER OF ONE. HE TORTURED ME. HOW DID SHE SURVIVE NINE DAYS OF TERROR? THE WORD ACCOMPLICE CAME UP. >> NOBODY KNOWS THE REAL STORY. THE BEAUTY QUEEN KILLER WILL BE ON HULU TONIGHT. >> KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO SEVEN. TELL ME THERE’S A TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL? ARE YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC, AND THEY WILL DEBATE BIDEN, TRUMP, THE CAMPAIGN, THE POLLS AND THE DEBATES. EVERYONE’S BEEN WAITING FOR. SUNDAY MORNING WITH TRUMP STILL ON TRIAL. POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE WITH WHAT THIS ALL MEANS FOR THE 2024 RACE SUNDAY ON ABC’S THIS WEEK REPORTING FROM THE COURTHOUSE FOR DONALD TRUMP’S CRIMINAL MONEY TRIAL. I’M OLIVIA RUBIN. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE YOU. >> AND ONE LAST THING. QUESTION FOR YOU IS A TACO, A SANDWICH? NOW, BEFORE WE JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS HERE, LET’S THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS A SANDWICH? SOMETHING YOU CAN EAT WITHOUT UTENSILS. ALL RIGHT, CHECK SOMETHING ENCASED IN BREAD. RIGHT. WELL, DOES A TORTILLA COUNT. PEOPLE HAVE THESE HYPOTHETICAL DEBATES ALL THE TIME. BUT THIS WEEK IN INDIANA, A JUDGE HAD TO WEIGH IN ON THIS FOR REAL. >> JOBS WERE AT STAKE. >> SO A FEW YEARS AGO IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, A GUY NAMED MARTIN QUINTANA BRINGS A NEW RESTAURANT INTO THE STRIP MALL THAT HE OWNED. >> THE RESTAURANT WAS CALLED THE FAMOUS TACO, AND OTHER LOCATIONS GOT POSITIVE REVIEWS FROM FANS, GENEROUS PORTION, ONLY $3, I THINK, FOR THIS TACO. VERY NICE. >> THERE WAS JUST ONE PROBLEM. QUINTANA HAD SIGNED AN AGREEMENT IN WHICH HIS STRIP MALL WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY FAST FOOD PLACES. >> THE ONLY EXCEPTION SAID IN THE RULES WERE SANDWICH BAR STYLE RESTAURANTS LIKE, SUBWAY AND JIMMY JOHN’S. THE FAMOUS TACO KIND OF FOLLOWS THAT MODEL OF AN ASSEMBLY LINE ,LIKE A SUBWAY, OR BETTER YET, LIKE A CHIPOTLE. BUT THE FORT WAYNE PLANNING COMMISSION TOLD HIM, SORRY, THAT DOESN’T MAKE TACOS SANDWICHES. YOU GOT TO FIND A NEW RESTAURANT. QUINTANA TOOK THEM TO COURT, AND THIS WEEK, INDIANA JUDGE CRAIG BOBAY ISSUED A RULING SAYING YES, A TACO IS A SANDWICH, AND THE FAMOUS TACO CAN OPERATE WITHIN THE RULES. PART OF HIS RATIONALE, HE SAID, IS THAT EVERY GOT A VERSION OF PORTABLE HAND-HELD SNACKS HELD TOGETHER BREAD. IT’S NOT OKAY TO LIMIT YOUR STRIP MALL TO EXCLUSIVELY AMERICAN CUISINE. IN FACT, HIS ORDER STIPULATES THAT MADE TO ORDER GREEK EUROS ,VIETNAMESE, BON MES AND INDIAN NON WRAPS WOULD ALL BE PERMISSIBLE AS WELL. BUT THIS IS NOT THE FIRST LEGAL MIND ASKED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FOOD GROUPS. >> A SUB IS NOT SPLIT, AND YET IT IS A SANDWICH. >> YES. SO THEN HOTDOG IS A SANDWICH ON YOUR DEFINITION? >> YES IS. >> IN 2018, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG TOLD COLBERT, YES. IN HER MIND, A HOTDOG IS A SANDWICH. THE HEAD OF THE USDA WAS ONCE ASKED TO WEIGH IN. HE SAID A SANDWICH MUST CONSTITUTE SOMETHING PUT BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF BREAD. >> AND IN 2006, A MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE OFFICIALLY RULED AGAINST THE MEXICAN CHAIN JUDO BA SAYING IT COULD NOT QUALIFY AS A SANDWICH STAND BECAUSE BURRITOS THIS JUDGE SAID, ARE NOT SANDWICHES. THIS JUDGE IN INDIANA SEEMS TO DISAGREE. >> HE SPECIFICALLY SAID IN THIS ORDER, BURRITOS ALSO QUALIFY. SO COULD THIS CASE GO TO SANDWICH SUPREME COURT? WILL JUSTICES HAVE TO WRAP THEIR HEADS AROUND IT? >> OR DOES THIS SQUASH THE BEEF ONCE FOR ALL? >> I WILL SAY THERE IS, OF COURSE, SUCH A THING AS A MEXICAN SANDWICH. IT’S CALLED A TORTA. IT’S DELICIOUS. SOME PEOPLE IN RESOLVING THIS DISPUTE WITH THEIR FRIENDS HAVE USED WHAT THEY CALL THE CUBE RULE. SO YOU LOOK AT A SANDWICH LIKE A CUBE, AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHERE THE BREAD IS. TOP SIDES BOTTOM. UNDER THE CUBE RULE, ANYTHING WITH STUFF JUST ON TOP IS TOAST. >> ANYTHING. THERE’S BREAD ON. JUST THE TOP. AND BOTTOM IS A SANDWICH. ANYTHING WITH THIS BREAD ON THE SIDES. AND THE BOTTOM IS A TACO LIKE THREE SIDED. AND UNDER THAT LOGIC, A HOTDOG WOULD BE CONSIDERED A TACO. BUT AGAIN, I’M NOT A JUDGE LIKE YOU GUYS. B THE JURY START HERE IS PRODUCED BY KELLY TEREZ. JEN NEWMAN. BRENDA SALINAS BAKER. VIKA ARONSON ANTHONY ALI. ADMIRABLE WALKING IN. AMIR WILLIAMS ARIELLE CHESTER IS OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER. JOSH COHAN IS DIRECTOR OF PODCAST. I’M OUR MANAGING EDITOR. LAURA MAYERS, OUR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. THANKS TO LAKEIA BROWN, JON NEWMAN, TARA GIMBEL AND LIZ ALESSE. SPECIAL THANKS THIS WEEK TO CHRIS BARRY, LUKE BAR JONAH HASKELL, MATT, LESLIE AND O-TOWN LABOR. I’M BRAD MIELKE. I’M OFF ON MONDAY, BUT I’LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. AT ABC NEWS "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL THE TELEVISION. WE’RE TRYING TO GET ANSWERS FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, EVEN IF MAYBE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE THEY NEED THOSE ANSWERS. YOU KNOW, I HAVE COVERED CHILD HOMICIDES BEFORE, AND NOW MY DAUGHTER’S AUTOPSY WILL BE MADE PUBLIC ONE DAY. >> THOSE WHO FELT HER WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE. COULD YOU JUST STAND THERE AND LET MY FRIEND’S CHILD DIE? >> HI, I’M MANDY. AND I’M SABRINA. WE’RE MOMS JUGGLING TONS OF STUFF EVERY DAY. LIKE ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE. >> AND YOU KNOW WHAT WE LOVE? REALLY LOVE POP CULTURE. SO LISTEN NOW TO OUR NEW PODCAST, POP CULTURE MOMS. WHEREVER. GET YOUR PODCASTS WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET’S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. THE STORY IS WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE, YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE FOR STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE THEY HIM THE BEAUTY QUEEN KILLER. HE’S TARGETING YOUNG WOMEN IN I’M SINGLE I WANT TO ENJOY THE COMPANY OF THE NUMBER ONE KEITH ORCHARD ME HOW DID SHE SURVIVE NINE DAYS OF TERROR THE WORD ACCOMPLICE CAME UP. RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING THE GULF COAST, BATTERING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, SHATTERING SKYSCRAPER WINDOWS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 100MPH. THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS. THE DEATH TOLL, DESTRUCTION AND WHERE THE STORM HEADS NEXT. >> NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT. THE PHOTO SHOWING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING AT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO’S HOME. WHAT THE JUSTICE IS NOW SAYING. >> FOUR HOUR WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND NO BARCODE SIGNS FOR PRESCRIPTIONS. THE GROWING FALLOUT FROM YET ANOTHER MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK TARGETING THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. >> THE STUNNING VIDEO OF A TRUCK DRIVER DANGLING OFF THIS BRIDGE ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER AFTER A CRASH. NOW SHE SPEAKS OUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT AS SHE WENT CAREENING OVER THE EDGE. >> INSULTS FLYING ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS. >> CALM DOWN. >> YOU PLEASE DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN. >> CALM DOWN BECAUSE Y’ALL TALK NICE AND THEN YOU OUT OF CONTROL. >> HOW ONE INSULT ABOUT A FELLOW LAWMAKERS EYELASHES IGNITED CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL LAST NIGHT . >> NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. CRITICS CALLING IT SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC. NOW A CATHOLIC GROUP AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL, RESPONDS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THE FARMER WITH A VERY UNUSUAL HARVEST, UNCOVERING A BIG PIECE OF SPACE JUNK WHAT HE PLANS TO DO WITH IT. >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. I’M RHIANNON ALLY, AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. >> IN FOR ANDREW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. A DEADLY STORM SLAMMING PARTS OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALERT FOR LIFE THREATENING FLOODS, WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE BEING REPORTED IN NEW ORLEANS, BUT IT’S HOUSTON, INCLUDING DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, THAT HAS BEEN HIT THE HARDEST. >> OVERNIGHT, DEADLY STORMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE GULF COAST. >> IT’S BAD. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB WENT OFF IN THE HOUSTON AREA. >> VIOLENT WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING KILLING AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE. MASSIVE TREES TOPPLING INTO THE STREETS AND CRUSHING HOMES AS RESCUERS RUSHED TO HELP DOWNED POWER LINES EXPLODING OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING. WHILE ROWS OF TRANSMISSION TOWERS WERE LEFT MANGLED BY THE STORM, MORE THAN A MILLION TEXANS LEFT IN THE DARK AS THE HOWLING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS BATTERED THE REGION. >> I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES. DOWNTOWN IS A MESS. IT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. SO STAY AT HOME IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, STREETS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS, 100 MILE AN HOUR WINDS BLOWING OUT WINDOWS IN THESE HIGH RISES. >> THE WALL OF THIS BAR CRUMBLING, LEAVING A GAPING HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHILE THE DOORS AND WINDOWS OF THIS BUILDING RATTLED VIOLENTLY AS IT WAS BATTERED BY DEBRIS. >> I WAS FREAKED OUT. NO, IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED OF, LIKE, THE ROOF WAS GONNA GET TORN OFF. I WAS SCARED SOMETHING’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT WAS SCARY. >> THE DELUGE EVEN MAKING ITS WAY INTO MINUTE MAID PARK, THE HOUSTON ASTROS COVERED STADIUM THIS MORNING. SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED . OFFICIALS URGING NONESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES TO STAY HOME. AND THE THREAT ISN’T OVER YET. AREAS FROM LOUISIANA TO FLORIDA COULD SEE SEVERE FLOODING TODAY. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYONE DEALING WITH THAT. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. >> THE OTHER BIG STORY WE’RE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING, A POTENTIAL GOTCHA MOMENT AT THE TRUMP HUSH MONEY TRIAL. WHAT MICHAEL COHEN SAID ON THE STAND YESTERDAY COULD END UP BEING A KEY MOMENT IN THIS CASE. ABC’S PERRY RUSSOM HAS MORE ON THAT STORY. PERRY. GOOD MORNING. >> LIONEL. GOOD MORNING. AND ONE DRAMATIC AND POSSIBLY CRUCIAL MOMENT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY ACCUSED MICHAEL COHEN OF LYING TO THE JURY THIS MORNING. LEGAL EXPERTS SAY A TENSE EXCHANGE BETWEEN MICHAEL COHEN AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCH YESTERDAY COULD BE A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. I THINK IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DAY. >> IT WAS A FASCINATING DAY. >> DURING CROSS-EXAMINATION, BLANCH FOCUSED ON A PHONE CALL IN OCTOBER 2016, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. COHEN PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT DURING THAT CALL, HE TOLD TRUMP THE PLAN TO PAY OFF STAR STORMY DANIELS WAS MOVING FORWARD. BUT YESTERDAY, BLANCH SHOWED THE JURY TEXT MESSAGES THAT SUGGEST COHEN ACTUALLY CALLED TRUMP’S BODYGUARD, KEITH SCHILLER, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING PRANK CALLS FROM A TEENAGER RAISING HIS VOICE. BLANCH SAYING THAT WAS A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. YOU CAN ADMIT IT, COHEN RESPONDED. NO, SIR, I CAN, BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE THAT’S ACCURATE, ADDING, I BELIEVE I ALSO SPOKE TO MR. TRUMP ABOUT THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER. BLANCH FIRED BACK, WE ARE NOT ASKING WHAT YOU BELIEVE. THIS JURY DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED. BLANCH ALSO POINTED OUT THE LENGTH OF THE PHONE CALL, ASKING COHEN YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME IN THAT ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS TO UPDATE MR. SCHILLER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU WERE HAVING WITH THIS HARASSING PHONE CALL, AND ALSO UPDATE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE STATUS OF THE STORMY DANIELS SITUATION. BUT COHEN STUCK TO HIS STORY, INSISTING THE SHORT CALL COVERED BOTH ISSUES. THE DEFENSE ALSO TRIED TO CHIP AWAY AT COHEN’S CREDIBILITY, PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO TURNED ON TRUMP WHEN HE DIDN’T GET A JOB OFFER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> ANY TIME YOU HAVE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU, THEIR CREDIBILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. HE’S LIED SO MANY TIMES, SO MANY PLACES. >> TRUMP IS ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO CONCEAL THE PAYMENT TO DANIELS BEFORE THE ELECTION. HE DENIES THE ENCOUNTER AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. COURT IS NOT IN SESSION TODAY. COHEN RETURNS TO THE STAND MONDAY. THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE POSSIBLE AS SOON AS TUESDAY. STILL NO WORD IF TRUMP WILL TESTIFY. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT, PERRY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SOME BREAKING NEWS. OVERSEAS POLICE IN NORTHERN FRANCE HAVE FATALLY SHOT A MAN. THEY SAY SET FIRE TO A SYNAGOGUE. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, OFFICERS SHOT THE MAN AFTER HE APPROACHED HIM WITH A KNIFE. THE FIRE IS OUT. DAMAGE TO THE SYNAGOGUE IS DESCRIBED AS SIGNIFICANT. >> A NEW CONTROVERSY INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAD AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING IN HIS YARD JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH RIOT AT THE CAPITOL. THE INVERTED FLAG IS OFTEN VIEWED AS A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL USED BY SOME TRUMP SUPPORTERS. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBTAINED THIS PHOTO OF THE FLAG AT ALITO’S HOME. IT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN JUST BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION, AS THE COURT WAS CONSIDERING AN ELECTION CASE. BUT JUSTICE ALITO IS BLAMING HIS WIFE, ALITO, SAYING I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONAL INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. ALITO DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> NOW, NOW TO ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK AFFECTING HEALTH CARE AT THE NATION’S HOSPITALS. THIS ATTACK, IMPACTING WAIT TIMES IN THE E.R. AND RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT PATIENT CARE. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING HOSPITALS IN CHAOS. THAT’S HOW SOME NURSES AND PATIENTS ARE DESCRIBING OPERATIONS AT ASCENSION FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN THE WAKE OF LAST WEEK’S RANSOMWARE ATTACK. >> THIS IS TRULY A CRISIS SITUATION. >> THE CYBER ATTACK HAS AFFECTED 140 HOSPITALS AND DOZENS OF SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES IN 19 STATES, IMPACTING EVERYTHING FROM ORDERING TESTS TO READING LABS AND SCANS. WITH ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS BLOCKED, STAFF ARE FORCED TO WRITE NOTES ON PAPER. >> SHE’S CHARTING IT. SHE’S WRITING IT BY HAND, SO IT WAS, IT WAS A LONG WAIT. >> ASCENSION OFFICIALS SAY THEY DON’T HAVE A TIMELINE ON WHEN SYSTEMS WILL BE FULLY BACK ONLINE, SAYING DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, PATIENT SAFETY CONTINUES TO BE OUR UTMOST PRIORITY. IT’S JUST THE LATEST CYBER ATTACK IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR. EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN ATTACK ON CHANGE HEALTH CARE DISRUPTED SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE. THE COMPANY ENDED UP PAYING A $22 MILLION RANSOM. NURSES ARE ON EDGE. >> THEY CANNOT SCAN THE MEDICATIONS, SO YOU CAN’T SCAN THE PATIENT’S ARMBAND OR THE BARCODE ON THE MEDICATION TO MATCH TO SEE IF THAT IS EVEN A CORRECT ORDER OR DOSE. NURSES ARE WORRIED ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AND ALSO ABOUT THEIR OWN NURSING LICENSE, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SAFETY CHECKS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE HAVE BASICALLY BEEN ELIMINATED, AND ASCENSION COULD NOW FACE LEGAL ACTION. >> ACCUSED OF FAILING TO PROTECT PATIENT DATA, THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF THE HACK. RHIANNON. LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, THANKS TO ANDREA FUJII FOR THAT. THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO DANGLED OVER A BRIDGE 100FT ABOVE THE OHIO RIVER, IS TALKING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME, CYDNEY THOMAS TELLS OUR LOUISVILLE AFFILIATE WAS THAT WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK HIT HER ON THE BRIDGE, SHE LOST HER STEERING AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS BRACE HERSELF. >> I FELT MYSELF GOING OVER. I’M LIKE, I’M GONNA HAVE TO JUMP. I CAN’T SWIM EITHER. I DIDN’T KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS. I THOUGHT THAT THE TRAILER WAS STILL ON THE BRIDGE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. IT WAS LIKE THIS. >> WOW. SHE WAS DANGLING OVER THAT RIVER FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL RESCUE CREWS HOISTED HER BACK UP INTO THE BRIDGE. >> GLAD SHE’S OKAY. TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. WE’RE STILL TRACKING A SERIOUS FLOOD THREAT INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE GULF COAST AREA, DAMAGING WIND, HAIL, AND EVEN A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE AREA AROUND THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. EVEN SATURDAY, MORE ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA, AN INCREASING FLOOD RISK THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY RAIN INTO SATURDAY IN THESE AREAS. OVERALL THOUGH, WE’RE TURNING DRIER FARTHER TO THE WEST. COOLER IN THE NORTHEAST. I’M ACCUWEATHER METEOROLOGIST JEFF CORNISH. >> COMING UP, HOW ONE AIRLINE IS TRYING TO GET US TO PAY ATTENTION DURING THE IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. >> BUT FIRST, NEW BACKLASH OVER THAT COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH GIVEN BY NFL PLAYER HARRISON BOOKER A CRITICIZED AS SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC BY A CATHOLIC GROUP LINKED TO THE SCHOOL RESPONSE. >> PLUS, WE HEAR FROM THE MAN WHO RECEIVED THE FIRST BRAIN IMPLANT FROM NEURALINK, HELPING HIM CONTROL A COMPUTER WITH HIS THOUGH Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this Tonight getting Aid inside Gaza as the US military finishes the floating pier and attacks increase plus where the rare severe weather is headed more Americans turn to World News Tonight with David mure the most watched newscast on television. Next week. Where will Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor Joy be first thing in the morning. Get ready. Jmi, we are coming your way. And Blair and Sam are taking you aboard the USS Bataan live for Fleet Week only on Good Morning America. Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. This is really personal. That was shocking you sure this is right. Oh my gosh. I blacked out the new 2020 tonight on ABC Whenever Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde, Texas Edinburgh Scotland reporting from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the cranium refugees here in Warsaw committing to a small community outside of Mexico City getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there stream ABC News live weeknights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live Right. Now there’s just so much happening in our world so much at stake at the start of every morning and that’s why it Good Morning America. We’re right here, and we got you. We got you we got you. OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA. >> TRAFFIC IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS ALWA C CHAENGING , BUT THINGS GOT EVEN SLOWER WHEN A BEAR APPEARED ON THIS FREEWAY NORTH OF LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK. TOOK SOME TIME AND TOOK A LITTLE STROLL IN FRONT OF SOME CARS BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE HILLS. >> WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM A MAN WHO IS LIVING WITH A LIFE CHANGING BRAIN IMPLANT. NOLAN ARBAUGH WAS PARALYZED IN A SWIMMING ACCIDENT, BUT HE HAD A CHIP IMPLANTED INTO HIS BRAIN LAST YEAR, MADE BY ELON MUSK’S COMPANY, NEURALINK. THE IMPLANT ALLOWS HIM TO CONTROL DEVICES WITH HIS BRAIN. HE SPOKE TO ABC’S WILL REEVE. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL, AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU JUST PLAYED SOME MUSIC. YEAH, MAN. THAT’S AWESOME. >> THE DEVICE SUFFERED A MALFUNCTION RECENTLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED. AND LATER ON, GOOD MORNING AMERICA EXPLAINS WHY HE TOOK A RISK ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. >> WE TURN NOW TO THE BACKLASH OVER NFL PLAYER HARRISON BUTLER’S COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEECH. THERE IS A NEW DISPUTE OVER HIS TREATMENT ONLINE. THIS MORNING, MISSOURI’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER HE SAYS AN OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT FOR THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY POSTED PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HARRISON BUTLER. HE’S THE SUPER BOWL WINNING KICKER FOR THE CHIEFS, FACING A FIRESTORM OVER HIS RECENT COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, WHICH INCLUDED THIS COMMENT ABOUT WOMEN. >> I WOULD VENTURE TO GUESS THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE MOST EXCITED ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE CHILDREN YOU WILL BRING INTO THIS WORLD. >> CRITICS ALSO CALLING HIS GRADUATION SPEECH HOMOPHOBIC, NOT THE DEADLY SIN SORT OF PRIDE THAT HAS AN ENTIRE MONTH DEDICATED TO IT. BUTLER SPOKE AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE, A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN KANSAS. THE OFFICIAL KANSAS CITY ACCOUNT ON X LATER TWEETED, JUST A REMINDER THAT HARRISON BUTLER LIVES. AND THEN THE POST LISTED BUTLER’S HOMETOWN. THE ACCOUNT LATER DELETED THAT TWEET AND APOLOGIZED. THE MAYOR CALLING THE POST INAPPROPRIATE. MISSOURI’S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, OUTRAGED, NOW VOWING TO ENFORCE THE MISSOURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO ENSURE MISSOURIANS ARE NOT TARGETED FOR THEIR FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, BUTLER IS FUELING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THE SAME WAY WE WANT RESPECT. >> WHEN COLIN KAEPERNICK TAKES A KNEE RIGHT? WE WANT TO GIVE RESPECT TO PEOPLE WHOSE IDEAS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OURS. >> THE WIFE OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CEO POSTING AFFIRMING MOTHERHOOD AND PRAISING YOUR WIFE IS NOT BIGOTED. BUT THE FOUNDING INSTITUTION OF BENEDICTINE COLLEGE SAYS BUTLER’S COMMENTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE SCHOOL AS ITS FOUNDERS ENVISIONED, SAYING INSTEAD OF PROMOTING UNITY, HIS COMMENTS SEEM TO HAVE FOSTERED DIVISION, THIS STUDENT SEEMING TO AGREE MOST OF THE WOMEN WERE LOOKING BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER. >> DID HE JUST COME HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS AND HIS VIEWS ON WOMEN? >> WELL, THE SPEECH IS ALSO DIVIDING FOOTBALL FANS. SALES OF HIS JERSEY ARE BOOMING. AN ONLINE PETITION DEMANDS, THOUGH, THAT THE CHIEFS RELEASE HIM. >> COMING UP, CAITLIN CLARK’S HOME OPENER LAST NIGHT. NOT EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS HOPING FOR. >> ALSO AHEAD, CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE. >> CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. >> OKAY, MOVE TO STRIKE THROUGH. I MOVE TO STRIKE. I MOVE TO STRIKE. ORDER! >> THE LADY. >> ONE LAWMAKER INSULTS ANOTHER’S EYELASHES. 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Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. This is really personal. That was shocking you sure this is right. Oh my gosh. I blacked out the new 2020 tonight on ABC I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this YOU YOU? >> WHEELER SETS APART. OH, HAD THE THREE BALL RIM OUT A FRUSTRATING HOME DEBUT FOR CAITLIN CLARK. >> SHE SCORED ONLY NINE POINTS IN A 102 TO 66 BLOWOUT LOSS TO THE NEW YORK LIBERTY, NOW TO THE US CAPITOL AND CHAOS ERUPTING DURING WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RATHER ROUTINE HEARING UNTIL SOMEONE MENTIONED FAKE EYELASHES. >> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSING TO TURN OVER A RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH A SPECIAL COUNSEL. BUT LAST NIGHT’S HEARING ERUPTED INTO CHAOS WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WENT OFF TOPIC OR. >> OH. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY. >> WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT TRIED TO STOP GREENE’S LINE OF QUESTIONING, GREENE COMMENTED ON CROCKETT’S QUOTE, FAKE EYELASHES. >> DO YOU DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR? YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE ABOUT? I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR. WELL, YOU DON’T WANT TALKING ABOUT. >> I THINK YOU’RE FAKE. EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. HOLD ON, HOLD ON. >> LISTEN, GREENE SHOUTING A REFUSAL TO APOLOGIZE. OTHER LAWMAKERS THEN COMING TO CROCKETT’S DEFENSE. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO TAKE DOWN MISS GREENE’S WORDS. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT HER WORDS DOWN OR OH OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL? >> OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY BABY GIRL I DON’T THINK WE ARE. >> THEN MORE CHAOS. AFTER CROCKETT APPEARED TO INSULT GREENE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING, IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY BLEACHED BLOND, BAD BUILT, BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES, CORRECT? >> A WHAT NOW? >> CHAIRMAN? I MAKE A I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. >> CROCKETT LATER POSTED. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MENTALLY DEFICIENT PEOPLE WHO CAN’T READ AND FOLLOW RULES OR JUST DON’T GIVE A, SOMEHOW END UP IN CONGRESS. THE BICKERING THERE DELAYED PROCEEDINGS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. >> ALL RIGHT, COMING UP, THE NEW FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE U.S, PLUS THE NEW DAD WITH QUITE THE SHOWING ON THE GREEN Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this And they will debate Biden Trump the campaign the polls and the debates. Everyone’s been waiting for Sunday morning with Trump still on trial the PowerHouse Roundtable with what this all means for the 2024 race Sunday on ABC’s this week. Tonight getting Aid inside Gaza as the US military finishes the floating pier and attacks increase plus where the rare severe weather is headed more Americans turn to World News Tonight with David mure the most watched newscast on television. >> 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 Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. This is really personal. That was shocking you sure this is right. Oh my gosh. I blacked out the new 2020 tonight on ABC Traveling with the president to the u.s. Mexico border. I’m Mary Bruce wherever the story is will take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN ON GMA? >> TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE. WE BEGIN WITH THE UNITED STATES ON THE VERGE OF GETTING A NEW THIRD BIGGEST CITY. >> NEW FIGURES FROM THE CENSUS SHOW THE WINDY CITY IS ON TRACK TO LOSE ITS STATUS. CHICAGO’S POPULATION DROPPED BY ABOUT 80,000IN A ONE YEAR PERIOD. HOUSTON IS WAITING IN THE WINGS AND SAN ANTONIO IS ONCE AGAIN THE FASTEST GROWING CITY. >> AND GET THIS, DETROIT’S POPULATION GREW FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1957. NEXT, SOME NEW LIFE FOR SO-CALLED BRICK AND MORTAR STORES. >> WAYFAIR, KNOWN AS AN ONLINE RETAIL GIANT, IS OPENING A GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHYSICAL STORE. IT’S SET TO OPEN NEXT WEEK NEAR CHICAGO. IT’S PART OF A TREND RETAIL STORE OPENINGS ACTUALLY OUTPACED CLOSURES RECENTLY. >> NEXT, A FARMER FINDING A HUGE PIECE OF SPACE JUNK. >> THIS HAPPENED IN RURAL CANADA. THE SPACE DEBRIS IS SIX FEET WIDE. EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S PART OF A SPACE ROCKET. THE FARMER SAYS HE WANTS TO SELL IT TO BUILD A HOCKEY RINK. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE PRICE NEXT. A NEW ATTEMPT TO KEEP YOU FROM TUNING OUT AS YOU TAKE OFF. >> WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. UNITED AIRLINES HAS PRODUCED A NEW IN-FLIGHT SAFETY VIDEO. IT’S LIVE ACTION USING A BLUE BALL TO GO FROM ONE SCENE TO THE NEXT. THE AIRLINE THINKS THIS WILL KEEP YOU FOCUSED. EXPERTS SAY FUNNY VIDEOS PRODUCED BY OTHER AIRLINES HAVE NOT BEEN AFFECTED, THOUGH. >> FINALLY, A NEW DAD GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS. >> PRO GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SANK AN INCREDIBLE 167 YARDS SHOT. THIS WAS HIS VERY FIRST DRIVE AFTER WELCOMING HIS NEW SON. A BIG CONGRATS TO HIM ON BOTH GOOD LUCK I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses Let’s go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn’t get any more Cutting Edge and this We’re trying to get answers for the community at large. Even if maybe some of the community doesn’t feel like they need those answers. I have covered child homicides before and now my daughter’s autopsy will be made public 1 day. Those who? I Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. This is really personal. That was shocking you sure this is right. Oh my gosh. I blacked out the new 2020 tonight on ABC HELP. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES NOW AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER A VIOLENT STORM ROARED THROUGH HOUSTON, DAMAGING BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN AND KNOCKING OUT POWER TO MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE BEING URGED TO STAY OFF THE ROADS OVERSEAS. >> HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES ARE NOW PASSING THROUGH A NEWLY BUILT U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. OFFICIALS SAY U.S. TROOPS WILL NOT COME ON SHORE, BUT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE AID OPERATION IS NOT WITHOUT RISK. IT COMES AS A SMALL GROUP OF ISRAELIS CONTINUE TRYING TO BLOCK AID TRUCKS FROM ENTERING GAZA. >> THE TSA IS WARNING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL WILL BE THE BUSIEST SINCE 2010. THURSDAY WILL BE THE BUSIEST DAY FOR AIR TRAVEL, AND OFFICIALS SAY THE SUMMER WILL BE THE BUSIEST EVER FOR AIR TRAVEL, WITH 15% MORE TRAVELERS THAN LAST YEAR. >> TODAY’S WEATHER, MORE SEVERE STORMS ON THE GULF COAST, FLOODING AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE, AND MORE RAIN ACROSS THE EAST AND IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, A MAN IS SHARING HIS INCREDIBLE CONNECTION WITH A LIONESS. >> HE SPOKE TO DANNY NOON. >> LOOK OUT! >> OH, THEY’RE FRIENDS. >> WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE HUGGED BY A LION? >> IT DOESN’T FEEL AS CUDDLY AS IT LOOKS. I THINK SOMETIMES. >> VALBRUNA HERE IS A GERMAN BORN CONSERVATIONIST WHO LIVES IN BOTSWANA’S KALAHARI DESERT. >> AND YES, HE IS A BEST FRIEND. SLASH ADOPTED LIONESS DAUGHTER NAMED SAGA. >> I LOVE HER LIKE YOU KNOW, LIKE I GUESS, LIKE SOMEONE WOULD LOVE THEIR CHILD. >> NOW, VAL DID NOT SET OUT TO RAISE A LION 12 YEARS AGO. HE RESCUED SAGA AFTER SHE WAS BORN IN CAPTIVITY UNDER UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE OWNER ASKED ME TO TRY AND HAND RAISE THE LAST SURVIVING CUP, WHICH WAS LYING AROUND WITHOUT BEING FED BY THE MOM FOR ABOUT TWO DAYS. A TEN DAYS OLD VAL STARTED BOTTLE FEEDING SAGA HIMSELF, AND NOW, MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, SHE’S A FULLY GROWN LADY WHO GETS TO HUNT AND LIVE ON HIS 17,000 ACRE PRIVATE WILDLIFE AREA. YEAH, ALSO, SHE GETS LOTS OF GOOD. PETS. TECHNICALLY, THERE ARE FENCES IN PLACE, BUT VAL SAYS SAGA COULD GET OUT IF SHE WANTED TO. OTHER LIONS COME IN AND SAY HI ALL THE TIME, BUT SAGA IS USED TO ENCLOSED AREAS OVER THE YEARS AND PROBABLY NOT SURPRISINGLY, VIDEOS LIKE THESE HAVE MADE SAGA AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STAR WITH MORE THAN 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS ACROSS PLATFORMS. >> I HOPE THAT SAGA STORY WILL CREATE AWARENESS FOR WILDLIFE AND NATURE CONSERVATION AND THROUGH VAL’S MAIN COMPANY CALLED THE MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT, HE TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE REACH HE AND SAGA NOW HAVE TO HELP PROTECT THE AFRICAN WILDLIFE THAT THIS GERMAN BORN MAN HAS GROWN TO LOVE. I DON’T THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD THE ENERGY IF IT WASN’T FOR HER AND GUYS. >> MODISELLE WILDLIFE PROJECT DOES HOST STUDENTS AND VISITORS TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT NATURE THERE. BUT JUST FYI, IT IS A 2.5 HOUR DRIVE FROM THE NEAREST VILLAGE, SO YOU GOT TO PLAN YOUR TRIP OKAY? >> AND YOU CAN’T HUG THE LIONESS. WHAT? YEAH, IT’S ON THE WEBSITE. DANNY TOLD ME. NO HUGS. >> IT IS FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, AND THE BUSINESS WATCHDOG IS STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS. >> WE START HERE. IN A RESOUNDING DECISION, THE SUPREME COURT KEEPS THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU IN PLACE. THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS THERE’S BEEN A REAL IMPACT ON AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LIVES. BUT COULD THIS ALSO NOW SET THE STAGE FOR MORE LAWSUITS? WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THE DECISION. CONGRESS HAS A TRANSCRIPT OF THIS INTERVIEW. DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT AN ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY. BUT DO THEY NEED THE TAPES? A NEW STANDOFF OVER EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IS ESCALATING. AND IS THAT NEW EMPLOYEE WORKING FOR YOU FROM ANOTHER STATE OR FROM NORTH KOREA? THIS WAS A NETWORK OF PEOPLE WHO NORTH KOREA DISPATCHED OVER A SPAN OF YEARS. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THERE’S A NEW SCAM ENRICHING KIM JONG UN. FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS "START HERE". I’M BRAD MIELKE. >> ONE OF THE LEGACIES OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF THE LATE AUGHTS. >> ONE OF THE FEW THINGS CONSUMERS GOT OUT OF IT IS A GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBLE FOR BANKS, CORPORATIONS, LOANS. ALL THESE THAT HAD MADE SO MANY PEOPLE FEEL POWERLESS. >> THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. >> BUT THIS YEAR, THERE WAS A REAL CHANCE IT COULD CEASE WORKING AS WE KNOW IT. >> THIS ALL CAME DOWN TO THE SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY, AND IN A 7 TO 2 DECISION, THE JUSTICES DECIDED TO KEEP IT AS IS. LET’S BRING IN ABC SENIOR WASHINGTON REPORTER DEVIN DWYER WHO COVERS THE COURT. >> DEVIN, WHAT WAS AT STAKE HERE? >> THIS IS A MAJOR CASE FOR CONSUMERS IN THIS COUNTRY, BRAD, I MEAN, THIS, AS YOU SAID, IS THE INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US FROM PREDATORY AND ABUSIVE PRACTICES. IT’S A REGULATOR, IT’S A WATCHDOG AND IT WAS A SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBAMA BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. >> I REALIZE IT’S PROBABLY NOT THE THING THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE, BUT IT’S ONE THAT OVER TIME IT’S GOING TO SAVE YOU A LOT OF OTHER AMERICANS, A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY. >> ELIZABETH WARREN WAS, A CHAMPION OF THIS, OF THE EVERYMAN AND IN THE FACE OF THE BIG BANKS AND CORPORATE AMERICA THAT HAD INFLICTED SO MUCH HARM ON US AT THAT TIME OF THE CRISIS. AND SO THIS IS AN AGENCY THAT HAS HELPED WRITE HUNDREDS OF REGULATIONS ON EVERYTHING FROM CONSUMER LOANS TO CREDIT CARD FEES TO HOME MORTGAGES. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DISCLOSED, HOW MUCH CAN THEY CHARGE YOU IF YOU OVERDRAFT ON A CHECK? AND SO FAR, BRAD, I MEAN, IT HAS WON MORE THAN 17 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS IN RESTITUTION FINE FOR CORPORATE WRONGDOING OVER THE YEARS AND HELPED CANCEL THE DEBTS OF 200 MILLION AMERICANS THROUGH THESE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS OF ITS RULES. SO THE AGENCY AND THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS THERE’S BEEN A REAL IMPACT ON AMERICANS AND AMERICAN LIVES IN THE FACE OF CORPORATE AMERICA, WHICH SOME HAVE LONG SEEN AS BEING TOO UNBRIDLED AS THEY OPERATE IN OUR DAY TO DAY. AND SO THIS DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT YESTERDAY TO FEND OFF THIS EXISTS CHALLENGE TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE CFPB AND HOW IT’S FUNDED BY CONGRESS WAS A MAJOR WIN NOT ONLY FOR THE AGENCY, BUT FOR DEMOCRATS. >> AND A LOT OF CONSUMER ADVOCATES SAY FOR CONSUMERS AS WELL. >> WHAT WAS THE CASE? BECAUSE I’M USED TO CASES ABOUT LIKE THEY MADE THIS DECISION OR THAT DECISION. >> THIS WAS KIND OF ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE THING ITSELF. WELL, THIS WAS A CASE THAT WAS BROUGHT BY A GROUP OF PAYDAY LENDERS TAKING ISSUE WITH A SPECIFIC RULE ISSUED BY THE CFPB. >> THE GOVERNMENT AGREES THAT CONGRESS COULDN’T JUST AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO SPEND WHATEVER WANTS, BUT THAT’S EFFECTIVELY WHAT CONGRESS DID HERE. >> BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE COURT WAS LOOKING AT HOW THE CFPB IS FUNDED. AS YOU KNOW, MOST AGENCIES AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS EVERY YEAR HAVE TO GO TO CONGRESS, MAKE THE CASE, HERE’S MY BUDGET, HERE’S HOW MUCH WE NEED. AND CONGRESS, UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, HAS POWER OF THE PURSE. THEY APPROPRIATE MONEY EVERY YEAR FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF OUR GOVERNMENT. WELL, WHEN CONGRESS IN 2008 DESIGNED THE CFPB, THEY WANTED TO INSULATE IT FROM THAT POLITICAL PROCESS TO MAKE IT SAFER AND MORE INDEPENDENT. AND THEY FUNDED THE CFPB THROUGH THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, GIVING IT A PERMANENT FUNDING STREAM FROM THAT. YOU KNOW, THE BANK SYSTEM, IF YOU WILL, TO COVER SOME OF THE COSTS OF HOW THEY OPERATE. CONGRESS HAS NEVER AUTHORIZED AN AGENCY TO PICK ITS OWN PERPETUAL APPROPRIATION. AND IF IT CAN DO THAT FOR THE CFPB, IT CAN DO IT FOR EVERY OTHER AGENCY TO THE GROUP OF PAYDAY LENDERS CHALLENGING THE CFPB SAID THAT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL. IT TAKES CONGRESS OUT OF THE EQUATION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. IT DOESN’T ALLOW ENOUGH OVERSIGHT BY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HOW MUCH MONEY SHOULD BE ALLOCATED ON A GIVEN YEAR. AND SO THEY SOUGHT TO STRIKE IT DOWN. BUT THE SUPREME COURT WASN’T BUYING IT. THIS WAS A 7 TO 2 DECISION WRITTEN BY THE COURT’S MOST CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE, CLARENCE THOMAS. >> I GET YOUR POINT THAT IS DIFFERENT, THAT IS UNIQUE, THAT IT’S ODD THAT THEY’VE NEVER GONE THIS FAR, BUT THAT’S NOT HAVING GONE AS FAR IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM. >> WHO BASICALLY SAID THE TEXT AND THE HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION SAY THAT AN APPROPRIATION IS AN APPROPRIATION. AND IF CONGRESS DESIGNED THE AGENCY, THIS WAY, THEY OBVIOUSLY ALLOCATED APPROPRIATED SOME AMOUNT OF MONEY THROUGH THE FEDERAL RESERVE. YES, IT’S INDIRECT. BUT HE SAID APPROPRIATED IS APPROPRIATED. AND IF CONGRESS WANTS TO CHANGE IT, THEY CAN AND THEREFORE IT SHOULD STAND. >> THAT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE CLARENCE THOMAS, NO LIBERAL AT ALL, AND YET HE’S BEEN SO CONSISTENT, BASICALLY BEEN LIKE, HEY, YOU GOT TO PASS A LAW. >> AND IN THIS CASE, A LAW WAS PASSED, I GUESS. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE CFPB GOING FORWARD, THOUGH, THEN? BECAUSE, LIKE, DO THEY? IS THIS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THIS GROUP THAT MIGHT HAVE FELT LIKE THEY WERE ON LIFE SUPPORT? >> WELL, IT LIFTS THE UNCERTAINTY AROUND THE EXISTENCE OF THE AGENCY, SAID THIS CASE YESTERDAY. BRAD, YOU KNOW, MEANS THAT THAT THE CFPB IS HERE TO STAY A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A SEPARATE CASE THAT WAS A LOT LIKE THIS ONE, TAKING AIM AT THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ITS LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE. IT SUFFERED A MIXED DECISION THERE. BUT THE CFPB IS AROUND AND WILL REMAIN IN PLACE. AND NOW THE FOCUS SHIFTS TO THE REGULATIONS THAT IT’S WRITING. THE AGENCY YESTERDAY SAID THIS DECISION WILL ENSURE THE STABILITY OF OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS. THEY WILL BE FULL STEAM AHEAD, REGULATING BANKS, ENSURING FAIR ,TRANSPARENT AND COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACES. BUT THE INDUSTRY NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DECISION. BRAD IS PROMISING AGGRESSIVE LITIGATION AND AGAINST ALL DIFFERENT SORTS OF RULES LITIGATION THAT’S BEEN ON HOLD . WHILE THE COURTS HAVE TAKEN A LOOK AT THE MERE EXISTENCE OF THE AGENCY. >> WELL, NOW THEY’RE GOING TO GET DOWN INTO SOME OF THESE CAN. OH, LIKE WE WEREN’T SUING YOU BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW YOU’D EXIST. >> BUT NOW THAT YOU DO EXIST, WE’RE SUING YOU, RIGHT? WE’RE GOING TO WE’RE GOING TO WE’RE GOING TO GO POINT BY POINT AND SEE YOU IN FEDERAL COURT OVER WHETHER WE CAN MANDATE THE REMOVAL OF MEDICAL BILLS FROM AMERICANS CREDIT REPORTS. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THE CFPB WANTS TO DO. >> SO A LOT MORE FIGHTING AHEAD. IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO SHAKE OUT IN THE COURT. BUT FOR THOSE WHO WHO WANTED TO SEE THIS AGENCY SURVIVE, THE SUPREME COURT INSURED YESTERDAY THAT IT WILL AND YOU WERE POINTING OUT 72 HERE AND I THINK IN 18 OF 23 CASES SO FAR THIS YEAR, THIS SUPREME COURT HAS NOT JUST BEEN LOPSIDED, IT’S BEEN UNANIMOUS. SO A LITTLE BIT OF HARMONY HERE, EVEN THOUGH WE DESCRIBE THE COUNTRY AS SO DIVIDED, THESE JUSTICES COMING TOGETHER ON THIS AND OTHERS. DEVIN DWYER IN WASHINGTON, THANK YOU. >> THANKS, BRAD. >> NEXT UP ON "START HERE", IF YOU’RE GOING TO HOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONTEMPT, WHO WOULD EVEN PROSECUTE HIM? THE STANDOFF OVER I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. 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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, You’re watching America’s number one streaming is live reporting breaking new exclusives keep streaming with ABC News live. STREAMING FREE ON ABC NEWS LIVE . >> IN RECENT YEARS CONGRESS HAS HAD A PROBLEM WHEN THEY TELL SOMEONE TO TESTIFY, THEY’RE OF COURSE USED TO THAT PERSON APPEARING BEFORE THEM POLITELY AND PROMPTLY. >> WHEN YOU GET A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA, THAT’S NOT A REQUEST. YOU CAN BE FOUND IN CONTEMPT IF YOU DON’T COME. IT’S TECHNICALLY AGAINST THE SOMETHING CHANGED DURING THE TRUMP YEARS, THOUGH. >> THE WHITE HOUSE STARTED SAYING NO MORE OFTEN. THEY WITHHELD DOCUMENTS CITING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. >> FRIENDS OF THE ADMINISTRATION STARTED REFUSING TO HEARINGS LED BY DEMOCRATS, EVEN WHEN SUBPOENAED. >> BUT HERE’S THE THING THIS TREND HAS NOT ENDED WITH TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IN RECENT YEARS. MORE WITNESSES HAVE BALKED AT COMING IN FOR QUESTIONING. THEY DON’T DEEM LEGITIMATE. AND THEN THERE WAS THE INVESTIGATION INTO HOW JOE BIDEN’S HANDLED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. AT ONE POINT, HE HAD A SIT DOWN WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT HUR. CONGRESS HAS ASKED TO HEAR THE AUDIO FROM THAT INTERVIEW. WELL, YESTERDAY, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID WAIT FOR IT. NO, THIS IS SET OFF A FIRESTORM AND RAISES THE SERIOUS POSSIBILITY OF CONTEMPT CHARGES ,PERHAPS EVEN FOR THE NATION’S TOP PROSECUTOR. ABC’S CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE IS AT THE WEST WING RIGHT NOW. >> MARY, WHAT HAPPENED HERE? >> WELL, THE PRESIDENT IS USING HIS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TO TRY AND BLOCK HOUSE REPUBLICANS FROM ACCESSING THE AUDIO OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, ROBERT HUR, RELATED TO HIS HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. THE WHITE HOUSE IS ACCUSING REPUBLICANS OF TRYING TO MANIPULATE THE TAPES FOR POLITICAL GAIN AFTER THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, AS YOU’LL RECALL, DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT AS AN ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY. >> I HAD TO CONSIDER THE PRESIDENT’S MEMORY AND OVERALL MENTAL STATE AND HOW A JURY LIKELY WOULD PERCEIVE HIS MEMORY AND MENTAL STATE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL, CITING THE FACT THAT AT ONE POINT HE HAD TO BE PROMPTED BY PEOPLE IN THE ROOM TO RECALL THE YEAR OF HIS SON, BEAU’S DEATH. HOW DARE HE RAISE THAT, FRANKLY ,WHEN I WAS ASKED A QUESTION, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WAS THERE EVER A BUSINESS? >> THE ADMINISTRATION CONCERNED AND DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL ECHOING THAT CONCERN THAT THIS AUDIO WOULD JUST BE CHOPPED UP AND REPLAYED IN POLITICAL ADS TO TRY AND GIVE REPUBLICANS A BOOST. BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE FALL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IS ALREADY OUT THERE. AND OF COURSE, THE SPECIAL COUNSEL DECLINED TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. BIDEN, THOUGH, IS NOW USING THIS PRIVILEGE, WHICH IS SOMETHING REMEMBER THAT DONALD TRUMP ALSO DID AT THE REQUEST OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MERRICK GARLAND, WHO IS ALSO WARNING THAT POLITICS IS AT PLAY HERE. >> WE HAVE GONE TO EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS TO ENSURE THAT A COMMITTEES GET RESPONSES, THEIR LEGITIMATE REQUESTS, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE. >> BUT ALSO CAUTIONING THAT RELEASING THE AUDIO COULD HAVE LASTING IMPACTS ON FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS, THAT RELEASING THESE KIND OF RECORDINGS COULD MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE DOJ TO CONVINCE OFFICIALS TO SIT DOWN FOR A TAPED INTERVIEWS. >> THIS COMMITTEE CANNOT BE DETERRED IN PROCEEDING WITH THE CONTEMPT, BUT AS YOU SAID, REPUBLICANS ARE NOT DROPPING. >> THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT BEING IMPARTIAL. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GETTING PROSECUTED. WE KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN MIAMI. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS AND HE ISN’T BECAUSE OF THAT STATEMENT FROM THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. >> THEY ARE NOW TRYING TO HOLD THE AG IN CONTEMPT FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER THE TAPES AFTER HE REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THEIR SUBPOENA. >> WOW. SO WHERE DOES GARLAND FIT IN THINKERS THAT BIDEN IS SAYING THIS IS PROTECTED BY EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE I’M KEEPING THIS IS GARLAND C DEFENDING THAT OR YOU’RE SAYING YOU SHOULD HAND IT OVER ANYWAY? >> MERRICK GARLAND I THINK THE HOPE WAS THAT BY ASSERTING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, IT WOULD PREVENT ALL OF THIS. BUT REPUBLICANS ARE MOVING AHEAD. NOW, LOOK, EVEN IF THEY DO HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT, THE RESOLUTION WOULD THEN HAVE TO GO TO THE FULL HOUSE FOR A VOTE. THAT APPROVAL ISN’T CERTAIN GIVEN. REPUBLICANS NARROW MAJORITY THERE. AND ALL OF THE DIVISIONS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. SO THIS STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO. THE BOTTOM LINE, IT’S NOT CLEAR MERRICK GARLAND IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE HELD IN CONTEMPT. AND WHAT WOULD COME OF ALL OF THIS. >> BUT CERTAINLY WHAT IT IS DOING IS SETTING OFF YET ANOTHER BIG POLITICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORT. IT WAS GOING TO SAY, IS THERE PRECEDENT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS ,NO, YOU CAN’T HAVE THAT LIKE YOU, YOU ALREADY HAD THE TRANSCRIPT, BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE THE TAPE? >> LOOK, THERE CERTAINLY IS PRECEDENT GOING BACK TO THE CLINTON YEARS OF AUDIO BEING RELEASED AND THEN BEING USED AS A POLITICAL CUDGEL. >> IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT THE MEANING OF THE WORD IS. YES, I THINK BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS KIND OF THING, AND BOTH ARE TRYING TO LEARN SOME LESSONS AS WELL AND REALLY RAMPING UP THE STAKES WITH THIS THREAT OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. AND BUT STEVE BANNON, THE OLD ADVISER TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE WAS FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. HE WAS CONVICTED CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. >> HIS LAST APPEAL DIED RECENTLY. AND SO JUST THIS WEEK, PROSECUTORS HAVE TOLD THE JUDGE OVERSEEING BANNON’S CASE THAT HE’S HAD HIS CHANCE HE SHOULD GO TO PRISON. THAT’S HOW BIG A CONTEMPT CHARGE CAN END UP BEING DOWN THE ROAD. BUT AGAIN, LIKE YOU SAID, MARY, STILL A LOT OF STEPS TO HAPPEN HERE. >> MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU. THANKS, BRAD. >> NOW, WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THE SCRUTINY THE DOJ IS FACING TODAY, BUT THEY’VE APPARENTLY BEEN BUSY BECAUSE YESTERDAY THEY ALSO ANNOUNCED THEY’RE BRINGING CHARGES IN WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS A STAGGERING FRAUD SCHEME DESIGNED TO HELP OUT NORTH KOREA. ABC’S ALEX MALLIN COVERS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. ALEX, WHAT IS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALLEGING? >> SO, BRAD, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNSEALED THE SWEEPING INDICTMENT YESTERDAY CHARGING THREE NORTH KOREAN I.T. WORKERS AND A U.S. CITIZEN LIVING IN ARIZONA. AND WHAT THEY ALLEGE IS REALLY A STAGGERING FRAUD. THIS COMPLEX SCHEME WHERE ESSENTIALLY THESE WORKERS APPLIED FOR THESE POSITIONS, THESE TELEWORK POSITIONS AT COMPANIES THAT WERE PROPPED UP DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC BACK IN OCTOBER 2020 AND THEN FOR THREE STRAIGHT YEARS. THEY ESSENTIALLY WORKED AS TELEWORKERS AT A RANGE OF FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES AND GENERATED ABOUT $6.8 MILLION IN PROFIT, ACCORDING TO THIS INDICTMENT. SO ESSENTIALLY, THIS WORKER THAT WAS IN ARIZONA WAS HAD WHAT THEY CALLED A LAPTOP FARM, WHERE SHE WAS BASICALLY FACILITATING THESE WORKERS, BEING ABLE TO OPERATE FROM OVERSEAS, WORKING FOR THESE COMPANIES WHO LARGELY THIS INDICTMENT SAYS DID NOT KNOW THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE WORKING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DPRK. >> WE’RE SO USED TO HEARING LIKE CYBER SCHEMES BEING LIKE SCAMMING. IT SOUNDS LIKE THESE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY DOING WORK, JUST THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED BE DOING WORK AND GETTING AMERICAN MONEY. >> THIS INDICTMENT DOESN’T REALLY GET INTO THE WORK THAT THESE WORKERS WERE OR WERE NOT DOING, BUT IT’S A REALLY STAGGERING. THE COMPANIES THAT THEY WERE WORKING FOR. THE INDICTMENT DETAILS A TOP FIVE NATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK AND MEDIA COMPANY. UNCLEAR IF IT’S OUR OWN NETWORK, A PREMIER SILICON VALLEY TECH COMPANY. AN UNNAMED AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE MANUFACTURER. AND WHAT THEY CALL AN ICONIC AMERICAN CAR MANUFACTURER THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GO INTO THEIR SYSTEMS AND TAKE AWAY, YOU KNOW COMPANY DATA. SO THIS IS REALLY JUST SOMETHING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS HAD ITS EYE ON DATING BACK TO 2022. WE ACTUALLY SAW THAT THEY PUT OUT AN ALERT PREVIOUSLY SAYING FOR PEOPLE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS TYPE OF SCHEME. BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE’VE SEEN THIS INDICTMENT THAT REALLY DETAILS THE THIS NETWORK THAT, AGAIN, WAS PROPPED UP THROUGH JUST A KIND OF RANDOM WOMAN WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY OPERATING THIS WHOLE NETWORK AND FACILITATING IT OUT OF ARIZONA. >> THE INDICTMENT COVERS MORE THAN JUST HER. RIGHT. BUT LIKE, IF THESE PEOPLE IN NORTH KOREA, YOU KNOW, CHANCE, YOU ACTUALLY END UP DETAINING THOSE PEOPLE, RIGHT? >> YEAH. I MEAN, I THINK THAT WHAT WE KNOW OF THIS INDICTMENT IS THEY ACTUALLY DON’T INCLUDE THE REAL NAMES OF THE NORTH KOREANS WHO ARE CHARGED HERE. THEY SAY THAT BASICALLY THIS WAS A NETWORK OF PEOPLE WHO NORTH KOREA DISPATCHED OVER A SPAN OF YEARS, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, THEY SAY, ACROSS THE GLOBE WHO ARE TRYING TO ENGAGE IN SIMILAR SCHEMES. THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS OFFERING A $5 MILLION REWARD FOR THE IDENTITIES, ACTUAL IDENTITIES OF THESE PEOPLE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO THEIR ARREST. BUT AGAIN, WE DON’T HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH NORTH KOREA, AND IT’S UNCLEAR WE DO WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THESE PEOPLE MIGHT BE OPERATING OUT OF. >> AND I GUESS I’M WONDERING AT THE END OF THE DAY, HOW CONCERNING SHOULD THIS BE TO COMPANIES AROUND THE U.S. THAT HIRE REMOTE WORKERS? BECAUSE THAT’S GOT TO BE LIKE AN EVER INCREASING NUMBER OF COMPANIES WHERE YOU DON’T ACTUALLY WELCOME THAT EMPLOYEE IN IN PERSON FOR THEIR ORIENTATION. >> I GUESS THE MESSAGE HERE FOR MANY COMPANIES IS MAKE SURE YOU TURN THE CAMERAS ON AT ALL TIMES DURING THE ZOOM MEETINGS. I THINK THAT BASICALLY THE GOVERNMENT IS IS MAKING THIS INDICTMENT PUBLIC AS A WARNING SIGN THEIR COMPANIES AROUND THE COUNTRY, IT’S WHETHER THEY’RE CONTACTING THOSE COMPANIES THAT HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS PARTICULAR SCAM. BUT IN ONE INSTANCE, THEY ACTUALLY NAMED TWO U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE ABLE TO FIND AND THWART THIS SCHEME. SO THERE ARE WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO PUT IN THE SAFEGUARDS TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE NOT ALSO VICTIMS OF SCAMS LIKE THIS. >> IT’S REALLY FASCINATING, LIKE YOU SAID, IT’S SOMETHING THAT COULD ONLY BE HAPPENING IN SORT OF POST 20, 20 LAND. ALL RIGHT. ALEX MALLIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANKS, BRAD. OKAY, ONE MORE QUICK BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, IS IT STILL A SANDWICH? IF I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. 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QUESTION FOR YOU IS A TACO, A SANDWICH? NOW, BEFORE WE JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS HERE, LET’S THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS A SANDWICH? SOMETHING YOU CAN EAT WITHOUT UTENSILS. ALL RIGHT, CHECK SOMETHING ENCASED IN BREAD. RIGHT. WELL, DOES A TORTILLA COUNT. PEOPLE HAVE THESE HYPOTHETICAL DEBATES ALL THE TIME. BUT THIS WEEK IN INDIANA, A JUDGE HAD TO WEIGH IN ON THIS FOR REAL. >> JOBS WERE AT STAKE. >> SO A FEW YEARS AGO IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, A GUY NAMED MARTIN QUINTANA BRINGS A NEW RESTAURANT INTO THE STRIP MALL THAT HE OWNED. >> THE RESTAURANT WAS CALLED THE FAMOUS TACO, AND OTHER LOCATIONS GOT POSITIVE REVIEWS FROM FANS, GENEROUS PORTION, ONLY $3, I THINK, FOR THIS TACO. VERY NICE. >> THERE WAS JUST ONE PROBLEM. QUINTANA HAD SIGNED AN AGREEMENT IN WHICH HIS STRIP MALL WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY FAST FOOD PLACES. >> THE ONLY EXCEPTION SAID IN THE RULES WERE SANDWICH BAR STYLE RESTAURANTS LIKE, SUBWAY AND JIMMY JOHN’S. THE FAMOUS TACO KIND OF FOLLOWS THAT MODEL OF AN ASSEMBLY LINE ,LIKE A SUBWAY, OR BETTER YET, LIKE A CHIPOTLE. BUT THE FORT WAYNE PLANNING COMMISSION TOLD HIM, SORRY, THAT DOESN’T MAKE TACOS SANDWICHES. YOU GOT TO FIND A NEW RESTAURANT. QUINTANA TOOK THEM TO COURT, AND THIS WEEK, INDIANA JUDGE CRAIG BOBAY ISSUED A RULING SAYING YES, A TACO IS A SANDWICH, AND THE FAMOUS TACO CAN OPERATE WITHIN THE RULES. PART OF HIS RATIONALE, HE SAID, IS THAT EVERY GOT A VERSION OF PORTABLE HAND-HELD SNACKS HELD TOGETHER BREAD. IT’S NOT OKAY TO LIMIT YOUR STRIP MALL TO EXCLUSIVELY AMERICAN CUISINE. IN FACT, HIS ORDER STIPULATES THAT MADE TO ORDER GREEK EUROS ,VIETNAMESE, BON MES AND INDIAN NON WRAPS WOULD ALL BE PERMISSIBLE AS WELL. BUT THIS IS NOT THE FIRST LEGAL MIND ASKED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FOOD GROUPS. >> A SUB IS NOT SPLIT, AND YET IT IS A SANDWICH. >> YES. SO THEN HOTDOG IS A SANDWICH ON YOUR DEFINITION? >> YES IS. >> IN 2018, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG TOLD COLBERT, YES. IN HER MIND, A HOTDOG IS A SANDWICH. THE HEAD OF THE USDA WAS ONCE ASKED TO WEIGH IN. HE SAID A SANDWICH MUST CONSTITUTE SOMETHING PUT BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF BREAD. >> AND IN 2006, A MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE OFFICIALLY RULED AGAINST THE MEXICAN CHAIN JUDO BA SAYING IT COULD NOT QUALIFY AS A SANDWICH STAND BECAUSE BURRITOS THIS JUDGE SAID, ARE NOT SANDWICHES. THIS JUDGE IN INDIANA SEEMS TO DISAGREE. >> HE SPECIFICALLY SAID IN THIS ORDER, BURRITOS ALSO QUALIFY. SO COULD THIS CASE GO TO SANDWICH SUPREME COURT? WILL JUSTICES HAVE TO WRAP THEIR HEADS AROUND IT? >> OR DOES THIS SQUASH THE BEEF ONCE FOR ALL? >> I WILL SAY THERE IS, OF COURSE, SUCH A THING AS A MEXICAN SANDWICH. IT’S CALLED A TORTA. IT’S DELICIOUS. SOME PEOPLE IN RESOLVING THIS DISPUTE WITH THEIR FRIENDS HAVE USED WHAT THEY CALL THE CUBE RULE. SO YOU LOOK AT A SANDWICH LIKE A CUBE, AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHERE THE BREAD IS. TOP SIDES BOTTOM. UNDER THE CUBE RULE, ANYTHING WITH STUFF JUST ON TOP IS TOAST. >> ANYTHING. THERE’S BREAD ON. JUST THE TOP. AND BOTTOM IS A SANDWICH. ANYTHING WITH THIS BREAD ON THE SIDES. AND THE BOTTOM IS A TACO LIKE THREE SIDED. AND UNDER THAT LOGIC, A HOTDOG WOULD BE CONSIDERED A TACO. BUT AGAIN, I’M NOT A JUDGE LIKE YOU GUYS. B THE JURY START HERE IS PRODUCED BY KELLY TEREZ. JEN NEWMAN. BRENDA SALINAS BAKER. VIKA ARONSON ANTHONY ALI. ADMIRABLE WALKING IN. AMIR WILLIAMS ARIELLE CHESTER IS OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER. JOSH COHAN IS DIRECTOR OF PODCAST. I’M OUR MANAGING EDITOR. LAURA MAYERS, OUR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. THANKS TO LAKEIA BROWN, JON NEWMAN, TARA GIMBEL AND LIZ ALESSE. SPECIAL THANKS THIS WEEK TO CHRIS BARRY, LUKE BAR JONAH HASKELL, MATT, LESLIE AND O-TOWN LABOR. I’M BRAD MIELKE. I’M OFF ON MONDAY, BUT I’LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK What does it take to be the most watched news cast in America are part of an operation sister combat Operation Center. We’re approaching the gate militants came in from different directions. We’re reactor. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go. 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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. ,ABC NEWS LIVE, I’M DIAMOND SAITO TODAY ON ABC NEWS. FIRST DEADLY STORMS SWEEP THE WESTERN GULF COAST. FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND NEARLY A MILLION ARE WITHOUT POWER AS CREWS ASSESS THE DAMAGE OR THE FLASH FLOODING IS CAUSING THE MOST PROBLEMS. >> AND A NEW THREAT THIS MORNING. I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING OUT OF THIS ORDER OF CONGRESS. >> OUT OF ORDER. A HEARING IN THE HOUSE TURNS INTO A SCREAMING MATCH. >> WHAT STARTED THE SHOWDOWN AND WHAT OTHER LAWMAKERS ARE SAYING ABOUT IT. >> NEW INSIGHT INTO THE INFAMOUS SPILL SPLIT, RATHER, OF ROCK AND ROLL DUO HOLLAND OATES. WHAT JOHN OATES IS SAYING ABOUT HIS FORMER BANDMATE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP THROUGH THE YEARS AND HIS MESSAGE FOR HALL THIS MORNING. PLUS A NEW TRACK FROM BILLIE EILISH MEGAN RYTE HERE WITH A LOOK AT THIS WEEK’S MUSIC NEWS IN THE DROP. BUT WE BEGIN WITH THE DEADLY STORM RIPPING THROUGH THE SOUTH, LEAVING DAMAGE FROM TEXAS TO MISSISSIPPI. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD NEAR HOUSTON, WHERE HIGH WINDS TORE APART BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING THE FLOOD THREAT. DEADLY STORMS SWEEPING ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF COAST. >> SOUTHEAST TEXAS RAKED WITH WINDS OVER 80 MILES PER HOUR NEAR HOUSTON. >> AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT ONE POINT OVERNIGHT. >> MORE THAN A MILLION CUSTOMERS, TEXAS AND LOUISIANA WITHOUT POWER AS THOSE VICIOUS WINDS TOOK DOWN TRANSMISSION LINES. >> I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES DOWNTOWN IS A MESS. IT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. >> SO STAY AT HOME. DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, A MESS. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE BOMB WENT OFF AND EVERYTHING DAMAGED WINDOWS, BLOWN OUT OF SKYSCRAPERS, STREETS LITTERED WITH DEBRIS. >> WE CLEARLY HEAR A FEEL OF THE BUILDING AND THE SCENE. THE TOWN WAS COMING DOWN THE ROOF OF THIS HYATT HOTEL SAINT FLYING A LARGE CHUNK OF THIS BAR CRUMBLING. >> I REALIZE IT WAS PRETTY BAD WHEN IT GOT BLACK. I MEAN, IT REALLY GOT DARK. >> ASTROS FANS SCRAMBLING AFTER RAIN GOT THROUGH THE DOME AT MINUTE MAID PARK, TREES LITTERING THE STREETS. >> THIS TIRE SHOP BARELY STANDING TIME BECAUSE IT’S MADE WORK FOR TWO YEARS. AND I HAVE MY FAMILY BUSINESS AND IT’S HARD AND LAYERED. ALL THE DAMAGING WINDS, TORRENTIAL RAINS. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO A HALF FOOT, LEADING TO WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING. GINGER ZEE, THANK YOU. AND MORE THAN 800,000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER THIS MORNING JUST IN TEXAS. >> HOUSTON SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED TODAY AND CITY OFFICIALS ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS SO CLEANUP CAN BEGIN. COURTNEY CARPENTER FROM OUR STATION JOINS ME NOW FROM DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. COURTNEY, WHAT’S IT LIKE THERE RIGHT NOW? YEAH. REALLY KIND OF CRAZY TO SEE DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. THIS NORMALLY AT THIS TIME OF DAY OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE FILLED WITH PEOPLE. A LOT OF HUSTLE AND BUSTLE AND NOW IT’S KIND OF QUIET. JUST SOME CREWS DOWN HERE WORKING AT THIS HUGE STACK OF PLYWOOD. REALLY, THE CLEANUP EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY AFTER THIS CRAZY STORM BLEW THROUGH. THAT’S THE WELLS FARGO PLAZA YOU’RE SEEING RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF US. AND YOU CAN SEE FOLKS ARE STARTING TO, YOU KNOW, BOARD UP THOSE DOORS AND BOARD UP THE WINDOWS IF YOU LOOK UP. THIS IS ONE OF THE HIGH RISES, ONE OF THE MANY HIGH RISES IN THIS DOWNTOWN AREA WITH SO MANY BUSTED OUT WINDOWS. IT’S REALLY JUST WILD TO THINK, YOU KNOW, THE POWER OF THIS STORM. AND BACK HERE ON THE GROUND, WE’RE SEEING A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, A LOT OF DEBRIS. THIS IS ALL, YOU KNOW, GLASS INSULATION. THIS RIGHT HERE, AN ABANDONED CAR. THERE’S THREE OF THEM JUST RIGHT HERE IN THIS ONE STRETCH, WE CAN SEE. AND OUR PHOTOGRAPHER, MIKE AND I, WE’RE TRYING TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED WITH THIS PERSON. GOT TO BE SCARY SITUATION FOR THIS DRIVER. IT SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE MAYBE TRIED TO, YOU KNOW, OUT OF THIS PASSENGER DOOR AND YOU CAN SEE IT KIND OF CRUMPLED OVER. BUT, YEAH, REALLY A LOT TO CLEAN UP RIGHT NOW HERE IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, REALLY IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN, THIS IS LOUISIANA IN SEVERAL OTHER OF THE HIGH RISES WE CAN SEE FROM HERE ALSO WITH BUSTED OUT WINDOWS. SO REALLY DEVASTATING AND JUST IT’S JUST CRAZY TO SEE OUR DOWNTOWN LIKE THIS. DIANE. COURTNEY, WHAT ARE OFFICIALS SAYING ABOUT THE CLEANUP EFFORT NOW AND WHEN DO EXPECT TO RESTORE POWER? >> YEAH, WELL, MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE, CITY OF HOUSTON, WAS TELLING US YESTERDAY THAT REALLY HE’S ASKING FOLKS TO STAY HOME . YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR SCHOOLS, AS YOU MENTIONED, ARE CLOSED, YOU KNOW, OFFICES DOWN HERE. HE’S ESPECIALLY SAYING STAY OUT OF DOWNTOWN SO THEY CAN START CLEANING THIS UP. IT’S GOING TO BE QUITE THE PROCESS. AND JUST IF YOU LOOK FURTHER DOWN, YOU CAN JUST SEE MORE AND MORE, YOU KNOW, THERE’S, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER TREES OVER THE ROAD AND SOME GLASS ON THE STREET AND ALL OF. BUT YEAH, IT’S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE. THE MAYOR ALSO MENTIONED THEY’RE GOING TO BE BRINGING DPS IN TO KIND OF HELP SECURE DOWNTOWN AS THIS CLEANUP IS ONGOING AND ALSO TO FREE UP SOME OF THE HPD TO RESPOND TO REGULAR CALLS. BUT YEAH, CERTAINLY A LONG CLEANUP AHEAD. AND IT SEEMED LIKE, YOU KNOW, A DAY OR TWO BEFORE MOST PEOPLE GET BACK ON. AND AS YOU MENTIONED, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE STILL WITHOUT IT. NOW, COURTNEY CARPENTER FROM OUR HOUSTON STATION KTAR. KATE, THANK YOU. >> AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SAYS HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN THE UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING OUTSIDE HIS HOME DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY SIX RIOT. ALITO STATEMENT COMES IN RESPONSE TO A STORY PUBLISHED BY THE "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT’S RAISING NEW CONCERNS ABOUT HIS IMPARTIALITY AS A JUSTICE ON THE NATION’S HIGHEST COURT. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN HAS THE DETAILS. >> AN UNUSUAL CONTROVERSY IS SWIRLING AROUND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS PHOTO. IT SHOWS THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES HOME WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG FLYING UPSIDE DOWN OUTSIDE OF IT. AND THE TIMES SAYS IT WAS TAKEN IN JANUARY 21, JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY ATTACK, JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN TOOK OFFICE. FLYING THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN IS MEANT TO BE A SIGNAL OF DIRE DISTRESS IN INSTANCES OF EXTREME DANGER. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. FLAG CODE . IT’S ALSO BEEN USED AS A SYMBOL OF PROTEST OVER THE YEARS. AND AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION. SOME OF DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ADOPTED THE UPSIDE FLAG TO OBJECT TO BIDEN’S VICTORY, FALSELY CLAIMING STOLE THE ELECTION. THE TIMES REPORTED THAT EMAILS BETWEEN ALITO’S NEIGHBORS SEEM TO SHOW THAT THE UPSIDE DOWN FLAG WAS FLYING FOR MULTIPLE DAYS. SOME INTERPRETING IT AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT BY THE COUPLE. >> THEY WERE INCREDULOUS BECAUSE ONE OF THE BEDROCK RULES OF BEING A FEDERAL JUDGE IS THAT NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS. >> REPRESENTATIVES FOR AND THE COURT DID NOT RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FROM ABC NEWS. BUT THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAYS JUSTICE ALITO CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT TO THEM, TELLING THE TIMES THAT IT WAS SOLELY HIS WIFE’S DECISION TO. >> FLY THE FLAG LIKE THAT AND THAT SHE WAS IN A DISPUTE WITH THE COUPLE’S NEIGHBORS AFTER ONE DISPLAYED AN ANTI-TRUMP SIGN THAT CONTAINED A CURSE WORD. ALITO WRITING TO THE TIMES I HAD INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACEDY MRS. IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBORS USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONALLY LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. >> IT’S DAYS AFTER SIX. IT’S A YEAR BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN’S. THE COURT WAS STILL CONSIDERING WHETHER TO TAKE 2020 ELECTION CASE. SO IT WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE. >> THE LEGAL ISSUE. JUSTICE ALITO HAS A HISTORY OF STIRRING POLITICAL CONTROVERSY, UNUSUAL FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THE AUTHOR OF THE DECISION THAT OVERTURNED ROE VERSUS WADE. HE MOCKED CRITICISM THAT RULING THAT ENDED A FEDERAL RIGHT TO ABORTION. >> I HAD THE HONOR THIS TERM OF WRITING, I THINK THE ONLY SUPREME COURT IN THE HISTORY OF THAT INSTITUTION THAT HAS LAMBASTED BY A WHOLE STRING OF FOREIGN LEADERS. >> AND ALITO FAMOUSLY HECKLED PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE 2010 STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH WHEN OBAMA CRITICIZED, THE COURT’S CITIZENS UNITED CAMPAIGN FINANCE DECISION. ALITO CALLING OUT NOT TRUE THAT OBAMA. >> ONE POSSIBLE CONCERN ABOUT THAT FLAG FLYING OUTSIDE ALITO’S HOME. THERE ARE STILL CASES BEFORE THIS COURT STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY SIX ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL, INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CLAIMS OF ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR HIS ACTIONS AT THAT TIME. AND ONE MORE THING. THERE HAS BEEN NO STATEMENT FROM MRS. WHOM JUSTICE ALITO BLAMES FOR THIS INCIDENT. >> DIANE TERRY MORAN, THANK YOU. >> DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER IS SET TO RETURN THE STAND ON MONDAY AFTER A HEATED TESTIMONY AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. YESTERDAY, THE DEFENSE TRIED TO PAINT MICHAEL COHEN AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO’S OBSESSED WITH HIS FORMER BOSS, QUESTIONING A KEY PIECE OF. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST. >> TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, MICHAEL COHEN SAID HE CALLED DONALD TRUMP’S BODYGUARD. KEITH SCHILLER, TO GET TRUMP ON THE PHONE. COHEN TESTIFIED HE WANTED TO DISCUSS THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER AND THE RESOLUTION OF IT. DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCHE, HIS VOICE RISING, SAID THAT WAS A LIE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THESE MESSAGES SUGGESTING A DIFFERENT REASON FOR THE CALL. COHEN ASKING SCHILLER, WHO CAN I SPEAK TO REGARDING HARASSING CALLS TO MY CELL AND OFFICE? SCHILLER RESPONDING, CALL ME. THAT WAS A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT, BLANCH SAID, ANIMATED. YOU CAN ADMIT IT? BLANCH PUNCTUATED EACH WORD THAT WAS A LIE. COHEN MET BLANCHETT’S INDIGNATION WITH COMPOSURE. NO, SIR, I CAN’T. I AM NOT CERTAIN THAT IS ACCURATE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THE CALL LASTED ONE MINUTE, 36 SECONDS. BUT COHEN INSISTED I, BELIEVE I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. COHEN’S CREDIBILITY MATTERS BECAUSE HE’S THE ONLY WITNESS WHO DIRECTLY TIES TRUMP TO THE ALLEGED SCHEME TO FALSIFY BUSINESS RECORDS TO HIDE THE HUSH PAYMENT TO DANIELS FROM VOTERS. TRUMP’S FIXER PLEADED GUILTY AND SERVED TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN THE HUSH MONEY AND OTHER. THE DEFENSE WANTED THE JURY TO HEAR COHEN GLOAT ABOUT TRUMP’S INDICTMENT. >> REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WANT THIS MADE TO GO DOWN AND ROT INSIDE FOR WHAT HE DID TO ME AND MY FAMILY. >> TRUMP HAS BEEN COMING TO COURT WITH A DAILY ENTOURAGE . CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS AND PROSECUTORS COMPLAIN SOME OF THEM HAVE WALKED IN DURING TESTIMONY WITH THEIR SECURITY DETAIL FOR THE JURY AND THE WITNESSES TO SEE. THE JUDGE SAID THAT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN, BUT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY SAID, I HAVE LESS THAN ZERO CONTROL OVER WHAT IS HAPPENING. >> TRUMP IS STILL DECIDING WHETHER HE WILL TESTIFY. BUT DIANE, THE JURY COULD HEAR CLOSING ARGUMENTS EARLY NEXT WEEK. DIANE, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. AND REACTIONS ARE STARTING TO COME IN AFTER CHAOS ERUPTED ON CAPITOL LAST NIGHT. >> WHAT STARTED AS A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC BARTLETT IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS QUICKLY TURNED INTO LAWMAKERS HURLING PERSONAL INSULTS AT EACH OTHER. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS THE LATEST. >> A NEW LOW ON CAPITOL HILL. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, THIS IS AT A LATE NIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING DEVOLVING INTO CHAOS. >> AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL. REPUBLICAN FIREBRAND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. >> WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENT RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. OKAY. MOVE TO STRIKE OVER THE BORDER. >> THE HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO CENTER ON REPUBLICANS DEMANDS THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND TURN OVER AUDIO TAPES OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, WHICH HE HAS REFUSED TO DO. INSTEAD, IT QUICKLY ESCALATED INTO A HEATED BACK AND FORTH. GREENE MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT’S EYELASHES. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING NOTHING OUT OF THIS ORDER, MR. CHAIRMAN. >> EVEN MORE OF YOUR COMMITTEE ORDER. AT TIMES GIGGLING, REFUSING TO APOLOGIZE. DEMOCRATS MOVED TO CENSURE GREENE. >> THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU ANY MORE SUSPEND THE ABUSE OF ANOTHER PERSON? >> ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? DOWN. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. I DON’T. >> WE ARE GOING TO MOVE. CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE COMMITTEE. I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING. IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY, PLEASE. BLOND, BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGED IN PERSONALITIES. >> CORRECT. WHAT NOW, CHAIRMAN? I MAKE I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. >> I DON’T THINK THAT’S ONE PART OF IT. I FIND CLARIFICATION. >> CALM DOWN. CALM DOWN. SO APOLOGIES MADE, DIANE. AFTER AN HOUR OF THOSE PERSONAL INSULTS, THE DID GET BACK ON TRACK, BUT THE LEVEL OF DECORUM IS SOMEHOW SEEPING LOWER AND LOWER, DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT. >> THANK YOU. COMING UP, KICKING OFF THE SUMMER TRAVEL, HOW THE TSA IS PREPARING FOR A NEARLY RECORD SETTING SEASON AHEAD OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. ALSO AHEAD, THE SEMITRUCK LEFT DANGLING OVER THE OHIO RIVER. WHAT THE DRIVER IS NOW SAYING AS SHE SHARES HER STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> 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, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH LITTLE TOWN FROM 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 STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN, BEIRUT FOR THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY, 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 AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER FOR THEM. AND TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 20 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THESE KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS A HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING? YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. LET’S GO. THE SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. BUT LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOD. WELL, WE ARE INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER, HAMMER, HAMMER. IT DOESN’T ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE. AND NEXT, WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST, THE TSA IS ANNOUNCING A RECORD SETTING TRAVEL SEASON ABOUT TO TAKE OFF. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IS EXPECTED SHATTER TRAVEL RECORDS. ABC’S TREVOR AULT IS AT NEW YORK’S LAGUARDIA AIRPORT WITH MORE ON WHAT THE TSA IS DOING TO PREPARE. >> TREVOR. >> HEY, DIANE. SO THIS IS REALLY GOING TO KICK START. WHAT’S EXPECTED TO BE A RECORD SETTING SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON AND IT REALLY GETS GOING NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH MORE THAN 100,000 FLIGHTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HEADING INTO MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. NOW, THE TSA SAYS THEY ARE STAFFED UP, READY TO GO, THANKS IN LARGE PART TO A NEW COMPENSATION PACKAGE THAT WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS. THE AIRLINES SAY THEY ARE ALSO READY JUST WITH STAFFING, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE HAD ABOUT 5% OF FLIGHTS WHERE THEY HAVE INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE AIRCRAFT TO ACCOMMODATE TRAVELERS. NOW, ONE AREA WHERE A STAFFING SHORTAGE COULD MAKE AN IMPACT. ABOUT 3000 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS SHY OF WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO BE. THAT IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT THIS SUMMER HERE IN NEW YORK. THERE’S GOING TO BE ABOUT 10% FEWER FLIGHTS COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY. NOW, IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE DRIVING, THE GOOD NEWS WITH GAS PRICES IS, THERE’S NOT A LOT OF NEWS. THE PRICES HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY FLAT OVER THE PAST MONTH. THE NATIONAL AVERAGE TODAY, $3.59 A GALLON. THAT VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT IT WAS THIS TIME LAST YEAR. OF COURSE, IS GOING BE DRIVING FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. IT IS GOING TO BE QUITE CROWDED AT TIMES. TRIPLE A IS EXPECTING 38.4 MILLION PEOPLE DRIVING FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. AND YES, THAT, TOO, IS A RECORD. >> DIANA TREVOR AULT AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT, THANK YOU. AND THE DRIVER OF A SEMI-TRUCK LEFT DANGLING OVER THE OHIO IS SHARING HER STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> SIDNEY THOMAS SAYS SHE NEVER THOUGHT SHE’D MAKE IT OUT ALIVE AFTER CRASHING THROUGH A RAILING ON THE CLARK MEMORIAL BRIDGE. SUSPENDED IN THE AIR FOR ALMOST AN HOUR. SHE SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH OUR AFFILIATE STATION. ABC’S ALEX PEREZ HAS THE DETAILS. >> IT HAPPENED SO FAST. FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE’RE HEARING FROM SIDNEY THOMAS AS SHE WAS IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A SEMI-TRUCK THAT DANGLED PRECARIOUSLY OVER THE OHIO RIVER AND LOUISVILLE. HER FIRST TIME BACK AT THE BRIDGE. >> THOMAS IS SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY TO OUR AFFILIATE. YES, I WAS LIKE, I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS. >> THEN I’M REALLY HANGING OVER THE RIVER. >> IT ALL BEGAN WHEN THE DRIVER OF THIS PICKUP, 33-YEAR-OLD TREVOR BRANHAM, SWERVED TO AVOID A STALLED CAR, SLAMMING INTO HER SEMI. SHE CRASHED THROUGH THE RAILING 100 FEET ABOVE THE WATER, STARING RIGHT AT THE RIVER. >> I THOUGHT THAT THE TRAILER WAS STILL ON THE BRIDGE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT IT WAS LIKE THIS STUCK THERE FOR MORE THAN 40 TERRIFYING MINUTES, WONDERING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HER. FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON IF THE WORST SHOULD HAPPEN. >> IT WAS REALLY FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT LIKE LEAVING HIM BEHIND EARTH. >> AN ARMY OF FIREFIGHTERS ON THE BRIDGE WORKING TO RESCUE HER. IT WAS TERRIFYING TO BE THAT HIGH UP IN THE AIR AND LOOK DOWN AND ALL YOU SEE IS THE OHIO RIVER. FINALLY, FIREFIGHTER BRYCE CAMDEN REACHES HER AND PREPARES TO GET HER TO SAFETY. WHOEVER YOU WERE PRAYING WOMAN, I WAS LIKE, YEP. AND WE JUST WE JUST STARTED PRAYING THOSE PRAYERS WHILE DANGLING IN THE AIR. A MOMENT THOMAS SAYS SHE’LL NEVER FORGET. >> SOMETIMES YOU PRAY. AND I’M GUILTY OF IT. >> SOMETIMES I PRAY. AND I DON’T THINK GOD IS LISTENING. BUT. >> BUT HE WAS THAT DAY. AND DIANE, THE DRIVER OF THAT PICKUP HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH WANTON ENDANGERMENT AND DRIVING A SUSPENDED LICENSE. AS FOR THOMAS, SHE SAYS SHE’S GETTING READY TO GO BACK TO WORK AND GET BACK ON THE ROAD JUNE 1ST. DIANE PEREZ, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, THE FIRST PATIENT TO GET ELON MUSK’S NEW BRAIN IMPLANT IS SHARING HIS STORY. HOW HE SAYS NEURALINK CHANGED HIS LIFE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY. AND UP NEXT, AN ANCIENT CHINESE TRADITION COMES TO LIFE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WE WE’RE CELEBRATING A NHP HERITAGE MONTH WITH A DRAGON BOAT RACE. OUR JACLYN LEE LIVE THERE NEXT . >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THEY CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A BIKE DROP. >> THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR BABY. I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. >> WOW. TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE PIER AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> 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 R MURROW AWARDS AND 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 PODCAST, START HERE. TONIGHT KNOCK KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER FABIO STANDING. TELL ME. THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEED 20 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE WAS RINGING OFF THE HOOK. THERE’S A TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING? ARE YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT. THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. AND THEY WILL DEBATE BIDEN, TRUMP, THE CAMPAIGN, THE POLLS AND THE DEBATES EVERYONE’S BEEN WAITING FOR ON SUNDAY MORNING WITH TRUMP ON TRIAL. THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE WITH WHAT THIS ALL MEANS FOR, THE 2024 RACE. >> SUNDAY ON ABC’S THIS WEEK REPORTING FROM THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL. I’M EVA PILGRIM WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAMING ABC LIVE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE FIRST. AND ANCIENT CHINESE TRADITION IS COMING TO LIFE THIS WEEKEND IN WASHINGTON, D.C. DOZENS OF DRAGON BOATS WILL BE THE WATER WITH TEAMS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY ALL RACING FOR GLORY. >> ABC’S JACLYN LEE IS THERE. >> 51 TEAMS, 20 PADDLERS. EACH ONE WINNER. LET’S GET THE GUYS AND GET BEHIND THE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL HERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL. GIANT FROM ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. I LOVE THE CAMARADERIE, OUR FUN. THE SPORT ITSELF IS VERY WELCOMING AND SUPPORTIVE AND IT’S JUST A GREAT WAY TO IN SHAPE. DRAGON BOAT RACING IS AN ANCIENT CHINESE TRADITION STEMMING BACK MORE THAN 2000 YEARS WHEN FISHERMEN RACED THEIR BOATS TO SAVE A BELOVED POET AND POLITICIAN NAMED CHUAN . SINCE THEN, IT’S TRANSFORMED INTO AN INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE. BUT TEAMS ACROSS THE WORLD PRINCE WILLIAM RACING AND SINGAPORE JUST LAST YEAR, IT’S JUST ONE OF THESE THINGS THAT ONCE PEOPLE IT IT REALLY CATCHES ON AND IT’S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE THERE’S WATER. >> THE FESTIVAL KICKS OFF WITH THE TRADITIONAL EYE DOTTING CEREMONY WHEN EYES GET PAINTED ON THE MYTHICAL DRAGON TO WAKE IT UP. THE DRAGON IS A SYMBOL OF POWER AND BELIEF TO RULE THE WATER. >> WE WAKE UP THE DRAGONS. SO THE DRAGON WILL LEAD ALL THESE PEOPLE. AND MOVING SAFELY AND QUICKLY. AND THAT’S SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY TO MOVE FORWARD. >> AND THEN IT’S OFF TO THE RACES. EACH TEAM WORKING IN SYNC TO CROSS THE FINISH LINE. THE BEST PART ABOUT DRAGON BOAT RACING IS BECAUSE IT’S SUCH A LARGE GROUP IN ORDER TO. YOU GET A LOT OF CAMARADERIE WITHIN YOUR TEAM. WE ENTER DIFFERENT LEVEL CREWS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF CREWS AND DIFFERENT UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST. JUST BUILDING UP CLOSE FRIENDSHIPS THAT THAT’S GREAT PART OF RACING AND JACLYN LEE AND ON ONE OF THOSE DRAGON BOATS RIGHT NOW, JACK, WE PUT YOU TO WORK TODAY. >> HOW’S THE RIDE GOING? GETTING A WORKOUT. LOOK, I’M SITTING HERE WITH THE FIRST LADIES. NOT ONLY ARE THEY NATIONAL. THEY’RE HEADED TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN ITALY. LATER YEAR. AND ACTUALLY, BOTH OF THE PEOPLE. EVERYONE, LIKE ON THESE BOATS, THEY’RE PART OF THE DC DRAGON BOAT CLUB, WHICH HAS BEEN AROUND FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS. AND WHAT’S SO AWESOME ABOUT THIS CLUB IS IT’S VERY INCLUSIVE. THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THEIR SEVENTIES OUT HERE AND WE HAVE MEN. WE HAVE WOMEN VISUALLY IMPAIRED. EVERYBODY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE SPORT. DIANE IT’S A LOT OF FUN. IT SEEMS THERAPEUTIC. IS THAT DRUM BEAT THE CUE TO ROW? >> YEAH. SO THE DRUM BEAT IS CONSIDERED HEARTBEAT OF THE BOAT. IT’S WHAT TELLS EVERYBODY TO SPEED UP, TO SLOW DOWN. IT SETS THE SPEED AND HONESTLY, IT’S GREAT. I’LL BE ON. I VERY ZEN OUT HERE. I LOVE IT. I MEAN, I FEEL VERY ZEN JUST WATCHING YOU. SO JACQUI CAN TELL US MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND. YES. SO THE FESTIVAL WILL BE KICKING OFF ITS 21ST ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW. SO YOU’RE GOING TO SEE DOZENS OF THESE COLORFUL ARE NAMED, BOTH TAKING OVER THE POTOMAC RIVER. THERE’S DOZENS OF TEAMS PARTICIPATING. AND WHAT’S SO AWESOME ABOUT THIS IS I’M SITTING HERE WITH KAREN. SHE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS. AND SHE TELLS ME THAT THERE IS NO SUPERSTAR ON ANY OF THESE BOATS. YOU ARE ONLY AS FAST AS YOUR PADDLER. SO IN THIS CASE, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY. BUT THE REASON PEOPLE LIKE PARTICIPATING IN DRAGON BALL RACING IS BECAUSE IT’S SUCH A TEAM EFFORT. IT’S THE ATMOSPHERE AND EVERYONE IS REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER. DIANE. LISTEN, YOU CAN SAY THERE ARE NO SUPERSTARS. ONLY ONE PERSON ON THAT BOAT IS ALSO TALKING LIVE ON TELEVISION WHILE ROWING THE SAME TIME. SO WE HAVE TO GIVE YOU LOTS OF CREDIT HERE. JACQUELINE, JACKIE, WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE WHOLE THING? THINK WHAT’S AWESOME IS I JUST MADE A BUNCH OF FRIENDS THIS MORNING AND BECAUSE THEY TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY, PEOPLE ON THIS BOAT HAVE RODE IN SINGAPORE, IN JAPAN. THERE’S SOMEONE GOING TO CHINA. AND SO SHE SAID THAT SHE IS REACHING TO THEIR TEAM. JUST YOU CAN MAKE FRIENDS LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. YOU GET A GREAT WORKOUT IN AND THINK ABOUT THIS. YOU GET TO LOOK AT LANDSCAPES OR EVERY YOU GO. SO IT’S A WORLDWIDE THING AND ACTUALLY A PUSH TO MAKE THIS AN OLYMPIC SPORT. DIANE THAT’S HOW SERIOUS THIS IS. >> THE PRECISION IS AMAZING. SO IMPRESSIVE. JACLYN LEE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. HAVE FUN. JACQUELINE. >> COMING UP, CHANGES TO TICK TOCK. HOW THE PLATFORM TRYING TO COMPETE WITH SITES LIKE YOUTUBE. ALSO AHEAD, BEHIND SCENES OF THE MAD MAX SAGA. >> OUR MAGGIE RULLI CAUGHT UP WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY AND HOW THEY GOT READY FOR ALSO. PLUS, MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SALES. WE’RE TRACKING THE SAVINGS AHEAD OF THE OFFICIAL KICKOFF TO SUMMER. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HOLIDAY. I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. >> IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. I DO SAY THE BELLBOTTOMS, THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT . WOW. WE’RE TRYING TO GET ANSWERS FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, EVEN IF MAYBE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE THEY NEED THOSE ANSWERS. >> YOU KNOW, I HAVE COVERED CHILD HOMICIDES BEFORE, AND NOW MY DAUGHTER’S AUTOPSY WILL BE PUBLIC MONDAY. >> THOSE WHO FOUND HER WILL NEVER KNOW. >> COULD YOU JUST STAND THERE AND LET MY FRIEND’S CHILD DIE? LET’S GO. THIS SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION. WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WELL, IT HURTS. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER. HAMMER. IT DOESN’T GET ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE IN THIS. >> WHENEVER. WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE. LONDON IN BUFFALO, LIVE ALL DAY. TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. ARE YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS . WHEREVER YOU STREAM YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER HERE, FABIO SEVEN. TELL ME. THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020. TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I OUT. THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE. 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. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. YOU’RE AT NEW YORK CITY ON THIS FRIDAY. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S A RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. RESIDENTS IN TEXAS ARE CLEANING UP AFTER BEING SLAMMED WITH 80 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED NEAR. HOUSTON. ASTRO FANS WERE SCRAMBLING INSIDE THE BALLPARK WHEN THE RAIN CAME THROUGH THE CLOSED DOME. YESTERDAY MARKED A 22ND STRAIGHT DAY WITH A CONFIRMED OR REPORTED TORNADO IN THE U.S. . DESPERATELY NEEDED HUMANITARIAN AID IS NOW PASSING THROUGH THE NEWLY FINISHED U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY THEY’RE AIMING TO USE THE PIER TO UNLOAD 150 TRUCKLOADS OF FOOD AND SUPPLIES A DAY TO THE WAR TORN REGION. THE PENTAGON SAYS THE DELIVERIES ARE A MULTINATIONAL EFFORT TO PALESTINIANS ON THE BRINK OF FAMINE. AND TICK TOCK IS TESTING POSSIBLY LETTING USERS POST HOUR VIDEOS. THE COMPANY SAYS SELECT USERS WILL TEST RUN, POSTING THE VIDEOS IN AN EFFORT TO COMPETE AGAINST PLATFORMS LIKE YOUTUBE. IT SAYS THERE’S NO IMMEDIATE PLAN FOR A WIDER ROLLOUT YET. AND THE NEW YORK RANGERS ARE ADVANCING TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS AFTER HANDING THE CAROLINA HURRICANES A PAINFUL DEFEAT. FANS ARE CELEBRATING STAR LEFT-WING CHRIS KREIDER, WHO SCORED A HAT TRICK IN THE THIRD PERIOD TO SECURE THAT BIG COMEBACK. THE RANGERS HAVEN’T WON THE STANLEY CUP SINCE 1994. >> AND SINGER JOHN OATES FROM THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO HALL AND OATES IS OPENING UP ABOUT HIS LEGAL DISPUTE WITH FORMER BANDMATE DARYL HALL . >> HALL MADE HEADLINES LAST YEAR WHEN HE SUED OATES OVER THEIR MUSIC. NOW, OATES SAYS THE FEUD MIGHT JEOPARDIZE THEIR FUTURE. >> HE SAT DOWN WITH OUR MICHAEL STRAHAN FOR THIS ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE. >> WILL HALL AND OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN? NOT MY POINT OF VIEW, BUT YOU NEED TO ASK DARYL HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT THIS MORNING. JOHN OATES. >> HALF OF THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO KNOWN AS HALL AND OATES, FAMOUS FOR HUGE HITS LIKE RICH GIRL, GET RICH GIRL, AND YOU GOT TO POP. AND YOU KNOW, IT DON’T MATTER ANYWAY AND YOU MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. >> SO THANK THEM SITTING DOWN. >> OPENING UP ABOUT HIS SIDE, THE LEGAL BATTLES HE’S CURRENTLY FIGHTING AGAINST HIS CREATIVE PARTNER OF OVER 50 YEARS. DARYL HALL. LAST YEAR HALL FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST OATES, ALLEGING THAT OATES ATTEMPTED TO SELL A SHARE OF THEIR JOINTLY OWNED COMPANY, HALL OATES, WITHOUT HALL’S PERMISSION. DID YOU TRY TO SELL YOUR HALF OF THE COMPANY OR. >> YES, I DID. YEAH, I DID. AND LET ME EXPLAIN YOU WHY I DID. WHEN THIS WHOLE SITUATION GOT MIRED IN LEGALITY, REALLY COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, LEGAL WRANGLINGS, I GOT FRUSTRATED AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? DARYL HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE HIS OWN MAN. I SAID, I’M GOING TO GIVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. IF I SELL MY HALF. HE CAN EITHER, YOU KNOW, HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS. AND IT WAS KIND OF RUINING MY LIFE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. I COULDN’T. I WASN’T HAPPY. I SAID, WELL, I’LL JUST STEP ASIDE. AND PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, YOU LOOK LOOK AT ALL THE ARTISTS WHO WERE SELLING ALL THEIR CATALOGS. IT’S PRETTY COMMON. IT’S NOT NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. BUT DARYL, LIKE THE IDEA THAT I WOULD SELL TO A CERTAIN THIRD PARTY. >> HE SAID THAT THE ALLEGED PLAN SAID WAS, QUOTE, A COMPLETELY CLANDESTINE AND BAD FAITH MOVE AND CALLED IT, QUOTE, THE ULTIMATE PARTNERSHIP BETRAYAL. DO YOU SEE IT THAT WAY? STRONG WORDS. YEAH, VERY STRONG WORDS. BUT DO YOU SEE IT THAT WAY. >> NOT AT ALL. I DON’T BECAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS LOOKED AT OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS WORKING TOGETHER. AND I FELT LIKE I HAD THE RIGHT TO DO THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE DIDN’T HAVE A GLOVE. AND I THINK AS FANS YOU SIT BACK AND YOU GO, OH, THEY MADE THIS INCREDIBLE MUSIC. THEY MUST IN SYNC AND HAVE THIS BOND. BUT YOU TWO HADN’T WORKED TOGETHER. I CREATIVELY, IN OVER 20 YEARS, RIGHT? >> THAT’S RIGHT. ONLY THING WE DID TOGETHER WAS PLAY CONCERTS WHERE WE JUST WENT THERE AND TROTTED OUT THE HITS FOR BEFORE THIS LAWSUIT CAME ABOUT. >> WERE THERE ANY DISAGREEMENTS? NO, NOT REALLY. WE NEVER REALLY HAD A LOT OF DISAGREEMENTS. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE NEVER REALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER VERY MUCH ,YOU KNOW, FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. WE SHOW UP AT A SHOW INDIVIDUALLY, WALK ON STAGE, PLAY, AND THEN WE GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS. IT REALLY WASN’T AS AS TIGHT AS PEOPLE MIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE’D LIKE TO IN THERE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A FANTASY IMAGINATION, YOU KNOW, OUR RELATIONSHIP THEY THIS DARYL HALL SAID ALL I CAN SAY IS PEOPLE CHANGE. >> AND SOMETIMES YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW SOMEONE LIKE YOU THOUGHT YOU. >> HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT? I GUESS YOU SHOULD LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER. >> HAS HE CHANGED, IN YOUR OPINION? I BELIEVE HE HAS. YES, I BELIEVE HE’S CHANGED A LOT. >> IF DARYL HALL IS WATCHING RIGHT NOW, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO HIM? SAY I LOVE HIM LIKE A BROTHER. LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER. IF I’M TALKING TO HIM. AND. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? BROTHERS HAVE DISAGREEMENTS. FAMILIES GROW APART, I WOULD SAY. I WISH HIM THE BEST. I HOPE THAT HE HAS EVERYTHING HE IN LIFE AND THAT HE CAN PURSUE HIS DREAM OF BEING A RESPECTED SOLO ARTIST, WHICH I BELIEVE IS SOMETHING THAT HE’S ALWAYS WANTED. >> SOLO SUCCESS IS SOMETHING OTH HAS ALSO WANTED. THIS WEEK, RELEASING HIS EIGHTH SOLO ALBUM TITLED REUNION, I’M GETTING READY FOR MY NINE. I’M MAKING RANGE. YEAH WE RECORDED THIS IN NASHVILLE. >> YEAH, I WILL BE IN THERE LIVING IN NASHVILLE. >> THAT INFLUENCE YOUR SOUND? OH, SO MUCH. MY MOVE TO NASHVILLE REALLY CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME BECAUSE BEFORE I MET DARYL HALL, I A KIND OF A ROOTS ACOUSTIC GUITAR BLUES MUSICIAN . WHEN WE MET, WE KIND OF COMBINED INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCES AND CREATED SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW, BUT THAT GUY, THAT MUSICIAN WAS ALWAYS THERE IN THE BACKGROUND, KIND OF IDLING, YOU KNOW? >> AND WHEN I MOVED TO NASHVILLE, TAP BACK INTO IT AND IT REALLY GAVE ME A NEW LEASE ON MY MUSICAL LIFE WITH THIS FIELD. >> HIS. >> WHAT CAN FANS EXPECT FROM THE NEW MUSIC? >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO REALLY COMMIT TO A PROJECT AND TO TO A FUTURE OF CREATIVITY IN MUSIC. THE TITLE TRACK WAS INSPIRED BY MY 100 YEAR OLD FATHER WHO TOLD ME HE WAS GOING TO REUNITE WITH MOM WHO WHO’S PASSED AWAY YEARS BEFORE. AND WHEN HE SAID THAT TO ME, THOUGHT OF THE WORD REUNION. >> WHAT IT REALLY MEANS I’M MAKING IT FOR MY YOU. AND I SAID REUNITING. AND I REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS I WAS REUNITING WITH MY MUSICAL SELF AND MY PERSONAL MYSELF, A MAN. AND AS A MUSICIAN, THAT’S ABOUT A PERSONAL THAT IS MOST PERSONAL THING I’VE EVER DONE. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO BE? I WANT MY LEGACY TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS. I’M LOOKING TO EXPRESS MYSELF, HONESTLY, TO BE A GOOD FATHER. I WANT TO BE A GOOD HUSBAND. I WANT TO BE A GOOD FRIEND. AND I WANT TO I WANT TO ENJOY MY LIFE. WELL, I THINK YOU ACCOMPLISHED ALL OF THAT. >> NOW YOU’RE GETTING THERE. MICHAEL STRAHAN THANK YOU. AND ABC NEWS REACHED OUT TO DARYL HALL FOR COMMENT. BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. >> COMING UP, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER RELEASED AFTER DOING SOME TIME BEHIND BARS THIS MORNING. WHY TOPGOLF FOR SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS NOW FACING ASSAULT CHARGES. ALSO AHEAD, THE TAYLOR SWIFT AFFAIR. HOW THE ARREST TOUR IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE U.K. ECONOMY THIS SUMMER. HOST THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO THE ERA. >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS WHERE THE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> NEXT WEEK WE WILL. CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. GET READY, JIMMY. WE ARE COMING. YOUR AND LATER AND SAM ARE TAKING YOU ABOARD THE USS BATON FLY FOR FLEET WEEK ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY . IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS, THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT . LOUD. >> WE’RE TRYING TO GET ANSWERS FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, EVEN IF MAYBE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE THEY NEED THOSE ANSWERS. >> YOU. I HAVE COVERED CHILD HOMICIDES BEFORE AND NOW MY DAUGHTER’S AUTOPSY WILL BE MADE PUBLIC ONE DAY. WHO FELT HER WILL NEVER KNOW. >> PEACE. DID YOU JUST STAND THERE AND LET MY FRIEND’S CHILD DIE TONIGHT? >> KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER, A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO SAID. AND TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND NEW 2020. TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THESE KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I OUT. >> THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC . WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, THE NUMBER ONE RANKED GOLFER IN THE WORLD, HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AND IS BACK ON THE GOLF COURSE AFTER BEING ARRESTED THIS FOR ALLEGEDLY DRIVING PAST A POLICE ROADBLOCK IN LOUISVILLE. REPORTS SAY THE ROADBLOCK WAS SET UP AFTER A PEDESTRIAN WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A SHUTTLE BUS. THOSE REPORTS SAY SCHEFFLER WAS TRYING TO DRIVE AROUND THE ROADBLOCK WHEN AN OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE CAR TO GET SCHEFFLER TO STOP AND THEN DETAINED HIM. SCHEFFLER NOW FACES CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND RECKLESS DRIVING. HIS ATTORNEY SAYS IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING AND WE’LL JUST LET IT PLAY OUT. >> AND THE FIRST PERSON IMPLANTED WITH ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK BRAIN CHIP IS SPEAKING OUT ABOUT HOW IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE. THE DEVICE, WHICH AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS, ALLOWS THE USER TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR PHONE WITH THEIR MIND. ABC’S WILL REEVE IN ATLANTA WITH MORE ON HOW THAT FIRST PATIENT SAYS IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE IN PROFOUND WAYS. >> I DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WAKE UP FOR IN MORNING AND THIS HAS CHANGED THAT FOR ME. IN A "GMA" BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE, NOLAN DARBAR, THE FIRST HUMAN IMPLANTED WITH A NEURALINK CHIP IN HIS BRAIN, IS TELLING HIS STORY. >> I ACCEPTED THAT I WAS PARALYZED AND THAT WAS MY LIFE. I ALWAYS HELD OUT HOPE THAT IT WOULD ALL GET BETTER. >> AT 22 YEARS OLD, NOLAN SAYS HE DOVE HEAD FIRST IN WAIST DEEP WATER, STRUCK SOMETHING AND SUSTAINED SPINAL CORD INJURY. >> HE COULDN’T MOVE FROM THE SHOULDERS DOWN. FROM THE TIME OF YOUR INJURY UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHAT WAS YOUR DAILY LIFE LIKE? I MEAN, ONE THING ABOUT BEING PARALYZED IS THAT THERE’S A LOT OF TIME TO SIT AND THINK. SO I THOUGHT THROUGH BASICALLY MY WHOLE LIFE AND REALIZED ALL THE MISTAKES I’D MADE AND WHAT I COULD DO BETTER. >> THEN JUST LAST YEAR, NOLAND, NOW 30, RECEIVING LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY. >> ONE DAY, ONE OF MY BUDDIES FROM COLLEGE CALLED ME UP. WE TALK PRETTY REGULARLY AND HE WAS LIKE, HEY, NEURALINK. THEY OPENED UP THE HUMAN TRIALS . >> AND I SAID, WHAT’S NEURALINK? NEURALINK, CO-FOUNDED BY ELON MUSK, IS AN EXPERIMENTAL IMPLANTABLE BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE, OR BCI, A CHIP SURGICALLY BY A ROBOT AND CONNECTED BY THREAD TO A PATIENT’S BRAIN THAT ALLOWS THE PATIENT TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR SMARTPHONE WITH THEIR. >> AND THIS IS ALL FROM THERE TO THERE. AND THEN WOW. >> NEURALINK IS NOT THE ONLY COMPANY WORKING ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. SEVERAL OTHERS ARE ALSO TESTING THEIR BCI’S IN PARALYZED VOLUNTEERS. NOLAND NOW JOINED THAT SMALL GROUP, NEURALINK’S FIRST PATIENT. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY. I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL A COMPUTER JUST LIKE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU PLAYED SOME MUSIC. MAN. >> SO DO YOU WORRY BECAUSE ARE THE FIRST PATIENT THAT SOMETHING UNFORESEEN COULD GO WRONG NOW THAT THIS IS INSIDE YOUR HEAD? >> AM. I WOULDN’T SAY WORRY. THERE WAS SOMETHING WHERE I KNEW THAT IF I DID THIS. THEN IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF HEADACHE AND HEARTACHE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD. >> JUST LAST WEEK, NEWS. SOME OF THE THREADS IN NOLAN’S BRAIN HAD RETRACTED, AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVICE. >> HOW DID YOU TAKE THE NEWS WHEN THEY TOLD YOU THAT THREADS HAD RETRACTED? YEAH, IT WAS REALLY HARD. IT WAS VERY, VERY HARD TO GIVE UP ALL OF THE AMAZING THINGS THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO. I THINK HAD, LIKE, CRIED BASICALLY AFTERWARDS. >> THE PROBLEM BECOMING AN OPPORTUNITY THE MAKERS OF NEURALINK TO EXPLORE SOLUTIONS. >> THE REASON WE DO CLINICAL TRIAL AND EARLY FEASIBILITY TRIAL IS TO COVER THESE SORT OF ISSUES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY GET MARKETED. AND WE ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND, YOU KNOW, FOUND VARIOUS DIFFERENT WAYS TO, YOU KNOW, FOR NOLAN BE ABLE TO RECOVER PERFORMANCE, WHICH WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BEEN ABLE TO DO. >> AS FOR NOLAN, THE FUTURE, THE TECHNOLOGY ONLY LOOKS BRIGHT. >> IT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING WHEN SOMEONE CAN HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY, GO TO A HOSPITAL, GET SURGERY AND WALK OUT A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER. I THINK IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. I DON’T THINK IT’S AS FAR AWAY AS PEOPLE MIGHT THINK. >> NOLAN’S MOM IS HIS PRIMARY CAREGIVER. SHE HIM AND CLEANS HIM AND GETS HIM OUT OF BED AND IT’S STILL QUITE HARD FOR THE FAMILY LIVING WITH THIS PARALYSIS. AND WHILE THE NEURALINK DEVICE WON’T CHANGE ANY OF THOSE PHYSICAL REALITIES, NOLAN SAYS THAT THIS DEVICE AND ITS EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE AND HIS FAMILY’S LIFE. FOR THE BETTER. AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT FOR NEURALINK CO-FOUNDER D.J. SATO ID ME. THEY’RE LOOKING TO IMPLANT PARTICIPANTS NUMBER TWO AND THREE IN THE COMING MONTHS. >> DIANE VERY COOL. >> WILL REEVE IN ATLANTA, THANK YOU. AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR OUR WEEKLY SEGMENT, BUT TELL IT LIKE IT IS. WE’RE ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL SHARES HEALTH ADVICE ON THE TOPICS THAT MATTER MOST TO YOU TODAY IS ANSWERING SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS. DR. PATEL ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. SO LET’S START, NINA FROM THE BAY AREA. NINA WANTS TO KNOW, DOES MY ONE YEAR OLD ACTUALLY NEED TO BE SCREENED FOR LEAD EXPOSURE? >> POPULAR QUESTION AND IT DEPENDS IF THERE’S RISK, RISK FACTORS OR CHANCE YOUR CHILD WAS EXPOSED TO. THIS CAN BE IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME THAT WAS BUILT BEFORE 1978. IN CERTAIN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES, THERE’S A HIGHER RISK AND REFUGEES IMMIGRANTS OR IF YOU WORK OR HAVE A HOBBY THAT HAS LED EXPOSURE TO IT, YOUR DOES NEED TO GET TESTS BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE LEAD POISONING IS FROM A BLOOD TEST AND HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD EXPOSURE OVER TIME CAN CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT. WE SAW THIS PRESENTED IN A GRAND WAY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO IN FLINT, MICHIGAN AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, DIANE, IS PREVENTION. AND SO YOU CAN GET AN OLDER HOME TESTED YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF CHILDREN’S POSSIBLE EXPOSURE FROM PEELING PAINT, TOYS, JEWELRY, EXPOSED PIPES, EVEN DIRT AROUND THE HOME. AND IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO GET YOUR WATER TESTED OR USE FILTERED WATER IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS. >> ALL RIGHT. THESE ARE GREAT TIPS. >> I WANT TO MOVE TO ABBY FROM MILWAUKEE NOW BECAUSE ABBY WANTS KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MOUTH TAPING AND SLEEP? I HAD TO ACTUALLY LOOK THIS UP BECAUSE AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, MOUTH TAPING. IS THAT SOME FORM OF LIKE SILENT TREATMENT? YOU GIVE YOURSELF? WHAT MOUTH TAPING IS REFERRING TO WITH THE TIK TOK TREND IS IS PLACING A PIECE OF TAPE AROUND YOUR MOUTH OR ON YOUR MOUTH OR USING A HEAD DEVICE TO AVOID BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU SLEEP. NOW, ANECDOTALLY, SO THIS IS NOT PROVEN BY RESEARCH, BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING IS THAT SLEEPING DUE TO A NOSE CAUSES THEM TO HAVE BETTER SLEEP. QUALITY REDUCES YOUR OF HAVING BAD BREATH. AND SOME PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT IT’S GOOD FOR THE SHAPE OF YOUR FACE, I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANY RESEARCH TO PROVE THAT ONE PHYSIOLOGICALLY. TO ME IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE BECAUSE YOUR NOSE FILTERS AIR AND HUMIDIFYING IT. BUT AGAIN, THERE’S NOT ENOUGH RESEARCH TO MAKE A SWEEPING RECOMMENDATION THAT. PEOPLE SHOULD MOUTH TAPE. SOME PEOPLE DO SAY THAT MOUTH TIPPING MAY REDUCE YOUR RISK OF SNORING. AS SOMEONE WHO MIGHT SNORE EVERY NOW AND THEN. AND MY WIFE NOT ON CAMERA BECAUSE SHE’D PROBABLY AGREE. YOU WANT TO REDUCE SNORING? TRY AVOIDING SLEEPING ON YOUR BACK, MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT, AVOID ALCOHOL AND SMOKING CAN TRY NASAL STRIPS OR A MOUTHPIECE AND CONSULT WITH A DOCTOR. IF YOU’RE ABOUT SNORING, AFFECTING YOUR SLEEP QUALITY OR MAYBE YOUR MARRIAGE. >> GREAT TIPS. DR. PATEL, I WILL ADD GET SCREENED SLEEP APNEA, BECAUSE IF YOU TAPE YOUR MOUTH SHUT, THERE MAY BE A REASON YOU’RE BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH. AND IF IT’S BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING THROUGH YOUR NOSE, WE OBVIOUSLY DON’T WANT THAT YOU’RE BASICALLY SUFFOCATING YOURSELF IN YOUR SLEEP. PLEASE DON’T DO THAT. THANK YOU, DIANE. BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU BEEN SCREENED FOR SLEEP APNEA YET, MR. SNORE? >> MR. SNORE IS SET UP FOR A SLEEP TEST. >> I DON’T CONSISTENTLY SNORE, THOUGH. >> I’M JUST GOING TO DEFEND MYSELF. RIGHT. THAT. BUT I DO HAVE A SLEEP STUDY SCHEDULED. ALL RIGHT? I LIKE TO. I LIKE TO POKE DR. PATEL EVERY NOW AND THEN AND NAG NAG HIM A LITTLE BIT. >> AND THIS IS WEIRD. THIS IS AN ORGANIC CONVERSATION . DR. PATEL, IT’S ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR. PATEL, LEAVE HIM A MESSAGE ON HER INSTAGRAM FEED. FEEL FREE TO NAG HIM LIKE I DO IF YOU WANT HE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY. >> COMING UP AND FURIOUS, WE ARE AT CANNES CATCHING UP WITH CAST OF THE ACTION PACKED MAD MAX SAGA. ALSO, KENDRICK LAMAR IS TOPPING THE CHARTS. SO DID HIS BEEF WITH DRAKE GIVE HIM A BOOST? MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN IN THE DROP. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF ART. I AM A WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY . IT’S TAKEN ME. A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT, ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. AND I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER. FABIO STEPHAN, TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME IRONY OF IRONIES, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS THE TWIST HERE. THIS ISN’T REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. ARE YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. LET’S GO. THE SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT’S LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE, BUT LOOK AT THAT. OH,Y GOD. WELL, WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER, HAMMER. IT DOESN’T GET ANY MORE EDGE. AND THIS TONIGHT, GETTING EIGHT INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS, TAX INCREASE PLUS, THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION AND THEY WILL DEBATE BIDEN, TRUMP, THE CAMPAIGN, THE POLLS AND THE DEBATES. EVERYONE’S BEEN WAITING FOR. SUNDAY MORNING WITH TRUMP STILL ON TRIAL. THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE WITH WHAT THIS ALL MEANS FOR THE 2024 RACE SUNDAY ON ABC’S THIS REPORTING FROM THE OSCARS RED CARPET. I’M MELISSA DON. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ARE YOU READY FOR I’LL BE YOUR HOST THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO ERA. WELCOME BACK. TAYLOR SWIFT TOUR IS HEADED FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM THIS SUMMER . SHE WILL PERFORM 15 SHOWS IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND . NOW, BRITISH BANK BARCLAYS IS PROJECTING SWIFT WILL ADD MORE THAN $1,000,000,000 TO THE ECONOMY THERE. >> BUT EVEN A FLIGHTS AND ACCOMMODATION GET THIS THE OVERALL COST OF ATTENDING ONE OF SWIFT’S SHOWS IN EUROPE IS OFTEN LOWER THAN JUST THE TICKET PRICE ALONE IN. THE U.S. SWIFT’S NEXT SHOW IS IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN TONIGHT AND EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING FOR THE UPCOMING WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF THE NEW MOVIE FURIOSA A MAD MAX SAGA. AUDIENCES AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL GAVE THE PREMIERE A MORE THAN SIX MINUTE STANDING OVATION. OUR MAGGIE RULLI SPOKE WITH STARS HEMSWORTH, ANYA TAYLOR-JOY AND TOM BURKE. JUST AHEAD OF THAT PREMIERE. >> TAKE A LOOK. IT’S THE ACTION PACKED, WINDING DOWN. IT’S A DYSTOPIAN EPIC. FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING NEARLY A DECADE FOR FURIOSA, THE PREQUEL TO BLOCKBUSTER OSCAR HIT FURY ROAD AND THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT, GEORGE MILLER’S MAD SAGA, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE AND DEMENTED. >> AND WE HAVE HERE YOUR CHARACTER. >> WELL, LET’S JUST SAY IT’S REALLY GOOD TO SEE LOOKING LIKE YOURSELF BY THE SHOWER. >> YEAH, IT’S GOOD. YEAH. GEORGE HAD THIS KIND OF OF SORT OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS AND SO ON. AND THE BRIDGE KNOWS THE PROFILE BEING QUITE SORT OF PROMINENT THAT THE HAIR AND THE BEARD AND AGING MAKEUP. IT’S SO WONDERFUL TO SORT OF LOSE YOURSELF WITHIN THE LOOK OF THE CHARACTER, NOT RECOGNIZE THE PERSON STARING BACK AT YOU. IT CERTAINLY THE IMMERSION INTO THAT SPACE IS A FAR EASIER TRANSITION THAN IF IT’S, YOU KNOW, IF IT’S ME. LOOKING BACK, YOU AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY AS FURIOSA, THIS FILM PUSHES ALL THE LIMITS. HOW DID YOU PREPARE? I STILL DON’T HAVE MY DRIVER’S LICENSE, AND SO THE FIRST THING THAT THEY DID WAS PUT ME IN A CAR PUT ME ON THE MOST BIKE AND DOES A LOT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING JUST TO BE ABLE DO THE STUNTS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. >> THAT’S LIKE SAYING YOU DON’T HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE. >> EXACTLY. YEAH. SO THAT HAPPENED. >> SO YOU CAN JUST BRING THE MOVIE TO THE DMV. CHRIS SAYS HE’S GOING TO SEND THEM A LINK. >> TOM BURKE AS WARRIOR POETRY AND JACK THE FAN AND YOU WHEN IT’S HAPPENING KIND OF 360 AROUND YOU WHICH IT FEELS LIKE IT IS WHEN YOU’RE DOING A LOT OF THE SHOTS YOU WANT TO JUST STOP THE TAKE AND GO HANG ON. >> WHAT’S THAT GUY WEARING? >> SHOW ME YOUR BOOTS. >> WOULD YOU GUYS COME BACK FOR A SEQUEL? YES. >> YES. WELL, I REFUSE TO ANSWER THAT ON THE GROUNDS THAT MIGHT GIVE AWAY SOME CONTENT. >> BUT AS FAR AS VERY NICE THINGS WHERE YOU GO, WELL AND DIANE, IT TOOK A LOT TO CREATE THE WORLD OF MAD MAX. THERE WERE AT LEAST 200 STUNT ACTORS, MORE THAN A THOUSAND CREW MEMBERS. AND SOME OF THOSE ACTION SCENES TOOK NEARLY DAYS TO FILM DIANE, THIS MOVIE WAS ALSO A FAMILY AFFAIR. CHRIS’S WIFE ACTUALLY ACTED IN SOME SCENES WITH HIM, AND THEY OFTEN BROUGHT THEIR THREE KIDS TO SET. CHRIS SAID HAVING THERE WAS A GREAT REMINDER TO TAKE THE WORK SERIOUSLY BUT NEVER HIMSELF. >> DIANE LOVED THAT. MAGGIE RULLI THANK YOU. AND IT’S TIME NOW FOR THE DROP, WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE BIG MUSIC HEADLINES OF THE WEEK. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, DJ AND RADIO PERSONALITY MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT DOWN FOR US. MEGAN, I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT TO KNOW THIS WEEK. I’M GOING TO HAND IT OVER, EDUCATE US. WE DO. WE DO, OF COURSE. NOW LET’S KICK THIS OFF WITH A SHARE. >> ALL RIGHT. SO EVERY YEAR WE GET THE NEWS ABOUT WHO THE NOMINEES ARE FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. AND EVERY PEOPLE DISSECT THE LIST AND YOU COULD PICK IT APART. EXPRESSING EXCITEMENT FOR THE NOMINEES. AND THEN ALSO WE TALK ABOUT WHO WE THINK WAS LEFT OFF NOW, SOMEONE WHO I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE WAS LONG OVERDUE FOR A NOMINATION WAS CHER. AND SHE CLEARLY FELT LOT, TOO, BECAUSE BACK IN DECEMBER, SHE TOLD KELLY CLARKSON SHE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF IT, EVEN IF THEY GAVE HER $1 MILLION. SHE’S LIKE, I’M NOT GOING TO DO IT. WELL, I AM HAPPY THAT MONTHS LATER SHE HAS CHANGED HER MIND. AND IN A RECENT INTERVIEW SHE SAID SHE WAS GRATEFUL ABOUT HER PENDING INDUCTION, BUT SHE WARNED, I’M GOING TO HAVE SOME TO SAY. I’M GOING TO ACCEPT IT AS ME. AND THAT’S ALL WE WANT. CHER, LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. >> NOW SHE’LL ENTER THE HALL OF FAME ALONGSIDE A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, MARY J. BLIGE, OZZY FOREIGNER, KILLING THE GANG, AND PETER FRAMPTON ON OCTOBER 19 IN CLEVELAND. NOW, SPEAKING OF NOMINEES IT’S AWARDS SEASON, THE 2024 BETTY AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE IN AND. DRAKE IS LEADING THE PACK WITH SEVEN NOMINATIONS NOW FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY NICKI MINAJ WITH SIX. SHE HAD A GREAT YEAR. WELL, THEN WE HAVE JAKE, PAUL, RED SCISSOR AND VICTORIA MONET TIED WITH FIVE NOMINATIONS EACH AND THEN ALONG 21 SAVAGE BEYONCE, DOJA CAT AND MEGAN THEE STALLION TYLER AND USHER EACH WITH FOUR. NOW, BETTY ALSO RELEASED THE FIRST ROUND OF ARTISTS CONFIRMED TO PERFORM THE SHOW AND IT’S LOOKING LIKE A GOOD SHOW ALREADY. GLOBAL LOTTO MONEY REG AND VICTORIA MONET NOW CULTURE BIGGEST NIGHT. THE 2024 BET AWARDS WILL AIR LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES ON SUNDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 8 P.M.. NOW, WHILE IS SITTING ON TOP OF THE BETTY AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST, KENDRICK SITTING ON TOP OF THE CHARTS. >> ALL RIGHT. 2024 HAS BEEN A GREAT FOR KENDRICK AS HE LANDS ON TOP OF THE BILLBOARD CHARTS FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW AFTER LIKE THAT, WHICH WAS, OF COURSE, A HIT NUMBER ONE. AND THE SONG THAT MOST RECENTLY SPARKED THE DRAKE VERSUS KENDRICK BEAT. KENDRICK HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH NOT LIKE AND SO I DON’T KNOW WHY, DIANE, BUT FOR SOMETHING AND FOR SOME REASON I FEEL LIKE BEAT ISN’T COMPLETELY OVER WITH. I GUESS WE’LL SEE. NOW IN VIRAL NEWS, BILLY, HIS NEW ALBUM, HIT ME HARD AND STOP IS OUT NOW. CHECK OUT A CLIP OF LUNCH. SOME FANS ARE CALLING IT THE SONG OF SUMMER. >> YOU CAN NEVER LOVE. GOODBYE. SAME STUFF TO TOOK MORE TO COME ,COME BACK. I LOVED IT. CLAIRE LOVE ME SOME BILLIE EILISH. I’VE SEEN ALL LOT OF PROMO LEADING UP TO THE ALBUM HAPPY THAT HER ALBUM IS FINALLY OUT. MEGAN RYTE LOVE ALL OF IT. THANK YOU, FRIEND. YES, OF UNTIL NEXT TIME. >> UNTIL NEXT TIME. AND THANK YOU AT HOME FOR WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. WHAT DO YOU 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 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 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 TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO, TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCKING OUT BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK. THERE’S A TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING? YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. THAT WAS ENTERTAINING. IT IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY HE’S A GOD. THIS COMPOUND, WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A BUSINESS. TRUMP WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MAN WHO BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. >> YOU THINK HE YOU? THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF TO BE PUBLIC. SO AS I SAY, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. ANDREW INTO THE MAN SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS WHY THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS REPORTING. FROM BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY, I’M MARY BRUCE. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . I AM DEVASTATED TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, DEADLY STORMS SWEEP THE WESTERN GULF COAST. FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND NEARLY A MILLION WITHOUT POWER AS CREWS ASSESS THE DAMAGE OR THE FLASH FLOODING IS CAUSING THE MOST PROBLEMS. AND THE NEW THREAT THIS MORNING . CONGRESS IS OUT OF ORDER AND OUT OF CONTROL. A HEARING IN THE HOUSE TURNS INTO A SCREAMING MATCH. WHAT STARTED THE SHOWDOWN AND WHAT OTHER LAWMAKERS ARE SAYING ABOUT IT? AND JUST HOW BUSY WILL THIS SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON BE? OUR TREVOR AULT HAS THE LATEST PREDICTIONS AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE HEADING TO THE AIRPORT AND GET THE RIGHT STUFF FOR YOUR ROAD TRIP. LORI BERGAMOTTO IS HERE WITH HER FAVORITE THINGS TO GRAB BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT FOR SUMMER VACATION. BUT WE BEGIN WITH A DEADLY STORM RIPPING THROUGH THE SOUTH ,LEAVING DAMAGE FROM TEXAS TO MISSISSIPPI. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD NEAR HOUSTON WHERE HIGH WINDS TORE APART BUILDINGS ACROSS CITY. MORE THAN 800,000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER THIS MORNING JUST IN TEXAS. HOUSTON SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED TODAY AND CITY OFFICIALS ASKING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS SO CLEANUP CAN BEGIN. ABC’S MIREYA VILLARREAL JOINS ME NOW FROM DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WITH MORE. >> ALL RIGHT. WHAT’S LIKE THERE RIGHT NOW? YOU KNOW, DIANE, LISTEN, IT IS A PRETTY BIG MESS DOWN HERE IN, THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF HOUSTON. IF YOU JUST TAKE A LOOK OVER MY RIGHT HAND SHOULDER CAN SEE THIS IS A PIECE OF THE WALL THAT CAME OFF FROM THE RESTAURANT BAR THAT YOU SEE RIGHT BEHIND ME AS THE STORMS THROUGH THE HOUSTON AREA. THE WINDS WERE SO POWERFUL. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS COMPARABLE. THE SAYS TWO HURRICANE IKE FORCE WINDS THAT THEY SHEARED OFF. IT SHEARED OFF THE ENTIRE SIDE OF THIS RESTAURANT BUILDING THAT YOU SEE RIGHT BEHIND ME. ALL THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN AREA, WE HAVE SEEN A LARGE AMOUNT OF DEBRIS MATERIAL FROM SOME OF THE LOCAL AREAS AND PROJECTS THAT ARE NEARBY. IT IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR EFFORT TO CLEAN A LOT OF THIS UP DURING THE DAY. SO, MARIA, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT THAT CLEANUP EFFORT? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHEN DO THEY EXPECT RESTORE POWER? RIGHT. YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR BASICALLY SAID THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE CONTINGENT ON PEOPLE REALLY AT HOME AND STAYING OFF THE ROADWAYS. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, THEY’RE TRYING TO GET A NUMBER OF PEOPLE OUT HERE, CITY WORKERS, TO START THE CLEANUP PROCESS. BUT YOU’RE ALSO ABOUT RELYING ON ELECTRICAL COMPANIES TO TRY AND RESTORE THE POWER. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT WATER AND SEWAGE, NOT TO MENTION THE BUSINESS OWNERS HERE. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF EFFORT FROM THE COMMUNITY COMING OUT AND REMOVING SOME OF DEBRIS, PUTTING IT ON THE SIDES SO PEOPLE CAN JUST GET ON THE ROADWAYS. AND FOR THOSE NEED TO GET TO THEIR JOBS IF THEY’RE ABLE TO DO THAT TODAY. AS FAR AS ELECTRICAL LINES GO, THEY COULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER. BUT LET ME TELL YOU, HOUSTON, I FEEL LIKE THEY’VE DONE THIS SEVERAL TIMES. SO FOR THEM. THIS IS A MOMENT OF BEING ABLE TO REALLY PUT IN PRACTICE WHAT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED THROUGH A NUMBER OF HURRICANES AND ALSO GET READY FOR HURRICANE SEASON, WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. SO THEY ARE HOPING THIS WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS THAT THEY MIGHT RESTORE ALL OF THE POWER, THE AREA. ALL RIGHT, MIREYA VILLARREAL IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, THANK YOU. >> AND THE STORMS THAT BROUGHT MAYHEM TO HOUSTON ARE MOVING EAST. 17 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS 12 STATES ARE UNDER FLOOD WATCHES. MORNING AS HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING WHERE THAT FLOOD THREAT IS HEADED NEXT. THE MAYOR WAS LIKENING THIS STORM TO HURRICANE IKE DAMAGE. SO WE’RE GOING TO BE WATCHING MORE STORMS MOVE THROUGH IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THAT’S WHY THERE ARE STILL FLOOD WATCHES UP ALL WAY TO DESTIN, FLORIDA, AND BACK TO LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA. AND EVEN PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, THERE. THE FLOODING IS PROBABLY THE MAIN CONCERN TODAY BECAUSE YOU ARE SO SUPERSATURATED AFTER THE FIRST LINES OF HATTIESBURG TO MONTGOMERY. BUT EVEN MOBILE IN NEW ORLEANS ARE IN IT. AND I THINK THE TIMING’S IMPORTANT BECAUSE. MOST OF YOUR DAY IN MANY PLACES WILL BE STORM FREE. BUT TONIGHT, IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, YOU SEE 2 A.M. IT’S JUST ABOUT TO GET TO LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. THAT’S A PRETTY UGLY LOOKING LINE THAT’LL COME WITH LIKELY SOME DAMAGING WINDS. AND THAT’S WHY LAFAYETTE, ORLEANS, BATON ROUGE, UP INTO PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI AND EVEN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE STAY IN THIS UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING ,EVEN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THERE. A LOT OF THIS IS RIDING ON THE TOP, A BIG DOME OF HEAT. THAT DOME OF HAS HAD FLORIDA BAKING SOUTH TEXAS, TOO. SO GOING INTO THE WEEKEND, WE COULD SEE MORE RECORDS. 94 AND 95 FOR WEST PALM AND MIAMI. THOSE COULD BREAK OR TIE RECORDS GOING INTO THE WEEKEND IS GOING TO BE PRETTY SUFFOCATING HEAT. >> ALL RIGHT. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE, THANK YOU, DONNA. >> DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER IS SET TO RETURN TO THE STAND ON MONDAY AFTER A HEATED ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. YESTERDAY, THE DEFENSE TRIED TO PAINT MICHAEL COHEN AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO’S OBSESSED WITH HIS FORMER QUESTIONING, A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST. >> TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, MICHAEL COHEN SAID HE CALLED DONALD TRUMP’S BODYGUARD KEITH SCHILLER TO GET TRUMP ON THE PHONE. COHEN TESTIFIED HE TO DISCUSS THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER AND THE RESOLUTION OF IT. DEFENSE TODD BLANCHE, HIS VOICE RISING, SAID THAT WAS A LIE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THESE TEXT MESSAGES SUGGESTING A DIFFERENT REASON FOR THE CALL. COHEN ASKING SCHILLER, WHO CAN I SPEAK TO REGARDING HARASSING CALLS TO, MY CELL AND OFFICE? >> SCHILLER RESPONDING, CALL ME THAT A LIE. YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. BLANCH SAID. ANIMATED. YOU CAN ADMIT IT. BLANCH PUNCTUATED EACH WORD THAT WAS A LIE. COHEN MET BLANCHETT’S INDIGNATION WITH COMPOSURE. NO, SIR, I CAN’T. I AM NOT CERTAIN THAT IS ACCURATE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THE CALL LASTED ONE MINUTE, 36 SECONDS. BUT COHEN INSISTED. I BELIEVE I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. COHEN’S CREDIBILITY MATTERS, BECAUSE HE’S THE ONLY WITNESS WHO DIRECTLY TIES TRUMP TO THE ALLEGED SCHEME TO FALSIFY BUSINESS RECORDS TO HIDE THE HUSH PAYMENT TO DANIELS FROM VOTERS. TRUMP’S EX FIXER PLEADED GUILTY AND SERVED TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN THE HUSH MONEY AND OTHER CRIMES. THE DEFENSE WANTED THE JURY TO HEAR COHEN GLOAT ABOUT TRUMP’S INDICTMENT. >> REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD. AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WANT THIS MADE TO GO DOWN AND ROTTEN SIDE FOR WHAT HE DID TO ME AND MY FAMILY. >> TRUMP HAS BEEN COMING TO COURT WITH A DAILY ENTOURAGE OF CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS, AND PROSECUTORS COMPLAINED SOME OF THEM HAVE WALKED IN DURING TESTIMONY WITH THEIR SECURITY DETAIL FOR THE JURY AND THE WITNESSES TO SEE. THE JUDGE SAID THAT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN. BUT TRUMP ATTORNEY SAID I HAVE LESS THAN ZERO CONTROL OVER WHAT IS HAPPENING. >> TRUMP IS STILL DECIDING WHETHER HE WILL TESTIFY. BUT DIANE, THE JURY COULD HEAR CLOSING ARGUMENTS EARLY NEXT WEEK. DIANE ALL RIGHT. >> SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. >> BRIAN, HOW CRUCIAL IS IT THAT THE DEFENSE IS TRYING TO SAY COHEN LIED ABOUT PURPOSE OF THAT CALL TO KEITH SCHILLER. >> IT’S VERY CRUCIAL. IT’S THE THE LARGE PART OF THE DEFENSE HIS ARGUMENT HERE THAT MICHAEL COHEN IS A WITNESS THAT CANNOT BE BELIEVED IN ANYTHING BUT ESPECIALLY ON SPECIFIC MATTERS LIKE REELING INFORMATION TO DONALD TRUMP AND GETTING THE KIND OF THUMBS UP THAT WHAT HE’S DOING IS CORRECT. AND HE SHOULD PUSH FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO THE HUSH MONEY, THE PAYMENT AND THE WAY THAT THEY ARE CATEGORIZED IN THESE BUSINESS DOCUMENTS. >> NOW, THE DEFENSE IS CROSS-EXAMINATION OF COHEN LARGELY. HE FOCUSED ON PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHOSE TESTIMONY SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED. DO YOU THINK THEY’VE DONE ENOUGH TO RAISE REASONABLE THERE AT THIS POINT? >> I WOULD SAY NO. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I HESITATE TO THINK. I THINK WHAT THE PROSECUTOR WILL SAY ON REDIRECT. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THEY CAN CLEAN UP THAT’S GOING TO MAKE THIS TOUGHER FOR THE DEFENSE? ALSO, I’M LOOKING A LITTLE FURTHER AHEAD AND ULTIMATELY THERE’S GOING TO BE A SUMMATION. THE DEFENSE BROUGHT UP GREAT POINTS. I THINK THERE WAS NO SMOKING GUN, BUT DEFINITELY A VERY HOT ONE. BUT IS THERE ENOUGH THAT WHEN THE PROSECUTORS AT THE END OF THE TRIAL SUMMATION, THE FINAL WORD, THAT THEY CAN’T RECOVER FROM IT? I THINK THE DEFENSE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF SHOWING THAT HE IS A HABITUAL LIAR, BUT CONNECT THAT TO THE ACTUAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME THAT HE’S LYING TO THE JURY ABOUT THE FACTS IN THIS CASE THAT I THINK WILL MAKE A BETTER CASE FOR THE DEFENSE. >> NOW, IT’S UNCLEAR IF THE DEFENSE WILL CALL ANY WITNESSES OR IF TRUMP HIMSELF WILL TAKE THE STAND. SO WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR NEXT WEEK? >> SO THE JUDGE MERCHAN HAS ALREADY SAID THAT HE’S GOING TO REVIEW SOME OF THE FILINGS THAT BOTH SIDES MADE, SPECIFICALLY IN REGARDS TO THE EXPERT, BE THE ELECTION EXPERT THAT THE DEFENSE WANTS TO PUT ON JUST TO KIND OF GIVE SOME CONTEXT AS TO WHAT THE UNDERLYING CRIME MAY BE. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY RULES AND HOW THE DEFENSE, IF THEY DO PUT THIS WITNESS ON, PUTS ON A CASE, BUT ALSO, YEAH, WE’VE HEARD FROM A SIDEBAR THAT DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T INTEND TO TESTIFY, BUT THAT DECISION IS REALLY MADE AT THE LAST MOMENT WHEN THE IS ASKING WHETHER OR NOT THE DEFENDANT WANTS TO TESTIFY. AND YOU ALWAYS PLAY THAT AS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY CLOSE TO THE VEST. SO I WANT TO SEE IF IN THE 11TH HOUR DONALD TRUMP DECIDES TO TESTIFY. >> ALL RIGHT LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. THANK YOU. AND REACTIONS STARTING TO COME IN AFTER CHAOS ERUPTED ON CAPITOL HILL LAST NIGHT. WHAT STARTED AS A HEARING TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS QUICKLY TURNED INTO LAWMAKERS HURLING PERSONAL INSULTS AT EACH ABC NEWS. >> SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS ,THE LATEST FOR A NEW LOW ON CAPITOL HILL. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL. >> A LATE NIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING DEVOLVING INTO CHAOS. AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL. REPUBLICAN FIREBRAND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENT CHAIR RECOGNIZES MR. PERRY. OKAY. MOVE TO STRIKE WATER. >> THE HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO CENTER ON REPUBLICANS THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND TURN OVER AUDIO TAPES. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, WHICH HE HAS REFUSED TO DO. >> INSTEAD, IT QUICKLY ESCALATED INTO A HEATED BACK AND FORTH. GREENE MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT’S EYELASHES. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. AIN’T NOTHING OUT OF ORDER, MR. CHAIRMAN. EVEN MORE, YOU GAVE MORE OF YOUR COMMITTEE ORDER. >> AT TIMES AND REFUSING TO APOLOGIZE. >> DEMOCRATS MOVED TO CENSURE. >> GREENE. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND THE APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON. >> ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? WORDS DOWN. OH, GIRL. BABY GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE. CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER, STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE COMMITTEE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING. >> IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY’S BELIEFS, BLOND, BAD BUILT, BUTCH BODY, THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES. >> CORRECT. WHAT NOW, CHAIRMAN? >> I’D MAKE I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. I DON’T THINK THAT’S ONE PART OF THE KIND OF FINE CLARIFICATION. >> CALM DOWN. CALM DOWN. SO NO APOLOGIES, DIANE. AFTER AN HOUR OF THOSE PERSONAL INSULTS, THE HEARING DID GET BACK ON TRACK. BUT THE LEVEL OF DECORUM IS SOMEHOW SEEPING LOWER AND LOWER. >> DIANE. ALL RIGHT. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT, THANK YOU. AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS MOVING TO EASE RULES ON MARIJUANA, RECLASSIFYING IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG. THE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, BUT 38 STATES HAVE ALREADY LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND 24 STATES ALLOW IT FOR RECREATIONAL USE. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS CALLING THE MOVE TO RECLASSIFY A MONUMENTAL STEP. >> LOOK, FOLKS, NO ONE SHOULD BE IN JAIL MERELY FOR USING OR POSSESSING MARIJUANA. PERIOD. FAR TOO LIVES HAVE BEEN UPENDED BECAUSE OF FAILED APPROACH TO MARIJUANA. AND COMMITTED TO RIGHTING THOSE WRONGS. >> YOU HAVE MY WORD ON IT. ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT HAS THE LATEST. >> HI, SELENA. THIS IS A HISTORIC TO EASE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS ON MARIJUANA. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MOVING TO RECLASSIFY IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG FROM A SCHEDULE ONE DRUG WHICH INCLUDES HEROIN AND ECSTASY TO SCHEDULE THREE, WHICH INCLUDES TYLENOL WITH CODEINE. BUT THIS WON’T BE IMMEDIATE. THERE’S NOW A 60 DAY COMMENT PERIOD WHERE AMERICANS CAN WEIGH IN. IT’S MADE OFFICIAL. THIS ALSO DOES NOT LEGALIZE MARIJUANA NATIONALLY, BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT MARIJUANA POSSESSION COULD COME WITH LESS SEVERE PENALTIES. THE PRESIDENT, HE’S CAMPAIGNING ON THIS. IT COULD BOOST HIS REELECTION CHANCES. ESPECIALLY WITH YOUNG VOTERS AND BLACK AMERICANS. EVEN THOUGH WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS MARIJUANA AT SIMILAR RATES, BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED AND FACE CONVICTION OVER THIS. NOW, THE PRESIDENT, HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS MOVE SINCE 2022. HE’S ALREADY PARTIED THOUSANDS PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN CONVICTED ON FEDERAL OFFENSES FOR SIMPLE MARIJUANA POSSESSION. DIANE SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, SELINA WANG, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED THIS MORNING JUST HOURS BEFORE THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WHY SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS NOW FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AND WHAT HE’S SAYING ABOUT THE INCIDENT . ALSO AHEAD, KICKING OFF THE SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON, HOW THE TSA IS PREPARING FOR A NEARLY RECORD SETTING SEASON AHEAD OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. >> 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 MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. 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 FROM FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. IN BEIRUT, FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM IT, 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. YOU’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 FIRST THING IN THE MORNING THERE’S A GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH. WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT? WE ARE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. ALL THE KILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA. THIS MORNING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE. EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS . >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. THAT WAS ENTERTAINED IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS. BASICALLY, HE’S A GOD HIS COMPOUND. WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE YOU? >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SOMEONE TO SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. AND YOU TAKE INTO THE IN SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE FOR A SCOTTISH THE NUMBER ONE RANKED GOLFER IN THE WORLD IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED MORNING FOR ALLEGEDLY DRIVING PAST A POLICE ROADBLOCK IN LOUISVILLE. REPORTS SAY THE ROADBLOCK WAS SET UP AFTER A PEDESTRIAN WAS HIT AND KILLED BY SHUTTLE BUS. THOSE REPORTS SAY SCHEFFLER WAS TRYING TO DRIVE AROUND THE ROADBLOCK WHEN AN OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE CAR TO GET SHEPPARD TO STOP AND THEN DETAINED HIM. SCHEFFLER NOW SAYS IN A STATEMENT THERE WAS A BIG MISUNDERSTOOD STANDING OF WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS BEING ASKED TO DO. I NEVER INTENDED TO DISREGARD ANY OF THE INSTRUCTIONS. I’M HOPEFUL TO PUT THIS ASIDE AND FOCUS GOLF. TODAY, HE’S GEARING UP TO PLAY IN THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. SCHEFFLER CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND RECKLESS DRIVING. >> AND THE TSA IS ANNOUNCING A RECORD SETTING TRAVEL SEASON ABOUT TO TAKE OFF. THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IS EXPECTED TO SHATTER TRAVEL RECORDS. ABC’S TREVOR AULT IS AT NEW YORK’S LAGUARDIA AIRPORT WITH MORE ON WHAT THE TSA IS DOING TO PREPARE. >> TREVOR. >> HEY, DAN SO THIS IS REALLY GOING TO KICK START WHAT’S EXPECTED TO BE A RECORD SETTING TRAVEL SEASON. AND IT REALLY GETS GOING NEXT WEEK, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH MORE THAN 100,000 FLIGHTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HEADING INTO MEMORIAL WEEKEND, THE TSA SAYS THEY ARE STAFFED UP, READY TO GO. THANKS IN LARGE PART TO A NEW COMPENSATION PACKAGE THAT WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS. THE AIRLINES SAY THEY ARE ALSO READY NOT JUST WITH STAFFING, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE HAD ABOUT 5% OF FLIGHTS WHERE THEY HAVE INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE AIRCRAFT TO ACCOMMODATE MORE TRAVELERS. NOW, ONE AREA WHERE A STAFFING SHORTAGE MAKE AN IMPACT, ABOUT 3000 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS SHY OF WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO BE. THAT IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT THIS SUMMER HERE IN NEW YORK, THERE’S GOING TO BE ABOUT 10% FEWER FLIGHTS COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN. NOW, IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE DRIVING THE GOOD NEWS, GAS PRICES IS THERE’S NOT A LOT OF NEWS. THE PRICES HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY FLAT OVER THE PAST MONTH. THE NATIONAL AVERAGE TODAY, $3.59 A GALLON. THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT IT WAS TIME LAST YEAR, OF COURSE, IS GOING TO BE DRIVING FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. IT IS GOING TO BE QUITE CROWDED AT TIMES. TRIPLE A IS EXPECTING 38.4 MILLION PEOPLE DRIVING FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. AND YES, THAT TOO, IS A RECORD. DIANE TREVOR AULT, LAGUARDIA AIRPORT, THANK YOU. >> AND MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MEANS SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALES. ABC’S ELIZABETH SCHULZE HAS BEEN DIGGING INTO WHICH RETAILERS ARE ALREADY SLASHING PRICES. AS WE GET READY TO KICK OFF THE SUMMER SEASON. >> ELIZABETH MANY RETAILERS ARE TURNING TO THESE EARLY DEALS AND PROMOTIONS AS CUSTOMERS WHO ARE FRUSTRATED WITH STUBBORN PULL BACK ON THEIR SPENDING. SO SOME OF THE BIGGEST MEMORIAL DAY DISCOUNTS ARE ON MATTRESSES, APPLIANCES AND SMALL HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS . THIS WHIRLPOOL, STAINLESS STEEL MICROWAVE, IT’S MARKED DOWN 200 BUCKS TO $198. AT HOME DEPOT, A DREAM CLOUD MATTRESS THAT’LL TYPICALLY COST YOU 1300 DOLLARS IS NOW $600. THAT’S HALF OFF ON A HUGE PURCHASE FOR YOUR HOME. WE’RE ALSO SEEING POPULAR ALLBIRDS SNEAKERS ON SALE FOR $50 FROM THE USUAL 104. ALL THE PARENTS THERE. THESE SET OF BLUE KIDS CAPS IS 20% OFF RIGHT NOW ON AMAZON. >> OH YEAH THOSE ARE BIG TIME. AND ELIZABETH, ONE OTHER ITEMS CAN SHOPPERS FIND DEALS ON RIGHT NOW. >> RIGHT SO MEMORIAL DAY IS ALSO THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN STORES ARE TRYING TO OFFLOAD SOME OF THEIR UNSOLD WINTER AND SPRING INVENTORY. SO YOU MIGHT FIND SOME DEALS ON HEAVY COATS OR FOOTWEAR THAT WAS ON THE SHELVES IN THE SPRING. IT ALSO MEANS IT’S NOT THE TIME . STOCK UP ON SUMMER WEATHER STUFF BECAUSE YOU’RE TYPICALLY YOU’RE GOING TO WANT TO WAIT LATER IN THE YEAR. >> SO THAT’S THINGS LIKE SWIMSUITS OR OUTDOOR FURNITURE . >> ALL RIGHT, ELIZABETH SCHULZE, THANK YOU. COMING UP, "GMA" LIFESTYLE LORI BERGAMOTTO JOINS US WITH THIS SUMMER’S ROAD TRIP ESSENTIALS. IT IS TIME FOR THE RIGHT STUFF. WHEN WE COME BACK. >> I EXPERIENCED A OF HARD I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILL WAS A MIKE THE ENTERTAINER THE YEAR FAME. AND I DO SAY THE BELLBOTTOMS, THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT . WOW. TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO SEVEN. TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I OUT. THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY, THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES PLAYED VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, AND THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING. THEY PURCHASED THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A CRIMINAL ACT. SENSE OF THE PARENTS. >> THE CRUMBLEY TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. ONLY ON HULU, WE’RE TRYING TO GET ANSWERS FOR. THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, EVEN IF MAYBE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE THEY NEED THOSE ANSWERS. >> YOU AND I HAVE COVERED CHILD HOMICIDES BEFORE, AND NOW MY DAUGHTER’S AUTOPSY WILL BE MADE PUBLIC MONDAY. THOSE WHO FOUND HER WILL NEVER KNOW. >> PEACE. DID YOU JUST THERE AND LET MY FRIEND’S CHILD DIE? >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM? >> ABC NEWS. THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO GET RIGHT TO 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. YOU START HERE. NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY I BET YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> NEXT WEEK WE WILL. CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> GET READY, JIMMY. WE COMING YOUR WAY. >> AND BLAIR AND SAM ARE TAKING YOU ABOARD THE USS BATAAN LIVE FOR FLEET WEEK ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> I’M ERIELLE RESHEF IN NORWALK, CONNECTICUT. THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE IT UP. RIGHT. WELCOME TO ABC NEWS LIVE. IT IS TIME NOW FOR THE RIGHT STUFF WITH OUR FRIEND YOU MAY LIFESTYLE CONTRIBUTOR LORI BERGAMOTTO. SO EVERY FRIDAY LAURIE BRINGS US SOME OF HER FAVORITE AND THIS WEEK SHE’S HELPING US GEAR UP FOR ROAD TRIP SEASON WITH THESE MUST HAVE ESSENTIALS. AND REMEMBER, YOU CAN SHOP THESE PRODUCTS. AND WHAT LAURIE SHARED ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA BY SCANNING THAT QR CODE IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN. >> SO, LAURIE, I ALREADY LIKE WHAT I’M SEEING NOT ONLY BECAUSE WE ALL NEED THESE THINGS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF THE CASE, BUT WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT. SO WALK ME THROUGH IT. SO SAFETY FIRST. YES. SO IF ROAD TRIPPING, THERE ARE THINGS THAT, YES, YOU WANT TO HAVE TO ENTERTAIN AND YOU WANT TO HAVE SNACKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT NONE OF THAT IS ANY GOOD. IF YOUR THE CAR HAS TO BE GOING ANYWHERE. >> SO YOU NEED THINGS THAT EVERYTHING YOU NEED ACTUALLY COMES IN THIS LITTLE KIT. SO YOU’RE GOING TO GET AN LED HEADLAMP BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS IT’S LIKE MURPHY’S LAW WHENEVER YOU’RE LIKE, OH, THIS IS A TERRIBLE TIME FOR MY CAR TO BREAK DOWN. >> IT’S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. IT’S THAT IS WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN. SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THINGS. IT COMES WITH A RAIN PONCHO FOR YOUR PERSON. YOU GET THE WORK GLOVE. SO IF YOU NEED TO, YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE EVER PUT AIR IN YOUR TIRE. OH, I HAVE. I HAVE. I HAVE CHANGED MANY A TIRE. >> IT WAS LOSE THOSE THINGS AND JUMPER CABLES. >> YES. WE ALWAYS NEED THOSE IT COMES WITH A LITTLE STERILE PADS. YOU CAN CLEAN THINGS FIRST. LOOK AND I HAVE A LITTLE MINI FIRST AID KIT AND ALL. ALL OF THIS STUFF FITS IN THIS LITTLE CASE. SO THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS IS YOU CAN JUST GET IT, POP IT IN YOUR TRUNK KIND OF IN ITS OWN SPOT, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THESE IN EVERY SINGLE CAR. NOT NOT JUST IF YOU’RE ROAD TRIPPING, BUT IF YOU’RE IN GENERAL. ANYWHERE IN GENERAL. OKAY. OKAY. MOVE TO THE MORE BATTLE OVER WHO IS GOING TO CHARGE THEIR PHONE. EXACTLY. SO WHAT’S REALLY COOL ABOUT THIS, THIS HAS TO THIS IS HEAVIER THAN I EXPECTED IT TO BE BECAUSE IT’S LIKE, OH, WE GIVE YOU SAY INSIDE STUFF. THIS ONE HAS NEARLY 3000 POSITIVE REVIEWS ON AMAZON. AND WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE ABOUT IT IS I DON’T KNOW WHICH ADDITION SMARTPHONE YOU HAVE, BUT MY HUSBAND HAS ONE THAT USES A USB TO CHARGE USB-C VERSUS THE LIGHTNING CORD AND I HAVE A USB-C. SO WE’RE ALWAYS LIKE, WHERE’S MINE? LIKE UNPLUG IT AND IT’S A NIGHTMARE. >> YOU JUST POP ONE OF THESE IN AND YOU CAN HAVE THE MARITAL ACCORD. THAT’S A BIG CHARGE AND SAVING IS EVERYWHERE. THERE YOU GO. AND IF YOUR KIDS ARE OUR DEVICES, IT’S ALSO A GREAT THING. I KNOW A LOT OF TEENAGERS. ARE YOU DID YOU LIKE THAT? THAT WAS GOOD. THANKS, DIANE IT’S MY HUSBAND, ROGER. >> RIGHT NOW. IT’S WHERE HE’S CRACKING UP TO DO THAT AT HOME, I THINK. MAYBE JUST A LITTLE. A LITTLE BIT. OKAY. OKAY. SO YOU’RE GETTING HOME. I HAVE. CAN WE GO? I DON’T ABOUT YOU, BUT I FEEL LIKE I HAVE, LIKE, A SUITCASE. JUST LITTLE THINGS TO ENTERTAIN . TODDLER. MY 12 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO’S LIKE, THIS IS BORING NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, I’M LIKE, HERE’S A BOOK, HERE’S A MAGAZINE, HERE’S THIS HERE THAT THIS IS GREAT FOR THOSE LITTLE KIDS. I WOULD SAY PROBABLY SIX OR SEVEN AND UNDER, BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST POP IT RIGHT ON TOP OF THEIR CAR SEAT OR THEIR BOOSTER SEAT AND LET THEM HAVE A WHOLE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT AT THEIR FINGERTIPS. BY THE WAY, I DON’T KNOW HOW WELL YOU CAN SEE THIS ON CAMERA, BUT THIS IS A DRY ERASE BOARD SO THEY CAN COLOR RIGHT ON THE SURFACE. AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE ONE OF THESE. AND WHAT WE’VE DONE FOR STELLA, WHO’S MY THREE YEAR OLD, IS WILL DRAW PICTURES OR WE’LL DO LIKE LETTERS AND HAVE HER TRY AND, YOU KNOW, MIMIC THEM, TRACE THEM SO YOU CAN REALLY DO SOME FUN THINGS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS ANOTHER ONE AND IT PACKS UP TO THIS. SO YOU CAN SEE THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN THE I ALSO, BY THE WAY, I WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW THIS COULD BE COOL FOR A RESTAURANT. >> YEAH, THAT’S A GREAT IDEA. YEAH, IT IS. THAT IDEA UP SO NICE AND IT’S COLLAPSIBLE AND IT DOESN’T JUST COME IN THE UNICORN PRINT. THERE’S LOTS OF OTHER PRINTS UNDER $35 AVAILABLE AT WALMART. THERE’S OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WHEN I TRAVEL SNACKS, THERE’S ROOM FOR SNACK. ALSO, DOESN’T. HOW ABOUT PUTTING IT IN THE PASSENGER SIDE? I KNOW. MAYBE. MEANING MY HUSBAND WILL LET ME SIT IN THE PASSENGER SIDE USING THE CHARGER AND THEN I’LL HAVE ONE OF THESE ON MY LAP. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, I MEAN, LIKE I KIND OF WANT TO BRING THIS ANY NEXT TRIPS FOR YOU? WE ARE GOING ON A ROAD TRIP NEXT WEEKEND WHEN WE’RE GOING TO BE SITTING IN THE LOUNGE. SO ARE YOU GOING ON A ROAD TRIP WITH THE NEW KIDS ON THE NOW THAT YOU’RE BEST FRIENDS WITH THEM? OH, MY GOSH. CHILDHOOD DREAMS. IMAGINE THEY YOU’VE GOT TO REALLY DO THE RIGHT STUFF WITH THE NEW KIDS TODAY THEY WERE SO THEY’RE EVEN CUTER IN PERSON PERHAPS. BUT DID YOU HAVE DONNIE WAHLBERG CHANGING A TIRE? WHAT? NO. WHAT DID YOU WANT THEM LEARN? HE WAS USING A BATTERY CHARGER. WE DID HAVE DANNY WOOD PUTTING AIR IN A TIRE, AND HE WAS SORRY WE PUT YOU TO WORK. IF YOU COME ON SET IN THE RIGHT STUFF, MAKING IT THE REAL WORK. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THE NEW KIDS. LOVE IT. AND SO DO WE. LORI BERGAMOTTO. THANK YOU. AND TO SHOP THESE PRODUCTS AND MORE OF THE RIGHT, YOU CAN SCAN THE QR CODE BOTTOM LEFT OF YOUR SCREEN AND FOR YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF THE BEST LIFESTYLE CONTENT FROM LAURIE AND JIMMY. BE SURE TO CATCH JIMMY LIFE ONES THAT LAURIE AT 9 A.M. 11 A.M. AND 1 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND STREAMING ON HULU. AND REMEMBER, WE ARE ALWAYS HERE FOR YOU. SO THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANA SAITO AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER WE HAVE WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED IN AMERICA, AN OPERATION, I THINK AFTER EIGHT OF COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATE ON NUCLEAR REACTORS. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE IN THE USA? >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU TAKING INFORMATION? >> IT’S MAIL. DAVID. YES, YES, I’M DAVID, YOU ARE. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. AND ABC’S "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST NEWSCAST. >> HERE’S TWO GOOD MORNINGS IN AMERICA. >> CAN YOU FEEL THE MORNINGS THAT INSPIRE FILLED WITH HOPE, KINDNESS, JOYOUS SURPRISES, AND SO MUCH FUN? >> IT IS GREAT. ABSOLUTELY GREAT. START YOUR DAY WITH. GOOD MORNING, RAY OF SUNSHINE, HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST OF AMERICA AND HELPING MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE. HI. I’M JUST SO HAPPY. IT IS SO READY TO SMILE AND PUT THE GOOD INTO YOUR MORNING AMERICA BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE THE MORNING BETTER. >> A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE SIDE BY SIDE. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEART . I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT, ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR BAIT. I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW, SAID FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN BETWEEN CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH HOLE. THE BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT ABC NEWS AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. YOU’RE LOOKING AT NEW CITY ON THIS FRIDAY AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S A RUNDOWN NOW. RESIDENTS IN TEXAS ARE CLEANING UP AFTER BEING SLAMMED WITH 80 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED NEAR HOUSTON. ASTROS FANS WERE SCRAMBLING INSIDE THE BALLPARK WHEN THE RAIN CAME THROUGH THE CLOSED DOME. YESTERDAY, A 22ND STRAIGHT DAY WITH A CONFIRMED OR REPORTED TORNADO IN U.S.. DESPERATELY NEEDED HUMANITARIAN AID IS NOW PASSING THROUGH THE NEWLY FINISHED U.S. PIER ANCHORED TO A BEACH IN GAZA. MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY THEY’RE AIMING TO USE THE PIER TO UNLOAD HUNDRED AND 50 TRUCKLOADS OF FOOD AND SUPPLIES A DAY TO THE WAR TORN REGION. THE PENTAGON SAYS THE DELIVERIES ARE A MULTINATIONAL EFFORT TO HELP PALESTINIANS ON THE BRINK OF FAMINE. AND TICK TOCK IS TESTING POSSIBLY LETTING USERS POST HOUR LONG VIDEOS. THE COMPANY SELECT USERS WILL TEST RUN, POSTING THE LONGER VIDEOS IN AN EFFORT TO AGAINST PLATFORMS LIKE YOUTUBE. IT SAYS THERE’S NO PLAN FOR A WIDER ROLLOUT YET. AND THE NEW YORK RANGERS ARE ADVANCING TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS AFTER HANDING THE CAROLINA HURRICANES A PAINFUL DEFEAT. FANS ARE CELEBRATING STAR LEFT-WING CHRIS KREIDER, WHO SCORED A HAT TRICK IN THE THIRD PERIOD TO SECURE THAT BIG COMEBACK. THE HAVEN’T WON THE STANLEY CUP SINCE 1994. >> AND SINGER JOHN OATES FROM THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO HALL AND OATES IS OPENING UP ABOUT HIS LEGAL DISPUTE WITH FORMER BANDMATE DARYL HALL . >> HALL MADE HEADLINES LAST YEAR WHEN HE SUED OATES OVER THEIR MUSIC. NOW, OATES SAYS THE FEUD MIGHT JEOPARDIZE THEIR FUTURE. HE SAT DOWN WITH OUR MICHAEL STRAHAN FOR THIS ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE. >> WELL, HALL AND OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN? NOT FROM POINT OF VIEW, BUT YOU NEED TO ASK DARYL HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT THIS MORNING. JOHN OATES, HALF OF THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO KNOWN AS HALL AND OATES, FAMOUS FOR HUGE HITS LIKE RICH GIRL GET RICH DOWN. AND YOU DON’T, YOU KNOW, IT DON’T MATTER ANYWAY AND YOU MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. >> SITTING DOWN, OPENING UP ABOUT HIS SIDE, THE LEGAL BATTLES HE’S CURRENTLY FIGHTING AGAINST HIS CREATIVE PARTNER OF 50 YEARS, DARYL HALL. LAST YEAR, HALL FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST OATES, ALLEGING THAT OATES ATTEMPTED TO SELL A SHARE OF THEIR JOINTLY OWNED COMPANY, HALL OATES ENTERPRISES, WITHOUT HALL’S PERMISSION. DID YOU TRY TO SELL YOUR HALF OF THE COMPANY OR JUST BUY IT? >> YEAH, I DID. AND LET ME TO YOU WHY I DID. WHEN THIS WHOLE SITUATION GOT MIRED IN LEGAL AND REALLY COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, LEGAL WRANGLINGS, I GOT FRUSTRATED AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, DARYL HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE HIS OWN MAN. I SAID, I’M TO GIVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. IF I SELL MY HALF, HE CAN EITHER, YOU KNOW, HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS. AND IT WAS KIND OF RUINING MY LIFE TO HONEST WITH YOU. I COULDN’T. I WASN’T HAPPY. I SAID, WELL, I’LL JUST ASIDE. >> AND PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, HE LOOKED LOOK AT ALL THE ARTISTS WHO WERE SELLING ALL THEIR CATALOGS. IT’S PRETTY COMMON. IT’S NOT NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. BUT DARYL DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA THAT I WOULD SELL TO A CERTAIN THIRD PARTY. >> HE SAID THAT THE ALLEGED PLANNED SALE WAS, QUOTE, A COMPLETELY CLANDESTINE AND BAD FAITH MOVE AND CALLED IT, QUOTE, THE ULTIMATE PARTNERSHIP BETRAYAL. >> DO YOU SEE IT THAT WAY? STRONG WORDS. YEAH, VERY STRONG WORD. BUT DO YOU SEE IT THAT WAY? >> NOT AT ALL. I DON’T BECAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS AT OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS WORKING TOGETHER. AND I FELT LIKE I HAD THE RIGHT TO DO THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE DIDN’T. >> AND I THINK AS FANS SIT BACK AND YOU GO, OH, THEY MADE THIS INCREDIBLE MUSIC. THEY MUST BE IN SYNC AND WE HAVE THIS BOND. >> BUT YOU TWO HADN’T WORKED TOGETHER CREATIVELY IN OVER 20 YEARS, RIGHT? >> THAT’S RIGHT. THE ONLY THING WE DID TOGETHER WAS PLAY CONCERTS WHERE WE JUST WENT OUT THERE AND TROTTED OUT THE HITS FROM BEFORE THIS LAWSUIT CAME ABOUT. >> WERE THERE ANY DISAGREEMENTS? NO, NOT REALLY. WE NEVER HAD A LOT OF DISAGREEMENTS. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE NEVER REALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER VERY MUCH AFTER, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. WE’D SHOW UP AT A SHOW INDIVIDUALLY, WALK ON STAGE, PLAY, AND THEN WE’D GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS. IT REALLY WASN’T AS AS TIGHT AS PEOPLE MIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE’D LIKE IMAGINE IN THERE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF FANTASY IMAGINATION, YOU KNOW, OUR RELATIONSHIP. SO VERY, VERY DEAR, HALL SAID. ALL I CAN SAY IS PEOPLE CHANGE. >> AND SOMETIMES YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW SOMEONE LIKE YOU THOUGHT DID. >> HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT? WELL, I GUESS YOU SHOULD LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER. >> HAS HE CHANGED, IN YOUR OPINION? I BELIEVE HE HAS. >> YES, I BELIEVE HE’S CHANGED A LOT. IF DARYL HALL WATCHING RIGHT NOW, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO HIM? SAY I LOVE HIM LIKE A BROTHER WON’T LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER IF I’M TALKING TO HIM DIRECTLY. AND BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? BROTHERS HAVE DISAGREEMENTS. FAMILIES GROW APART. I WOULD SAY I WISH HIM THE BEST. I HOPE THAT HE HAS EVERYTHING HE WANTS IN LIFE AND THAT HE CAN PURSUE HIS DREAM OF BEING A RESPECTED SOLO ARTIST, WHICH I BELIEVE IS SOMETHING THAT HE’S WANTED. >> SOLO SUCCESS IS SOMETHING I HAVE ALSO WANTED. THIS WEEK, RELEASING HIS EIGHTH SOLO ALBUM TITLED REUNION, I’M GETTING READY FOR MY MAKING MY DREAMS. YEAH. YOU RECORDED THIS IN NASHVILLE. >> YEAH, I KNOW. BEING THERE AND LIVING IN NASHVILLE THAT INFLUENCED YOUR SOUND SO MUCH? >> MY MOVE TO NASHVILLE HAS REALLY CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME BECAUSE BEFORE I MET DARYL HALL, I WAS A KIND OF A ROOTS ACOUSTIC GUITAR BLUES, FOLK MUSICIAN. WHEN WE MET. WE KIND OF COMBINED OUR INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCES AND CREATED SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW. BUT THAT GUY, THAT MUSICIAN WAS ALWAYS THERE IN THE BACKGROUND KIND OF IDLING, YOU KNOW, AND WHEN I MOVED TO NASHVILLE, TAP BACK INTO IT, AND IT REALLY GAVE ME A NEW LEASE ON MY MUSIC LIFE. >> THIS FIELD, HIS. >> WHAT CAN FANS EXPECT FROM THE NEW MUSIC? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO REALLY COMMIT TO A PROJECT AND TO TO A FUTURE OF CREATIVITY IN MUSIC. >> THE TITLE TRACK WAS INSPIRED BY MY 100 YEAR OLD FATHER WHO TOLD HE WAS GOING TO REUNITE WITH MOM, WHO’S PASSED AWAY YEARS BEFORE. AND WHEN HE SAID THAT TO ME, I THOUGHT OF THE WORD REUNION. WHAT IT REALLY MEANS I’M MAKING READY FOR MY REUNION AND I SAID REUNITING. AND I REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS I WAS REUNITING WITH MY MUSICAL SELF AND MY PERSONAL MYSELF AS A MAN AND AS A MUSICIAN. >> THAT’S ABOUT A PERSONAL GIG. >> IT’S THE MOST PERSONAL THING I’VE EVER DONE. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO? I WANT MY LEGACY TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS. I’M LOOKING TO EXPRESS MYSELF HONESTLY, TO BE A GOOD FATHER. I WANT TO BE A GOOD HUSBAND. I WANT TO BE A GOOD FRIEND. AND I WANT TO. I WANT TO ENJOY MY LIFE. WELL, I THINK YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED ALL OF THAT NOW, GETTING THERE. >> MICHAEL STRAHAN, THANK YOU. AND ABC HAS REACHED OUT TO DARYL HALL FOR COMMENT, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. >> COMING UP, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER RELEASED AFTER DOING SOME TIME BEHIND BARS THIS MORNING, WHY TOP PGA GOLFER SCHEFFLER IS NOW FACING ASSAULT CHARGES. ALSO AHEAD, THE TAYLOR SWIFT EFFECT. HOW THE ARREST TOUR IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE U.K. ECONOMY THIS SUMMER. HOST THIS EVENING, MY NAME IS TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO THE ARREST TOUR. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? OPERATION BEGAN AFTER ISIS PLUNDERED COMBAT OPERATIONS ON. WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO HAVE A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF THERE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE? THE USA. >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. IT’S VERY INTERESTING. IT’S MALE DAVID. >> THEY’VE. YES. YES. I’M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES PLAYED VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, AND THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING THEY PURCHASED THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A CRIMINAL ACT. SINS OF THE PARENTS. >> THE CRUMBLEY TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST IGNORED. >> ONLY ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS 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 RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARE 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. >> TONIGHT KNOCK KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO TO TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCKING OUT BURGLARIES WAS FABIO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCK. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS FOR US. THE FIRST PERSON IMPLANTED WITH ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK BRAIN CHIP IS SPEAKING OUT ABOUT HOW IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE. THE DEVICE WHICH TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS ALLOWS THE USER TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR PHONE WITH THEIR MIND. ABC’S WILL REEVE IS IN ATLANTA WITH MORE ON HOW THAT FIRST PATIENT SAYS IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE IN PROFOUND WAYS. >> I DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WAKE UP FOR IN THE MORNING AND THIS HAS CHANGED THAT FOR ME IN A "GMA" BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE, NOLAN BOUGHT THE FIRST HUMAN IMPLANTED WITH A NEURALINK CHIP IN HIS BRAIN IS TELLING HIS STORY. >> I ACCEPTED THAT I WAS PARALYZED AND THAT THAT WAS MY LIFE. >> I ALWAYS HELD OUT HOPE THAT IT WOULD ALL GET BETTER. AT 22 YEARS OLD, NOLAN SAYS HE DOVE HEADFIRST IN WAIST DEEP WATER, STRUCK SOMETHING AND SUSTAINED A SPINAL CORD INJURY, COULDN’T MOVE FROM THE SHOULDERS DOWN. >> FROM THE TIME OF YOUR INJURY EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHAT WAS YOUR DAILY LIFE LIKE? I MEAN, ONE THING ABOUT BEING PARALYZED THAT THERE’S A LOT OF TIME TO SIT AND THINK. SO THOUGHT THROUGH BASICALLY MY WHOLE LIFE AND REALIZED ALL THE MISTAKES I’D MADE AND WHAT I COULD DO BETTER. >> THEN JUST LAST YEAR, NOLAN NOW 30 RECEIVING A LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY. ONE DAY ONE OF MY BUDDIES FROM COLLEGE CALLED ME UP. WE TALK PRETTY REGULARLY AND HE WAS LIKE, HEY NEURALINK. OPENED UP THE HUMAN TRIALS AND I SAID, WHAT’S NEURALINK? >> NEURALINK, CO-FOUNDED BY ELON MUSK, IS AN EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE OR BCI, A CHIP IMPLANTED BY A ROBOT AND CONNECTED BY THREAD TO A PATIENT’S THAT ALLOWS THE PATIENT TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR SMARTPHONE WITH THEIR MIND. >> AND THIS IS ALL FROM THERE TO THERE. AND THEN. >> WOW. NEURALINK IS NOT THE ONLY COMPANY WORKING ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. SEVERAL OTHERS ARE ALSO TESTING THEIR BCI IN PARALYZED VOLUNTEERS. NOLAND NOW JOINS THAT SMALL GROUP. >> NEURALINK’S FIRST PATIENT. I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU PLAYED SOME MUSIC. YEAH, MAN. DO YOU WORRY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST PATIENT THAT SOMETHING UNFORESEEN COULD GO WRONG, THAT THIS IS INSIDE YOUR HEAD? >> MM. I WOULDN’T SAY WORRY. IT WAS SOMETHING WHERE I KNEW. THAT IF I DID THIS, THEN IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF HEADACHE AND HEARTACHE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD. >> JUST LAST NEWS THAT SOME OF THE THREADS IN NOLAN’S BRAIN HAD RETRACTED, AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVICE. >> HOW DID YOU TAKE THE NEWS WHEN THEY TOLD YOU THAT THE THREADS HAD RETRACTED? YEAH, IT WAS REALLY HARD. IT WAS VERY, VERY HARD TO GIVE UP ALL OF THE AMAZING THINGS THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO. >> I THINK I HAD, LIKE, CRIED BASICALLY AFTERWARDS. THE PROBLEM BECOMING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MAKERS OF NEURALINK TO EXPLORE SOLUTIONS. >> THE REASON WE DO CLINICAL TRIAL AND EARLY FEASIBILITY TRIAL IS TO COVER THESE SORT OF ISSUES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY GET MARKETED. WE ROLLED UP OUR SLEEVES AND FOUND VERY DIFFERENT WAYS TO BE ABLE TO RECOVER FROM IT, WHICH WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BEEN ABLE TO DO. >> AS FOR NOLAN, THE FUTURE OF THE TECHNOLOGY ONLY LOOKS BRIGHT. >> IT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING WHEN SOMEONE CAN HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY, GO TO A HOSPITAL, GET SURGERY AND WALK OUT A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER. I THINK IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN? I DON’T THINK IT’S AS FAR AWAY AS PEOPLE MIGHT THINK. >> NOLAN’S MOM IS HIS PRIMARY CAREGIVER. SHE FEEDS HIM AND CLEANS HIM AND GETS HIM OUT OF BED AND. IT’S STILL QUITE HARD FOR THE FAMILY LIVING WITH THIS PARALYSIS. AND WHILE THE NEURALINK DEVICE WON’T CHANGE ANY OF THOSE REALITIES, NOLAN SAYS THAT THIS DEVICE AND ITS HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE AND HIS FAMILY’S LIFE FOR THE BETTER. AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT FOR NEURALINK CO-FOUNDER D.J. TOLD ME THEY’RE LOOKING TO IMPLANT PARTICIPANTS NUMBER TWO AND THREE IN THE COMING MONTHS. >> DIANE VERY COOL. WILL REEVE IN ATLANTA, THANK YOU. AND NOW IT’S TIME, OUR WEEKLY SEGMENT. BUT TELL IT LIKE IT IS, WHERE ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL SHARES HEALTH ADVICE ON THE TOPICS THAT MATTER MOST TO YOU. TODAY HE’S ANSWERING SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS. DR. PATEL, ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. SO LET’S START WITH NINA FROM THE BAY AREA. NINA WANTS TO KNOW, DOES MY ONE YEAR OLD ACTUALLY NEED TO BE SCREENED FOR LEAD EXPOSURE? >> POPULAR QUESTION AND IT DEPENDS IF THERE IS ANY RISK, RISK FACTORS OR CHANCE YOUR CHILD WAS EXPOSED TO LEAD. THIS CAN BE IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME THAT WAS BUILT BEFORE 1978. IN CERTAIN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES THERE IS A HIGHER RISK AND REFUGEES IMMIGRANTS OR IF YOU WORK OR HAVE A HOBBY THAT HAS LED EXPOSURE TO IT, YOUR CHILD DOES NEED TO GET TESTS BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE LEAD POISONING IS FROM A BLOOD TEST AND HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD EXPOSURE OVER TIME CAN CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO TALK. WE SAW THIS PRESENTED IN A GRAND WAY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO IN FLINT, MICHIGAN AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, DIANE, IS PREVENTION. AND SO YOU CAN GET OLDER, HOME TESTED. YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF CHILDREN’S POSSIBLE EXPOSURE FROM PEELING PAINT, TOYS, JEWELRY, EXPOSED PIPES, EVEN DIRT AROUND, THE HOME. AND IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO GET YOUR WATER TESTED OR USE FILTERED WATER IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS. >> ALL RIGHT. THESE ARE GREAT TIPS. I WANT TO MOVE TO ABBY FROM MILWAUKEE NOW BECAUSE ABBY WANTS TO KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MOUTH TAPING AND SLEEP? I HAD TO ACTUALLY LOOK THIS UP BECAUSE AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, MOUTH TAPING. IS THAT SOME FORM OF LIKE SILENT TREATMENT? YOU GIVE YOURSELF? BUT WHAT MOUTH TAPING IS REFERRING TO WITH A TICK TOCK TREND IS IS PLACING PIECE OF TAPE AROUND YOUR MOUTH OR ON YOUR MOUTH OR USING A HEAD DEVICE TO AVOID BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU SLEEP. NOW, ANECDOTALLY, SO THIS IS NOT PROVEN BY RESEARCH, BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING IS THAT SLEEPING TO THEIR NOSE CAUSES THEM TO HAVE BETTER SLEEP. QUALITY REDUCES YOUR RISK OF HAVING BAD BREATH. AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE CLAIMED THAT IT’S GOOD FOR THE SHAPE OF YOUR FACE. >> I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANY RESEARCH TO PROVE THAT ONE PHYSIOLOGIC. TO ME, IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE BECAUSE YOUR NOSE FILTERS AIR AND MODIFIES IT. BUT AGAIN, THERE’S NOT ENOUGH RESEARCH TO MAKE A SWEEPING RECOMMENDATION THAT PEOPLE SHOULD MOUTH TAPE. SOME PEOPLE DO SAY THAT MOUTH TIPPING MAY REDUCE YOUR RISK OF SNORING. AS SOMEONE WHO MIGHT SNORE EVERY NOW AND THEN. AND MY WIFE IS NOT ON CAMERA BECAUSE SHE’D PROBABLY AGREE. YOU WANT TO REDUCE SNORING, TRY AVOIDING SLEEPING ON YOUR BACK, MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT, AVOID ALCOHOL AND YOU CAN TRY NASAL STRIPS OR MOUTHPIECE AND CONSULT WITH A DOCTOR. >> IF YOU’RE WORRYING ABOUT SNORING AFFECTING YOUR SLEEP QUALITY OR MAYBE YOUR MARRIAGE. >> GREAT TIPS, DR. PATEL, I WILL ADD, GET SCREENED FOR SLEEP APNEA, BECAUSE IF YOU TAPE YOUR MOUTH SHUT, THERE MAY BE A REASON YOU’RE BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH. AND IF IT’S BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING FOR YOUR NOSE, WE OBVIOUSLY DON’T WANT THAT YOU’RE BASICALLY SUFFOCATING YOURSELF IN YOUR SLEEP. PLEASE DON’T DO THAT. AMY DIANE, BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU BEEN SCREENED FOR SLEEP APNEA YET MR. SNORE. >> MR. SNORE IS SET UP FOR A SLEEP TEST. I DON’T CONSISTENTLY SNORE, THOUGH. I’M JUST GOING TO DEFEND MYSELF. RIGHT? THAT. BUT I DO HAVE A SLEEP STUDY, ALL RIGHT? I LIKE TO. I LIKE TO POKE DR. PATEL NOW AND THEN AND NAG NAG HIM A LITTLE BIT. >> AND THIS IS WHERE THIS IS AN ORGANIC CONVERSATION. DR. PATEL, IT’S ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR. PATEL, LEAVE HIM MESSAGE ON HER INSTAGRAM FEED. FEEL FREE TO NAG HIM LIKE I DO. IF YOU WANT. >> MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY. COMING UP AND FURIOUS. >> WE ARE AT CANNES CATCHING, UP WITH THE CAST OF THE ACTION PACKED MAD MAX SAGA. ALSO, KENDRICK LAMAR IS TOPPING THE CHARAR GIVE HIM A BOOST? MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN IN THE DROP. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT’S SO IMPORTANT. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, ALL DAY. TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING, 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. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU SCREEN JOINING US ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING THERE’S A LOT GOING ON WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE’VE BEEN RIGHT ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHT, STRAIGHTFORWARD, WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR. THE 17TH, HOLD A BUZZ, KILL A BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. FINISHES THE FLOATING TERROR AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. >> THAT WAS YOUR TAPE IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS, BASICALLY TO GOT THIS COMPOUND WHERE PROSECUTORS SAY RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM HERE, NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT WEALTHY MEN HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. >> YOU THINK HE YOU? THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BECOME SOMEONE ELSE AND SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. ANDREW TATE INTO THE MANOSPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WHAT DO YOU SEE? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE. ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW. I GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES START HERE NOW 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 KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. ARE YOU READY FOR IT? I’LL BE YOUR HOST THIS EVENING . NAME IS TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO THE ERA’S TALK. WELCOME BACK. TAYLOR SWIFT’S ARREST TOUR IS HEADED FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. THIS SUMMER. SHE WILL PERFORM 15 SHOWS IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND . NOW BRITISH BANK BARCLAYS IS PROJECTING SWIFT WILL ADD MORE THAN $1,000,000,000 TO THE ECONOMY THERE. >> BUT EVEN WITH FLIGHTS AND GET THIS, THE OVERALL COST OF ATTENDING ONE OF SWIFT’S SHOWS IN EUROPE IS OFTEN LOWER THAN JUST THE TICKET PRICE ALONE IN. THE U.S. SWIFT’S NEXT SHOW IS IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN TONIGHT AND EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING FOR THE UPCOMING WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF THE NEW MOVIE FURIOSA A MAD MAX SAGA. AUDIENCES. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL GAVE THE PREMIERE A MORE THAN SIX MINUTE STANDING OVATION. OUR MAGGIE RULLI SPOKE WITH STARS HEMSWORTH, ANYA TAYLOR-JOY AND TOM BURKE. JUST AHEAD OF THAT, TAKE A LOOK . IT’S THE ACTION PACKED DRAMA DYSTOPIAN EPIC FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING NEARLY A FOR FURIOSA, THE PREQUEL TO BLOCKBUSTER AND OSCAR HIT FURY ROAD AND THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT, GEORGE MILLER’S MAD MAX SAGA, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE, AS DEMENTED DO WE HAVE HERE YOUR CHARACTER? WELL, LET’S JUST SAY IT’S REALLY GOOD TO SEE YOU LOOKING LIKE YOURSELF AGAIN . GET A SHOWER. YEAH, IT’S GOOD. YEAH. YEAH. GEORGE HAD THIS KIND OF IMAGE OF SORT OF ROMAN EMPERORS, SO ON AND THE BRIDGE NOSE AND THE PROFILE BEING QUITE SORT OF PROBLEMS. THE HAIR AND THE BEARD AND THE AGING MAKEUP. IT’S SO TO SORT OF LOSE YOURSELF WITHIN THE LOOK OF THE CHARACTER, RECOGNIZE THE PERSON STARING BACK AT YOU. IT’S CERTAINLY THE IMMERSION INTO THAT SPACE IS A FAR EASIER TRANSITION THAN IF IT’S, YOU KNOW, IF IT’S ME LOOKING BACK AND TAYLOR-JOY AS FURIOSA THIS FILM PUSHES ALL THE LIMITS. >> HOW DID YOU PREPARE? I STILL DON’T HAVE MY DRIVER’S LICENSE. AND SO THE FIRST THING THAT THEY DID WAS PUT ME IN A CAR, PUT ME ON THE MOST BIKE, AND THEN JUST A LOT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING JUST TO BE ABLE TO DO THE STUNTS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. >> IT’S LIKE SAYING YOU DON’T HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE THAT YEAH, IT’S WHAT I HAVE MY GUY. >> SO YOU CAN JUST BRING THE MOVIE TO THE DMV. >> HE’S GOING TO SEND THE TOM BURKE AS WARRIOR VICTORIA AND JACK THE FAN, AND YOU RUN IT IN KIND OF THREE SIX SO AROUND YOU, WHICH IT FEELS LIKE IT IS WHEN YOU’RE DOING A LOT OF THE SHOTS, YOU WANT TO JUST STOP THE TAKE AND GO, HANG ON. >> WHAT’S GUY WOULD YOU SHOW ME YOUR BOOTS? >> WOULD YOU GUYS COME BACK FOR A SEQUEL? YES YES. >> WELL, I REFUSE TO ANSWER THAT ON THE GROUNDS THAT I GIVE AWAY SOME CONTENT TO HIS FOLLOWERS. >> VERY NICE THINGS. BUT WILL. WELL AND DIANE, IT TOOK A LOT TO CREATE THE WORLD OF MAD MAX. THERE WERE AT LEAST 200 STUNT ACTORS MORE THAN A THOUSAND CREW MEMBERS. AND SOME OF THOSE ACTION SCENES TOOK NEARLY 80 DAYS TO FILM DIANE. THIS MOVIE WAS ALSO A FAMILY AFFAIR. CHRIS’S WIFE ACTUALLY ACTED SOME SCENES WITH HIM AND THEY OFTEN BROUGHT THEIR THREE KIDS TO SET. CHRIS SAID HAVING THEM THERE WAS A GREAT REMINDER TO TAKE THE WORK SERIOUSLY, BUT NEVER HIMSELF. >> DIANE LOVED THAT MAGGIE RULLI YOU. >> AND IT’S TIME NOW FOR THE DROP, WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE BIG MUSIC HEADLINES OF THE WEEK. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DJ AND RADIO PERSONALITY MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT DOWN FOR US. >> MEGAN, I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT TO KNOW. THIS WEEK, SO I’M GOING TO HAND IT OVER, EDUCATE US. WE DO. WE DO. OF COURSE. LET’S KICK THIS OFF WITH A SHARE. ALL RIGHT. SO EVERY WE HAVE THE NEWS ABOUT WHO THE NOMINEES ARE FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND EVERY YEAR PEOPLE DISSECT THE LIST, ME INCLUDED, PICKING APART EXPRESSING EXCITEMENT FOR THE NOMINEES. AND THEN ALSO WE TALK ABOUT WHO WE THINK WAS LEFT OFF NOW SOMEONE WHO I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE WAS LONG OVERDUE FOR A NOMINATION WAS CHER. AND SHE CLEARLY FELT A LOOK, TOO, BECAUSE BACK IN DECEMBER, SHE TOLD KELLY CLARKSON SHE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF IT, EVEN IF THEY GAVE HER $1 MILLION. SHE’S LIKE, I’M NOT GOING TO DO IT. WELL, I AM HAPPY THEN LATER, SHE HAS CHANGED HER MIND. AND IN A RECENT INTERVIEW SHE SAID SHE WAS GRATEFUL ABOUT HER PENDING INDUCTION. BUT SHE WARNED, I’M GOING TO HAVE SOME WORDS TO SAY. I’M GOING TO ACCEPT IT AS ME. THAT’S ALL WE WANT. CHER. WE LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. NOW WE’RE ENTER THE HALL OF FAME ALONGSIDE A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, MARY J. >> BLIGE OZZY OSBORNE, FOREIGNER PULLING THE THING, AND PETER FRAMPTON ON OCTOBER 19 IN CLEVELAND. >> AND NOW, SPEAKING OF NOMINEES. IT’S AWARDS SEASON, THE 2024 BET AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE IN, AND DRAKE IS LEADING THE PACK WITH SEVEN NOMINATIONS NOW ALSO FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY NICKI MINAJ WITH SIX. SHE HAD A GREAT YEAR. WELL, THEN WE HAD JAKE PAUL RED SCISSOR AND MONET TIED WITH FIVE NOMINATIONS EACH. AND THEN 21 SAVAGE, BEYONCE, DOJA CAT, MEGAN THEE STALLION TYLER AND USHER EACH WITH FOUR. NOW, BETTY ALSO RELEASED THE FIRST ROUND OF ARTISTS CONFIRMED TO PERFORM ON THE SHOW AND IT’S LOOKING LIKE A GOOD SHOW ALREADY GLORIA LA LOTTA MONEY LONG REG AND VICTORIA MONET NOW CULTURE BIGGEST NIGHT THE 2024 BET AWARDS WILL LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES ON SUNDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 8 P.M. NOW, WHILE DRAKE IS SITTING ON TOP OF THE BPP AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST, KENDRICK IS SITTING ON TOP OF THE CHARTS RIGHT? >> 2024 HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR KENDRICK AS HE LANDS ON OF THE BILLBOARD CHARTS FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW AFTER LIKE THAT, WHICH WAS OF COURSE, A HIT NUMBER ONE. AND THE SONG MOST RECENTLY SPARKED THE DRAKE VERSUS KENDRICK BEAT. KENDRICK HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH NOT LIKE US. AND SO I DON’T KNOW WHY HAVEN’T FOR SOMETHING. AND FOR SOME REASON I FEEL LIKE THE BEAT WASN’T COMPLETELY OVER WITH. I GUESS WE’LL SEE. NOW IN VIRAL NEWS, BILLIE EILISH’S NEW ALBUM, ME HARD AND SOFT IS OUT NOW. CHECK OUT A CLIP OF LUNCH. SOME FANS ARE CALLING IT THE SONG OF THE SUMMER. I COULD BUY A SONG STUFF SO CRAZY, MAN, CRUSH BLASTED. I’VE GOT A MAN I LOVE. CLAIRE LOVE ME SOME BILLIE EILISH. I’VE SEEN ALL THE PROMO LEADING UP TO THE ALBUM SO HAPPY THAT HER ALBUM IS FINALLY OUT MEGAN RYTE LOVE ALL OF IT. THANK FRIEND. YES, OF COURSE. UNTIL NEXT TIME. UNTIL NEXT TIME. AND THANK YOU AT HOME FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE 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 COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY . IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR STATEMENT. >> I SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA AND AN OPERATION LIKE THIS? FIND A COMBAT OPERATIONS CENTER. WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATE ON NUCLEAR REACTORS. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE? >> DO YOU LOOK AT YOUR SMILE? YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. IT’S GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU PREPARING? APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT’S SLAYER, DAVID DAVIS. HEY. YES. YES, I’M YORK. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO? EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> IT’S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? >> WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY BREAKING NEWS, MUSIC AND OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTER NEWS FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. ME I’M BRITT CLENNETT ONBOARD A DESTROYER, THE USS GRAVELY ON THE RED SEA. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’LL HAVE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. HI, I’M JAIME SAITO. TODAY, ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST, DEADLY STORMS SWEEP THE WESTERN GULF COAST. FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND NEARLY A MILLION WITHOUT POWER. AS CREWS ASSESS DAMAGE WHERE THE FLASH FLOODING IS CAUSING THE MOST PROBLEMS. AND NEW THREAT THIS MORNING, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER ARRESTED HOURS BEFORE THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP BY SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS NOW FACING A CIVIL CHARGES. AND WHAT HE’S SAYING ABOUT THE INCIDENT NOW. AND THE QUEEN OF REALITY TV HERE, LISA VANDERPUMP, IS SPILLING THE TEA WITH OUR WILL GANSS. WHAT WE ABOUT A POSSIBLE SEASON TWO OF VANDERPUMP VILLA . >> WE BEGIN WITH THE DEADLY STORM RIPPING THROUGH THE SOUTH, LEAVING FROM TEXAS TO MISSISSIPPI. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD NEAR HOUSTON, WHERE HIGH WINDS TORE APART BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY. MORE THAN 800,000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER THIS MORNING JUST IN TEXAS. ABC’S MIREYA VILLARREAL JOINS ME NOW FROM DOWNTOWN. AND WE’VE SEEN SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS, WINDOWS BLOWN OUT EVERYWHERE. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, IT IS A GOOD AMOUNT OF DESTRUCTION HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND ALSO NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING DOWNTOWN. IF YOU TAKE A LOOK RIGHT BEHIND ME, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE HOW MUCH DAMAGE THE WINDS DID JUST TO THIS ONE PARTICULAR RESTAURANT. WE ARE SEEING THIS ALL AROUND THE DOWNTOWN AREA. I MEAN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. THE MAYOR SAID YESTERDAY THAT THIS WAS COMPARISON TO WHAT HE’D SEEN DURING HURRICANE IKE. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS SO POWERFUL, IT WAS ABLE TO SHEAR OFF THE SIDE OF THAT BUILDING, BRING ALL OF THAT BRICK THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND THE MORNING. WE HAVE SEEN A BIT OF CLEANUP IN THIS AREA, BUT STILL A LONG WAY TO GO FOR THE PEOPLE THAT IN THIS AREA WORK IN THIS AREA AS WELL DIANE. SO, MARIA, ARE PEOPLE THERE SAYING ABOUT THIS STORM, THEIR EXPERIENCE, IT AS IT WENT THROUGH? AND WHAT’S THE BIGGEST WORRY AT THIS POINT? YOU KNOW, DIANE, WE JUST TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE THAT WORK NEARBY, THEY ACTUALLY WERE HOLDING A PROGRAM FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS. THEY SAID THAT AS THE STORM BLEW THROUGH, THAT PROGRAM WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND THEY COULD NOT HEAR THE ACTUAL WALL COME DOWN BEHIND ME BECAUSE. THERE WAS SO MUCH WIND AND SO MUCH RAIN COMING THROUGH THAT THAT IS WHAT OVERPOWERED EVEN A WALL COMING DOWN BEHIND ME. MANY PEOPLE STEPPED OUT OF THEIR HOMES, THEIR BUSINESSES, AFTER THE STORM FINALLY BLEW THROUGH AND WERE AMAZED TO SEE HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT HAD DONE. I MEAN, THERE ARE DOWNED TREES ALL THIS AREA CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS THAT HAVE COME DOWN. WE EVEN SAW AND HEARD OF A CRANE CRASHING NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE THAT. WE’RE GOING TO GO CHECK OUT IN JUST A BIT AS WELL. I MEAN, AT THIS POINT OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, ELECTRICITY IN THIS AREA WAS CUT OFF TO OVER 800,000 PEOPLE, AS YOU MENTIONED. SO BEING ABLE TO GET POWER BACK UP AND RUNNING IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO GETTING THIS CLEANUP PROCESS DONE. NOW, WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF CREWS COME OUT AND START OF THE CLEANUP PROCESS. BUT AGAIN, A LONG WAY TO GO, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IF YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE DOWNTOWN AREA, A LOT OF LIGHTS ARE NOT WORKING HERE. SO THAT’S GOING TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. AND THE DEBRIS IS ON THE STREET AGAIN, SLOWING THIS PROCESS DOWN. I MEAN, THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS TAKING 2 TO 3 DAYS BEFORE WE ACTUALLY SEE THINGS BACK UP AND RUNNING IN HOUSTON. AND MARIA, IS THERE A TIMELINE? DO THEY THINK GETTING THE POWER UP? I MEAN, THERE’S ALWAYS THIS HOPE, RIGHT, THAT YOU’RE GOING TO GET IT UP IN A FEW HOURS. BUT I THINK HOUSTONIANS KNOW, ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH A NUMBER OF HURRICANES THAT HAVE COME THROUGH HERE, THAT IT COULD TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. BUT THE MAYOR AGAIN, WAS SAYING, LISTEN, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS FOR US TO FIRST CLEAN THE STREETS, THE DEBRIS, SO THAT WE CAN GET CREWS OUT TO THE LOCATIONS WHERE WE THESE DOWNED POWER LINES. IF WE CAN DO THAT AND THE POWER WILL COME BACK SOONER. SO FINGERS CROSSED THAT HAPPENS BY LATER TODAY. ALL RIGHT. FINGERS CROSSED FOR YOU. >> MIREYA VILLARREAL IN HOUSTON. THANK YOU. AND THE FIRST TRUCKS OF HUMANITARIAN AID ARE NOW MOVING INTO GAZA THROUGH A TEMPORARY PIER BUILT BY THE U.S. MILITARY. THE INITIAL DELIVERIES OF AID INCLUDE FOOD BARS, THERAPEUTIC FOOD AND HYGIENE KITS. ABC’S MATT GUTMAN IS LIVE IN TEL AVIV WITH THE LATEST. MATT, ISRAELI AND U.N. SOURCES SAY TODAY IS JUST A BETA TEST. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN EXACTLY? HOW MUCH AID IS COMING IN AND WHAT DO YOU THINK WE CAN EXPECT IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS? WELL, DANIEL, OFFICIALS TOLD ME THAT TODAY MAYBE TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT MESSY BECAUSE THEY’RE STILL WORKING OUT THE KINKS. THIS IS INCREDIBLY COMPLEX. THE U.S. MILITARY IS INVOLVED. THE IS INVOLVED ISRAELIS ARE INVOLVED. >> SUBCONTRACTORS FROM A THIRD COUNTRY ARE INVOLVED. PALESTINIAN TRUCK DRIVERS ARE INVOLVED. SO THERE ARE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO COORDINATE. AND THEN THERE’S THE AID TO GET IN THERE, PASSING THROUGH NUMEROUS DIFFERENT, I GUESS, PATHWAYS BEFORE ACTUALLY ARRIVING AT THE PEOPLE WHO SO DESPERATELY NEED IT IN NORTHERN GAZA. SO THERE’S A LOT TO WORK OUT HERE. A LOT OF DECON FRICTION TO WORK ON, AND IT’S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME. THE GOOD NEWS FOR THE PENTAGON IS THAT THEY MEANT TO GET THIS DONE ON TIME DESPITE A LOT OF HICCUPS, INCLUDING THE WEATHER, WHICH IS WHAT’S PROBLEMATIC AT SOME POINT. SO THEY GOT IT DONE. THE QUESTION IS, CAN THEY KEEP THAT FLOWING? AND THAT REMAINS OPEN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THEY’RE GOING TO KNOW WHETHER THEY CAN GET MORE IN. THEY HOPE TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW ABOUT 100 TO 150 TRUCKS A DAY THROUGH THAT PIER. >> BUT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR ALL OF GAZA FOOD. AND AID FROM THE LAND BORDERS ALSO HAS TO COME IN VIA ISRAEL OR EGYPT. >> NOW, MATT, YOU’VE WITNESSED SOME PEOPLE TRYING TO STOP THOSE AID TRUCKS FROM GOING INTO GAZA. >> SO WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THAT FRONT? IT’S BEEN PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY THAT ISRAELI PROTESTERS HAVE TRIED TO BLOCK THESE AID TRUCKS. SOMETIMES THEY’VE RANSACKED THEM, LOOTED THEM ANYTHING TO TRY TO SLOW THE AID GOING INTO GAZA. THESE PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THE AID IS GOING DIRECTLY TO HAMAS. OBVIOUSLY, SOME OF IT MIGHT. NO WAY TO CONFIRM MUCH OF THAT. SO THAT HAS BEEN THE AID THAT IS COMING FROM EGYPT AND FROM THE WEST BANK INTO GAZA. WE SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT EGYPT, IN PROTEST OF ISRAEL TAKING OVER RAFAH, HAS STOPPED THE AID FLOWING FROM EGYPT INTO GAZA, COMPLETELY USING IT AS POLITICAL LEVERAGE. AGAINST ISRAEL TO TRY TO GET ISRAEL TO BACK UP AND AWAY FROM THAT BORDER CROSSING. SO RIGHT NOW, IT’S HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF TRUCKS BACKED IN EGYPT BECAUSE EGYPT IS NOT ALLOWING AID INTO GAZA. IT’S WORTH MENTIONING THIS IS NOT JUST ISRAEL’S FAULT AT THIS POINT. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN IN TEL AVIV, THANK YOU. DONALD TRUMP’S, FORMER FIXER AND ATTORNEY MICHAEL COHEN IS SET TO RETURN TO THE STAND ON AFTER HEATED TESTIMONY IN THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. YESTERDAY, THE DEFENSE TRIED TO PAINT MICHAEL COHEN AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO’S OBSESSED WITH HIS FORMER BOSS, QUESTIONING A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST. >> HI, AARON. >> DIANE, THERE IS NO COURT HERE TODAY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT. HE’S ATTENDING HIS YOUNGEST SON’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. AND UNLESS HE OPTS TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. HIS TRIAL COULD BE OVER AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK. TESTIMONY BY TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER, MICHAEL WILL END MONDAY. HE LIED FOR TRUMP FOR YEARS. HE LIED TO CONGRESS HE SAID HE LIED TO A FEDERAL JUDGE. AND THE DEFENSE TOLD JURORS COHEN LIED TO WHEN HE TESTIFIED HE SPOKE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP BY PHONE ONE NIGHT IN OCTOBER 2016 ABOUT THE HUSH PAYMENT. STORMY DANIELS THAT WAS A LIE. DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCHE YELLED A CERTAIN COHEN WAS REALLY SPEAKING IN THAT PHONE TO TRUMP’S BODYGUARD. COHEN HELD FIRM, THOUGH HE NEVER LOST HIS COMPOSURE. THE JURY MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO BELIEVE HIM, SINCE HE IS THE ONLY WITNESS TO DIRECTLY TIE TRUMP TO THE BUSINESS RECORDS THAT PROSECUTORS SAID TRUMP FALSIFIED SO VOTERS WOULDN’T FIND OUT ABOUT STORMY DANIELS THE 2016 ELECTION. AFTER COHEN, PROSECUTORS HAVE NO OTHER WITNESSES LEFT TO CALL. THE DEFENSE IS DECIDING WHETHER TO PUT ON A CASE, INCLUDING TESTIMONY FROM TRUMP HIMSELF. BUT THE JUDGE SIGNALED THAT CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE LIKELY TO BEGIN AS SOON AS TUESDAY NEXT WEEK. >> DIANE SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, THANK YOU. THE JUDGE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL IS GIVING HIM THE DAY OFF TO ATTEND HIS SON BARRON’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION IN FLORIDA. >> BUT TRUMP’S ALSO USING THE DAY TO CAMPAIGN IN MINNESOTA. ABC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. RICK, WHAT MESSAGE IS TRUMP TRYING TO GET ACROSS IN THIS TRADITIONALLY DEMOCRATIC STATE? >> WELL, TWO THINGS. ONE IS MONEY GOES AND RAISES MONEY. YOU CAN DO THAT IN LOTS OF BLUE STATES AS WELL. THERE’S ALSO AN EMERGING TRUMP VIEW THAT CAN BRING SOME OF THESE MARGINAL THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER THAN OTHERS ONTO AN INTERVIEW HE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN NEW JERSEY OVER THE WEEKEND. I DON’T THINK NEW JERSEY IS GOING TO FLIP, BUT MINNESOTA IS SOMETHING THAT’S WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. IT’S ALSO STRATEGICALLY CLOSE TO STATES LIKE WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN IN THE UPPER MIDWEST THAT ARE MORE IMPORTANT AND MORE REALISTIC TO WIN. >> NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN, MEANWHILE, IS GIVING THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, HBCU. SOME STAFF AND STUDENTS THERE HAVE EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION WITH HIS POLICY ON THE ISRAEL-HAMAS. IT ALSO FALLS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF ED, A SUPREME COURT RULING DESEGREGATING SCHOOLS. SO WHAT IS HE TRYING GET ACROSS WITH THAT SPEECH? >> ALSO, IT’S A COLLEGE CAMPUS AFTER THIS CRAZY OF PROTESTS WE’VE SEEN. MOREHOUSE HASN’T HAD MUCH OF IT, BUT OTHER SCHOOLS IN ATLANTA HAVE AND IT’S ALMOST INEVITABLE IT WILL BE SOME KIND OF A PROTEST, MAYBE EVEN A ORGANIZED BY STUDENTS. THE FACULTY THERE DECIDED TO AWARD HIM AN HONORARY DEGREE. THERE WAS SOME TALK ABOUT NOT DOING THAT AS SOME KIND OF A FORM PROTEST. BUT HE IS GOING INTO TO SHOW THE OUTREACH TO BLACK VOTERS THE IMPORTANCE GEORGIA AND I THINK TO SHOW THAT HE CAN GO TO A CROWD, EVEN A CROWD THAT MIGHT NOT BE ENTIRELY WELCOMING TO HIS MESSAGE IN THE MIDST OF THIS THIS KIND OF SPRING OF UNREST. >> NOW, BIDEN AND TRUMP HAVE NOW AGREED TO TO THIS SUMMER. THAT’S MUCH EARLIER THAN USUAL. WHAT’S THE STRATEGY THERE? IT’S BEYOND EARLY. I MEAN, THE DEBATE IN ABOUT A MONTH ON CNN IS GOING TO BE THREE MONTHS EARLIER THAN ANY DEBATE IN THE HISTORY OF GENERAL ELECTIONS AND OUR DEBATE OF ABC SEPTEMBER 10TH. THAT’S EARLIER THAN THAT THAN WHAT THE FIRST DEBATE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. THAT’S NOT GOING TO BE THE LAST DEBATE. SO THINK THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN MADE CLEAR THEY WANTED THESE TWO DEBATES. THEY WANTED THEM TO BE EARLIER. PEOPLE ARE VOTING EARLIER THAN EVER. THAT’S AN IMPORTANT THING. ALMOST HALF THE COUNTRY IS NOW VOTING BEFORE ELECTION DAY. SO NOW YOU’LL BE AHEAD OF ALL OF THAT. BUT EVEN BY THOSE STANDARDS, IT’S WILDER. THINK THAT WE’LL HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION DEBATE WEEKS BEFORE THE CONVENTIONS. BEFORE DONALD TRUMP WAS LIKELY TO PICK A RUNNING MATE AND LONG, LONG BEFORE MOST PEOPLE REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS CAMPAIGN. >> I MEAN, WAS THERE A SENSE THAT BY THE TIME THE DEBATES HAPPENED, PEOPLE’S MINDS WERE ALREADY MADE UP, COULD THIS HELP WITH THAT OR WHAT ELSE IS BEHIND IT? >> YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE VOTING EARLY, THE SENSE OF LET’S LET’S REALISTICALLY REFLECT WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING. I THINK STRATEGICALLY IF YOU THINK THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM IN A DEBATE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO IT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. SO YOU KIND OF RACE THE MEMORY OF IT A DEBATE THAT HAPPENS TEN DAYS OR TWO WEEKS BEFORE AN ELECTION. IT’S KIND OF HARD TO COME BACK FROM. IT’S POSSIBLE THAT THESE DEBATES GO REALLY WELL, THAT THEY WANT TO DO SOME MORE AND MAYBE THE BIDEN TEAM WANTS TO DO MORE. TRUMP SAYS HE’S GAME FOR MORE. BUT AS OF NOW, IT’S PRETTY WILD. >> WE STARTED THE WEEK THINKING THERE PROBABLY WOULDN’T BE DEBATES AND NOW THERE’S TWO ROUNDS. TWO AND TWO EARLY ONCE. ALL RIGHT. POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN. THANKS, RICK. THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, GOLF STAR SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS FACING CHARGES WHY THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER WAS ARRESTED JUST HOURS THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHAT HE’S SAYING ABOUT IT NOW. ALSO AHEAD, THE QUEEN OF REALITY TV, LISA VANDERPUMP, IS SERVING UP LOOKS AND DISHING ON THE UPCOMING VANDERPUMP VILLA FINALE. BUT SHE’S TELLING OUR WILL GANSS ABOUT A POTENTIAL SEASON TWO WHENEVER NEWS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. AFTER BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT THERE, EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY ROLLING FORTH. 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 STORM IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT. THE FBI, BEFORE HE PUT THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU OR EVER. 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, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE’VE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST STRAIGHTFORWARD BUT SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE PULLED A BUZZKILL. AND BASED ON THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT 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 FOR EDWARD ARE MURROW 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 A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> HERE’S TWO GOOD MORNINGS IN AMERICA. CAN YOU FEEL THE MORNINGS INSPIRE FILLED WITH HOPE, KINDNESS, JOY, SURPRISES, AND SOME. >> IT’S FUN. IT’S A GREAT PLACE TO START YOUR DAY. GOOD MORNING. AMERICA’S RAY OF SUNSHINE HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST OF AMERICA AND HELPING MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE. HI. I’M JUST SO HAPPY IT IS GOOD. YOU READY TO SMILE AND PUT THE GOOD INTO YOUR MORNING AMERICA? >> BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE THE MORNING BETTER? A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE TIME FOR THE. >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST TOP GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, THE NUMBER ONE RANKED GOLFER IN THE WORLD, IS NOW SPEAKING OUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY DRIVING PAST A ROADBLOCK JUST HOURS BEFORE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. REPORTS SAY THAT ROADBLOCK WAS SET UP AFTER A PEDESTRIAN HIT AND KILLED BY A SHUTTLE BUS. THOSE REPORTS SAY SCHEFFLER WAS TRYING TO DRIVE AROUND THE ROADBLOCK WHEN AN OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE CAR TO GET SCHEFFLER TO STOP AND THEN DETAINED HIM. SCHEFFLER HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AND IS BACK ON THE GOLF COURSE. HE FACES CHARGES, SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF ,RECKLESS DRIVING. HE HAS SAID IN A STATEMENT THAT IT WAS ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS MOVING TO EASE FEDERAL RULES ON MARIJUANA. IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG. THE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, BUT 38 STATES HAVE ALREADY LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND 24 STATES ALLOW IT FOR RECREATIONAL USE. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN IS CALLING THE MOVE TO RECLASSIFY IT A MONUMENTAL STEP. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG HAS MORE. >> THIS IS A MOVE TO EASE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS ON MARIJUANA. >> THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MOVING TO RECLASSIFY IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG FROM A SCHEDULE DRUG WHICH INCLUDES HEROIN AND ECSTASY TO SCHEDULE THREE, WHICH INCLUDES TYLENOL WITH CODEINE. BUT THIS WON’T BE IMMEDIATE. THERE’S NOW A DAY COMMENT PERIOD WHERE AMERICANS CAN WEIGH IN BEFORE IT’S MADE OFFICIAL. THIS ALSO DOES NOT LEGALIZE MARIJUANA NATIONALLY, BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT MARIJUANA POSSESSION COULD COME WITH LESS SEVERE PENALTIES. THE PRESIDENT CAMPAIGNING ON THIS. IT COULD BOOST HIS REELECTION CHANCES, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUNG VOTERS AND BLACK AMERICANS. EVEN THOUGH WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS USE AT SIMILAR RATES, BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE AND FACE CONVICTION OVER THIS. NOW, THE PRESIDENT, HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS MOVE SINCE 2022. HE’S ALREADY PARDONED THOUSANDS PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN CONVICTED ON FEDERAL OFFENSES FOR SIMPLE MARIJUANA POSSESSION. DIANE. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG YOU. >> COMING UP, LISA VANDERPUMP SPILLS THE WHAT SHE’S TELLING OUR WILL GANSS AHEAD OF THE FINALE OF VANDERPUMP VILLA. STAY WITH US. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? OPERATION ICE IS FINALLY COMING ,COMBAT OPERATIONS. AND WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE TO YOU AS THEY LOOK AT YOUR SMILE? >> YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU. THANK YOU. ISRAEL. >> DAVID. DAVID? >> YES. YES. I’M DAVID. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES. PLAYED VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO COLLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING, THEY THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A COMMON SENSE OF THE THE CRUMBLY TRIALS. >> THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. ONLY ON HULU. I A LOT OF HARD I I’M A TOUGH WOMAN BUT IT’S EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY . IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS MAJOR THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS, THE HAT AS A SUPERHERO OUTFIT. >> WOW. >> 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 TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARE MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT DAILY FIRST. >> LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. TONIGHT, KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO SEVEN. TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEED 20 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS A TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT. >> THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC ,I’M GIO BENITEZ COVERING THE COLLAPSE OF THE SCOTT KEY BRIDGE HERE IN MARYLAND. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL YOU THERE. >> YOUR STREAM, ABC NEWS WALL. >> IF YOU’VE GOT THE SMARTS AND YOU’VE GOT THE EXPERIENCE, I ABUSE A GIRL. WHAT’S MISSING? FOLLOWING IT THROUGH. >> IT’S REALLY EYE OPENING. SO CLOSE WITH LISA AND WATCHING HER CARE SO MUCH. IT REMINDS ME THAT I KNOW I’M IN THE RIGHT INDUSTRY AND I KNOW ON THE RIGHT PATH BECAUSE I MIGHT GET A LITTLE UPSET, BUT THAT’S JUST BECAUSE I WHOLEHEARTEDLY CARE. YOU’RE RIGHT. >> I’LL TAKE IT. NOW, YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE. LISA VANDERPUMP FROM THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS AND VANDERPUMP RULES. BUT NOW LVP IS TAKING HER TALENTS TO THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE. VANDERPUMP VILLA FOLLOWS LISA AND HER HAND-SELECTED STAFF. THEY WORK, LIVE AND PLAY AT THE EXCLUSIVE FRENCH ESTATE CHATEAU ROOSEVELT. AND OUR WILL GANSS CAUGHT UP WITH HER HERE IN NEW YORK AHEAD OF THE SHOW’S WILL. >> I KNOW THIS FUN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU. IT WAS A DREAM. >> TELL ME ABOUT IT. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY DIDN’T SEND ME TO CHATEAU ROOSEVELT TO DO IT. WE DID IT RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE WE’RE SITTING RIGHT NOW. BUT THAT’S OKAY, VILLA. >> IT’S PART BELOW DECK, PART DOWNTON ABBEY. AND YES, PART "VANDERPUMP RULES". THE REIGNING QUEEN OF THE REALITY TV SCREEN TOLD ME ALL ABOUT THE SHOW AND WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON FOR ARIANA MADIX, TOM SANDOVAL AND OUR OTHER BRAVO AND HULU MAINSTAYS LISA VANDERPUMP, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH A VIP DONUT. JESS IS THE FACE OF VANDERPUMP DOG FOUNDATION, SO HE’S DOING JOB AND HE’S ALSO GETTING LOTS OF SCREENTIME IN VANDERPUMP VILLA. >> HE SHOULD. YES, HE SHOULD. HE GOES EVERYWHERE WITH ME. THE SHOW, SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH YOU ALL WEARING THE SAME COLOR. THANK FOR. THAT’S MY LISA LAVIN. YES. SO ROOSEVELT. YES. LISTEN, I’M READY TO COME. SHOULD THERE BE A SEASON TWO? LET’S TALK ABOUT SEASON ONE. HOW DOES THE DRAMA HOW DOES THIS CAST COMPARE TO THE OTHER CAST AND THE OTHER SHOWS THAT YOU’VE BEEN ON? >> WOW IS SO VASTLY. I MEAN, I’VE NEVER LIVE WITH MY STAFF AND I’VE NEVER HAD MY STAFF LIVING TOGETHER, EVEN NOW, IT DOES SEEM LIKE THEY LIVE TOGETHER. I’M NOT ANIMALS FOR SURE, BUT CHATEAU ROOSEVELT, THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE FELT VERY A SERIAL, AND THIS SHOW WAS MORE ABOUT THE UPSTAIRS. DOWNSTAIRS, YOU KNOW, BEHIND THE SCENES, THERE’S ALWAYS SOME KIND OF CRAZY ON. AND THEN YOU OPEN UP AND IT’S LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, I KNOW GOD. >> SO IT WAS MORE ABOUT THAT REALLY I FIND VERY INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, THE PLAYGROUND FOR THE STAFF IN THEIR OFF TIME BEHIND THE SCENES AND THEN THE THEATER THAT YOU TRY TO AND HOSPITALITY . BUT YEAH, IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE EVEN. >> THE UNIFORMS THAT THE STAFF WEAR ARE STUNNING. YOU KNOW, THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL PASTELS. AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR WARDROBE ON THE SHOW FOR A MINUTE. >> ALL RIGHT, GORGEOUS. ALL THIS A LOT OF THIS COLOR AS WELL, BECAUSE IT’S LIKE BELOVED ENOUGH FOR YOU KNOW, FOR ANYONE WHO’S LOOKING TO INCORPORATE A LITTLE CHATEAU ROOSEVELT INTO THEIR SUMMER WARDROBE THIS SEASON. ADVICE, DO YOU GIVE THEM? IT WAS MORE ABOUT THE FLOWY DRESSES, THE HATS. AND ALSO I’M IN BUSINESS SUITS ALL THE TIME. VEGAS IN MY BUSINESSES AND VANDERPUMP RULES ON MY NEW SHOW, FOOD STARS WITH GORDON RAMSAY. YOU KNOW, I’M ALWAYS IN THAT VERY KIND OF LOOK. THIS WAS ABOUT ROMANCE. EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE MOMENT. SO, YEAH, I REALLY TRIED TO CAPTURE THAT WITH THE UNIFORMS. HOW DO YOU PUT THIS SCENE TOGETHER? >> DID ERIK’S SIX PACK ABS HELP HIM LAND THE JOB? OH, WOW. WELL, ERIK, ACTUALLY, HE DID WORK FOR ME BRIEFLY. YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW A LOT OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE PERSONALLY, BUT I KNOW THEIR WORK. I MEAN, THEIR RESUME, WHERE THEY WORKED, OR STEVEN, FOR INSTANCE. HE WORKED FOR ME IN VEGAS. HE HELPED OPEN MY NEW RESTAURANT, CREME DE LA CREME. I’M NOT SURE I USE. THAT WAS A CHEF. YES, CHEF. AND A SOUS CHEF DID A MAGNIFICENT JOB IN THE KITCHEN. SOME OF THE OTHERS WERE A LITTLE NAUGHTY, BUT THEY WERE AT THE TOP OF THEIR WHEN IT CAME TO EXPERIENCE BECAUSE WE HAD TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. >> AND I LOVE THAT WE GET TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS ASPECT. >> YOU KNOW, THERE’S NOT EVEN A LOVE TRIANGLE. I WOULD CALL IT LIKE A LOVE DIAMOND AT THIS GOING ON IN THE SHOW. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE FINALE THAT AIRS THIS WEEK? >> WELL, I THINK THAT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU KIND OF YOU KNOW, COMES TO FRUITION. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MAYBE WEREN’T COMPLETELY WITH THEIR EMOTIONS. I THINK WE SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATION. AND IT’S TIME FOR YOU KNOW, AND WE GO STRAIGHT INTO THE REUNION. >> SO IT’S KIND OF THIS OKAY, THAT WE’VE GOT IT NOW. LET’S TALK ABOUT IT. I’M A GREAT FAN. REUNIONS IS ONLY ONE I’M SHOWING UP FOR. AND THAT WAS THE LAST HOUSEWIVES ONCE DID NOT WANT TO REUNITE. BUT YOU WANT TO REUNITE. I THINK IN THAT KIND SETTING, GET ALL YOUR FEELINGS OUT AND THEN MOVE FORWARD IS A GOOD. >> SPEAKING OF REUNIONS, "VANDERPUMP RULES", WE SAW PART ONE OF THE REUNION LAST NIGHT. HOW ARE WE FEELING THIS MORNING ? >> WELL, I WAS THERE, SO I DIDN’T ACTUALLY WATCH IT. I WAS WORKING HERE IN NEW YORK ,BUT I LIVED IT. THAT WAS KIND OF MORE INTENSE. YEAH. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THAT’S WHY WE’RE TAKING A BREATH. BUT I THINK THE CAST AND WHAT ROLES, IT NEEDS TO JUST TAKE A MINUTE AND LET THEM DEVELOP A LITTLE BIT THEIR OWN LIVES. SO THEY’RE NOT JUST FOCUSED ON SCANDAL BECAUSE THAT WAS LITERALLY TAKING OVER EVERYTHING. >> I’M GLAD THAT YOU ARE. EVERYONE IS TAKING A BREATH. >> YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT’S THE RIGHT MOVE. ARIANA’S COME BACK TO DO HER BROADWAY, SO, YEAH, SHE’S KICKING IT. I SAW HER IN CHICAGO. SHE LOSE? YEAH. YEAH, RIGHT. AND LIKE THAT AMAZING ENTRANCE ON THE LADDER ON THE SIDE OF THE STAGE. IT’S COOL TO WATCH SOMEBODY SPREAD THEIR WINGS IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN TELL IS SO PERSONAL TO HER. I WAS JUST KICKING, BUT SHE AND I’M VERY PROUD OF THAT FOR HER. >> AND YOU CAN SEE THE PRIDE THAT YOU HAVE NOT ONLY FOR THE CAST OF VANDERPUMP RULES, BUT ALSO THE WAY YOU NURTURE THESE PEOPLE IN VANDERPUMP VILLA, HOW YOU’LL CALL THEM INTO THE OFFICE AND KIND OF LIKE, HEY, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. >> DO YOU LOOK AT THESE, YOUR CHILDREN? WHAT IS THAT RELATIONSHIP? I THINK SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SEE YOUNG PEOPLE AND LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, TELLY, SHE WAS SO FRUSTRATING TO ME BECAUSE. SHE SO OFTEN WANTS TO GIVE UP. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THAT, OH, I WANT TO GO HOME. I’M LIKE, THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE FINEST MOMENTS OF YOUR LIFE. >> ENJOY IT. AMAZING. I MEAN, IT’S THE WAY THAT YOU TREAT THE FURRY MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY AND NOT MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY ACROSS THE WORLD. >> IT’S JUST SO LOVELY TO SEE IN THE WAY THAT YOU NURTURE AND INSPIRE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. >> YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE WARRIOR. YEAH. I MEAN, I DO CALL IT HOW I SEE ,BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T MIX MY WORDS, OBVIOUSLY. I THINK PEOPLE KNOW THAT. THEY ALWAYS KNOW I HAVE THE BEST INTENTIONS FOR ALL OF THEM. RIGHT. IT’S NOT EASY BEING YOUNG, STRUGGLING TO GROW UP, ESPECIALLY REALITY TELEVISION. >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. SPEAKING OF REALITY TV, BEFORE I LET YOU GO, I’VE BEEN WORKSHOPPING MY REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINE. ALL RIGHT. YOU GOING TO TWIRL AND DIE? TWIRL. OKAY. SO YOU MIGHT. AND THAT INSTEAD OF A DIAMOND. I KNOW I CAN’T GO ON. >> I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER, BUT IN THE LIVE STREAM OF LIFE ,I’M ALWAYS THE HEADLINE. >> I QUITE LIKE THAT. I QUITE LIKE THAT. NOT BAD. BUT I THINK THAT HAVE TO MAKE IT A LITTLE SHORTER. I CONSOLIDATE LOOKS, SAY I THINK I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER AND NOW ALWAYS HAVE THE HEADLINE. >> OKAY THERE WE GO. >> SEE, THERE IT IS. FROM THE BEST, RIGHT? FROM THE BEST. >> DOESN’T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THAT. THANK YOU. OH, WOW. >> ALL RIGHT. NO WORD YET ON SEASON TWO OF VANDERPUMP VILLA, BUT IF I WAS TO MAKE A VERY EDUCATED GUESS, I THINK POSSIBLY THE NEXT INSTALLMENT COULD TAKE PLACE IN ITALY. >> AND IF MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED, I BE THERE IN MAY. >> LISA LAVENDER HANGING OUT WITH LISA AND DONUT THE DOG AND WITH YOUR INTRO, OF COURSE. >> YEAH. NOW I’M READY TO GO. NOW THAT IT’S BEEN WORKSHOPPED ,BY THE WAY. >> SO SHOULD WE LEAD THE TEASE FROM NOW ON WITH WILL’S NEW TAGLINE. OH, JUST HERE’S A T WITH WILL GANSS. >> I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER, BUT IN THE LIVE STREAM OF LIFE, I’M ALWAYS THE HEADLINE AND GO TO BUY FROM ME AGAIN. >> THANK YOU, FRIEND. THANK YOU, DIANE. HERE’S SOME MORE HEADLINES FOR YOU. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT, ANALYSIS AND REALITY TV SHOW TAGLINES. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES. THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE, NABC NEWSCOM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. WATCH IN MIND BIG RECAP SOME OF WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON IN NEWS ALL DAY, TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW MIGRATING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WILL TAKE YOU THERE. >> STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER SCREEN YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED, MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 PULLED A BUZZ KILL. AND BASED ON THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. THAT WAS ENTERTAIN. IT IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY TO GOD IS COMPOUND WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE ? THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SO WHAT DOES IT SAY? SOMETHING GOING ON GOING AROUND HERE? ANDREW TATE INTO THE MEN’S SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES START HERE THAT’S A PART OF A STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> ABC NEWS NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE I AM DI TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST DEADLY STORMS SWEEP THE WESTERN GULF. FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND NEARLY A MILLION WITHOUT POWER AS CREWS ASSESS DAMAGE OR THE FLASH FLOODING IS CAUSING THE MOST PROBLEMS. AND THE NEW THIS MORNING, CONGRESS IS OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF CONTROL. A HEARING IN THE HOUSE TURNS INTO A SCREAMING MATCH. WHAT STARTED THE SHOWDOWN AND WHAT OTHER LAWMAKERS ARE SAYING ABOUT IT? AND JUST HOW BUSY WILL THIS SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON BE? OUR TRAVEL ALL TO HAS THE LATEST PREDICTIONS AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE HEADING TO THE AIRPORT AND GET THE RIGHT STUFF FOR YOUR ROAD TRIP. LORI BERGAMOTTO IS HERE WITH HER FAVORITE THINGS TO GRAB BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT FOR SUMMER VACATION. BUT WE BEGIN WITH THE DEADLY STORM RIPPING THROUGH THE SOUTH, LEAVING DAMAGE FROM TEXAS TO MISSISSIPPI. AT FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD NEAR HOUSTON WHERE HIGH WINDS TORE APART BUILDINGS ACROSS. THE CITY. MORE THAN 800,000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER THIS MORNING JUST IN TEXAS. HOUSTON SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED TODAY AND CITY OFFICIALS ASKING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS SO CLEANUP CAN BEGIN. ABC’S MIREYA VILLARREAL JOINS ME NOW FROM DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WITH MORE. >> ALL RIGHT. WHAT’S LIKE THERE RIGHT NOW? YOU KNOW, DIANE, LISTEN, IT IS A PRETTY BIG MESS DOWN HERE IN, THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF HOUSTON. IF YOU JUST TAKE A LOOK OVER MY RIGHT HAND SHOULDER, YOU CAN SEE THIS IS A PIECE OF THE WALL THAT CAME OFF FROM THE RESTAURANT BAR THAT YOU SEE RIGHT BEHIND ME AS THE BLEW THROUGH THE HOUSTON AREA. THE WINDS WERE SO POWERFUL, TALKING ABOUT 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS COMPARABLE. THE MAYOR, TWO HURRICANE IKE FORCE WINDS THAT THEY SHEARED OFF SHEARED OFF THE ENTIRE SIDE OF THIS RESTAURANT BUILDING THAT YOU SEE RIGHT BEHIND ME. ALL THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN AREA, WE HAVE SEEN A LARGE AMOUNT OF DEBRIS, CONSTRUCTION FROM SOME OF THE LOCAL AREAS AND PROJECTS THAT ARE NEARBY HERE. IT IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR EFFORT TO CLEAN A LOT OF THIS UP DURING THE DAY. SO, MARIA, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT THAT CLEANUP EFFORT? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHEN DO THEY EXPECT TO RESTORE POWER TODAY? YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR BASICALLY SAID THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE CONTINGENT ON PEOPLE REALLY STAYED AT HOME AND STAY OFF THE ROADWAYS. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, THEY’RE TRYING TO GET A NUMBER OF PEOPLE OUT HERE, CITY WORKERS, TO START THE CLEANUP PROCESS. BUT YOU’RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT RELYING ELECTRICAL COMPANIES TO TRY AND RESTORE THE POWER. YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT WATER, SEWAGE, NOT TO MENTION THE BUSINESS OWNERS HERE. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A LOT OF EFFORT FROM THE COMMUNITY COMING OUT AND REMOVING SOME OF THIS DEBRIS IT ON THE SIDES SO PEOPLE CAN JUST GET ON THE ROADWAYS. AND FOR THOSE THAT NEED TO GET THEIR JOBS, IF THEY’RE ABLE TO DO THAT TODAY. AS FAR AS THE ELECTRICAL LINES GO, IT COULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER. BUT LET ME TELL YOU, HOUSTON, I FEEL LIKE THEY’VE DONE THIS SEVERAL TIMES. SO FOR THEM, THIS IS A MOMENT I’VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY PUT IN PRACTICE WHAT THEY HAVE EXPENDED TO DO A NUMBER OF HURRICANES AND ALSO GET READY FOR HURRICANE SEASON, WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. SO THEY ARE HOPING THIS WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS, THAT THEY MIGHT RESTORE ALL OF THE POWER TO THE AREA. ALL RIGHT, MIREYA VILLARREAL IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, THANK YOU. >> AND THE STORMS THAT BROUGHT MAYHEM TO HOUSTON ARE MOVING EAST. 17 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS 12 STATES ARE UNDER FLOOD WATCHES THIS MORNING AS HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING WHERE THAT FLOOD THREAT IS HEADED NEXT. >> THE MAYOR WAS LIKENING THIS STORM TO HURRICANE IKE DAMAGE. SO WE’RE GOING TO BE WATCHING MORE STORMS MOVE THROUGH IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THAT’S WHY THERE ARE STILL FLOOD WATCHES UP ALL THE WAY TO DESTIN, FLORIDA, AND BACK TO LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA. AND EVEN PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, THERE. THE FLOODING IS PROBABLY THE MAIN CONCERN TODAY BECAUSE YOU ARE SO SUPERSATURATED AFTER THE FIRST LINES OF HATTIESBURG TO MONTGOMERY. BUT EVEN MOBILE IN NEW ORLEANS ARE IN IT. AND I THINK THE TIMING’S IMPORTANT BECAUSE. MOST OF YOUR DAY IN MANY PLACES WILL BE STORM FREE. BUT TONIGHT, THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, YOU SEE 2 A.M., IT’S JUST ABOUT TO GET TO LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. THAT’S PRETTY UGLY. LOOK AT LINE. THAT’LL COME WITH LIKELY SOME DAMAGING WINDS. AND THAT’S WHY LAFAYETTE, ORLEANS, BATON ROUGE, UP INTO PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA AND EVEN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE STAY IN THIS UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING. EVEN SOUTHWEST THERE. A LOT OF THIS IS RIDING ON THE TOP OF A DOME OF HEAT. THAT DOME OF HEAT HAS HAD FLORIDA BAKING SOUTH TEXAS, TOO. SO GOING INTO THE WEEKEND, WE COULD SEE MORE RECORDS 94 AND 95 FOR WEST PALM AND MIAMI. THOSE BREAK OR TIE RECORDS GOING INTO THE WEEKEND, IT’S GOING TO BE PRETTY SUFFOCATING. >> HEAT. >> ALL RIGHT. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE, THANK YOU. >> DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER IS SET TO RETURN TO THE ON MONDAY AFTER HEATED TESTIMONY AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. YESTERDAY, THE DEFENSE TRIED TO PAINT MICHAEL COHEN AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO’S WITH HIS FORMER BOSS, QUESTIONING A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST. >> TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, MICHAEL COHEN, HE CALLED DONALD TRUMP’S BODYGUARD, KEITH SCHILLER, TO GET TRUMP ON THE PHONE. COHEN TESTIFIED HE WANTED TO DISCUSS THE STORMY DANIELS MATTER AND THE RESOLUTION IT. DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCHE HIS VOICE RISING, SAID THAT WAS LIE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THESE TEXT MESSAGES SUGGESTING A DIFFERENT REASON THE CALL. COHEN ASKING SCHILLER, WHO CAN I SPEAK TO REGARDING HARASSING CALLS TO MY CELL AND OFFICE? SCHILLER RESPONDING, CALL ME. THAT A LIE? YOU DID NOT TALK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT NIGHT. BLANCH SAID ANIMATED. YOU COULD ADMIT IT. BLANCHE PUNCTUATED EACH WORD THAT WAS A LIE. COHEN MET BLANCHETT’S INDIGNATION, COMPOSURE. NO, SIR, I CAN’T. I AM NOT CERTAIN THAT IS ACCURATE. THE DEFENSE SHOWED THE CALL LASTED ONE MINUTE, 36 SECONDS. BUT COHEN INSISTED I BELIEVE I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. COHEN’S CREDIBILITY MATTERS, BECAUSE HE’S THE ONLY WITNESS WHO DIRECTLY TIES TRUMP TO THE ALLEGED SCHEME TO FALSIFY BUSINESS RECORDS TO HIDE THE HUSH PAYMENT TO DANIELS FROM VOTERS. TRUMP FIXER PLEADED GUILTY AND SERVED TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN THE HUSH MONEY AND OTHER CRIMES. THE DEFENSE WANTED THE JURY TO HEAR COHEN GLOAT ABOUT TRUMP’S INDICTMENT. >> REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WANT THIS MADE TO GO DOWN AND ROT IN SIGHT FOR WHAT HE DID TO ME AND MY FAMILY. >> TRUMP HAS BEEN COMING TO COURT WITH A DAILY ENTOURAGE OF CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS, AND PROSECUTORS COMPLAIN SOME OF THEM HAVE WALKED IN DURING TESTIMONY WITH THEIR SECURITY DETAIL FOR THE JURY AND THE WITNESSES TO SEE. THE JUDGE SAID THAT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN. BUT TRUMP’S SAID I HAVE LESS THAN ZERO CONTROL OVER WHAT IS HAPPENING. >> TRUMP IS STILL DECIDING WHETHER HE WILL TESTIFY. BUT DIANE, THE JURY COULD HEAR CLOSING ARGUMENTS EARLY NEXT WEEK. DIANE ALL RIGHT. >> SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. BRIAN, HOW CRUCIAL IS IT THAT THE DEFENSE IS TRYING TO SAY COHEN LIED ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THAT CALL TO KEITH SCHILLER? >> IT’S VERY CRUCIAL. >> IT’S THE LARGE PART OF THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT HERE THAT MICHAEL COHEN IS A WITNESS THAT CANNOT BE BELIEVED IN ANYTHING, BUT ESPECIALLY ON SPECIFIC MATTERS LIKE REELING INFORMATION TO DONALD TRUMP AND GETTING THE KIND OF THUMBS UP THAT WHAT HE’S DOING IS CORRECT. AND HE SHOULD PUSH FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO THE HUSH MONEY, THE PAYMENT AND THE WAY THAT THEY ARE CATEGORIZED IN THESE DOCUMENTS. >> NOW, THE DEFENSE IS CROSS-EXAMINATION OF COHEN LARGELY FOCUSED ON PAINTING HIM AS A SERIAL LIAR WHOSE TESTIMONY SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED. DO YOU THINK THEY’VE DONE ENOUGH TO RAISE REASONABLE DOUBT THERE AT THIS? I WOULD SAY NO. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I HESITATE TO SAY I THINK WHAT THE PROSECUTION WILL SAY ON REDIRECT. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN CLEAN UP THAT’S GOING TO MAKE THIS TOUGHER FOR THE DEFENSE. ALSO, I’M LOOKING A LITTLE FURTHER AHEAD. AND ULTIMATELY THERE’S GOING TO BE SUMMATION. THE DEFENSE BROUGHT UP GREAT POINTS. I THINK THERE IS NO SMOKING GUN, BUT DEFINITELY VERY HOT ONE. BUT IS THERE ENOUGH THAT WHEN PROSECUTORS AT THE END OF THE TRIAL SUMMATION GET THE FINAL WORD THAT THEY CAN’T RECOVER FROM IT? I THINK THE DEFENSE HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF SHOWING THAT. HE IS A HABITUAL LIAR. BUT CONNECT THAT TO THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME, THAT HE’S LYING TO THE JURY ABOUT THE FACTS IN THIS CASE THAT I THINK WILL MAKE A BETTER CASE FOR THE DEFENSE. >> NOW, IT’S UNCLEAR IF THE DEFENSE WILL CALL ANY WITNESSES OR IF TRUMP HIMSELF TAKE THE STAND. >> SO WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR NEXT WEEK? >> SO THE JUDGE MERCHAN HAS ALREADY SAID THAT HE’S GOING TO REVIEW SOME OF THE FILINGS THAT BOTH SIDES HAVE MADE, SPECIFICALLY IN TO THE EXPERT THAT THE ELECTION EXPERT THAT THE DEFENSE WANTS TO PUT ON. JUST TO GIVE SOME CONTEXT AS TO WHAT THE UNDERLYING CRIME MAY BE. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY AND HOW THE DEFENSE, IF THEY DO PUT THIS WITNESS ON, PUTS ON A CASE. BUT ALSO, YEAH, WE’VE HEARD FROM A SIDEBAR THAT DONALD DOESN’T INTEND TO TESTIFY, BUT THAT DECISION IS REALLY MADE AT THE LAST MOMENT WHEN THE JUDGE IS ASKING WHETHER NOT THE DEFENDANT WANTS TO TESTIFY. AND YOU ALWAYS PLAY THAT AS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY CLOSE TO THE VEST. >> SO I WANT TO SEE IN THE 11TH HOUR AND DONALD TRUMP DECIDES TO TESTIFY. ALL RIGHT, LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU. AND REACTIONS ARE STARTING TO COME IN AFTER CHAOS ERUPTED ON CAPITOL LAST NIGHT. >> WHANG TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS QUICKLY TURNED INTO LAWMAKERS HURLING PERSONAL INSULTS AT EACH OTHER. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT HAS THE LATEST. >> FOR A NEW LOW CAPITOL HILL. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, THIS IS AT A LATE NIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING DEVOLVING INTO CHAOS. >> AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL. REPUBLICAN FIREBRAND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. >> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH INTELLIGENT CHAIR RECOGNIZES PERRY. >> OKAY. MOVE TO ORDER. >> THE HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO CENTER ON REPUBLICANS DEMANDS THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND TURN OVER AUDIO TAPES OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, BUT SHE HAS REFUSED TO DO. >> INSTEAD, IT QUICKLY ESCALATED INTO A HEATED BACK FORTH. >> GREENE MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT’S I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. >> HOLD ON, HOLD ON. ORDER! MR. CHAIRMAN. >> YOU GAVE THE ORDER OF YOUR COMMITTEE. ORDER AT TIMES GIGGLING AND REFUSING TO APOLOGIZE. >> DEMOCRAT MOVED TO CENSURE GREENE. >> THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW YOU SUSPEND ANOTHER PERSON . >> YOUR FEELINGS, HER WORDS DOWN. OH, GIRL BABY GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE. CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE COMMITTEE. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND RULING. IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY. >> PLEASE. BLOND, BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES. >> CORRECT. WHAT NOW, CHAIRMAN? I MAKE. I MAKE MOTION TO STRIKE THOSE WORDS. I DON’T THINK THAT’S ONE PART OF THE KIND OF FINE. >> CALM DOWN. CALM DOWN. SO NO APOLOGIES MADE, DIANE, AFTER AN HOUR OF THOSE PERSONAL INSULTS, THE HEARING DID GET BACK ON TRACK. BUT THE LEVEL OF DECORUM IS SOMEHOW SEEPING LOWER AND LOWER. >> DIANE. ALL RIGHT, SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT, THANK YOU. AND THE HOUSE IS MOVING TO EASE FEDERAL RULES ON MARIJUANA, RECLASSIFYING IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG. THE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, BUT 38 STATES HAVE ALREADY LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND 24 STATES ALLOW IT FOR RECREATIONAL USE. PRESIDENT IS CALLING THE MOVE TO RECLASSIFY A MONUMENTAL STEP . >> LOOK, FOLKS, NO ONE SHOULD BE IN JAIL MERELY FOR USING OR POSSESSING MARIJUANA. PERIOD. FAR TOO, LIVES HAVE BEEN UPENDED BECAUSE OF FAILED APPROACH OF MARIJUANA. AND COMMITTED TO WRITING THOSE WRONGS. >> YOU HAVE MY WORD ON IT. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG KING HAS THE LATEST. >> HI, SELENA. THIS IS A HISTORIC MOVE TO EASE RESTRICTIONS ON MARIJUANA. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MOVING TO RECLASSIFYING IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG FROM A SCHEDULE ONE DRUG WHICH INCLUDES HEROIN AND ECSTASY TO SCHEDULE THREE, WHICH INCLUDES TYLENOL WITH CODEINE. BUT THIS WON’T BE IMMEDIATE. THERE’S NOW A 60 DAY COMMENT PERIOD WHERE AMERICANS CAN WEIGH IN BEFORE IT’S MADE OFFICIAL. THIS ALSO DOES NOT LEGALIZE MARIJUANA NATIONALLY, BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT MARIJUANA POSSESSION COULD COME WITH LESS PENALTIES. THE PRESIDENT, HE’S CAMPAIGNING ON THIS. IT COULD BOOST HIS REELECTION CHANCES, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUNG VOTERS AND BLACK AMERICANS, EVEN THOUGH WHITE BLACK AMERICANS USE MARIJUANA AT SIMILAR RATES. BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED AND FACE CONVICTION OVER THIS. THE PRESIDENT, HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS MOVE SINCE 2022. HE’S ALREADY PARTED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN CONVICTED ON FEDERAL OFFENSES FOR SIMPLE MARIJUANA POSSESSION. DAN SENOR, HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, SELINA WANG, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, THE WORLD’S ONE GOLFER IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED THIS MORNING JUST BEFORE THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WHY SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER NOW FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AND WHAT HE’S SAYING ABOUT THE INCIDENT . ALSO AHEAD, KICKING OFF THE SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON, HOW THE TSA IS PREPARING A NEARLY RECORD SETTING SEASON AHEAD OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER. AND ATTACKS INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN. "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR SUBMERGED WATER. WEDNESDAY "GMA" WILL SHOW YOU LIVE HOW TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER RUSHES IN MUST SEE LIVE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES, VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING. THEY THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A COMMON SENSE OF THE PARENTS. >> THE CRUMBLING TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. >> IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. ONLY ON HULU. WEEK WE WILL CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. GET READY, JIMMY. WE ARE COMING YOUR WAY AND BLAIR AND SAM ARE TAKING YOU ABOARD THE USS BATAAN. MY POOR FLEET WEEK ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> ABC NEWS THIS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP. START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT DAILY FIRST. LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER, FABIO SEVEN. TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZONI. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS. THE TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WASG. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> HI, DIANE MACEDO. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SPEAKING NOW AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE TO MARK THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPREME COURT’S BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION DECISION THAT ENDED RACIAL SEGREGATION, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. >> LET’S LISTEN. MY NAME IS JOE BIDEN AND I’M A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE ACP. WHEN I SAID A LITTLE EARLIER, THE PRESIDENT SAID OUR DUES PAID UP. >> I GOT A CHECK. >> >> OH, MY. SO MANY SO PEOPLE HERE TODAY. YOU CHANGED THE WORLD 70 YEARS AGO. YOU CHANGED. I SAY THE WORLD. THAT’S NOT I’M NOT EXAGGERATING. NO, IT CHANGED THE UNITED STATES. IT CHANGED OUR ROLE IN THE WORLD IN A FUNDAMENTAL WAY. I KNOW THERE’S A LOT MORE TO DO, PRESIDENT JOHNSON, THAT INTRODUCTION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, FOR THE NAACP. IT’S AN HONOR TO BE WITH ALL OF YOU AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE. REMEMBER, WE’RE TRYING TO GET THIS BUILT FOR YEARS PRETTY. AND IT BY THE WAY, I WANT TO THANK THE STAFF WHO RUNS THIS PLACE TO DO AN INCREDIBLE JOB TOGETHER, THE NAACP AND THIS MUSEUM OR MINE TO THE POWER OF BLACK HISTORY. AND BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN. >> IT’S AMERICAN. YOU’RE IT’S REALLY AN IMPORTANT THING TO CONTINUE TO. >> WE HAVE A WHOLE OF PEOPLE OUT THERE TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY, TRYING TO RACISM STREET. >> IT’S A TRIBUTE TO HEROES. NO, NO, NO. WHO PURSUED OUR NATION’S NORTH STAR? WE’RE UNIQUE AMONG ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD. AND I MEAN THAT EVERYONE NATION IS BASED ON ETHNICITY, BUT BASED ON RELIGION AND OTHER THINGS. BUT WE’RE THE ONLY ONE BASED ON AN IDEA. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, AND SHOULD TREATED EQUALLY THEIR WHOLE LIVES THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES. >> WE’VE NEVER FULLY LIVED UP TO THE IDEA OF STATE THE OBVIOUS, BUT WE’VE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM ANYTHING BECAUSE OF SO MANY OF YOU IN THIS ROOM. AND SO MANY MORE. >> 70 YEARS AGO, WHEN THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION THAT RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A PRAYER WAS ANSWERED THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. YESTERDAY I WELCOME THE FAMILY OF PLAINTIFFS ABOUT LANDMARK CASE TO THE WHITE HOUSE, TO THE OVAL OFFICE. THEIR OFFICE, ONCE UPON A TIME, NEVER EXCLUDED FROM CERTAIN CLASSROOMS. BUT 70 YEARS LATER, THEY’RE INSIDE THE MOST IMPORTANT ROOM OF ALL THE OFFICE WHERE THEY BELONG. >> A LITTLE REMINDER THAT ONCE UPON A TIME WASN’T THAT LONG AGO. >> AND ALL THE PROGRESS WE’VE MADE IS STILL HAD MORE TO DO. AND THERE’S STILL GROUPS ARE TRYING TO RAISE IT. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE CASES THAT LED TO THE LANDMARK DECISION WAS IN MY HOME STATE OF DELAWARE, BLACK MOTHER FROM WHOLE CASE IN DELAWARE, JOINED BY PARENTS OF THEIR STUDENTS AND THE CLAIM ON THE TOWN I MOVED TO WHEN WORK RAN OUT IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WE MOVED BACK IN THIRD GRADE MOVED HERE IN THIRD TO DELAWARE IN THIRD GRADE ALL AND CLAIMED THEY WERE JUST WANT A SIMPLE PROPOSITION. THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TO BE ABLE ATTEND SCHOOL, BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT. >> THEY ASKED A MAN WHO I LOOKED UP TO AND REALLY ADMIRED AND HELPED ME OUT AS A YOUNG PUBLIC DEFENDER. LEWIS AL REDDING. HE WAS THE FIRST MAN, THE FIRST BLACK MAN EVER ADMITTED TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO SIT AND THINK ABOUT THAT. HERE’S THE FIRST MINUTE GUY WAS BRILLIANT AND HE DIDN’T GET ADMITTED AFTER IN THE FIFTIES IN DELAWARE TO THE I MEAN, WELL, HE ENLISTED A YOUNG JEWISH LAWYER FROM THE ACP NAMED JACK GREENBERG TO HELP HIM DEVISE A LEGAL STRATEGY TO GET RID RACIAL SEGREGATION IN DELAWARE SCHOOLS IN 1952. IN DELAWARE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORY IN BEULAH VERSUS GEPHARDT, IN BELTON VERSUS GEPHARDT BY THE END AND DELAWARE TODAY. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. FIRST TIME EVER, SEGREGATED WHITE SCHOOLS ARE ORDERED TO ADMIT BLACK CHILDREN. LEWIS REDDING’S ARGUMENT IN THOSE EARLY DELAWARE CASE, LIKE THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR BROWN VERSUS THE BOARD, HIS STORY, THE TIME OF TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA WHEN WE MAKE REAL THE PROMISE OF AMERICA FOR ALL AMERICANS, THE NATION CHANGES FOR THE BETTER. EVERYTHING FROM THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING, GROWTH, EVERYTHING GOES AFTER BROWN VERSUS DECISION. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS GRADUALLY AND OFTEN, MUCH TOO SLOWLY. WE’RE INTEGRATED. GRADUATION RATES FOR BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY, THOUGH THE BROWN DECISION PROVES A SIMPLE IDEA. WE LEARN BETTER WHEN WE LEARN TOGETHER AND THAT’S WHY MY ADMINISTRATION IS INCREASING FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS TO BRING TOGETHER STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. MY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS RAISING $300 MILLION, INCLUDING ANOTHER 20 MILLION ANNOUNCED TODAY TO SUPPORT DIVERSITY IN OUR SCHOOLS. >> WE’RE ALSO ALSO FUNDING EFFORTS TO INCREASE DIVERSITY IN TEACHING PROFESSION. SO BECAUSE AS THE PRESIDENT SAID, BLACK STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY YOUNG BLACK MEN, WILL REACT, BLACK TEACHERS, BLACK STUDENTS HAVE BLACK TEACHERS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE LIKELY TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND ENROLL IN COLLEGE. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND IT MATTERS. >> MY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ALMOST HALF A BILLION DOLLARS FOR IT AND $50 MILLION TO ENSURE TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOL THE DIVERSITY IN OUR COUNTRY. WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED. THIS MONEY IS GOING TO GO TOWARD TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TEACHERS AT HBCU TRIBAL COLLEGES AND MINORITY PARTICIPATION. BY THE WAY, NOT BECAUSE I MARRIED TO ONE, BUT WE NEED TO GIVE TEACHERS A RAISE. I MEAN, IT. >> NONETHELESS, I’M A BROWN. IS IT EVERY CHILD DESERVES A QUALITY EDUCATION. >> HOW CAN WE. THE THING JUST SIMPLE TERMS. >> HOW CAN WE HAVE THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD WITHOUT THE BEST EDUCATION IN THE WORLD? >> AND IT’S NOT POSSIBLE THAT TAPPED INTO THE FULL TALENTS OF OUR ENTIRE NATION. THE ANSWER STARTS WITH CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. BECAUSE OF THE NATION’S LEGACY OF DISCRIMINATION, THE BLACK CHILDREN START SCHOOL WITH AN AVERAGE OF SEVEN MONTHS BEHIND THEIR WHITE PEERS AND REALLY BUT ONE YEAR OF UNIVERSAL, HIGH QUALITY PRE-K COULD ELIMINATE 98% OF THAT GAP. JUST ONE YEAR. AND CHILDREN GO TO PRESCHOOL WHO ARE NEARLY 50% MORE LIKELY TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AND GO ON TO EARN A TWO YEAR DEGREE, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND IS. >> THAT’S MY ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING TO SUPPORT BLACK CHILDREN AND. AS SOON AS I CAME TO OFFICE, I SIGNED THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN AND. I’M GOING TO BE POLITICAL. I JUST SAY THIS BECAUSE WE’RE HAVING PROBLEMS. NOT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR IT, NOT ONE BUT THE AMERICAN PLAN. EXPANDED CHILD CARE TAX CREDITS DELIVERED MONTHLY CHECKS TO WORKING FAMILIES TO CUT BLACK CHILD POVERTY IN HALF. MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS ARE EXPIRED, BUT I’M GOING TO KEEP FIGHTING TO REESTABLISH AND WE’RE GOING TO GET IT REESTABLISHED. >> AND I WANT TO KEEP FIGHTING TO MAKE SURE PRESCHOOL UNIVERSAL FOR EVERY THREE AND FOUR-YEAR-OLD IN AMERICA, WE CAN AFFORD TO THIS. >> IT’S NOT HARD. INSTEAD OF GIVING A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR BREAKS TO THE SUPER WEALTHY, LET’S MAKE THE WEALTHY BEGIN TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES. >> WE CAN AFFORD ALL THE. >> I’LL JUST SLOW UP FOR JUST ONE SECOND HERE. ADLIB A LITTLE BIT HERE BECAUSE YOU GET IN TROUBLE FOR DOING KEEPING LONGER. >> BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A THOUSAND BILLIONAIRES IN, AMERICA. >> I’M A CAPITALIST. YOU CAN MAKE ALL THAT MONEY. >> FINE. JUST PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE. HERE’S THE DEAL. YOU KNOW WHAT THE TAX FEDERAL TAX RATE IS FOR A BILLIONAIRE IN AMERICA. 8.3%. >> YOU JUST RAISED IT TO 25%. RAISE $400,000,000 BILLION OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. THAT COULD PAY FOR ALL OF THIS. >> CUT THE DEFICIT THAT IS SO MUCH MORE JUST BEING JUST PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE. LOOK, IT’S NOT ONLY GOOD FOR CHILDREN, IT’S GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY. WHEN WE HAVE EARLY EDUCATION AND IT GROWS THE ECONOMY, WE’RE ALSO WORKING TO ENSURE EVERY CHILD NO MATTER WHAT THEIR ZIP CODE HAS ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION EXPERIENCE. >> IN K THROUGH 12, THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN DELIVERED $130 BILLION TO AMERICAN SCHOOLS MOST EVER IN FUNDING PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY. AND WE ADDED ANOTHER 202 BILLION ANNUALLY TO TITLE ONE FUNDING SUPPORT SCHOOL STUDENTS MOST IN NEED. THESE DOLLARS HELP PAY FOR THINGS LIKE TUTORING, PAYING TEACHERS WHAT THEY DESERVE, PROVIDING MORE ADVANCED CASEWORK, AND OF COURSE, WORKS AS WELL. WHILE COLLEGE DEGREES ARE STILL THE TICKET TO THE MIDDLE CLASS, I THINK BECOMING TOO EXPENSIVE, TOO MANY, TOO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, BLACK STUDENTS ARE DEALING WITH UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT IN EXCHANGE FOR A COLLEGE DEGREE. THAT’S WHY MY ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT NOTWITHSTANDING, THE SUPREME COURT TRIED TO STOP ME TO PROVIDE STUDENT DEBT RELIEF. >> MOST YOU EVER GET TO REDEEM $160 BILLION IN STUDENT DEBT. THERE WERE 4.5 MILLION AMERICANS, INCLUDING A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF BLACK BORROWERS. >> THAT MEANS THEY CAN NOW START A FAMILY, A HOME, SAVE FOR THEIR CHILDREN, SCHOOL GET AND GET BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES, BUT ALSO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PELL GRANT BY $900, THE LARGEST INCREASE IN A DECADE. AND IT MATTERS BECAUSE OVER 60% OF BLACK STUDENTS RELY ON PELL GRANTS TO GO TO COLLEGE. AND SOMETHING I’M REALLY PROUD OF. WE’RE MAKING STARK INVESTMENTS IN HISTORIC BLACK COLLEGES UNIVERSITIES. >> AND I’M FROM DELAWARE, SO I GO ALONG WITH DELAWARE STATE BEING THE BEST HBCU. KAMALA KEEPS SAYING IS OUR AND I’M GOING NOW, I’M GOING ON SUNDAY TO MAKE A SPEECH AT THAT OTHER PLACE. THAT MEANS MORE MORE ON MOREHOUSE. I GOT MORE MOREHOUSE MEN OF MY ADMINISTRATION AND MOREHOUSE . >> BUT REGARDLESS OF LOYALTIES IT’S CLEAR, A SPECIES ARE VITAL TO OUR NATION’S PROGRESS. I MEAN, IT. THAT’S NOT HYPERBOLE. HBCU IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 40% OF BLACK ENGINEERS IN AMERICA. 50% OF BLACK TEACHERS. 70% OF ALL BLACK DOCTORS AND DENTISTS. 80% OF ALL BLACK JUDGES. AND BY THE WAY, I PUT MORE ON BENCH ANYBODY EVER HAD. AND 100% OF BLACK VICE PRESIDENTS. YOU GOT IT. HP DC, YOU ALSO DON’T HAVE ENDOWMENTS LIKE OTHER COLLEGE UNIVERSITIES WERE ABLE TO FUND RESEARCH LABS AND SO MUCH MORE WILL COME ON AND I MADE A COMMITMENT TO LIFT SPECIES UP AND WE’RE KEEPING THAT COMMITMENT TODAY. I’M PROUD TO ANNOUNCE AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER BY THE PRESIDENT, THAT WE’VE INVESTED OVER $16 BILLION IN HBCU BY FAR THE MOST BY ANY ADMINISTRATION AND A COMBINATION OF ALMOST ALL ADMINISTRATIONS. >> THESE INVESTMENTS HELP THESE SPECIES. YOU DO EVERYTHING FROM BUILD STUDENT HOUSING TO STUDY CLIMATE SCIENCE. YOU CREATE HEALTH RESEARCH, PREPARE BLACK STUDENTS FOR LABS AND INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE. BECAUSE DON’T HAVE AN ENDOWMENT TO DO IT THEMSELVES NOW. >> BUT LET’S BE CLEAR. >> I KNOW REAL POWER AND I SEE YOU LATER TODAY IN THE OVAL OFFICE. I’LL BE MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENTS OF THE DIVINE NINE. YOU ALL THINK I’M KIDDING? DR.. WELL, I’M PROUD WE ARE THE FIRST. >> YOU GOT IT. I AND I CAN TELL THERE’S NO WAY FOR THE FIRST TEN MINUTE SESSION IN HISTORY TO HAVE A WORKING GROUP FROM THE DIVINE NINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. AND I ASKED THEM TO DO THAT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. WE KNOW SEVEN YEARS AFTER BROWN VERSUS BOARD, THERE ARE SOME FORCES TRYING TO DENY FREEDOM OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL AMERICANS. >> A FEW MINUTES AGO I TALK WITH SOME OF THE LITTLE ROCK NINE WHO WERE DETERMINED INTEGRATED PUBLIC SCHOOL IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 67 YEARS AGO. I’D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THEM FOR THEIR COURAGE HERE IF THEY CAN . >> IF YOU’RE ABLE, PLEASE STAND TO RISE SO WE CAN ALL SEE . THANK GOD EISENHOWER IS PRESIDENT. >> THANK GOD WE HAD SOMEONE WHO STOOD UP. THE LITTLE ROCK NINE WERE MET WITH VITRIOL AND VIOLENCE. >> TODAY, THE RESISTANCE COMES IN OTHER INSIDIOUS FORMS AN EXTREME MOVEMENT LED BY MY PREDECESSORS, MY REPUBLICAN ,BACKED BY AN EXTREME SUPREME COURT, GUTTED ACTION IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. MY PREDECESSOR IN, EXTREME MAGA FRIENDS, ARE NOW GOING AFTER DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION ALL ACROSS AMERICA. THEY WANT COUNTRY FOR SOME, NOT FOR ALL. LET’S KID OURSELVES, FOLKS. THIS IS THE GOD’S TRUTH. ALL I’M SAYING MY PREDECESSOR AND EXTREME MAGA FRIENDS ARE RESPONSIBLE, TAKING AWAY OTHER FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS FROM THE FREEDOM TO VOTE, THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. BUT I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THE PROMISE AMERICA IS BIG ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE TO SUCCEED. AND I MAY NOT WANT TO SUCCEED. THAT’S WHAT BROWN IS ALL ABOUT. THAT’S WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT. THAT’S WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT. LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS ON SUNDAY. I’M ATTENDING A COMMENCEMENT AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ONE OF OUR NATION’S MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS. >> MOREHOUSE WAS FOUNDED AFTER OUR NATION’S CIVIL WAR HELP PREPARE BLACK AMERICANS WHO WERE FORMERLY ENSLAVED TO ENTER THE MINISTRY, EARN AN EDUCATION, AND USHER THEM FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. THE FOUNDERS OF MOREHOUSE UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL. EDUCATION IS LINKED TO FREEDOM BECAUSE TO BE FREE MEANS HAVE SOMETHING THAT NO ONE CAN EVER TAKE AWAY FROM YOU. AND THAT’S THE POWER OF AN EDUCATION. THAT’S WHY THE BROWN DECISION TO COMMEMORATE TODAY IS SO IMPORTANT. >> THE WORK OF BUILDING DEMOCRACY IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A DEMOCRACY WORTHY OF OUR DREAMS STARTS WITH OPENING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR WITHOUT EXCEPTION. AND WE CAN DO IT. WE JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED OF AMERICA. THERE’S NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL. AND THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF BRAVERY YOU’VE DEMONSTRATED OVER THE YEARS. AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. PROUD TO BE WITH YOU. >> THANK YOU. AND I AS PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCING, NEW GRANTS AIMED AT FURTHER DESEGREGATING CERTAIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE PRESIDENT MADE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY CULTURE MARKING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPREME COURT’S VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION DECISION THAT ENDED RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG ME NOW FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO TALK ME THROUGH THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. HOW IS THE WHITE HOUSE PLANNING TO SEE THIS THROUGH? YEAH. DIANE SO THE PRESIDENT IS ANNOUNCING $20 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS TO DESEGREGATE MAGNET SCHOOLS. THE GOAL HERE IS TO CREATE MORE DIVERSITY OF THESE TYPES OF SCHOOLS. IT’S PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION’S BROADER INITIATIVES HERE TO MAKE INVESTMENTS INTO EDUCATION. THE PRESIDENT, THEY’RE TOUTING HOW HAS HIS ADMINISTRATION MADE MORE INVESTMENTS IN THESE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES THAN OTHER ADMINISTRATION BEFORE HIM? NOW, OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT IS WELL AWARE OF THE GOAL HERE TO MAKE OUTREACH TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY AS SUPPORT AMONG THAT COMMUNITY HAS BEEN LACKING ENTHUSIASM. THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO SHOW THAT HIS POLICIES ARE DELIVERING FOR THEM, EVEN IF THEY NECESSARILY AREN’T FEELING IT. >> NOW, THE PRESIDENT THERE, DIANE, HE WAS ALSO MAKING CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS VISION OF AMERICA, HIS VISION OF EDUCATION IN AMERICA COMPARED TO TRUMP, THOUGH HE ONLY CALLED HIM, QUOTE, MY PREDECESSOR. HE ACCUSED TRUMP OF TRYING TO GET RID OF DIVERSITY INITIATIVES AND SAID THAT IT’S HIS OF AMERICA THAT IS REFLECTING WHAT THE COUNTRY TRULY STANDS. SELENA, ANY SENSE OF WHY THAT DECLINE IN SUPPORT BLACK VOTERS AND WHAT ELSE THE PRESIDENT IS DOING TO TRY TO GARNER THAT SUPPORT BACK? >> YEAH, DIANE WILL A BIG ISSUE FOR NOT JUST THE BLACK COMMUNITY, BUT COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA IS THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN TOUTING HOW UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT HAS FALLEN TO HISTORICALLY LOW LEVELS, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN TOUTING A FIGURE THAT BLACK HOUSEHOLD WEALTH HAS BEEN UP 60%. BUT THEN WE SAW TODAY THE ANNOUNCEMENTS. WE SAW TODAY, DIANE, IS JUST PART OF THIS ENTIRE WEEK LONG EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY AFTER THIS EVENT. THE PRESIDENT, HE’S GOING TO BE MEETING WITH THE DIVINE NINE. THESE ARE HISTORICALLY BLACK SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES. AND THEN THIS WEEKEND, WHICH THE PRESIDENT ALSO MENTIONED IN HIS REMARKS, HE’LL BE TRAVELING TO MOREHOUSE COLLEGE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, A CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE, OF COURSE, WHERE HE’S GOING TO BE DELIVERING THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS. BUT THIS HAS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL WITH MANY STUDENTS AT MOREHOUSE SAYING THEY’RE WORRIED THAT THIS IS GOING TO OVERSHADOW THEIR COMMENCEMENT. THERE’S A LOT OF FRUSTRATION AND ANGER HOW THE PRESIDENT HAS HANDLED THE WAR IN GAZA. BUT THE WHITE IS ADAMANT AND CLEAR THAT THE PRESIDENT IS THERE TO SPEAK TO THE STUDENTS THIS IS NOT A CAMPAIGN SPEECH. AND WHILE HE MAY TOUCH ON WHAT’S GOING ON THE WAR IN GAZA, HE WANTS TO FOCUS ON ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THOSE STUDENTS. ALL RIGHT. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG, THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE SOME BREAKING NEWS. THE IDF SAYS IT HAS RECOVERED THE BODIES, THREE HOSTAGES TAKEN BY HAMAS. >> ACCORDING TO THE IDF, THEY WERE MURDERED IN ISRAEL DURING THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK AND THEIR BODIES WERE THEN TAKEN TO GAZA. ABC’S MATT GUTMAN IS LIVE IN TEL AVIV WITH MORE ON THAT. MATT, WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR? PRETTY MUCH THAT THE IDF JUST MADE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT. RUMORS HAD STARTED TO SWIRL, DIANE EARLIER IN THE DAY ABOUT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN FOUND. THE NAMES WERE BROADCAST AS WELL, AND THEN IT WAS THE IDF. THEY CONFIRMED IT IT’S — IT’S HOT. GELERNTER AMID MUSCULAR, UNCANNY LOOKING. CHENEY LOOK, WE ALSO SAW HER IN THE VERY FIRST DAYS WHEN THOSE VIDEOS WERE COMING OUT. SHE WAS IN THE BACK, A TRUCK BEING TAKEN IN HER BODY LIFELESS. AND I THINK THAT WAS AN INDELIBLE IMAGE FOR MANY PEOPLE. IT’S BELIEVED THAT THEY’VE BEEN DEAD FOR A LONG TIME, EITHER KILLED ON OCTOBER 7TH OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THEY WERE COURSE TAKEN FROM THAT NOVA MUSIC PIECE IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL, 300 PEOPLE OR THEREABOUTS DURING THAT FESTIVAL TAKING INTO GAZA. WHAT’S UNCLEAR IS WHETHER THE IDF HAS FOUND OTHER BODIES. IT’S BELIEVED THAT THERE ARE MORE HOSTAGES WHO ARE TAKEN OR ARE BEING HELD IN THE RAFAH AREA. CURRENTLY, UNCLEAR HOW MANY ARE ALIVE AND THERE’S A LOT OF FEAR THAT. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF THE 130 OR SO PEOPLE BELIEVED STILL HELD IN CAPTIVITY ARE NO LONGER ALIVE. DIANE. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN A DARK DAY FOR THEIR FAMILIES, BUT HOPEFULLY SOME COUNSEL THERE AS WELL. MATT GUTMAN IN TEL AVIV, THANK YOU. >> AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE ARE DEAD NEAR HOUSTON WHERE HIGH WINDS TORE APART BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY. MORE THAN 800,000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER THIS MORNING JUST TEXAS. ABC’S MIREYA VILLARREAL JOINS ME NOW FROM DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. AND WE’VE SEEN SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS WINDOWS BLOWN OUT EVERYWHERE. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, IT IS A GOOD AMOUNT OF DESTRUCTION HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND ALSO NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING DOWNTOWN. IF YOU TAKE A LOOK RIGHT BEHIND ME, YOU ACTUALLY SEE HOW MUCH DAMAGE THE WINDS DID JUST TO THIS ONE PARTICULAR RESTAURANT. WE ARE SEEING THIS ALL THE DOWNTOWN AREA. I MEAN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. THE MAYOR SAID YESTERDAY THAT THIS WAS COMPARISON TO WHAT HE’D SEEN DURING HURRICANE IKE. OBVIOUSLY, IT SO POWERFUL IT WAS ABLE TO SHEAR OFF THE SIDE OF THAT BUILDING, BRING DOWN ALL OF THAT BRICK THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND THE MORNING. WE HAVE SEEN A BIT CLEANUP IN THIS AREA, BUT STILL A LONG WAY TO GO FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THIS AREA, WORK IN THIS AREA AS WELL, DIANE. SO, MARIA, WHAT ARE PEOPLE THERE SAYING ABOUT THIS STORM? THEY’RE EXPECTING INSIDE OF IT AS IT WENT THROUGH AND WHAT’S THE BIGGEST WORRY AT THIS POINT ? YOU KNOW, DIANE, WE JUST TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE THAT WORK NEARBY . THEY ACTUALLY WERE HOLDING A PROGRAM FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS . THEY SAID THAT AS THE STORM BLEW THROUGH, THAT PROGRAM WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND THEY COULD NOT HEAR THE ACTUAL WALL COME DOWN BEHIND ME BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH WIND AND SO MUCH RAIN COMING THROUGH THAT THAT SOUND IS WHAT OVERPOWERED EVEN A WALL COMING DOWN BEHIND ME. MANY PEOPLE STEPPED OUT OF THEIR HOMES, THEIR BUSINESSES AFTER THE STORM FINALLY BLEW THROUGH AND WERE AMAZED TO SEE HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT HAD DONE. I MEAN, THERE ARE DOWNED TREES ALL THIS AREA CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS THAT HAVE COME DOWN. WE EVEN HAD HEARD OF A CRANE CRASHING NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE . WE’RE GOING TO GO CHECK OUT IN JUST A BIT AS WELL. I MEAN, AT THIS POINT, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, ELECTRICITY IN THIS AREA WAS CUT OFF TO 800,000 PEOPLE, AS YOU MENTIONED. SO BEING ABLE TO GET THAT POWER BACK UP AND RUNNING IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO GETTING THIS CLEANUP PROCESS DONE. NOW, WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF CREWS COME OUT AND START SOME OF THE CLEANUP PROCESS. BUT AGAIN, A LONG WAY TO GO, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IF YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE DOWNTOWN AREA. A LOT OF LIGHTS ARE WORKING HERE. SO THAT’S GOING TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. AND THE DEBRIS THAT IS ON THE STREET AGAIN, SLOWING THIS PROCESS DOWN. I MEAN, THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS TAKING 2 TO 3 DAYS BEFORE WE ACTUALLY SEE THINGS BACK UP AND RUNNING IN HOUSTON. AND MARIA, IS THERE A TIMELINE DO THEY THINK, ON GETTING THE POWER UP? I MEAN, THERE’S ALWAYS THIS HOPE, RIGHT, THAT YOU’RE GOING TO GET IT UP IN A FEW. BUT I THINK HOUSTONIANS KNOW, ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH A NUMBER HURRICANES THAT HAVE COME THROUGH HERE, THAT IT COULD TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. BUT THE MAYOR WAS SAYING, LISTEN, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS FOR US TO FIRST CLEAN THE STREETS, THE DEBRIS, SO THAT WE CAN GET CREWS OUT TO THE LOCATIONS WHERE WE SEE THESE DOWNED POWER LINES. IF WE CAN DO THAT, THEN THE POWER WILL COME UP SOONER. FINGERS CROSSED THAT HAPPENS BY LATER TODAY. ALL RIGHT. FINGERS FOR YOU. >> MIREYA VILLARREAL IN HOUSTON. THANK YOU. DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER AND ATTORNEY, MICHAEL COHEN, IS SET TO RETURN TO THE STAND ON MONDAY AFTER HEATED TESTIMONY IN THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL. YESTERDAY, THE DEFENSE TRIED PAINT MICHAEL COHEN AS A SERIAL LIAR WHO’S OBSESSED WITH HIS FORMER BOSS, QUESTIONING A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY HAS THE LATEST HIGH. >> AARON. DIANE, THERE IS NO COURT HERE TODAY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE’S ATTENDING HIS YOUNGEST SON’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. AND UNLESS HE OPTS TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE, HIS TRIAL COULD BE OVER AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK. TESTIMONY BY TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER MICHAEL COHEN WILL END MONDAY. HE LIED FOR TRUMP FOR YEARS. HE LIED TO CONGRESS. HE SAID HE LIED TO A FEDERAL JUDGE. AND THE DEFENSE TOLD JURORS COHEN LIED TO THEM WHEN HE TESTIFIED, SPOKE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP BY PHONE ONE NIGHT IN OCTOBER 2016 ABOUT THE HUSH PAYMENT TO STORMY DANIELS THAT A LIE? DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD BLANCHE YELLED, ASSERTING COHEN WAS REALLY SPEAKING IN THAT PHONE CALL TO TRUMP’S BODYGUARD. COHEN HELD FIRM, THOUGH HE NEVER LOST HIS COMPOSURE. THE JURY MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO BELIEVE HIM SINCE HE IS THE ONLY WITNESS TO DIRECTLY TIE TRUMP TO THE BUSINESS THAT PROSECUTORS HAVE SAID TRUMP FALSIFIED SO VOTERS WOULDN’T FIND OUT ABOUT STORMY DANIELS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION. AFTER COHEN PROSECUTORS HAVE NO OTHER WITNESSES LEFT TO CALL. THE DEFENSE IS DECIDING WHETHER TO PUT ON A CASE, INCLUDING TESTIMONY FROM TRUMP HIMSELF. BUT I AM THE JUDGE SIGNALING THAT CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE LIKELY BEGIN AS SOON AS TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. >> DIANE. SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. THE JUDGE AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY TRIAL IS GIVING HIM THE DAY OFF TO ATTEND HIS SON, BARRON’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION IN FLORIDA. BUT TRUMP IS ALSO USING THE DAY TO CAMPAIGN IN MINNESOTA. ABC POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. RICK, WHAT MESSAGE IS TRUMP TRYING GET ACROSS IN THIS TRADITIONALLY DEMOCRATIC STATE? >> WELL, TWO THINGS. ONE IS MONEY GOES AND RAISES MONEY. WHAT YOU CAN DO THAT IN LOTS OF BLUE STATES AS WELL. THERE’S ALSO AN EMERGING VIEW THAT CAN BRING SOME OF THESE MARGINAL STATES THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER THAN OTHERS TO INTERVIEW. HE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN NEW JERSEY OVER THE WEEKEND. I DON’T THINK NEW JERSEY IS GOING TO FLIP, BUT MINNESOTA IS SOMETHING THAT’S WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. IT’S ALSO STRATEGICALLY CLOSE TO STATES LIKE WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN IN THE UPPER MIDWEST THAT ARE MORE IMPORTANT AND MORE REALISTIC TO WIN. >> NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN, MEANWHILE, IS GIVING THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, AN HBCU. SOME STAFF AND STUDENTS THERE HAVE EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION WITH HIS POLICY ON THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR AND ALSO FALLS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF ED, A SUPREME COURT RULING SCHOOLS. SO WHAT IS HE TRYING TO GET ACROSS WITH THAT? >> ALSO, IT’S A COLLEGE CAMPUS AFTER THIS CRAZY MONTH OF PROTESTS WE’VE SEEN. MOREHOUSE HASN’T HAD MUCH OF IT, BUT OTHER SCHOOLS IN ATLANTA HAVE. AND IT’S ALMOST INEVITABLE THAT WILL BE SOME KIND OF A PROTEST, MAYBE EVEN A WALKOUT. ORGANIZED BY STUDENTS. THE FACULTY THERE DECIDED TO AWARD IN AN HONORARY DEGREE. THERE WAS SOME TALK ABOUT NOT DOING THAT AS SOME KIND OF A FORM OF PROTEST, BUT HE IS GOING TO SHOW THE OUTREACH TO BLACK VOTERS, THE IMPORTANCE OF GEORGIA. AND I THINK TO SHOW THAT HE CAN GO TO A CROWD, EVEN A CROWD THAT MIGHT NOT BE ENTIRELY TO HIS MESSAGE IN THE MIDST OF THIS THIS KIND OF SPRING OF UNREST. NOW, BIDEN AND TRUMP HAVE NOW AGREED TO TWO DEBATES THIS SUMMER. THAT’S MUCH EARLIER THAN USUAL. WHAT’S THE STRATEGY THERE. IT’S BEYOND EARLY. I MEAN, THE DEBATE IN ABOUT A MONTH ON IS GOING TO BE THREE MONTHS EARLIER THAN ANY DEBATE IN THE HISTORY OF GENERAL AND OUR DEBATE OF ABC SEPTEMBER 10TH. THAT’S EARLIER THAN THAT THAN WHAT THE FIRST DEBATE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. THAT’S NOT GOING TO BE THE LAST DEBATE. SO I THINK THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN MADE CLEAR THEY WANTED THESE TWO DEBATES. THEY WANTED THEM TO BE EARLIER . PEOPLE ARE VOTING EARLIER THAN EVER. THAT’S AN IMPORTANT THING. ALMOST HALF THE COUNTRY IS NOW VOTING BEFORE ELECTION DAY. SO NOW YOU’LL BE AHEAD OF ALL OF THAT. BUT EVEN THOSE STANDARDS, IT’S WILD TO THINK THAT WE’LL HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION DEBATE WEEKS THE CONVENTIONS BEFORE DONALD TRUMP IS LIKELY TO PICK A RUNNING AND LONG, LONG BEFORE MOST PEOPLE ARE REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS CAMPAIGN. >> I MEAN WAS THERE A SENSE THAT BY THE TIME THE DEBATES HAPPENED, PEOPLE’S MINDS WERE ALREADY MADE UP? COULD THIS WITH THAT OR WHAT ELSE IS BEHIND IT? >> YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE VOTING EARLY, THE SENSE OF LET’S LET’S REALISTICALLY REFLECT WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING . I THINK STRATEGICALLY, IF YOU THINK THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM IN A DEBATE, MIGHT WANT TO DO IT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER AND KIND OF RACE THE MEMORY OF IT, A DEBATE THAT HAPPENS TEN DAYS OR TWO WEEKS BEFORE AN ELECTION. IT’S KIND OF HARD TO COME BACK FROM. IT’S POSSIBLE THAT THESE DEBATES GO REALLY WELL, THAT THEY WANT TO DO SOME MORE. MAYBE THE TEAM WANTS TO DO MORE. TRUMP SAYS HE’S GAME FOR MORE, BUT AS OF NOW, IT’S PRETTY WILD . >> WE STARTED THE WEEK THINKING THERE PROBABLY WOULDN’T BE DEBATES AND NOW THERE’S TWO WELL, TWO AND TWO EARLY ONES. ALL RIGHT. POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN. THANKS, RICK. THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, GOLF STAR SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES. WHY THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER WAS ARRESTED JUST HOURS BEFORE THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHAT HE’S SAYING ABOUT IT NOW. ALSO AHEAD, THE QUEEN REALITY TV, LISA VANDERPUMP IS SERVING UP LOOKS AND DISHING ON THE UPCOMING VANDERPUMP VILLA FINALE. WHAT SHE’S TELLING OUR WILL GANSS ABOUT A POTENTIAL TWO. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. ALL THE BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO IN CONTROL. THAT WAS TAPE IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS. BASICALLY HE’S GOT HIS COMPOUND . PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM WERE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. DO YOU THINK YOU? >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BECOME. SO WHAT? JUST SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE AND YOU TAKE IT INTO THE MEN’S SPHERE. >> NOW, STREAMING ON HULU. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST TOP GOLFER SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, THE NUMBER ONE RANKED GOLFER IN THE WORLD, IS NOW SPEAKING OUT AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY DRIVING PAST A ROADBLOCK JUST HOURS BEFORE THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. REPORTS SAY THAT ROADBLOCK WAS SET UP AFTER A WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A SHUTTLE BUS. THOSE REPORTS SAY SCHEFFLER TRYING TO DRIVE AROUND THE ROADBLOCK WHEN AN OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE CAR TO GET SCHEFFLER TO STOP AND THEN DETAINED HIM. SCHEFFLER HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AND IS BACK ON THE GOLF COURSE, FACES CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND RECKLESS DRIVING. HE HAS SAID IN A STATEMENT THAT IT WAS ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS MOVING TO EASE FEDERAL RULES ON MARIJUANA, RECLASSIFYING IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG. THE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, BUT EIGHT STATES HAVE ALREADY LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND 24 STATES ALLOW IT FOR RECREATIONAL USE. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS CALLING THE MOVE TO RECLASSIFY IT A MONUMENTAL STEP. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE SELINA WANG HAS MORE. >> THIS IS A HISTORIC MOVE TO EASE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS ON MARIJUANA. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MOVING TO RECLASSIFY IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG FROM A SCHEDULE ONE DRUG, WHICH INCLUDES HEROIN AND ECSTASY TO SCHEDULE THREE, WHICH INCLUDES TYLENOL WITH CODEINE. BUT THIS WON’T BE IMMEDIATE. THERE’S NOW A 60 DAY COMMENT PERIOD WHERE AMERICANS CAN WEIGH IN BEFORE IT’S MADE OFFICIAL. THIS ALSO DOES NOT LEGALIZE NATIONALLY, BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT MARIJUANA POSSESSION COULD COME WITH SEVERE PENALTIES. THE PRESIDENT, HE’S CAMPAIGNING ON THIS. IT COULD HIS REELECTION CHANCES, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUNG VOTERS AND BLACK AMERICANS, EVEN THOUGH WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS USE MARIJUANA AT SIMILAR RATES, BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED AND FACE CONVICTION. THIS. NOW, THE PRESIDENT, HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS MOVE SINCE 2022. HE’S ALREADY PARDONED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN ON FEDERAL OFFENSES FOR SIMPLE MARIJUANA POSSESSION. DIANE SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, SELINA WANG, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, LISA VANDERPUMP SPILLS THE TEA. WHAT SHE’S TELLING OUR WILL GANSS AHEAD OF THE FINALE OF VANDERPUMP VILLA. STAY US. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I AM TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME. A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> I DON’T SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR, SUBMERGED UNDER WATER? WEDNESDAY, GINA WILL SHOW YOU LIVE HOW TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER RUSHES IN AND MUST SEE LIVE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> 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 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 AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHT, BUT SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 YEAR OLD BUZZKILL AND FACE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. I’M A LITTLE LUCKY TODAY, RIGHT? WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . IF YOU’VE GOT THE SMARTS AND YOU’VE GOT THE EXPERIENCE. BEAUTIFUL GIRL. WHAT’S MISSING? FOLLOWING IT THROUGH. >> IT’S REALLY EYE OPENING, WORKING SO CLOSE WITH LISA AND WATCHING HER CARE SO MUCH REMINDS ME THAT I KNOW I’M IN THE RIGHT INDUSTRY AND I KNOW I’M ON THE RIGHT PATH BECAUSE I MIGHT GET A LITTLE UPSET, BUT THAT’S JUST BECAUSE I WHOLEHEARTEDLY CARE. >> YOU’RE RIGHT. I’LL TAKE CARE. NOW, YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE LISA VANDERPUMP FROM THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY AND VANDERPUMP RULES, BUT NOW LEAP IS TAKING HER TALENTS TO THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE. VANDERPUMP VILLA FOLLOWS LISA AND HER HAND-SELECTED STAFF AS THEY WORK, LIVE AND PLAY AT THE EXCLUSIVE ESTATE CHATEAU ROOSEVELT. AND OUR WILL GANSS CAUGHT UP HER HERE IN NEW YORK AHEAD OF THE SHOW’S FINALE. WELL, I KNOW THIS FUN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU. IT WAS A DREAM. TELL ME ABOUT IT. >> UNFORTUTUHEY DIDN’T SEND ME TO CHATEAU ROOSEVELT TO DO IT. WE DID IT AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE WE’RE SITTING RIGHT NOW. >> BUT THAT’S OKAY. BETTER FROM VILLA IT’S PART BELOW DECK, PART DOWNTON ABBEY AND, YES, PART VANDERPUMP, THE REIGNING QUEEN OF THE REALITY TV SCREEN, TOLD ME ALL ABOUT THE SHOW AND ON THE HORIZON FOR ARIANA MADIX, TOM SANDOVAL AND OUR OTHER BRAVO HULU MAINSTAYS, LISA VANDERPUMP. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH A VIP. YES, JESS IS THE FACE OF VANDERPUMP DOG FOUNDATION. SO WHO’S DOING A JOB? AND HE’S ALSO GETTING LOTS OF SCREEN TIME IN VANDERPUMP VILLA. >> HE SHOULD. YES, HE SHOULD. HE GOES EVERYWHERE WITH ME. THE SHOW IS SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH. I DON’T WEARING THE SAME COLOR. THANK YOU FOR THAT SMILE. LISA LAVIN. YES. SO. ROOSEVELT. YES. LISTEN. YEAH, I’M READY TO COME. SHOULD THERE BE A SEASON TWO? LET’S TALK ABOUT SEASON ONE. HOW DOES THE DRAMA, HOW DOES THIS CAST COMPARE TO THE OTHER CAST AND THE OTHER SHOWS THAT YOU’VE BEEN ON? WOW IS SO VASTLY. I MEAN, I’VE NEVER LIVE WITH MY STAFF AND I’VE NEVER HAD MY STAFF LIVING TOGETHER IN THAT DON’T SEEM LIKE THEY LIVE TOGETHER. I’M NOT IN A BUBBLE FOR SURE. BUT CHATEAU ROOSEVELT, THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE FELT VERY SERIAL, AND THIS SHOW WAS MORE ABOUT THE UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, YOU KNOW, BEHIND THE SCENES. >> THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING KIND OF CRAZY GOING. AND THEN YOU OPEN IT UP AND IT’S LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, LIKE, NO. SO IT WAS MORE ABOUT THAT, REALLY, WHICH I VERY INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, THE PLAYGROUND FOR THE STAFF IN THEIR OFF TIME BEHIND THE SCENES AND THEN THE THINGS THAT YOU TRIED DELIVER AND HOSPITALITY. BUT YEAH IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE EVEN. >> THE UNIFORMS THAT THE STAFF WEAR ARE STUNNING. YOU KNOW, THEY’RE THE BEAUTIFUL PASTELS. >> AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR WARDROBE ON THE SHOW FOR A MINUTE. >> ALL RIGHT, GORGEOUS. OH, THIS A LOT OF THIS COLOR AS WELL BECAUSE IT’S LIKE BELOVED ENOUGH FOR YOU KNOW, FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO INCORPORATE A LITTLE CHATEAU ROOSEVELT INTO THEIR SUMMER WARDROBE THIS SEASON. >> WHAT ADVICE DO YOU GIVE THEM? IT WAS MORE ABOUT THE FLOWY DRESSES, THE HATS. AND ALSO, I’M IN BUSINESS SUITS ALL THE TIME IN VEGAS IN MY BUSINESSES. AND VANDERPUMP ON MY NEW SHOW, FOOD STARS WITH GORDON RAMSAY. YOU I’M ALWAYS IN THAT VERY STRUCTURED KIND OF LOOK. THIS WAS ABOUT EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE MOMENT . SO, YEAH, I REALLY TRIED TO CAPTURE THAT WITH THE UNIFORMS. HOW DO YOU PUT TEAM TOGETHER AND DID ERIK’S SIX PACK ABS HELP HIM LAND THE. OH, WOW. WELL, ERIK, ACTUALLY, HE DID FOR ME BRIEFLY. YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW LOT OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE PERSONALLY, BUT I KNOW THAT WORK. I MEAN, THEIR RESUME, WHERE THEY WORKED, OR STEVEN, FOR INSTANCE, HE WORKED FOR ME IN VEGAS. HE HELPED ME OPEN MY NEW RESTAURANT, CREME DE LA CREME. I’M NOT TRYING TO USE THAT TO A CHEF. YES, CHEF. AND A SOUS CHEF DID A MAGNIFICENT JOB IN THE KITCHEN. SOME OF THE OTHERS WERE A LITTLE NAUGHTY, BUT WERE AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME WHEN IT CAME TO EXPERIENCE. >> WE HAD TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. AND I LOVE THAT WE GET TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE DOWNSTAIRS ASPECT. YOU KNOW, THERE’S NOT EVEN A LOVE TRIANGLE. I WOULD IT LIKE A LOVE DIAMOND AT THIS POINT GOING ON IN THE SHOW. >> YEAH. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE FINALE THAT AIRS THIS WEEK ? >> WELL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT ARC IS WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU KIND OF, YOU KNOW, COMES TO FRUITION I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MAYBE WEREN’T COMPLETELY HONEST WITH THEIR EMOTIONS. I THINK SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATION AND IT’S TIME FOR EVERYBODY YOU KNOW AND WE GO STRAIGHT INTO THE REUNION SO IT’S KIND OF THIS OKAY THAT WE’VE GOT IT NOW. >> LET’S TALK ABOUT IT. I’M A GREAT FAN OF REUNIONS IS ONLY ONE I’M SHOWING UP FOR. AND THAT WAS THE LAST HOUSEWIVES ONCE THAT DID NOT WANT TO REUNITE. BUT IF YOU WANT TO REUNITE, I THINK IN THAT KIND OF SETTING ,GET ALL YOUR FEELINGS OUT AND THEN MOVE FORWARD IS A GOOD THING. >> SPEAKING OF REUNIONS "VANDERPUMP RULES", WE SAW PART ONE OF THE REUNION LAST NIGHT. HOW ARE WE FEELING THIS MORNING? WELL, I WAS THERE, SO I DIDN’T ACTUALLY WATCH. I WAS WORKING HERE IN NEW YORK, BUT I LIVED IT. THAT WAS KIND OF MORE INTENSE. YEAH. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? WELL, THAT’S WHY WE’RE TAKING A BREATH. BUT I THINK THE CAST THAT CONTROLS IT NEEDS TO JUST TAKE A MINUTE AND LET THEM DEVELOP A LITTLE BIT OF THEIR OWN LIVES SO THEY’RE NOT JUST FOCUSED ON SCANDAL BECAUSE THAT WAS TRUE. TAKING UP EVERYTHING. I’M GLAD THAT YOU ARE EVERYONE IS TAKING A BREATH. YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT’S THE RIGHT MOVE. ARIANA’S BACK TO DO HER BROADWAY GIGS, SO, YEAH, SHE’S KICKING IT. I SAW HER IN CHICAGO. SHE’S JEALOUS. YEAH. YEAH, RIGHT. AND LIKE THAT. AMAZING ENTRANCE ON THE LADDER ON THE SIDE OF THE STAGE. IT’S COOL TO WATCH SOMEBODY SPREAD THEIR WINGS IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN TELL IS SO PERSONAL TO HER. SHE’S KICKING. SHE CONQUERED. AND I’M VERY PROUD OF THAT. FOR AND YOU CAN SEE THE PRIDE THAT YOU HAVE NOT ONLY FOR THE CAST OF VANDERPUMP RULES, ALSO THE WAY YOU NURTURE THESE PEOPLE IN VANDERPUMP VILLA. HOW YOU’LL CALL THEM INTO THE OFFICE AND KIND OF LIKE, HEY, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. DO YOU LOOK AT THEM? YES. YOUR CHILDREN. WHAT IS THAT RELATIONSHIP? I THINK SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SEE YOUNG PEOPLE AND LIKE, FOR INSTANCE TELLY, SHE WAS SO FRUSTRATING TO ME BECAUSE SHE SO OFTEN WANTS TO GIVE UP. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THAT, OH, I WANT TO GO HOME. I’M LIKE, THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE FINEST MOMENTS OF YOUR LIFE. ENJOY IT. AMAZING. I MEAN, THE WAY THAT YOU TREAT THE VERY MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY AND NOT MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY ACROSS THE WORLD IS JUST SO LOVELY TO SEE IN THE WAY THAT YOU NURTURE AND INSPIRE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. >> YOU KNOW, I LOVE THEM ALL REALLY? >> YEAH. I MEAN, I DO CALL IT HOW I SEE IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T MIX MY WORDS. I THINK PEOPLE KNOW THAT, BUT THEY ALWAYS KNOW I HAVE THE BEST INTENTIONS FOR ALL OF THEM. RIGHT. THIS IT’S NOT EASY FOR YOUNG STRUGGLING, GROW UP, ESPECIALLY ON REALITY TELEVISION. ABSOLUTELY NOT. SPEAKING OF REALITY, BEFORE I LET YOU GO. YES, I’VE BEEN WORKSHOPPING MY REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINE. ALL RIGHT. ARE YOU GOING TO TWIRL AND PROPER DINING WORLD? OKAY SO YOU MIGHT ADD THAT INSTEAD OF A DIAMOND, YOU CAN’T GO ON. >> I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER, BUT IN THE STREAM OF LIFE, I’M ALWAYS THE HEADLINE. I QUITE LIKE THAT. I QUITE LIKE THAT. NOT BAD. >> BUT I THINK GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE IT A LITTLE SHORTER, CONSOLIDATE, SAY, I THINK I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER AND I’LL ALWAYS HAVE THE HEADLINE. >> OKAY, THERE WE GO. HEY, THERE IT IS FROM THE BEST, RIGHT? FROM THE BEST. >> IT DOESN’T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THAT. THANK YOU. OH, WOW. ALL RIGHT. NO WORD YET ON SEASON TWO OF VANDERPUMP VILLA. BUT IF I WAS TO MAKE A VERY EDUCATED GUESS, I THINK POSSIBLY THE NEXT INSTALLMENT COULD TAKE PLACE IN ITALY. AND IF MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED, I WILL BE THERE IN MAY. LISA LAVENDER HANGING OUT WITH LISA DONUT, THE DOG AND WITH YOUR INTRO, OF COURSE. >> YEAH. NOW I’M READY TO GO NOW THAT IT’S BEEN WORKSHOPPED BY THE WAY AND HEARD. SO SHOULD WE LEAVE THE TEASE FROM NOW ON WITH WILL’S NEW TAGLINE JUST HERE’S T WITH WILL GANSS. I MIGHT BE A NEWS REPORTER, BUT IN THE LIVE OF LIFE I’M ALWAYS THE HEADLINE. >> I GO, THAT’S A BUY FOR ME AGAIN. >> THANK YOU, BRIAN. THANK YOU, DIANE. HERE’S MORE HEADLINES FOR YOU. THANKS FOR STREAMING ME THAT SAME DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS CONTEXT ANALYSIS AND REALITY TV SHOW TAGLINES, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES, THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABC NEWS.COM, THE NEWS STOPS . WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. WATCHING MY BIG TV WEEKNIGHT, IT’S THE OPPOSITE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? OPERA CORPORATION LIFE? AT SOME POINT DURING COMBAT OPERATIONS? SO WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATE ON NUCLEAR REACTORS. WE HAVE A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO UPS. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE, THE USA. >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF THIS? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE YOU. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> IT’S REAL DAVID DAVIS. >> OH, YES, YES, I’M YORK. >> I KNOW YOU DO. EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> I EXPERIENCED LOT OF HARD I AM A TOUGH WOMAN BUT IT’S NOT EASY YOU’RE GOING FEEL LONELY IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR BABY. >> I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. >> WOW. WELCOME BACK TO ABC LIVE. FIRST, THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. YOU’RE LOOKING AT NEW YORK CITY ON THIS FRIDAY. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWS TO GET TO. HERE’S A RUNDOWN RIGHT NOW. RESIDENTS IN TEXAS ARE CLEANING UP AFTER BEING SLAMMED WITH 80 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED NEAR HOUSTON. ASTROS FANS WERE SCRAMBLING INSIDE THE BALLPARK WHEN THE RAIN CAME THROUGH. THE CLOSED DOME YESTERDAY MARKED A 22ND STRAIGHT DAY WITH A CONFIRMED OR REPORTED TORNADO. AND THE U.S. DESPERATELY NEEDED HUMANITARIAN AID IS NOW PASSING THROUGH THE NEWLY FINISHED U.S. PIER, ANCHORED TO A IN GAZA. MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY THEY’RE AIMING TO USE THE PIER TO 150 TRUCKLOADS OF FOOD AND SUPPLIES A DAY TO THE TORN REGION. THE PENTAGON SAYS THE DELIVERIES ARE A MULTINATIONAL EFFORT TO HELP PALESTINIANS ON THE BRINK OF FAMINE. AND TICK TOCK IS TESTING POSSIBLY LETTING USERS POST HOUR VIDEOS. THE COMPANY SAYS SELECT USERS WILL TEST RUN POSTING LONGER VIDEOS IN AN EFFORT TO COMPETE AGAINST PLATFORMS LIKE YOUTUBE IT SAYS THERE’S NO IMMEDIATE PLAN FOR A WIDER ROLLOUT YET. AND THE NEW YORK RANGERS ARE ADVANCING TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS AFTER HANDING THE CAROLINA HURRICANES A PAINFUL DEFEAT. FANS ARE CELEBRATING STAR LEFT-WING CHRIS KREIDER, WHO SCORED A HAT TRICK IN THE THIRD PERIOD TO SECURE THAT BIG COMEBACK. THE RANGERS HAVEN’T WON THE STANLEY CUP SINCE 1994, AND SINGER JOHN OATES FROM THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO HALL AND OATES IS OPENING UP ABOUT HIS LEGAL DISPUTE WITH FORMER BANDMATE DARYL HALL. >> HALL HEADLINES LAST YEAR WHEN HE SUED OATES OVER THEIR MUSIC CATALOG, OATES SAYS THE FEUD MIGHT JEOPARDIZE THEIR FUTURE. HE SAT WITH OUR MICHAEL STRAHAN FOR THIS ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE WHILE HALL AND OATES EVER PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN. NOT FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, BUT YOU NEED TO ASK DARYL HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT THIS MORNING. JOHN OATES, HALF OF THE LEGENDARY ROCK DUO KNOWN AS HALL AND OATES, FAMOUS FOR HUGE HITS LIKE RICH GIRL KILLER, DOWN AND YOU, YOU KNOW, IT DON’T MATTER ANYWAY. AND YOU MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. >> YOU’RE SITTING DOWN, OPENING UP ABOUT HIS SIDE OF, THE LEGAL BATTLES HE’S CURRENTLY FIGHTING AGAINST HIS CREATIVE PARTNER OF 50 YEARS, DARYL HALL. LAST YEAR HALL FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST OATES, ALLEGING THAT OATES ATTEMPTED TO SELL A SHARE OF THEIR JOINTLY OWNED COMPANY, HALL OATES, WITHOUT HALL’S PERMISSION. DID YOU TRY TO SELL HALF OF THE COMPANY OR YOUR ART? >> YEAH, I DID. AND LET ME TO YOU WHY I DID. WHEN THIS WHOLE SITUATION GOT MIRED IN LEGAL AND REALLY COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, LEGAL WRANGLINGS, I GOT FRUSTRATED AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? DARYL HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE HIS OWN MAN. I SAID, I’M GOING TO GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. IF I SELL MY HALF HE CAN EITHER, YOU KNOW, HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS. AND IT WAS KIND OF RUINING MY LIFE TO. BE HONEST WITH YOU. I COULDN’T I WASN’T HAPPY. I SAID, WELL, I’LL JUST STEP ASIDE. >> AND PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, YOU LOOK LOOK AT ALL THE ARTISTS WHO WERE SELLING ALL CATALOGS. IT’S PRETTY COMMON. IT’S NOT NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. BUT DARYL DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA THAT I WOULD SELL TO A CERTAIN THIRD PARTY. >> HE SAID THAT THE ALLEGED PLAN TO SELL, QUOTE, A COMPLETELY CLANDESTINE AND BAD FAITH MOVE AND CALLED IT, QUOTE, THE ULTIMATE PARTNERSHIP BETRAYAL. >> DO YOU SEE IT THAT WAY? I STRONG WORDS. YEAH, VERY STRONG WORDS. BUT YOU SEE IT THAT WAY. >> NOT AT ALL. I DON’T, BECAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS AT OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS WORKING TOGETHER. AND I FELT LIKE I HAD THE RIGHT TO DO THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE DIDN’T. >> AND I THINK AS FANS SIT BACK AND YOU GO, OH, THEY MADE THIS INCREDIBLE MUSIC. THEY MUST BE IN SYNC AND WE HAVE THIS BOND. BUT YOU TWO HADN’T WORKED TOGETHER CREATIVELY IN OVER 20 YEARS, RIGHT? >> THAT’S RIGHT. THE ONLY THING WE DID TOGETHER WAS PLAY CONCERTS WHERE WE JUST WENT OUT THERE AND TROTTED OUT THE HITS FOR BEFORE LAWSUIT CAME ABOUT. >> WERE THERE ANY DISAGREEMENTS? NO, NOT REALLY. WE NEVER REALLY HAD A LOT OF DISAGREEMENTS. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE NEVER REALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER VERY MUCH AFTER, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS, WE’D SHOW UP AT A SHOW INDIVIDUAL, WALK ON STAGE, PLAY, AND THEN WE’D GO OUR SEPARATE. IT REALLY WASN’T AS AS TIGHT AS PEOPLE MIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE’D LIKE TO IMAGINE IN THERE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A FANTASY IMAGINATION, YOU KNOW, OUR RELATIONSHIP BECAME PRETTY DARYL HALL SAID ALL I CAN SAY, PEOPLE CHANGE. >> AND SOMETIMES YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW SOMEONE LIKE YOU THOUGHT YOU DID. >> HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT? I GUESS HE SURE LOOKED A LITTLE CLOSER. HAS CHANGED, IN YOUR OPINION? I BELIEVE HE HAS, YES. >> I BELIEVE HE’S CHANGED A LOT. IF DARYL HALL IS WATCHING RIGHT NOW, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO HIM? SAY, I HIM LIKE A BROTHER. WE LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER. IF I’M TALKING TO HIM DIRECTLY . AND BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? BROTHERS HAVE DISAGREEMENTS. FAMILIES GROW APART. I WOULD SAY I WISH HIM THE BEST I HOPE THAT HE HAS EVERYTHING HE WANTS IN LIFE. AND THAT HE CAN PURSUE HIS DREAM OF BEING A SOLO ARTIST, WHICH I BELIEVE IS SOMETHING THAT HE’S ALWAYS WANTED SOLO IS SOMETHING I HAD ALSO WANTED THIS WEEK, RELEASED ON HIS EIGHTH SOLO ALBUM TITLED REUNION. I’M GETTING READY FOR MY MAKING DREAMS. >> YOU RECORDED THIS NASHVILLE? YEAH, I WILL BE IN THERE IN NASHVILLE. >> DID THAT INFLUENCE YOUR SOUND? OH, SO MUCH. MY MOVE TO NASHVILLE HAS REALLY CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME BECAUSE BEFORE I MET DARYL HALL, I WAS A KIND OF A ROOTS ACOUSTIC GUITAR, BLUES, FOLK MUSICIAN. WHEN WE MET, WE KIND OF COMBINED OUR INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCES AND CREATED SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW. BUT THAT GUY THAT MUSICIAN WAS ALWAYS THERE IN THE BACKGROUND, KIND OF IDLING, YOU KNOW. >> AND WHEN I MOVED TO NASHVILLE, TAP BACK INTO IT AND IT REALLY ME A NEW LEASE ON MY MUSICAL LIFE WITH THIS FIELD HIS WHAT CAN FANS EXPECT FROM THE NEW MUSIC? >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO REALLY COMMIT TO A PROJECT AND TO TO A FUTURE OF IN MUSIC. >> THE TITLE TRACK WAS INSPIRED BY MY 100 YEAR OLD FATHER WHO TOLD ME HE WAS GOING TO REUNITE WITH MOM, WHO’S AWAY YEARS BEFORE. AND WHEN HE SAID THAT TO ME, I OF THE WORD REUNION, WHAT IT REALLY MEANS I’M MAKING IT FOR MY. AND I SAID REUNITING. AND I REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS I WAS REUNITING WITH MY MUSICAL SELF AND MY PERSONAL MYSELF AS A MAN AND AS A MUSICIAN THAT’S ABOUT A PERSON ALL OVER AGAIN. >> IT IS THE MOST PERSONAL I’VE EVER DONE. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO BE? I WANT MY LEGACY BREAK DOWN BARRIERS. >> I’M LOOKING TO EXPRESS MYSELF HONESTLY TO BE A GOOD FATHER. I WANT TO BE A GOOD HUSBAND. I WANT TO BE A GOOD AND I WANT TO I WANT TO ENJOY MY LIFE. >> WELL, I THINK YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED ALL OF THAT NOW YOU’RE GETTING THERE. MICHAEL STRAHAN, THANK YOU. AND ABC HAS REACHED OUT TO DARYL HALL COMMENT, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. COMING UP, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER RELEASED AFTER DOING SOME TIME BEHIND BARS THIS MORNING. WHY TOPGOLF FOR SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES. ALSO AHEAD, THE TAYLOR SWIFT EFFECT. THE ARREST TOUR IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE U.K. ECONOMY THIS SUMMER. HOST THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS TAYLOR. WELCOME TO THE HEIRESS TOUR. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA ON AN OPERATION. AFTER ISIS’S PLUNDERED COMBAT OPERATIONS ON WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR REACTORS. WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG. THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE? THE USA. >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? HOW ARE YOU? APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TEMPERATURE. ISRAEL. >> DAVID? >> YES. YES. I’M DAVID YORK. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO? EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES PLAYED VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING THEY PURCHASED THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK FROM THAT. THAT’S A CRIMINAL ACT. SINS OF THE PARENTS. >> THE CRUMBLEY TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. >> ONLY ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS START. 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 RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS. 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 FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S THE 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 LIVE REPORTING. >> BREAKING NEW EXCLUSIVES. KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST FIRST PERSON IMPLANTED WITH ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK BRAIN CHIP IS SPEAKING OUT ABOUT HOW IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE. >> THE DEVICE, WHICH AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS, ALLOWS THE USER TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR PHONE WITH THEIR MIND. ABC’S WILL REEVE IS IN ATLANTA WITH MORE ON HOW THAT FIRST PATIENT SAYS IT’S IMPACTING HIS LIFE IN PROFOUND WAYS. >> I DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WAKE UP FOR IN THE MORNING AND THIS HAS CHANGED THAT FOR ME. >> IN A "GMA" BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE, NOLAND ARBOR, THE FIRST HUMAN IMPLANTED WITH A NEURALINK CHIP IN HIS BRAIN, IS TELLING HIS STORY. >> I ACCEPTED THAT I WAS PARALYZED AND THAT THAT WAS MY LIFE. I ALWAYS HELD OUT HOPE THAT IT WOULD GET BETTER. >> AT 22 YEARS OLD, NOLAN SAYS HE DOVE HEADFIRST IN WAIST DEEP WATER, STRUCK SOMETHING AND SUSTAINED A SPINAL CORD INJURY. >> HE COULDN’T MOVE FROM THE SHOULDERS DOWN. FROM THE TIME OF YOUR INJURY UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHAT WAS YOUR DAILY LIFE LIKE? I MEAN, ONE THING ABOUT BEING PARALYZED IS THAT THERE’S A LOT OF TIME TO SIT AND THINK. AND SO I THOUGHT THROUGH BASICALLY MY WHOLE LIFE AND REALIZED ALL THE MISTAKES I’D MADE AND WHAT I COULD DO BETTER. >> THEN JUST LAST YEAR, NOLAND, NOW 30, RECEIVING A CHANGING OPPORTUNITY. >> ONE DAY, ONE OF MY BUDDIES FROM COLLEGE CALLED ME UP. WE TALKED PRETTY REGULARLY AND HE WAS LIKE, HEY, NEURALINK OPENED UP THE HUMAN TRIALS. >> AND I SAID, WHAT’S NEURALINK? NEURALINK CO-FOUNDED ELON MUSK IS AN EXPERIMENTAL IMPLANTABLE BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE, OR BCI, A CHIP SURGICALLY IMPLANTED BY A ROBOT AND CONNECTED BY THREAD TO A PATIENT’S BRAIN THAT THE PATIENT TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR SMARTPHONE WITH THEIR MIND. AND THIS IS ALL FROM THERE TO THERE. NO MAN. >> WOW. NEURALINK IS NOT THE ONLY COMPANY WORKING ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. SEVERAL OTHERS ARE ALSO TESTING THEIR BOXES IN PARALYZED VOLUNTEERS. NOLAND NOW JOINS THAT SMALL GROUP AS NEURALINK’S PATIENT. >> I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL IN THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? >> I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU’VE PLAYED SOME MUSIC? YEAH, MAN. SO DO YOU WORRY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST PATIENT, THAT SOMETHING UNFORESEEN COULD GO WRONG, THAT THIS IS INSIDE YOUR HEAD? I WOULDN’T SAY WORRY. IT WAS SOMETHING WHERE I KNEW THAT IF I DID THIS, THEN IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF HEADACHE, HEARTACHE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD. >> JUST LAST WEEK, NEWS THAT SOME OF THE THREADS IN NOLAN’S BRAIN HAD RETRACTED, AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVICE. >> HOW DID YOU TAKE THE NEWS WHEN THEY TOLD YOU THAT THREADS HAD RETRACTED? YEAH, IT WAS REALLY HARD. IT WAS VERY, VERY HARD TO UP ALL OF THE AMAZING THINGS THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO. I THINK, I HAD LIKE, CRIED BASICALLY AFTERWARDS. >> THE PROBLEM BECOMING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MAKERS OF NEURALINK TO EXPLORE SOLUTIONS. >> THE REASON WE DO CLINICAL TRIAL AND EARLY FEASIBILITY TRIALS IS TO UNCOVER THESE SORT OF ISSUES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY GET MARKETED. WE ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND FOUND VARIOUS WAYS TO, YOU KNOW, FOR NOLAN, BE ABLE TO RECOVER PERFORMANCE, WHICH WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BEEN ABLE TO DO. >> AS FOR NOLAN, THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY ONLY LOOKS BRIGHT. >> IT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING. SOMEONE CAN HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY, GO TO A HOSPITAL, GET SURGERY AND WALK OUT A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER. I THINK IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. >> I DON’T THINK IT’S AS FAR AWAY AS PEOPLE MIGHT THINK . >> NOLAN’S IS HIS PRIMARY CAREGIVER. SHE FEEDS HIM AND HIM AND GETS HIM OUT OF BED. AND IT’S STILL QUITE HARD, THE FAMILY LIVING WITH THIS PARALYSIS. AND WHILE THE NEURALINK DEVICE WON’T CHANGE ANY OF THOSE PHYSICAL REALITIES, NOLAN SAYS THAT THIS DEVICE AND ITS EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE AND HIS FAMILY’S LIFE FOR THE BETTER. AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT FOR NEURALINK CO-FOUNDER GE TOLD ME, THEY’RE LOOKING TO IMPLANT PARTICIPANTS NUMBER TWO AND THREE IN THE COMING MONTHS. DIANE GARY COOL WILL REEVE IN ATLANTA, THANK YOU. >> NOW IT’S TIME FOR OUR WEEKLY SEGMENT, BUT TELL IT LIKE IT IS. WE’RE ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL SHARES HEALTH ADVICE ON THE TOPICS THAT MATTER MOST TO YOU. TODAY’S ANSWERING SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS DR. PATEL ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. SO LET’S START WITH NINA FROM THE BAY AREA. NINA WANTS TO KNOW, DOES MY YEAR OLD ACTUALLY NEED TO BE SCREENED FOR LEAD EXPOSURE? >> POPULAR QUESTION AND IT DEPENDS IF THERE IS ANY RISK, RISK FACTORS OR CHANCE YOUR CHILD WAS EXPOSED TO LEAD THIS COULD BE IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME THAT WAS BUILT BEFORE 1978 AND CERTAIN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES, THERE IS A HIGHER RISK AND REFUGEES IMMIGRANTS OR IF YOU WORK OR HAVE A HOBBY THAT HAS LED EXPOSURE TO IT, YOUR CHILD DOES NEED TO GET TESTS BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE LEAD POISONING IS FROM A BLOOD TEST AND HIGH LEVELS OF BLOOD EXPOSURE OVER TIME CAN CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT. WE SAW THIS PRESENTED IN A GRAND WAY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO IN FLINT, MICHIGAN. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, DIANE, IS PREVENTION. AND SO YOU CAN GET AN OLDER, HOME TESTED. YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF CHILDREN’S POSSIBLE EXPOSURES FROM PEELING PAINT, TOYS, JEWELRY, EXPOSED PIPES, EVEN DIRT AROUND THE HOME. AND IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO GET YOUR WATER TESTED OR USE FILTERED WATER IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS. >> ALL RIGHT. THESE ARE GREAT TIPS. I WANT TO MOVE TO ABBY FROM MILWAUKEE NOW BECAUSE ABBY TO KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MOUTH TAPING AND SLEEP. >> I HAVE TO ACTUALLY LOOK THIS UP BECAUSE AT FIRST I WAS LIKE MOUTH TAPING. IS THAT SOME FORM OF LIKE SILENT TREATMENT YOU GIVE YOURSELF? >> BUT WHAT MOUTH TAPING IS REFERRING TO WITH A TIK TOK TREND IS, IS PLACING A PIECE OF TAPE AROUND YOUR MOUTH OR ON YOUR MOUTH OR A HEAD DEVICE TO AVOID BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU SLEEP ANECDOTALLY. SO THIS IS NOT PROVEN BY RESEARCH, BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING IS THAT SLEEPING TO THEIR NOSE CAUSES THEM TO HAVE BETTER SLEEP QUALITY REDUCED YOUR RISK OF HAVING BAD BREATH. AND SOME PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT IT’S GOOD FOR THE SHAPE OF YOUR FACE, I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANY RESEARCH TO PROVE THAT ONE PHYSIOLOGICALLY. >> TO ME, IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE BECAUSE YOUR NOSE FILTERS ,AIR AND HUMIDIFY IT. BUT AGAIN, THERE’S NOT ENOUGH RESEARCH TO MAKE A SWEEPING RECOMMENDED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD MOUTH TAPE. SOME PEOPLE DO SAY THAT MOUTH TIPPING REDUCE YOUR RISK OF SNORING. AS SOMEONE WHO MIGHT SNORE EVERY NOW AND THEN. AND MY WIFE IS NOT ON CAMERA BECAUSE SHE’D PROBABLY AGREE. YOU WANT TO REDUCE. TRY AVOIDING SLEEPING ON YOUR BACK. MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT, AVOID ALCOHOL AND SMOKING. YOU CAN TRY NASAL STRIPS OR A MOUTHPIECE AND WITH A DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE WORRYING ABOUT SNORING AFFECTING YOUR SLEEP QUALITY OR MAYBE YOUR MARRIAGE. >> GREAT TIPS, DR. PATEL. I WILL ADD, GET SCREENED FOR SLEEP APNEA BECAUSE IF YOU TAPE YOUR MOUTH SHUT, THERE MAY BE A REASON YOU’RE BREATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH. AND IF IT’S BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING FOR NOSE, WE OBVIOUSLY DON’T WANT THAT. YOU’RE BASICALLY SUFFOCATING YOURSELF IN YOUR SLEEP. PLEASE DO THAT. THANK YOU, DIANE. BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU BEEN SCREENED FOR SLEEP APNEA YET? MR. SNORE? >> MR. SNORE IS SET UP FOR A SLEEP TEST. I DON’T CONSISTENTLY SNORE, THOUGH. >> I’M JUST GOING TO DEFEND MYSELF. RIGHT. THAT. BUT I DO HAVE A SLEEP STUDY SCHEDULED. >> ALL RIGHT. I LIKE TO. I LIKE TO POKE DR. PATEL EVERY NOW AND THEN AND NAG NAG HIM A LITTLE BIT. >> AND THIS IS REAL. THIS IS AN ORGANIC CONVERSATION. DR. PATEL, IT’S ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THANK SO MUCH. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR., LEAVE HIM A MESSAGE ON HER INSTAGRAM FEED. FEEL FREE TO NAG HIM LIKE I DO . YOU WANT HE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY. COMING UP FAST AND FURIOUS. >> WE ARE AT CANNES CATCHING WITH THE CAST OF THE ACTION PACKED MAD MAX SAGA. ALSO, KENDRICK LAMAR IS TOPPING THE CHART. SO DID HIS BEEF WITH DRAKE GIVE HIM A BOOST? MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN IN THE DROP. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC? 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 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 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 TONIGHT. GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY, THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE’VE SEEN RIOT GEAR, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS, THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH ,ALL THE BUZZKILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL THAT WAS ENTERTAINED IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY, THANK GOD, THIS COMPOUND WORK. PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A BUSINESS FROM WERE NOT THE FIRST WHEN WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY YOU THINK HE YOU THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY THIS TO BECOME SOMEONE ELSE. THEY SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE INTRASTATE THE MAN A SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU RIGHT NOW THERE’S JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD, SO MUCH AT STAKE AT THE START EVERY MORNING MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL. THAT’S NOT ALWAYS SO EASY AND THAT’S WE COME IN. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. WE WANT YOU TO KNOW EVERY MORNING WE’RE RIGHT HERE AND WE GOT YOU 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. >> ARE YOU READY FOR IT? I’LL BE YOUR HOST THIS EVENING . NAME IS TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO THE ARAB. >> WELCOME BACK. TAYLOR SWIFT’S ARREST TOUR IS HEADED FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. THIS SHE WILL PERFORM 15 SHOWS IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND . NOW, BRITISH BANK BARCLAYS IS PROJECTING SWIFT WILL ADD MORE THAN $1,000,000,000 TO THE ECONOMY THERE. >> BUT EVEN TO FLIGHTS AND GET THIS, THE OVERALL COST OF ATTENDING ONE OF SWIFT’S SHOWS IN EUROPE IS OFTEN LOWER THAN JUST THE TICKET PRICE ALONE IN US. SWIFT’S NEXT SHOW IS IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, TONIGHT, AND EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING FOR THE UPCOMING WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF THE NEW MOVIE FURIOSA A MAD MAX SAGA. AUDIENCES AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL GAVE THE PREMIERE A MORE THAN SIX MINUTE STANDING OVATION. OUR MAGGIE RULLI SPOKE WITH STARS HEMSWORTH, ANA TAYLOR-JOY AND TOM BURKE JUST AHEAD OF THAT, TAKE A LOOK. IT’S THE ACTION PACKED, WINDING DOWN, DYSTOPIAN EPIC. FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING NEARLY A DECADE FOR FURIOSA, THE PREQUEL TO BLOCKBUSTER OSCAR HIT FURY ROAD AND THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT IN GEORGE MILLER’S MAD MAX SAGA, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH. LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE AND DEMENTORS WE HAVE HERE YOUR CHARACTER. >> WELL, LET’S JUST SAY IT’S REALLY GOOD TO SEE YOU LOOKING LIKE YOURSELF IN THAT SHOWER. >> YEAH, THAT’S GOOD. YEAH. GEORGE HAD THIS KIND OF IMAGE OF SORT OF ROMAN EMPERORS AND SO ON, AND THE BRIDGE NOSE AND THE PROFILE BEEN QUITE SORT OF PROMINENCE THAT THE HAIR AND THE BEARD AND THE AGING MAKEUP. IT’S SO WONDERFUL TO SORT OF LOSE YOURSELF WITHIN, THE LOOK OF THE CHARACTER, NOT RECOGNIZE THE PERSON STARING BACK AT YOU. IT CERTAINLY THE IMMERSION INTO THAT SPACE IS A FAR EASIER TRANSITION THAN IF IT’S, YOU KNOW, IF IT’S ME. LOOKING BACK AND ANYA TAYLOR-JOY AS FURIOSA, THIS FILM PUSHES ALL THE LIMITS. >> HOW DID YOU PREPARE. I STILL DON’T HAVE MY DRIVER’S LICENSE. AND SO THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY DID WAS PUT ME IN A CAR, ME ON THE MOTORBIKE, AND JUST A LOT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING JUST TO BE ABLE TO DO THE STUNTS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. >> THAT’S LIKE SAYING YOU DON’T HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE. >> YEAH, I HAVE MY DRIVER’S LICENSE. >> SO YOU CAN JUST BRING THE MOVIE TO THE DMV. HE’S GOING TO THEM A LINK. >> TOM BURKE AS WARRIOR FOR TORY AND JACK THE FAN AND YOU WHEN IT’S HAPPENING KIND OF 360 AROUND YOU WHICH IT FEELS LIKE IT IS WHEN YOU’RE DOING A LOT OF THE SHOW YOU WANT TO JUST STOP THE TAKE AND GO HANG WHAT’S THAT GUY WEARING? >> YEAH, SHOW ME YOUR BOOTS. >> WOULD YOU GUYS COME BACK FOR A C? >> YES. YES. WELL, REFUSE TO ANSWER THAT IN THE GROUNDS THAT I GIVE AWAY SOME CONTENT AS FAR AS VERY NICE AND WELL, IN. AND DIANE, IT TOOK A LOT TO CREATE WORLD OF MAD MAX. THERE WERE AT LEAST 200 STUNT ACTORS, MORE THAN A THOUSAND CREW MEMBERS. AND SOME OF THOSE SCENES TOOK NEARLY 80 DAYS TO FILM DIANE. THIS MOVIE WAS ALSO A FAMILY AFFAIR. CHRIS’S ACTUALLY ACTED IN SOME SCENES WITH HIM, AND THEY OFTEN BROUGHT THEIR THREE KIDS TO SET. CHRIS SAID. HAVING THEM THERE WAS A GREAT REMINDER TO TAKE THE WORK SERIOUSLY, BUT NEVER HIMSELF. DIANE I LOVE THAT, MAGGIE. >> REALLY. THANK YOU. AND IT’S TIME NOW FOR THE DROP WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE BIG MUSIC HEADLINES OF THE WEEK. >> ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, DJ, RADIO PERSONALITY MEGAN RYTE IS HERE TO BREAK IT DOWN FOR US. >> MEGAN KNOW WE HAVE A LOT TO KNOW THIS WEEK, SO I’M GOING TO HAND IT OVER, EDUCATE US. WE DO. WE DO, OF COURSE. NOW LET’S KICK THIS OFF WITH A ALL RIGHT. >> SO EVERY YEAR WE HAVE THE NEWS ABOUT WHO NOMINEES ARE FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. AND EVERY YEAR PEOPLE DISSECT THE LIST, ME INCLUDED, PICK IT APART, EXPRESS EXCITEMENT FOR THE NOMINEES AND ALSO WE TALK ABOUT WHO WE THINK IT WAS LEFT OFF. NOW, SOMEONE WHO I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE WAS LONG OVERDUE FOR A NOMINATION WAS CHER. AND SHE CLEARLY FELT A LOOK, TOO, BECAUSE BACK IN DECEMBER, SHE TOLD KELLY CLARKSON SHE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF IT EVEN IF THEY GAVE HER $1 MILLION, SHE’S LIKE, I’M NOT GOING TO DO IT. I AM HAPPY. THEN MONTHS LATER, SHE HAS CHANGED HER MIND AND IN A INTERVIEW SHE SAID SHE WAS GRATEFUL ABOUT HER PENDING INDUCTION, BUT SHE WARNED, I’M GOING TO HAVE SOME WORDS TO SAY. I’M GOING TO ACCEPT AS ME. AND THAT’S ALL WE WANT. CHER, WE LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. NOW. WE’RE THE HALL OF FAME ALONGSIDE A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, THE DAVE MATTHEWS, MARY J. >> BLIGE, OZZY OSBORNE, FOREIGNER PULLING THE THING AND PETER FRAMPTON ON OCTOBER 19. AND NOW, SPEAKING OF NOMINEES, IT’S AWARDS SEASON, THE 2024 VP AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE IN AND DRAKE IS LEADING PACK WITH SEVEN NOMINATIONS NOW ALSO FOLLOWED BY NICKI MINAJ WITH SIX. SHE HAD A GREAT YEAR. WELL, THEN WE HAVE J. COLE, RED SCISSOR AND VICTORIA MONET TIED WITH FIVE NOMINATIONS EACH AND THEN LONG 21 SAVAGE, BEYONCE, DOJA CAT, MEGAN THEE STALLION TYLER AND USHER EACH WITH FOUR. NOW BETTY ALSO RELEASED THE FIRST ROUND OF ARTIST CONFIRMED TO PERFORM THE SHOW AND IT’S LOOKING LIKE A GOOD SHOW ALREADY GLOBAL A LOT OF MONEY LONG BRASH AND VICTORIA MONET NOW CULTURE BIGGEST NIGHT THE 24 BET AWARDS WILL AIR LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES SUNDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 8 P.M.. NOW, WHILE IS SITTING ON TOP OF THE BETTY AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST, KENDRICK SITTING ON TOP OF THE CHARTS. >> ALL RIGHT. 2024 HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR KENDRICK AS HE LANDS ON TOP OF THE BILLBOARD CHARTS FOR THE SECOND TIME. >> NOW AFTER LIKE THAT, WHICH WAS, OF COURSE, A HIT NUMBER ONE. AND THE SONG THAT MOST RECENTLY SPARKED THE DRAKE KENDRICK BEAT. KENDRICK HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH NOT LIKE US. AND SO I DON’T KNOW WHY DIAMOND OR SOMETHING. AND FOR SOME REASON I’M GOING TO LIKE THE BEAT ISN’T COMPLETELY OVER WITH. I GUESS WE’LL SEE. NOW IN VIRAL NEWS, BILLIE NEW ALBUM HIT ME HARD AND SOFT IS OUT NOW. CHECK OUT A CLIP. LUNCH. SOME FANS ARE CALLING IT THE SONG OF THE SUMMER. I CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH. I COULD BUY A SONG SO CRAZY NOBODY COULD COME OUT OF THEIR SETUP. I JUST MAN, I LOVE CLEAR. >> I LOVE YOU SOME BILLIE EILISH. I’VE SEEN ALL THE PROMO UP TO THE ALBUM, SO HAPPY THAT HER ALBUM IS FINALLY OUT. MEGAN RYTE. LOVE ALL OF IT. THANK YOU. YES, OF COURSE. UNTIL NEXT TIME. UNTIL NEXT TIME. AND THANK YOU AT HOME FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME. WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES. THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEARTACHE. I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. >> IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> AND I DO SEE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. >> TONIGHT, GETTING A INSIDE GOSPEL AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> WHAT YOU GET TO WATCH? WHERE CAN I GET A GREAT DEAL ON WHAT? I’M JUST DYING 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. EXTREMELY DENSE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. 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 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 MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE. >> IT’S LUNCHTIME AMERICA. >> SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOUR HOW? YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS, MUSIC. AND OF COURSE, FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE. ME REPORTING FROM SPARTANBURG, PENNSYLVANIA ON STEPHANIE RAMOS. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE THIS STREAMING ABC NEWS ON RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. BRUTAL STORMS HITTING THE LONE STAR STATE. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED. MORE THAN A MILLION MORE REMAIN WITHOUT POWER. WE ARE LIVE ON THE SCENE. PLUS, BLEEP MY WIFE, PLEASE. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO THROWING HIS WIFE UNDER THE BUS, BLAMING FOR DISPLAYING THIS SYMBOL OF THE STOP THE STEAL MOVEMENT ON HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE INSURRECTION. THE LATEST AS JUSTICE ALITO PREPARES TO RULE ON MULTIPLE JANUARY 6 CASES AT THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND AND WANT A MULLIGAN ON THIS ONE. THE TOP GOLFER IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A FELONY ON, HIS WAY TO PLAY AT A MAJOR TOURNAMENT. WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS THIS HOUR. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY, A DEADLY OUTBREAK OF EXTREME WEATHER ACROSS THE GULF COAST. IT HIT ESPECIALLY HARD IN TEXAS. SEVERE STORMS THERE SLAMMING THE STATE, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE, MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THAT STORM NOW BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FOUR DEATHS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS SEEN DOWNING TREES AND KNOCKING OUT POWER. NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES NOW IN THE DARK. CREWS SAY THAT THOSE OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR WEEKS. SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CANCELED. GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE RIDING OUT THAT STORM DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. >> WE CAN LITERALLY HEAR A FIELD BUILDING AND THEN THE HUMAN TOLL WAS COMING DOWN IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS. TORRENTIAL RAINS SO HARD, OFFICIALS THERE WARNING OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. ALSO, CITY OFFICIALS ARE URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS. OR EXTREME WEATHER TEAM IS TRACKING ALL THE DAMAGE AND, THE FORECAST. WE WANT TO BEGIN, THOUGH, WITH KEVIN OWENS, THE BACK OF OUR ABC STATION IN HOUSTON. >> KEVIN, JUST TELL US HOW BAD IT IS WHERE YOU ARE. WELL, CAROL, I’M RIGHT HERE IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. AND JUST LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE CITY TODAY RIGHT HERE ALONG THIS DOWNTOWN. THERE IS GLASS EVERYWHERE. AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHY THAT THE WELLS FARGO BUILDING YOU ARE LOOKING AT AND IF YOU LOOK UP FLOOR, FLOOR AFTER FLOOR, YOU ARE JUST GOING TO SEE SHATTERED WINDOW. SHATTERED WINDOW. I MEAN, EVEN AS YOU LOOK UP TWO FLOORS, 30, 40, 50 AND BEYOND. >> YOU CAN PEEK RIGHT INTO OFFICE BUILDINGS HERE. THIS STORM JUST PUMMELED DOWNTOWN HOUSTON RIGHT AROUND 6 P.M. LAST NIGHT. SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DURING THE HEART OF EVENING RUSH. AND THIS MORNING WE MET A WOMAN WHO WAS STILL UNDER A 39TH FLOOR OFFICE. SHE DESCRIBED IT AS JUST BEING ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. SHE SAYS HER BUILDING WAS SHAKING. IT WAS. AND WHAT REALLY HORRIFIED HER WAS WATCHING HER OFFICE WINDOW JUST BLOW. SO WHAT BROKE ALL OF THESE WINDOWS? WELL, KYRA, JUST TAKE A WALK DOWN THESE SIDEWALKS AND THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SEE. YOU’RE GOING TO SEE HUGE PIECES OF JUST SHREDDED METAL LIKE THIS. SO IMAGINE THIS WHIPPING AROUND DOWNTOWN HOUSTON DURING THE EVENING RUSH. SO THAT’S WHY YOU SEE SO MANY SHATTERED WINDOWS TODAY. ALSO, TREE LIMBS ARE DOWN ALL OVER THE PLACE. YOU LEAVE THE DOWNTOWN CORE AND GET INTO THE SUBURBS. LAST NIGHT, AS WE STARTED TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE. WE FOUND A TREE LONGER THAN 100 FEET THAT JUST CAME DOWN BECAUSE OF THIS STORM. MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE, THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON, IS URGING PEOPLE NOT COME DOWNTOWN TODAY. >> HERE’S WHAT ELSE HE SAID THIS MORNING. I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND UTILITY WIRES DOWNTOWN IS A MESS. IT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC. >> SO STAY AT HOME. AND KYRA, YOU KNOW VERY WELL HERE ALONG THE GULF, WE KNOW SEVERE WEATHER, BUT IT’S PRETTY SHOCKING TO SEE ALL OF THIS. AND KNOW THAT THIS DID NOT COME FROM A HURRICANE, BUT RATHER JUST AN AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORM. I JUST I’M LOOKING BEHIND YOU AND JUST SEEING THE BUILDINGS YOU JUST TAKING US ON KIND OF A 362. ARE THERE USUALLY AT THIS TIME, DOWNTOWN HOUSTON IS BUSTLING. I MEAN IS EVERYTHING SHUT DOWN KEVIN FOR THE DAY AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND. >> SO CITY BUILDINGS ARE ABSOLUTELY CLOSE. BUT ON TOP OF THAT, THE MAYOR WAS PLEADING WITH PEOPLE, IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK FROM HOME, PLEASE DO THAT. MOST OF THE PEOPLE YOU SEE OUT TODAY ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE LIKE . THEY’RE OUT TRYING TO FIX THINGS LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, TO GET TO THIS PARKING LOT WAS JUST KIND OF CRUMBLED BECAUSE OF THE STORM. THEY’RE ALREADY WORKING ON, GETTING IT BACK INTO SERVICE. BUT WE’RE NOT GOING TO RETURN TO NORMAL, AT LEAST NOT ANY TIME SOON. MORE THAN 700,000 PEOPLE RIGHT NOW IN THE HOUSTON AREA ARE WITHOUT POWER. CENTERPOINT, THE MAIN POWER UTILITY, IS WARNING THAT IT COULD BE AT LEAST FEW DAYS UNTIL EVERYONE HAS POWER RESTORED. >> INCREDIBLE, KEVIN. APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH, DALLAS. BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN. SO, MELISSA, THERE’S ACTUALLY A NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY, RIGHT? >> THERE IS, CAROL. WE’RE NOT DONE YET FOR THE GULF COAST. THANKFULLY, TEXAS IS GOING TO BE GETTING A BREAK SO THEY’LL BE ABLE TO CLEAN UP FROM WHAT WAS EITHER A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS TOPPING 70 MILES PER HOUR OR POTENTIALLY TORNADO. AND I’LL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS SURVEY THE DAMAGE ACROSS THE DOWNTOWN HOUSTON AREA. NOW, HERE’S THE FLOOD WATCH THAT IS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW. THANKFULLY, TEXAS HAS EXPIRED. ALL OF THEIR FLOOD WATCHES AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST. BUT WE STILL HAVE THAT FLOODING THREAT FROM NEW ORLEANS AND BATON ROUGE, STRAIGHT ACROSS THE GULF COAST, RIGHT INTO PENSACOLA AND PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA, UP INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THIS IS THROUGH TOMORROW. BUT IT’S THIS RED AREA. THIS IS THE SECOND HIGHEST LEVEL, THAT MODERATE RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN GEORGIA. THIS IS THROUGH TODAY WHERE SOME SPOTS COULD SEE LOCALLY MORE THAN SIX INCHES OF RAIN OVER NEXT 24 HOURS. AND, KYRA, IT’S NOT JUST THAT. MORE SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE AREAS THAT COULD SEE MORE FLOODING KYRA. OKAY. WE’LL KEEP TRACKING IT. KEVIN, MELISSA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. DESPERATELY NEEDED AID IS FINALLY ARRIVING IN GAZA, THE FIRST TRUCKS MOVING THROUGH A TEMPORARY U.S. BUILT JUST OFF THE GAZA STRIP FOR THE FIRST TIME AMID PRESSURE TO GET THE FOOD AND THE SUPPLIES INTO THAT WAR TORN REGION. IT IS, BUT THERE WILL ONLY BE A FEW TRUCKS ACTUALLY COMING DOWN TO THE PIER TODAY. TROOPS WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT WILL BE STABLE. IT’S FLOATING AND IN A SPECIAL OPERATION, SADLY, ISRAELI SOLDIERS SAY THEY RETRIEVED THE BODIES OF THREE MORE HOSTAGES KILLED BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER SEVENTH. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARCUS MOORE IS IN TEL AVIV WITH THE LATEST. MARCUS, FIRST TALK ABOUT THIS OPERATION. HOW IS IT WORKING? HOW MANY TRUCKS FULL OF AID ACTUALLY WILL BE COMING THROUGH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS? WELL, KYRA, AS SIGNIFICANT AS THIS PIER IS AND THE FIRST BEGINNING DAYS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, WE DON’T ANTICIPATE THAT MANY TRUCKS WILL BE GOING FROM THE PIER. IN FACT, IT WILL PROBABLY ONLY BE ABOUT A DOZEN OR SO. BUT THAT IS JUST IN THE BEGINNING, AS YOU MENTIONED, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PIER IS WORKING PROPERLY. BUT THE PLAN IS FOR AS MANY AS 150 TRUCKS A DAY TO GO FROM THIS PIER AND TAKE A VERY CRUCIAL AID AND SUPPLIES TO THE PEOPLE IN GAZA. THIS PIER, AS YOU MENTIONED, IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF A NUMBER OF AID ROUTES INTO GAZA BEEN SHUT DOWN, PARTICULARLY THE ONE IN RAFAH TO THE SOUTH IS COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN AND THERE’S ONLY A TRICKLE OF AID COMING IN FROM THE KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, WHICH IS ALSO IN THE SOUTH. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME OTHER AID ROUTES THAT HAVE OPENED THE NORTH, BUT KYRA, IT IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH. AND THAT IS THIS THIS THIS ALL THIS TEMPORARY PIER OFF, THE COAST OF THE GAZA STRIP IS SO CRITICAL AND WILL BE SUCH A HUGE HELP TO FAMILIES IN GAZA. >> IT SURE WILL. AND WE’LL FOLLOW EVERY THAT THOSE TRUCKS COME, COME IN. LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT MORE KNOW ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THESE BODIES, THE THREE HOSTAGES THAT WERE ACTUALLY KILLED ON OCTOBER 7TH, AND HAVE THEY BEEN RETURNED TO ISRAEL? YEAH, THIS IS JUST A A VERY SAD UPDATE, AS YOU KNOW, KYRA. SO MANY FAMILIES HERE, ISRAEL, HAVE BEEN PRESSURING THE GOVERNMENT TO TO FIND THEIR LOVED ONES. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ISRAELI FORCES RECOVERED THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGES WHO UNDERSTAND HAD INITIALLY ESCAPED THE NOVA MUSIC FESTIVAL ,BUT THEY WERE LATER MURDERED AND THEN THEIR BODIES TAKEN TO TAKEN TO GAZA AND IN THE MIDST OF AN OPERATION TO RECOVER THEIR BODIES, ISRAELI OFFICIALS FOUND THEM AND THEY ARE TO BE BROUGHT BACK HERE TO ISRAEL IS REALLY THE ONLY DETAILS WE HAVE AT THIS POINT. BUT AGAIN, KYRA, IT DOES SPEAK TO THE FACT SO MANY FAMILIES NOW ARE DESPERATELY CALLING ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO REACH A DEAL, A HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL TO, BRING THEIR LOVED ONES HOME. >> MARCUS MOORE FROM TEL AVIV, MARKUS, YOU SO MUCH. WELL, CONGRESSIONAL HEARING OR CAGE, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO. YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS. IT WAS A HOUSE HEARING LAST NIGHT OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT CONGRESS. AND IT JUST DEVOLVED INTO A SHOUTING MATCH, SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FAKE EYELASHES, TOO. AND I’M QUOTING HERE. BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILT BLEACH BODY. >> GRAB YOUR POPCORN. I THINK YOUR FAKE ARE MESSING UP. AIN’T NOTHING. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY. >> HOW DARE YOU? A APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON. >> ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY THE TRIPLE. OKAY. IT MOVE TO STRIKE. OH, WE SHOULD JUST KEPT GOING. NOW THEY’RE MOVING TO STRIKE. WHAT? JUST WENT DOWN. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE’S COMMENTS OBVIOUSLY DERAILED THINGS FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR, BUT SHE WASN’T THE ONLY ONE WEIGHING IN. BY THE WAY. THEN CHAIRMAN JAMES GILMER REPEATEDLY TRYING AND FAILING. MAINTAIN ORDER. OUR JAY O’BRIEN ON CAPITOL HILL. JAY. >> IT’S JUST REALLY HARD TO HAVE A STRAIGHT FACE WHEN WHEN SETTING UP A STORY LIKE THIS. I MEAN, I KNEW THINGS GET PRETTY BAD IN CONGRESS, BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING ELSE. YEAH, AND CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, I DON’T LIVE IN THIS BUILDING. SO I WAS HOME WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON LATE LAST NIGHT. AND A COLLEAGUE OF MINE, OUR HOUSE PRODUCER, LAUREN PELLER, WHO HAD VOLUNTEERED TO WATCH THESE PROCEEDINGS LATE INTO THE EVENING CALLED ME AND SAID, YOU HAVE TO TURN ON THE FEED OF THIS HEARING. THEY ARE SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER. WE EXPECTED THAT THIS WAS TO BE SOMEWHAT TAME BECAUSE IT WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT COMMITTEE WAS GOING TO MOVE TO HOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONTEMPT FOROT TURNING OVER AN AUDIO RECORDING OF AN INTERVIEW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN DID WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATING HIS HOLDING ON TO CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT WE DIDN’T EXPECT THIS. IT WAS LATE AT NIGHT. THEY WERE SHOUTING EACH OTHER THAT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE COMMENT ABOUT THE EYELASHES WAYLAID FOR AN HOUR WHILE LAWMAKERS SHOUTED AT EACH OTHER. AT TIMES AND THEN TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCEDURALLY RESPOND. IT WAS FIRST FOR A PROCEEDINGS LIKE THIS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> AND JUST JUST LOOKING AT JAMES RASKIN IS HILARIOUS HIS REACTION. BUT, YOU KNOW, JASMINE CROCKETT AND, YOU KNOW, GOING IT’S JUST TOO MUCH. I MEAN, LAWMAKERS LIKE SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN ALREADY TWEETING, SAYING THAT THIS TOPS JERRY SPRINGER. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, RASKIN ACTUALLY CAME FORWARD, GAVE AN INTERVIEW THAT’S APPEARED ON A COUPLE OF OTHER NETWORKS THAT THEY WERE DRUNK. I MEAN, WHAT YOU KNOW, JAY, IS SO I THINK YOU TAKE THAT WITH A BIT OF A GRAIN OF SALT. I THINK WHAT RASKIN WAS REFERRING TO WAS AN ALLEGATION THAT WAS MADE A REPUBLICAN IN THAT CHAMBER WHEN TENSIONS WERE RUNNING HIGH. ONE REPUBLICAN FROM THE DAIS, AN APPALLING A LUNATIC. AND THERE ARE MEMBERS IN HERE DRINKING. AND IT WAS UNCLEAR WHAT SHE WAS REFERRING TO. BUT I’VE TALKED TO SOURCES WHO WERE IN THE ROOM WHO SAY THAT THAT ALLEGATION IS UNFOUNDED AND APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT. I TALKED TO ONE SOURCE WHO WENT SO FAR AS TO TAKE A WATER BOTTLE OUT OF THE TRASH AND SNIFF IT TO MAKE SURE IT DIDN’T HAVE ALCOHOL IN IT. AND THIS CONFIRMS IT DID NOT HAVE ALCOHOL IN IT. SO, AGAIN, TAKE THOSE COMMENTS WITH A GRAIN SALT. BUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IS REALLY REVERBERATING ACROSS CAPITOL HILL WITH LARGELY EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN I’VE TALKED TO SAYING THAT WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE THE HOUSE. I THINK WE HAVE THIS SOUND HERE. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON WEIGHING IN ON WHAT HE SAW. >> IT WAS NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR. CONGRESS AND WE ALL, I THINK, NEED TO CONTROL THE EMOTIONS BETTER AND GET THE JOB DONE TO CONTROL THE EMOTIONS BETTER AND GET THE JOB DONE. AND I’VE HEARD FROM REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE BOARD WHO SAY THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO MOVE ON FROM WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. WELL, YOU KNOW MIKE JOHNSON IS A VERY RELIGIOUS PERSON. I THINK HE NEEDS TO BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER IN A PRAYER CIRCLE AND REALLY FIGURE THIS OUT. JAY O’BRIEN WHAT A WAY TO WRAP UP A FRIDAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. SO NOW TO A RARITY SO FAR, THIS CAMPAIGN SEASON, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ARE BOTH MAKING CAMPAIGN STYLE EVENTS ON THE SAME DAY. WELL, SHOULD SAY MAYBE THE SECOND RARITY, JUST TALKING ABOUT CONGRESS THAT WAS THAT WAS PRETTY RARE TO SEE. BUT NOW WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND THE PRESIDENT. BIDEN WAS ACTUALLY SPEAKING AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, ANNOUNCING $20 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS FOR PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHILE COMMEMORATING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION. THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR DEMOCRACY WORTHY OF OUR DREAMS STARTS WITH OPENING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY. EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION. AND WE CAN DO. YOU JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED OF AMERICA. THERE’S NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER. >> AND AS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WELL, HE USED HIS DAY OFF FROM COURT TO ATTEND SON’S GRADUATION IN FLORIDA. AND THEN HE’S HEADED TO A CAMPAIGN IN MINNESOTA. LET’S BRING IN OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS. SO HOW SIGNIFICANT MARYALICE IS BIDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHAT IS WHAT IS HE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THESE THEMED EVENTS? LOOK HERE, LIKE YOU SAID, HE WAS SPEAKING ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASE, BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION. HE WAS TALKING AT THIS ACP EVENT THERE AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM, TALKING TO A LARGELY BLACK CROWD. A LOT OF GRADUATES FROM HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES, AND TALKING ABOUT HOW HIS HAS MADE HUGE, REALLY UNPRECEDENTED INVESTMENTS, HBCUS. AND ALSO, LIKE YOU SAID, TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW THIS NEW ANNOUNCEMENT, A NEW GRANT PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO WORK ON DIVERSITY. HE USED THIS MOMENT TO REALLY DRAW A CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS AND REPUBLICANS. HE BLASTED THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND WHAT HE CALLED MAGA FRIENDS FOR GOING AFTER DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS. HE SAID IT’S AKIN TO THEM AWAY OTHER FREEDOMS, FIGHTING AGAINST ACCESS TO VOTING FIGHTING AGAINST ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. HE SAYS THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION IS ON THE SIDE OF VOTING ACCESS, ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. IT’S CLEARLY THEME THAT WE’RE GOING TO KEEP HEARING AT ALL OF THESE CAMPAIGN STYLE EVENTS KYRA. RIGHT. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP CAMPAIGNING IN THE TRADITIONALLY BLUE STATE OF MINNESOTA. AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS HAPPENING AFTER. HE ATTENDED HIS SON’S GRADUATION. WHY DOES HE THINK THAT CAN WIN THERE? >> YEAH. TONIGHT, HE HEADS TO MINNESOTA. LIKE YOU SAID, IT’S INTERESTING. THEY THINK THAT THEY COULD PUT THE STATE IN PLAY. I MEAN, THIS IS A SOLIDLY BLUE STATE. IT IS NOT VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN IN A PRESIDENTIAL RACE FOR DECADES. BUT I THINK THE REPUBLICANS KNOW THIS IS ALSO A STATE WHERE BLUE PARTS HAVE GOTTEN BLUER, BUT RURAL RED HAVE GOTTEN REDDER. AND, LOOK, THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME REAL DIVISIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WE’VE SEEN THAT AT PLAY, PLACES LIKE MINNESOTA. WE’VE SEEN YOUNG DEMOCRATS. WE’VE SEEN ARAB-AMERICANS IN THAT STATE REALLY PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS ADMINISTRATION. SO A BIG QUESTION FOR REPUBLICANS ABOUT WHETHER THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME NORMALLY RELIABLE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS MIGHT STAY HOME. ALL RIGHT, MARYALICE PARKS THERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR US. MARYALICE, THANKS. WELL, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER RIGHT NOW, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, WELL, HE’S HAD A VERY BUSY MONTH. HE’S WON THE MASTERS, WELCOMED FIRST CHILD AND NOW HE’S GOT A MUG SHOT. HE WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE THIS MORNING WHEN POLICE CLAIMED HE DIDN’T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AT A ROADBLOCK, CAUSING AN OFFICER TO ACTUALLY FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. BUT THE STORY DOESN’T STOP THERE. MARK SLOVAK, OUR SENIOR WRITER FOR ESPN. >> YOU GUYS WERE ALL OVER THIS EARLIER TODAY. I WAS. TELL ME JUST THE LATEST IN THIS CRAZY STORY. >> BECAUSE I KNOW THERE’S MORE TO IT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, KYRA. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER SAID IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING, BUT LOUISVILLE POLICE SAID ONE OF ITS OFFICERS WAS DRAGGED TO THE GROUND AND SUFFERED SUFFERED INJURIES TO HIS WRIST AND KNEE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER EVALUATION. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER WAS HANDCUFFED RIGHT OUTSIDE THE GATES OF VALHALLA GOLF CLUB. HE WAS BOOKED IN A DOWNTOWN JAIL AND RELEASED ABOUT 8:40 A.M. THIS MORNING. HE ARRIVED AT VALHALLA LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE HIS FIRST SECOND ROUND TEE TIME. HE’S OUT ON THE GOLF COURSE NOW, JUST THE TURN. HE FACES CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, WHICH IS A FELONY AS WELL AS THREE MISDEMEANORS. HE HAS A COURT HEARING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY MORNING. >> AND WILL, WE’RE ON. MARK, I’M JUST LOOKING AT THE DETAILS IN THE IN THE POLICE REPORT HERE AND IT STATES, DETECTIVE GILLIS UNIFORM OR. WELL, DETECTIVE GILLIS IS IS THE OFFICER THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HIS UNIFORM PANTS VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $80 WERE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. WHAT IS SCHEFFLER SAYING ABOUT THIS? >> HE SAID HE NEVER INTENDED TO DISOBEY THE OFFICER’S INSTRUCTIONS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS THROUGH A STATEMENT. HE ISSUED ON INSTAGRAM JUST BEFORE HE TEED OFF HERE TODAY. BUT HE SAID HE DIDN’T DISOBEY. NEVER INTENDED TO DISOBEY. HE SAID IT WAS A CHAOTIC SITUATION. HIS ATTORNEY TOLD ME OUTSIDE THE JAIL MORNING THAT SCOTTY WAS UNAWARE THAT THERE WAS A FATAL WRECK RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD AND JUST SAID IT WAS THERE WAS THERE WAS AND IT WAS CRAZY. AND THAT SCOTTY FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS HE’D BEEN GIVEN PREVIOUSLY ABOUT HOW TO GET INTO THE COURSE, TO SHOW HIS CREDENTIAL AND MOVE AROUND THE TRAFFIC AND, YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO HIS ATTORNEY, THIS WAS NOT AN OFFICER THAT WAS PART OF THE TRAFFIC DETAIL THERE, WHICH LED TO SOME OF THE MISCOMMUNICATION. >> WELL, MARK, AS WE KNOW, AS GOLFERS AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, WHAT’S KEPT ME OUT OF EVER HAVING A GOOD GAME IS THE MENTAL PART OF THE GAME? IS EVERYTHING AND SCOTTY IS CLEARLY ONE OF THE BEST GOLFERS IN THE WORLD RIGHT. NOW HE GETS OUT OF JAIL AND THEN HE HE HITS THE TRAIL, TEES OFF AND GOES FORWARD. >> I MEAN, IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE HE WAS RATTLED BY THIS. >> HE HE MOVED QUICKLY INTO FOCUSING ON THE GAME THAT WAS ORIGINALLY HIS NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD. HE’S ONE OF THOSE GUYS COMPARTMENTALIZE THINGS BETTER THAN IF YOU GO BACK TO THE MASTERS IN APRIL. HIS WIFE, MEREDITH, WAS BACK IN DALLAS. THEY WERE EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD. HE WAS ABLE TO PUT IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND AND WANT A SECOND GREEN JACKET. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE’S RIGHT HERE IN CONTENTION AGAIN. BUT AS A LOT OF A LOT LEFT TO PLAY OVER THE WEEKEND. BUT, YOU KNOW, AS HE SAID, SOMEBODY WAS KILLED BY A BUS THIS MORNING. SO IT WAS LIKE SOME PERSPECTIVE, OF COURSE. >> MARK SLABAUGH, APPRECIATE YOU. THANKS. >> COMING UP, JUSTICE ALITO UNDER FIRE. THIS PHOTO OF AN UPSIDE DOWN FLAG OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST AFTER JANUARY 6. WHAT’S THE DEAL? WE’LL TELL YOU YOU WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE FROM UKRAINE, REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE, TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THIS STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. IN BEIRUT, THE FBI, BEFORE HE PUT THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. 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 NEWS LIVE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER. FABIO, TELL ME THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK IS. THE TWIST HERE. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT. >> THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC . GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. BLAME MY WIFE, PLEASE. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SAYING THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT FLAG HANGING UPSIDE THAT FLAG, A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL AND THAT FLAG WAS SEEN HANGING OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHING PICTURE OF THE FLAG RIGHT THERE OUTSIDE HIS HOME. ALITO NOW SAYING HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN PUTTING THIS UP, POINTING FINGER AT HIS WIFE. HERE’S OUR SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN. >> AN UNUSUAL CONTROVERSY IS SWIRLING AROUND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS PHOTO. IT SHOWS THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES HOME WITH AMERICAN FLAG FLYING UPSIDE DOWN OUTSIDE OF IT. AND THE TIMES SAYS IT WAS TAKEN IN JANUARY 2021, JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK, JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN TOOK OFFICE, FLYING THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN IS MEANT TO BE A SIGNAL OF DIRE DISTRESS IN INSTANCES OF EXTREME DANGER ,ACCORDING TO THE U.S. FLAG CODE. IT’S ALSO BEEN USED AS A SYMBOL OF PROTEST OVER THE YEARS AND AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION, SOME OF DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ADOPTED THE UPSIDE DOWN FLAG TO OBJECT TO BIDEN’S VICTORY, FALSELY CLAIMING STOLE THE ELECTION. >> THE TIMES REPORTED EMAILS BETWEEN ALITO’S NEIGHBORS SEEM TO SHOW THAT THE UPSIDE DOWN FLAG FLYING FOR MULTIPLE DAYS. SOME INTERPRETING IT AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT BY THE COUPLE. >> THEY WERE INCREDULOUS BECAUSE ONE OF THE BEDROCK RULES OF BEING A FEDERAL JUDGE IS THAT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS. >> REPRESENTATIVES FOR ALITO AND THE COURT DID NOT RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FROM ABC NEWS. BUT THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAYS JUSTICE ALITO CONFIRMED INCIDENT TO THEM, TELLING THE TIMES THAT IT WAS SOLELY HIS WIFE DECISION TO FLY THE FLAG LIKE THAT AND THAT SHE WAS IN A DISPUTE. THE COUPLE’S NEIGHBORS, AFTER ONE DISPLAYED AN ANTI-TRUMP SIGN, CONTAINED A CURSE WORD. ALITO WRITING TO THE TIMES. I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBORS USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONAL INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. >> IT’S DAYS JANUARY 6TH. IT’S A YEAR BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN’S. THE COURT WAS STILL CONSIDERING WHETHER TO TAKE A 2020 ELECTION CASE. SO IT WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE LEGAL ISSUE. >> JUSTICE ALITO HAS A HISTORY OF STIRRING POLITICAL. UNUSUAL FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THE AUTHOR OF DECISION THAT OVERTURNED ROE VERSUS WADE, HE MOCKED CRITICISM THAT RULING THAT ENDED A FEDERAL RIGHT TO ABORTION. >> I HAD THE THIS TERM OF WRITING, I THINK THE ONLY SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF THAT INSTITUTION THAT HAS BEEN LAMBASTED BY A WHOLE STRING OF FOREIGN LEADERS. >> AND ALITO FAMOUSLY, PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE 2010 STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH WHEN OBAMA CRITICIZED THE COURT’S CITIZENS UNITED CAMPAIGN FINANCE. ALITO CALLING OUT NOT TRUE THAT OBAMA. >> ONE POSSIBLE CONCERN ABOUT THAT UPSIDE DOWN FLAG AT JUSTICE ALITO’S HOME. THERE ARE STILL CASES BEFORE THIS STEMMING FROM JANUARY 6TH, INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S, OF ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR HIS ACTIONS AT THAT TIME. AND ONE MORE THING, KYRA. THERE HAS BEEN NO STATEMENT FROM MRS. ALITO, WHOM JUSTICE ALITO BLAMES FOR THIS INCIDENT HERE. >> INTERESTING TO NOTE, TERRY MORAN. >> SEE YOU AT 3 P.M. EASTERN. COMING UP, A COURTROOM SHOWDOWN. ALEC BALDWIN’S LAWYERS FIGHTING TO DISMISS CHARGES FOR THAT DEADLY MOVIE SET SHOOTING . WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA LIKE AN OPERATION AFTER A COMBAT CENTER? WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR REACTORS. SO WE HAVE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO AROUND. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF POWER. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S.? >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? HOW ARE YOU? APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. IT’S MALE DAVID. YES. YES. I’M DAVID. KNOW YOU ARE. >> YOU DO? EVERY NIGHT. ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES OR PLAY VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO HAVE COLLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP AND BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED A SCHOOL SHOOTING. THEY PURCHASED THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A CRIMINAL ACT. >> SINS OF THE PARENTS. THE CRUMBLEY TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. ONLY ON HULU. >> REPORTING FROM BURLINGTON VERMONT. RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THE PATH OF TOTALITY. WHEREVER STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING IT. THIS LOSER, ALEC BALDWIN, WELL, HE WANTS HIS INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE TIED TO THAT DEADLY 2021 MOVIE SET SHOOTING. DISMISS IT. AND A JUDGE IS NOW LISTENING. BALDWIN WAS PRACTICING A CROSS DRAW ON THE SET OF THE WESTERN FILM WHEN THE REVOLVER HE WAS HOLDING FIRED A LIVE ROUND, KILLING 42-YEAR-OLD CINEMATOGRAPHER ALENA HUTCHINS . >> OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE JOINING ME NOW. SO YOU’VE BEEN WATCHING THE HEARING BY REMOTE. FILL US IN ON WHAT’S HAPPENING, BRIAN. YEAH. >> SO, SO FAR, THE DEFENSE HAS MADE ARGUMENT ON A NUMBER OF GROUNDS, ONE, THAT THE PROSECUTION MADE A WAIVER, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THAT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PROSECUTION CONDUCTED THE GRAND JURY PRESENTATION OF THIS CASE WAS COMPLETELY WRONG AND INCLUDE THINGS LIKE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE OR EVIDENCE THAT PROVE ALEC BALDWIN WAS INNOCENT. IT ALSO GEARED THE JURY TOWARDS EVIDENCE THAT WAS A FULL VIEWING OF WHAT OCCURRED. AND THE DEFENSE ARGUES THAT YOU HAVE A DISMISSAL, THE INDICTMENT NOT NECESSARILY ALL THE CHARGES, BUT THE INDICTMENT. >> SO IN THE FILE, IN THE FILING, BALDWIN’S ATTORNEYS ARE ACCUSING PROSECUTORS ACTUALLY OF DISPARAGEMENT OF BALDWIN AND OF VIOLATING EVERY RULE IN THE BOOK TO SECURE A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT. SO WHAT’S THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE ACTOR’S ATTORNEYS ARE GOING TO GET THIS CHARGE DROPPED, DO YOU THINK? >> WELL, I ONLY SAW THE DEFENSE’S ARGUMENTS AND THEY SEEM PRETTY STRONG. DON’T FORGET, EVERY STATE HAD DIFFERENT RULES AS TO HOW YOU CONDUCT A GRAND JURY. BUT THE WAY THAT PRESENTED HERE AND THE DEFENSE’S CASE, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF THIS CASE. BUT UNDERSTAND, WINNING THIS CASE DOESN’T MEAN THE ENTIRE CASE GETS OUT. WINNING THE CASE MEANS THAT THE INDICTMENT GETS DISMISSED AND. THE PROSECUTOR WILL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THIS CASE. BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW SPECIFIC RULES THAT THE DEFENSE AND IF THE JUDGE AGREES. THE PROSECUTOR DIDN’T FOLLOW THE FIRST OR SECOND GO AROUND. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL KEEP TRACKING IT. BRIAN, KEEP US UPDATED TODAY. APPRECIATE. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS NEITHER, DO WE? >> A LOT MORE NEWS ON THE OTHER SIDE. I’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED. HE’S IN RIOT GEAR, ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S TODAY? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 YEAR OLD BUZZ AND FACE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP. YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL OF THAT ONE TO ENTERTAIN. IT IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS. BASICALLY HE’S GOD. THIS COMPOUND WHERE PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM HERE, NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE HE YOU? >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SO WHAT DOES SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. ANDREW TATE INTO THE MENACE SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU, ABC NEWS NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE BRUTAL STORMS HITTING THE LONE STAR STATE. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED, MORE THAN A MILLION MORE REMAIN WITHOUT POWER. WE ARE LIVE ON THE SCENE. PLUS, LEAVE MY WIFE, PLEASE. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO THROWING HIS WIFE UNDER THE BUS, BLAMING HER FOR DISPLAYING SYMBOL OF THE STOP THE STEAL MOVEMENT ON THEIR HOME. JUST DAYS AFTER THE INSURRECTION. THE LATEST AS JUSTICE ALITO PREPARES RULE ON MULTIPLE JANUARY 6 CASES AT THE HIGHEST OF THE LAND. AND YOU’LL WANT A MULLIGAN ON THIS ONE. THE TOP GOLFER IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW ARRESTED AND, CHARGED WITH A FELONY ON HIS WAY TO PLAY AT A MAJOR TOURNAMENT. WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS THIS HOUR. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY, A DEADLY OUTBREAK OF EXTREME WEATHER ACROSS GULF COAST. IT HIT ESPECIALLY HARD IN TEXAS . STORMS THERE SLAMMING THE STATE, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE BRINGING MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THAT STORM NOW BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FOUR DEATHS. HURRICANE WINDS SEEN DOWNING TREES AND KNOCKING OUT POWER. NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES NOW IN THE DARK. CREWS THAT THOSE OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR WEEKS. SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CANCELED AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE OUT THAT STORM DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD. >> IT WAS. WE CLEARLY HEAR A OF THE BUILDING SHAKE. >> AND THEN THE THING THE TOWN WAS COMING DOWN IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS, TORRENTIAL RAIN SO HARD. OFFICIALS THERE WARNING OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. ALSO, CITY OFFICIALS URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS. OUR EXTREME WEATHER TEAM IS TRACKING ALL THE DAMAGE AND THE FORECAST. WE WANT TO BEGIN, THOUGH, WITH KEVIN OWENS, THE BACK OF OUR ABC STATION IN HOUSTON. KEVIN, JUST TELL HOW BAD IT IS WHERE YOU ARE. WELL, CAROL, I’M RIGHT HERE IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON. AND JUST LOOK AT STATE OF THE CITY TODAY RIGHT HERE, CAROL, ALONG THIS DOWNTOWN STREET THERE IS GLASS EVERYWHERE. AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHY THAT IS. THE WELLS FARGO BUILDING YOU ARE LOOKING AT. >> AND IF YOU LOOK UP FLOOR AFTER FLOOR, AFTER FLOOR, YOU ARE JUST GOING TO SEE SHATTERED WINDOW AFTER SHATTERED WINDOW. I MEAN, EVEN AS YOU LOOK UP TWO FLOORS, 30, 40, 50 AND BEYOND, YOU CAN PICK RIGHT INTO OFFICE BUILDINGS. HERE ARE THIS STORM, JUST HUMBLE DOWNTOWN HOUSTON, RIGHT AROUND 6 P.M. LAST NIGHT. SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DURING THE HEART OF THE EVENING RUSH AND THIS MORNING WE MET A WOMAN WHO WAS STILL UNDER A 39TH FLOOR OFFICE. SHE IT AS JUST BEING ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. SHE SAYS BUILDING WAS SHAKING, IT WAS WOBBLING. AND WHAT REALLY HORRIFIED HER, WATCHING HER OFFICE WINDOW JUST BLOW. SO WHAT BROKE ALL OF THESE WINDOWS. WELL, KYRA, JUST TAKE A WALK DOWN THESE SIDEWALKS AND THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SEE. YOU’RE GOING TO SEE HUGE PIECES OF JUST SHREDDED METAL LIKE THIS. SO IMAGINE THIS WHIPPING AROUND DOWNTOWN HOUSTON DURING THE EVENING RUSH. SO THAT’S WHY YOU SEE SO SHATTERED WINDOWS TODAY. ALSO, TREE LIMBS ARE DOWN ALL OVER THE PLACE AS YOU LEAVE THE DOWNTOWN CORE AND GET INTO THE SUBURBS. LAST NIGHT, AS STARTED TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE, WE FOUND A TREE LONGER THAN 100 FEET THAT JUST CAME DOWN BECAUSE OF THIS STORM. MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE, THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON, IS URGING PEOPLE NOT TO COME DOWNTOWN TODAY. >> HERE’S WHAT ELSE HE SAID THIS MORNING. I CAN’T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE DANGER OF FALLEN TREES AND FALLEN UTILITY WIRES DOWNTOWN IS A MESS. IT’S DANGEROUS DUE TO THE GLASS AND THE LACK OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS . >> SO STAY AT HOME. AND KYRA, YOU KNOW VERY WELL HERE ALONG THE GULF COAST, WE KNOW SEVERE WEATHER, BUT IT’S PRETTY SHOCKING TO SEE ALL OF THIS. AND TO KNOW THAT THIS DID NOT COME FROM A HURRICANE, BUT RATHER JUST AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORM. I JUST I’M LOOKING BEHIND YOU AND JUST SEEING THE BUILDINGS AND YOU JUST TAKING US ON KIND OF A 362. ARE THERE USUALLY AT THIS TIME, DOWNTOWN HOUSTON IS BUSTLING. I ARE THINGS SHUT DOWN, KEVIN, FOR THE DAY AND PROBABLY THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND. >> SO CITY BUILDINGS ARE ABSOLUTELY CLOSE. BUT ON TOP OF THAT, THE MAYOR WAS PLEADING WITH PEOPLE, IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK FROM HOME, PLEASE DO THAT. MOST OF THE PEOPLE YOU SEE OUT TODAY ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE LIKE THIS WHO ARE OUT TRYING TO FIX THINGS LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, TO GET TO THIS PARKING LOT WAS JUST KIND OF CRUMBLED BECAUSE OF THE STORM. THEY’RE ALREADY WORKING ON IT BACK INTO SERVICE. BUT WE’RE NOT GOING TO RETURN TO NORMAL, AT LEAST NOT ANY TIME SOON. MORE THAN 700,000 PEOPLE RIGHT NOW IN THE HOUSTON AREA ARE WITHOUT POWER. CENTERPOINT, THE MAIN POWER UTILITY, IS WARNING THAT IT COULD BE AT LEAST A FEW DAYS UNTIL EVERYONE HAS POWER RESTORED. >> REPORTING, KEVIN. APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. NOW LET’S BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST GRIFFIN. SO, MELISSA, THERE’S ACTUALLY A NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY, RIGHT? >> THERE IS, KYRA. WE’RE NOT DONE YET FOR THE GULF COAST, THANKFULLY, TEXAS IS GOING TO BE GETTING A BREAK, SO THEY’LL BE ABLE TO CLEAN UP FROM WHAT WAS EITHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS TOPPING 70 MILES PER HOUR OR POTENTIALLY A TORNADO. AND I’LL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, HOUSTON, THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS THEY SURVEY THE DAMAGE ACROSS THE DOWNTOWN HOUSTON AREA. NOW, HERE’S THE FLOOD WATCH THAT IS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW. THANKFULLY, TEXAS EXPIRED ALL OF THEIR FLOOD WATCHES AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST. BUT WE HAVE THAT FLOODING THREAT FROM NEW ORLEANS AND BATON ROUGE STRAIGHT ACROSS THE GULF COAST, RIGHT INTO PENSACOLA AND THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA, UP INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THIS IS THROUGH TOMORROW. BUT IT’S THIS RED AREA. THIS IS THE SECOND HIGHEST LEVEL, THAT MODERATE RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN. THIS IS THROUGH TODAY WHERE SOME SPOTS COULD SEE LOCALLY MORE THAN SIX INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AND HERE, IT’S NOT JUST THAT. MORE SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE SAME AREAS THAT COULD MORE FLOODING KYRA. >> OKAY. WE’LL KEEP TRACKING IT. KEVIN, MELISSA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. SO DESPERATELY NEEDED IS FINALLY ARRIVING IN GAZA. THE FIRST TRUCKS MOVING THROUGH A TEMPORARY U.S. BUILT PIER OFF THE GAZA STRIP FOR THE FIRST TIME AMID GROWING TO GET THE FOOD AND THE SUPPLIES INTO THAT WAR TORN REGION. IT IS HAPPENING, BUT THERE WILL ONLY BE A FEW TRUCKS ACTUALLY COMING DOWN TO THE PIER TODAY. TROOPS WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT WILL BE STABLE. IT’S FLOATING AND IN A SPECIAL OPERATION. SADLY, ISRAELI SOLDIERS SAY THEY RETRIEVED THE BODIES OF THREE MORE HOSTAGES KILLED BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER SEVENTH. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARCUS MOORE IS IN TEL AVIV WITH THE LATEST. MARCUS, LET’S FIRST TALK ABOUT THIS OPERATION. HOW IS IT WORKING? HOW MANY TRUCKS FULL OF AID ACTUALLY WILL BE COMING THROUGH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS? WELL, IT WILL CARRY AS SIGNIFICANT AS THIS PIER IS AND THE FIRST IN THE BEGINNING DAYS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. WE DON’T ANTICIPATE THAT MANY TRUCKS WILL BE GOING FROM THE PIER. IN FACT, IT WILL PROBABLY ONLY BE ABOUT A DOZEN OR SO. BUT THAT IS JUST IN THE BEGINNING, AS YOU MENTIONED, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PIER IS WORKING PROPERLY. BUT THE PLAN IS FOR AS MANY AS 150 TRUCKS A DAY TO GO FROM THIS PIER AND TAKE VERY CRUCIAL AID AND SUPPLIES TO THE PEOPLE IN GAZA. THIS PIER, AS YOU MENTIONED, IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF A NUMBER OF AID ROUTES INTO GAZA HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN, PARTICULARLY THE ONE IN RAFAH TO THE SOUTH, COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN. AND THERE’S ONLY A TRICKLE OF AID COMING IN FROM THE KEREM CROSSING, WHICH IS ALSO IN THE SOUTH. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME OTHER AID GROUPS THAT HAVE OPENED TOWARDS THE NORTH, BUT KYRA, IT IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH. AND THAT IS WHY THIS THIS THIS THIS TEMPORARY PIER OFF THE COAST OF THE GAZA STRIP IS SO CRITICAL AND WILL BE SUCH A HUGE HELP TO THE FAMILIES IN GAZA. >> IT SURE WILL. AND WE’LL FOLLOW EVERY DAY THAT THOSE TRUCKS COME, COME IN. TALK ABOUT WHAT MORE WE KNOW ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THESE BODIES, THE THREE HOSTAGES THAT WERE ACTUALLY KILLED ON OCTOBER 7TH. >> AND HAVE THEY BEEN RETURNED TO ISRAEL? YEAH, THIS IS JUST A GRIM, A VERY SAD UPDATE. AS YOU KNOW, KYRA, SO MANY FAMILIES HERE IN ISRAEL HAVE BEEN PRESSURING THE GOVERNMENT TO ACT TO FIND THEIR LOVED. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ISRAELI FORCES RECOVERED, THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGES, WHO WE UNDERSTAND HAD INITIALLY ESCAPED THE NOVA MUSIC FESTIVAL, BUT THEY WERE LATER MURDERED AND THEN THEIR BODIES TAKEN TO TAKEN TO GAZA AND IN THE MIDST OF AN OPERATION TO RECOVER THEIR BODIES, ISRAELI OFFICIALS HAVE FOUND THEM AND THEY ARE TO BE BROUGHT BACK HERE TO ISRAEL IS REALLY THE ONLY DETAILS WE HAVE AT THIS POINT. BUT AGAIN, KYRA, DOES SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT SO MANY FAMILIES NOW ARE DESPERATELY CALLING ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO REACH A DEAL, A HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL, TO BRING THEIR LOVED ONES HOME . MARCUS MOORE FROM TEL AVIV. MARCUS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, HEARING OR CAGE MATCH, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO. YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS. IT WAS A HOUSE HEARING LAST NIGHT OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. AND IT JUST DEVOLVES INTO A SHOUTING MATCH, SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FAKE EYELASHES, TOO. AND I’M QUOTING HERE, BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILD, BUTCH BODY. >> GRAB YOUR POPCORN. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP AND NOTHING OF THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? DON’T PLAY, OKAY? >> IT MOVE TO STRIKE. OH, WE SHOULD HAVE JUST KEPT THIS GOING. NOW MOVING TO STRIKE. WHAT? JUST WENT DOWN. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE COMMENTS OBVIOUSLY DERAILED THINGS FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR. SHE WASN’T THE ONLY ONE WEIGHING IN, BY THE WAY. AND THEN CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER REPEATEDLY TRYING AND FAILING TO MAINTAIN ORDER. OUR JAY O’BRIEN ON CAPITOL HILL. JAY SOMETIMES IT’S JUST REALLY HARD TO HAVE A STRAIGHT FACE WHEN WHEN SETTING UP A STORY LIKE THIS. I MEAN, I KNEW THINGS GET PRETTY BAD IN CONGRESS, BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING ELSE. YEAH, AND CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, I DON’T LIVE IN THIS BUILDING, SO I HOME WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON LATE LAST NIGHT AND A COLLEAGUE MINE, OUR HOUSE PRODUCER LAUREN PELLER, WHO HAD VOLUNTEERED TO WATCH THESE PROCEEDINGS LATE INTO THE EVENING, CALLED ME AND SAID, YOU HAVE TO TURN ON THE FEED OF THIS HEARING. THEY ARE SHOUTING AT OTHER. WE EXPECTED THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE SOMEWHAT TAME BECAUSE. IT WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT THIS COMMITTEE WAS GOING TO MOVE TO HOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN CONTEMPT FOR NOT TURNING OVER AN AUDIO RECORDING OF AN INTERVIEW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN DID WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. INVESTIGATE HIS HOLDING ON TO CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT WE DIDN’T EXPECT IT WAS LATE AT NIGHT. THEY WERE SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER THAT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ABOUT THE EYELASHES WAYLAID THINGS FOR AN HOUR. WHILE LAWMAKERS SHOUTED AT EACH OTHER AT TIMES AND THEN TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCEDURALLY RESPOND. IT WAS A FIRST FOR A PROCEEDINGS LIKE THIS ON CAPITOL HILL. >> AND JUST JUST LOOKING AT JAMES RASKIN IS HILARIOUS, HIS REACTION. >> BUT YOU KNOW, JASMINE CROCKETT AND, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK, IT’S JUST TOO MUCH. I MEAN, LAWMAKERS, EVEN LIKE SENATOR TRENT FETTERMAN ALREADY TWEETING, SAYING THAT THIS TOPS JERRY SPRINGER. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, RASKIN ACTUALLY CAME FORWARD AND GAVE AN INTERVIEW. SO THAT’S APPEARED ON A COUPLE OF OTHER NETWORKS THAT THEY WERE DRUNK. I MEAN, WHAT YOU KNOW, JAY SO I THINK YOU TAKE THAT WITH A BIT OF A GRAIN OF SALT. I THINK WHAT RASKIN WAS REFERRING TO WAS AN ALLEGATION THAT WAS MADE BY A REPUBLICAN IN THAT WHEN TENSIONS WERE RUNNING HIGH, ONE REPUBLICAN FROM THE DAIS, AN OPPOSING A WOMAN WHO GOES AND THERE ARE MEMBERS IN HERE DRINKING. AND IT WAS UNCLEAR WHAT SHE WAS REFERRING TO. BUT I’VE TALKED TO SOURCES WHO WERE IN THE ROOM WHO SAY THAT THAT ALLEGATION IS UNFOUNDED AND APPEARS TO BEEN MADE IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT. I TALKED TO ONE SOURCE WHO WENT SO AS TO TAKE A WATER BOTTLE OUT OF THE TRASH AND SNIFF IT TO MAKE SURE IT DIDN’T HAVE ALCOHOL IN IT. AND THIS SOURCE CONFIRMS IT DID NOT HAVE ALCOHOL IT. SO, AGAIN, TAKE THOSE CLAIMS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. BUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IS REALLY REVERBERATING ACROSS CAPITOL HILL WITH LARGELY EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN I’VE TALKED TO SAYING THAT WHAT HAPPENED LAST IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE HOUSE. I THINK WE HAVE THIS SOUND HERE, SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON WEIGHING IN ON WHAT HE SAW. IT WAS NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR CONGRESS AND WE ALL, I THINK, NEED TO CONTROL THE EMOTIONS BETTER AND GET THE JOB DONE THAT CONTROL THE EMOTIONS BETTER AND GET THE JOB DONE. AND I’VE HEARD FROM REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE BOARD WHO SAY THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO MOVE FROM WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. WELL, YOU KNOW, MIKE JOHNSON, A VERY RELIGIOUS PERSON, I THINK HE NEEDS TO BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER A PRAYER CIRCLE AND REALLY FIGURE THIS OUT. JAY O’BRIEN. WHAT A WAY TO WRAP UP A FRIDAY. OKAY. THANK YOU, JIM. APPRECIATE IT. SO NOW TO A RARITY SO FAR, THIS CAMPAIGN SEASON, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP BOTH MAKING CAMPAIGN STYLE EVENTS ON THE SAME DAY. WELL I SHOULD SAY MAYBE THE SECOND RARITY, JUST TALKING ABOUT CONGRESS, THAT WAS THAT WAS PRETTY RARE TO SEE. BUT NOW WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND THE PRESIDENT. BIDEN WAS ACTUALLY SPEAKING AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, ANNOUNCING $20 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS FOR DIVERSE CITY PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHILE COMMEMORATING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION THAT DESEGREGATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR DEMOCRACY WORTHY OF OUR DREAMS STARTS WITH OPENING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION. AND WE CAN DO IT. YOU JUST HAVE REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. >> THERE’S NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER. >> AND AS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WELL, HE USED HIS DAY OFF FROM COURT TO ATTEND HIS SON’S GRADUATION IN FLORIDA, AND THEN HE’S HEADED TO A CAMPAIGN EVENT IN MINNESOTA. LET’S BRING IN OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, MARYALICE PARKS. SO HOW SIGNIFICANT MARYALICE IS BIDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHAT HE WHAT IS HE TRYING ACHIEVE WITH THESE THEMED EVENTS THAT WILL CARE LIKE YOU? HE WAS SPEAKING ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASE, BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION. HE WAS TALKING AT THIS EVENT THERE AT AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM, TALKING TO A LARGELY BLACK CROWD, A LOT OF GRADUATES FROM HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND TALKING ABOUT HOW HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE HUGE, REALLY UNPRECEDENTED INVESTMENTS IN HBCU AND ALSO, LIKE YOU SAID, TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW THIS NEW ANNOUNCEMENT, A NEW GRANT PROGRAM FOR, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TO WORK ON DIVERSITY PROGRAMS. HE USED THIS MOMENT TO REALLY DRAW A CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS ADMINISTRATION AND REPUBLICANS. HE BLASTED THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND WHAT HE CALLED MAGA FRIENDS FOR GOING AFTER DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS. HE SAID IT’S AKIN TO THEM TAKING AWAY OTHER FREEDOMS, FIGHTING AGAINST ACCESS TO VOTING, FIGHTING AGAINST ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. HE SAYS THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION IS ON THE SIDE OF VOTING ACCESS, ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. IT’S CLEARLY A THEME THAT WE’RE GOING TO KEEP HEARING AT ALL OF THESE CAMPAIGN STYLE EVENTS KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP CAMPAIGNING IN THE TRADITIONALLY BLUE STATE OF MINNESOTA. AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS HAPPENING AFTER HE ATTENDED HIS SON’S GRADUATION. WHY DOES HE THINK THAT HE CAN WIN THERE? TONIGHT, HE HEADS TO MINNESOTA. LIKE YOU SAID, IT’S INTERESTING. THEY THINK THAT THEY COULD PUT THE STATE IN PLAY. I MEAN, THIS IS A SOLIDLY BLUE STATE. IT IS NOT VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN. THE RACE FOR DECADES. >> BUT I THINK THAT REPUBLICANS KNOW, THIS IS ALSO A STATE WHERE BLUE PARTS HAVE GOTTEN BLUER. BUT RURAL RED PARTS HAVE GOTTEN REDDER. >> AND LOOK, THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME REAL DIVISIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WE’VE SEEN THAT AT PLAY IN PLACES LIKE MINNESOTA. WE’VE SEEN YOUNG DEMOCRATS, WE’VE SEEN ARAB-AMERICANS IN THAT STATE REALLY PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS ADMINISTRATION. SO A BIG QUESTION FOR REPUBLICANS ABOUT WHETHER THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME NORMALLY RELIABLE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS MIGHT STAY HOME KYRA. ALL RIGHT. MARYALICE PARKS THERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR US. MARYALICE, THANKS. WELL, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER RIGHT NOW, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER. WELL, HE’S HAD A VERY BUSY MONTH. HE’S WON THE MASTERS, WELCOMED HIS FIRST CHILD AND HE’S GOT A MUG SHOT. HE WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE MORNING WHEN POLE CLAIMED THAT HE DIDN’T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AT, A ROADBLOCK CAUSING AN OFFICER TO ACTUALLY FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. BUT THE STORY DOESN’T STOP THERE. MARCUS MOORE WILL CARR, SENIOR WRITER FOR ESPN. YOU GUYS WERE ALL OVER THIS EARLIER TODAY. I WAS LISTENING. TELL ME THE LATEST IN THIS CRAZY STORY BECAUSE I KNOW THERE’S TO IT. >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE, KYRA. GOT IT. KEPPLER SAID IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF LOUISVILLE. POLICE SAID ONE OF ITS OFFICERS WAS DRAGGED TO THE GROUND AND, SUFFERED, SUFFERED INJURIES TO HIS WRIST AND KNEE, WAS TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER EVALUATION. SCOTTISH BUTLER WAS HANDCUFFED RIGHT OUTSIDE THE GATES ABOUT A GOLF CLUB. HE WAS BOOKED IN A DOWNTOWN JAIL AND RELEASED 8:40 A.M. THIS MORNING. HE ARRIVED AT VALHALLA LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE HIS FIRST SECOND ROUND TEE TIME. HE’S OUT ON THE GOLF COURSE NOW. JUST MADE TURN. HE FACES CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, WHICH IS A FELONY, AS WELL AS THREE MISDEMEANORS. HE HAS A COURT HEARING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY MORNING AND WILL GO ON. >> MARGARET, I’M JUST LOOKING AT THE DETAIL IN THE POLICE REPORT HERE AND IT STATES, DETECTIVE GILLIS IS UNIFORM. WELL, DETECTIVE GILLIS CLEARLY IS IS THE OFFICER THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HIS UNIFORM PANTS VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $80 WERE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. WHAT IS SCHEFFLER SAYING ABOUT THIS IS HE SAID HE NEVER INTENDED TO DISOBEY THE OFFICER’S INSTRUCTIONS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS THROUGH A STATEMENT. HE ON INSTAGRAM JUST BEFORE HE TEED OFF HERE TODAY. BUT SAID HE DIDN’T DISOBEY, NEVER INTENDED TO DISOBEY. HE SAID IT WAS A CHAOTIC SITUATION. HIS ATTORNEY TOLD ME OUTSIDE THE JAIL THIS MORNING THAT SCOTTY WAS UNAWARE THAT THERE WAS A FATAL RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD AND JUST SAID IT WAS THERE WAS THERE WAS CHAOTIC AND IT WAS CRAZY AND THAT SCOTTY HAD THE INSTRUCTIONS HE’D BEEN GIVEN PREVIOUSLY ABOUT HOW TO GET INTO THE COURSE, SHOW HIS CREDENTIAL AND MOVE AROUND THE TRAFFIC. AND, YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO HIS ATTORNEY, THIS WAS NOT AN OFFICER THAT WAS PART OF THE REGULAR TRAFFIC DETAIL THERE, WHICH LED TO SOME OF THE MISCOMMUNICATION. >> WELL, MARK, AS WE KNOW, AS GOLFERS AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, WHAT’S KEPT ME OUT OF EVER A GOOD GAME IS THE MENTAL PART OF THE GAME? IS EVERYTHING. AND SCOTTY IS CLEARLY ONE OF THE BEST GOLFERS IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. HE GETS OUT OF JAIL AND THEN HE HE HITS TRAIL, TEES OFF AND GOES FORWARD. I MEAN, IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE HE WAS RATTLED BY THIS. >> HE HE MOVED QUICKLY INTO FOCUSING ON THE GAME THAT WAS ORIGINALLY HIS NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD. HE’S ONE OF THOSE GUYS THAT’S ABLE TO COMPARTMENTALIZE THINGS BETTER THAN MOST. IF YOU GO BACK TO THE MASTERS IN APRIL, HIS WIFE, MEREDITH, WAS BACK IN DALLAS. THEY WERE EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD. HE WAS ABLE TO PUT THAT IN THE BACK IN HIS MIND AND WON A SECOND GREEN JACKET. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE’S RIGHT HERE IN CONTENTION AGAIN. BUT THERE’S A LOT TO A LOT LEFT TO PLAY OVER THE WEEKEND. BUT, YOU KNOW, AS HE SAID, SOMEBODY WAS KILLED BY A BUS THIS MORNING. SO WAS IN PERSPECTIVE, OF COURSE. MARK SLABAUGH, APPRECIATE YOU. THANKS COMING UP, JUSTICE ALITO UNDER FIRE. THIS PHOTO OF AN UPSIDE DOWN FLAG OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER JANUARY 6. WHAT’S THE. WE’LL TELL YOU. >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER. AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN. TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON. WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR SUBMERGED KIND OF ON THAT WEDNESDAY "GMA". WE’LL SHOW YOU LIVE HOW TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER IN. >> MUST SEE LIVE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA AMERICA. >> GLAD STREAMING WITH US. BLEND MY WIFE, PLEASE. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ALITO SAYING THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT FLAG HANGING DOWN. THAT FLAG A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL AND FLAG WAS SEEN HANGING OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHING THE PICTURE OF THE FLAG RIGHT THERE OUTSIDE HIS HOME. ALITO NOW SAYING HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN PUTTING THIS UP, POINTING THE FINGER AT HIS WIFE. HERE’S OUR SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, TERRY MORAN. AN UNUSUAL CONTROVERSY IS SWIRLING AROUND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS. IT SHOWS THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES HOME WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG FLYING UPSIDE DOWN OUTSIDE OF IT. AND THE TIMES SAYS IT WAS TAKEN IN JANUARY 2021, JUST DAYS, THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK, JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN TOOK OFFICE. FLYING THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN IS MEANT TO BE A SIGNAL OF DIRE IN INSTANCES OF EXTREME DANGER. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CODE. IT’S ALSO BEEN USED AS A SYMBOL OF PROTEST OVER THE YEARS. AND AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION, SOME OF DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ADOPTED UPSIDE DOWN FLAG TO OBJECT TO BIDEN’S VICTORY, FALSELY CLAIMING BIDEN STOLE THE ELECTION. THE TIMES REPORTED THAT EMAILS BETWEEN ALITO’S NEIGHBORS SEEMED TO SHOW THAT UPSIDE DOWN FLAG WAS FLYING FOR MULTIPLE DAYS. SOME INTERNAL PUTTING IT AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT BY THE COUPLE. >> THEY WERE INCREDULOUS BECAUSE ONE OF THE BEDROCK RULES OF BEING A FEDERAL JUDGE IS THAT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS. REPRESENTATIVES FOR ALITO AND THE COURT DID NOT RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FROM ABC NEWS. BUT THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAYS JUSTICE ALITO CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT TO THEM, TELLING THE TIMES THAT IT WAS SOLELY HIS WIFE’S DECISION TO FLY THE FLAG LIKE THAT AND THAT SHE WAS IN A DISPUTE. THE COUPLE’S NEIGHBORS, AFTER ONE DISPLAYED AN ANTI-TRUMP SIGN, CONTAINED A CURSE WORD. ALITO WRITING TO THE TIMES I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBORS USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONALLY INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. >> IT’S DAYS AFTER JANUARY. IT’S DAYS BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INAUGURATION . THE COURT WAS STILL CONSIDERING WHETHER TO TAKE A 2020 ELECTION IN THE CASE. SO IT WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE. >> THE LEGAL ISSUE. JUSTICE ALITO HAS A HISTORY OF STIRRING POLITICAL UNUSUAL FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THE AUTHOR OF THE DECISION THAT OVERTURNED ROE VERSUS WADE. HE MOCKED CRITICISM OF THAT RULING THAT ENDED A FEDERAL RIGHT TO ABORTION. >> I HAD THE HONOR TERM OF WRITING. I THINK THE ONLY SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF THAT INSTITUTION THAT HAS BEEN LAMBASTED BY A WHOLE STRING OF FOREIGN LEADERS. AND ALITO FAMOUSLY HECKLED PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE 2010 STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH WHEN OBAMA CRITICIZED, THE COURT’S CITIZENS UNITED CAMPAIGN FINANCE DECISION. ALITO CALLING OUT NOT TRUE. OBAMA. >> ONE POSSIBLE CONCERN ABOUT THAT UPSIDE DOWN FLAG JUSTICE ALITO’S HOME. THERE ARE STILL CASES BEFORE THIS COURT STEMMING FROM JANUARY 6TH, INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CLAIMS OF ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR HIS ACTIONS AT THAT TIME. AND ONE MORE THING, KYRA. THERE HAS BEEN NO STATEMENT FROM MRS. WHOM JUSTICE ALITO BLAMES FOR THIS INCIDENT HERE. >> INTERESTING TO NOTE, TERRY MORAN. SEE YOU AT 3 P.M. EASTERN. COMING UP, A COURTROOM SHOWDOWN. ALEC BALDWIN’S LAWYERS F F DEADG . >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME. A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. ALEC BALDWIN. WELL, HE WANTS HIS INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE TIED TO THAT DEADLY 2021 MOVIE SET SHOOTING. DISMISSED. AND A JUDGE NOW LISTENING. BALDWIN WAS PRACTICING A CROSS DRAW ON THE SET OF THE WESTERN FILM WHEN THE REVOLVER HE WAS HOLDING FIRED A LIVE ROUND, KILLING 42-YEAR-OLD CINEMATOGRAPHER ALENA HUTCHINS. A LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE JOINING ME NOW. >> SO YOU’VE BEEN WATCHING THE HEARING BY REMOTE. FILL US IN ON WHAT’S HAPPENING, BRIAN. YES. SO SO FAR, THE DEFENSE HAS MADE THE ARGUMENT THAT A NUMBER OF ROUNDS, ONE, THAT THE PROSECUTION MADE A WAIVER. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THAT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PROSECUTION CONDUCTED THE GRAND JURY PRESENTATION OF THIS CASE WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. AND DIDN’T INCLUDE THINGS LIKE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE OR EVIDENCE THAT COULD PROVE ALEC BALDWIN WAS INNOCENT. IT ALSO GEARED THE JURY TOWARD EVIDENCE THAT WASN’T A FULL VIEWING OF WHAT OCCURRED IN. THE DEFENSE ARGUES THAT YOU HAVE A DISMISSAL OF THE INDICTMENT, NOT NECESSARILY THE CHARGES, BUT THE INDICTMENT. >> SO IN THE FILE, THE FILING, BALDWIN’S ATTORNEYS ARE ACCUSING PROSECUTORS ACTUALLY OF UNETHICAL DISPARAGEMENT, OF BALDWIN, AND OF VIOLATING NEARLY EVERY RULE IN THE BOOK TO SECURE A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT. SO WHAT’S THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE ACTOR’S ATTORNEYS ARE GOING TO GET THIS CHARGE DROPPED? DO YOU THINK? >> WELL, I ONLY SAW THE DEFENSE’S ARGUMENTS AND THEY SEEM PRETTY STRONG. DON’T FORGET, EVERY STATE HAS DIFFERENT RULES AS TO HOW YOU CONDUCT A GRAND JURY. BUT THE WAY THAT IT’S PRESENTED HERE AND THE DEFENSE CASE, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF WINNING THIS CASE. BUT UNDERSTAND, THIS CASE DOESN’T MEAN THE ENTIRE CASE GETS THROWN OUT. WINNING THE CASE MEANS THAT THE INDICTMENT GETS DISMISSED AND THE PROSECUTOR WILL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY PRESENT THIS CASE. BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW SPECIFIC RULES THAT THE DEFENSE, IF THE JUDGE AGREES. THE PROSECUTOR DID HAVE TO FOLLOW THE FIRST OR SECOND GO AROUND. >> ALL RIGHT. KEEP TRACKING IT, BRIAN. KEEP US UPDATED TODAY. APPRECIATE YOU. THANKS SO MUCH FOR WITH US ON KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO WE. LOT MORE NEWS ON THE OTHER SIDE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? OPERATION BEGAN AFTER ISIS SPLINTERED OPERATIONS AND WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS OPERATE ON NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF THERE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE MAKING US SAY, LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. >> YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? HOW ARE YOU? IT’S LEO. >> DAVID. >> HI. YES. YES. I’M DAVID, YOU ARE. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. EVERY NIGHT, ABC’S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST TONIGHT. >> KNOCK, KNOCK. MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER. FABIO TELLING THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND ALL NEW 2020 TRUE CRIME. IRONY OF IRONIES. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF KNOCK KNOCK BURGLARIES WAS FABIO MANZO. MY PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK. THERE’S A TWIST. THIS IS REALLY PERSONAL. THAT WAS SHOCKING. YOU SURE THIS IS RIGHT? OH, MY GOSH. I BLACKED OUT. >> THE NEW 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. THIS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH OF TWO FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> I’M ALEX PRESHA IN EAST PALESTINE ONE YEAR AFTER THAT TOXIC TRAIN DERAILMENT. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU HERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. BRUTAL STORMS HITTING THE LONE STAR STATE. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED. MORE THAN A MILLION RESIDENTS REMAIN WITHOUT POWER. WE ARE LIVE ON THE SCENE. PLUS SCREAMING SCHOOLYARD INSULTS AND A COMPLETE LACK OF CIVILITY. OF COURSE, I’M TALKING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. WE’RE LIVE ON THE HILL AFTER THAT UNRULY HEARING, TO SAY THE LEAST. AND READY TO HIT THE ROAD. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE THE START OF A RECORD HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S. WE’VE GOT YOUR FORECAST. GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, UTTER DESTRUCTION AFTER A SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK ACROSS THE SOUTH TEXAS HIT, ESPECIALLY . SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THAT STATE, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE BRINGING MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THE NOW BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FOUR DEATHS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS MEAN DOWNING TREES, KNOCKING OUT POWER AND NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES NOW IN THE DARK. CREWS SAYING POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR WEEKS NOW. SCHOOLS ARE CANCELED AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE RIDING OUT THE STORM AND DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. >> WE CAN BARELY HEAR A FIELD BUILDING CHIEF AND THEN TO SEE THE TOWN WITH COMING DOWN. >> IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS TORRENTIAL RAINS SO HARD THAT OFFICIALS THERE ARE WARNING OF A LIFE THREATENING NOW. CITY OFFICIALS URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROAD AS WELL. EXTREME WEATHER TEAM TRACKING THE DAMAGE AND THE FORECAST FOR US. LET’S BEGIN WITH OUR MIREYA VILLARREAL. SO HOW BAD IS THE DAMAGE WHERE YOU ARE. MARIA? YOU KNOW, KYRA, IT’S KIND OF HARD TO DESCRIBE. WE’VE BEEN TO SO MANY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS HERE IN THE HOUSTON AREA. WE STARTED OFF IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA THIS MORNING. WE’VE MOVED TO A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND NOW WE’RE IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT JUST WEST OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA. SO I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK RIGHT BEHIND ME. YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THIS WAS A TIRE SHOP. THEY’VE BEEN HERE ROUGHLY FOR THREE YEARS OR SO. THE FAMILY MOVED FROM CALIFORNIA BECAUSE THEY WANTED A BETTER LIFE. THEY WANTED TO START A. THEY ACTUALLY NAMED IT AFTER THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD TIRE SHOP. LAST NIGHT, THEY SAID THEY KNEW THAT THERE WAS GOING BE SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN THIS AREA. THEY DIDN’T REALIZE HOW BAD IT WAS GOING TO BE. AND IN FACT, THEY WERE ABLE TO THERE WERE THE OWNER WAS INSIDE WHEN. THIS HAPPENED, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO SURVIVE WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY WERE AGAINST SOME TIRES THAT HAD BEEN STACKED PERFECTLY AND PROVIDED SHIELD FOR THEM AS THE WEATHER BLEW THROUGH. THEY ACTUALLY PEOPLE INSIDE, AS YOU CAN SEE, IT’S COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. AND THIS IS JUST ONE PART OF HOUSTON. WE’VE BEEN TO SEVERAL LOCATIONS THAT LOOK JUST LIKE THIS. ABSOLUTE DEVASTATION IN A LOT OF THESE COMMUNITIES HERE, KYRA. YEAH, AND WHILE WE TRACK WHAT’S HAPPENING BEHIND YOU IN REAL TIME, WE’RE ALSO TRACKING WHAT COULD COME NEXT. OUR METEOROLOGIST WAS A GRIFFIN TAKES IT FROM HERE. WHAT’S THE NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY? WELL, KYRA, THE GOOD THING IS WHERE MARIA IS IN HOUSTON AND THAT SEVERE AND FLOODING THREAT IS OVER. THEY WILL HAVE DRY WEATHER FOR THEIR CLEANUP EFFORTS, BUT THE WET WEATHER CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF THE GULF COAST. SO THESE ARE THE AREAS UNDER FLOOD WATCH. NOW YOU CAN SEE THE HEAVIEST RAIN HERE, MONROEVILLE, THIS IS SOUTHERN ALABAMA. WE HAVE A COUPLE OF FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT JUST NORTH OF THAT AREA. BUT WE HAVE FLOOD WATCHES THAT CONTINUE ALL THE WAY INTO NEW ORLEANS. BUT IT’S NOT JUST THE FLOODING. IT’S, OF COURSE, THE SEVERE WEATHER. MORE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE LIKE WHAT WE SAW IN HOUSTON WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO BLAST ACROSS GULF COAST. THIS JUST THROUGH THIS EVENING, THROUGH 6:00 TONIGHT. YOU COULD SEE BOTH INTO ALBANY, GEORGIA. FLASH FLOODING, DAMAGING WINDS, LARGE HAIL, BRIEF TORNADOES POSSIBLE. >> THE TORNADO THREAT IS LOW BUT CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THESE STORMS. I WANT TO BRING IT TO A WIDE VIEW NOW AS WE HEAD INTO TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY, BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE THAT ONGOING SEVERE THREAT ALONG THE GULF COAST. BUT WE DO HAVE SOME RAIN MOVING IN. AS MUCH OF THE EAST COAST REMAINS UNSETTLED THROUGH TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF VIRGINIA, THEY’RE UNDER FLOOD WATCHES THERE AS WELL. AND THAT WILL MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS D.C. REACHING NEW YORK CITY WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A SOGGY DAY TO START THE WEEKEND. >> AND LOOK AT THIS, KYRA. MORE SEVERE WEATHER PUSHES TOWARDS THE EAST COAST. ANYONE FROM THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE UP INTO THE EASTERN CAROLINAS COULD SEE MORE STORMS TO START THEIR WEEKEND THROUGHOUT SATURDAY AFTERNOON KYRA. ALL RIGHT, MARIA AND MELISSA, WE’LL STAY IN CLOSE TOUCH. THANK YOU. NOW OVERSEAS, DESPERATELY NEEDED AID. FINALLY IN GAZA. THE FIRST AID TRUCKS MOVING THROUGH THAT TEMPORARY U.S. BUILT PIER JUST OFF THE GAZA STRIP FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME AMID GROWING PRESSURE TO GET FOOD AND SUPPLIES INTO THE WAR TORN REGION. BUT THERE WILL ONLY BE A FEW TRUCKS TODAY BECAUSE TROOPS WANT TO ENSURE THAT THAT FLOATING PIER IS ACTUALLY STABLE. IT’S ALL HAPPENING. WE SADLY REPORT THAT ISRAELI SOLDIERS SAY THEY RETRIEVED THE BODIES OF MORE HOSTAGES KILLED BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER 7TH. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARCUS MOORE IS IN TEL AVIV. >> EVERYTHING FOR US, MARCUS. KYRA, THE FIRST AID TRUCKS ROLLED OFF OF THIS TEMPORARY PIER THIS MORNING. AND IN INITIAL DAYS, ONLY ABOUT A DOZEN TRUCKS OR SO ARE EXPECTED. BUT ONCE FULLY OPERATIONAL, THE PLAN IS FOR AS MANY AS 150 TRUCKS PER DAY. THIS PIER NOW SERVING AS A CRITICAL ROUTE FOR AID GETTING INTO GAZA. THE RAFAH CROSSING IN THE SOUTH IS STILL SHUT DOWN AND ONLY A TRICKLE OF AID IS PASSING THROUGH THE KEREM SHALOM CROSSING. NOW, THIS PIER IS CRUCIAL TO THE EFFORT TO HELP MORE THAN 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS GET ACCESS TO FOOD AND MEDICINE . NOW, NOTABLY, THE U.N. AND CONTRACTORS ARE OPERATING THIS PIER. THE GROUPS HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO HAVE NO CONTACT WITH ISRAELI TROOPS AT THE PIER ITSELF SO AS TO BE SEEN AS. AND IT’S ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT U.S. TROOPS WERE NEVER ON GAZA SHORE. NOW, THIS EFFORT TO GET AID INTO THE GAZA STRIP CONTINUES. FIGHTING RAGES AND THE WORK TO FIND HOSTAGES ADVANCES. TODAY, THE IDF ANNOUNCING A GRIM RECOVERY. THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGES WHO HAD INITIALLY ESCAPED THE NOVA MUSIC FESTIVAL ON OCTOBER 7TH, BUT WHO WERE LATER MURDERED, TAKEN TO GAZA WHERE THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND. AND AS, YOU KNOW, THE FAMILIES OF THE REMAINING HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY CALLING FOR THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO REACH A HOSTAGE DEAL SO THAT THEY CAN BE REUNITED WITH THEIR LOVED ONES KYRA. ALL RIGHT. MARCUS MOORE OUT OF TEL AVIV. THANK YOU, MARCUS. SO CONGRESSIONAL HEARING OR CAGE MATCH YOU TO SEE THIS, TO BELIEVE IT. IT’S A HOUSE HEARING LAST NIGHT OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, AND IT DEVOLVED INTO A SHOUTING MATCH WITH LAWMAKERS SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FALSE EYELASHES TO AND I QUOTE HERE, BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY GRABBED POPCORN AND ROLL THE VIDEO. >> I THINK YOU’RE FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. >> HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND THE USE ANOTHER PERSON. >> ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? OH. OH, GIRL BABY GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AND WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. I SECOND THAT MOTION. OKAY. WELL, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, AOC AND JASMINE DISSENTION INTO INSULT FILLED CHAOS, DERAILING THIS HEARING FOR OVER AN HOUR WITH CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER REPEATEDLY TRYING AND FAILING TO MAINTAIN. OUR JAY O’BRIEN O’BRIEN HAS BEEN ON THE HILL FOLLOWING THIS FOR US. >> OKAY. J HOW DID THINGS ESCALATE A CIRCUS? I MEAN, IT’S PRETTY EMBARRASSING. EYELASH GATE IS WHAT STARTED IT, CAROL. THAT COMMENT FROM MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ABOUT THE FAKE EYELASHES DIRECTED AT JASMINE CROCKETT. >> THAT WAS WHAT REALLY SENT THIS ENTIRELY THE RAILS BECAUSE DEMOCRATS IMMEDIATELY SEIZED ON THAT COMMENT AND SAID IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE TO MAKE THAT REMARK IN A CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING. THEY CALLED ON GREENE TO APOLOGIZE. SHE SAID SHE WOULDN’T APOLOGIZE. THERE WAS SHOUTING THAT BACK AND FORTH WENT ON FOR JUST ABOUT AN HOUR. IT WAYLAID THE PROCEEDINGS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AS JAMES COLMER TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCEDURALLY RESPOND. AT ONE POINT, DEMOCRATS WANTED TO BAR GREENE FROM SPEAKING FOR THE REST OF THE PROCEEDINGS. FINALLY, THERE WAS A VOTE BAR. >> GREENE AND TO STRIKE HER COMMENTS. IT FAILED. AND THEN THESE PROCEEDINGS GOT BACK ON TRACK. AND EVENTUALLY THE COMMITTEE DID APPROVE OF THAT CONTEMPT RESOLUTION AGAINST THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. AFTER WITHHOLDING AN AUDIO RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL THAT WAS INVESTIGATING HIS HOLDING ON TO CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT THAT WASN’T THE HEADLINE COMING OUT OF LAST NIGHT. IT WAS ALL OF THIS PARODY, THIS GREAT TALKATIVE I’VE EVER SEEN. >> EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE RAPS IN THEIR SEATS. THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF REACTION ON HILL. JAMIE RASKIN EVEN COMING FORWARD ON SOME OF THE NETWORKS THAT THEY WERE DRUNK. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING? YEAH, WHAT RASKIN IS REFERRING TO IS AN ALLEGATION THAT WAS MADE FROM REPUBLICAN IN THE ROOM WHO, IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT SHOUTED, AND THERE’S DRINKING GOING ON IN HERE AS WELL. BUT I’VE TALKED TO SOURCES WHO WERE IN THERE WHO SAY THERE’S NO EVIDENCE OF ANY KIND OF DRINKING GOING ON IN THERE. I CAN TELL YOU THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MIKE JOHNSON, EXCLUSIVELY TOLD ABC NEWS THAT WHAT HE SAW LAST NIGHT WAS, QUOTE NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR CONGRESS. ALSO, I’VE TALKED SOME MEMBERS WHO WERE IN THAT ROOM, LIKE BYRON DONALDS OF FLORIDA, WHO SAY, LOOK THEY NEED TO MOVE ON FROM THIS IN CONGRESS. IT WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE. HERE’S DONALDS AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO DO THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT RAISE THE MONEY. YOU KNOW, IT HELPS, YOU KNOW, GET A FAVOR. MAYBE THE PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, THEY THEY WANT TO GET TWITTER FAMOUS. THEY WANT GO ON STEVE BANNON’S PODCAST. >> OH, MY GOODNESS. YOU KNOW, LOOK, DON’T THINK I DON’T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE THAT. BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF DISRESPECT EARLY ON AGAINST MS.. >> GREENE, AND THAT WAS KIND OF BRUSHED OVER. SO FORGIVE ME, I MISCHARACTERIZED THAT. WHO YOU HEARD FROM THERE WAS JARED MOSKOWITZ, DEMOCRAT OF FLORIDA, OBVIOUSLY TAKING SHOT AT REPUBLICANS, ALTHOUGH HE WAS NEEDLING JAMES COMER IN THAT HEARING AS WELL. AND THEN YOU HEARD ANA, PAULINA LUNA DEFEND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. BUT SHE WAS ONE OF THE RARE REPUBLICANS I TALKED TO TODAY WHO DID COME OUT AND DEFEND GREENE. MOST REPUBLICANS SAID THAT WHAT THEY SAW WAS OVER THE LINE AND THEY WOULD LIKE THE PARTY TO MOVE ON HERE, KYRA. WELL, AND THIS ALL COMES AS THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT DID EVENTUALLY VOTE TO HOLD MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT. SO LET’S GET BACK THE REAL NEWS HERE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THE POLITICS OF ALL OF IT, RIGHT? YEAH. SO EVENTUALLY, HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP HAVE SAID THEY’RE GOING TO PUT A RESOLUTION ON THE HOUSE FLOOR THAT, THE ENTIRE HOUSE WILL VOTE ON AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO HOLD GARLAND CONTEMPT. AND REALLY THE CHALLENGE FACING MIKE JOHNSON HERE IS CAN GET SUPPORT FROM EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN BECAUSE OF HIS SLIM THAT’S WHAT HE NEEDS. AND ALSO CAN HE MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN IS SHOWING UP TO WORK AND THERE ARE NO ABSENCES OR ANY OF COURSE NOTABLE, REPUBLICAN DEFECTIONS WHO MIGHT VOTE NO? IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS, IT MAKES IT A LOT MORE COMPLICATED FOR MIKE JOHNSON. BUT HOUSE REPUBLICANS SAID THEY WANT TO PUT A RESOLUTION TO HOLD GARLAND IN CONTEMPT ON THE HOUSE FLOOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE KIRAN. ALL RIGHT. JAY O’BRIEN ON CAPITOL HILL FOR US. THANK YOU. NOW TO BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING RAP SUPERSTAR SEAN DIDDY COMBS. COMBS HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN A LOT OF LEGAL DRAMA, AS YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY FACING ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT. AND NOW THERE IS THIS NEW VIDEO THAT’S EMERGED OF THE RAPPER SEEN WITH HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA. THIS IS IT. AND WE WANT TO WARN YOU, IT’S DISTURBING NOT JUST THE FACT THAT HE’S COMING DOWN PRACTICALLY IN A TOWEL. YEAH, THAT’S WHAT HE DOES RIGHT THERE. THE VIDEO WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN AND IT SHOWS THE RAPPER AND PRODUCER RUNNING AFTER HIS GIRLFRIEND THERE, VENTURA, DOWN THE HALLWAY AT A HOTEL, LOS ANGELES IN 2016. >> HE’S SHOVING HER KICKING HER AND THEN DRAGGING HER DOWN THE HALLWAY. >> LEADING US OFF THIS HOUR IS OUR CONTRIBUTOR MIKE MOVE NEWS WITH US, OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. SO, MIKE, I MEAN, THE VIDEO IS DISGUSTING. THERE’S JUST NO OTHER WAY TO. DISCUSS IT. LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BACK STORY AND WHY THIS VIDEO IS SO IMPORTANT ALREADY TO THE ONGOING ALLEGATION IN CASES AGAINST THE RAPPER. LOOK AT THIS VIDEO, KYRA. I WAS ABSOLUTELY DISTURBED. I WAS OUTRAGED. I STILL DISTURBED. I STILL AM OUTRAGED. I AM DISGUSTED AT THE ACTIONS OF SEAN COMBS. NO. >> SHOULD EVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THIS. AND THEN ALSO TO NO ONE TO HAVE TO HAVE TO RELIVE THIS, HAVING TO SEE THIS VIDEO FOOTAGE ALL OVER AGAIN. CASSIE HAD FILED PAPERWORK AND A LAWSUIT AGAINST COMBS DETAILING THE ABUSIVE NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, DETAILING THE TOXIC NATURE OF, THEIR RELATIONSHIP, DETAILING THE ASSAULT OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. SEAN COMBS CAME OUT STRONGLY AND IN A STATEMENT, HIS ATTORNEY VEHEMENTLY DENIED ALL SUCH ALLEGATIONS. >> BUT WHEN YOU SEE THIS VIDEO, IT JUST UNDERSCORE OR IS ANYTHING THAT SEAN COMBS COULD EVER SAY GOING FORWARD WITH REGARDS TO THIS AND OTHER FUTURE LAWSUITS THAT HE MAY HAVE? >> HERE ARE THE THING THAT REALLY STRUCK ME THE MOST WAS IT GETS THE HEART OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. >> AND WHEN VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE TO GO AND NOWHERE TO RUN AND THEY OFTEN WILL GO BACK TO THEIR ABUSER HIM CHASING AFTER HER, NOT ONLY JUST KICKING HER, BUT THE MEEK. IT WAS THE GRABBING OF THE PURSE, AS IF HOLDING HER POSSESSION, HER I.D., NOT ALLOWING HER TO LEAVE. >> AND THEN IN THE LAWSUIT, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR MOMENT WHERE THE LAWSUIT WHERE CASSIE STATES SHE LEFT TO GO BACK TO HER APARTMENT. >> BUT THEN SHE TRIED TO COME BACK TO THE HOTEL TO APOLOGIZE SEAN COMBS AND FEAR THAT HE WOULD WANT HER MORE TO HIS HOTEL STAFF, HAD TO STOP HER AND SAY, NO, GO BACK HOME. THAT RIGHT THERE JUST SHOWS WHAT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC TO GO THROUGH WANTING WANT TO RETURN TO THEIR ABUSER AND FEAR COULD GET WORSE. BUT IN THIS VICIOUS CYCLE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT, I’VE BEEN TEXTING A LOT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY, WHICH I’M A PART OF AND EVERYONE IS JUST SIMPLY DISGUSTED THAT THIS IS THE MAN THAT WE HAVE PARTIED. WE CELEBRATE IT WITH. I’VE BEEN IN ROOMS WHERE I’VE BEEN TO PARTIES IN HIS HOME HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, AND FLORIDA. AND I AM OUTRAGED THAT THIS IS SOMEBODY I KNEW. BUT I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THIS THIS PERSON IS THAT COULD DO SUCH MONSTROUS ACTS TO A HUMAN BEING. >> MY HEART SIMPLY GOES OUT TO CASSIE, RIGHT. >> SO. WELL SAID MIKE, AS HE CONTINUES TO DENY ALLEGATIONS. AS WE SAY, VIDEO DOESN’T LIE. BRIAN, I WANT TO BRING YOU IN HERE. CAN WE TALK ABOUT JUST THE IMPACT THAT THIS VIDEO WILL HAVE ON ALL OF SEAN COMBS LEGAL TROUBLES? >> SO MIKE TOUCHED ON IT VERY ELOQUENTLY. AND I COSIGN EVERYTHING SAID. BUT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, WHAT THIS DOES IS EVEN THOUGH CASSIE’S WAS SETTLED WITHIN A DAY WITH SEAN COMBS, THIS INCREASES HER CREDIBILITY. SHE OUTLINED THIS TO MIKE’S POINT IN HER LAWSUIT, DESCRIBING THIS VERY INTERACTION ON MARCH OF 2016 AND EVEN GAVE SOME EXPLANATION AS TO WHY WE’RE NOT SEEING THIS VIDEO TO THIS DAY. IN CASSIE’S LAWSUIT, SHE SPECIFICALLY SAID SEAN COMBS PAID $50,000 TO MAKE SURE THAT HIS VIDEO NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY. AND WHILE SEAN CAME OUT ADAMANTLY THROUGH HIS ATTORNEY SAYING THIS IS UNTRUE THIS BEING NOT JUST THIS INCIDENT, BUT THE ENTIRE ALLEGATIONS NOW ,SEEING, AS YOU’VE SAID HERE, VIDEOS DON’T LIE. AND SO THAT DESTROYS ANY AMOUNT OF CREDIBILITY THAT SEAN COMBS MAY HAVE HAD IN DENYING THESE ALLEGATIONS. AND I THINK MANY OTHER ALLEGATIONS THAT COME FROM THE OTHER CIVIL LAWSUITS COMING AGAINST HIM. AND I CAN BET THAT THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK THAT COORDINATED BOTH RAIDS OF BOTH OF HIS HOMES JUST A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS AGO, THAT THEY’RE LOOKING AT THIS AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, CASSIE HAS NOW BECOME THAT MUCH MORE A MORE CREDIBLE WITNESS. AND WHILE THESE ALLEGATIONS, BECAUSE THEY’RE FROM 2016, MADE IT PAST THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, SHE CAN STILL POTENTIALLY TESTIFY TO EVERYTHING IN HER LAWSUIT AND SAY, LOOK, IT’S CORROBORATED BY THIS VIDEO. THIS IS WHO THIS MAN IS. THINK THIS IS JUST ANOTHER POTENTIAL PIECE TO A POTENTIAL AND I’M NOT SAYING IT OR WILL NOT HAPPEN, BUT A POTENTIAL ARREST OF SEAN COMBS AND MORE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM. >> YES. SPEAKING AS A WITNESS AND SPEAKING AS A SURVIVOR CLEARLY. ALSO, BRIAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT CASSIE’S ATTORNEY RELEASED A STATEMENT NOW. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? YES, WE GOT A RIGHT THERE ON THE SCREEN JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO. BUT THE ATTORNEY SAID GUT WRENCHING VIDEO HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COMBS. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THEIR COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MISADVENTURE HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO BRING TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT. THAT IS CASSIE VENTURA, ATTORNEY TALKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK WE ARE ALL SEEING NOW. THIS IS I DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NEVER PRETTY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. BUT THIS SEEING THIS ON A VIDEO AND THE WAY THAT THAT EVEN COMES BACK AFTER THE ASSAULT, AFTER PUTTING ON THE GROUND HER WHEN SHE’S ON THE GROUND, COMING BACK AND THROWING OBJECTS AT HER, SHE IS SO HELPLESS. AND IT SEEMED THAT EVEN THE HOTEL COULDN’T FIND A WAY TO GET INTO THE LIGHT TO PROTECT HER, IT SEEMED, BY CASSIE TO TO MIKE’S POINT, HAD NO ONE THERE TO PROTECT HER, THAT SHE EVEN FELT THE NEED TO GO BACK TO HER ABUSER. THAT IS OFTEN A SIGN OF PROLONGED ABUSE THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO THROUGH YET ALONE . THE MOMENTS THAT WE SAW HERE IN THAT IN THAT HALLWAY. AGREED. BRIAN AND MIKE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH TREMENDOUSLY. >> COMING UP, THE WORLD’S TOP GOLFER ARRESTED THIS MORNING ON THE WAY TO TEE OFF IN ATTEMPT TO WIN WEEKEND’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WHAT HAPPENED? WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS. >> 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. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH 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 FROM THE FRONT FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, FROM THE FBI BEFORE HE PUT 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 LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 POLE. THE BUZZKILL. AND BASED ON FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL THAT ENTERTAIN IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS AND YOU SEE HIM THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY HE’S GOT HIS COMPOUND. WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE YOU? >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SO WHAT DOES IT SAY? THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. INTRUDE INTO THE MANOSPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WELL, THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, HAS HAD A PRETTY BUSY MONTH. HE WON THE MASTERS AND THEN HE WELCOMED HIS CHILD AND NOW HE’S BEEN ARRESTED. HE WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE THIS MORNING WHEN POLICE CLAIMED THAT HE DIDN’T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AT A ROADBLOCK, CAUSING AN OFFICER ACTUALLY FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. THE POLICE STATING THE DETECTIVE’S UNIFORM PANTS VALUED AT $80 WERE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. SO WHAT HAPPENED? ABC’S MORGAN NORWOOD HAS BEEN TRACKING A BIT OF A CRAZY STORY, TO SAY THE LEAST. WHAT DO WE KNOW? MORGAN A WILD WAY TO BEGIN THE PGA TOURNAMENT FOR SURE. I IT’S BEST IF I TAKE THIS TO TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS CHRONOLOGICALLY AND KIND OF SET THE SCENE FOR. YOU AND THEN WE KIND OF GET INTO WHAT WE SEE. LET’S GO RIGHT TO THE VIDEO. SO ALL OF HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING, RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GOLF COURSE GATES. POLICE WERE ALREADY ON THE SCENE THERE. APPARENTLY, THEY WERE INVESTIGATING SOME SORT OF HIT AND RUN. A FATAL HIT AND RUN THAT HAPPENED EARLIER THAT MORNING. A SHUTTLE BUS ACTUALLY HIT A PEDESTRIAN AND WHO LATER DIED. SO ACCORDING TO POLICE, THIS IS HOW IT ALL WENT DOWN. YOU SEE HIM LED AWAY IN THOSE HANDCUFFS. >> A DETECTIVE STOPPED SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER AS HE WAS DRIVING THROUGH, ORDERED HIM TO STOP. THEY SAY SCHEFFLER KEPT GOING. THE OFFICER PLACES HIS HAND ON THE CAR, TRYING TO GET HIM TO STOP. THAT OFFICER THAT DETECTIVE CLAIMS THAT HE WAS DRAGGED A FEW FEET BEFORE THE GOLFER ENDED UP STOPPING. AND WE ARE HEARING THAT THAT DETECTIVE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH MINOR INJURIES HERE. >> SO WHAT IS SCHEFFLER SAYING ABOUT HIS ARREST? AND IT’S PRETTY REMARKABLE. IT DID. MENTALLY, HE STILL GOT INTO THE GAME TO SPEAK AND HE TEED OFF AND IS GOING FORWARD. YEAH, HE’S GOING THROUGH WITH THIS THIS SECOND ROUND OF THIS TOURNAMENT. BUT IN A STATEMENT WE JUST GOT THIS FROM HIM WITHIN PAST COUPLE OF HOURS, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER CALLING THIS SITUATION, QUOTE, VERY CHAOTIC . HE SAID THAT IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING. HE ADDED THAT I NEVER INTENDED TO DISREGARD INSTRUCTIONS. HE DID SAY THAT HE’S HOPEFUL TO PUT THIS TO THE SIDE, AS WE SAW TODAY, FOCUS ON GOLF. BUT I WANT TO RUN DOWN THE CHARGES BECAUSE HE’S CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, AND DISREGARDING SIGNALS FROM DIRECTING. YOU CAN SEE HIS MUG SHOT THERE. WE KNOW THAT HE WAS RELEASED EARLIER THIS MORNING ONE OF THOSE CHARGES IS A FELONY. SO PRETTY SERIOUS CHARGE THERE . HIS ATTORNEY, THOUGH, CALLING THIS ARREST A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING, BASICALLY ECHOING WHAT SCHEFFLER HAD SAID. HE SAYS THAT WE WILL LITIGATE THIS CASE. IT GOES. ANOTHER THING THAT I WANT TO ALSO POINT OUT WITH THIS FROM THE ATTORNEY, HE DISPUTES THE ALLEGATIONS ALTOGETHER HERE. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT MULTIPLE EYEWITNESSES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT SCHEFFLER DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG, BUT WAS SIMPLY PROCEEDING AS DIRECTED. IT VERY COULD VERY COULD WELL MEAN THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF MISUNDERSTANDING. YOU KNOW, BOTH SIDES ARE SAYING THAT AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME. SO, OF COURSE, WE’RE GOING TO TRACK ALL OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS AS THIS TOURNAMENT CONTINUES HERE. WE’LL TRACK IT. MORGAN, THANKS SO MUCH. AND COMING UP, IF YOU’RE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THIS SUMMER, WELL, BE PREPARED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT THE AIRPORT. THE LATEST ON THE TSA IS OMINOUS EXPECTATIONS FOR A HISTORICALLY BUSY TRAVEL SEASON. I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY . IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WITH A MIKE ROTH, ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR, BABY. I DO SEE THE BELL BOTTOMS AND THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. >> WOW. >> TONIGHT, GETTING EIGHT INSIDE GAS AS. THE U.S. MILITARY PUNISHES THE FLOATING PIER. AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN. TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON. WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR SUBMERGED WATER. WEDNESDAY, JIMMY WILL SHOW YOU LIVE TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER IN MUST SEE LIVE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. 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 TO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS 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 FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE’VE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 YEAR OLD BUZZKILL BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY I’M KAYNA WHITWORTH AT THE APEC SUMMIT IN SAN FRANCISCO. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE ABC NEWS LIVE. >> TSA ANNOUNCING A RECORD SETTING TRAVEL SEASON AND ABOUT TO TAKE OFF. IT SAYS THAT IT WILL BE THE BUSIEST SEASON EVER. OUR TRANSPORTATION REPORTER SAM SWEENEY JOINING US NOW. >> ALL RIGHT. GIVE US ALL THE DETAILS. KYRA, IT’S GOING TO A BUSY ONE AND IT’S GOING TO START ON MEMORIAL DAY WHEN THE TSA EXPECTS ROUGHLY POINT 8 TO 2.9 MILLION PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH THEIR SECURITY SCREENING CHECKPOINTS BEGINNING THURSDAY, FRIDAY. AND OF COURSE, IT’S GOING TO BE BUSY ON THAT RETURN TRIP ON MONDAY. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT AIRFARES ARE DOWN ROUGHLY 10% FROM LAST YEAR. BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE AN EXTRAORDINARILY BUSY. SOME DAYS TOPPING MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE GOING THROUGH CHECKPOINTS. THOSE ARE RECORDS THE TSA SAYS THIS IS THE BIGGEST YEAR OVER YEAR JUMP THAT THEY HAVE EVER SEEN AND IT WILL LIKELY BE THE BUSIEST IN HISTORY. THE AIRLINES ALSO THAT MESSAGE. THEY SAY THEY ARE FULLY STAFFED, BUT THERE ARE ISSUES WITH THE FAA AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL. THEY’RE SHORT ABOUT 3000 CONTROLLERS. AND BECAUSE OF THE AIRLINES HAVE BEEN ASKED, ARE ASKING THE FAA TO REDUCE THEIR FLIGHTS BY ABOUT 10% IN THE NEW YORK AREA SO THEY CAN AVOID THOSE THAT WE’VE SEEN IN YEARS PAST. >> SO TAKE IT YOU’RE NOT TRAVELING. SAY I’M NOT GOING TO BE TRAVELING THIS MEMORIAL DAY HERE IN THE D.C. AREA. >> THERE YOU GO. ME, TOO. SAM SWEENEY, THANK YOU. AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS FROM BREAKING NEWS. ALL THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE STREAMING SERVICE, THE ABC NEWS APP, AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. >> THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEEDED A WAY. A LOT MORE ON THE OTHER SIDE. STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER, WHEREVER BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, EVOLVED IN TEXAS EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW, WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> STREAM ABC LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU SCREAM YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC LIVE TONIGHT. >> GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH ALL THE BUZZKILL. AND BASED ON FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL THAT ENTERTAINER IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY TO GO GUARD HIS COMPOUND WHERE PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A BUSINESS FROM HERE, NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. >> DO YOU THINK HE YOU? THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BECOME SOMEONE ELSE AND SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE AND YOU GET INTO THE MANOSPHERE. NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS? >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW 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, MAKING YOUR DEBUT FIRST. >> LISTEN, WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS. BRUTAL STORMS HITTING THE LONE STAR STATE. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED, MORE THAN A MILLION RESIDENTS REMAIN WITHOUT POWER. >> WE ARE LIVE ON THE SCENE. PLUS, SCREAMING SCHOOLYARD INSULTS AND A COMPLETE LACK OF CIVILITY. OF COURSE, I’M TALKING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. WE’RE LIVE ON THE HILL AFTER THAT UNRULY HEARING, TO SAY THE LEAST, AND READY TO HIT THE ROAD. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE THE START OF A RECORD HOLIDAY TRAVEL SEASON RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S. WE’VE GOT YOUR FORECAST. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, UTTER DESTRUCTION AFTER A SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK ACROSS THE SOUTH HIT ESPECIALLY HARD. SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THAT STATE, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE BRINGING MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THE STORM NOW BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FOUR DEATHS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS DOWNING TREES KNOCKING OUT POWER AND NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES NOW IN THE DARK . CREWS SAYING POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR WEEKS NOW. SCHOOLS ARE CANCELED AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE OUT THE STORM AND DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. WE CAN HEAR A FEEL. THE BUILDING CHIEF AND THEN THE SYRIAN TOWN WAS COMING DOWN . >> IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS, TORRENTIAL RAINS SO HARD THAT OFFICIALS THERE ARE WARNING OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. NOW CITY OFFICIALS URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROAD AS WELL. EXTREME WEATHER TEAM TRACKING THE DAMAGE AND THE FORECAST FOR US. LET’S BEGIN WITH OUR MIREYA VILLARREAL. SO HOW BAD IS THE DAMAGE WHERE YOU ARE? MARIA? YOU KNOW, KYRA, IT’S KIND OF HARD TO DESCRIBE. WE’VE BEEN TO SO MANY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS HERE IN THE HOUSTON AREA. WE STARTED OFF IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA THIS MORNING. WE’VE MOVED TO A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND NOW WE’RE IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT JUST WEST OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA. SO I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK RIGHT BEHIND ME. YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THIS WAS A TIRE SHOP. THEY’VE BEEN HERE ROUGHLY FOR THREE YEARS OR SO. THE FAMILY MOVED HERE FROM CALIFORNIA BECAUSE THEY WANTED A BETTER LIFE. THEY WANTED TO START A BUSINESS. THEY ACTUALLY NAMED IT AFTER THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD, EDENS TIRE. LAST NIGHT, THEY SAID THEY KNEW THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN THIS AREA. THEY DIDN’T REALIZE HOW BAD IT WAS GOING TO BE. AND IN FACT, THEY WERE ABLE TO THERE WERE THE OWNER WAS INSIDE WHEN THIS HAPPENED, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO SURVIVE WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY WERE UP AGAINST SOME TIRES THAT HAD BEEN STACKED PERFECTLY AND PROVIDED A SHIELD FOR THEM AS THE WEATHER BLEW THROUGH. THERE WERE ACTUALLY PEOPLE, AS YOU CAN SEE, IT’S COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. AND THIS IS JUST ONE PART OF HOUSTON. WE’VE BEEN TO SEVERAL LOCATIONS THAT LOOK JUST LIKE THIS ABSOLUTE DEVASTATION IN A LOT OF THESE COMMUNITIES HERE, KYRA. >> YEAH, AND WHILE WE TRACK WHAT’S HAPPENING BEHIND YOU IN REAL TIME, WE’RE ALSO TRACKING WHAT COULD COME NEXT. OUR METEOROLOGIST, MR. GRIFFIN, TAKES IT FROM HERE. WHAT’S THE NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY? WELL, KYRA, THE GOOD THING IS WHERE MARIA IS IN HOUSTON AND THAT SEVERE AND FLOODING IS OVER, THEY WILL HAVE DRY WEATHER FOR THEIR CLEANUP EFFORTS. BUT THE WET CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF THE GULF COAST. SO THESE ARE THE AREAS UNDER FLOOD WATCH. NOW YOU CAN SEE THE HEAVIEST RAIN HERE, MONROEVILLE, THIS IS SOUTHERN ALABAMA. WE HAVE COUPLE OF FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT JUST NORTH OF THAT AREA. BUT WE HAVE WATCHES THAT CONTINUE ALL THE WAY INTO NEW ORLEANS. BUT IT’S NOT JUST THE FLOODING. IT’S, OF COURSE, THE SEVERE WEATHER, MORE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS LIKE WHAT WE SAW IN HOUSTON WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO BLAST ACROSS THE GULF COAST. THIS IS THROUGH THIS EVENING, THROUGH 6:00 TONIGHT. YOU COULD SEE BOTH INTO ALBANY, GEORGIA. FLASH FLOODING, DAMAGING WINDS, LARGE BRIEF TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THE TORNADO THREAT IS LOW BUT CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH THESE STORMS. I WANT TO BRING IT TO A WIDE VIEW NOW AS WE HEAD INTO TONIGHT FOR SATURDAY, BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE THAT ONGOING SEVERE THREAT ALONG THE GULF COAST. WE DO HAVE SOME RAIN MOVING IN. AS MUCH OF THE EAST COAST REMAINS UNSETTLED THROUGH TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF VIRGINIA, THEY’RE UNDER FLOOD WATCHES THERE AS WELL. AND THAT WILL MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS D.C. REACHING NEW YORK CITY WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A SOGGY DAY TO START THE WEEKEND. >> AND LOOK AT THIS, KYRA, MORE SEVERE PUSHES TOWARDS THE EAST COAST. ANYONE FROM THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE UP AND TO THE EASTERN CAROLINAS COULD SEE MORE STORMS TO START THEIR WEEKEND SATURDAY AFTERNOON KYRA. ALL RIGHT, MARIA AND MELISSA, WE’LL IN CLOSE TOUCH. THANK YOU. NOW OVERSEAS, DESPERATELY NEEDED AID FINALLY ARRIVING IN GAZA. THE FIRST AID TRUCKS MOVING THROUGH THAT TEMPORARY U.S. BUILT PIER JUST OFF THE GAZA STRIP FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME AMID GROWING PRESSURE TO GET FOOD AND SUPPLIES INTO THE WAR REGION. BUT THERE WILL ONLY BE A FEW TRUCKS TODAY BECAUSE TROOPS WANT TO THAT THAT FLOATING PIER IS ACTUALLY STABLE. IT’S ALL HAPPENING AS WE SADLY REPORT THAT ISRAELI SOLDIERS SAY THEY RETRIEVED BODIES OF THREE MORE HOSTAGES KILLED BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER SEVENTH. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARCUS MOORE IS IN TEL AVIV WITH. >> EVERYTHING FOR US, MARCUS. KYRA, THE FIRST AID TRUCKS ROLLED OFF OF THIS TEMPORARY PIER THIS MORNING. AND IN THE DAYS ONLY ABOUT A DOZEN TRUCKS OR SO ARE EXPECTED. BUT ONCE FULLY OPERATIONAL, THE PLAN IS FOR AS MANY AS 150 TRUCKS PER DAY. THIS PIER NOW SERVING AS A CRITICAL ROUTE FOR AID, GETTING INTO GAZA. THE RAFAH CROSSING IN THE SOUTH STILL SHUT DOWN AND ONLY A TRICKLE OF AID IS PASSING THROUGH THE KEREM SHALOM CROSSING. NOW, THIS PIER IS CRUCIAL TO EFFORT TO HELP MORE THAN 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS GET ACCESS TO FOOD AND MEDICINE . NOTABLY, THE U.N. AND CONTRACTORS ARE OPERATING THIS PIER. THE GROUP’S HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO HAVE NO CONTACT WITH ISRAELI AT THE PIER ITSELF SO AS TO BE SEEN AS NEUTRAL. AND IT’S ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT U.S. TROOPS WERE NEVER ON GAZA SHORES. NOW, THIS EFFORT TO GET AID INTO THE GAZA STRIP CONTINUES AS FIGHTING RAGES. AND THE WORK TO FIND HOSTAGES ADVANCES. BUT TODAY, THE IDF ANNOUNCING A GRIM RECOVERY. THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGES WHO HAD INITIALLY ESCAPED THE NOVA MUSIC ON OCTOBER 7TH, BUT WHO WERE LATER MURDERED AND TAKEN GAZA WHERE THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND. AND AS YOU KNOW, THE FAMILIES OF THE REMAINING HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY CALLING FOR THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO REACH A HOSTAGE DEAL SO THAT THEY CAN BE REUNITED WITH THEIR LOVED ONES KYRA. ALL RIGHT, MARCUS MOORE OUT OF TEL AVIV. THANK YOU, MARCUS. SO CONGRESSIONAL HEARING CAGE MATCH. YOU’VE GOT TO SEE THIS TO BELIEVE IT. IT’S A HOUSE HEARING LAST NIGHT OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT CONGRESS. AND IT DEVOLVED INTO A SHOUTING MATCH WITH SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FALSE TO AND I QUOTE HERE, BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY. GRAB THE POPCORN AND ROLL THE VIDEO. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. I NOTHING. >> THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND APPEARANCE OF ANOTHER PERSON ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? >> OH, OH, OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE. >> WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. I SECOND THAT MOTION. OKAY. WELL, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, AOC AND JASMINE CROCKETT DISSENTION INTO INSULT FILLED CHAOS, DERAILING THIS HEARING FOR OVER AN HOUR WITH CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER REPEATEDLY TRYING AND FAILING TO MAINTAIN ORDER. OUR J. O’BRIEN HAS BEEN ON THE HILL FOLLOWING THIS FOR US. >> OKAY, J HOW DO THINGS ESCALATE A CIRCUS? I MEAN, IT’S PRETTY EMBARRASSING EYELASH GAIT IS WHAT STARTED IT HERE. THAT COMMENT FROM MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ABOUT THE FAKE DIRECTED AT JASMINE CROCKETT. >> THAT WAS WHAT REALLY THIS ENTIRELY OFF THE RAILS BECAUSE DEMOCRATS IMMEDIATELY ON THAT COMMENT AND SAID IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE TO MAKE THAT REMARK A CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING. THEY CALLED ON GREENE TO APOLOGIZE. SHE SAID WOULDN’T APOLOGIZE. THERE WAS SHOUTING THAT BACK AND FORTH WENT ON FOR JUST ABOUT AN HOUR. IT WAYLAID THE PROCEEDINGS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AS JAMES COLMER TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCEDURALLY RESPOND. AT ONE POINT, DEMOCRATS WANTED TO BAR GREENE FROM SPEAKING FOR THE REST OF THE PROCEEDINGS. FINALLY, THERE WAS A VOTE TO BAR GREENE INTO STRIKER COMMENTS. IT FAILED. AND THEN THESE PROCEEDINGS GOT BACK ON TRACK AND. EVENTUALLY, THE COMMITTEE DID APPROVE THAT CONTEMPT RESOLUTION AGAINST THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR WITHHOLDING AN AUDIO RECORDING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL THAT WAS INVESTIGATING HIS HOLDING ON TO CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT THAT WASN’T THE HEADLINE COMING OUT OF LAST NIGHT. >> IT WAS ALL OF THIS PRIORITY TALKATIVE I’VE EVER SEEN EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE REPS IN THEIR SEATS. YEAH. THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF REACTION ON CAPITOL HILL JAMIE RASKIN EVEN COMING FORWARD ON SOME OF THE NETWORKS SAYING THAT THEY WERE DRUNK. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING. YEAH, WHAT RASKIN IS REFERRING TO IS AN ALLEGATION THAT WAS MADE FROM A REPUBLICAN IN THE ROOM WHO, IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT SHOUTED AND THERE’S DRINKING GOING ON IN HERE AS BUT I’VE TALKED TO SOURCES WHO WERE IN THERE WHO SAY THERE’S NO EVIDENCE OF ANY KIND OF DRINKING ON IN THERE. I CAN TELL YOU SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON EXCLUSIVELY ABC NEWS, THAT WHAT HE SAW LAST NIGHT WAS, QUOTE, NOT A GOOD FOR CONGRESS. >> ALSO, I’VE TALKED TO SOME MEMBERS WHO WERE IN THAT ROOM LIKE BYRON DONALDS OF FLORIDA WHO SAY, LOOK, THEY NEED TO MOVE ON FROM THIS IN CONGRESS. >> IT WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE. HERE’S DONALDS AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO DO THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT HELPS RAISE MONEY. YOU KNOW, IT HELPS, YOU KNOW, GET A FAVOR MAYBE FROM THE PRESIDENT YOU KNOW, THEY THEY WANT TO GET TWITTER FAMOUS. THEY WANT TO GO ON STEVE BANNON’S PODCAST. >> OH, MY GOODNESS. YOU KNOW, LOOK, I DON’T THINK I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE THAT. BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE IS THERE WAS A LOT OF DISRESPECT EARLY ON AGAINST MS.. >> GREENE, AND THAT WAS KIND OF BRUSHED OVER. SO FORGIVE ME, I MISCHARACTERIZED THAT. WHO YOU HEARD FROM WAS JARED MOSKOWITZ, DEMOCRAT OF FLORIDA, OBVIOUSLY TAKING A SHOT. REPUBLICANS, ALTHOUGH HE WAS NEEDLING JAMES COMER IN THAT HEARING AS WELL. AND THEN YOU HEARD ANA, PAULINA LUNA DEFEND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. BUT SHE WAS ONE OF THE RARE REPUBLICANS I TALKED TO TODAY WHO DID COME AND DEFEND GREENE. MOST REPUBLICANS SAID THAT WHAT THEY SAW WAS OVER THE LINE AND THEY WOULD LIKE THE PARTY TO MOVE ON HERE, KYRA. WELL, THIS ALL COMES AS THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT DID EVENTUALLY VOTE TO HOLD MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT. SO LET’S BACK TO THE REAL NEWS HERE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THE POLITICS, ALL OF IT, RIGHT? YEAH. SO EVENTUALLY, HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP HAVE SAID THEY’RE GOING TO PUT A RESOLUTION ON THE HOUSE FLOOR THAT THE ENTIRE HOUSE WILL VOTE ON AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO HOLD GARLAND IN CONTEMPT. AND REALLY, THE CHALLENGE FACING MIKE JOHNSON HERE IS CAN HE GET SUPPORT FROM EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN BECAUSE OF HIS SLIM NUMBERS, WHAT HE NEEDS, AND ALSO CAN HE MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN IS SHOWING UP TO WORK AND THERE ARE NO ABSENCES OR ANY, OF COURSE, NOTABLE REPUBLICAN WHO MIGHT VOTE NO? IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS, IT MAKES IT A LOT MORE COMPLICATED FOR MIKE JOHNSON. BUT HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID THEY WANT TO PUT A RESOLUTION TO HOLD GARLAND IN CONTEMPT ON THE HOUSE FLOOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE KYRA. ALL RIGHT, JAY O’BRIEN ON CAPITOL HILL FOR US. THANK YOU. NOW TO BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING RAP SUPERSTAR SEAN DIDDY COMBS. COMBS HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN A LOT OF LEGAL DRAMA, AS YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY FACING ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT. AND NOW THERE IS THIS NEW VIDEO THAT’S EMERGED OF THE RAPPER SEEN WITH HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA. THIS IS IT. AND WE WANT TO WARN YOU, IT’S DISTURBING NOT JUST THE FACT THAT HE’S COMING DOWN PRACTICALLY NAKED IN A TOWEL. YEAH, THAT’S WHAT HE DOES RIGHT THERE. THE VIDEO WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY CNN, AND IT SHOWS THE RAPPER AND PRODUCER RUNNING AFTER HIS GIRLFRIEND THERE, VENTURA, DOWN THE HALLWAY AT A HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES I2016. >> HE’S SHOVING HER, KICKING HER AND THEN DRAGGING HER DOWN THE HALLWAY. LEADING US OFF THIS HOUR IS OUR CONTRIBUTOR MIKE MOVE NEWS . ALSO WITH US, OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE. SO, MIKE, I MEAN, THE VIDEO IS DISGUSTING. THERE’S JUST NO OTHER WAY TO IT. LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BACK STORY AND WHY THIS VIDEO IS SO IMPORTANT ALREADY TO THE ONGOING ALLEGATIONS AND CASES AGAINST THE RAPPER. UPON LOOKING AT THIS VIDEO, KYRA, I WAS ABSOLUTELY DISTURBED. I WAS OUTRAGED. I STILL M DISTURBED. I STILL AM OUTRAGED. I AM DISGUSTED AT THE ACTIONS OF SEAN COMBS. NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THIS. AND THEN ALSO TO NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO HAVE TO RELIVE THIS. HAVING TO SEE THIS VIDEO FOOTAGE ALL OVER AGAIN. CASSIE HAD FILED PAPERWORK AND A LAWSUIT AGAINST COMBS DETAILING THE ABUSIVE NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, DETAILING THE TOXIC NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, DETAILING THE ASSAULT OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. COMBS CAME OUT STRONGLY, AND IN A STATEMENT, HIS ATTORNEY VEHEMENTLY DENIED ALL SUCH ALLEGATIONS. >> BUT WHEN YOU SEE THIS, IT JUST UNDERSCORES ANYTHING THAT SEAN COMBS COULD EVER SAY GOING FORWARD WITH REGARDS TO THIS AND OTHER FUTURE LAWSUITS THAT HE MAY HAVE. >> HERE ARE THE THING THAT REALLY STRUCK ME THE MOST WAS I THE HEART OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AND WHEN VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO GO AND NOWHERE TO RUN, AND THEY OFTEN WILL GO BACK TO THEIR ABUSER, HIM CHASING AFTER HER, NOT ONLY JUST KICKING HER, BUT THE MEEK. >> HERE IT WAS THE GRABBING OF THE PURSE, AS IF HOLDING HER POSSESSION, HER I.D., NOT ALLOWING HER, TO LEAVE. >> AND THEN IN THE LAWSUIT, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT MOMENT WHERE A LAWSUIT WHERE CASSIE STATES SHE LEFT TO GO BACK TO HER APARTMENT. BUT THEN SHE TRIED TO COME BACK TO THE HOTEL TO APOLOGIZE TO SEAN COMBS AND FEAR THAT HE WOULD HAUNT HER MORE TO HIS HOTEL. STAFF HAD TO STOP AND SAY, NO, GO BACK HOME. THAT RIGHT THERE JUST SHOWS WHAT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE GO THROUGH WANTING WANT TO RETURN TO THEIR ABUSER AND FEAR COULD GET WORSE. >> BUT IN THIS THIS IS A CYCLE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT. I’VE BEEN TEXTING A LOT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY, WHICH I’M A PART OF, AND EVERY ONE IS JUST SIMPLY DISGUSTED THAT THIS IS THE MAN THAT WE HAVE PARTIED WITH. WE CELEBRATE WITH. >> I’VE BEEN IN ROOMS WITH. I’VE BEEN TO PARTIES IN HOME HERE IN NEW YORK CITY AND IN FLORIDA. >> AND I OUTRAGED THAT THIS IS SOMEBODY THAT I KNEW. BUT I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THIS THIS PERSON IS THAT COULD DO MONSTROUS ACTS TO A HUMAN BEING. >> MY HEART SIMPLY GOES OUT TO CASSIE RIGHT NOW. SO. WELL SAID, MIKE, AS HE CONTINUES TO DENY ALLEGATIONS, AS WE SAY, VIDEO DOESN’T LIE. BRIAN I WANT TO BRING YOU IN HERE. CAN WE TALK ABOUT JUST THE IMPACT THAT THIS VIDEO WILL HAVE NOW ON ALL SEAN COMBS LEGAL TROUBLES? >> THE MIC TOUCHED ON IT VERY ELOQUENTLY. I COSIGN EVERYTHING HE SAID. BUT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, WHAT THIS DOES IS EVEN THOUGH KATHY’S LAWSUIT WAS SETTLED WITHIN A DAY WITH SEAN COMBS. THIS INCREASES HER CREDIBILITY. SHE OUTLINED THIS TO MIKE’S POINT IN HER LAWSUIT DESCRIBING THIS VERY INTERACTION ON MARCH 2016 AND EVEN GAVE SOME EXPLANATION AS WHY WE’RE NOT SEEING THIS VIDEO TO THIS DAY. IN CASSIE’S LAWSUIT SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT SEAN COMBS PAID $50,000 TO MAKE SURE THAT HIS VIDEO NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY. AND WHILE SEAN COMBS CAME OUT ADAMANTLY THROUGH HIS ATTORNEY SAYING THIS IS UNTRUE, THIS BEING NOT JUST THIS INCIDENT, BUT THE ENTIRE ALLEGATIONS. NOW WE’RE SEEING, AS YOU’VE SAID HERE, VIDEOS DON’T LIE. AND SO THAT DESTROYS ANY AMOUNT OF CREDIBILITY THAT SEAN COMBS MAY HAVE HAD IN DENYING THESE ALLEGATIONS. AND I THINK MANY OTHER ALLEGATIONS COME FROM THE OTHER CIVIL LAWSUITS COMING AGAINST HIM AND CAN BET THAT THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK THAT COORDINATED BOTH RAIDS OF BOTH OF HIS HOMES JUST A FEW WEEKS MONTHS AGO, THAT THEY’RE LOOKING AT THIS AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT CASSIE HAS NOW THAT MUCH MORE OF A MORE CREDIBLE WITNESS AND. LOT OF THESE ALLEGATIONS, BECAUSE THEY’RE FROM 2016, MIGHT HAVE PAST THE STATUTE OF LIMITATION. SHE CAN STILL POTENTIALLY TESTIFY TO EVERYTHING IN HER LAWSUIT AND, SAY, LOOK, IT’S CORROBORATED BY THIS VIDEO. THIS IS WHO THIS MAN. I THINK THIS IS JUST ANOTHER POTENTIAL PIECE TO A POTENTIAL I’M NOT SAYING IT WILL OR WILL NOT HAPPEN, BUT A POTENTIAL ARREST OF SEAN COMBS AND MORE AGAINST HIM. >> YES. SPEAKING AS A WITNESS AND SPEAKING AS A SURVIVOR. CLEARLY. ALSO, BRIAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT CASSIE’S ATTORNEY RELEASED A STATEMENT NOW. >> WHAT DO YOU KNOW? YES SO WE GOT IT OUT THERE ON THE SCREEN JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO. BUT THE ATTORNEY SAID GUT WRENCHING VIDEO HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COMBS. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THEIR COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MR. VENTURA HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO BRING TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT. THAT IS CASSIE VENTURA, ATTORNEY TALKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK WE ARE ALL SEEING NOW. THIS IS I MEAN, DOMESTIC IS NEVER PRETTY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, BUT THIS SEEING THIS ON VIDEO AND THE WAY THAT THAT IT EVEN COMES BACK AFTER THE ASSAULT, AFTER PUTTING ON THE GROUND, KICKING HER, WHEN SHE’S ON THE GROUND, COMING BACK AND THROWING OBJECTS AT HER, SHE IS SO AND IT SEEMED THAT EVEN THE COULDN’T FIND A WAY TO GET THEIR SON INTO THE LIGHT TO PROTECT HER. IT SEEMED LIKE CASSIE, TO MIKE’S POINT AND NO ONE THERE TO PROTECT HER, THAT SHE EVEN FELT THE NEED TO GO BACK TO HER ABUSER, THAT IS OFTEN A SIGN OF PROLONGED ABUSE THAT NO SHOULD GO THROUGH YET ALONE. THE MOMENTS THAT WE SAW HERE IN THAT IN THAT HALLWAY. >> AGREED. BRIAN AND MIKE, THANK SO MUCH. >> I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH TREMENDOUSLY. COMING UP, THE WORLD’S TOP GOLFER ARRESTED THIS MORNING ON THE WAY TO OFF IN ATTEMPT TO WIN THIS WEEKEND’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WHAT HAPPENED? WE’VE GOT THE DETAILS. THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO. JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES, PLAYED VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON, IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP, THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING. THEY PURCHASED THAT GUN AND ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S ACT. >> SINS OF THE PARENTS. THE CRUMBLING TRIALS. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED. ONLY HULU. WE’RE TRYING TO GET ANSWERS FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. EVEN IF MAYBE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE THEY NEED THOSE ANSWERS. YOU KNOW, I HAVE COVERED CHILD HOMICIDES BEFORE, AND NOW MY DAUGHTER’S AUTOPSY WILL BE MADE PUBLIC MONDAY. THOSE WHO FOUND WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE. >> DID YOU JUST STAND THERE AND LET MY FRIEND’S CHILD DIE? >> LET’S GO. THIS SHIP IS INCREDIBLE. IT FEELS LIKE LIVING IN A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. WE JUST SAW WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE. LOOK AT THAT. OH, MY GOSH. WE HAVEN’T HEARD. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE UNKNOWN. HAMMER, HAMMER, HAMMER. IT DOESN’T ANY MORE CUTTING EDGE. AND THIS EVERY FRIDAY, HOTTEST TREND STYLES AND MUST HAVE. IT’S TIME TO BUY THE RIGHT STUFF AND SAVE BIG TIME TO THE RIGHT STUFF. FRIDAYS AND JENNY, YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE IT. >> HI, I’M ANDY. AND I’M SABRINA. AND WE’RE MOMS JUGGLING OF STUFF EVERY DAY, LIKE ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE. AND, YOU KNOW WHAT WE LOVE, REALLY LOVE POP CULTURE. >> SO WHAT HAPPENS? BEING OBSESSED WITH POP CULTURE COLLIDES WITH BEING A MOM. YOU GET UP. SO LISTEN NOW TO OUR NEW PODCAST, POP CULTURE MOMS. WHEREVER. >> GET YOUR PODCASTS,, THE WORLR ONE GOLFER IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, HAS HAD A PRETTY BUSY MONTH. HE WON THE MASTERS AND THEN HE WELCOMED HIS CHILD AND NOW HE’S BEEN ARRESTED. HE WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE THIS MORNING WHEN POLICE CLAIMED THAT HE DIDN’T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AT A ROADBLOCK, CAUSING AN OFFICER TO ACTUALLY FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. THE POLICE STATING THE DETECTIVE’S UNIFORM PANTS VALUED AT $80 WERE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. >> SO WHAT HAPPENED? ABC’S MORGAN NORWOOD HAS BEEN TRACKING A BIT OF A CRAZY STORY, TO SAY THE LEAST. WHAT DO WE KNOW? MORGAN A WILD WAY TO BEGIN THE PGA TOURNAMENT FOR SURE. I IT’S BEST IF I TAKE THE TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS CHRONOLOGICALLY AND KIND OF SET THE SCENE FOR YOU AND THEN WE KIND OF GET INTO WHAT WE SEE. LET’S GO RIGHT TO THE VIDEO. SO ALL OF HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING, RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GOLF COURSE GATES. POLICE WERE ALREADY ON THE SCENE THERE. APPARENTLY, THEY WERE INVESTIGATING SOME SORT OF HIT AND RUN. A FATAL HIT AND RUN THAT HAPPENED EARLIER THAT MORNING. A SHUTTLE BUS ACTUALLY HIT A PEDESTRIAN AND WHO LATER DIED. SO ACCORDING TO POLICE, THIS IS HOW IT ALL WENT DOWN. YOU SEE HIM LED AWAY IN THOSE HANDCUFFS. >> A DETECTIVE STOPS CUTTING SCHEFFLER AS HE WAS DRIVING THROUGH, ORDERED HIM TO STOP. THEY SAY SCHEFFLER KEPT GOING. THE OFFICER THEN PLACES HIS HAND ON THE CAR, TRYING TO GET HIM TO STOP. THAT OFFICER, THAT DETECTIVE THAT HE WAS DRAGGED A FEW FEET BEFORE THE GOLFER ENDED UP STOPPING. AND WE ARE HEARING THAT THAT DETECTIVE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH. >> MINOR INJURIES HERE. SO WHAT IS SCHEFFLER SAYING ABOUT HIS ARREST? AND IT’S PRETTY REMARKABLE THAT IT DID. MENTALLY, HE STILL GOT INTO THE GAME, SO TO SPEAK. HE TEED OFF AND IS GOING FORWARD. YEAH, HE’S GOING THROUGH WITH THIS THIS SECOND ROUND OF THIS TOURNAMENT. BUT IN A STATEMENT, WE JUST GOT THIS FROM HIM WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE HOURS, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER CALLING THIS SITUATION, QUOTE, VERY CHAOTIC. HE SAID IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING. HE ADDED THAT I NEVER INTENDED TO DISREGARD THE INSTRUCTIONS. HE DID SAY THAT HE’S HOPEFUL TO PUT THIS TO THE SIDE, AS WE SAW TODAY, FOCUS ON GOLF. BUT I WANT TO RUN DOWN THE CHARGES BECAUSE HE’S CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, AND DISREGARDING SIGNALS FROM DIRECTING. YOU CAN SEE HIS MUG SHOT THERE. WE KNOW THAT HE WAS RELEASED EARLIER THIS MORNING. ONE OF THOSE CHARGES IS A FELONY. SO PRETTY SERIOUS CHARGE THERE . HIS ATTORNEY, THOUGH, CALLING THIS ARREST A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING. BASICALLY ECHOING WHAT SCHEFFLER HAD SAID. HE SAYS THAT WE WILL LITIGATE THIS AS IT GOES. ANOTHER THING THAT I WANT TO ALSO POINT OUT WITH THIS FROM THE ATTORNEY, HE DISPUTES THE ALLEGATIONS ALTOGETHER. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT, EYEWITNESSES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT SCHEFFLER DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG, BUT WAS SIMPLY PROCEEDING AS DIRECTED. VERY, VERY COULD WELL MEAN THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF MISUNDERSTANDING. YOU KNOW, BOTH SIDES ARE SAYING THAT AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME. SO, OF COURSE, WE’RE GOING TO TRACK ALL OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS AS THIS TOURNAMENT CONTINUES HERE. WE’LL TRACK IT. MORGAN, THANKS SO MUCH. AND COMING UP, IF YOU’RE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THIS SUMMER, WELL, BE PREPARED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT THE AIRPORT. THE LATEST ON THE TSA IS OMINOUS EXPECTATIONS FOR A HISTORICALLY BUSYY TRAVEL SEASON. IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. >> THAT WAS ENTERTAINED, ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. YOU SEE HIM, THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS, BASICALLY THAT GOT THIS COMPOUND. PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS, WERE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU HE YOU. >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SO UNLESS I SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. ANDREW TATE INTO THE MENACE FEAR NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEARTACHE. >> I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. >> IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. I DO SAY THE BELLBOTTOMS, THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT . WOW. >> TONIGHT. KNOCK, KNOCK. BURGLARS MAY BE TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER OF A HAIRDRESSER. FABIO SEVEN. 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TSA ANNOUNCING A RECORD SETTING TRAVEL SEASON AND IT’S ABOUT TO TAKE OFF. IT SAYS THAT IT WILL BE THE BUSIEST SEASON EVER. OUR TRANSPORTATION REPORTER SAM SWEENEY JOINING US NOW. ALL RIGHT. >> GIVE US ALL THE DEETS, KYRA. IT’S GOING TO BE A BUSY ONE AND IT’S GOING TO START ON MEMORIAL DAY WHEN THE TSA EXPECTS ROUGHLY 2.8 TO 2.9 MILLION PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH THEIR SECURITY SCREENING CHECKPOINTS BEGINNING THURSDAY, FRIDAY. AND OF IT’S GOING TO BE BUSY ON THAT RETURN TRIP ON MONDAY. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT AIRFARES ARE DOWN ROUGHLY 10% FROM LAST YEAR. BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE AN EXTRAORDINARILY BUSY SUMMER SOME DAYS TOPPING MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE GOING THROUGH CHECKPOINTS. THOSE ARE RECORDS THE TSA SAYS THIS IS THE BIGGEST YEAR OVER YEAR JUMP THAT THEY HAVE EVER SEEN AND IT WILL LIKELY BE THE BUSIEST IN HISTORY. THE AIRLINES ALSO THAT MESSAGE . THEY SAY THEY ARE FULLY STAFFED, BUT THERE ARE STAFFING ISSUES WITH THE FAA AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL. THEY’RE SHORT ABOUT 3000 CONTROLLERS. AND BECAUSE THAT THE AIRLINES HAVE BEEN ASKED OR ARE ASKING THE FAA TO REDUCE THEIR BY ABOUT 10% IN THE NEW YORK AREA SO THEY CAN AVOID THIS PROBLEMS THAT WE’VE SEEN IN YEARS PAST. >> SO I TAKE IT YOU’RE NOT TRAVELING, SAM. >> NOT GOING TO BE TRAVELING THIS DAY HERE IN THE D.C. AREA. >> THERE YOU GO. YOU DO? SAM SWEENEY. THANK YOU. AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS FROM BREAKING NEWS. ALL THE STORIES THAT MATTER TO YOU. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE STREAMING SERVICE, THE ABC NEWS APP. AND OF COURSE, ON ABC NEWS.COM . THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO WE. A LOT MORE ON THE OTHER SIDE. STAY WITH US. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEARTACHE. I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. BABY. I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. 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SO JOIN US AFTER NOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. >> I’M ERIELLE RESHEF IN NORWALK, CONNECTICUT. WHEREVER STORY IS WILL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT NOW AND ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS, THE VIDEO SHOWING RAPPER SEAN DIDDY COMBS PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING AND KICKING EX-GIRLFRIEND IN A HOTEL HALLWAY. YOU’LL SEE IT COMING UP. PLUS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO IS UNDER AFTER A PICTURE SHOWED HIM DISPLAYING AFTER A FLAG WAS SEEN DISPLAYED UPSIDE DOWN AT HIS HOUSE JUST DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THE LATEST IS JUSTICE ALITO PREPARES TO RULE ON MULTIPLE JANUARY 6 CASES AT THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND. AND HE’LL WANT A MULLIGAN ON THIS ONE. THE TOP GOLFER IN THE WORLD ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A FELONY, BUT STILL TEES AT THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WE’LL EXPLAIN. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND I’M TERRY MORAN. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING SUPERSTAR SEAN DIDDY COMBS. COMBS HAS BEEN EMBROILED LEGAL DRAMA, INCLUDING ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT AND NOW NEW VIDEO HAS EMERGED OF DIDDY IN AN ALTERCATION. HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA. WE WANT TO WARN YOU, THIS FOOTAGE DOES SHOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT’S DIFFICULT TO WATCH. >> THIS IS THE HEART OF THE CASE. A SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, AS YOU SEE HERE, WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN, THE NEWS OUTLET REPORTING IT ACTUALLY SHOWS THE MUSIC MOGUL. WELL, YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF VICIOUSLY BEATING HIS GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE, AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL IN 2016. AND IT APPEARS TO SUPPORT THE CLAIMS THAT SHE MADE AGAINST HIM AND THAT DIDDY HAS LONG DENIED IN A NOW SETTLED LAWSUIT. LEADING US OFF THIS HOUR. OUR MATT RIVERS ALSO, OUR CONTRIBUTOR MIKE MUSE, AND OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR RYAN BUCKMASTER. MATT, FIRST OF ALL, LET’S JUST WALK THROUGH THE DETAILS OF THIS VIDEO AND ALSO GIVE SOME BACK STORY. YEAH, IT’S A VERY DIFFICULT VIDEO TO WATCH AND IT SHOWS DIDDY ATTACKING HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA, IN THAT BEHIND ME JUST THERE OVER MY LEFT SHOULDER. THAT WAS THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL HERE IN CENTURY CITY. THAT HOTEL HAS SINCE BEEN SHUT DOWN. BUT THAT’S WHERE THAT VIDEO PLAYED OUT IN THE VIDEO. YOU SEE CASSIE VENTURA, A BANK OF ELEVATORS IN THAT HOTEL. SHE APPEARS TO BE TRYING TO LEAVE THAT AREA. THEN DIDDY WALKS OUT OF A HOTEL ROOM WEARING JUST A TOWEL. HE GOES INTO THAT ELEVATOR LOBBY AND HE THEN PROCEEDS TO GRAB APPEARS TO BE BY THE NECK, THROWS HER TO THE GROUND AND THEN KICKS HER AT LEAST TWICE. HE THEN SEEMS TO GO BACK TO THE ROOM, ONLY TO COME BACK AND CONTINUE TO ASSAULT HER. IT’S A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT VIDEO TO WATCH. AND AS MENTION, THIS SEEMS TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT CASSIE VENTURA MADE IN HER ALLEGATION, IN HER LAWSUIT THAT SHE FILED AGAINST LATE LAST YEAR, WHERE SHE ALLEGED A PATTERN OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE THROUGHOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP THAT LASTED THE BETTER, MORE THAN A DECADE. RATHER. IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP AND A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH SHE ALLEGED THAT HE WAS SYSTEMATICALLY ABUSIVE TO HER IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. THAT LAWSUIT WAS ULTIMATELY SETTLED. DID HE DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS? BUT WHEN YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO, IT DOES SEEM TO BACK UP CLAIMS THAT HE WAS A VERY ABUSIVE, BOTH BUSINESS AND ROMANTIC PARTNER. SO LET’S TALK ABOUT CASSIE’S, BECAUSE THEY’RE NOW RESPONDING TO ALL OF THIS SINCE THE VIDEO IS OUT. YES. SO WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM CASSIE VENTURA’S LAWYER DOUGLAS WIGDOR, WHO SAID AND I JUST WANT TO READ THE STATEMENT IN FULL, THE GUT WRENCHING HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY OF MR. COMBS. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MR. VENTURA HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT. YOU’RE HER ATTORNEY THERE, BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, COMMENDING HER FOR COMING OUT, DOING WHAT SHE DID, BRINGING THAT LAWSUIT LAST YEAR, TALKING THIS AND THIS VIDEO, SEEMING TO CONFIRM WHAT SHE SAID PUBLICLY LAST YEAR. YEAH. ALL RIGHT, MIKE, THAT TAPE IS THANK YOU. I MIGHT ADD THAT THIS TAPE IS SO DIFFICULT. LOOK AT MIKE. THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE GOING TO OBVIOUSLY BE EXTREMELY DISTURBING AND END UP IN COURT WHERE. >> REALLY? THAT IS VERY STRONG EVIDENCE, HARD TO DEFEND IS EXTREMELY HARD TO DEFEND. IT’S HARD TO WATCH AND IT’S VERY DISTURBING. I ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE LAWSUIT THAT CASSIE FILED AND READING IT. IT WAS DISTURBING READING IT. MY HEART GOES TO CASSIE. I’VE BEEN A PART OF A TEAM THAT’S INTERVIEWED CASSIE FOR A MORNING RADIO SHOW AND SWAY IN THE MORNING. I KNOW HER PRESENT. I’VE AROUND DIDDY. I HAD KNOWN DIDDY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. I’VE BEEN TO A PARTIES HERE THAT HE’S AT IN THE HAMPTONS HERE IN NEW YORK CITY. I’M AT HIS HOME IN MIAMI. DIDDY WAS SUCH THIS ICON OF LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE. AND AS I BEGAN TO THE LAWSUIT THAT CASSIE FILED, THE IMAGE OF DIDDY BEGAN TO UNRAVEL. AND ONLY THING I CAN SEE IN MY MIND WAS THE SCENARIOS THAT CASSIE GRAPHICALLY DETAILED. AND NOW TO SEE THIS VIDEO, WHERE IT BACKS UP EVERY SINGLE WORD THAT SHE PLACED IN THIS LAWSUIT. MY HEART GOES OUT. I STILL CANNOT SETTLE RECONCILE THIS VIDEO. HOW MUCH FEAR SHE MUST HAVE BEEN IN BEING LOCKED INTO THIS VICIOUS CYCLE AND GOING BACK TO THE ABUSER EACH AND EVERY TIME AS SO MANY VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE HAS TO GO THROUGH, FEELING TRAPPED, FEELING LIKE SHE HAD NO WAY OUT. >> BUT THAT WAS HER ONLY HOPE. IT REALLY BEGINS TO PUT INTO LIGHT ALL THE ACCUSATIONS THAT SHE PUT IN THERE AND IMAGINE WHAT I’M THINKING AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE DARK, WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THOSE MOMENTS THAT SHE ALLEGED THAT WASN’T ON VIDEOTAPE AND THE HORRIFIC NATURE THAT SHE LINE. THESE ARE VERY MONSTER JURISTS SCENARIOS THAT DIDDY HAS PLACED HER IN. >> AND WHAT WE WITNESS ON THIS VIDEO. AND BRIAN, AS WE KNOW, SEAN COMBS HAS DENIED, OF COURSE, THE ALLEGATIONS THAT CASSIE VENTURA HAS BROUGHT FORWARD. BUT THE VIDEO LIE. CLEARLY, THIS IS GOING TO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON ALL HIS LEGAL TROUBLES. >> ABSOLUTELY. WE’LL START OFF BY THE FIRST. CASSIE’S LAWSUIT WAS SETTLED, BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP THE FACT THESE ALLEGATIONS NOW VERY WELL APPEAR TO BE TRUE. AS MIKE POINTED OUT. SHE SPOKE ABOUT THIS VERY CLEARLY IN HER 37 PAGE LAWSUIT DETAILING THIS VERY EVENT AND WHERE IT WAS INITIALLY BELIEVED TO SAY, HEY, IT’S — IT’S HER WORD AGAINST HIS. THE VIDEO PUTS IT FIRMLY IN A CAMP OF THIS IS TRUE. AND IF THESE ALLEGATIONS TO THIS SPECIFIC INCIDENT BE SEEN TO BE THIS TRUE, THE REST OF HER LAWSUIT GAINS CREDIBILITY. AND THE OTHER FOUR ALLEGED VICTIMS WHO CURRENTLY HAVE CIVIL LAWSUITS THAT ARE NOT SETTLED, THAT’S BECOME EVEN MORE TRUE BECAUSE OF DIDDY IS WILLING TO DENY THAT INCIDENT. LOOK AT HOW MIKE ELOQUENTLY ESTABLISHED HOW THERE’S A PATTERN HERE FROM THE ALLEGATIONS AND HOW ONE VIDEO CAN SEEM TO SUBSTANTIATE OTHER CLAIMS. THAT’S HOW A POTENTIAL JUROR, JUDGE AND ALSO THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WILL VIEW SEAN AS THIS AND MORE EVIDENCE SEEMS TO BE LEAKING OUT LITTLE BY LITTLE. >> AND THERE HAVE BEEN DRAMATIC RAIDS ON HIS PROPERTIES. SEVERAL WOMEN NOW FILING LAWSUITS, SEXUAL ASSAULT, EVEN. AND WE’LL FOLLOW THOSE CASES. MATT RIVERS, BRIAN BUCKMIRE MIKE MILLS, THANK YOU. AND IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE AT THE NUMBER YOU SEE THERE ON YOUR SCREEN. IT’S ONE 800 799 SAFE. AND YOU CAN ALSO TEXT START OR EIGHT, EIGHT, SEVEN, EIGHT, EIGHT. LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT DEADLY OUTBREAK NOW OF EXTREME WEATHER ACROSS THE GULF COAST. TEXAS BEEN HIT ESPECIALLY HARD. SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THAT STATE, LEAVING PATH OF DESTRUCTION BEHIND. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOW CONFIRMED. A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR CYPRESS, TEXAS, WIDESPREAD IS BRINGING MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THE STORM HAS NOW BEEN BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FIVE DEATHS THERE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS, TREES KNOCKED OUT POWER. NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES IN THE DARK. CREWS SAY THAT POWER OUTAGES COULD ACTUALLY LAST FOR WEEKS. SCHOOLS ARE CANCELED. GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE RIDING OUT THE STORM AND DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. >> NOW IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED LIKE THE ROOF WAS GOING GET TORE OFF. >> I WAS SCARED SOMEONE’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT’S SCARY. AND IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS, TORRENTIAL RAINS SO HARD, OFFICIALS WARNING OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. NOW EVEN CITY OFFICIALS URGING TO STAY OFF THE ROADS. OUR EXTREME WEATHER TEAM IS TRACKING ALL FROM THE DAMAGE AND THE FORECAST HAS BEGIN. KEVIN WOZNIAK OF OUR ABC STATION IN HOUSTON. WOZNIAK, ME, KEVIN, HOW BAD IS THE DAMAGE THERE WHERE YOU ARE? TELL US WHAT’S GOING. >> TERRY. ITS EXTENSIVE AND IT’S REALLY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT JUST AN EVENING THUNDERSTORM IS THE CAUSE. AND TO FOR ALL THIS DAMAGE. SO I’M RIGHT IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WHERE I AM STANDING YESTERDAY. WIND SPEEDS WERE AT AND AT AROUND 100 MILES PER HOUR. SO YOU TAKE THOSE HIGH WINDS AND THEN YOU COMBINE THAT WITH EVERY PIECE OF LOOSE OBJECT, YOU WOULD FIND IN AN URBAN CORE AND YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. SO APPARENTLY TODAY ON HOUSTON SIDEWALK, YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THIS PIECES OF JUST TWISTED, SOME OF IT SMALL LIKE THIS. OTHERS OF IT QUITE LARGE. AND THESE WERE ESSENTIALLY TURNED INTO TORPEDOES IN THOSE 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AND AS A RESULT, YOU HAVE THIS SKYSCRAPER THAT ARE JUST RIDDLED WITH BROKEN WINDOWS. I MEAN, YOU LOOK AT FLOOR AFTER FLOOR, THIS WELLS FARGO TOWER AND YOU SEE THOSE SHATTERED WINDOWS. YOU GO UP TO EVEN FLOORS 30, 40 AND 50, AND YOU’RE GOING TO FIND BROKEN WINDOWS. THIS MORNING, WE MET A WOMAN WHO WAS STILL IN HER OFFICE AT AROUND 6 P.M. LAST NIGHT WHEN THIS STORM JUST BARRELED THROUGH DOWNTOWN. SHE SAID THE SKYSCRAPER SHE WAS IN WAS SHAKING. SHE SAID IT WAS RATTLING, AND SHE SAID SHE WAS DOWNRIGHT TERRIFIED. >> WHEN I WENT TO MY DESK, I SAW ALL THE WINDOWS AND THE WINDOWS WERE BLOWING LIKE THIS ,A 39TH FLOOR. I REALLY THOUGHT THE WINDOWS WERE ABOUT TO BREAK. YOU. I MEAN, LIKE, I REALLY, REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT TO BREAK. AND I WAS SO SCARED. I GRABBED MY STUFF AND ME AND MY COWORKERS, WE RAN DOWN FROM THE 39TH FLOOR DOWN THE STAIRWAY BECAUSE THE ELEVATORS, WE THOUGHT THE ELEVATORS WERE OUT HAD SOME VERY UNFORTUNATE TO REPORT. NOW WE CAN NOW TELL YOU THAT THE DEATH TOLL IS STILL RISING . FIVE LIVES WERE TAKEN BY THIS STORM, FOUR OF THEM WITHIN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. TERRY, YOU MENTIONED THAT CONFIRMED TORNADO IN CYPRUS. THE FIFTH LOSS OF LIFE WAS IN THAT SUBURB OF CYPRUS RIGHT NOW DOWNTOWN. IT SURE DOES FEEL THERE’S NOT MANY PEOPLE, NOT MANY WORKERS. THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON HAS URGED ALL OF THEM TO WORK FROM HOME TODAY. BUT INSTEAD, YOU SEE CLEANUP CREWS LIKE THIS QUITE THE UNUSUAL FRIDAY. AND TERRY AND KAREN, YOU KNOW, DOWN HERE ALONG THE GULF COAST, WE ARE USED TO SEVERE WEATHER. OFTEN THAT WEATHER COMES IN THE FORM HURRICANES AFTER JUNE 1ST DURING HURRICANE SEASON. SO REALLY IS, SO UNUSUAL TO SEE DAMAGE LIKE THIS. AND ALSO THIS TRULY WAS A THUNDERSTORM LIKE NONE OTHER AS THIS STORM WAS ROLLING THROUGH HOUSTON LAST NIGHT AROUND 6 P.M., GUYS, IT ALMOST BECAME PITCH DARK. I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. WOW. KEVIN OSOFSKY, THAT WAS A GREAT REPORT. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US TO THE REALITY OF OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN HOUSTON. >> APPRECIATE IT. KNOW THAT BOARDING UP ALL THE WINDOWS AND ACCORDING TO OUR MELISSA GRIFFIN WELL THERE IS ACTUALLY A NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY. >> THERE IS, KYRA. YOU KNOW, WE’VE GOT A STRANGER TO SEVERE WEATHER NOW. IT’S BEEN WEEKS OF OF US REPORTING ON THESE TORNADOES, DAMAGING WINDS, STRONG STORMS JUST ACROSS SO MUCH OF THE HEARTLAND. BUT AS KEVIN POINTED OUT, WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A STRONG STORM WITH THOSE SIGNIFICANT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS GUSTING TO 100 MILES PER HOUR HIT SUCH A MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA IS WHERE YOU REALLY CAN SEE THE DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION. AND, OF COURSE, FATALITIES, UNFORTUNATELY. BUT FOR TODAY, WE’RE LOOKING AT THIS AREA HERE IN, RED. >> THIS IS WHERE NOT ONLY WILL WE SEE SEVERE WEATHER, BUT THE CHANCE FOR MODERATE AT RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING. SO ANYWHERE FROM SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI TO SOUTHERN ALABAMA INTO PARTS OF GEORGIA. >> YOU SEE IT HERE LIT UP ON THE RADAR. YOU SEE THE FLOOD WATCHES RIGHT ACROSS THAT AREA FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA. AND YOU CAN SEE THE RED THERE ON THE RADAR. THAT’S THE HEAVIEST RAIN WE’VE SEEN. SOME FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS AND SOME REPORTS OF PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS. BUT THIS ENTIRE AREA COULD UP TO HALF A FOOT OR MORE OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS OR SO AS MORE DAMAGING WINDS. THE POTENTIAL BREAK TORNADOES CONTINUES RIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY TERRY AND KYRA. KEVIN AND MELISSA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. SO CONGRESSIONAL OR CAGE MATCH? YEAH, EXACTLY I MEAN, IT’S UNBELIEVABLE, REALLY. THIS HOUSE HEARING LAST NIGHT OVER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. WELL IT DEVOLVED INTO ACTUALLY A SHOUTING MATCH WITH LAWMAKERS SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FALSE EYELASHES, TOO. AND I QUOTE HERE, BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILT, WHICH BODY GRABBED THE POPCORN, ROLL THE VIDEO AND CRIED. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MISSING UP. >> AIN’T NOTHING. THAT IS ABSOLUTE UNACCEPTABLE. >> HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND THE PROMISE OF ANOTHER PERSON? >> ARE YOUR FEELINGS HURT? OH. OH, GIRL, GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AND WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. I SECOND THAT MOTION VERY WELL. THIS BACK AND FORTH THERE BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVE ALEXANDER OCASIO-CORTEZ OF NEW YORK AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE OF GEORGIA TOOK OVER THAT HEARING FOR OVER ONE HOUR. CHAIRMAN JAMES COLEMAN REPEATEDLY TRYING AND REPEATEDLY FAILING TO DO HIS JOB, WHICH IS TO MAINTAIN ORDER AS THE CHAIR. >> THERE ARE JAY O’BRIEN IS ON CAPITOL HILL WITH THE LATEST. THERE’S JUST SOMETHING DEPRESSING ABOUT THAT. LOOK AT THAT, JAY. WHY WHAT HAPPENED? DID IT ESCALATE IN THE CIRCUS AND WHY COULDN’T COLEMAN JUST BANG HIS GAVEL LIKE, A REAL CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN AND SHUT EVERYBODY UP? EXACTLY. IT VERY HARD FOR HIM TO GET CONTROL OVER THOSE PROCEEDINGS, GUYS, HOW IT HAPPENED IS IT STARTED REALLY IT GOT OFF THE RAILS, I SHOULD SAY, WITH A REMARK THAT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN, JASMINE CROCKETT’S QUOTE UNQUOTE, FAKE EYELASHES. AS GREEN SAID, YOU PLAYED A LITTLE OF IT THERE, BUT THAT REMARK CAUSED DEMOCRATS TO POUNCE AND SAY THAT GREENE’S COMMENT SHOULD BE STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD, THAT GREENE SHOULD BE BARRED FROM SPEAKING THE REST OF THE PROCEEDINGS. ONE REPUBLICAN, ACTUALLY A FEW REPUBLICANS, CAME TO GREENE’S DEFENSE, AND THEN THERE WAS SHOUTING. AND JAMES COMER HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT GREENE’S REMARKS PROCEDURALLY. AND AS YOU GUYS NOTED ALL OF THAT TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR AWAY FROM THESE PROCEEDINGS. EVENTUALLY, AT THE END, THE COMMITTEE FOUND THAT THEY SHOULD PASS ALONG A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD HOLD MERRICK, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR HOLDING ON TO AUDIO RECORDINGS OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL THAT WAS INVESTIGATING HIS HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT NONETHELESS, THAT’S NOT WHAT GOT THE OXYGEN LAST NIGHT AND INTO TODAY. IT’S HOW OFF THE RAILS THIS PROCEEDING GOT. WELL, THERE IS CLEARLY BEEN A LOT OF REACTION ON CAPITOL, TO SAY THE LEAST. WHO HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO? WHAT’S THE BUZZ? YEAH, THE LINE FROM REPUBLICANS HAS REALLY BEEN ONE OF WANTING TO MOVE ON, BUT ALSO CONDEMNING WHAT THEY HEARD OUT OF GREENE AND REALLY HOW THE HEARING GOT TO THAT POINT. GENERALLY, THEY HAD SOME CHOICE WORDS FOR DEMOCRATS, BUT EVEN SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAID THAT THIS IS NOT HOW THEY CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING SHOULD GO ON HIS WORDS, EXACTLY WHERE IT’S ON A QUOTE, GOOD LOOK FOR CONGRESS. I ALSO TALKED TO CONGRESSMAN BYRON DONALDS, WHO WAS INSIDE THAT HEARING ROOM LAST NIGHT. HERE’S A LITTLE BIT OF HE SAID IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I THINK EVERYBODY THIS MORNING WISHES DID NOT OCCUR, BUT IT DID DEAL WITH THAT ON THEIR OWN TIME. AND GOT IT GET BACK TO WORK. >> AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO DO THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT HELPS RAISE THE MONEY. YOU KNOW, IT HELPS, YOU KNOW, GET A FAVOR. MAYBE FROM THE PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, THEY THEY THEY WANT TO GET TWITTER FAMOUS. THEY WANT TO GO ON STEVE BANNON’S PODCAST. >> OH, MY GOODNESS. YOU KNOW, LOOK, I DON’T THINK I DON’T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE THAT. BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF DISRESPECT EARLY ON AGAINST MS.. >> GREENE, AND THAT WAS KIND OF BRUSHED OVER. SO ON THE BACK END OF THAT, YOU HEARD THE WOMAN WITH THE SUNGLASSES, CONGRESSWOMAN ANNA PAULINA LUNA. SHE WAS REALLY THE ONLY REPUBLICAN I TALKED TO TODAY WHO WAS DEFENDING, AT LEAST IN PART, GREENE’S CONDUCT. JAY O’BRIEN THANKS VERY MUCH. SOMEWHERE, HENRY CLAY IS THROWING WHATEVER IT’S HURTING IN HIS GRAVE. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE NUMBER ONE GOLFER, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, VOWING TO FIGHT A SLEW CHARGES, NOW CLAIMING THAT EYEWITNESSES CAN ACTUALLY VOUCH THAT SCHEFFLER DID WRONG. >> FRESH OFF HIS MASTERS WIN AND WELCOMING HIS FIRST CHILD, THE 27 YEAR OLD WAS ARRESTED THIS MORNING. HE WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE WHEN POLICE CLAIMED HE DIDN’T FOLLOW AT A ROADBLOCK, WHICH CAUSED AN OFFICER TO FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. THAT ROADBLOCK WAS PUT THERE BECAUSE A PEDESTRIAN HAD BEEN HIT BY A SHUTTLE BUS AND KILLED MARK OFF WITH ESPN. HE’S A SENIOR WRITER. THERE HAS BEEN THIS STORY FOR US, FOR OUR SISTER NETWORK, ESPN. SO, MARK, WHAT MORE DO WE KNOW? I MEAN, THE STORIES CRAZY AND NOW SCHEFFLER, WE’RE STARTING TO HEAR HIS HIS SIDE OF THINGS. ALSO, THE POLICE OFFICER THAT APPARENTLY $80 TROUSERS GOT DEMOLISHED TO THE POINT WHERE HE WANTS A NEW PAIR. WHAT HAPPENED? >> WELL, IT’S GOT TO FEEL GOOD THIS MORNING. WAS TRYING TO INTEGRATE GOLF CLUB AS YOU MENTIONED, THAT WAS A WRECK RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD WHERE A MAN WAS TRYING TO CROSS THE ROAD AND WAS STRUCK BY A BUS. SCHEFFLER, IN A STATEMENT BEFORE HIS ROUND, SAID THAT HE NEVER INTENDED NOT TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AND IT WAS A CHAOTIC SCENE HARASSING ENGLISH. ANOTHER GOLFER WHO JUST CAME OFF THE COURSE SET THE SCENE. THERE WAS A LOT GOING ON. THERE WERE A LOT OF POLICE CARS, THERE WERE A LOT OF LIGHTS, AND IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US, BUT LOUISVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAID ONE OF ITS OFFICERS WAS KNOCKED DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. THE OFFICER INJURED HIS LEFT WRIST AND HIS KNEE HAD SWELLING AND SOME PAIN. HE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE, SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, WHICH IS A FELONY AS WELL AS THREE MISDEMEANORS, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, RECKLESS DRIVING AND DISREGARDING TRAFFIC SIGNALS FROM AN OFFICER. HE HAS A COURT ARRAIGNMENT SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY IN DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE. >> YEAH, THOSE ARE PRETTY HEAVY CHARGES THERE THAT THEY’RE NOT JUST THE ASSAULT, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF. THEY REALLY THREW THE BOOK AT HIM. AND SO THIS THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION FOR SCHEFFLER. HE’S BACK OUT ON THE ON THE LINKS NOW COMPETING. I MEAN, I IMAGINE THIS WOULD BE A DISTRACTION. HOW’S HE DOING? HENRY’S REMARKABLY. HE COMPARTMENTALIZES THINGS BETTER THAN MOST OUT HERE. HE’S FIVE UNDER THROUGH 17 HOLES. HAS ONE HOLE LEFT TO PLAY, ONLY TWO STROKES BEHIND. COLLIN MORIKAWA, THE CURRENT LEADER. HE WON’T RELEASE FROM JAIL UNTIL 8:40 A.M. EASTERN TIME. HE ARRIVED AT VALHALLA LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE HIS TEE TIME. YOU KNOW, HE’S BEEN PLAYING IN THE RAIN AND DIDN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH OF A DISTRACTION. >> THAT’S WHY HE’S THE BEST GOLFER IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE NO ,TO COMPARTMENTALIZE AND HE’S GOT THE MENTAL PART OF THE GAME DOWN. WELL, WE’LL FOLLOW THE FOR SURE. I THINK THERE’S MORE TO THE STORY I’D BE INTERESTED TO KNOW AND I DON’T KNOW IF KNOW, MARK, IF THE OFFICER HAD JUMPED ONTO HIS CAR OR TRUCK TO TRY AND STOP HIM. AND IS THAT WHY HE GOT PULLED ALONG? I MEAN, DO WE KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT WHAT THE OFFICER DID ? >> JEFF DARLINGTON, MY ESPN COLLEAGUE JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE BEHIND SCHAEFFER’S CAR EARLY THIS. AND AGAIN, IT WAS DARK, IT WAS RAINING, IT WAS WET. BUT HE SAID THAT SHE TRIED TO DRIVE AROUND THE TRAFFIC. THE OFFICER ATTEMPTED TO STOP HIM. HE SAID HE DROVE ANOTHER MAYBE TEN, 20 YARDS JUST TOLD ME THAT THE OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO SCHAEFFER’S CAR. AND AT SOME POINT, THE OFFICER APPARENTLY FELL DOWN. BUT CERTAINLY A LOT TO SORT OUT . >> YEAH, THERE’S ALWAYS MORE TO THE STORY. ALL RIGHT, MARK, APPRECIATE YOU. >> THANK YOU. THANKS. >> AND COMING UP, THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE UNDER FIRE AFTER A PHOTO OF AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG DISPLAYED AT HIS HOUSE JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION. WE’LL HAVE THE DETAILS WHEN WE COME 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 MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING IT. 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 FOR 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. YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU’RE STREAMING, ABC LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR, THE 17, ALL THE BUZZKILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT SO SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SAYS THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT FLAG UPSIDE DOWN THAT FLAG A STOP THE STEAL SYMBOL THAT FLAG SEEN HANGING OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION. >> THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS PICTURE OF THE FLAG RIGHT THERE. IT’S UPSIDE DOWN. THAT IS A SYMBOL UNDER THE U.S. FLAG CODE OF DIRE EMERGENCY. YOU ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO FLY THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN UNLESS YOU ARE IN DANGER IN A DIRE EMERGENCY AND THAT WHY THE FLAG WAS ADOPTED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE RESISTING THE LAWFUL CHALLENGED IN COURT AND UPHELD TRUE ELECTION OF 2020. ALITO NOW SAYS IN A STATEMENT THAT HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN PUTTING UP THE FLAG. >> HE SAID IT WAS ENTIRELY HIS WIFE’S DOING. >> JAMES SAMPLE IS A LAW PROFESSOR, ETHICS EXPERT, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, AND JOINS US NOW FOR MORE. >> JAMES, SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL THIS THIS FLYING OF THE UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG? IT CAME JUST 11 DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION, THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL WHEN YOU SAW THE UPSIDE DOWN FLAG, YOU KNOW, CARRIED AROUND AND BRANDISHED BY PEOPLE WHO ATTACKED THE CAPITOL, IT CERTAINLY IS NOT GOOD IN TERMS OF THE OPTICS FOR, THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND IT CONTINUES A TREND OF, FRANKLY, DISTURBING OPTICS ON THE PART OF SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT WITH REGARD TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE BASIC NORMS, RULES AND SPIRIT OF JUDICIAL ETHICS. RULES. THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO POSSIBILITIES HERE. ONE SCENARIO IS THAT THIS IS A KIND OF CHILDISH, PETTY NEIGHBORLY DISPUTE AND JUSTICE ALITO AND HIS WIFE, MRS. ALITO, OUGHT TO BE ABOVE KIND OF DISPUTE, PARTICULARLY GIVEN THAT JUSTICE ALITO HAS CHOSEN TO BE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. THIS IS BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF THE COURT. >> THAT’S SCENARIO ONE. SCENARIO TWO IS, THAT THIS FLAG WAS INTENDED TO BE A MEANINGFUL POLITICAL PARTISAN SYMBOLIC GESTURE, IN WHICH CASE IT’S PROBLEMATIC. >> IN THE JANUARY 6TH AND 2020 ELECTION CHALLENGE RELATED CASES. >> NEITHER ONE OF THOSE SCENARIOS IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. SO WE KNOW NOW AT LEAST TWO WIVES OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE OPENLY ADOPTED STOP THE STEAL SENTIMENTS. IS THIS ENOUGH TO HAVE JUSTICE ALITO AND JUSTICE THOMAS ACTUALLY WORKING RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM THE IMMUNITY IN INSURRECTION CASES? >> CERTAINLY, CAROL, WITH RESPECT TO JUSTICE THOMAS, THE CASE IS UNEQUIVOCAL. IT’S A SLAM DUNK. GINNI THOMAS WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN SOME OF THE EVENTS RELATING TO THE CHALLENGES, THE 20 TO 2020 ELECTION, THE FACILITATION OF FAKE SLATE OF ELECTORS, THE DIRECT TEXTING OF MARK MEADOWS AS HE’S CHIEF OF STAFF, ALL OF THAT IN THE CASE OF CLARENCE THOMAS, IT’S SORT THE JUDICIAL ETHICS EQUIVALENT OF A FELONY OFFENSE FOR HIM TO SIT THOSE CASES. IN THE CASE OF JUSTICE ALITO, IT’S A CLOSER CALL. THIS IS NOT AS EGREGIOUS IS WHAT GINNI THOMAS DID. AND IT’S NOT AS DIRECT AS CLARENCE THOMAS RULING ON THE LEGITIMACY AND MAYBE EVEN THE ILLEGALITY OF THOSE ACTIVITIES. BUT THE BASIC STANDARD, AND IT APPLIES TO ALL JUDGES, INCLUDING JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT ADOPTED IN FEDERAL LAW IS EIGHT U.S.C. SECTION 455, AND THAT SAYS THAT A JUDGE SHALL DISQUALIFY HIMSELF OR HERSELF IN ANY PROCEEDING IN WHICH HIS OR HER IMPARTIALITY. AND HERE’S THE KEY PHRASE MIGHT REASONABLY BE QUESTIONED. THE WAY I LOOK AT THAT IS I FLIP THAT STANDARD INTO A QUESTION MIGHT IT BE REASONABLE TO QUESTION JUSTICE AND JUSTICE ALITO AS TO THEIR IMPARTIALITY IN ELECTION RELATED CASES? I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IN THE CASE OF JUSTICE THOMAS, IS ABSOLUTELY. I THINK THE ANSWER THAT IN THE CASE OF JUSTICE ALITO, BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW IN THIS DEVELOPING STORY, IS VERY POSSIBLY PERHAPS REASONABLE PEOPLE COULD DISAGREE. JUSTICE ALITO WILL FACE CALLS TO RECUSE, WILL RECUSE, NO. >> AND IN FACT, IT WILL BE ENTIRELY BRAND FOR JUSTICE ALITO TO EXPRESS A LEVEL OF CONTEMPT AND DISMISSIVENESS FOR EVEN THE IDEA THAT SOME WILL RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT JUDICIAL ETHICS AND ABOUT HIS IMPARTIALITY. >> THAT’S UNFORTUNATE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD IN THE LAST SEGMENT REFERENCED, YOU KNOW, HENRY CLAY, I THINK, YOU KNOW, JOHN MARSHALL MIGHT HAVE SOME CONCERNS HERE AS WELL. WITH RESPECT, EROSION OF NORMS. >> WELL, AND AS YOU POINT OUT, JAMES, NO WAY TO FORCE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM A CASE WHERE THEY MIGHT OR THE PUBLIC MIGHT PERCEIVE THEM TO BE CONFLICTED. SENATOR DURBIN, DEMOCRAT OF ILLINOIS IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. HE’S CALLING ON JUSTICE ALITO TO RECUSE HIMSELF. >> NOW, I JUST WONDER, YOU KNOW, JUST ALITO FIRST, YOU KNOW, BLAMING HIS WIFE. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT THIS IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO. I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. MRS. ALITO HASN’T GIVEN A STATEMENT AND HERE’S DURBIN STATEMENT FLYING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG. CLEARLY CREATES THE APPEARANCE OF BIAS. SO IS ANYTHING THERE IS THERE ANYTHING CONGRESS CAN DO HERE? >> AND IF NOT WHAT DOES THAT DO TO TRUST IN THE COURT? >> THAT’S A REALLY, REALLY GOOD QUESTION, TERRY. AND I THINK THE ANSWER IS THAT CONGRESS CAN ACT. CONGRESS HAS THE AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE AN ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR JUDICIAL ETHICS. THE SUPREME COURT. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TESTIFYING BEFORE CHAIRMAN DURBIN AND THE SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE LAST SUMMER. THEY ARE CONSIDERING THAT WOULD FORCE THE SUPREME COURT TO ADOPT AN ETHICS THAT HAS TEETH. THE CODE THAT THE COURT ADOPTS UNDER SOME PUBLIC PRESSURE AND THAT SPEAKS TO THE VALUE OF PUBLIC PRESSURE ON SOME LEVEL LAST NOVEMBER IS REALLY MORE LOOPHOLE THAN LAW. >> IT’S SORT OF ASPIRATION DRESSED UP AS CODE. AND THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. THE COURT HAS STEADFASTLY REFUSING TO POLICE ITSELF. >> THE COURT IS NOT TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN BUSINESS. CONGRESS CAN ACT. CONGRESS ACT SO THAT THE PUBLIC HAS FAITH IN THE COURTS. >> CLEARLY, WE NEED TO BRING JAMES SAMPLE BACK FOR ANY DISCUSSION. GOING TO BE AN ONGOING ISSUE. IT IS. WE’LL TALK AGAIN. THANK YOU, PROFESSOR JAMES. AND THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND I’M TERRY MORAN. THE ABC NEWS APP. AND OF COURSE, ON ABC, YOU CAN GET THE NEWS AND VIEWS NEVER STOPS. AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND ATTACKS IN GREECE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL THAT WILL ENTERTAIN IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY GOD. THIS COMPOUND WHERE PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM ONE OF THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED. >> YOU THINK HE YOU? THEY NEVER MEANT ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SOMEONE ELSE TO SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. INTRASTATE INTO THE MAN, A SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WHAT DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW 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 IS AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE RIGHT NOW AND ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS, THE VIDEO SHOWING RAPPER SEAN DIDDY COMBS PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING AND KICKING HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND IN A HOTEL HALLWAY. YOU’LL SEE IT COMING UP. PLUS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO IS UNDER FIRE AFTER A PICTURE SHOWED HIM DISPLAYING AFTER A FLAG WAS SEEN DISPLAYED DOWN AT HIS HOUSE JUST DAYS AFTER. THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THE LATEST AS JUSTICE ALITO PREPARES TO RULE ON MULTIPLE SIXTH CASES AT THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND. >> AND HE’LL WANT MULLIGAN ON THIS ONE. THE TOP GOLFER IN THE WORLD ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A FELONY, BUT STILL TEES OFF AT THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. WE’LL. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND I’M TERRY MORAN. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING RAP SUPERSTAR SEAN DIDDY COMBS. COMBS HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN LEGAL DRAMA, INCLUDING ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT. AND NOW NEW VIDEO HAS EMERGED OF IN AN ALTERCATION WITH HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA . WE WANT TO WARN YOU, THIS FOOTAGE DOES SHOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT’S DIFFICULT TO WATCH. THIS IS THE HEART OF THE CASE. THE SURVEILLANCE, AS YOU SEE HERE, WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN, THE NEWS OUTLET REPORTING IT ACTUALLY SHOWS THE MUSIC MOGUL. WELL, YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF VICIOUSLY BEATING HIS GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE, AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL 2016. AND IT APPEARS TO SUPPORT THIS THAT SHE MADE AGAINST HIM AND THAT DIDDY HAS LONG IN A NOW SETTLED LAWSUIT. LEADING US OFF THIS HOUR. OUR MATT RIVERS, ALSO OUR CONTRIBUTOR, MIKE MUSE, AND OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE. MATT, FIRST OF ALL, LET’S JUST WALK THROUGH THE DETAILS OF, THIS VIDEO AND ALSO GIVE SOME BACK STORY. YEAH, IT’S A VERY DIFFICULT VIDEO TO WATCH AND IT SHOWS CLEARLY DIDDY ATTACKING HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA, IN THAT BUILDING BEHIND ME THERE OVER MY LEFT SHOULDER. THAT WAS THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL HERE IN CENTURY CITY. THAT HOTEL HAS SINCE BEEN SHUT DOWN. BUT THAT’S WHERE THAT VIDEO PLAYED OUT IN THE VIDEO. YOU SEE CASSIE VENTURA NEAR, A BANK OF ELEVATORS IN THAT HOTEL. SHE APPEARS TO BE TRYING TO LEAVE AREA. THEN DIDDY WALKS OUT OF A HOTEL ROOM WEARING JUST A TOWEL, GOES INTO THAT ELEVATOR LOBBY, AND HE THEN PROCEEDS TO HER, APPEARS TO BE BY THE NECK, THROWS HER TO THE GROUND, AND THEN KICKS AT LEAST TWICE. HE THEN SEEMS TO GO BACK TO THE ROOM, ONLY TO COME BACK AND TO ASSAULT HER. IT’S A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT VIDEO. WATCH. AND AS YOU MENTION, THIS SEEMS TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT VENTURA MADE IN HER ALLEGATION, IN HER LAWSUIT THAT SHE FILED AGAINST DIDDY LATE LAST YEAR, WHERE SHE ALLEGED A OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE THROUGHOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP THAT LASTED THE BETTER, MORE THAN A DECADE, RATHER. IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP AND A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH SHE ALLEGED THAT HE WAS SYSTEMATICALLY ABUSIVE TO HER IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. THAT LAWSUIT WAS ULTIMATELY SETTLED. DID HE DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS? BUT WHEN YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO, IT DOES SEEM TO BACK UP HER CLAIMS THAT HE WAS A VERY ABUSIVE BOTH BUSINESS AND ROMANTIC PARTNER. SO LET’S TALK ABOUT CASSIE’S ATTORNEYS, BECAUSE THEY’RE NOW TO ALL OF THIS SINCE THE VIDEO IS OUT. YES. SO WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM CASSIE VENTURA LAWYER DOUGLAS WIGDOR, WHO SAID AND I JUST WANT TO READ THE STATEMENT IN FULL. THE GUT WRENCHING VIDEO HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COMBS. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MS.. VENTURA HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT. THE ARE HER ATTORNEY THERE BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, COMMENDING FOR COMING OUT, DOING WHAT SHE DID, BRINGING THAT LAWSUIT LAST YEAR, TALKING ABOUT THIS AND THIS VIDEO SEEMING TO CONFIRM WHAT SHE SAID PUBLICLY LAST YEAR. YEAH. ALL RIGHT, MIKE, THAT TAPE IS THANK YOU. I MIGHT ADD THAT THIS TAPE IS SO DIFFICULT TO LOOK AT MIKE. THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE GOING TO OBVIOUSLY BE EXTREMELY DISTURBING AND END UP IN COURT . REALLY? THAT IS VERY STRONG EVIDENCE, HARD TO DEFEND IS EXTREMELY HARD TO DEFEND. IT’S HARD WATCH AND IT’S VERY DISTURBING. I ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE LAWSUIT THAT CASSIE FILED AND IN READING IT, IT WAS DISTURBING READING IT. >> MY HEART GOES OUT TO CASSIE. I’VE BEEN A PART OF A TEAM THAT’S, INTERVIEWED CASSIE FOR OUR MORNING RADIO SHOW AND SAY IN THE MORNING, KNOW HER PRESENT? I’VE BEEN AROUND DIDDY. I’VE KNOWN DIDDY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. I’VE BEEN TO A PARTIES HERE THAT HE’S HAD IN THE HAMPTONS, IN NEW YORK CITY, AT HIS HOME IN MIAMI. DIDDY WAS SUCH THIS ICON OF LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE AND I BEGAN TO READ THE LAWSUIT THAT CASSIE FILED, THE IMAGE OF DIDDY, BEGAN TO UNRAVEL. AND I THINK CAN SEE IN MY MIND WAS THE SCENARIOS THAT CASSIE SO GRAPHICALLY DETAILED. AND NOW TO SEE THIS VIDEO WHERE IT BACKS UP EVERY SINGLE WORD THAT SHE PLACED IN THIS LOSS. MY HEART GOES OUT. I STILL CANNOT SETTLE AND RECONCILE THIS VIDEO. HOW MUCH FEAR SHE MUST HAVE BEEN IN BEING LOCKED INTO THIS VICIOUS OF GOING BACK TO THE ABUSER EACH AND EVERY TIME AS MANY VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE HAS TO GO THROUGH FEELING TRAPPED, FEELING LIKE SHE HAD NO WAY OUT. >> BUT THAT WAS HER ONLY HOPE. IT REALLY BEGINS TO PUT INTO LIGHT ALL THE OTHER ACCUSATIONS THAT SHE PUT IN THERE AND. IMAGINE WHAT I’M THINKING AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING, THE DARK, WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THOSE MOMENTS THAT SHE ALLEGED THAT WASN’T ON VIDEOTAPE AND THE HORRIFIC NATURE THAT SHE LINE. >> THESE ARE VERY MONSTROUS SCENARIO. THOSE THAT DID HE PLACED HER IN. AND WHAT WE WITNESS THIS VIDEO AND BRIAN, AS WE KNOW, SEAN COMBS HAS DENIED, OF COURSE, THE ALLEGATIONS THAT VENTURA HAS BROUGHT FORWARD. BUT THE VIDEO DOESN’T LIE. CLEARLY IS GOING TO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON ALL HIS LEGAL TROUBLES. >> ABSOLUTELY. WE’LL START OFF BY THE FIRST. CASSIE’S LAWSUIT WAS SETTLED, BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP THE FACT THAT THESE ALLEGATIONS NOW VERY WELL APPEAR TO BE TRUE. AS MIKE POINTED OUT. SHE SPOKE ABOUT THIS VERY CLEARLY IN HER 37 PAGE LAWSUIT DETAILING THIS VERY EVENT AND WHERE IT WAS INITIALLY BELIEVED TO SAY, HEY, IT’S — IT’S HER WORD AGAINST, HIS. THE VIDEO PUTS IT FIRMLY IN THE CAMP OF THIS IS AND IF THESE ALLEGATIONS TO THIS SPECIFIC INCIDENT TO BE SEEN BE THIS TRUE, THE REST OF HER LAWSUIT GAINS CREDIBILITY. AND THE OTHER FOUR ALLEGED VICTIMS THAT CURRENTLY HAVE CIVIL LAWSUITS THAT ARE NOT SETTLED, THAT’S BECOME EVEN MORE TRUE BECAUSE IF DIDDY IS WILLING TO DENY THAT INCIDENT, LOOK AT HOW MIKE ELOQUENTLY ESTABLISHED HOW A PATTERN HERE FROM THE ALLEGATIONS AND HOW ONE VIDEO CAN SEEM SUBSTANTIATE OTHER CLAIMS. THAT’S HOW A POTENTIAL JUROR, JUDGE AND ALSO THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WILL VIEW SEAN AS AND MORE EVIDENCE SEEMS TO BE LEAKING OUT LITTLE BY LITTLE. AND THERE HAVE BEEN DRAMATIC RAIDS ON HIS PROPERTIES SEVERAL WOMEN NOW FILING LAWSUITS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, EVEN. AND WE’LL FOLLOW THOSE CASES. MATT RIVERS, BRIAN BUCKMIRE MIKE MUSE, THANK YOU. AND IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THE VICTIMIC VIOLENCE, YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE AT THE NUMBER YOU SEE THERE ON YOUR SCREEN. IT’S ONE 800 799 SAVE. AND YOU CAN ALSO TEXT START OR EIGHT, EIGHT, SEVEN, EIGHT, EIGHT. LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT DEADLY OUTBREAK NOW. EXTREME WEATHER ACROSS THE GULF COAST. NOW, TEXAS HAS HIT ESPECIALLY HARD. SEVERE STORMS SLAMMING THAT STATE, LEAVING A PATH OF DESTRUCTION BEHIND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOW CONFIRMS A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR CYPRESS, TEXAS. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IS BRINGING MUCH OF HOUSTON TO A STANDSTILL. THE STORM HAS NOW BLAMED FOR AT LEAST FIVE DEATHS THERE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS DOWNED TREES KNOCKED OUT POWER. NEARLY A MILLION HOMES AND BUSINESSES NOW IN THE DARK. CREWS SAY THAT POWER OUTAGES COULD ACTUALLY LAST FOR WEEKS SCHOOLS ARE CANCELED. GOVERNMENT OFFICES HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE ARE OUT THE STORM AND DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. >> IT WAS SCARY. I WAS SCARED LIKE THE ROOF WAS GOING GET TORN OFF. >> I’M SCARED SOMEONE’S GONNA FLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND START BREAKING WINDOWS. IT WAS SCARY. AND IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS, TORRENTIAL RAINS SO HARD, OFFICIALS WARNING OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODING. NOW EVEN CITY OFFICIALS ARE URGING PEOPLE TO STAY OFF THE ROADS. >> OUR EXTREME WEATHER TEAM IS TRACKING IT ALL FROM THE DAMAGE. AND THE FORECAST HAS BEGIN WITH KEVIN YAZBECK OF OUR ABC STATION IN HOUSTON. RAZORBACK EXCUSE ME, KEVIN, HOW BAD IS THE DAMAGE THERE WHERE YOU ARE? >> TELL US WHAT’S GOING ON. OH, IT’S — IT’S EXTENSIVE. AND IT’S REALLY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT JUST AN EVENING THUNDERSTORM IS THE CAUSE AND TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS DAMAGE. SO I’M RIGHT IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WHERE I AM STANDING YESTERDAY. WIND WERE AT AND AT AROUND 100 MILES PER HOUR. SO YOU TAKE THOSE HIGH WINDS. AND THEN YOU COMBINE THAT WITH EVERY PIECE OF LOOSE OBJECT YOU WOULD FIND IN AN URBAN CORE AND YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR. SO, KAREN TERRY, TODAY ON HOUSTON SIDEWALKS, YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THIS PIECES OF JUST TWISTED METAL, SOME OF IT SMALL LIKE THIS. OTHERS IT QUITE LARGE. AND THESE WERE ESSENTIALLY TURNED TORPEDOES IN THOSE 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AND AS A RESULT, YOU HAVE THIS SKYSCRAPERS THAT ARE JUST RIDDLED WITH BROKEN WINDOWS. I MEAN, YOU LOOK AT FLOOR AFTER FLOOR OF THIS WELLS FARGO TOWER AND YOU SEE THOSE SHATTERED WINDOWS. YOU GO UP TO EVEN FLOORS 30, 40 AND 50, AND YOU’RE GOING TO FIND BROKEN WINDOWS THIS MORNING WE MET A WOMAN WHO WAS STILL IN HER OFFICE AT AROUND 6 P.M. LAST NIGHT WHEN THIS STORM JUST BARRELED THROUGH DOWNTOWN. SAID THE SKYSCRAPER SHE WAS IN WAS SHAKING. SHE SAID IT WAS RATTLING AND SHE SAID SHE WAS DOWNRIGHT TERRIFIED. >> WHEN I WENT TO MY DESK, I SAW ALL THE WINDOWS AND THE WINDOWS WERE BLOWING LIKE THIS ON THE 39TH FLOOR. I REALLY THOUGHT THE WINDOWS WERE ABOUT TO BREAK. YOU KNOW, I LIKE I REALLY, REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT TO BREAK. AND I WAS SO SCARED. I GRABBED STUFF AND ME AND MY COWORKERS, WE RAN DOWN FROM THE 39TH FLOOR DOWN THE STAIRWAY BECAUSE THE ELEVATORS, WE THOUGHT THE ELEVATORS WERE OUT, HAD SOME UNFORTUNATE NEWS TO REPORT. NOW, WE CAN NOW TELL YOU THAT THE DEATH TOLL STILL RISING. FIVE LIVES WERE TAKEN BY THIS STORM. FOUR OF THEM WITHIN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. TERRY, YOU MENTIONED THAT CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN CYPRUS. THE FIFTH LOSS OF LIFE WAS IN THAT SUBURB OF CYPRUS RIGHT NOW DOWNTOWN. IT SURE DOES FEEL THERE’S NOT MANY PEOPLE, MANY WORKERS. THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON HAS URGED ALL OF THEM TO WORK FROM HOME TODAY. BUT INSTEAD, YOU SEE CLEANUP CREWS LIKE THIS, QUITE THE UNUSUAL FRIDAY TERRY AND KAREN, YOU KNOW, DOWN HERE ALONG THE GULF COAST, WE ARE USED TO SEVERE WEATHER. OFTEN THAT WEATHER COMES IN THE FORM OF HURRICANES AFTER JUNE 1ST DURING HURRICANE SEASON. SO REALLY, IT’S SO UNUSUAL TO SEE DAMAGE LIKE THIS. AND ALSO THIS TRULY WAS A THUNDERSTORM, NONE OTHER AS THIS STORM WAS ROLLING THROUGH HOUSTON LAST NIGHT AROUND 6 P.M., GUYS, IT ALMOST BECAME PITCH DARK. >> I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WOW. KEVIN OSSENBECK, THAT WAS A GREAT REPORT. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US TO THE REALITY OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN HOUSTON. >> APPRECIATE IT. I KNOW THAT BOARDING UP ALL THE WINDOWS AND ACCORDING TO OUR MELISSA GRIFFIN, WELL, THERE IS ACTUALLY A NEW THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY. THERE IS, KYRA. >> AND, YOU KNOW, WE’VE GOT A STRANGER TO SEVERE WEATHER NOW. IT’S BEEN WEEKS, ALL OF US REPORTING ON THESE TORNADOES, DAMAGING WINDS, STRONG STORMS, JUST BLASTING ACROSS SO MUCH OF THE HEARTLAND. BUT AS KEVIN POINTED OUT, WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A STRONG STORM WITH THOSE SIGNIFICANT STRAIGHT LINE WINDS GUSTING TO 100 MILES PER HOUR, HIT SUCH A MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA, THAT IS WHERE YOU REALLY CAN SEE THE DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION. AND OF COURSE, THE FATALITIES, UNFORTUNATELY. BUT FOR TODAY, WE’RE LOOKING AT THIS AREA HERE IN RED. >> AND THIS IS WHERE NOT ONLY WILL WE SEE SEVERE WEATHER, BUT THE CHANCE FOR MODERATE RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING. SO ANYWHERE FROM SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI TO SOUTHERN ALABAMA ,PARTS OF GEORGIA. YOU SEE IT HERE LIT UP ON THE RADAR. YOU SEE THE FLOOD WATCHES EXTEND RIGHT ACROSS THAT AREA FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA AND YOU CAN SEE THE RED THERE ON THE RADAR. THAT’S THE HEAVIEST RAIN WE’VE SEEN. SOME FLASH WARNINGS AND SOME REPORTS OF PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS. >> BUT THIS ENTIRE AREA SEE UP TO HALF A FOOT OR MORE OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS OR SO AS MORE DAMAGING WINDS. THE POTENTIAL TORNADOES CONTINUES RIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY TERRY AND KYRA. KEVIN AND MELISSA, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. SO CONGRESSIONAL HEARING OR CAGE MATCH? YEAH EXACTLY. I MEAN, IT’S UNBELIEVABLE, REALLY, THIS HOUSE HEARING NIGHT OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT CONGRESS. WELL, IT DEVOLVED INTO ACTUALLY A SHOUTING MATCH. LAWMAKERS SCREAMING PERSONAL INSULTS FROM FALSE EYELASHES. AND I QUOTE HERE, BLEACH BLOND, BAD BUILD BODY, GRABBED THE POPCORN, ROLL THE VIDEO AND CRY. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP NOW. AIN’T NOTHING. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU A FAN OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS. OH, OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY? >> DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AND WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. >> I SECOND THAT MOTION VERY WELL. THIS BACK AND FORTH THERE, REPRESENTATIVE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ OF NEW YORK AND TAYLOR GREENE OF GEORGIA TOOK OVER THAT HEARING FOR OVER ONE HOUR. CHAIRMAN JAMES COLEMAN REPEATEDLY TRYING AND REPEATEDLY FAILING TO DO HIS JOB, WHICH IS TO MAINTAIN ORDER AS THE CHAIR. THERE ARE JAY O’BRIEN IS ON CAPITOL HILL WITH THE LATEST THERE. >> THERE’S SOMETHING DEPRESSING ABOUT THAT. LOOK AT THAT, JAY. WHY? WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID IT ESCALATE IN CIRCUS AND WHY COULDN’T CONOR JUST BANG HIS GAVEL LIKE A REAL CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN AND SHUT EVERYBODY UP? EXACTLY. IT WAS VERY HARD HIM TO GET CONTROL OVER THOSE PROCEEDINGS. >> GUYS, HOW IT HAPPENED IS IT STARTED REALLY IT GOT OFF THE RAILS I SHOULD SAY, WITH A REMARK THAT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MADE ABOUT DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN JAZMIN CROCKETT’S A QUOTE UNQUOTE FAKE, EYELASHES, AS GREENE SAID. YOU PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF IT THERE, BUT THAT REMARK CAUSED DEMOCRATS TO POUNCE AND SAY THAT GREENE’S COMMENT SHOULD BE STRICKEN. THE RECORD THAT GREENE SHOULD BE BARRED FROM SPEAKING FOR THE REST OF THE PROCEEDINGS. AS ONE REPUBLICAN, ACTUALLY, A FEW REPUBLICANS CAME TO GREENE’S, AND THEN THERE WAS SHOUTING, AND JAMES COMER HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT GREENE’S REMARKS PROCEDURALLY. AND AS YOU GUYS NOTED, ALL OF THAT, TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR AWAY FROM THESE PROCEEDINGS. EVENTUALLY, AT THE END, THE COMMITTEE FOUND THAT THEY SHOULD PASS ALONG A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD HOLD MERRICK GARLAND, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, FOR HOLDING ON TO AUDIO RECORDINGS OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND, THE SPECIAL COUNSEL THAT WAS INVESTIGATING HIS HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. BUT NONETHELESS, THAT’S NOT WHAT GOT THE OXYGEN LAST NIGHT. IT ENTERED TODAY. >> IT’S HOW OFF THE RAILS THIS PROCEEDING GOT. WELL, THERE’S CLEARLY BEEN A LOT OF REACTION, CAPITOL HILL, TO SAY THE LEAST. WHO HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TO WHAT’S THE BUZZ? YEAH, THE LINE FROM REPUBLICAN HAS REALLY BEEN ONE OF WANTING TO MOVE ON, BUT ALSO CONDEMNING WHAT THEY HEARD OUT OF GREENE AND REALLY HOW THE HEARING GOT TO THAT POINT. GENERALLY, THEY HAD SOME CHOICE WORDS FOR DEMOCRATS, BUT EVEN SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAID THAT THIS IS NOT HOW A CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING SHOULD GO ON HIS WORDS. EXACTLY. WORDS ON A QUOTE UNQUOTE, GOOD LOOK FOR CONGRESS. >> I ALSO TALKED TO CONGRESSMAN BYRON DONALDS, WHO WAS INSIDE THAT HEARING ROOM LAST NIGHT. >> HERE’S A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE SAID. >> IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I THINK EVERYBODY THIS MORNING WISHES DID NOT OCCUR. >> IT DID DEAL WITH THAT ON THEIR OWN TIME AND GOT TO GET BACK TO WORK AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO DO THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT HELPS RAISE THE MONEY, YOU KNOW, HELPS, YOU KNOW, GET A FAVOR MAYBE FROM THE PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, THEY SAY THEY WANT TO GET TWITTER FAMOUS. THEY WANT TO GO ON A STEVE BANNON PODCAST. OH, MY GOODNESS. YOU KNOW, LOOK, I DON’T THINK I DON’T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE. BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF DISRESPECT EARLY ON AGAINST MS.. GREENE AND THAT WAS KIND OF BRUSHED OVER. >> SO ON THE BACK END OF THAT, YOU THE WOMAN WITH THE SUNGLASSES AS CONGRESSWOMAN ANNA PAULINA LUNA, SHE WAS THE ONLY REPUBLICAN MEMBER I TALKED TO TODAY WHO WAS DEFENDING, AT LEAST IN PART, GREENE’S CONDUCT. >> JAY O’BRIEN, THANKS VERY MUCH. SOMEWHERE, HENRY CLAY IS THROWING UP. WHATEVER. IT’S RAINING IN HIS GRAVE. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, VOWING TO FIGHT A SLEW OF CHARGES, NOW CLAIMING THAT EYEWITNESSES CAN ACTUALLY VOUCH THAT SCHEFFLER DID NOTHING WRONG. >> FRESH OFF HIS MASTERS WIN, WELCOMING HIS FIRST CHILD, THE 27 YEAR OLD WAS ARRESTED THIS MORNING, WAS DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE WHEN POLICE CLAIMED HE DIDN’T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AT A ROADBLOCK WHICH CAUSED AN OFFICER TO FALL DOWN. WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED, THAT ROADBLOCK WAS PUT THERE BECAUSE A PEDESTRIAN HAD BEEN HIT BY A SHUTTLE BUS AND KILLED MARK OFF WITH ESPN. >> HE’S SENIOR WRITER THERE, HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY FOR US FOR OUR SISTER NETWORK, ESPN. SO, MARK, WHAT MORE, DO WE KNOW I MEAN, THE STORY’S CRAZY. AND NOW, SCHEFFLER, WE’RE STARTING HEAR HIS HIS SIDE OF THINGS. ALSO THE POLICE OFFICER THAT APPARENTLY HIS $80 TROUSERS GOT DEMOLISHED TO THE POINT WHERE HE WANTS A NEW PAIR. WHAT HAPPENED? >> WELL, IT’S GOT TO FEEL GOOD THIS MORNING. WAS TRYING TO INTEGRATE LONAVALA GOLF CLUB, AS YOU MENTIONED, THAT WAS A WRECK RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD WHERE A MAN WAS TRYING TO CROSS THE ROAD AND WAS STRUCK BY A BUS SHUFFLER IN A STATEMENT BEFORE HIS ROUND SAID THAT HE NEVER INTENDED NOT TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. AND IT WAS A CHAOTIC SCENE HARRISON ENGLISH. ANOTHER GOLFER WHO JUST CAME OFF THE COURSE SAID, THE SCENE. THERE WAS A LOT GOING ON. THERE WERE A LOT OF POLICE CARS THERE, A LOT OF LIGHTS. IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US, BUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ONE OF ITS OFFICERS WAS KNOCKED DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED THE, OFFICER INJURED HIS LEFT WRIST AND HIS KNEE HAD SWELLING AND SOME PAIN. HE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE, SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT OF A POLICE OFFICER, WHICH IS A FELONY, AS WELL AS THREE MISDEMEANORS, THIRD DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, RECKLESS DRIVING AND DISREGARDING TRAFFIC SIGNALS FROM AN OFFICER IS COURT ARRAIGNMENT SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY IN DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE? YEAH, THOSE ARE PRETTY HEAVY CHARGES THERE THAT. THEY’RE NOT JUST THE THE ASSAULT, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF. THEY REALLY THREW THE BOOK AT HIM. AND SO THIS IS THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION FOR SCHEFFLER. HE’S BACK OUT ON THE ON THE LYNX NOW COMPETE. I MEAN, IMAGINE THIS WOULD BE A DISTRACTION. HOW IS HE DOING? AARON’S REMARKABLY HE COMPARTMENTALIZES THINGS BETTER THAN MOST OUT HERE HE’S FIVE UNDER THROUGH 17 HOLES. THERE’S ONE HOLE LEFT TO PLAY. HE’S ONLY TWO STROKES BEHIND. COLLIN MORIKAWA, THE CURRENT LEADER. HE WON’T RELEASE FROM JAIL UNTIL 8:40 A.M. EASTERN TIME. HE ARRIVED AT VALHALLA LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE HIS TEE TIME. YOU KNOW, HE’S BEEN PLAYING IN THE RAIN AND THEN DIDN’T SEEM BE MUCH OF A DISTRACTION. >> THAT’S WHY HE’S THE BEST GOLFER IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE HE KNOWS HOW TO COMPARTMENTALIZE AND HE’S GOT THE MENTAL PART OF THE GAME. WELL, WE’LL FOLLOW THE CASE FOR SURE. I THINK THERE’S MORE TO THE STORY. I’D BE INTERESTED KNOW AND I DON’T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, MARK, IF THE OFFICER HAD JUMPED ONTO HIS OR HIS TRUCK TO TRY AND STOP HIM. AND IS THAT WHY HE GOT PULLED ALONG? I MEAN, DO WE KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT WHAT THE OFFICER DID . >> YEP. DARLINGTON MY ESPN COLLEAGUE JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE BEHIND SCHAEFFER’S CAR EARLY THIS MORNING. AND AGAIN, IT WAS DARK, IT WAS RAINING, IT WAS WET. BUT HE SAID THAT CHARLOTTE TRIED TO DRIVE AROUND. THE TRAFFIC OFFICER ATTEMPTED TO STOP HIM. I SAID HE DROVE ANOTHER MAYBE TEN, 20 YARDS. JEFF TOLD ME THAT THE OFFICER ATTACHED HIMSELF TO SHUTTLERS CAR AND AT SOME POINT THE OFFICER APPARENTLY FELL DOWN. >> BUT CERTAINLY A LOT TO SORT OUT. YEAH, THERE’S ALWAYS MORE TO THE STORY. ALL RIGHT, MARK, APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. >> THANKS. AND COMING UP, THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE UNDER FIRE AFTER A PHOTO EMERGED OF AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG DISPLAYED AT HIS HOUSE JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY SIX INSURRECTION. WE’LL HAVE THE WHEN WE COME BACK. >> >> TONIGHT, GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE FLOATING PIER AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. WHAT YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR. SUBMERGED UNDER WATER WEDNESDAY WILL SHOW YOU LIVE HOW TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER RUSHES IN. MUST SEE LIFE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> REPORTING FROM OKLAHOMA FOLLOWING THE HARD HIT TORNADOES THAT DESTROYED HOMES. I’M MELISSA. JOHN, THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> SO SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SAYS THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO. THAT FLAG HANGING UPSIDE DOWN THAT FLAG. A STOP THE SYMBOL, THAT FLAG SEEN HANGING OUTSIDE HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION. >> THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS PICTURE OF THE FLAG RIGHT THERE. IT’S UPSIDE DOWN. THAT IS A SYMBOL UNDER THE U.S. FLAG CODE OF DIRE. YOU ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO FLY THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN UNLESS YOU ARE IN DANGER. IN A DIRE EMERGENCY. THAT IS WHY THE FLAG WAS ADOPTED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE RESISTING THE CERTIFIED LAWFUL CHALLENGED COURT AND UPHELD. TRUE ELECTION OF 2020. ALITO NOW SAYS IN A STATEMENT THAT HE HAD NO IN PUTTING UP THE FLAG. HE SAID IT WAS ENTIRELY HIS WIFE’S DOING. >> JAMES SAMPLE IS A LOT FASTER AND BEAUTIFUL. ETHICS EXPERT AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY AND JOINS US NOW FOR MORE. JAMES, SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL THIS, THIS FLYING IN THE UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG? >> IT CAME 11 DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION, THE ATTACK ON CAPITOL. WHEN YOU SAW THE UPSIDE DOWN FLAG, YOU KNOW, CARRIED AROUND AND BRANDISHED BY PEOPLE WHO ATTACKED THE CAPITOL. >> IT CERTAINLY IS NOT GOOD IN TERMS OF THE OPTICS, THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND IT CONTINUES A TREND OF, FRANKLY, DISTURBING OPTICS ON THE PART OF SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT WITH REGARD TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE BASIC NORMS, RULES AND SPIRIT OF JUDICIAL ETHICS. RULES. THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO POSSIBILITIES HERE. ONE SCENARIO IS THAT THIS IS A KIND OF TRIAL THIS PETTY NEIGHBORLY DISPUTE. AND JUSTICE ALITO, HIS WIFE, MRS. ALITO, OUGHT TO BE ABOVE THIS KIND OF DISPUTE, PARTICULARLY GIVEN THAT JUSTICE ALITO HAS CHOSEN TO BE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. THIS IS BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF THE COURT. SCENARIO ONE. SCENARIO TWO IS THAT THIS IS THIS WAS INTENDED TO BE A MEANINGFUL POLITICAL PARTISAN SYMBOLIC GESTURE. IN WHICH CASE IT’S PROBLEMATIC, ESPECIALLY IN THE JANUARY 6 AND 2020 ELECTION CHALLENGE RELATED CASES. NEITHER ONE OF THOSE SCENARIOS IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> SO WE KNOW NOW AT LEAST TWO WIVES OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE OPENLY ADOPTED STOP THE STEAL SENTIMENTS. IS THIS ENOUGH TO HAVE JUSTICE ALITAND JUSTICE THOMAS ACTUALLY WORKING TO RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM THE IMMUNITY IN INSURRECTION CASES? >> CERTAINLY, CAROL, WITH RESPECT TO JUSTICE THOMAS, THE CASE IS UNEQUIVOCAL. IT’S A DUNK. GINNI THOMAS WAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN SOME OF THE EVENTS RELATING TO THE CHALLENGES TO THE 20 TO 2020 ELECTION. >> THE FACILITATION OF FAKE SLATE OF ELECTORS, THE DIRECT TEXTING OF MARK MEADOWS AS HE’S CHIEF OF STAFF. >> ALL OF THAT IN THE CASE OF CLARENCE THOMAS, IT’S SORT OF THE JUDICIAL ETHICS EQUIVALENT OF A FELONY OFFENSE FOR HIM TO SIT ON THOSE CASES. IN THE CASE OF JUSTICE ALITO, IT’S A CLOSER. THIS IS NOT AS EGREGIOUS IS WHAT GINNI THOMAS DID. >> AND IT’S NOT AS DIRECT AS CLARENCE THOMAS RULING ON THE LEGITIMACY AND MAYBE EVEN THE ILLEGALITY OF THOSE ACTIVITIES. BUT THE BASIC STANDARD AND IT APPLIES TO ALL JUDGES, JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT ADOPTED IN FEDERAL LAW IS 28 U.S.C. SECTION 455, AND THAT SAYS THAT A JUDGE SHALL DISQUALIFY HIMSELF OR HERSELF IN ANY PROCEEDING IN WHICH HIS OR HER IMPARTIALITY AND HERE’S THE KEY PHRASE MIGHT REASON TO BE QUESTIONED. THE WAY I LOOK AT THAT IS I FLIP THAT STANDARD INTO A QUESTION. MIGHT IT BE REASONABLE TO QUESTION JUSTICE THOMAS AND JUSTICE ALITO AS TO THEIR IMPARTIAL IN THE ELECTION RELATED CASES? I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IN THE CASE, JUSTICE THOMAS, IS ABSOLUTELY. I THINK THE ANSWER THAT IN THE CASE OF, JUSTICE ALITO HERE, BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW IN THIS DEVELOPING STORY, IS VERY POSSIBLY PERHAPS REASONABLE PEOPLE COULD DISAGREE. >> JUSTICE ALITO WILL FACE CALLS TO RECUSE. WILL HE RECUSE? NO. AND, IN FACT, IT WILL ENTIRELY ON BRAND FOR JUSTICE ALITO TO EXPRESS LEVEL OF CONTEMPT AND DISMISSIVENESS FOR EVEN THE IDEA THAT SOME WILL RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT JUDICIAL AND ABOUT HIS IMPARTIALITY. THAT’S UNFORTUNATE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD TERI IN THE LAST SEGMENT REFERENCED, YOU KNOW, HENRY CLAY, I THINK, YOU KNOW, JOHN MARSHALL MIGHT HAVE SOME CONCERNS HERE AS WELL WITH RESPECT TO EROSION OF NORMS. >> WELL, AND AS YOU POINT OUT, JAMES, THERE’S NO WAY TO FORCE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM A CASE WHERE THEY MIGHT OR THE PUBLIC PERCEIVE THEM TO BE CONFLICTED. SENATOR DURBIN, DEMOCRAT OF ILLINOIS IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. HE’S CALLING ON JUSTICE ALITO TO RECUSE TODAY. >> NOW, I JUST WONDER, YOU KNOW, JUST ALITO FIRST, YOU KNOW, HE’S BLAMING HIS WIFE. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT THIS IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO. I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. MRS. HASN’T GIVEN A STATEMENT. AND HERE’S DURBIN STATEMENT FLYING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG. CLEARLY CREATES THE APPEARANCE OF BIAS. SO IS THERE ANYTHING THERE? IS THERE ANYTHING CONGRESS CAN DO HERE? AND IF NOT, WHAT DOES THAT DO TO TRUST IN THE COURT. >> THAT’S A REALLY, REALLY GOOD QUESTION, TERRY AND I THINK THAT THE ANSWER IS THAT CONGRESS CAN ACT. CONGRESS HAS THE AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE AN ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR ETHICS ON THE SUPREME COURT. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TESTIFYING BEFORE CHAIRMAN DURBIN AND THE SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE LAST SUMMER. >> THEY ARE CONSIDERING BILLS THAT WOULD FORCE THE SUPREME COURT ADOPT AN ETHICS CODE THAT HAS TEETH. >> THE THAT THE COURT ADOPTED UNDER SOME PUBLIC PRESSURE AND THAT SPEAKS TO THE VALUE OF PUBLIC PRESSURE ON SOME LEVEL. LAST NOVEMBER IS REALLY MORE LOOPHOLE THAN LAW. IT’S SORT OF ASPIRA FASHION DRESSED UP AS CODE. AND THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. THE COURT IS STEADFASTLY REFUSING TO POLICE ITSELF. THE COURT IS NOT TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN BUSINESS. CONGRESS CAN ACT. CONGRESS SHOULD ACT SO THAT THE PUBLIC HAS FAITH IN THE COURTS. >> CLEARLY, WE NEED TO BRING JAMES, SAMPLE BACK FOR ANY DISCUSSION SURROUNDING GOING TO BE AN ONGOING ISSUE. IT IS. WE’LL TALK AGAIN. THANK YOU, PROFESSOR JAMES. >> AND THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND I’M TERRY MORAN. THE ABC NEWS APP. AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM, YOU CAN GET THE NEWS AND IT WAS NEVER STOPS HERE. AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK BACK. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION AFTER LIFE IS WONDER. COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR REACTORS. WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT. OKAY. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE, THE USA. >> LOOK YOUR SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF THIS? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU? MARRIED. THANK YOU. IT’S LYLE. >> DAVID. YES, YES, I’M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. 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DEADLY STORMS WHIPPING THROUGH THE SOUTH WITH HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH FLOODS. GINGER TRACKING IT FOR US. >> DeMarco: THE ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE HERE. OUR WILL REEVE WITH THE FIRST NEURALLY BRAIN CHIP PATIENT. >>> IT’S NOT LOUD. IT’S QUICK AND QUIET. NO ONE THINKING IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM. >> DeMarco: PLUS, THE MOM ON A MISSION TO PROVIDE WATER SAFETY EDUCATION TO ALL. >>> SOMETIMES YOU PRAY AND I’M GUILTY OF THIS. SOMETIMES I PRAY AND DON’T THINK GOD WAS LISTENING. >> Eva: THE SEMI TRUCK DRIVER SURVIVING A HARROWING PLUNGE SAVED BY AN ARMY OF FIREFIGHTERS, PRAYING WHILE DANGLING IN THE AIR. TELLING HER STORY. >> DeMarco: AND OUR DEEP DIVE INTO THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE SUPREME COURT DECISION STRIKING DOWN SCHOOL SEGREGATION. ♪ DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT ♪ >> Eva: PLUS, "GMA3’S" SHOP IT LIKE IT’S HOT. MILLY ALMODOVAR WITH YOUR MUST HAVE BEAUTY PRODUCTS. >> DeMarco: AND DOWN ON THE FARM, "FARMER’S WIFE" JOINS US IN STUDIO WITH THEIR DEAR FRIEND NICK OPPERMAN. ♪ THE RIGHT STUFF ♪ >> Eva: AND THE NEW MUSIC FROM NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK. >> Announcer: NOW FROM TIMES SQUARE, EVA PILGRIM AND DeMARCO MORGAN WITH DR. JEN ASHTON AND "WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW." ♪ STEP BY STEP ♪ >> Eva: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK FOR US THERE. WE WERE PREDICTING PRINCE BECAUSE IT’S THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF "PURPLE RAIN." WE WERE WRONG. >> DeMarco: WE WERE WRONG TODAY. WERE YOU ALIVE WHEN NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK WAS — >> Eva: STOP. >> Dr. Darien: GOOD AFTERNOON, DeMARCO. NICE TO SEE YOU. >> DeMarco: STARTING OFF HOT THIS MORNING. >> Eva: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS FRIDAY. WE’RE LOOKING AT THIS BRAND NEW STUDY LOOKING AT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN USING SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE RISK OF SMOKING AND VAPING. TALK US THROUGH THIS. >> Dr. Darien: SOCIAL MEDIA IS GREAT FOR THINGS LIKE COMMUNITY, ALSO JUST SOMETIMES IT HELPS PEOPLE FEELING LIKE THEY HAVE A SPECIAL SPACE AND FRIENDS. UNFORTUNATELY IT CAN ALSO BE A SOURCE OF HARM. RESEARCHERS IN THE UK SOUGHT OUT TO SEE IF THERE WAS A CONNECTION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE RISK OF SMOKING. THEY GATHERED 10,000 PARTICIPANTS, CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS AND FOUND THAT SOCIAL MEDIA USE, MORE THAN ELF ASTRA SEVEN HOURS A DAY POSED AN INCREASE RISK OF SMOKING AND E-CIGARETTES. REASONS WHY — TARGETED ADVERTISING, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE LAWS TO PROTECT AGAINST THAT, THERE ARE WAYS TO GET TO CHILDREN. ALSO INFLUENCERS AND PEER PRESSURE AND SEEING OTHER PEOPLE YOUR AGE SMOKING. THEN THERE’S THIS UNKNOWN CONNECTION BETWEEN ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS AND THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. OVERALL IT’S IMPORTANT TO SET BOUNDARIES, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULTS. >> DeMarco: LET’S CHECK IN WITH JAY O’BRIEN AND THE LATEST HEADLINES. >> Reporter: WE BEGIN WITH THE STORMS SLAMMING THE SOUTH. GINGER ZEE WITH THE LATEST. >> FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN HOUSTON, DEBRIS WAS EVERYWHERE. LOOK AT THIS BAR CRUMBLING FROM THE STORM. WE’LL SEE MORE STORMS TODAY. RIGHT IN FRONT OF US IS THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT. THERE’S THREATS ALL THE WAY UP TO WEST VIRGINIA. I WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON THE TIMING OF THE STORMS FOR THE DAMAGING WINDS, IT’S OVERNIGHT. IT GETS TO NEW ORLEANS BY 2:00, 3:00 A.M. >> Reporter: SAMUEL ALITO UNDER FIRE AFTER "THE NEW YORK TIMES" PUBLISHED A PHOTO OF THE AMERICAN FLAG OUTSIDE HIS HOME UPSIDE DOWN DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6th ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. FLYING A FLAG UPSIDE DOWN IS TRADITIONALLY A SIMILAR BILLION SYMBOL OF DIRE DISTRESS OR PROTEST. THE JUSTICE SAID HIS WIFE WAS RESPONSIBLE OVER A DISAGREEMENT WITH NEIGHBORS. THE JUSTICE HAS NOT RESPONDED TO A COMMENT ASKED FOR BY ABC NEWS. >>> PRESIDENT BIDEN EASING FEDERAL RULES ON MARIJUANA, TAKING ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. DOESN’T LEGALIZE POT NATIONALLY, BUT WOULD RECLASSIFY IT AS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUG. BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS USE MARIJUANA AT SIMILAR RATES. BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED AND CONVICTED FOR IT. >>> MOVING ON TO EXCITING PLAYOFF ACTION ON THE HARD WOOD. THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES FORCING THE NUGGETS INTO GAME SEVEN SUNDAY AND ALL EYES ON THE KNICKS TONIGHT, ONE WIN AWAY FROM THEIR FIRST CONFERENCE FINALS IN TWO DECADES TAKING ON INDIANA AT 8:30 TONIGHT ON ESPN. ♪ THE RIGHT STUFF ♪ >> Reporter: YOU HEARD IT EARLIER. THE RIGHT STUFF, NEW MUSIC FROM THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, PERFORMING ON "GMA" TODAY. THEIR NEW ALBUM "STILL KIDS" EXCITING FANS WORLDWIDE. GUYS, THIS IS THEIR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN MORE THAN TEN YEARS. 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IN JANUARY ELON MUSK ANNOUED HIS COMPANY NEURO LINK IMPLANTED A BRAIN CHIP IN A HUMAN AS PART OF A CLINICAL TRIAL. >> DeMarco: IT AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE COMMUNICATE AND CONTROL EXTERNAL DEVICES WITH THEIR THOUGHTS. WILL REEVE SAT DOWN WITH A PATIENT THAT RECEIVED THAT IMPLANT. HE IS WITH US NOW IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WILL, GOOD TO SEE YOU. THIS STORY IS A BIG ONE. >> Reporter: IT CERTAINLY IS, DeMARCO. IT’S THE FUTURE ARRIVING FASTER AND FASTER. IT WAS MY HONOR TO SIT WITH NOLAN WHO WAS A FANTASTIC SUBJECT. HE’S BEEN THROUGH A LOT. PARALYZED FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS. HE SAID THIS NEURAL LINK DEVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE. >> I DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WAKE UP FOR IN THE MORNING. THIS HAS CHANGED THAT FOR ME. >> Reporter: IN A "GMA" EXCLUSIVE, NOLAN THE FIRST PERSON IMPLANTED WITH A KNEURAL LINK CHIP IN HIS BRAIN. >> I HELD OUT HOPE IT WOULD GET BETTER. >> Reporter: AT 22 NOLAN DOVE HEAD FIRST IN WAIST DEEP WATER, STRUCK SOMETHING AND SUSTAINED A SPINAL CORD INJURY. HE COULDN’T MOVE FROM THE SHOULDERS DOWN. >> FROM THE TIME OF YOUR INJURY UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHAT WAS YOUR DAILY LIFE LIKE? >> ONE THING ABOUT BEING PARALYZED IS THAT THERE’S A LOT OF TIME TO SIT AND THINK. I THOUGHT THROUGH BASICALLY MY WHOLE LIFE AND REALIZED ALL THE MISTAKES I’VE MADE AND WHAT I COULD DO BETTER. >> Reporter: JUST LAST YEAR NOLAN, NOW 30, RECEIVING A LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITY. >> ONE DAY ONE OF MY BUDDIES FROM COLLEGE CALLED ME UP. WE TALKED PRETTY REGULARLY. HE WAS LIKE, HEY, NEURAL LINK OPENED UP HUMAN TRIALS. I SAID WHAT’S THAT? >> Reporter: IT’S AN EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE, A CHIP SURGICALLY IMPLANTED BY A ROBOT AND CONNECTED TO A PATIENT’S BRAIN THAT ALLOWS A PATIENT TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR SMARTPHONE WITH THEIR MIND. >> THIS IS ALL FROM THERE TO THERE. >> WOW. >> Reporter: IT’S NOT THE ONLY COMPANY WORKING ON THIS TECHNOLOGY. SEVERAL OTHERS ARE TESTING THEIR BCIs IN PARALYZED VOLUNTEERS. NOLAN JOINED THAT GROUP AS NEURAL LINK’S FIRST PATIENT. >> I WAS VERY HAPPY TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT’S SO MONUMENTAL AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. >> WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? >> I CAN CONTROL A COMPUTER LIKE ANYONE ELSE. IT’S NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. >> YOU JUST PLAYED SOME MUSIC. >> YEAH, MAN. >> THAT’S AWESOME. >> DO YOU WORRY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST PATIENT THAT SOMETHING UNFORESEEN COULD GO WRONG NOW THAT IT’S INSIDE YOUR HEAD? >> I WOULDN’T SAY WORRY. IT WAS SOMETHING WHERE I KNEW THAT IF I DID THIS, THEN IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF HEADACHE AND HEART ACHE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD. >> Reporter: JUST LAST WEEK NEWS THAT SOME OF THE THREADS IN NOLAN’S BRAIN RETRAGTED, AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVICE. >> HOW DID YOU TAKE THE NEWS WHEN THEY TOLD YOU THE THREATS RETRACTED? >> IT WAS HARD. TO GIVE UP ALL THE AMAZING THINGS I WAS ABLE TO DO, I CRIED AFTERWARDS. >> Reporter: THE PROBLEMS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MAKERS TO EXPLORE SOLUTIONS. >> THE REASON WE DO CLINICAL TRIAL IS TO UNCOVER THESE SORT OF ISSUES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY GET MARKETED. WE ROLLED UP OUR SLEEVES AND FOUND VARIOUS DIFFERENT WAYS FOR NOLAN TO BE ABLE TO RECOVER HIS PERFORMANCE, WHICH WE’VE SUCCESSFULLY BEEN ABLE TO DO. >> Reporter: AS FOR NOLAN THE FUTURE OF THE TECHNOLOGY LOOKS BRIGHT. >> IT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING WHEN SOMEONE CAN HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY, GO TO A HOSPITAL, GET SURGERY AND WALK OUT A COUPLE DAYS LATERM. I THINK IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. I DON’T THINK IT’S AS FAR AWAY AS PEOPLE THINK. >> Eva: WILL, THIS ISN’T THE FIRST OF THIS KIND OF TECHNOLOGY. WHY ARE WE HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ONE? >> Reporter: THERE’S THE ELON MUSK OF IT ALL. THE BILLIONAIRE FOUNDER DRAWS ATTENTION EVERYWHERE HE GOES. NEURAL LINKS MAIN THING ARE THE TINY THREADS IMPLANTED IN A PATIENT’S BRAIN. THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE ADVANCING THE MOST IN THEIR TECHNOLOGY. A LOT OF COMPANIES ARE DOING IT. ELON MUSK HELPS BRING THE ATTENTION. >> DeMarco: WHEN COULD THIS IMPLANT BE MADE MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE? >> Reporter: DeMARCO, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING WITH MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS GENERALLY, THE TIME HORIZON IS MEASURED IN YEARS. DJ, THE CO-FOUNDER OF NEURAL LINK SAID HIS COMPANY IS PLANNING TO IMPLANT PARTICIPANTS NUMBER TWO AND THREE IN THESE TRIALS IN THE COMING MONTHS. THEY’RE LOOKING TO RAMP UP THESE TRIALS AS OUR OTHER COMPANIES OF SIMILAR NATURE. >> Dr. Darien: FASCINATING STUFF. WILL, THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE CONNECTIVE THREADS. WHAT HAS NEURAL LINK DONE TO FIX THAT PROBLEM IN THE FUTURE? >> Reporter: WELL, DR. DARIEN, THE PROBLEM WAS THOSE THREADS RETRACTING WHICH IN LAYMEN’S TERMS MEANS THE DEVICE WASN’T WORKING AS WELL. WHAT NEURAL LINK DID WAS GO IN AND TWEAK THE ALGORITHM. THEY CLAIM HIS BITS PER SECOND, THAT’S THE STANDARD MEASUREMENT FOR HOW THIS WORKS, THEY’VE IMPROVED IT THEY SAY VERSUS WHEN NOLAN WAS INITIALLY IMPLANTED. THIS IS ALL UNCHARTERED TERRITORY FOR THE MOST PART. THEY’RE FIGURING IT OUT AS THEY GO. >> DeMarco: LOOK HOW FAR WE’VE COME. WILL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD TO SEE YOU. >>> UP NEXT, MAY IS WATER SAFETY AWARENESS MONTH. WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THIS MOM’S STORY. >> Eva: WSHE’S USING HER DEVASTATING LOSS TO HELP OTHER What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We’re approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there’s not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you’re proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I’m David. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir is America’s most watched news cast. 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, 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 I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on. We’re still in a flash flood warning to catch you up with what happened overnight. We’ve been riot gear arresting dozens of protesters. What’s happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between check out the gator on the 17th hole the buzzkill and baseball first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. Reporting in Philadelphia. I’m Trevor alt wherever the story is, will take you there. You’re streaming. ABC News block. ♪ >> Eva: WELCOME BACK. DROWNING IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN CHILDREN ANYGES 1 TO 4. THIS SEATTLE MOM KNOWS THAT ALL TOO WELL. NOW SHE’S ON A MISS TO SAVE OTHERS. ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ♪ >> IT’S NOT LOUD. IT’S QUICK AND QUIET. NO ONE THINKS IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM. >> WE KNOW FOR CHILDREN AGES 1 TO 4 YEARS ODD, DROWNING IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH. >> I HAD ALL MY CHILDREN IN SWIM. Y YURI WAS AGE 3. WHEN WE GOT TO THE POOL, EVERYONE JUMPED IN. EVERYONE WAS EXCITED. THERE WAS KIDS AND ADULTS ALL AROUND WHEN WE NOTICED Y UURI W FLOATING IN THE POOL. WE CALLED 911. WE DID CPR. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. WE’RE DEDICATED TO SAVING LIVES THROUGH EDUCATION, LEGISLATION AND PROVIDING ACCESS. WE’RE HANDING OUT WATER WATCHER BADGES AND COLORING BOOKS TO REMIND EVERYONE TO BE SAFE. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YMCAs AND LOCAL CITY POOLS WE TAUGHT OVER 5,000 LESSONS. IT’S BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THE KIDS IN THE POOL. YOU CAN FEEL THE ENERGY AND THE JOY. >> DROWNING IS 100% PREVENTABLE. >> IF YOU TALK ABOUT DROWNING, PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS. IMAGINE IF WE TOOK SOME OF THE SHAME AWAY AND HAD SOME UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE CAN DO TO SAVE ALL THESE LIVES. I FEEL LIKE YURI IS CHANGING THE WORLD. >> DeMarco: SHE’S SAVING LIVES. >> Eva: SO MUCH YOU CAN DO AND SHE’S DOING SO MUCH. >>> UP NEXT DR. DARIEN ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONING. >> DeMarco: ANDNG WITH MILLY AL. SHE’S GOING TO First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on. We’re still in a flash flood warning to catch you up with what happened overnight. We’ve been riot gear arresting dozens of protesters. What’s happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between check out the gator on the 17th hole the buzzkill and baseball first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses >> 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 If you want a relationship a happy relationship you need to be in control of that relationship is 1 of many male Supremacy influencers. You see him as this guy that has money as girls basically, he’s a god it’s compound with prosecutors say he ran a sex trafficking business from we’re not the first affluent wealthy men who have Been unfairly attacked you think he he raped you. They never meant for any of this to be public says there’s something wrong going around here. >> Eva: DR. DARIEN IS BACK LOOKING AT THE VEGETARIAN DIET. >> Dr. Darien: THIS IS A FASCINATING STUDY. RESEARCHERS HAVE GATHERED OVER 49 REVIEWED ANALYSIS. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF STUDIES TO UNDERSTAND OUTCOMES OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK, PREGNANCY AND CANCER PATIENTS. THEY FOUND THE BIGGEST REDUCED RISK WAS CARDIOVASCULAR, REDUCING THE RISK OF HEART DISEASE. THEY FOUND THOSE WHO WERE VEGETARIAN AND PREGNANT DIDN’T HAVE DIFFERENCE IN BIRTH WAEIGH. THEY SAW LOWER OVERALL CANCER RISK. RED MEAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH COLON CANCER. THEY DIDN’T SEE A CHANGE IN OVERALL DEATH RATES. THE END POINT IS THE SAME, BUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS BETTER THE MORE VEGETABLES IN YOUR DIET. >> DeMarco: AFTER HEARING THAT INFORMATION, IS THERE SOMETHING YOU CAN DO? CAN YOU QUICK EATING MEAT COLD TURKEY? >> Dr. Darien: SOMETIMES IT’S A CULTURAL THING OR EMOTIONAL THING. FOR ME TRYING TO TRANSFER TO MORE OF A PLANT-BASED DIET, I LOOKED AT MEAT AS A SIDE ORDER INSTEAD OF A SALAD AS A SIDE ORDER. IT’S A GREAT WAY TO TRANSITION. IT’S OVERALL BETTER FOR OUR DIET AND HEALTH. IT’S ABOUT MAKING SMALL CHANGES THAT YOU CAN KEEP UP. >> DeMarco: LOOK AT IT LIKE A SIDE ORDER. >> Eva: OUR MOMS WERE RIGHT. EAT YOUR VEGGIES. >> Dr. Darien: EXACTLY, EAT THEM FIRST. >> DeMarco: THANKS, DOC. WE’RE BACK IN A MOMENT. STAY WITH US. ♪ ♪ Knock knock burglars may be to blame for the murder of a hairdresser Fabio Santelli. There’s blood everywhere an all-new 2020 True Crime irony of ironies 1 of the victims of Knock-Knock burglaries was Fabio. Lanzoni my phone start ringing off the hook. It’s a Twist here. This is really personal. That was shocking you sure this is right. Oh my gosh. I blacked out the new 2020 tonight on ABC What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We’re approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there’s not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you’re proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I’m David. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir is America’s most watched news cast. TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT PARENTS WHO JUST LET THEIR KID WATCH VIOLENT MOVIES PLAYED VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES THIS IS ABOUT PARENTS WHO NEGLECTED THEIR SON IGNORED HIS CRIES FOR HELP THEN BOUGHT HIM A GUN. THE FIRST PARENTS IN AMERICA TO BE CHARGED IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING A THAT GUN AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT. YOU DON’T TO WALK AWAY FROM THAT. THAT’S A CRIMINAL ACT. SINS OF THE PARENTS THE CRUMBLY TRIALS. >> THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE. >> IT’S JUST BEING IGNORED ONLY ON HULU, I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEART. >> I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY AND IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR BABY. >> I DIDN’T SAY THE BELL THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT . >> WOW. EVERYONE, I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. SOME OF THE TOP HEADLINES WE’RE WATCHING FOR YOU AT ABC. ABC NEWS LIVE THIS HOUR, BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING INVOLVING HIP-HOP SEAN DIDDY COMBS. COMBS HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN LEGAL INCLUDING ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT. AND NOW NEW VIDEO HAS EMERGED OF HIM IN AN ALTERCATION WITH HIS THEN GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA. WE WANT TO WARN YOU, THE FOOTAGE SHOWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO HERE OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN, THE OUTLET REPORTING THAT IT SHOWS THE MUSIC MOGUL VICIOUSLY BEATING CASSIE AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL IN 2016 AND APPEARS TO SUPPORT THE CLAIMS THAT SHE HAS MADE AGAINST HIM THAT. HE HAS LONG DENIED. IN A NOW SETTLED LAWSUIT, CASSIE’S LAWYER RELEASING A STATEMENT SAYING THE GUT WRENCHING VIDEO HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COMBS AND WENT ON TO EXPRESS THE COURAGE OF CASSIE. VENTURA HAS SHOWN. SO THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, HAS HAD QUITE A MONTH FRESH OFF HIS OWN MASTERS WIN, WELCOMING HIFIRST CHILD. THE 27 YEAR OLD WAS ARRESTED THIS MORNING DRIVING TO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE WHEN POLICE CLAIMED HE DIDN’T FOLLOW. INSTRUCTIONS AT A ROADBLOCK CAUSING AN OFFICER TO FALL DOWN WHEN HIS CAR ACCELERATED. HE JUST MADE HIS FIRST COMMENTS ON THE INCIDENT. >> I DID SPEND SOME TIME STRETCHING IN A JAIL CELL. THAT WAS A FIRST FOR ME. I STILL FEEL LIKE MY SPINNING A LITTLE BIT. BUT YEAH, I WAS FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT BACK OUT. DESPITE BEING ARRESTED, SCHEFFLER WAS RELEASED BY POLICE JUST IN TIME TO TEE OFF AND HE PLAYED PRETTY WELL SHOOTING, FIVE UNDER PAR AND NOW SITS IN THIRD PLACE AT THIS YEAR’S SECOND MAJOR. AND A GROUP OF NUNS AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE IN KANSAS, WHERE THE CHIEFS KICKER AND THREE TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION HARRISON BECKER GAVE, THAT CONTROVERSIAL GRADUATION SPEECH, INCLUDING HIS THOUGHTS ON ABORTION AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN, HAVE SOME WORDS FOR THE FOOTBALL STAR IN A STATEMENT THIS SAY HIS COMMENTS SEEM TO HAVE FOSTERED DIVISION AND, DON’T REPRESENT WHAT THE SCHOOL’S FOUNDERS ENVISIONED. SISTERS ALSO WENT ON TO DESCRIBE HOW THEY’VE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO GOD AND HAVE EDUCATED WOMEN OVER THE 160 YEARS. AND ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST CONCERNS EARNED WAS THE ASSERTION THAT BEING A HOMEMAKER IS THEIR BIGGEST CALLING FOR A WOMAN AND REJECT THIS NARROW DEFINITION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CATHOLIC. THANK YOU, SISTERS, AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT, ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE SERVICE, THE ABC NEWS APP. AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. "GMA3" >>> SOMETIMES I PRAY AND I DON’T THINK GOD IS LISTENING. WHERE WAS HE THAT DAY? >> Eva: WELCOME BACK TO "WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW." THE TRUCK DRIVER AND MOM WHO THOUGHT SHE MIGHT NOT LIVE TO TELL ABOUT THIS MOMENT. DANGLING OVER THE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE IN LIOUISVILLE AFTER HER TRUCK WAS HIT. SHE SAID SHE WAS — AND THE FIREFIGHTER WHO RESCUED HER PARADE TOGETHER OVER THE OHIO RIVER. SHE IS GOING TO GO BACK BEHIND THE WHEEL ON JUNE 1st. >> DeMarco: A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHEN IT’S NOT YOUR TIME TO GO, IT’S NOT YOUR TIME. >> Eva: ALSO THE POWER OF PRAYER. >> DeMarco: SAY THAT AGAIN. DR. DARIEN IS HERE WITH US NOW LOOKING AT YOUR QUESTIONS. HOW CAN I MANAGE BUNION PAIN OUT SURGERY? >> Dr. Darien: BUNION PAIN CAN BE REALLY PAINFUL. IT’S A PROTRUSION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST TOE. IT CAN BE DUE TO A COUPLE REASONS. HEREDITARY REASONS, IF YOUR PARENTS HAD IT. IT CAN BE ICE AND PAIN RELIEF. IF YOU WEAR HIGH HEELS TAKE THOSE OFF AND WEAR SHOES WITH WIDE TOE BASES. THEY’RE NOT AS PRETTY AS OTHER SNEAKERS. THEY’RE LIKELY MORE COMFORTABLE. GET ARCH SUPPORT. A LACK OF ARCH INCREASES THE RISK OF BUNION FORMATION. >> DeMarco: YOU SAW ME LOOKING DOWN — >> Eva: MY HEELS. >> DeMarco: YEAH. SHE’S GOOD. >> Eva: I DON’T ACTUALLY GO ANYWHERE IN THESE. I JUST SIT HERE. YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR WELLNESS. >> Dr. Darien: USING A NETTY POT. WE CALL IT IN THE HOSPITAL NASAL IRRIGATION. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE SNEEZING AND SNIFFLING AND HAVING STUFFY NOSES MAINLY BECAUSE THE ALLERGIES ARE AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH. IT’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO AT HOME THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE MEDICATION. IT’S NASAL IRRIGATION. BUY THESE PRODUCTS ONLINE OR IN A STORE. FIRST AND FOREMOST, WASH YOUR HANDS. YOU’LL BE TOUCHING YOUR FACE. USE DISTILLED OR STERILE WATER. YOU DON’T WANT TO USE TAP WATER BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF INFECTION. TAKE THE NETTY POT AND LEAN OVER THE SINK AND LEAN YOUR HEAD COMPLETELY SIDEWAYS. THE NOSTRIL CLOSEST TO THE SINK POUR IN THE WATER. THEN YOU CAN BLOW YOUR NOSE AND IT CAN GET RID OF ALLERGINS AND POLLEN. >> DeMarco: I CAN’T WAIT TO TRY THIS. >> Eva: IT DOES HELP, DeMARCO. >> DeMarco: DOC, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FOLKS, WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. HIT US UP ON INSTAGRAM WITH YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS @ABCGMA3. >> Eva: UP NEXT A DEFINING MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. >> DeMarco: WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION THAT STRUCK DOWN SEGREGATION IN OUR SCHOOLS. OUR DEEP DIVE NEXT. ♪ I’LL RISE UP ♪ ♪ I’LL DO IT A THOUSAND TIMES AGAIN ♪ WOW. >> 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 Next week. Where will Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor Joy be first thing in the morning. Get ready. Jmi, we are coming your way. And Blair and Sam are taking you aboard the USS Bataan live for Fleet Week only on Good Morning America. 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. What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We’re approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there’s not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you’re proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I’m David. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir is America’s most watched news cast. First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on. We’re still in a flash flood warning to catch you up with what happened overnight. We’ve been riot gear arresting dozens of protesters. What’s happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between check out the gator on the 17th hole the buzzkill and baseball first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. ♪ I’LL RISE UP ♪ >> Eva: WELCOME BACK. TODAY MARKS THE 70th SUPREME CO THAT TRANSFORMED AMERICA, WHEN RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS STRUCK DOWN. >> DeMarco: THE LAWSUITS WERE FILED ON BEHALF OF 200 PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. I SAT DOWN WITH THE SON OF TWO OF THEM AS WE BEGIN OUR NEW SERIES. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION. I TALKED TO THIS MAN TRYING TO HIS ESTABLISH HIS FAMILY’S ROLE. >> THIS IS MY FATHER AND WE WOULD DRESS UP LIKE THIS. >> Reporter: NATHANIEL BRIGGS PRIDES HIMSELF ON PRESERVING HIS PAST. >> THIS ONE, MY FATHER AND MOTHER DREW UP IN RURAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND GOT INVOLVED IN A CASE THAT EXPLODED IN THIS NATION. BRIGGS VERSUS ELLIOT. >> Reporter: A CASE FROM 1950 THAT BEGAN AS A CASE FOR SCHOOL BUSES FOR RURAL BLACK STUDENTS. >> STUDENTS HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL. >> I HEARD UP TO SEVEN MILES. >> IN THE RAIN AND WINTER. >> Reporter: THE REQUEST IGNORED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD TURNED INTO A LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST SEGREGATION AND IT BECAME PART OF THE 1954 BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION WITH THE SUPREME COURT ORDERING AN END TO SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. >> ONCE WE WERE ABLE TO DESEGREGATE SCHOOLS, THAT LED TO A WATER SHED MOMENT IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH ENDED SEGREGATION IN SO MANY OTHER REALMS OF SOCIETY AND WORKPLACES. THERE WERE SO MANY WAYS IN WHICH BROWN WAS THE WELL SPRING OF SO MANY OF THE FREEDOMS WE ENJOIN. >> Reporter: MOST PEOPLE THINK THE BROWN DECISION WAS NAMED AFTER THE BROWN FAMILY OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. IT WAS THE CONSOLIDATION OF FIVE CASES THAT THE SUPREME COURT BUNDLED INTO ONE. THE FIRST CASE OF THOSE FIVE WAS BRIGGS VERSUS ELLIOT. NATHANIEL IS THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF HARRY AND ELIZA BRIGGS. I MET HIM AT THE HISTORIC CHURCH WHERE HE IS A TRUSTEE. >> THIS WAS A BIG RISK BACK THEN. >> THE PASTOR THAT SPEAR HEADED OUR MOVEMENT, THEY BURNT HIS HOUSE DOWN. IT’S LESS THAN 100 YARDS FROM OUR HOUSE. >> WASN’T THAT ENOUGH TO HAVE YOUR PARENTS AFRAID? >> THOSE WHO HAD FAITH DECIDED TO STICK TOGETHER AND CHANGE IT NO MATTER WHAT WOULD COME. >> DeMarco: WHAT CAME FOR NATHANIEL’S PARENTS WAS LOSS. THEY BOTH WERE FIRE FRDD FROM T JOBS. THE COMMUNITY WAS TORN APART. >> I WAS 9 WHEN MY DAD MOVED TO MIAMI, FLORIDA. ONCE A MONTH, TWICE A MONTH HE CALLED. WHEN YOU’RE POOR, YOU DIDN’T HAVE A TELEPHONE. GO TO THE LOCAL FUNERAL HOME AND HEAR MY DAD’S VOICE. >> ARE YOU BITTER BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW IT FEELS LIKE YOU GUYS WERE FORGOTTEN? >> NO. >> DOES IT HURT? >> MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY YOU TALK THROUGH ANGER. THEY DIDN’T SEE MY PASSION FOR WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH. THAT’S WHAT YOU HEAR, MY PASSION. >> LET ME ASK YOU THIS, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION, WAS IT FAIR TO SAY YOU WANT THAT NAME CHANGED TO THE BRIGGS DECISION? >> I WANT IT TO BE RECOGNIZED AS THE FIRST CASE. >> Reporter: AN ATTORNEY TOOK UP THAT CHALLENGE AND IN 2023 ASKED THE COURT TO CONSIDER A NAME CHANGE. THE COURT DECLINED TO HEAR THE CASE. IT’S CONTINUED TO BE KNOWN AS THE BROWN DECISION. >> ON THIS 70th ANNIVERSARY WE SHOULD ASK OURSELVES WHAT IS OUR BROWN? HOW ARE WE GOING TO ADVANCE OUR DEMOCRACY SO THAT 70 YEARS FROM NOW SOMEONE IS ASKING ABOUT WHAT WE DID? >> MY PARENTS AND OTHERS OF THAT GENERATION CAN’T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. I’M HERE TO SPEAK FOR THEM ON THEIR BEHALF THAT THEIR STRUGGLE WAS REAL AND HISTORY BOOKS CANNOT LEAVE THEM OUT OF THE PICTURE. AT TIMES HE WOULD SAY, FOR ALL THE STUFF HE HAD BEEN THROUGH HE WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. THEY BOTH SAID THAT. >> DeMarco: HARD TO BELIEVE IT’S SEVEN DECADES SINCE IT HAPPENED. NATHANIEL AND THE ATTORNEY WHO ASKED THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE NAME CHANGE DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE SACRIFICES MADE AND THE COURAGE SHOWN BY THE BROWN FAMILY AND THE OTHER PLAINTIFFS. THEY WANT TO SET THE HISTORICAL RECORD STRAIGHT. >> Eva: YESTERDAY NATHANIEL BRIGGS AND ALL THE PLAINTIFFS’ FAMILIES WERE HONORED AT THE WHITE HOUSE BY PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> DeMarco: STILL TO COME ON "GMA3," WE’RE GOING SHOPPING WITH MILLY ALMODOVAR. >> Eva: SHE’S BACK TO SHOP IT LIKE IT’S HOT. TODAY’S THEME IS TREAT YOURSELF. DeMARCO, I WISH YOU COULD SEE HIS DANCE MOVE I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We’re approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there’s not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you’re proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I’m David. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir is America’s most watched news cast. 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, If you want a relationship a happy relationship you need to be in control of that relationship is 1 of many male Supremacy influencers. You see him as this guy that has money as girls basically, he’s a god it’s compound with prosecutors say he ran a sex trafficking business from we’re not the first affluent wealthy men who have Been unfairly attacked you think he he raped you. They never meant for any of this to be public says there’s something wrong going around here. Next week. Where will Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor Joy be first thing in the morning. Get ready. Jmi, we are coming your way. And Blair and Sam are taking you aboard the USS Bataan live for Fleet Week only on Good Morning America. Reporting from the cargo ship fire. In Newark New Jersey. I’m Aaron Carter ski wherever the story is, will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. ♪ >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK TO "GMA3." IT IS TIME TO SHOP IT LIKE IT’S H HOT. WE HAVE MILLY ALMODOVAR HERE WITH US. SHE’S ROUNDED UP A FEW OF HER MUST HAVE PRODUCTS FOR YOUR BEAUTY ROUTINE. >> HI, GUYS. GROUP HUG. >> Eva: NEITHER ONE OF YOU ARE DANCING LIKE I SAW YOU. >> DeMarco: CLEANING IT UP JUST A LITTLE. >> Eva: YOU CAN SHOP ALONG BY GOING TO GOODMORNINGAMERICA.COM OR SCAN THE QR CODE ON YOUR SCREEN. >> LET’S GET INTO THE FIRST ONE. THIS IS THE ULTRA OIL CONTROL DRY SHAMPOO. YOU WERE SAYING YOU LOVE THE ORIGINAL. >> Eva: I LOVE ALL THESE PRODUCTS. THEY SMELL SO NICE. >> THEY HAVE A FRUIT SCENT. >> DeMarco: THAT DOES SMELL GOOD. >> THIS IS FOR EXTRA OILY SCALPS LIKE ME. I WASH MY HAIR ONCE A WEEK. I HAVE VERY CURLY HAIR. THIS HAS BAMBOO EXTRACT AND TAPIOCA STARCH. IT’S GOING TO ABSORB THE OIL IN YOUR HAIR. THEY’VE ADDED AN EXTRACT LOADED WITH VITAMINS. WHEN I FIRST DO MY HAIR, SOMETIMES I ADD IT TO GIVE MY HAIR MORE BODY. >> Eva: THAT’S A STYLIST PRO TIP TO SPRAY IT IN YOUR HAIR FIRST. >> YES. GIVES YOUR HAIR VOLUME AND TEXTURE. 30 BUCKS. >> Eva: I KNOW WHAT THIS IS. >> THIS IS THE BEACH WAVER CURLING IRON. THIS IS SO EASY TO USE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PRESS A BUTTON AND IT ROTATES THE CURLER LEFT OR RIGHT TO GIVE YOU THE CURLS. >> DeMarco: IT ROTATES. >> YES. YOU DON’T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT PRESS A BUTTON. >> Eva: AND FIGURE OUT WHICH WAY TO ROTATE. >> IT HAS THE CERAMIC BARREL. THREE HEAT SETTINGS. I LOVE IT HAS — AFTER 30 MINUTES IT SHUTS OFF. I’M THE GIRL WHO HAS DRIVEN BACK FROM — >> Eva: SAME. >> TO MAKE SURE I DIDN’T LEAVE MY CURLING IRON ON. >> DeMarco: THAT’S CRAZY. >> I’M A LITTLE CRAZY. SO SIMPLE TO USE. $99. THIS IS FENTY BEAUTY FOUNDATION. MAKE-UP, BIG TREND, IT’S NOW WITH SKINCARE. RIHANNA CAME OUT WITH THIS. MEDIUM COVERAGE. LOOKS LIKE SECOND SKIN. SHE HAS AN INGREDIENT WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST SOURCES OF VITAMIN C. HIGH ANTI-OXIDANTS. IF YOU’RE A BROWN GIRL AND GET SPOTS ON YOUR FACE, IT BRIGHTENS YOUR SKIN. MEDIUM COVERAGE. IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR SKIN, BUT TEN TIMES BETTER. 40 BUCKS. >> Eva: FILTERED SKIN. >> THIS IS THE MACK PRO BROW DEFINER PEN. IF YOU WERE RIPPING OFF YOUR BROWS IN THE ’90s, YOU’RE PAYING FOR IT NOW. THIS HAS THIS VERY FINE TIP AND IT LOOKS LIKE HAIR, YOUR ACTUAL HAIR. 14 TRUE SHADES. WATER PROOF. SMUDGE PROOF. I’VE PUT MY EYEBROWS ON AND THEN MY BROWS ARE ALL OVER MY FACE AT THE GYM. THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN WITH THIS. IT’S $24. >> Eva: OH, MY GOSH. YOU CAN’T BE THE GIRL WITHOUT YOUR BROWS. >> THIS IS IT COSMETICS. THIS IS $34. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. IT’S A BLUSH AND A BRONZER IN ONE. GIVES YOUR CHEEKS SO MUCH DIMENSION. AGAIN, WE’RE SEEING THE SKINCARE INGREDIENTS. IT HAS PEPTIDES, VITAMIN E. 24-HOUR COVERAGE. LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE BLUSHING. I’M OBSESSED. $34. >> Eva: AMAZING. >> NEXT IS — I KNOW YOU LOVE THIS. THIS IS A JUICY LIP OIL PLUMP. >> DeMarco: JUICY LIP OIL PLUMP. >> Eva: YOU HAVE TO HAVE PLUMP LIPS. >> I’M OBSESSED WITH THIS. IT HAS 15 OILS PER PRODUCT. IT’S MOISTURIZING. I LOVE THEY USE THE OIL FROM THE AMAZON, A PART THAT’S EXCLUSIVELY FEMALE. IT HAS THE POWER PUMP APPLICATOR. 15 OILS PER PRODUCT. TRY IT. >> Eva: THAT HAS COLOR IN IT. >> NO COLOR. THAT ONE DOESN’T HAVE COLOR. >> DeMarco: EVA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME? >> THEY HAVE OTHERS. THEY HAVE PINKS, CORALS. >> Eva: NOTHING WRONG WITH WEARING LIPSTICK. >> NEXT, YOU WANT PEOPLE TO TELL YOU YOU SMELL AMAZING. >> DeMarco: ALWAYS. >> THEY CAME OUT WITH THREE, BUT THIS IS MY FAVORITE. DOES THIS NOT SMELL LIKE BEACH? SMELL IT. PEACH, COCONUT MILK. >> DeMarco: SMELLS GOOD. >> WHEN YOU HUG SOMEONE WITH THIS ON, THEY’LL BE LIKE — THERE’S A FUN FACT FOR YOU. LATINAS ARE THE NUMBER ONE BUYERS OF FRAGRANCE IN THE WORLD. >> Eva: YOU ALWAYS SMELL GOOD. MILLY, THANK YOU. SCAN THAT QR CODE ON THE SCREEN OR HEAD TO GOODMORNINGAMERICA.COM. >> DeMarco: WE HAVE A BLAST WITH MILLY. >>> COMING UP NEXT, FARMING AND FRIENDSHIP. >> Eva: THE NEW MEMOIR FARMHAND’S FRIEND, ACTOR NICK OFFERMAN. What does it take? To be the most watched news cast in America an operation think after Isis Fighters sister combat operations. We’re approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there’s not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you’re proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I’m David. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir is America’s most watched news cast. I experienced a lot of Heartache. I’m a tough woman, but it’s not easy. You’re going to feel lonely. It’s taken me a really long time to even get to this moment and the CMA award for Entertainer of the Year goes to Lainey Wilson. That was a mic drop the Entertainer of the Year, baby. I do see the bell bottoms in the Hat as my superhero outfit. Wow. wow, wild horses Next week. Where will Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor Joy be first thing in the morning. Get ready. Jmi, we are coming your way. And Blair and Sam are taking you aboard the USS Bataan live for Fleet Week only on Good Morning America. 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 If you want a relationship a happy relationship you need to be in control of that relationship is 1 of many male Supremacy influencers. You see him as this guy that has money as girls basically, he’s a god it’s compound with prosecutors say he ran a sex trafficking business from we’re not the first affluent wealthy men who have Been unfairly attacked you think he he raped you. They never meant for any of this to be public says there’s something wrong going around here. ♪ >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK TO "GMA3." THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF MODERN LIFE IS MAKING YOU DREAM OF A SIMPLER LIFE IN THE COUNTRY, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. >> Eva: IT’S TITLED "THE FARMER’S WIFE" AND IT FOLLOWS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF FARMER HELEN REBANKS. SHE’S HERE TO TELL US MORE, ALONG WITH HER FRIEND ACTOR NICK OFFERMAN. THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. >> DeMarco: IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE A THING GO RIGHT. >> I ASKED NICK, HOW YOU KNOW EACH OTHER. >> I’M A FAN OF THEIR STYLE OF FARMER. IT’S REGENERATIVE FARMING. A WRITE FROM KENTUCKY NAMED WENDELL BARRY, FOLLOWING HIM I DISCOVERED THEM THROUGH TWITTER OF ALL THINGS. IF YOU WANT A NICE FARMING FRIEND, GO TO TWITTER. WE BECAME FRIENDS WITH — I BECAME FRIENDS WITH HELEN AND HER HUSBAND JAMES. I VISITED THEIR FARM IN ENGLAND AND ADOPTED MYSELF INTO THEIR FAMILY. >> KEEPS COMING BACK AND BACK. >> Eva: DOES HE DO THE WORK? >> ABSOLUTELY. >> I LEARNED THAT FROM MY MOM AND DAD. WHEN YOU TASTE COOKING LIKE HELEN, YOU SAY I’LL COME BACK AND DO THE DISHES. >> Dr. Darien: THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. HELEN, YOU DON’T HOLD BACK ON THE DEMANDS OF LIFE IN GENERAL. WHAT MADE YOU SHARE THAT? >> I THINK THE WORK THAT WOMEN DO — QUITE OFTEN WOMEN BEHIND THE SCENES KEEPING THINGS GOING, ALL THE MUMS OF THE WORLD, ALL THE ERRANDS AND ALL THE STRESS AND INVISIBLE EMOTIONAL LOAD THAT WE CARRY ISN’T OFTEN WRITTEN ABOUT. IT ISN’T OFTEN SHARED. I LOVE READING BOOKS TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES. I WANTED TO SHARE MINE TO OPEN UP HOW IT THE FEELS TO BE THAT PERSON AND A FAMILY THAT TAKES ON THAT LOAD, DOES A LOT OF THE COOKING AND CARING. THERE’S AN INVISIBLE ARMY OF WOMEN LOOKING AFTER EVERYBODY. >> Eva: IT TAKES A LOT OF PEOPL >> IT DOES. >> Eva: NICK OFFERMAN AND HELEN REBANKS, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> THANK YOU. >> Eva: YOU CAN PICK UP A COPY OF "THE FARMER’S WIFE" WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD OR SCAN THE QR CODE. >>> THAT’S "WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW" FOR THIS WEEK. I’M EVA PILGRAM. >> DeMarco: I’M DeMARCO MORGAN. >> Dr. Darien: I’M DR. DARIEN. >> DeMarco: FROM ALL OF HERE AT ABC, INCLUDING HELEN AND NICK, HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. WE’LL SEE YOU MONDAY. ♪ IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE A THING GO RIGHT ♪ ♪ ♪ WOW. >> 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 getting Aid inside Gaza as the US military finishes the floating pier and attacks increase plus where the rare severe weather is headed more Americans turn to World News Tonight with David mure the most watched newscast on television. First thing in the morning. There’s a lot going on. We’re still in a flash flood warning to catch you up with what happened overnight. We’ve been riot gear arresting dozens of protesters. What’s happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between check out the gator on the 17th hole the buzzkill and baseball first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. Right. Now there’s just so much happening in our world so much at stake at the start of every morning making sense of it all that’s not always so easy and that’s where we come in Good Morning America. We want you to know every morning. We’re right here and we got you. WE YOU TO KNOW EVERY MORNING WE’RE RIGHT HERE AND WE GOT YOU. >> IT’S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY, BREAKING NEWS, MUSIC. AND OF COURSE GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US. AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT MANY REPORTING FROM THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTHOUSE IN D.C., I’M TERRY MORAN. WHEREVER THE NEWS IS WILL TAKE YOU THERE YOUR SPINNING ABC NEWS LIVE. I’M ELIZABETH SCHULZE WASHINGTON AND RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. TROUBLING NEW VIDEO SURROUNDING OF ABUSE AND ASSAULT AGAINST MUSIC MOGUL. SEAN DIDDY COMBS. WE WILL SHOW YOU THE SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE THAT APPEARS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE CLAIMS THAT DIDDY HAS LONG DENIED AND ANNOUNCED THAT A LAWSUIT FROM HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE AND THE NEW ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT THE SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED IN HOUSTON AND THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FROM A DEVASTATING. AND THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE GOLFER, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, BACK THE COURSE JUST HOURS AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED. WHAT POLICE ARE SAYING, HIS ALLEGED ASSAULT ON AN OFFICER OUTSIDE THE PGA CHAMPION’S. BUT WE DO BEGIN WITH THAT TROUBLING NEW VIDEO SURROUNDING ,ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE AND ASSAULT AGAINST SEAN DIDDY COMBS, SPECIFICALLY THE CLAIMS FROM HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE VENTURA. WANT TO WARN YOU, THIS FOOTAGE SHOWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH. AND WE ARE ONLY GOING TO PLAY A FEW SECONDS. SURVEILLANCE WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN. THE NEWS OUTLET REPORTS SHOWS THE MUSIC MOGUL VIOLENTLY BEATING CASSIE AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL IN 2016. AND IT APPEARS TO SUPPORT SOME THE CLAIMS THAT SHE MADE AGAINST HIM THAT DIDDY HAS LONG DENIED. IN A NOW SETTLED LAWSUIT, THIS COMES AFTER BACK IN MARCH, FEDERAL AGENTS RAIDED DIDDY’S HOMES IN LOS ANGELES, IN MIAMI. LAW ENFORCEMENT’S TELL ABC NEWS THE SEARCHES WERE PART OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO, ALLEGED HUMAN TRAFFICKING. JOINING US NOW FOR MORE ABC NEWS, MATT LIVE IN LOS ANGELES ALONG WITH ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS RADIO HOST MIKE MUSE AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND MANAGING AT THE COCHRAN FIRM CHANNA LLOYD. THANKS ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. MATT THESE ARE REALLY DISTURBING AND DIFFICULT IMAGES TO WATCH. WALK US THROUGH HOW WE GOT HERE AND HOW CASSIE AND HER LAWYERS ARE RESPONDING TO THE VIDEO. >> YEAH, IT’S A VERY VIDEO TO WATCH, IF ONLY BECAUSE THE VIOLENCE THAT PLAYS OUT THERE IS JUST. YOU CAN SEE IN THIS VIDEO OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY BY CNN, YOU BASICALLY SEE CASSIE VENTURA IN AN BANK INSIDE THAT HOTEL RIGHT THERE BEHIND ME. THAT WAS THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL HERE IN CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES. IT’S SINCE BEEN CLOSED, BUT IT WAS INSIDE THAT HOTEL THAT YOU SEE, CASSIE VENTURA IN AN ELEVATOR BANK. APPARENTLY TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THAT SITUATION. YOU SEE COMBS COME OUT HIS HOTEL ROOM WEARING NOTHING BUT A TOWEL. HE WALKS INTO THAT ELEVATOR BANK. HE GRABS HER. HE THROWS HER TO THE GROUND. HE KICKS HER AT LEAST TWICE. HE THEN APPEARS LATER IN THE VIDEO, APPEARING TO THROW SOMETHING AT HER, PUSHING HER ON THE GROUND AS, AGAIN, IT’S A VERY, VERY VIDEO TO WATCH AND IT DOES BACK UP THE ALLEGATIONS VENTURA MADE IN THAT LAWSUIT THAT SHE FILED AGAINST COMBS LATE LAST YEAR IN WHICH SHE LAID OUT PATTERNS OF SYSTEMIC ABUSE, BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DURING THEIR RELATIONSHIP, WHICH WAS BOTH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL. SHE WAS SIGNED TO HIS LABEL FOR A PERIOD OF TIME FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. THEY WERE ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN. SHE LAID OUT THE ABUSE THAT SHE SAID SHE WAS A VICTIM OF. AND THIS VIDEO VERY CLEARLY BACKS THAT UP. AND I JUST WANT TO READ TO YOU QUICKLY THE STATEMENT THAT WE GOT FROM THE TOURIST LAWYER TODAY. THE GUT WRENCHING VIDEO, HE SAID, HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COLLINS. WORDS CANNOT THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MR. VENTURA HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT. WHAT SHE HAS SAID PUBLICLY IN THE PAST NOW BACKED UP BY THIS VIDEO. >> WELL, AND I WANT TO PICK UP ON THAT, SHAWNA. WALK US THROUGH EXACTLY HOW THIS VIDEO DOES SEEM. SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE CLAIMS THAT CASSIE MADE IN THAT NOW SETTLE LAWSUIT AGAINST DIDDY. >> ABSOLUTELY. ELIZABETH, WHEN WE SEE THIS VIDEO, SHE THIS IS ONE OF THE ALLEGATIONS SHE MADE. THIS WAS ONE OF THE ACTUAL INSTANCES THAT SHE DETAILED WITHIN THAT COMPLAINT. SO HAVING THE VIDEO NOW SHOWS THAT THE CLAIMS SHE MADE AT LEAST, ACCORDING TO THAT ALLEGATION, WERE COMPLETELY SUBSTANTIATED, WHICH IS GOING TO LEND CREDENCE TOWARDS THE REST OF THE ALLEGATIONS IN THAT COMPLAINT THIS VIDEO, SHANNON, WAS RELEASED IN 2016. DOES IT HAVE ANY BEARING ON THAT CASE OR ON THE OTHER ALLEGED INVESTIGATION INTO DIDDY THAT CAME AS A RESULT OF THOSE FEDERAL AGENTS SEARCHING HIS HOMES? >> WELL, ANY BEARING THAT IT HAS ON THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION WILL ON EXACTLY WHAT CHARGES THEY WERE LOOKING AT. THEY’RE LOOKING AT CHARGES THAT INVOLVE ABUSE AND ACTUALLY AD TOWARDS THAT CASE. NOW, LET’S REMEMBER, CALIFORNIA DOES HAVE THE DISCOVERY RULE, WHICH MEANS THAT CRIMES CAN BE PROSECUTED UP TO THREE YEARS OF THIS NATURE AFTER THEY’RE DISCOVERED. SO THERE COULD POTENTIALLY BE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN THIS ACTUAL INSTANCE. >> MIKE, AS YOU KNOW, DIDDY IS A MUSIC MOGUL, A TITAN IN THE INDUSTRY. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THIS VIDEO? HOW DO YOU SEE THIS OUT FOR DIDDY? >> AND WHAT IS HIS RESPONSE IN THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISTURBING. HAVING KNOWN BOTH PARTIES, MY HEART GOES OUT TO CASSIE AND SALUTE HER BRAVERY FOR EVEN COMING FORWARD TO BEGIN TO EVEN TELL THIS STORY AND FILE THAT LAWSUIT. IT IS MONSTROUS THE WAY THAT SHE WAS SO VICIOUSLY IN THAT ELEVATOR BANK. I SALUTE HER FOR COMING FORWARD. AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL GIVE TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC ABUSE AND OR FORMERLY OUR DOMESTIC ABUSE SURVIVORS TO TELL THEIR STORY AND TO GET FREE. AND IN TERMS OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO DIDDY GOING FORWARD, I DON’T IF HE’S MADE ANY STATEMENTS AS OF NOW, BUT HIS WAS ALREADY PRETTY MUCH NONEXISTENT. INTO THIS JUST SOLIDIFIES THAT TALKING TO SO MANY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES AND THE MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WE’VE BEEN TEXTING CALLING BACK AND FORTH WE ARE IN UTTER SHOCK AND WE ARE APPALLED AT THIS MONSTROUS BEHAVIOR. I DON’T SEE HIM COMING BACK AT ALL WHATSOEVER IN ANY CAPACITY. >> SHOCKING AND APPALLING ARE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THAT VIDEO. MATT, MIKE, SHANNON, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. APPRECIATE YOU. A DEADLY STORM SYSTEM PUMMELING THE GULF COAST. THE SEVERE WEATHER IS CARVING A PATH OF DESTRUCTION IN TEXAS. OFFICIALS HOUSTON REPORTING FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED THERE, AT LEAST TWO FALLING FROM TREES. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS KNOCKING POWER TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. CREWS SAY THAT THE OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR WEEKS. SCHOOLS CLOSED AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES SHUT DOWN. PEOPLE WHO RODE OUT THE STORM DESCRIBING JUST HOW BAD IT WAS. >> IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE WENT OFF AND EVERYTHING DAMAGED. >> ABC NEWS MARIA WELL JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM HOUSTON. GIVE US A PICTURE OF WHAT THE IS THERE WHERE YOU ARE. >> WE KNOW ELIZABETH, IT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT 24 HOURS FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVING HERE IN THE HOUSTON AREA. MORE THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER. THIS BUSINESS IS ONE OF THEM. THIS USED TO BE A TIRE SHOP, EDENS TIRE SHOP IN WEST HOUSTON. BUT NOW TAKE A LOOK. THIS IS THE ROOF OF THAT. AND IF YOU FOLLOW ME, I CAN TAKE YOU THROUGH WHAT THE BUSINESS IS NOW JUST PAST THIS POST OFFICE VEHICLE RIGHT HERE THAT HAS BEEN FLIPPED OVER. THIS IS WHAT’S LEFT OF THE BUSINESS, THE TIRE SHOP, RIGHT AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. JUST PASS THOSE TWO BLACK ELECTRICAL WIRES. THERE USED TO BE TWO STACKS OF VERY HIGH AND TIGHT TIRES. YOU TO ACTUALLY STOOD BEHIND THEM, ELIZABETH, AND RODE THE STORM. HAD THEY NOT HAD THAT SMALL PIECE OF SHELTER, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE SURVIVED. AND WE’VE HEARD COUNTLESS STORIES LIKE THAT OM PEOPLE LIVING IN THE HOUSTON AREA THAT WERE TAKEN BY SURPRISE, NOT NECESSARILY BY STORM ITSELF. THEY KNEW WEATHER WAS COMING, BUT THE FORCE OF THOSE WAS JUST UNIMAGINABLE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE TODAY. IT HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT THE CLEANUP AND TRYING TO ASSESS EXACTLY WHAT OF DAMAGE HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND. AND AS YOU SAID, IT COULD BE, IF NOT WEEKS BEFORE WE SEE A LOT OF THIS MESS CLEANED UP AND POWER RESTORED TO SOME OF THE MORE REMOTE AREAS. YOU CAN SEE THE INTENSITY OF THAT CLEANUP EFFORT THERE. MARIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT IS STUNNING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF GOLF AS NUMBER ONE RANKED PLAYER. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS A RESTED BEFORE THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS INCIDENT BEGAN EARLY THIS MORNING. SCHEFFLER WAS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE GOLF CLUB IN LOUISVILLE WHEN HE CAME TO A POLICE ROADBLOCK. IT ENDED WITH THE MASTERS CHAMPION CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER. SCHEFFLER REFERRING TO THE INCIDENT AS A CHAOTIC SITUATION AND A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING. NEVERTHELESS, HE DID TEE OFF AT A SCHEDULED TIME WITH AN ADJUSTED PRE ROUND RITUAL. I FEEL LIKE MY HEAD’S STILL SPINNING. >> I CAN’T REALLY EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING. >> I DID SPEND SOME TIME STRETCHING IN A JAIL CELL WAS A FIRST FOR ME. >> THAT IS THE FIRST. ABC NEWS MORGAN NORWOOD HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY AND JOINS ME NOW. MORGAN, JUST KIND OF EXPLAIN TO US HOW THIS PRETTY WILD SCENE PLAYED OUT TODAY. >> YEAH, A PRETTY WILD SCENE THERE, BUT IT WAS ALSO A WILD SCENE JUST HOURS BEFORE. SO I KIND OF WANT TO BACK UP AND GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT TO HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT HOW WE GOT TO THIS ARREST. SO POLICE WERE ALREADY THERE, NOT JUST GUARDING THE GATES OUTSIDE OF THE GOLF COURSE, BUT THEY WERE SECURING A CRIME SCENE, DEADLY CRIME SCENE AT THAT. YOU CAN SEE IT THERE. POLICE LIGHTS THAT THEY WERE FLASHING DOZENS OF POLICE OFFICERS, FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND THERE ON THE GROUND . SO SCHEFFLER WAS TRYING TO GET TO THE TOURNAMENT, TRYING TO GET TO THE GATES. AND WHEN THE OFFICER TRIED TO FLACK HIM AND KEEP HIM FROM GOING THROUGH ALL OF THIS, ACCORDING TO POLICE, SCHEFFLER KEPT DRIVING. AND AT ONE POINT, POLICE SAY THE DETECTIVE TO LATCH ON TO THE CAR AND WAS THEN DRAGGED A FEW FEET BEFORE. SCHEFFLER THEN STOPPED. THAT DETECTIVE, WE UNDERSTAND, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. PRETTY BANGED UP, PRETTY BRUISED. BUT AGAIN, EXPECT IT TO BE OKAY. >> SCHEFFLER, THOUGH, TAKEN TO JAIL, BOOKED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES. ELIZABETH AND THAT DOES INCLUDE A FELONY, WHICH IS A SERIOUS CHARGE, A SERIOUS CHARGE. >> AND. MORGAN WHAT ARE WE HEARING? SCHEFFLER ABOUT THIS ARREST? WELL, WE PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF THAT SOUNDBITE RIGHT AFTER HE FINISHED THAT ROUND. BUT HE ACTUALLY, IN A STATEMENT EARLIER TODAY, SAID THAT IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING AND HE SAID THAT HE NEVER INTENDED TO DISREGARD THE OFFICERS. AND AGAIN, HE SPOKE RIGHT AFTER HE PLAYED. HE SAID IT WAS CHAOTIC. HE SAID THAT THOSE INSTRUCTIONS WERE CONFUSING, THAT HE WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS. HIS ATTORNEY PRETTY MUCH ECHOING THAT IN THE STATEMENT, SAYING THAT HE WILL FIGHT THESE CHARGES. BUT, YOU KNOW, I WILL SAY THIS ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. YOU KNOW, HE WENT ON TO PLAY AND DID PRETTY WELL. ELIZABETH, I IMAGINE AFTER THAT INCIDENT, PRETTY SHAKEN UP HIS ROUND. HE DID A FIVE UNDER 66 AND CLIMBED THE LEADERBOARD TO THIRD PLACE. SO HE’S DOING A REALLY GOOD POSITION HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND, BUT CERTAINLY SHAKEN UP AFTER THIS WHOLE ORDEAL THIS MORNING ELIZABETH. >> DEFINITELY AN ORDEAL. MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW TO CAPITOL HILL WHERE INSULTS FLEW AT A HEATED CONGRESSIONAL HEARING OVER WHETHER TO HOLD ATTORNEY MERRICK GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. THE HEARING IN THE HOUSE COMMITTEE DEVOLVED INTO CHAOS AND DISORDER. TAKE A LOOK. >> I THINK YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. AIN’T NOTHING OF THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU OF ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS. OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. OH, REALLY DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> WE ARE GOING TO MOVE. >> AND WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. AND THAT MOTION. HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON TODAY CALLED FOR MORE CIVILITY. ABC NEWS CHRISTIANE CORDERO HAS THE LATEST FROM WASHINGTON. >> A HEARING AMONG HOUSE MEMBERS BECAME PERSONAL OVERNIGHT WITH VERBAL ATTACKS TAKING PRIORITY IN THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FOR OVER AN HOUR. >> MR. CHAIRMAN. >> THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL. THE HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK REFUSAL TO TURN OVER AUDIO TAPES OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S INTERVIEW. THE SPECIAL COUNSEL WITH REPUBLICANS PUSHING HE BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. IT VEERED OFF COURSE WHEN REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MADE COMMENTS ABOUT DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE JASMINE CROCKETT’S EYELASHES. >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR? YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE. I WANT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR. >> WELL, YOU WANT TO TALKING ABOUT I YOUR FAKE EYELASHES ARE MESSING UP. AIN’T NOTHING OUT OF THIS ORDER . >> DEMOCRATS THEN MOVED TO CENSURE. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND ANOTHER PERSON? ARE YOUR FEELINGS HER WORDS DOWN? OH, GIRL, BABY GIRL. >> OH, REALLY? DON’T EVEN PLAY, BABY GIRL. >> I DON’T. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AND WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR WORDS DOWN. BUT CROCKETT LATER FIRED BACK WITH HER OWN PERSONAL INSULTS. AS CHAIRMAN JAMES COLMER STRUGGLED TO REGAIN ORDER. >> I’M JUST CURIOUS, JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR RULING. >> IF SOMEONE ON THIS COMMITTEE THEN STARTS TALKING ABOUT. SOMEBODY PLEASE. BLOND, BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY THAT WOULD NOT BE ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES. >> CORRECT. WHAT NOW? CHAIRMAN, I MAKE. I MAKE A MOTION TO STRIKE THIS WORDING. >> IN THE END, NO APOLOGIES WERE MADE. CHRISTIANE CORDERO, THANK YOU. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SAYS THAT HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN THE UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH CAPITOL RIOT. ALITO STATEMENT COMES IN RESPONSE TO A STORY THAT WAS BY THE "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT IS RAISING NEW CONCERNS ABOUT HIS IMPARTIALITY AS A JUSTICE ON THE NATION’S HIGHEST COURT. ABC NEWS LIVE ANCHOR TERRY MORAN HAS MORE. >> AN UNUSUAL CONTROVERSY IS SWIRLING AROUND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO. THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THIS PHOTO. IT SHOWS THE CONSERVA TIVE JUSTICES HOME WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG FLYING UPSIDE DOWN OUTSIDE OF IT. AND THE TIMES SAYS IT WAS TAKEN IN JANUARY 2021, JUST DAYS AFTER JANUARY 6TH ATTACK, JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN TOOK OFFICE. FLYING THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN IS MEANT TO BE A SIGNAL OF DIRE DISTRESS IN INSTANCES OF EXTREME DANGER. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. FLAG CODE. IT’S ALSO BEEN USED AS A SYMBOL OF PROTEST OVER THE YEARS AND AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION, SOME OF DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ADOPTED UPSIDE DOWN FLAG TO OBJECT TO BIDEN’S VICTORY FALSELY, BIDEN STOLE THE ELECTION. >> THE TIMES THAT EMAILS BETWEEN ALITO’S NEIGHBORS SEEMED TO SHOW THAT THE UPSIDE DOWN WAS FLYING FOR MULTIPLE DAYS. SOME INTERPRETING AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT BY THE COUPLE. >> THEY WERE INCREDULOUS. ONE OF THE BEDROCK RULES OF BEING A FEDERAL JUDGE IS THAT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS. REPRESENTATIVES FOR ALITO AND THE COURT DID NOT RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FROM ABC NEWS. BUT THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAYS JUSTICE ALITO CONFIRMED THE TO THEM, TELLING THE TIMES THAT IT WAS SOLELY HIS WIFE’S DECISION TO FLY THE FLAG LIKE THAT AND THAT SHE WAS IN A DISPUTE WITH THE COUPLE’S NEIGHBORS AFTER ONE DISPLAYED AN ANTI-TRUMP SIGN CONTAINED A CURSE WORD. ALITO WRITING TO THE TIMES I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MRS. ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONALLY LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. >> IT’S DAYS AFTER JANUARY 6. IT’S A YEAR BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN’S. THE COURT WAS STILL CONSIDERING WHETHER TO TAKE A 2020 ELECTION CASE. SO IT WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE, LIVE LEGAL ISSUE. >> JUSTICE ALITO HAS A HISTORY OF STIRRING POLITICAL UNUSUAL FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THE AUTHOR OF THE DECISION THAT OVERTURNED ROE VERSUS WADE. HE MOCKED CRITICISM THAT RULING THAT ENDED A FEDERAL RIGHT TO ABORTION. >> I HAD THE HONOR THIS TERM OF WRITING, I THINK THE ONLY SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF THAT INSTITUTION THAT HAS LAMBASTED BY A WHOLE STRING OF FOREIGN LEADERS. >> AND ALITO FAMOUSLY HECKLED PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE 2010 STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH WHEN OBAMA CRITICIZED, THE COURT’S CITIZENS UNITED CAMPAIGN FINANCE DECISION. >> ALITO CALLING OUT NOT TRUE THAT OBAMA TERRY MORAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COMING THE FIRST HUMANITARIAN AID SHIPMENTS USING THAT NEW TEMPORARY PIER ARRIVE IN GAZA. HOW THIS DESPERATELY NEEDED FOOD SUPPLIES ARE GETTING THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT. THAT’S RIGHT. AFTER THE BREAK. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. >> THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MILITARY STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE. TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. 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 THIS STORY FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. WE’RE GETTING BEIRUT FOR 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. YOU SEE NEWS LIVE THERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE IN RIOT GEAR, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY, ESCALATING TENSIONS, THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 CALLED A BUZZKILL AND BASED ON FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL THAT ENTERTAIN . >> IT IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS BASICALLY HE’S GOT THIS COMPOUND WHERE PROSECUTORS SAY, HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MAN WHO’VE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE’S HE YOU? THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE A PROBLEM. SO WHAT DOES IT SAY? THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. >> AGITATE INTO THE MENACE SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU OVERSEAS, A BREAKTHROUGH. THE PUSH TO GET MORE FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO PEOPLE IN WAR RAVAGED. THE FIRST SHIPMENTS OF BADLY NEEDED HUMANITARIAN AID ARRIVE VIA A TEMPORARY PIER BUILT BY THE U.S. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA OFF OF THE GAZA STRIP. ABOUT A DOZEN TRUCKS COMING TODAY. MORE ARE EXPECTED ONCE OFFICIALS ARE SURE THAT THE FLOATING PIER IS STABLE. THIS IS IT. ISRAEL RECOVERS THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGE AS KILLED BY HAMAS IN THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK. ABC NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MARCUS MOORE HAS THE LATEST. >> TEL AVIV. ELIZABETH, THE FIRST TRUCKS ROLLED OFF OF THAT TEMPORARY PIER THIS MORNING. ONLY ABOUT A DOZEN ARE EXPECTED IN THE INITIAL DAYS. BUT ONCE FULLY, THE PLAN IS FOR AS MANY AS 150 TRUCKS A DAY. THE PIER NOW SERVING AS A CRUCIAL ROUTE FOR AID, GETTING INTO GAZA. THE RAFAH CROSSING IN THE SOUTH IS STILL SHUT DOWN AND ONLY A TRICKLE OF AID IS PASSING THROUGH. KEREM SHALOM, THE PIER CRUCIAL TO THE EFFORT TO HELP MORE THAN 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS GET ACCESS TO FOOD AND MEDICINE. NOW, NOTABLY, THE U.N. AND CONTRACTORS ARE OPERATING THE PIER. THE GROUPS HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO HAVE NO CONTACT WITH ISRAELI FORCES. AT THE PIER ITSELF SO AS TO BE SEEN AS NEUTRAL. IT’S ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT U.S. WERE NEVER ON GAZA SHORES. THE EFFORT TO GET AID INTO GAZA AND INTO THE STRIP CONTINUES AS FIGHTING RAGES THERE AND ALSO THE WORK TO FIND HOSTAGES. BUT TODAY, THE IDF ANNOUNCING A GRIM THE BODIES OF THREE HOSTAGES WHO HAD ESCAPED THE NOVA MUSIC FESTIVAL ON OCTOBER 7TH BUT WERE LATER MURDERED AND TAKEN TO GAZA, WHERE THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND, THE FAMILIES OF THE REMAINING HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY CALLING FOR OFFICIALS TO REACH A HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL, SAYING THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE NO MORE TIME. ELIZABETH JUST SO TRAGIC. >> MARCUS MOORE IN TEL AVIV. THANK YOU. COMING UP, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS MARKING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPREME COURT’S LANDMARK DECISION DESEGREGATING. MORE ON HOW BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION CHANGED AMERICA AFTER THE BREAK. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. ARE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST? WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH HOLE, THE BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF YOU WERE IN YOUR CAR SUBMERGED UNDERWATER? WEDNESDAY, "GMA" WILL SHOW YOU LIFE HOW TO SURVIVE. ALL RIGHT. IT’S GO TIME FROM INSIDE A CAR AS WATER RUSHES IN AND MUST SEE LIVE ONLY ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TONIGHT. GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES, THE FLOATING PIER AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> 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 NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS. 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 A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST START HERE. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FROM FULTON COURT IN ATLANTA. I’M AARON KATERSKY WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> PRESIDENT BIDEN IS MARKING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDMARK SUPREME COURT DECISION THAT DESEGREGATED SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. BROWN VERSUS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. THE PRESIDENT GIVING A SPEECH TODAY DURING AN EVENT AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE. >> DEMOCRACY WORTHY OF OUR DREAMS STARTS OPENING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION. AND WE CAN DO IT. YOU JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THERE’S NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER. >> THE PRESIDENT ALSO ANNOUNCING $20 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS FOR DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TODAY IS JUST ONE OF A SERIES OF EVENTS AIMED AT BOLSTERING SUPPORT FOR BLACK VOTERS AHEAD OF NOVEMBER’S ELECTION. HE IS SET TO THE KEYNOTE SPEECH AT ATLANTA’S MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GRADUATION CEREMONY LATER THIS WEEKEND. ONE OF THE BIGGEST TESTS OF THE INTEGRATION OF SCHOOLS AFTER BROWN HAPPENED AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 1957, WHEN NINE BLACK STUDENTS ATTEMPTED TO ATTEND PROTECTED FROM VIOLENT MOBS BY THE NATIONAL GUARD AND THE U.S. ARMY. IN TONIGHT’S PRIME PREVIEW, ABC SPEAKS WITH SOME OF THOSE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE. >> I WAS FRIGHTENED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. I THOUGHT HE MIGHT READ US BOTH OUT, BUT HE DIDN’T. HE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING. AND I NEVER TOOK IT BACK. BUT LIFE WAS THAT. YOU DID WHAT YOU HAD TO DO TO SURVIVE. MY PARENTS AND I NEVER REALLY TALKED ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES. I’D GO HOME. HOW WAS YOUR DAY? FINE. HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GREAT. WE’D LIE TO EACH OTHER RIGHT. AND I DIDN’T REALIZE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS A YOUNG KID, YOU DON’T REALIZE ALL THE DYNAMICS, BUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE TO MY FAMILY WAS GREAT. NOT ONLY CAME TO YEARS LATER, YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH YOU. I WOULD THAT MY MOTHER WOULD ASK. AND MY FATHER, TOO, ASK WHAT HAPPENED TODAY. AND I REFUSE TO RELIVE WHAT I WENT THROUGH. AND I WOULD SAY IT WAS OKAY. BUT THEY RECOGNIZED CERTAIN THINGS LIKE MY HEELS OR MY FEET WERE BLOODY BECAUSE HAD THIS ONE PERSON WHO JUST LOVED TO WALK ON THE BACK OF MY HEELS . YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS TOOK PLACE. I COULD NOT COME HOME UNTIL MY PARENTS SAW THE THINGS, BECAUSE ON THAT DAY, THIS I TOLD YOU WAS MY WORST DAY. THAT WAS THE DAY MY MOTHER STARTED GROWING. AND I DIDN’T WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE. AND SHE’S 98 YEARS OLD TODAY AND PRETTY GREAT. AND IT ALL STARTED ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1957. >> THERE IS MUCH MORE AHEAD. BE SURE TO WATCH ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS COMING UP TONIGHT, 7 P.M. EASTERN. THAT IS RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND OF COURSE STREAMING ON HULU. WE DO HAVE A LOT MORE NEWS AHEAD HERE TONIGHT. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IN TODAY’S BIG STORY. NEW TROUBLING VIDEO SURROUNDING OF ABUSE AGAINST MUSIC MOGUL SEAN DIDDY COMBS. HOW IT APPEARS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE CLAIMS THAT HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, CASSIE MADE THE DIDDY LONG DENIED AND ANNOUNCE THAT A LAWSUIT. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO FACING CALLS FOR HIM TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM CASES RELATED TO THE 2020 ELECTION. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON A PHOTO OF AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG OUTSIDE HIS HOME. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION PICKING UP HER ISIS FIGHTER COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO WE HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE’S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF HERE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE, THE USA. >> LOOK HERE. SMILE. YOU’RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU. IT’S MALE DAVID DAVIS. YES. YES. DAVID, YOU ARE. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. AND ABC’S "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HARD I AM A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. >> YOU’RE GOING FEEL LONELY. >> IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY. WILL WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. >> I DO SAY THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. HOLD A BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC 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 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 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. >> IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE CONTROL. THAT WAS ENTERTAINED IS ONE OF MANY E-MAIL SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS, AND YOU SEE HIM AS. THIS GUY THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS, BASICALLY HE’S A GUY IS WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY. HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM HERE, NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MAN WHO’VE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU. >> HE YOU. THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SOMEONE TO SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE AND YOU TAINT INTO THEM IN A SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. LISTEN NOW TO DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS MY REPORTING BREAKING NEW EXCLUSIVES KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC LIVES. SHOCKING NEW VIDEO SURROUNDING THE ALLEGED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SEAN DIDDY COMBS. I’M A LIVE THIS ALL IN WASHINGTON. AND TODAY’S BIG STORY, THE SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE IS RAISING EVEN MORE CONCERNS OVER DIDDY’S ALLEGED ACTIONS. HOW THIS NEW FOOTAGE APPEARS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE CLAIMS THAT HE HAS LONG DENIED AND ANNOUNCED THAT A LAWSUIT FROM HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, KATHY VENTURA. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO IS FACING CALLS TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM CASES RELATED TO THE 2020 ELECTION. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON THE PHOTO OF AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME. WE BEGIN WITH OUR BIG STORY, NEW VIDEO SURROUNDING ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE AND AGAINST SEAN DIDDY COMBS, SPECIFICALLY THE CLAIMS FROM HIS EX GIRLFRIEND, KATHY VENTURA. WE WANT TO WARN YOU THAT THIS FOOTAGE SHOWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO WATCH AND WE ARE ONLY GOING TO PLAY A FEW SECONDS. THE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE VIDEO WAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVELY CNN. THE NEWS OUTLET REPORTS THAT IT SHOWS THE MUSIC MOGUL VIOLENTLY BEATING KATHY AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL IN 2016. AND IT APPEARS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE CLAIMS THAT SHE MADE AGAINST HIM THAT DIDDY HAS LONG DENIED. IN A NOW LAWSUIT, A LAWYER FOR KATHY RELEASED A STATEMENT READING THE GUT WRENCHING VIDEO HAS ONLY FURTHER CONFIRMED THE DISTURBING AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF MR. COMBS. WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE THAT MR. VENTURA HAS SHOWN IN COMING FORWARD TO THIS TO LIGHT. THIS COMES AFTER BACK IN MARCH, FEDERAL AGENTS RAIDED DIDDY’S HOMES IN LOS ANGELES AND MIAMI. LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES ABC NEWS THAT THOSE SEARCHES WERE PART OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS RADIO HOST MIKE MUSE JOINS ME NOW. MIKE, GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT. I WANT TO JUST GET YOUR INITIAL REACTION TO THIS VIDEO THAT’S THAT CAME AS YOU WATCH THIS AND WE SAY IT IS REALLY TOUGH TO WATCH. HOW DOES IT CORROBORATE THOSE? INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO READ DETAILS IN THE LAWSUIT? >> I AM SHOCKED. I AM STUNNED. I AM OUTRAGED. I AM ANGRY. I AM DISAPPOINTED IN SEAN COMBS. MY GOES OUT TO CASSIE AND HER FAMILY FOR HAVING TO RELIVE THIS EXPERIENCE ALL OVER AGAIN BY WAY OF VIDEO. THIS ACTUALLY SUPPORTS EVERYTHING THAT CASSIE HAS OUTLINED, AND IT DOES TO THE MERE FACT IN HER CLAIMS OR ALLEGATIONS SHE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT THIS MOMENT IN THE HOTEL. AND ELIZABETH, WHEN YOU WERE WHEN I WAS READING THAT IN THE LAWSUIT. I SO GRIPPED BY THE IDEA OF ONE HAVING TO BE DRAGGED IN THE HALLWAY TO HAVE VASES THROWN AT YOU BEING, FELT THAT YOU COULD NOT LEAVE AS YOU’RE TRYING TO ESCAPE. BUT WHAT’S EVEN MORE HEART WRENCHING IS THAT WHEN SHE WAS ABLE TO FINALLY ESCAPE, SHE WENT TO APARTMENT THAT SHE SAID IN THE LAWSUIT. BUT THEN SHE CAME RIGHT BACK TO THE HOTEL BECAUSE SHE DIDN’T WANT TO UPSET DADDY ANY MORE BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE MORE ENRAGED BY HER LEAVING. AND TO ME, THAT GOES TO THE HEART OF EVERY VICTIM DOMESTIC ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. HOW THEY RETURN BACK TO THEIR ABUSER AND THIS VICIOUS CYCLE WHERE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY CANNOT OUT. WE SAW THAT, ELIZABETH, BY THE WAY, HE GRABBED HER PURSE, TAKING HER POSSESSIONS, HER I.D.. SO HAVING VICTIMS IN CONSTANT FEAR. SO IT WAS A RIVETING AND SHOCKING TO WATCH. >> STRIKING TO KNOW AFTER SEEING THE VIDEO, SHE DID GO BACK WITH THE INTENTION OF APOLOGIZING. MIKE, YOU SAY THIS IS ABOUT A LOT MORE THAN DIDDY. >> EXPLAIN THAT. IT IS. WHAT THIS IS AS BRINGING TO LIGHT EVERYONE WHO EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC ABUSE, FEMALES AND MALES THAT ARE OUT THERE. IT BRINGS TO LIGHT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, WHY DON’T YOU JUST LEAVE? WHY DON’T YOU GO GET OTHER RESOURCES? WHY DIDN’T YOU CRY FOR HELP? IT’S NOT THAT EASY SOMETIMES. AND YOU ARE TRAPPED IN THAT CYCLE. IT’S PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGING. IT’S EMOTIONALLY TRAUMATIZING. >> AND YOU CAN EVEN TELL WHEN SHE WENT BACK TO THE HOTEL. ELIZABETH, THINK ABOUT THAT. THE HOTEL DID NOTHING. THEY DID NOTHING TO CALL THE POLICE AFTER STATING THAT THEY SAW THE VIDEO. AND SO THERE’S OTHER PEOPLE WHO COULD INTERVENE BUT CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT AND DO NOTHING AT ALL. PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING THIS AND LIVING IN SILENCE. I HOPE THIS BRAVE YOUNG LADY COMING CASSIE CAN HELP UNLOCK THE FEAR THAT SO MANY OTHERS HAVE. AND LIVING IN SILENCE, LIVING IN SHAME, LIVING IN FEAR THAT THEY CAN GO GET HELP AND THAT THEY WILL BE BELIEVED AND WILL BE SUPPORTED AND HAVE . >> YOU KNOW, MIKE DIDDY HAS DENIED A LOT OF THESE ALLEGATIONS IN THE PAST. HOW DOES THIS VIDEO CHANGE WHEN IT’S SO CLEARLY CORROBORATES OR APPEARS TO CORROBORATE CORROBORATE THE DETAILS IN THE LAWSUIT? IT UNDERMINES EVERYTHING HE SAYS. THROUGH HIS LAWYER, HE MADE A STATEMENT THAT HE VEHEMENTLY DENIES THESE ALLEGATIONS. HE COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND SAID THAT TIME WILL TELL THE TRUTH. AND I’M SORRY, ELIZABETH, THAT, YOU KNOW, AS A JOURNALIST, WE’RE SUPPOSED TO HOLD BACK EMOTIONS RESPONSE TO REPORT THE NEWS. BUT KNOWING BOTH PARTIES AND KNOWING DID HE WANT STOOD FOR THIS IS SO SADDENING ON SO MANY LEVELS THAT SOMEONE COULD CREATE SUCH MONSTROUS ACTS. WHO WAS MUCH REVERED IN OUR INDUSTRY? WHO WAS ONCE REVERED IN OUR CULTURE. BUT THIS UNDERMINED ANY CREDIBILITY OF WHAT HAS DENOUNCED AND THE ALLEGATIONS OF CASSIE. BUT ALSO TO ELIZABETH. IT BEGINS TO UNDERMINE ANY CREDIBILITY FOR THE PENN LAWSUITS AND THE PENDING INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE COMING DOWN PATH FOR HIM. >> WHEN I WANT TO GET INTO THOSE LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS, JUST A MINUTE. BUT TO HIT ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID THERE, MIKE, HE WAS GETTING WAS A MUSIC MOGUL. THERE IS NO DENYING HIS INFLUENCE. HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT? WHAT DO YOU SEE EFFECTS OF THIS VIDEO BEING ON HIS ALREADY VERY TARNISHED REPUTATION? >> IT’S SHATTERING SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF TO ELIZABETH, WHO HELD DIDDY AND REGARD I REMEMBER HIM BEING ON THE COVER OF GQ MAGAZINE WHEN I WAS A YOUNG PERSON AND I WANTED TO ASPIRE TO TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN CONTROL LIFESTYLE, CREATE MOVEMENT, CREATE TRENDS. I USED TO GO TO DIDDY’S PARTIES IN THE HAMPTONS. I WOULD GO TO DIDDY’S PARTIES HERE, NEW YORK CITY. I WOULD GO TO DIDDY’S HOME IN OUR ISLAND AND GO TO PARTIES . HE WOULD HAVE AFTER BIG TENTPOLE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. THIS WAS SOMEBODY WAS SO RESPECTED AND REVERED. I REMEMBER GOING TO HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AND SIPPING ON HIS HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE HAVE MARIAH CAREY? MARTHA STEWART WASN’T INVITED. THAT WAS SUCH A BIG. HE WAS CO-CHAIR. AND TO SEE THAT THIS WAS GOING BEHIND THE SCENES. >> IT IS SHOCKING AND IT’S FRIGHTENING. AND ELIZABETH, IT’S A CAUTIONARY TALE THAT YOU JUST KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH SOMEONE BEHIND THE LENS, BEHIND THE CURTAIN BEHIND THE RED ROPES, AND THAT JUST THEY HAVE A SHINY IMAGE, DOESN’T MEAN THAT THEY ARE CLEAN INSIDE THE PRIVACY OF THEIR HOME. AND SO IT’S JUST A SHATTERING NARRATIVE AND A COMPLETE COMPLEX DUALITY OF WHO WE ALL THOUGHT WE KNEW WAS SEAN DIDDY. >> SHOCKING, FRIGHTENING, DISTURBING. SO MANY OF THE WORDS, ESPECIALLY AS YOU’RE WATCHING THAT VIDEO. MIKE, STICK AROUND, BECAUSE I WANT TO BRING IN THE REST OF OUR BIG STORY TO THE REST OF THE PANEL JOINING US TODAY IS ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND MANAGING PARTNER AT THE COCHRAN FIRM CHANNA LLOYD, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND TRIAL ATTORNEY BRIAN BUCKMIRE. THANK YOU BOTH SO FOR JOINING US, TOO, SHAWNA. I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS HERE. AS MIKE ALLUDED TO, THIS CASE BETWEEN DIDDY, KATHY VENTURA WAS SETTLED LAST YEAR. SO DOES THE RELEASE OF THIS VIDEO CHANGE ANYTHING FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE? FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, ELIZABETH, THE CIVIL CASES OVER THERE WAS A SETTLEMENT THAT WAS REACHED. THERE WAS LIKELY A RELEASE THAT WAS SIGNED, RELEASING HER AND HIM FROM ANY LIABILITY FOR THIS INCIDENT. SO IT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE CASE. BUT WHAT IT DOES IS IT PROVIDES CREDENCE AND IT SHOWS THAT THE ALLEGATIONS IN HER COMPLAINT WERE FOUNDED ON SOMETHING VERY REAL AND THAT WAS OBJECTIVELY SHOWN IN THAT VIDEO. SO THAT DOES BREAK AN AMOUNT OF VALIDITY TO THE ARGUMENTS THAT SHE BROUGHT. >> SO THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE VALIDITY, BRYAN, I MEAN, WALK US THROUGH KIND OF THE CLAIMS IN THE LAWSUIT, HOW THIS VIDEO SUPPORTS THOSE CLAIMS IN THAT LAWSUIT THAT HAS BEEN SETTLED. >> BRYAN TOUCHED ON A LOT OF IT. THE LAWSUIT SPECIFICALLY SAID, YEAH, SO MIKE TOUCHED ON A BIT. AND THE LAWSUIT SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT IN MARCH 2016, IN THIS NOW CLOSED HOTEL, THAT THESE ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT AND DRAGGING AND KICKING AND THROWING OF OLD LAWS ALL HAPPENED. AND TO ADD ON TO TO WHAT MIKE SAID, THAT SHE WENT BACK AND IT SEEMED LIKE THE STOPS SUGGESTED THEY HAD SEEN THE VIDEO AND LEAVE AND IT’S HER BELIEF THAT SEAN COMBS PAID $50,000 TO MAKE THIS VIDEO GO AWAY AND THEN EVEN ADD ON TOP THAT THAT SHE WAS CONTACTED AFTERWARDS, POINT TO HER ALLEGATIONS THAT HER SINGLE WOULD NOT BE RELEASED. ALL OF THIS GOES TO IDEA OF CASSIE AND MANY OTHER WHO HAVE MADE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST, SEAN COMBS, THAT HE IS CONTROLLING AND THAT HE WOULD USE HIS POWER TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE SILENCED AND THAT THEIR CLAIMS NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. AND TO SEAN AS POINT, YES, THIS MIGHT NOT CREATE A CIVIL LIABILITY BECAUSE THAT’S BEEN RESOLVED, BUT I DEFINITELY WOULD BET THAT THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK WHO LED THAT TWO RAIDS ARE LOOKING AT THIS AS A WAY OF TRYING TO CORROBORATE SOME OF THESE FACTS IN THIS CASE AND POTENTIALLY OTHERS. AND LAWSUITS. >> YEAH. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US, BRIAN, ABOUT WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THOSE INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO RAIDS OF ABDUCTEES, HOMES. SO FAR, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT THE TWO HOMES WERE RAIDED AND IN FACT, THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT, NEW YORK, WHERE MANY OF THE CIVIL COMPLAINTS AGAINST COMBS WERE FILED LATE LAST YEAR AND EVEN EARLY INTO THIS YEAR, WITH RODNEY JONES JR BEING ONE OF THE LAST ONES TO FILE A CLAIM. SO IT APPEARS AT THE VERY LEAST THAT THE FEDS, SO TO SPEAK, ARE LOOKING INTO SOME OF THESE ALLEGATIONS. IF YOU LOOK TO RODNEY JONES’S IN HIS LAWSUIT, HE SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT HE SAW ELEMENTS AND ALLEGATIONS OF CRIMES IN THOSE TWO LOCATIONS THAT SEAN COMBS HOME WAS FOUND IN AND THAT THERE WERE REPORTEDLY VIDEO SURVEILLANCE KEPT IN THOSE HOMES. NOW, YOU HAVE, IN THIS CASE, THE CORROBORATION OF AN ASSAULT CLAIM BY CASSIE VENTURA. AND IT APPEARS THAT THESE ALLEGATIONS SEEM TO BE BEING CORROBORATED BY OTHER EVIDENCE THAT WOULD FUEL THE INVESTIGATION AND POTENTIALLY AN INDICTMENT DOWN THE ROAD IF THERE’S ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PRESENT TO A GRAND JURY. >> THAT’S A GREAT POINT. AND JUST IN OUR LAST MINUTE HERE, MIKE, I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SECOND TO ASK ANY IDEA WHY THIS IS BEING RELEASED NOW, GIVEN THAT THIS CASE WAS SETTLED. >> IT’S A GREAT QUESTION. I’M CURIOUS TO KNOW HOW WAS LEAKED AND WHO LEAKED IT AND WHO RELEASED IT. BUT WHOEVER I THINK THEIR CONTEST WAS ON THEM TO BRING THIS TO LIGHT, THE TRUTH TO LIGHT. IN PARTICULAR, MR. BLACKMIRE AND MR. LLOYD HAS ALLUDED TO, ARE THE OTHER PENDING LAWSUITS AND PENDING INVESTIGATIONS TO REALLY BRING CREDIBILITY TO THOSE WHO ARE COMING. BECAUSE WHAT I’M NOTICING, ELIZABETH, IS A BEING DETECTED FROM THAT FRONT IS WHAT CASSIE HAS BROUGHT UP. BUT WHAT THESE OTHER LAWSUITS AND PENDING INVESTIGATIONS ARE LOOKING AT AS WELL. GOOD CONVERSATION. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. MIKE, SHAWNA AND, BRIAN, APPRECIATE YOU. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE AT THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. THAT IS 1-800- 799 SAFE OR YOU CAN TEXT START TO EIGHT, EIGHT, SEVEN, EIGHT EIGHT. COMING UP IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, SUPREME COURT, JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO IS FACING CALLS TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE CASES ON THE 2020 ELECTION. OUR PANEL IS GOING TO WEIGH IN ON THE APPEARANCE IMPROPRIETY THAT IS ROCKING THE COURT COMING UP RIGHT AFTER . THE BREAK 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 MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE AND THE NEED FOR UKRAINE REPORTING FOR THE EARTHQUAKE IN IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. 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CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH, ALL THE BUZZKILL AND BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO IN CONTROL THAT WAS ENTERTAINED IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACIST INFLUENCES. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS THAT HAS MONEY AS GIRLS. BASICALLY HE’S A GOD. HIS COMPOUND WHAT PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO’VE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE YOU? >> THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE PUBLIC. SO, YES, I SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE. ANDREW TATE INTO THE MANOSPHERE STREAMING ON HULU. 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 INTO IT LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE ABC NEWS, MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. OH, I THINK THE JUSTICE IS DEFINITELY BIASED. I IT’S DISHONORING, YOU KNOW, THE UNITED STATES FLAG IF THEY THE PRESIDENT, THEY SHOULD BE IN A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT TO THE CORRECT PERSON WHO WON AND BIDEN WON IN. TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT. A U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS UNDER SCRUTINY. THAT WAS A NEIGHBOR OF JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO, WHO IS NOW FACING CALLS RECUSE HIMSELF FROM CASES RELATED TO THE 2020 ELECTION. THIS IS AFTER THIS PICTURE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE YORK TIMES SHOWING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG FLYING OF ALITO’S HOUSE JUST DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. THE FLAG DISPLAYED THAT WAY IS SEEN AS A SYMBOL OF THE SO-CALLED STOP THE STEAL MOVEMENT THAT CLAIMS WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DID NOT WIN THE 2020 ELECTION. JUSTICE ALITO SAYS HE HAD NO AND THAT IT WAS HIS WIFE WHO DID IT IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR’S OFFENSIVE YARD SIGNS. LET’S BRING BACK MY PANEL. MIKE, SHAWNA, BRIAN. AND JOINING US NOW IS ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN KATKO. JOHN ALITO BLAMING HIS WIFE FOR THIS UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG. WHAT YOU MAKE OF THAT RESPONSE FROM THIS JUSTICE ON THE NATION’S HIGHEST COURT? >> WELL, WHEN YOU ASSUME A POSITION OF AUTHORITY IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, LIKE I WAS IN CONGRESS, ESPECIALLY THE SUPREME COURT, IT’S NOT JUST YOU THAT HAS TO IN A CERTAIN MANNER IN YOUR FAMILY AND PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH YOU AND SOMEONE IN THIS HOUSE. BUT A FLAG UPSIDE DOWN DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY SIX UPRISING AND WAS AN UPRISING. AND THAT IS INCREDIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS DID IT. AND IF HE DID IT, IT’S A DISQUALIFIER. MY OPINION. SO IT’S NOT A GOOD LUCK AND IT FUELS THE FIRE FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE SUPREME COURT IS BIASED. AND IRONICALLY, TRUMP IS FUELING A LOT OF THIS WITH HIS RHETORIC CALLING INTO QUESTION OUR LEGAL SYSTEM NATIONWIDE. SO THINGS LIKE THIS DON’T HELP. AND THAT’S WHAT I’M CONCERNED ABOUT MOST, ABOUT THIS INCIDENT. >> OF COURSE, TRUMP CONTINUES TO REPEAT THOSE UNFOUNDED CLAIMS ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. MANY REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS DO ,TOO. I MEAN, SHAWNA, WE HEARD TODAY ILLINOIS SENATOR DURBIN SAYING THAT SUPREME COURT IS IN AN ETHICAL CRISIS OF ITS OWN MAKING. DURBIN’S ACTUALLY CALLING FOR ALITO TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM ANY OF THE CASES BEFORE. THE COURT ABOUT JANUARY SIX DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING, OF COURSE, TRUMP’S OWN ABOUT IMMUNITY. >> DO YOU AGREE WITH DURBIN? >> YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE BASIS OF THE COURT IS THAT ARE IMPARTIAL, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. SO THE FACT THAT THIS FLAG WAS HANGING THERE REALLY, REALLY DOESN’T PASS THE SMELL TEST. THERE IS AN AIR OF IMPROPRIETY THAT’S GOING TO CAUSE PEOPLE TO LOSE FAITH. SO SHOULD HE RECUSE HIMSELF? ABSOLUTELY WILL HE? HIGHLY UNLIKELY, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ARBITRATORS TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION. AND HE HAS DOUBLE DOWN, IF NOT THE FIRST TIME HE’S WADED INTO THIS TURF. MIKE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT KIND OF THIS THAT SHAWNA TALKED ABOUT, THIS APPEARANCE OF BIAS AND WHAT DOES THAT DO TO THE PUBLIC’S VIEW OF THE COURT’S LEGITIMACY, I MEAN, SO MUCH HAVE WE SEEN IN POLLS AND WHEN YOU TALK TO VOTERS, A LOT OF THEIR FAITH IN ANY OF THESE INSTITUTIONS HAS BEEN ERODED. EVERYONE, EVERYTHING IS PARTISAN. >> ELISABETH, THAT IS SUCH A BRILLIANT QUESTION. I THINK YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN MY HEAD BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ABOUT STANDING IT OUT FROM A 30,000 FOOT PERSPECTIVE AND LOOKING AT THE CONSTANT EROSION OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND DECADES, AN ERA PAST WHEN SUPREME COURT ISSUE RULINGS, NO MATTER AGREED OR DISAGREED WITH THE OPINIONS. WE ACCEPTED IT. WE ACCEPTED THAT THEY THEY WENT THROUGH THEIR PROPER PROCEDURES TO, UNDERSTAND THE CASE, AND TO ISSUE AN OPINION THAT HAD NO BIASES IN IT. BUT AS THE YEARS HAS GONE BY, WE HAVE CONTINUOUSLY SEE THE SUPREME SEEM MUCH MORE POLITICIZED. >> AND INCIDENTS LIKE THIS WITH THE FLAG HANGING UPSIDE DOWN, REFLECTING STOP THE STEAL DOES NOT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THAT NARRATIVE, THE POLITICIZATION OF THE SUPREME COURT. >> AND SO I DO THINK IT’S A COMMENT OF CONGRESS TO STEP IN AND TO ENACT SOMETHING THAT IS ENFORCEABLE IN ORDER TO SAVE THE SANCTITY OF THE SUPREME COURT. THAT WAS HELD IN SUCH HIGH REGARD. >> RIGHT. AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THIS BEING THE HIGHEST COURT, BRYAN, AND THIS QUESTION OF WHETHER ALITO SHOULD RECUSE HIMSELF FROM CASES, WE HAVE TO REMEMBER ,HE IS NOT THE ONLY JUSTICE WITH CONFLICTS AROUND JANUARY 6, WHICH, OF COURSE SEEING JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, HIS WIFE, JENNY, WHO’S A VOCAL POLITICAL ADVOCATE, SHE ATTENDED THE JANUARY SIX STOP THE STEAL RALLY JUST THE CAPITOL WAS STORMED. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE FACT IT’S NOT JUST ALITO ON THE COURT WHO HAS FACED SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS? YEAH, I THINK TO YOUR POINT, THIS IS GOING TO DRUM UP MORE OF THAT VOCAL OPPOSITION AS TO THE FACT THAT THE SUPREME COURT DOESN’T REALLY HAVE A RULE OF ETHICS THAT IT NEEDS TO FOLLOW. IT’S VERY UNIQUE WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER OR JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND AS SAW WITH CLARENCE THOMAS AND AS YOU POINTED OUT, THAT CONVERSATION STARTED, I THINK THIS AGAIN WITH JUSTICE ALITO, WHO IS BASICALLY THROWING HIS WIFE UNDER THE BUS, SO TO SPEAK, IS GOING TO CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION OF WHAT RULES SHOULD THE SUPREME HOLD THEMSELVES AS TO THEIR ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS, AS TO WHEN THEY SHOULD RECUSE THEMSELVES OR NOT? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, ALITO IN A POSITION TO RULE ON TWO MAJOR SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING THE ELECTION AND HAS ALREADY DONE IN THE PAST. SO AS TO EVERYONE’S POINT, IT BRINGS UP ISSUES OF IS THERE BIAS IN THESE DECISIONS? >> GREAT POINT, BRYAN. AND THESE ARE SUCH CONSEQUENTIAL CASES BEFORE THE COURT. MIKE, SHAWNA, JOHN AND BRIAN THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. COMING UP IN OUR LAST CALL, THERE IS HOPE FOR PARALYSIS VICTIMS. WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH. THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO BE IMPLANTED WITH A NEURALINK CHIP IN HIS. OUR PANEL IS GOING TO WEIGH IN RIGHT AFTER THE BREAK. I EXPERIENCED A LOT OF HEARTACHE. I’M A TOUGH WOMAN, BUT IT’S NOT EASY. YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL LONELY. IT’S TAKEN ME A REALLY LONG TIME TO EVEN GET TO THIS MOMENT. AND THE CMA AWARD FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR GOES TO LAINEY WILSON WAS A MIKE TROUT, THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FAME. >> I DO SEE THE BELLBOTTOMS IN THE HAT AS MY SUPERHERO OUTFIT. WOW. WOW. >> WHAT YOU GET TO WATCH? WHERE CAN I GET A GREAT DEAL ON WHAT? >> JUST DYING TO BUY. OH, IT’S ALL RIGHT HERE. "GMA LIFE" GET THE LATEST. CELEBRITY BUYS DEALS AND DEALS AND THE COOLEST LIFESTYLE TIPS FROM "GMA". >> I LOVE THAT SO MUCH. STREAMING WEEKENDS ON ABC NEWS TONIGHT. >> GETTING AID INSIDE GAZA AS THE U.S. MILITARY FINISHES THE VOTING HERE AND A TAX INCREASE. PLUS, WHERE THE RARE SEVERE WEATHER IS HEADED. MORE AMERICANS TURN. "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC. 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 MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE’RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE’VE BEEN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. HOLD THE BUZZ. KILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE, EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? IF YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP, A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. THAT WAS ENTERTAINED IS ONE OF MANY MALE SUPREMACY INFLUENCERS. AND YOU SEE HIM AS THIS GUY HAS MONEY AS GIRLS BASICALLY TO GOD. HIS COMPOUND. PROSECUTORS SAY HE RAN A TRAFFICKING BUSINESS FROM. WE’RE NOT THE FIRST AFFLUENT, WEALTHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ATTACKED. YOU THINK HE DIRECTION THEY NEVER MEANT FOR ANY OF THIS TO BE. >> SO WHAT DOES SAY THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG GOING AROUND HERE ANDREW TATE INTO THE MAN SPHERE NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> IT’S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA, SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS HIGH. HOUSE YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS MUSIC AND, OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTERNOON FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. ME REPORTING THE FULTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, I’M OLIVIA RUBIN. WHEREVER THE STORY GOES, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING, ANYTHING IS LIVE. IT. TIME NOW FOR OUR LAST CALL. AND WHAT AN INCREDIBLE ADVANCE AND MEDICAL THAT WE GET TO REPORT TODAY IN A "GMA" BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE. THE FIRST HUMAN BEING IMPLANTED WITH A NEURALINK CHIP IN HIS BRAIN IS TELLING HIS STORY. NOLAN ARBOR WAS PARALYZED AFTER A SPINAL CORD INJURY WHEN HE WAS 2022 AND HE CANNOT MOVE FROM THE SHOULDERS DOWN. LAST, NOLAN, WHO’S NOW 30, HAD A CHIP SURGICALLY IMPLANTED A ROBOT INTO HIS BRAIN. IT’S CONNECTED BY THREADS TO HIM TO CONTROL A COMPUTER OR A SMARTPHONE WITH HIS MIND. >> TAKE A LOOK. I WAS JUST VERY HAPPY THAT I WOULD BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS SO MONUMENTAL AND THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD OF HELPING PEOPLE WITH PARALYSIS. CAN YOU DO NOW WITH THE CHIP IMPLANTED THAT YOU COULD NOT DO PRIOR? I CAN CONTROL THE COMPUTER JUST LIKE ANYONE CAN, WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING I WAS ABLE TO DO BEFOREHAND. YOU PLAYED SOME MUSIC? YEAH, MAN. AWESOME INDEED. LET’S BRING BACK OUR PANEL. MIKE, JOHN AND JOINING US IS ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL, WHO IS A PEDIATRICIAN, STANFORD CHILDREN’S HEALTH. DR. PATEL, HOW BIG OF A STEP IS THIS FOR PARALYSIS PATIENTS? HOW DO YOU SEE MOVE FROM A DOCTORS POINT OF VIEW? >> OH, NOT ONLY MYSELF, BUT EVERYONE WHO WORKS IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE, EVERY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL, ANYONE WHO’S EVER WORKED WITH A PATIENT WHO’S RECEIVED A SEVERE INJURY SEES, THIS AS HOPE AND A HUGE STEP FORWARD. YOU KNOW, THIS FIELD, ALL BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE OR BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE, BASICALLY USING YOUR BRAIN CONTROL AN OBJECT. THIS HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE 70S WITH THE FIRST IMPLANT ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE IN 1988. SOMEONE WAS TO CONTROL A CURSOR ON A COMPUTER BY FOCUSING