Right now on America this morning breaking overnight the missing piece of a commercial plane found in a man's backyard days after it flew off midair new video from inside the plane showing the gaping hole in the fuselage leading to the Nationwide grounding of certain Boeing planes a new cross country storm on the Move bringing feet of snow in.
Blizzard conditions before taking aim at the Northeast where people are still digging out from this weekend storm we're tracking it all new Fallout at the Pentagon after failing to disclose the secretary of defense was hospitalized even President Joe Biden kept in the dark for days the new timeline of secretary Austin's illness including his.
Time in the ICU plus the new police investigation involving congresswoman Lauren bobbert and her ex-husband the historic launch overnight three we have ignition and liftoff for the first time in 50 years a rocket is launched to the Moon from American soil what's on board and a history making night in Hollywood and.
The Golden Globe goes to the Golden Globes returning for the first time since the actors and writers strikes the big Winners plus the snubs and surprises it's Monday January 8th from ABC news in New York this is America this morning good morning everyone I'm Andrew dber and I'm ran and.
Ally good morning to you we begin with the critical Discovery in the investigation of that nearly catastrophic Alaska Air incident the plane's so-called door plug which fell off last Friday after takeoff from Portland Oregon has been located but the search for answers is just getting started ABC's Allison kic leads us off.
I'm excited to announce that we found the door plug the national Transportation safety board announcing a school teacher in Portland Oregon found the door plug of the Alaska airplane in his backyard we are really pleased uh that we uh that Bob found this we're going to go pick that up uh and make sure that we begin analyzing it.
Investigators had been looking for the plug even asking the public for help after the park blew off the Boeing 737 max9 in midair on Friday leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage forcing an emergency landing investigators believe it holds clues of what caused the accident we are emergency we are depressurized we do need to return back.
To we have 77 passengers investigators say the door plug depressurized just after the plane took off with more than 100 passengers and crew on board it was described as chaos and it was very violent uh when the uh rapid decompression in the door uh was expelled out of the plane also recovered two passenger cell phones that fell out.
Of the plane I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that uh had apparently Fallen 16,000 ft so I opened it up and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for alasa 1282 NTSB chair Jennifer homy says investigators are documenting the damage including the door plug frame before sending parts to a lab the NTSB.
Also addressing concerns of three previous pressurization alerts in the plane in the months before the accident Alaska Airlines had restricted the plane from flying long distance over water certainly a concern uh and it's one that we want to dig into investigators were able to find the cockpit voice recorder from the plane.
But the device was recorded over leaving them with none of the data to use in their investigation the FAA has temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft affecting about 171 planes worldwide Andrew renen Allison thank you our other big story of the morning is the winter weather causing problems for millions of people a new.
Storm is bringing heavy snow and rain across the country that follows heavy snow in the Northeast over the weekend this morning millions of people around the country are digging out as another storm sweeps from coast to coast got kind of clobbered the Northeast slammed over the weekend heavy snow and high winds creating hazardous conditions.
On major highways I90 outside Boston was littered with jack knife trucks and cars spun off the road you okay some parts of New England blanketed in a foot or more of snow Boston seeing its first major snowfall in 2 years now the shift becomes the scramble of sand and salt trucks black ice potentially in the.
Morning as commuters get back to work kids get back to school and now a second storm strengthening in the west is expected to hit much of the country this week snow is piling up from Washington to Arizona parts of California and Utah seeing more than a foot in Arizona Flag Staff seeing 8 in and Prescot getting hit with more than three in Phoenix.
Temperatures were expected to hit freezing overnight for the first time in more than 5 years now that storm is pushing East with blizzard conditions in Colorado and a snowy morning commute in Denver and in the South tonight there is a high risk of flash flooding as heavy rain and wind are expected large hail and even a chance of tornadoes could hit.
Late into the night and into Tuesday from Houston to Tallahasse oh my God this after a tornado barreled through Fort Lauderdale on Saturday video shows it ripping through a Transformer officials say it was on the ground for a mile and a half before moving offshore no injuries were reported the Storm coming out of the Plaines is expected to.
Hit the Northeast tomorrow we'll have more of the forecast in just a few minutes Secretary of State Anthony blinken's high stakes trip to the Middle East continues today blinkin visits the UAE and Saudi Arabia as he tries to prevent the Israeli Hamas conflict from spreading yesterday in Cutter the secretary is criticizing some Israeli.
Lawmakers for working against a two-state solution in Gaza we reject the statements by some Israeli ministers and lawmakers calling for a resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza these statements are irresponsible they're inflammatory and they only make it harder to secure a future a Palestinian lead Gaza at a joint news.
Conference this morning blinkin and Cutter's prime minister expressed their commitment to securing their release of hostages in Gaza cutter based Al jazer media is accusing Israel of targeting two Palestinian journalists who were killed in an air strike in Gaza one of the victims is the son of an Al jaer.
Reporter the fourth member of his family to die since the fighting began Israel is denying targeting journalists now to defense secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stays kept away from the White House and the public for days now Republicans are demanding answers ABC's MWI joins us live from Washington good morning M good morning Andrew it's an.
Unsettling situation where sources say White House AIDS are frustrated with the lack of information publicly the White House is backing Austin but the incident is giving fresh ammo to Republicans this morning new details in the alarmingly quiet hospitalizations of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin a pentagon official telling ABC News the.
70-year-old fourstar General had what was described as a minor elective procedure on December 22nd at Walter Reed National military Medical Center before returning home the next day the White House Top Pentagon officials and at least the Secretary of State were all unaware of the surgery until after the fact I wasn't aware of his um uh medical.
Issue uh in fact I I talked to to Lloyd last weekend what I can say is this it has been it remains one of the great privileges of my career over 30 years now working in in government uh to serve alongside L Austin about a week after that surgery Austin was admitted to the ICU on New Year's Day After experiencing severe pain still it was not until 3.
Days later on Thursday that officials say the White House was informed Sunday the Pentagon saying for privacy reasons were not able to provide additional information but some argue that level of privacy is not afforded to Cabinet secretaries who are high up in the presidential line of succession even Congress was blindsided by the.
Revelation it's pretty shocking on this cuz when you're the Secretary of Defense uh you need to make everyone aware that you're actually get me out of pocket the White House is publicly standing by Austin saying President Joe Biden and Austin spoke on the phone Saturday and that the conversation was warm but a Us official telling ABC News White House.
AIDS are angered by the lack of timely notification the incident coming amid a heated election with former president Trump calling on Austin to be fired immediately for improper professional conduct the Pentagon said says Austin is recovering well and had resumed duties Friday Austin himself now saying he could have done a better job informing.
The public the question remains whether anyone will be held accountable Andrew all right M thank you now to exclusive new details from the special council's investigation into what's described as former president Trump's hours of inaction during the January 6th attack sources tell ABC News former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan scavino told.
Jack Smith's team that Trump was just not interested in doing more to stop the violence as it escalated scavino one of Trump's most trusted advisers allegedly said Trump's demeanor was very unsettling an investigation is underway in Colorado following reports that Republican congresswoman Lauren bobbert got into a physical fight with her.
Ex-husband at a restaurant a source tells the daily be that Jason bobbert called police claiming he was the victim of domestic violence police confirmed the investigation last night a statement from Lauren bobert's campaign said she did not punch her ex in the face and and no one was arrested it is time now for a look at your morning.
weather good morning we're tracking another winter storm that's set to bring several different elements including snow plus severe weather that severe weather starting up Monday along the Gulf Coast running through Monday night and actually even into Tuesday meanwhile we've got snowfall across the plains.
Piling up to more than 6 in in some locations in the North Northeast we'll get more than one to three in a few spots but we'll also have flooding rain Potential from maie weather I'm Meteorologist Melissa Khan stands there coming up the major radio company filing for bankrupt also ahead the race to Rescue five people trapped in a cave.
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Flooding inside of that cave they are more than a mile from the entrance but divers were able to take them some food and clothing officials are waiting for the water levels there to fall breaking overnight a historic mission to space launching from Florida if all goes well a Lander is expected on the moon next month ABC's Derek Dennis reports and.
Liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket liftoff some 50 years after the first American Mission To The Moon A New American rocket is on its own giant leap for mankind launching overnight from Cape Canaveral marking the first lunar laun launch from the US since NASA's final Apollo Mission the brand new rocket the Vulcan.
Is made by the private space company United launch Alliance hoping to jump into the commercial space tourism industry if all goes according to plan a small lunar Landing will touch down on the moon on February 23rd they ask us as a company to buy a launch vehicle um and to build a Lander that can deliver their payloads in this case science payloads.
To the Sur of the Moon Rod Roddenberry son of Star Trek Creator Jean Roddenberry paying special attention to the launch on board several experiments and the remains of 70 people including Roddenberry and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols he and the first lady of Star Trek along with a number of the other cast members from Star Trek along.
With countless other prominent wonderful people their ashes and their DNA are going to join together and be launched out humanity is going where no one has gone before for astrobotics the company behind the Lander warns the mission is still risky it is A4 Million Miles Away it is in the vacuum of space um you are controlling a vehicle that uh you can't.
Use a joystick with from here on Earth and 2024 could be the year of the lunar lander with five us spacecraft and at least one Japanese Lander heading to the Moon this year with the goals of lowering the cost of moon missions and working towards getting American tourists to the moon and ran thank you for that reporting Derrik Dennis radio.
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Well Hollywood is back overnight the Golden Globes ushering in the first award season since the actors and writer strikes hosted by comedian Joe Koy succession taking home four Globes including for drama TV show and the bear taking home three statues winning in the comedy category Lily Gladstone making history the first indigenous winner for.
Her portrayal of Molly and of the flower Moon ok I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers run them backwards to accomplish native languages on camera and Ali Wong and Steven young also celebrating historic.
Wins taking home the prize for best female and male actor in a limited series for their roles on beef becoming the first actors of Asian descent to win in those categories but the night's biggest winner was for the Blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer taking home five Awards including best drama movie best director and two awards for best actor.
And supporting actor for Killian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr they weren't kidding this is a really intimidating R in the comedy or musical category poor things beat out Barbie for the globe the dark comedy adventure Stars Emma Stone who also won the award for best female actor I love getting to say this dialogue and I love getting to horrify.
You with my Australian accent you're the best tiny you know I'm working on that all the time and Taylor Swift making an appearance nominated in the new cinematic and box office achievement category for the ays tour concert film on the red carpet Margot Robbie once again Dawning an iconic Barbie dress her outfit inspired by the signature.
1977 Superstar doll she looked fantastic by the way Barbie went into the night with the most nominations of any film it had nine but it ended up taking home just two trophies coming up the possible end of an era in the NFL plus the pilot who went above and beyond to keep his plane on time with so much at stake so much on.
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Are you ready for some football we it was settled last night when the bills scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to beat the Dolphins and win their division the playoffs start Saturday with the Browns facing the Texans then there's this Patriots coach Bill bellich calls his teams 4 and 13 season disappointing I think Patriots fans.
Would agree he will meet with Team ownership about his future Say It Ain't So and tonight college football's national championship game takes Center Stage the Michigan Wolverines facing the Washington huskys in Houston all the action will be on ESPN it starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern a travel headache for passengers at Denver International.
Airport hundreds of flights were delayed yesterday dozens were canceled after the baggage handling system suffered a breakdown passengers had to wait in line for hours to check their bags but some of them decided to make the best of it could.
make him a way downtown mechanical malfunction was actually fixed early yesterday but it took a while for the backlog to ease and finally let's hear it for one Airline employee he's not a baggage handler usually he's an American Airlines pilot who is seen loading bags.
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Are changed getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime we'll take you there streaming free on ABC News live Brook Shields the most photographed woman in the world a sexualized child model exploitation what happened to her isn't really about her it's just about women I'm amazed that I survived any of it pretty baby Brook.
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Our health are debatable I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu checking more top stories now Federal investigators say the door plug that fell off of an Alaska airplane has been found it fell into an Oregon school teacher backyard after blowing off the.
Plane last Friday they also said the plane's cockpit voice recorder will offer no information because it was recorded over Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal that could avert a government shutdown they agreed to set spending levels at nearly $1.6 trillion but house Speaker Mike Johnson is.
Expected to have a tough time selling the package to fellow Republicans President Biden is said to be exasperated after being kept in the dark for 3 Days about defense secretary Lloyd Austin's Hospital State the Pentagon says Austin was admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed Medical Center with severe pain on New Year's Day today's.
Weather Heavy Rain from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast where tornadoes are possible heavy snow for the plains in Midwest rain and snow in the Northwest and finally the lab dooodle gaining Fame for his high priced diet our Danny new has the details good boy Cecil is a good boy just with a pallet.
That is suddenly expensive look at him he wouldn't possibly eat all of your cash yeah Carrie and Clayton had just taken out $4,000 to pay for a new fence around their Pittsburgh home when Cecil saw it on the counter and thought forefathers how do you give that information to your wife I I basically just yelled like he.
Ate the money Skyler where the money yes this golden doodle consumed 4GS with crumbs everywhere and of course first things first they called the vet who thankfully said that since he's a pretty big dog as long as he's acting normal going to the bathroom eating it's fine so let's get back to that part about the bathroom because once Carrie and Clayton.
Called the bank they learned that as long as they could reassemble a bill more than 50% and enough to read the serial number it could be exchanged for replacement which meant whenever Clayton went and I went to go check it out I'm like yep those are those are $100 bills in their that's another 50 bucks you got to give them credit Carrie and Clayton.
Spent the next few days withdrawing cash from their dog TM cleaning it vigorously and then scrambling to somehow reconstruct it in a way that doesn't dishonor the man who discovered electricity that was the most expensive puzzle we've ever yeah there's still a lot of pieces left but guess what they may be forever traumatized but Carrie.
And Clayton were able to exchange more than 3500 of the original 4K good boy and as you probably know C is now a world famous dog but no amount of currency consumption could ever change the fact that Cecil is the bestest pal he's so proud he's a great dog up next Carrie and Clayton say they.
Are considering writing a children's book about Cecil so families can learn from this experience guys it was also a costly cleanup yes 3500 not not bad right now on America this morning breaking overnight the missing piece of a commercial plane found in a man's.
Backyard days after it flew off midair new video from inside the plane showing the gaping hole in the fuselage leading to the Nationwide grounding of certain Boeing planes a new cross country storm on the Move bringing feet of snow and blizzard conditions before taking aim at the Northeast where people are still digging out from this weekend storm.
We're tracking at all new Fallout at the Pentagon after failing to disclose the secretary of defense was hospitalized even President Joe Biden kept in the dark for days the new timeline of secretary Austin's illness including his time in the ICU plus the new police investigation involving congresswoman Lauren bobert.
And her ex-husband the historic launch overnight three we have ignition and liftoff for the first time in 50 years a rocket is launched to the Moon from American soil what's on board and a history making night in Hollywood and the Golden Globe goes to the Golden Globes returning for the first time since the actors and writers strikes the.
Big Winners plus the snubs and surprises it's Monday January 8th from ABC news in New York this is America this morning good morning everyone I'm Andrew diber and I'm ran and Ally good morning to you we begin with a critical Discovery in the investigation of that nearly.
Catastrophic Alaska Air incident the plane's so-called door plug which fell off last Friday after takeoff from Portland Oregon has been located but the search for answers is just getting started ABC's Allison kic leads us off I'm excited to announce that we found the door plug the national Transportation safety board announcing a.
School teacher in Portland Oregon found the door plug of the Alaska airplane in his backyard we are really pleased pleased uh that we uh that Bob found this we're going to go pick that up uh and make sure that we begin analyzing it investigators had been looking for the plug even asking the public for help after the park blew off the Boeing 737.
Max9 in midair on Friday leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage forcing an emergency landing investigators believe it holds clues of what caused the accident we are emergency we are pressurized we do need to return back too we have 177 passengers investigators say the door plug depressurized just after the plane took off with more than.
100 passengers and crew on board it was described as chaos and it was very violent uh when the uh rapid decompression in the door uh was expelled out of the plane also recovered two passenger cell phones that fell out of the plane I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that uh had apparently Fallen 16,000 ft so I opened.
It up and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282 NTSB chair Jennifer homy says investigators are documenting the damage including the door plug frame before sending parts to a lab the NTSB also addressing concerns of three previous pressurization alerts in the plane in the months before the accident.
Alaska Airlines had restricted the plane from flying long distance over water certainly a concern uh and it's one that we want to dig into investigators were able to find the cockpit voice recorder from the plane but the device was recorded over leaving them with none of the data to use in their investigation the FAA has.
Temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 max9 aircraft affecting about 171 planes worldwide Andrew Ranon Alison thank thank you our other big story of the morning is the winter weather causing problems for millions of people a new storm is bringing heavy snow and rain across the country that follows heavy snow in the Northeast over the.
Weekend this morning millions of people around the country are digging out as another storm sweeps from coast to coast got kind of clobbered the Northeast slammed over the weekend heavy snow and high winds creating hazardous conditions on major highways I90 outside Boston was liter with jack knife trucks and cars spun off the road you okay some parts of.
New England blanketed in a foot or more of snow Boston seeing its first major snowfall in 2 years now the shift becomes the scramble of sand and salt trucks black ice potentially in the morning as commuters get back to work kids get back to school and now a second storm strengthening in the west is.
Expected to hit much of the country this week snow is piling up from Washington to Arizona parts of California and Utah seeing more than a foot in Arizona Flag Staff seeing 8 in and Prescot getting hit with more than three in Phoenix temperatures were expected to hit freezing overnight for the first time in more than 5 years now that storm.
Is pushing East with blizzard conditions in Colorado and a snowy morning commute in Denver and in the South tonight there is a high risk of flash flooding as heavy rain and wind are expected large hail and even a chance of tornadoes could hit late into the night and into Tuesday from Houston to Tallahassee oh my God this after a tornado barreled.
Through Fort waterdale on Saturday video shows it ripping through a Transformer officials say it was on the ground for a mile and a half before moving offshore no injuries were reported the Storm coming out of the Plains is expected to hit the Northeast tomorrow we'll have more of the forecast in just a few minutes Secretary of State Anthony.
Blinken's high stakes trip to the Middle East continues today blinkin visits the UAE and Saudi Arabia as he tries to prevent the Israeli Hamas conflict from spreading yesterday in Cutter the secretary is criticizing some Israeli lawmakers for working against a two-state solution in Gaza we reject the statements by some Israeli ministers and.
Lawmakers calling for a resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza these statements are irresponsible they're inflammatory and they only make it harder to secure a future of Palestinian Leed Gaza at a joint news conference this morning blinkin and Cutter's prime minister expressed their commitment to securing the release of.
Hostages in Gaza c-based Al jazer media is accusing Israel of targeting two Palestinian journalists who were killed in an air strike in Gaza one of the victims is the son of an Al jazer reporter the fourth member of his family to die since the fighting began Israel is denying targeting journalists now to defense.
Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stays kept away from the White House and the public for days now Republicans are demanding answers ABC's M win joins us live from Washington good morning M good morning Andrew Drew it's an unsettling situation where sources say White House AIDS are frustrated with the lack of information publicly the White House is.
Backing Austin but the incident is giving fresh ammo to Republicans this morning new details in the alarmingly quiet hospitalizations of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin a pentagon official telling ABC News the 70-year-old fourstar General had what was described as a minor elective procedure on December 22nd at Walter.
Reed Nation military Medical Center before returning home the next day the White House Top Pentagon officials and at least the Secretary of State were all unaware of the surgery until after the fact I wasn't aware of his um uh medical issue uh in fact I I talked to to Lloyd last weekend what I can say is this it has been it remains one of the great.
Privileges of my career over 30 years now working in in government uh to ser alongside L Austin about a week after that surgery Austin that officials say the White House was informed Sunday the Pentagon saying for privacy reasons were not able to provide additional information but some argue that level of privacy is not afforded to.
Cabinet secretaries who are high up in the presidential line of succession even Congress was blindsided by the Revelation it's pretty shocking on this cuz when you're the Secretary of Defense uh you need to make everyone aware that you're actually get me out of pocket the White House is publicly standing by Austin saying President Joe Biden and.
Austin spoke on the phone Saturday and that the conversation was warm but a Us official telling ABC News White House AIDS are angered by the lack of timely notification the incident coming amid a heated election with former president Trump calling on Austin to be fired immediately for improper professional conduct the Pentagon says Austin is.
Recovering well and had resumed duties Friday Austin himself now saying he could have done done a better job informing the public the question remains whether anyone will be held accountable Andrew all right M thank you now to exclusive new details from the special council's investigation into what's described as former president.
Trump's hours of inaction during the January 6th attack sources tell ABC News former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan scavino told Jack Smith's team that Trump was just not interested in doing more to stop the violence as it escalated scavino one of Trump's most trusted advisers allegedly said Trump's demeanor was very unsettling an.
Investigation is underway in Colorado following reports that Republican congresswoman Lauren bobbert got into a physical fight with her ex-husband at a restaurant a source tells the daily be that Jason bobert called police claiming he was the victim of domestic violence police confirmed the investigation last night a statement from Lauren bobert's.
Campaign said she did not punch her ex in the face and no one was arrested it is time now for a look at your morning weather good morning we're tracking another winter storm that's set to bring several different elements including snow plus severe weather that severe weather.
Starting up Monday along the Gulf Coast running through Monday night and actually even into Tuesday meanwhile we've got snowfall across the plains piling up to more than 6 Ines in some locations in the Northeast we'll get more than one to three in a few spots but we'll also have flooding rain Potential from macki weather I'm.
Meteorologist Melissa constanzer coming up the major radio company filing for bankruptcy also ahead the race to Rescue five people trapped in a cave for days the latest from the scene and for the first time in 50 years an American spacecraft is headed to the Moon why this mission is personal for some.
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Part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here at Boston Logan Airport I'm Gio bonitz wherever the story is we'll take you there your streamer ABC News Live Well Rescuers hope to reach five people who are trapped in a Slovenian cave today the group became stuck Saturday after heavy rains caused.
Flooding inside of that cave they are more than a mile from the entrance but divers were able to take them some food and clothing officials are waiting for the water levels there to fall breaking overnight a historic mission to space launching from Florida if all goes well a Lander is expected on the moon next month ABC's Derrik Dennis reports and.
Liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket liftoff some 50 years after the first American Mission To The Moon A New American rocket is on its own giant leap for mankind launching overnight from Cape Canaveral marking the first lunar launch from the US since NASA's final Apollo Mission the brand new rocket the Vulcan.
Is made by the private space company United launch Alliance hoping to jump into the commercial space tourism industry if all goes according to plan a small lunar Landing will touch down on the moon on February 23rd they ask us as a company to buy a launch vehicle um and to build a Lander that can deliver their payloads in this case science payloads.
To the surface of the Moon Rod Roddenberry son of Star Trek Creator Jean Roddenberry paying special attention to to the launch on board several experiments and the remains of 70 people including Roddenberry and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nickles he and the first lady of Star Trek along with a number of the other cast members from.
Star Trek along with countless other prominent wonderful people their ashes and their DNA are going to join together and be launched out humanity is going where no one has gone before astrobotics the company behind the Lander warns the mission is still risky it is a quar Million Miles Away it is in the vacuum of space um you are controlling a.
Vehicle that you can't use a joystick with from here on Earth and 2024 could be the year of the lunar lander with five us spacecraft and at least one Japanese Lander heading to the Moon this year with the goals of lowering the cost of moon missions and working towards getting American tourists to the Moon Andrew ranan thank you for that.
Reporting Derek Dennis radio and podcast giant Odyssey has for bankruptcy Chapter 11 papers say the company has a debt load of nearly $2 billion a sharp Drop In radio advertising revenue is being blamed for the shortfall Odyssey operates more than 200 US radio stations coming up next an exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors after a jury found.
The actor guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend also ahead the big Winners and surprises from last night's Golden Globes 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 mure America's number one most watched newscast across all of.
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Nights wherever you stream your news only on ABC News live Jonathan major is speaking publicly for the first time since his domestic violence trial today marks 3 weeks since the actor was convicted of Reckless assault a misdemeanor and harassment in an incident with his former girlfriend last March speaking exclusively with ABC's.
Lindsy Davis Majors addressed the accusations so she ends up with a 1-in cut behind her ear Elation yes ma'am fractured finger yeah how did those injuries come about I I wish to God I knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't I have no.
Question Marvel owned by ABC parent company Disney dropped Majors after the verdict he's due to be sentenced next month Hollywood's biggest stars were out in full force last night for the first major award show of the runup to the Oscars the 2024 Golden Globe ceremony was marked by a few surprises and some history making moments as well.
Hollywood is back overnight the Golden Globes ushering in the first award season since the actors and writer strikes hosted by comedian Joe Koy succession taking home four Globes including for drama TV show and the bear taking home three statues winning in the comedy category Lily Gladstone making history the first indigenous winner for.
Her portrayal of Molly and killers of the flower Moon ok I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers run them backwards to accomplish native languages on camera and Ali Wong and Steven young also celebrating historic.
Wins taking home the prize for best female and male actor in a limited series for their roles on beef becoming the first actors of Asian descent to win in those categories but the night's biggest winner was for the Blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer taking home five Awards including best drama movie best director and two awards for best actor.
And supporting actor for Killian Murphy and Robert Downey junr they weren't kidding this is a really intimidating room in the comedy or musical category poor things beat out Barbie for the globe the dark comedy adventure Stars Emma Stone who also won the award for best female actor I love getting to say this dialogue and I love getting to.
Horrify you with my Australian accent you're the best tiny you know yeah was working on that all the time and Taylor Swift making an appearance nominated in the new cinematic and box office achievement category for the ays tour concert film on the red carpet Margot Robbie once again Dawning an iconic Barbie dress her outfit inspired by the.
Signature 1977 Superstar doll she looked fantastic by the way Barbie went into the night with the most nominations of any film it had nine but it ended up taking home just two trophies coming up the possible end of an era in the NFL plus the pilot who went above and beyond to keep his plane on.
Time Brook Shields the most photographed woman in the world a sexualized child model what happened to her isn't really about her it's just about women I let myself be vulnerable and this is the first time I've ever spoken about what happened I thought my one no should have been enough you know when someone like Brook Shields talks.
About it it makes a difference I'm amazed that I survived any of it pretty baby Brook Shields tonight on ABC 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.
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Monterey Park mass shooting I'm Juju Chang wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live time to check the pulse and we begin with the NFL playoffs ready for takeoff are you ready for some football we was settled last night when the bills scored 14 points in the fourth quarter.
To beat the Dolphins and win their division the playoffs start Saturday with the Browns facing the Texas then there's this Patriots coach Bill bich calls his team's 4 and 13 season disappointing I think Patriots fans would agree he will meet with Team ownership about his future Say It Ain't So and tonight college football's.
National championship game takes Center Stage the Michigan Wolverines facing the Washington Huskies in Houston all the action will be on ESPN it starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern a travel headache for passengers at Denver International Airport hundreds of flights were delayed yesterday dozens were canceled after the baggage handling system suffered a.
Breakdown passengers had to wait in line for hours to check their bags but some of them decided to make the best of it making my way downtown mechanical malth which was actually fixed early yesterday but it took a while for the backlog to ease and finally let's hear it for one Airline employee he's not a.
Baggage handler usually he's an American Airlines pilot who was seen loading bags onto his plane at Key West Airport because the ground crew was under Staff first thing in the morning there's a lot going on everybody in that home is okay to catch you up with what happened overnight we are here at Fashion's.
Biggest night out what's happening today YouTube has unveiled a new set of policies what people are talking about the new ad campaign fast straightforward with some fun in between a real life Barbie Dream House a name change for the wiener mobile first thing in the morning America this morning America's number one early morning news on ABC News.
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You hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show checking more top stories now Federal investigators say the door plug that fell off of an Alaska airplane has.
Been found it fell into an Oregon school teacher backyard after blowing off the plane last Friday they also said the plane's cockpit voice recorder will offer no information because it was recorded over Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal that could avert a government shutdown they agreed to set.
Spending levels at nearly 1.6 trillion but house Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to have a tough time selling the package to fellow Republicans President Biden is said to be exasperated after being kept in the dark for 3 Days about defense secretary Lloyd Austin's Hospital the Pentagon says Austin was admitted to intensive care at.
Walter Reed Medical Center with severe pain on New Year's Day today's weather Heavy Rain from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast where tornadoes are possible heavy snow for the plains in Midwest rain and snow in the Northwest and finally the labber dooodle gaining Fame for his high priced diet our Danny new has the.
Details good boy Cecil is a good boy just with a pallet that is suddenly expensive look look at him he wouldn't possibly eat all of your cash Carrie and Clayton had just taken out $4,000 to pay for a new fence around their Pittsburgh home when Cecil saw it on the counter and thought M forefathers how do you give that information to your.
Wife I I basically just yelled like he ate the money Skyler where is the money yes this golden doodle consumed 4 Gs with crumbs everywhere and of course first things first they called the fet who thankfully said that since he's a pretty big dog as long as he's acting normal going to the bathroom eating it's fine so let's get back to that part.
About the bathroom because once Carrie and Clayton called the bank they learned that as long as they could reassemble a bill more than 50% and enough to read the serial number it could be exchanged for replacement which meant whenever Clayton went I went to go check it out I'm like yep those are those are $100 bills in.
Theirs that's another 50 bucks you got to give them credit carry and clay spent the next few days withdrawing cash from their dog TM cleaning it vigorously and then scrambling to somehow reconstruct it in a way that doesn't dishonor the man who discovered electricity that the most expensive puzzle we've ever yeah there's still a lot of pieces left but.
Guess what they may be forever traumatized but Carrie and Clayton were able to exchange more than 3500 of the original 4K good boy and as you probably know Cecil is now a world famous dog but no amount of currency consumption could ever change the fact that Cecil is the bestest pal he's so proud he's a great.
Dog up next Carrie and Clayton say they are considering writing a children's book about Cecil so families can learn from this experience guys it was also a costly cleanup yes 3500 not bad right now on America this morning breaking overnight the missing piece of a commercial plane found in a man's.
Backyard days after it flew off midair new video from inside the plane showing the gaping hole in the fuselage leading to the Nationwide grounding of certain Boeing planes a new cross country storm on the Move bringing feet of snow and blizzard conditions before taking aim at the Northeast where people are still digging out from this weekend storm.
We're tracking it all new Fallout at the Pentagon after failing to disclose the secretary of defense was hospitalized even President Joe Biden kept in the dark for days the new timeline of secretary Austin's illness including his time in the ICU plus the new police investigation involving congresswoman Lauren bobbert.
And her ex-husband the historic launch overnight three we have ignition and liftoff for the first time in 50 years a rocket is launched to the Moon from American soil what's on board and a history making night in Hollywood and the Golden Globe goes to the Golden Gloves returning for the first time since the actors and writers.
Strikes the big Winners plus the snubs and surprises it's Monday January 8th from ABC news in New York this is America this morning good morning everyone I'm Andrew diber and I'm ran and Ally good morning to you we begin with the critical Discovery in the investigation of that nearly.
Catastrophic Alaska Air incident the plane's a so-called door plan which fell off last Friday after takeoff from Portland Oregon has been located but the search for answers is just getting started ABC's Allison kic leads us off I'm excited to announce that we found the door plug the national Transportation safety board announcing a.
School teacher in Portland Oregon found the door plug of the Alaska airplane in his backyard we are really pleased uh that we uh that Bob found this we're going to go pick that up uh and make sure that we begin analyzing it investigators had been looking for the plug even asking the public for help after the park blew off the Boeing 737.
Max9 in midair on Friday leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage forcing an emergency landing investigators believe it holds clues of what caused the accident we are emergency we are depressurized but we do need to return back too we have 177 passengers investigators say the door plug depressurized just after the plane took.
Off with more than 100 passengers and crew on board it was described as chaos and it was very violent uh when the uh rapid decompression in the door uh was expelled out of the plane also recovered two passenger cell phones that fell out of the plane I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that uh had apparently Fallen 16,000 feet so I.
Opened it up and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282 NTSB chair Jennifer homy says investigators are documenting the damage including the door plug frame before sending parts to a lab the NTSB also addressing concerns of three previous pressurization alerts in the plane in the months before the.
Accident Alaska Airlines had restricted the plane from flying long distance overwater certainly a concern uh and it's one that we want to dig into investigators were able to find the cockpit voice recorder from the plane but the device was recorded over leaving them with none of the data to use in their investigation the FAA has.
Temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft affecting about 171 planes worldwide Andrew renon Allison thank you our other big story of the morning is the winter weather causing problems for millions of people a new storm is bringing heavy snow and rain across the country that follows heavy snow in the Northeast over the.
Weekend this morning millions of people around the country are digging out as another storm sweeps from coast to coast got kind of clobbered the Northeast slammed over the weekend heavy snow and high winds creating hazardous conditions on major highways I90 outside Boston was littered with jack knife trucks and cars spun off the road you okay some parts of.
New England blanketed in a foot or more of snow Boston seeing its first major snowfall in 2 years now the shift becomes the scramble of sand and salt trucks black ice potentially in the morning as commuters get back to work kids get back to school and now a second storm strengthening in the west is.
Expected to hit much of the country this week snow is piling up from Washington to Arizona parts of California and Utah seeing more than a foot in Arizona Flag Staff seeing 8 in and Prescot getting hit with more than three in in Phoenix temperatures were expected to hit freezing overnight for the first time in more than 5 years now that storm is.
Pushing East with blizzard conditions in Colorado and a snowy morning commute in Denver and in the South tonight there is a high risk of flash flooding as heavy rain and wind are expected large hail and even a chance of tornadoes could hit late into the night and into Tuesday from Houston to Tallahassee oh my God this after a tornado barreled through.
Fort Lauderdale on Saturday video shows it ripping through a Transformer officials say it was on the ground for a mile and half before moving offshore no injuries were reported the Storm coming out of the Plains is expected to hit the Northeast tomorrow we'll have more of the forecast in just a few minutes Secretary of State Anthony blinken's.
High stakes trip to the Middle East continues today blinkin visits the UAE and Saudi Arabia as he tries to prevent the Israeli Hamas conflict from spreading yesterday in Cutter the secretary is criticizing some Israeli lawmakers for working against a two-state solution in Gaza we reject the statements by some Israeli ministers and.
Lawmakers calling for a resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza these statements are irresponsible they're inflammatory and they only make it harder to secure a future of Palestinian lead Gaza at a joint news conference this morning blinkin and Cutter's prime minister expressed their commitment to securing their release of.
Hostages in Gaza cutter based Al jazer media is accusing Israel of targeting two Palestinian journalists who were killed in an air strike in Gaza one of the victims is the son of an aler reporter the fourth member of his family to die since the fighting began Israel is denying targeting journalists now to.
Defense secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stays kept away from the White House and the public for days now Republicans are demanding answers ABC's M win joins us live from Washington good morning M good morning Andrew it's an unsettling situation where sources say White House AIDS are frustrated with the lack of information publicly the White.
House is backing Austin but the incident is giving fresh ammo to Republicans this morning new details in the alarmingly quiet hospitalizations of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin a pentagon official telling ABC News the 70-year-old fourstar General had what was described as a minor elective procedure on December 22nd at Walter.
Reed National military Medical Center before returning home the next day the White House Top Pentagon official offals and at least the Secretary of State were all unaware of the surgery until after the fact I wasn't aware of his U medical issue uh in fact I I talked to to Lloyd last weekend what I can say is this it has been it remains one of the great.
Privileges of my career over 30 years now working in in government uh to start alongside L Austin about a week after that surgery Austin was admitted to the ICU on New Year's Day After experiencing severe pain still it was not until 3 days later on Thursday that officials say the White House was informed Sunday the Pentagon.
Saying for privacy reasons were not able to provide additional information but some argue that level of privacy is not afforded to Cabinet secretaries who are high up in the presidential line of succession even Congress was blindsighted by the Revelation it's pretty shocking on this cuz when you're the Secretary of Defense uh you need to.
Make everyone aware that you're actually going me out of pocket the White House is publicly standing by Austin saying President Joe Biden and Austin spoke on the phone Saturday and that the conversation was warm but a Us official telling ABC News White House AIDS are angered by the lack of timely notification the incident coming amid a.
Heated election with former president Trump calling on Austin to be fired immediately for improper professional conduct the Pentagon says Austin is recovering well and had resumed duties Friday Austin himself now saying he could have done a better job informing the public the question remains whether anyone will be held accountable Andrew.
All right M thank you now to exclusive new details from the special council's investigation into what's described as former president Trump's hours of inaction during the January 6th attack sources tell ABC News former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan scavino told Jack Smith's team that Trump was just not interested in doing more to stopped.
The violence as it escalated scavino one of Trump's most trusted advisers allegedly said Trump's demeanor was very unsettling an investigation is under away in Colorado following reports that Republican congresswoman Lauren bobbert got into a physical fight with her ex-husband at a restaurant a source tells The Daily Beast that Jason bobert.
Called police claiming he was the victim of domestic violence police confirmed the investigation last night a statement from Lauren bobert's campaign said she did not punch her ex in the face and no one was arrested it is time now for a look at your morning weather weather good morning we're tracking.
Another winter storm that's set to bring several different elements including snow plus severe weather that severe weather starting up Monday along the Gulf Coast running through Monday night and actually even into Tuesday meanwhile we've got snowfall across the plains piling up to more than 6 in in some locations in the Northeast we'll get.
More than one to three in a few spots but will also have flooding rain Potential from Mackie weather I'm Meteorologist Melissa constanzer coming up the major radio company filing for bankruptcy also ahead the race to Rescue five people trapped in a cave for days the latest from the scene and for the first time in 50 years.
An American spacecraft is headed to the Moon why this mission is personal for some families 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 Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC.
News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike in Dena Ukraine reporting from the earthquake in Turkey en rolling Fort 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 beir from the FBI reporting from the nurses on the picket line here at 10 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 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 your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars.
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Just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand these were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming.
On Hulu from America's number one news comes the all new ABC News app if you love being in the no you're going to love this experience the allnew ABC News app download it now well Rescuers hope to reach five people who are trapped in a Slovenian cave today the group became stuck Saturday after heavy rains caused flooding inside of that cave they are.
More than a mile from the entrance but divers were able to take them some food and clothing officials are waiting for the water levels there to fall breaking overnight a historic mission to space launching from Florida if all goes well a Lander is expected on the moon next month ABC's Derrik Dennis reports and liftoff of the first United launch.
Alliance Vulcan rocket liftoff some 50 years after the first American Mission To The Moon A New American rocket is on its own giant leap for mankind launching overnight from Cape Canaveral marking the first lunar launch from the US since NASA's final Apollo mission the brand new rocket the Vulcan is made by the private space company United.
Launch Alliance hoping to jump into the commercial space tourism industry if all goes according to plan a small lunar Landing will touch down on the moon on February 23rd they ask us as a company to buy a launch vehicle um and to build a Lander that can deliver their payloads in this case science payloads to the surface of the Moon Rod Roddenberry son.
Of Star Trek Jean Roddenberry paying special attention to the launch on board several experiments and the remains of 70 people including Roddenberry and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols he and the first lady of Star Trek along with a number of the other cast members from Star Trek along with countless other prominent wonderful people their ashes.
And their DNA are going to join together and be launched out humanity is going where no one has gone before astrobotics the company behind the Lander warns the mission is still risky it is a quar million miles away it is in the vacuum of space um you are controlling a vehicle that uh you can't use a joystick with from here on Earth and 2024 could.
Be the year of the lunar lander with five us spacecraft and at least one Japanese Lander heading to the Moon this year with the goals of lowering the cost of moon missions and working towards getting American tourists to the Moon Andrew ranan thank you for that reporting Derek Dennis radio and podcast giant Odyssey has filed for bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 papers say the company has a debt load of nearly $2 billion a sharp Drop In radio advertising revenue is being blamed for the shortfall Odyssey operates more than 200 US radio stations coming up next an exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors after a jury found the actor guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend also ahead the big Winners.
And surprises from last night's Golden Globes 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 Leon Maine the scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere from the scene of that deadly missile strike.
In Dena Ukraine reporting for the earthquake in Turkey en rolling Fort This Tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii from Charleston South Carolina on the 2024 can Trail in Iceland let's go traveling with the president in Mexico City wherever the story from the front lines.
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Would you do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my Jonathan major is speaking publicly for the first time since his domestic violence trial today marks three weeks since the actor was convicted of Reckless assault a misdemeanor and.
Harassment in an incident with his former girlfriend last March speaking exclusively with ABC's lindsy Davis Majors address the accusations so she ends up with a one- in Cut behind her ear Elation yes ma'am fractured finger yeah how did those injuries come about I I wish the god I knew.
That would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't I have no question Marvel owned by ABC parent company Disney dropped Majors after the verdict he's due to be sentenced next month Hollywood's biggest stars were out in full force last night for the first.
Major award show of the runup to the Oscars the 2024 Golden Globe ceremony was marked by a few surprises and some history making moments as well Hollywood is back overnight the Golden Globes ushering in the first award season since the actors and writer strikes hosted by comedian Joe Koy succession taking home four Globes.
Including for drama TV show and the bear taking home three statues winning in the comedy category Lily Gladstone making history the first indigenous winner for her portrayal of Molly and killers of the flower Moon ok I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language Native actors used to speak their lines in.
English and then the sound mixers run them backwards to accomplish native languages on camera and Ali Wong and Steven young also celebrating historic wins taking home the prize for best female and male actor in a limited series for their roles on beef becoming the first actors of Asian descent to win in those categories but the night's.
Biggest winner was for the Blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer taking home five Awards including best drama movie best director and two awards for best actor and supporting actor for Killian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr they weren't kidding this is a really intimidating room in the comedy or musical category poor things beat out Barbie for the.
Globe the dark comedy adventure Stars Emma Stone who also won the award for best female actor I love getting to say this dialogue and I love getting to horrify you with my Australian accent he the best tiny you know was working on that all the time and Taylor Swift making an appearance nominated in the new cinematic and box office achievement.
Category for the ays tour concert film on the red carpet Margot Robbie once again Dawning an iconic Barbie dress her outfit inspired by the signature 1977 Superstar doll she looked fantastic by the way Barbie went into the night with the most nominations of any film it had nine but it ended up end up taking home just two trophies coming up the.
Possible end of an era in the NFL plus the pilot who went above and beyond to keep his plane on time all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I H you so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would.
You do hey I guess I just found out the what would you do marathon 2 to 6 Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show 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 mure America's number one most watched newscast across all of.
Television from America's number one news comes the all new ABC News app breaking news Incredible video faster smarter and customizable to your interests if you love being in the no you're going to love this experience the allnew ABC News app download it now 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 to your health your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food GMA 3 what you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afterno for everything you need to know I love that BR Shields the most photographed woman in the world a.
Sexualized child model exploitation what happened to her isn't really about her it's just about women I'm amazed that I survived any of it Freddy baby Brook Shields 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.
Streaming free on ABC News live reporting on the flooded streets of Treasure Island I'm Ginger Z wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming AB News live time to check the pulse so we begin with the NFL playoffs ready for take off are you ready for some football we was.
Settled last night when the bills scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to beat the Dolphins and win their division the playoffs start Saturday with the Browns facing the Texans then there's this Patriots coach Bill bich calls his teams 4 and 13 season disappointing I think Patriots fans would agree he will meet with Team ownership about his future Say.
It Ain't So and tonight college football's national championship game takes Center Stage the Michigan Wolverines facing the Washington Husky in Houston all the action will be on ESPN it starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern a travel headache for passengers at Denver International Airport hundreds of flights were delayed yesterday dozens.
Were canceled after the baggage handling system suffered a breakdown passengers had to wait in line for hours to check their bags but some of them decided to make the best of it makeing a way downtown mechanical malfunction was actually fixed early yesterday but it took a while for the.
Backlog to ease and finally let's hear it for one Airline employee he's not a baggage handler usually he's an American Airlines pilot who was seen loading bags onto his plane at Key West Airport because the ground crew was under staff this is ABC News live the crush of families here in Poland at Refugee centers in Putin Russia on the ground in.
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Show we really good I was terrified it was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand these were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy.
Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu 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 heal your money breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends and of course good food GMA 3 what you need to know a third.
Hour of GMA in the afternoon so join us afterno for everything you need to know I love that check in more top stories now Federal investigators say the door plug that fell off of an Alaska airplane has has been found it fell into an Oregon school teachers backyard after blowing.
Off the plane last Friday they also said the plane's cockpit voice recorder will offer no information because it was recorded over Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal that could avert a government shutdown they agreed to set spending levels at nearly $1.6 trillion but house Speaker Mike Johnson is.
Expected to have a tough time selling the package to fellow Republicans President Biden is said to be exasperated after being kept in the dark for 3 days about defense secretary Lloyd Austin's Hospital State the Pentagon says Austin was admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed Medical Center with severe pain on New Year's Day today's.
Weather Heavy Rain from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast where tornadoes are possible heavy snow for the plains in Midwest rain and snow in the Northwest and finally the lab dooodle gaining Fame for his high-priced diet our Danny new has the details good boy Cecil is a good boy just with a pal that is suddenly.
Expensive look at him he wouldn't possibly eat all of your cash Carrie and Clayton had just taken out $4,000 to pay for a new fence around their Pittsburgh home when Cecil saw it on the counter and thought M forefathers how do you give that information to your wife I I basically just yelled like he ate the money Skyler where.
Isy yes this golden doodle consumed 4 Gs with crumbs everywhere and of course first things first they called the vet who thankfully said that since he's a pretty big dog as long as he's acting normal going to the bathroom eating it's fine so let's get back to that part about the bathroom because once Carrie and Clayton.
Called the bank they learned that as long as they could reassemble a bill more than 50% and enough to read the serial number it could be exchanged for replacement which meant whenever Clayton went and I went to go check it out I'm like yep those are those are $100 bills in theirs that's another 50 bucks you got to give them credit Carrie and.
Clayon spent the next few days withdrawing cash from their dog TM cleaning it vigorously and then scrambling to somehow reconstruct it in a way that doesn't dishonor the man who discovered electricity that the most expensive puzle we've ever yeah there's still a lot of pieces left but guess what they may be forever traumatized but.
Carrie and Clayton were able to exchange more than 3500 of the original 4K good boy and as you probably know Cecil is now a world famous dog but no amount of currency consumption could ever change the fact that Cecil is the bestest pal he's so proud he's a great dog up next Carrie and Clayton say they.
Are considering writing a children's book about Cecil so families can learn from this experience guys it was also a costly cleanup yes 3500 not not bad it's Monday January 8th when they paid for window seats this is not what they.
Were thinking of we start here and tore off her son shirt a hole opens up on the side of a plane 16,000 ft in the air it seemed like something rushed into the cabin and then rushed out now officials have grounded some aircraft in search of answers the def secretary was hospitalized but no one told the president President Biden is.
Exasperated by this situation what it means for our military and for the White House and he's just trying to keep it to one war in the mid East this is a conflict that could easily metastasize Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is telling other countries keep your militants in check from ABC News this is start here.
I'm brde milky you know the emergency instructions on a plane there's always the part where they tell you if the cabin suddenly loses pressure your oxygen masks will drop put on your own before assisting those next to you well that whole demonstration looks very calm because guess what the.
Cabin hasn't lost pressure right then well when an aircraft in real life loses cabin pressure it means that seal between the inside and outside has snapped yes we are emergency we are depressurized and in the case of an Alaska Airlines flight this weekend it meant that a piece of the wall separating passengers from sky burst.
Open leaving a hole in the side of their plane it seemed like something rushed into the cabin and then rushed out before the flight attendants even said anything we were all grabbing the oxygen Mass when it landed we got our first look at the damage to this aircraft and it was shocking because from the outside it looks like an aircraft door came open.
Like the emergency exit or something from the inside you can see from from these photos this is not an emergency exit row but rather just a piece of the wall that had just popped off as of this morning entire fleets of aircraft are grounded as officials examine them let's go straight to ABC Sam Sweeney who covers Transportation Sam this was.
Absolutely shocking can you just clarify like what we're talking about it's a door it's a wall what happened Brad on this particular airplane there was a space in the fuselage for an emergency exit door if an airline needs it when you have a lowcost carer for example in Europe let's use Ryan Air if they were flying on this plane and they have more.
Than 200 people on the plane they need more emergency exits and Boeing when they're building this plane they allow that option Alaska said we're not going to put that many people on our plane we have uh coach cabin and a first class cabin so we're going to have fewer people we don't need as many emergency exits so you can just seal it up with a.
Plug and that's what came loose somehow on this plane and blew out so the door is it's it's it's like a door was there but it's just serves as a piece of the wall on the plane on this flight exactly if you were to look at the plane from the outside you would see a line that appears to be where a door could go an emergency exit door that's that's much.
Smaller than a regular door but from the inside of the plane if you were sitting there it would look like you were just in a regular Window Seat it was a few minutes after takeoff Friday night when this plane was leaving Portland it was headed to onterio California they were taking off 16,000 ft up I didn't even know we took off.
Honestly and then yeah I'm sleeping and I just feel the plane Drop all of a sudden this just blast happens and this plug blows away from the plane there was a a really loud pop or a loud bang and like a whoo of air and the oxygen masks came down at the same exact time did somebody fall out of the plane you know what what is happening what.
What did we hit something did something hit us we just just had no idea and so it was a lot of confusion meantime up in the flight deck the pilots are trying to figure out what happened hereas 122 emergency aircraft now leveling 12, you can hear on the emergenc or on the air traffic control recordings them telling we are.
Descending back towards 10,000 ft that's where oxygen becomes breathable again um and they can figure out what happened wait so amid all that no one gets seriously hurt Sam it's unbelievable uh what happened here this really was The Perfect Storm a side of the airplane blows off nobody's hurt no one was seated in 26a and B where it blew off.
The two seats next to it were empty had someone been sitting there it would have been a much different situation on 26a and 25A the headrests are gone if you look at the pictures the cushions on the seat were blown off and tore off her son shirt passengers describe a t-shirt being sucked off a child and out the window you'll also notice there weren't.
A lot of cell phone videos there was some but not a lot because a lot of people lost their cell phones when the cabin depressurizes anything that's not tied down is sucked out that brings me to my next point they were at 16,000 ft just a few minutes after takeoff which means everybody was still buckled in had this been at the cruise level when the.
Flight attendants were out giving food or drinks people were walking to the restrooms they would have been sucked out it would have been a much worse situation and Sam just so like because I'm not like I don't know anything about aeroscience or anything so you literally would get sucked out of the play That's How Pressure Works it's it's more.
Pressure inside than outside so you things want to get out of the plane think about when you open up a soda cam before you open it it's it's you know rock solid but then once you open it you can kind of crush the cam because the pressure has equalized and it's only a quick second when that release happens so once the immediate release happens.
The plane quickly pressurizes to what's outside so anything that wasn't tied down and that specific moment is gone if you are in fact near that doorway or near that hole that is absolutely unbelievable and so I can't help but notice Sam this was a Boeing Max plane right this is the same type of airliner that was grounded worldwide after all.
Those crashes years ago the plane was redesigned before it was certified to fly again but I mean does this all raise new questions about safety now look the max name will always ring a bell when it comes to safety issues because of those two planes that went down and the worldwide grounding you know for for many many months until they could figure.
What happened here this is a totally separate issue but you can bet that these investigators on from the NTSB the FAA the airline and Boeing are looking to figure out what happened here we are the global gold standard for safety around the world but we have to maintain that standard was this a individual event on this this particular.
Airplane where you know someone who was installing this part when it came down from the factory messed up somewhere or is this some sort of structural problem that's on a number of airplanes that's what they need to figure out and that's why all of these planes are grounded the 737 Max 9 version uh is is the one that is affected by this and there's about.
170 of them worldwide um that are affected by this that have have been grounded and does that mean that does that affect air travel over the next several days or weeks or anything Sam it is here in the United States United Airlines and Alaska are the two carriers that fly the max 9 planes so Southwest doesn't American doesn't Delta does not.
Fly it but United they're already dealing with a slew of cancellations along with Alaska of course what they're trying to do is move planes around uh you know for example if United has 15 flights a day from New York to Chicago well maybe they can reduce that to three take three of those planes and place them in other parts of the system but.
Regard regardless they don't have enough planes um and some flights are going to be cancelled until they can get them back up into the air but before they do that they need to figure out if this is affecting just one plane or all of the fleet right kind of a secondary concern when it comes to the safety issues here which like you said both the government.
And the plane maker Boeing are going to be investigating in the days and weeks to come all right Sam Sweeney from our transportation unit thank you so much thanks for having me next up on start here would you want your boss to know you were in the Hospital okay what if your boss was the president we're back in a.
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Live when someone on the start here team is out sick it affects everyone right so you try to do your best to communicate when you're going to be out and this this is just a podcast it's not the military in the military you think there would be strict protocols in place to make sure commanders know who's available and who's not National.
Security could depend on this well if the man who runs the Pentagon suddenly got sick and had to be hospitalized you'd think his boss would get a call because his boss is the commanderin-chief but somehow that didn't seem to happen recently a bizarre story unfolding in Washington this weekend ABC's Louis Martinez covers the.
Pentagon Louie apparently like last week defense secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized and no one noticed what is going on here that's right Brad Not only was he hospitalized he was in intensive care for part of his hospitalization and nobody knew about it nobody at the White House was told until Thursday night and this from when the secretary of defense.
Was hospitalized on uh Monday night New Year's Day so for three whole days the White House had no inkling that anything was going wrong with the Secretary of Defense or that he had serious health complications that necessitated him going into intensive care so you've got a ton of questions being raised about why how this could happen and why this.
Happened because essentially um all we know is that the Secretary of Defense went in for a minor elective surgery on December 22nd he was released from Walter Reed National military Medical Hospital the following day and then about a week later on the night of January 1st he was suffering severe pain that's what we're hearing from the.
Pentagon that severe pain led him to be transported back to Walter Reid and then he's placed in ICU so he was kept there in ICU uh after his immediate needs were met uh essentially for space issues and for privacy but I mean lots of questions being raised on Capitol Hill lots of questions being raised among members of the press Senator Tom Cotton speaking.
Out against the lack of transparency saying there should be quote consequences for this shocking breakdown and essentially I think by everybody in the United States who's aware of this wondering wait a minute a senior mil military leader the top defense official in the United States is incapacitated somehow his number two official is kept.
Appraised and make some routine decisions but nobody else in the US government has even made aware of this and let's make one more point that when in the Pentagon did make it public it was at 5 o'clock on a Friday afternoon and a hospitalization that should that Americans should have been made aware of was Kept Secret from them and and and.
Correct me if I'm wrong but like when you said he went in for the initial thing we still don't even know what he was going in for it was a routine medical procedure that's all we've learned so I mean how does this all happen where people just don't know that this you know our guy in charge of the Pentagon is that a commission there are.
A lot of theories about what may have happened I think one of the issues is we know that secretary Lloyd Austin is an intensely private individual um he's very lowkey when it comes uh to generating interest in what it is that he does because he was on vacation when he had this medical procedure done on him um and so yeah that I think he's.
Entitled to his right of privacy then when he goes back into the hospital for severe pain the treatment of severe pain I think at that point maybe his staff might have wanted to notify other individuals what we do know is that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was notified the following day on the Tuesday but beyond him and Beyond the.
Deputy secretary of defense it appears that nobody else in the administration was told about it I'm very much looking forward to seeing him fully recovered and um working side by side so it sounds like staff may have failed him it may have been that like like failed him as in thinking like oh no one else needs to know this we told like the other guys.
That need to know yeah or maybe it was that the staff because they maybe he was so incapacitated that he couldn't respond but I think at that point I mean that's just passing the buck because if you're a staffer a key staffer I think at that point you do want to notify somebody that hey something very serious is going on with the secretary defense.
Well and so what like it's a bad look certainly right and so you can imagine it it creates a sense of dis function it creates you know a sense that there's a lack of communication but practically are there implications here whether military implications or legal implications I mean what happens now well there are legitimate concerns about.
Whether any past protocols have been violated about notifying Congress about notifying the White House that a senior Administration official is may have been incapacitated or was experiencing serious medical treatment Austin issuing a statement this weekend writing I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately.
Informed but one of the things that the Pentagon has made sure to let us know is that the deputy secretary of defense Kathleen Hicks did assume some of the authorities that he had automatically um and but that she was just conducting routine business but remember during that same week that he was in the hospital we had a major US retaliatory.
Air strike inside Baghdad that has had major uh geopolitical implications what the pagon told us is that that decision that Authority that Austin gave for that air strike and the President also gave happened before his hospitalization but again how are we supposed to know that because he's in the hospital and the staff uh didn't let.
Anybody know exactly what was going on what's the reaction from his boss because you've been doing reporting trying to figure out like what President Biden's reaction was to all this yes we are told from a Us official that President Biden is exasperated by this situation um that he wants to get down to the bottom of what happened we.
Understand that a review is going to be conducted and uh it's very uh likely that some people could find themselves in trouble I think that has to play itself out first um but when you have the president of the United States being kept in the dark until maybe 24 hours before the American public learns of.
Something and three days after your defense secretary's hospitalized I think that's going to raise serious questions and that is one of the reasons I think justifies why President Biden is exasperated and we asked the White House for an official comment in addition to that we were told quote the president has full.
Confidence in Secretary Austin we'll see about that I guess Louis Martinez covering the Pentagon thank you thanks Brad at the heart of so much of the violence in the Middle East right now it's kind of a philosophical question when someone else attacks you in your country what is the appropriate response lots of countries would say you got to.
Do something so when Hamas carried out its vicious Terr attack in southern Israel on October 7th it knew it would see retaliation when Israel began bombarding Palestinian neighborhoods various factions around the region launched new attacks Yemen's houthi Rebels say they've seized an Israeli linked cargo ship in the Red Sea the.
Iranian back groups say that any Israel linked vessel is a legitimate Target given the and now you got strikes going across the border between Israel and Lebanon Israel is upping the rhetoric against Hezbollah as the deadly exchanges of fire intensifies along the border this weekend Secretary of State Anthony.
Blink was in the mid East on a difficult mission to convince countries it's not in their best interest to respond to every attack and to somehow keep this war from spiraling further and further abroad this is a conflict that could easily plasticize causing even more insecurity and even more suffering ABC Shannon Crawford covers the state.
Department Shannon first of all just where is blinkin going on this trip because it's quite a list well where isn't he going he's making stops many of them are in the Arab world where he's looking to build support for what he calls the day after what's going to happen to Gaza when the bombardment finally ends of course blinkin also.
Making a crucial stop in Israel and the West Bank as he tries to figure out how to find an offramp for the Israeli Hamas War right and so I what is the message then when you're looking at Jordan and turkey and these countries in the region that clearly have a vested interest do you tell them just to stand stand on the sidelines and watch it all play out I.
Mean what is the message from blink as some of these you know Arab world countries well what he's really looking to do is for these countries that have been on the sideline of this conflict but are very sympathetic to the Palestinians what he's doing is telling them to use any leverage they have over these belligerent factions that have.
Been playing so far a pretty small part in the conflict but they're threatening to really step it up a notch and I think we also share our commitment to use the influence the relationships the ties that we have with different parties in the region to try to avoid escalation and to deter new fronts from opening now Brad I think you mentioned the huies.
Firing into the Red Sea but there's also Hezbollah and like Hamas Hezbollah is an Iranian back terror group its Fighters have been exchanging hits with the Israeli military on the country's border with Lebanon for months now but in recent days Hezbollah has been intensifying the fighting there and there's threats that they could really.
Even escalate further okay so that makes sense the trip to Israel makes sense the trip to Cutter makes sense especially because cter has been playing such a key role in all these negotiations with hostage handovers and and ceasefires the West Bank you mentioned so let's just remember for people who might not know the region as well Gaza is Palestinian.
Territory on one side of Israel super small West Bank the other Palestinian territory much larger but it's on the other side of Israel right so I mean why is blinkin going there and what's he trying to accomplish sure well every time Secretary Lincoln stops in Israel of course he can't go into Gaza right now which just security conditions won't.
Allow for that but he goes to the West Bank and the big reason for that is because the Palestinian Authority controls the West Bank and the US sees that group as being the best suited to govern Gaza after the war ends oh because like what almost 20 years ago Hamas was elected right before they took the whole place over but Israel is now.
Like no like Hamas is not leading this place anymore it's G to be someone else right the US and Israel are of one mind Hamas cannot be in charge of Gaza in the future it cannot be in a place where they can launch what we saw in October 7th ever again is why ending the conflict and.
Finding as we just discussed a genuinely durable lasting peace but the problem there is that there really aren't any ideal options for someone who can take over in Gaza and also have the support of the Palestinian people now when we look at the Palestinian Authority really they're not wildly popular in the West Bank uh they've been plagued by.
Corruption uh when it comes to Palestinian politics they're really leaders from a different generation but what secretary blink's trying to do is encourage them to get their act together so hopefully when this war does finally come to a close they'll be in a place where they can step in and at least help out during an intermediary period where.
Elections can be planned in Gaza right really interesting and of course like the US and Israel can want whoever they want to lead an area but like you can't just unilaterally install the new government so it's kind of about like getting everyone on the same page here big job for Anthony blinkin this week uh Shannon Crawford covering State.
Department thank you so much thank you Brad okay one more quick break when we come back it's the People's Park but which people one last thing is now all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you H you so what will you be watching.
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People's Park in Berkeley California was Ground Zero for activists it served as a beacon of of free speech with a microphone open to anyone and everyone who wanted to speak it was frequented by hippies by War protesters the Black Panther Party circulated articles about this Park's importance this weekend it looked like little more than a plot of.
Dirt where grass and signs had once stood demolition crews had sprouted up instead see this isn't actually a traditional public park it's owned by the University of California Berkeley and the college now says it wants to build housing here but this is ignited protest reminiscent of half a century ago see back in the 1960s this lot was.
Derel it was a giant mud patch home to abandoned cars until local volunteers decided to turn it into a park forget that it's owned by somebody else they said this space will stand for power to the people well right when they had finally brought in trees and flowers and saw Revitalize the neighborhood the.
University said actually we are ready to build here now you need to leave at one point there were violent clashes between police and thousands of protesters who tried to tear down chainlink fences that had gone up overnight the National Guard was called in this latest trouble at Berkeley may be over for a while at least until the.
Rebels can find a new symbol but in an area where feelings have been polarized to extremes tension remains and the troops are still in time well cut to last week this place had remained a park for the last 5 decades when police conducted an overnight raid police in full tactical gear arrived to close off streets and remove the remaining people.
Living in the park protesters tried to stop them but police arrested seven of them Crews put up new barriers not chaining fences this time the site has been surrounded by shipping containers so you can't even see inside this weekend you could hear the sound of chainsaws taking down trees local Advocates were Furious we need place.
Where community members can find each other and learn about their history of Berkeley that's a human right knowing what your culture is having water having food this whole back and forth is fraught with irony because many of these activists have pressed for more affordable housing the original plans for the site would have built residences.
For lowincome and homeless people many of who camped out in people's Park before this local students say rent in town is too high well this site would be home to new dorm it raises the question of what's more important space with which to protest or getting the stuff you protested for but it's not just awkward for the demonstrators before the.
60s this spot used to be filled with houses until UC Berkeley had them torn down that's right the school wanted to build bigger structures back then so they used eminent domain to kick people off their land the money then dried up leaving just a vacant lot now they're kicking people off Parkland in the name of BU building houses we house currently.
About 20 to 23% of our undergraduate and graduate student population so that is the lowest in the UC system school officials say the new site will be much improved and that post construction 2third of it will still be public space it'll largely still serve as a park but many locals say that misses the whole point University board trustees they say.
Effectively gave up the rights to this place through years of neglect it's now the People's Park they say and its fate should remain in the hands of Neighbors there are still court rulings to be made on the construction itself but the demolition it's already happened it's done it's just a complete lightning rod there in the Bay Area more on all these.
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Langi wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live right now on America this morning breaking overnight the missing piece of a commercial plane found in a man's backyard days after it flew off midair new video from inside the plane showing the gaping hole in the fuselage leading.
To the Nationwide grounding of certain Boeing planes a new cross country storm on the Move bringing feet of snow and blizzard conditions before taking aim at the Northeast where people are still digging out from this weekend storm we're tracking it all new Fallout at the Pentagon after failing to disclose the secretary of.
Defense was hospitalized even President Joe Biden kept in the dark for days the new timeline of secretary Austin's illness including his time in the ICU plus the new police investigation involving congresswoman Lauren bobert and her ex-husband the historic launch overnight three we have ignition and lift off for the first time in 50 years.
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8th from ABC news in New York this is America this morning good morning everyone I'm Andrew Denberg and I'm ran and Ally good morning to you we begin with the critical discovery in the investigation of that nearly catastrophic Alaska Air incident the plane's so-called door plug which fell off last Friday after takeoff from.
Portland Oregon has been located but the search for answers is just getting started ABC's Allison kic leads us off I'm excited to announce that we found the door plug the national Transportation safety board announcing a school teacher in Portland Oregon found the door plug of the Alaska airplane in his backyard we are really pleased uh.
That we uh that Bob found this we're going to go pick that up uh and make sure that we begin analyzing it investigators had been looking for the plug even asking the public for help after the park blew off the Boeing 737 Max 9 in midair on Friday leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage forcing an emergency landing investigators believe.
It holds clues of what caused the accident we are emergency we are depressurized is we do need to return back to we have 177 passengers investigators say the door plug depressurized just after the plane took off with more than 100 passengers and crew on board it was described as chaos and it was very violent uh when the uh.
Rapid decompression in the door uh was expelled out of the plane also recovered two passenger cell phones that fell out of the plane I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that uh had apparently Fallen 16,000 ft so I opened it up and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282 NTSB chair Jennifer homy.
Says investigators are documenting the damage including the door plug frame before sending parts to a lab the NTSB also addressing concerns of three previous pressurization alerts in the plane in the months before the accident Alaska Airline had restricted the plane from flying long distance overwat certainly a concern uh and it's one that.
We want to dig into investigators were able to find the cockpit voice recorder from the plane but the device was recorded over leaving them with none of the data to use in their investigation the FAA has temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft affecting about 171 planes worldwide Andrew renon Alison.
Thank you our other big story of the morning is the winter weather causing problems for millions of people a new storm is bringing heavy snow and rain across the country that follows heavy snow in the Northeast over the weekend this morning millions of people around the country are digging out as another storm sweeps from coast to coast.
Got kind of clobbered the Northeast slammed over the weekend heavy snow and high winds creating hazardous conditions on major highways I90 outside Boston was littered with jack knife trucks and cars spun off the road you okay some parts of New England blanketed in a foot or more of snow Boston seeing its first major.
Snowfall in 2 years now the shift becomes the scramble of sand and salt trucks black ice potentially in the morning as commuters get back to work kids get back to school and now a second storm strengthening in the west is expected to hit much of the country this week snow is piling up from Washington to Arizona parts of California and Utah.
Seeing more than a foot in Arizona Flag Staff seeing 8 in and Prescot getting hit with more than three in Phoenix temperatures were expected to hit freezing overnight for the first time in more than 5 years now that storm is pushing East with blizzard conditions in Colorado and a snowy morning commute in Denver and in the South tonight there is.
A high risk of flash flooding as heavy rain and wind are expected large hail and even a chance of tornadoes could hit late into the night and into Tuesday from Houston to Tallahassee oh my God this after a tornado barreled through Fort Lauderdale on on Saturday video shows it ripping through a Transformer officials say it was on the ground for a.
Mile and a half before moving offshore no injuries were reported the Storm coming out of the Plains is expected to hit the Northeast tomorrow we'll have more of the forecast in just a few minutes Secretary of State Anthony blinken's high stakes trip to the Middle East continues today blinkin visits the UAE and Saudi Arabia as he tries to.
Prevent the Israeli Hamas conflict from spreading yesterday in Cutter the secretary is criticizing some Israeli lawmakers for working against a two-state solution in Gaza we reject the statements by some Israeli ministers and lawmakers calling for a resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza these statements are irresponsible.
They're inflammatory and they only make it harder to secure a future of Palestinian lead Gaza at a joint news conference this morning blinkin and Cutter's prime minister Express their commitment to securing their release of hostages in Gaza cutter B's Al jazer media is accusing Israel of targeting two.
Palestinian journalists who were killed in an air strike in Gaza one of the victims is the son of an Al jaer reporter the fourth member of his family to die since the fighting began Israel is denying targeting journalists now to defense secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stays kept away from the White House and the public for days now.
Republicans are demanding answers ABC's M win joins us live from Washington good morning M good morning Andrew it's an unsettling situation where sources say White House AIDS are frustrated with the lack of information publicly the White House is backing Austin but the incident is giving fresh ammo to Republicans this morning new details in.
The alarmingly quiet hospitalizations of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin a pentagon official telling ABC News the 70-year-old fourstar General had what was described as a minor elective procedure on December 22nd at Walter Reed National mil milary Medical Center before returning home the next day the White House Top Pentagon officials and.
At least the Secretary of State were all unaware of the surgery until after the fact I wasn't aware of his um U medical issue uh in fact I I talked to to Lloyd last weekend what I can say is this it has been it remains one of the great privileges of my career over 30 years now working in in government uh to serve along side.
Awesome about a week after that surgery Austin was admitted to the ICU on New Year's Day After experiencing severe pain still it was not until 3 days later on Thursday that officials say the White House was informed Sunday the Pentagon saying for privacy reasons were not able to provide additional information but some argue that level of privacy is not.
Afforded to Cabinet secretaries who are high up in the presidential line of succession even Congress was blindsided by the Revelation it's pretty shocking on this cuz when you're the Secretary of Defense uh you need to make everyone aware that you're actually going me out of pocket the White House is publicly standing by Austin saying President Joe.
Biden and Austin spoke on the phone Saturday and that the conversation was warm but a Us official telling ABC News White House AIDS are angered by the lack of timely notification the incident coming amid a heated election with former president Trump calling on Austin to be fired immediately for improper professional conduct the Pentagon says.
Austin is recovering well and had resumed duties Friday Austin himself now saying he could have done a better job informing the public the question remains whether anyone will be held accountable Andrew all right M thank you now to exclusive new details from the special council's investigation into what's described as former president.
Trump's hours of inaction during the January 6th attack sources tell ABC News former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan scavino told Jack Smith's team that Trump was just not interested in doing more to stop the violence as it escalated scavino one of Trump's most trusted advisers allegedly said Trump's demeanor was very unsettling an.
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Overnight a historic mission to space launching from Florida if all goes well a Lander is expected on the moon next month ABC's Derrik Dennis reports and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket liftoff some 50 years after the first American Mission To The Moon A New American rocket is on its own giant leap for mankind launching.
Overnight from Cape AAL marking the first lunar launch from the US since NASA's final Apollo Mission the brand new rocket the Vulcan is made by the private space company United launch Alliance hoping to jump into the commercial space tourism industry if all goes according to plan a small lunar Landing will touch down on.
The moon on February 23rd they ask us as a company to buy a launch vehicle um and to build a Lander that can deliver their payloads in this case science payloads to the surface of the Moon Rod Roddenberry son of Star Trek Creator Jean Roddenberry paying special attention to the launch on board several experiments and the remains of 70 people.
Including Roddenberry and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols he and the first lady of Star Trek along with a number of the other cast members from Star Trek along with countless other prominent wonderful people their ashes and their DNA are going to join together and be launched out humanity is going where no one has gone before astrobotics.
The company behind the Lander warns the mission is still risky it is a quarter Million Miles Away it is in the vacuum of space um you are controlling a vehicle that you can't use a joystick with from here on Earth and 2024 could be the year of the lunar lander with five us spacecraft and at least one Japanese Lander heading to the Moon this.
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Plane last Friday they also said the plane's cockpit voice recorder will offer no information because it was recorded over Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal that could avert a government shutdown they agreed to set spending levels at nearly $16 trillion but house Speaker Mike Johnson is.
Expected to have a tough time selling the package to fellow Republic an President Biden is said to be exasperated after being kept in the dark for 3 Days about defense secretary Lloyd Austin's Hospital State the Pentagon says Austin was admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed Medical Center with severe pain on New Year's Day today's.
Weather Heavy Rain from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast where tornadoes are possible heavy snow for the plains in Midwest rain and snow in the Northwest and finally the labber dooodle gaining Fame for his high-priced diet our Danny new has the details good boy Cecil is a good boy just with a pallet that is suddenly expensive look.
At him he wouldn't possibly eat all of your cash Carrie and Clayton had just taken out $4,000 to pay for a new fence around their Pittsburgh home when Cecil saw it on the counter and thought M forefathers how do you give that information to your wife I I basically just yelled like he ate the money Skyler.
Yes this golden doodle consumed 4GS with crumbs everywhere and of course first things first they called the vet who thankfully said that since he's a pretty big dog as long as he's acting normal going to the bathroom eating it's fine so let's get back to that part about the bathroom because once Carrie and Clayton called the bank they learned that as.
Long as they could reassemble a bill more than 50% and enough to read the serial number it could be exchanged for replacement which meant whenever Clayton when and I went to go check it out I'm like yep those are those are $100 bills in their that's another 50 bucks you got to give them credit Carri and Clay spent the next few days withdrawing cash from.
Their dog TM cleaning it vigorously and then scrambling to somehow reconstruct it in a way that doesn't dishonor the man who discovered electricity that the most expensive puzle we've ever SE yeah there's still a lot of pieces left but guess what they may be forever traumatized but Carrie and Clayton were able to exchange more than 3500 of the.
Original 4K good boy and as you probably know Cecil is now a world famous dog but no amount of currency consumption could ever change the fact that Cecil is the bestest pal he's so proud he's a great dog up next Carrie and Clayton say they are considering writing a children's.
Book about Cecil so families can learn from this experience guys it was also a costly cleanup yes 3500 not bad it's Monday January 8th when they paid for window seats this is not what they were thinking of we start here and tore off her son shirt a hole.
Opens up on the side of a plane 16,000 ft in the air it seemed like something rushed into the cabin and then rushed out now officials have grounded some aircraft in search of answers the defense secretary was hospitalized but no one told the president President Biden is exasperated by this situation what it means for our military and for.
The White House and he's just trying to keep it to one war in the mid East this is a conflict we could easily plasticize Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is telling other countries keep your militants in check from ABC News this is start here I'm bride milky you know the emergency.
Instructions on a plane there's always the part where they tell you if the cabin suddenly loses pressure your oxygen masks will drop put on your own before assisting those next to you well that whole demonstration looks very calm because guess what the cabin hasn't lost pressure right then well when an aircraft in real life loses cabin.
Pressure it means that seal between the inside and outside has snapped yes we are emergency we are depressurized and in the case of an Alaska Airlines flight this weekend it meant that a piece of the wall separating passengers from sky burst open leaving a hole in the side of their plane it seemed like something rushed.
Into the cabin and then rushed out before the flight attendants even said anything we were all grabbing the oxygen Mass when it landed we got our first look at the damage to this aircraft and it was shocking because from the outside it looks like an aircraft door came open like the emergency exit or something from the inside you can see from these.
Photos this is not an emergency exit row but rather just a piece of the wall that had just popped off as of this morning entire fleets of aircraft are grounded as officials examine them let's go straight to ABC Sam Sweeney who covers Transportation Sam this was absolutely shocking can you just clarify like what we're talking about it's a door it's a.
Wall and what happened Brad on this particular airplane there was a space in the fuselage for an emergency exit door if an airline needs it when you have a lowcost carrier for example in Europe let's use Ryan a if they were flying on this plane and they have more than 200 people on the plane they need more emergency exits and Boeing when they're.
Building this plane they allow that option Alaska said we're not going to put that many people on our plane we have a coach cabin and a first class cabin so we're going to have fewer people we don't need as many emergency exits so you can just seal it up with a plug and that's what came loose somehow on this plane and blew out so the door.
Is it's it's it's like a door was there but it just serves as a piece of the wall on the plane on this flight exactly if you were to look at the plane from the outside you would see a line that appears to be where a door could go an emergency exit door that's that's much smaller than a regular door but from the inside of the plane if you were sitting.
There it would look like you were just in a regular Window Seat it was a few minutes after takeoff Friday night when this plane was leaving Portland it was headed to Ontario Califoria California they were taking off 16,000 ft up I didn't even know we took off honestly and then yeah I'm sleeping and I just feel the plane Drop.
All of a sudden this just blast happens and this plug blows away from the plane there was a a really loud pop or a loud bang and like a whoo of air and the oxygen masks came down at the same exact time did somebody fall out of the plane you know what what is happening what what did we hit something did something hit us we just had no idea and so it was.
A lot of confusion meantime up in the flight deck the pilots are trying to figure out what happened here he Portland approach Alaska 1282 emergency aircraft is now leveling 12 you can hear on the Emergen or on the air traffic control recordings them telling we are descending back towards 10,000 ft that's where oxygen becomes breathable again um.
And they can figure out what happened wait so amid all that no one gets seriously hurt Sam it's unbelievable uh what happened here this really was The Perfect Storm up side of the airplane blows off nobody's hurt no one was seated in 26a and B where it blew off the two seats next to it were empty had someone been sitting there it would have.
Been a much different situation on 26a and 25A the headrests are gone if you look at the pictures the cushions on the seat were blown off to wear off her son shirt passengers describe a t-shirt being sucked off a child and out the window you'll also notice there weren't a lot of cell phone videos there was some but not a lot because a lot of.
People lost their cell phones when the cabin depressurizes anything that's not tied down is sucked out that brings me to my next point they were at 16,000 ft just a few minutes after takeoff which means everybody was still buckled in had this been at the cruise level when the flight attendants were out giving food or drinks people were walking to the.
Restrooms they would have been sucked out it would have been a much worse situation and Sam just so like because I'm not like I don't know anything about aeroscience or anything so you literally would get sucked out of the pl that's how Pressure Works it's it's more pressure inside than outside so you things want to get out of the plane.
Think about when you open up a soda cam before you open it it's it's you know rock solid but then once you open it you can kind of crush the cam because the pressure has equalized and it's only a quick second when that release happens so once the immediate release happen happens the plane quickly pressurizes to what's outside so anything that wasn't.
Tied down in that specific moment is gone if you are in fact near that doorway or near that hole that is absolutely unbelievable and so I can't help but notice Sam this was a Boeing Max plane right this is the same type of airliner that was grounded worldwide after all those crashes years ago the plane was redesigned before it was.
Certified to fly again but I mean does this all raise new questions about safety now look the max name will always ring a bell when it comes to safety issues because of those two planes that went down and the worldwide grounding you know for for many many months until they could figure what happened here this is a totally separate issue but you.
Can bet that these investigators on from the NTSB the FAA the airline and Boeing are looking to figure out what happened here we are the global gold standard for safety around the world but we have to maintain that standard was this a individual event on this particular airplane where you know someone who was installing this part when it came down.
From the factory messed up somewhere or is this some sort of structural problem that's on a number of airplanes that's what they need to figure out and that's why all of these planes are grounded the 737 max9 version uh is is the one that is affected by this and there's about 170 of them worldwide um that are affected by this that have have been.
Grounded and does that mean that does that affect air travel over the next several days or weeks or anything Sam it is here in the United States United Airlines and Alaska are the two carriers that fly the max 9 planes so Southwest doesn't American doesn't Delta does not fly it but United they're already dealing with a slew of cancellations.
Along with Alaska of course what they're trying to do is move planes around uh you know for example if United has 15 flights a day from New York to Chicago well maybe they can reduce that to three take three of those planes and place them in other parts of the system but regardless they don't have enough planes um and some flights are going to be.
Cancelled until they can get them back up into the air but before they do that they need to figure out if this is affecting just one plane or all of the fleet right kind of a secondary concern when it comes to the safety issues here which like you said both the government and the plane maker Boeing are going to be investigating in the days and weeks.
To come all right Sam Sweeney from our transportation unit thank you so much thanks for having me next up on start here would you want your boss to know you were in the hospital okay what if your boss was the president we're back in a bit with so much at stake so much on the line more Americans turn here than any.
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You try to do your best to communicate when you're going to be out and this is just a podcast it's not the military in the military you think there would be strict protocols in place to make sure commanders know who's available and who's not National Security could depend on this well if the man who runs the Pentagon suddenly got sick and had to be.
Hospitalized you'd think his boss would get a call because his boss is the commanderin-chief but somehow that didn't seem to happen recently a bizarre story unfolding in Washington this weekend ABC's Louis Martinez covers the Pentagon Louie apparently like last week defense secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized and no one noticed what is.
Going on here that's right Brad Not only was he hospitalized he was in intensive care for part of his hospitalization and nobody knew about it nobody at the White House was told until Thursday night and this from when the secretary of defense was hospitalized on uh Monday night New Year's Day so for three whole days the White House had no inkling that anything.
Was going wrong with the secretary of defense or that he had serious health complications that necessitated him going into intensive care so you've got a ton of questions being raised about why how this could happen and why this happened because essentially um all we know is that the Secretary of Defense went in for a minor elective surgery on.
December 22nd he was released from Walter Reed National military Medical Hospital the following day and then about a week later uh the night of January 1st he was suffering severe pain that's what we're hearing from the Pentagon and that severe pain led him to be transported back to Walter Reed and then he's placed in ICU so he was kept.
There in ICU uh after his immediate needs were met uh essentially for space issues and for privacy but I mean lots of questions being raised on Capitol Hill lots of questions being raised among members of the press Senator Tom Cotton speaking out against the lack of transparency saying there should be quote consequences for this shocking.
Breakdown and essentially I think by everybody in the United States who's aware of this wondering wait a minute a senior military leader the top defense official in the United States is incapacitated somehow his number two official is kept appraised and make some routine decisions but nobody else in the US government is even made aware of this.
And let's make one more point that when the Pentagon did make it public it was at 5 o'l on a Friday afternoon and a hospitalization that should that Americans should have been made aware of was Kept Secret from wait and and and correct me if I'm wrong but like when you said he went in for the initial thing we still don't even.
Know what he was going in for it was a routine medical procedure that's all we've learned so I mean how does this all happen where people just don't know that this you know our the guy in charge of the Pentagon is at a commission there are a lot of theories about what may have happened I think one of the issues is we know that secretary Lloyd Austin.
Is an intensely private individual um he's very low key when it comes uh to generating interest in what it is that he does because he was on vacation when he had this medical procedure done on him um and so yeah that I think he's entitled to his right of privacy then when he goes back into the hospital for severe pain the treatment of severe pain.
I think at that point maybe his staff might have wanted to notify other individuals what we do know is that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was notified the following day on the Tuesday but beyond him and Beyond the deputy secretary defense it appears that nobody else in the administration was told about it I'm very much looking.
Forward to see him fully recovered and um working side by side so it sounds like staff may have failed him it may have been that like like failed him as in thinking like oh no one else needs to know this we told like the other guys that need to know yeah or maybe it was that the staff because they maybe he was so.
Incapacitated that he couldn't respond but I think at that point I mean that's just passing the buck because if you're staffer uh key staffer I think at that point you do want to notify somebody that hey something very serious is going on with the Secretary of Defense well and so what like it's a bad look certainly right and so you can imagine.
It it creates a sense of dysfunction it creates you know a sense that there's a lack of communication but practically are there implications here whether military implications or legal implications I mean what happens now well there are legitimate concerns about whether any past protocols have been violated about notifying Congress about.
Notifying the White House that a senior Administration official is may have been incapacitated or was experien in serious medical treatment Austin issuing a statement this weekend writing I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed but one of the things that the Pentagon has made sure to let us know is.
That the deputy secretary of defense Kathleen Hicks did assume some of the authorities that he had automatically um and but that she was just conducting routine business but remember during that same week that he was in the hospital we had a major US retaliatory air strike inside Baghdad that has had major uh geopolitical implications what.
The penon told us is that that decision that Authority that uh Austin gave for that air strike and the President also gave happened before his hospitalization but again how are we supposed to know that because he's in the hospital and the staff uh didn't let anybody know exactly what was going on what's the reaction from his boss cuz you've been.
Doing reporting trying to figure out like what President Biden's reaction was to all this yes we are told from a Us official that President Biden is exasperated by this situation um that he wants to get down to the bottom of what happened we understand that a review is going to be conducted and uh it's very uh likely.
That some people could find themselves in trouble I think that has to play itself out first um but when you have the president of the United States being kept in the dark until maybe 24 hours before the American public learns of something and 3 days after your defense secretary's hospitalized I think that's.
Going to raise serious questions and that is one of the reasons I think justifies why President Biden is exasperated and we asked the White House for an official comment in addition to that we were told quote the president has full confidence in Secretary Austin we'll see about that I guess Louis Martinez covering the Pentagon thank you.
Thanks bread at the heart of so much of the violence in the Middle East right now it's kind of a philosophical question when someone else attacks you in your country what is the appropriate response lots of count would say you got to do something so when Hamas carried out its vicious terror attack in southern Israel.
On October 7th it knew it would see retaliation when Israel began bombarding Palestinian neighborhoods various factions around the region launched new attacks Yen's houthi Rebels say they've seized an Israeli linked cargo ship in the Red Sea the Iranian back groups say that any Israel linked vessel is a legitimate Target given the and now you.
Got strikes going across the border between Israel and Lebanon Israel is upping the rhetoric against hezb as the deadly exchanges of fire intensifies along the border this weekend Secretary of State Anthony blinkin was in the mid East on a difficult mission to convince countries it's not in their best interest to respond to every attack and.
To somehow keep this war from spiraling further and further abroad this is a conflict that could easily plasticize causing even more insecurity and even more suffering ABC Shannon Crawford covers the state department Shannon first where is blinkin going on this trip because it's quite a list well where.
Isn't he going he's making nine stops many of them are in the Arab world where he's looking to build support for what he calls the day after what's going to happen to Gaza when the bombardment finally ends of course blinkin also making a crucial stop in Israel and the West Bank as he tries to figure out how to find an offramp for the Israeli Hamas.
War right and so I what is the message then when you're looking at Jordan and turkey and these countries in the region that clearly have a vested interest do you tell them just to stand on the sidelines and watch it all play out I mean what is the message from blinking as some of these you know Arab world countries well what he's really looking.
To do is for these countries that have been on the sideline of this conflict but are very sympathetic to the Palestinians what he's doing is telling them to use any leverage they have over these belligerent factions that have been playing so far a pretty small part in the conflict but they're threatening to really step it up not and I think we.
Also share our commitment to use the influence the relationships the ties that we have with different parties in the region to try to avoid escalation and to deter new fronts from opening yeah Brad I think you mentioned the huies firing into the Red Sea but there's also Hezbollah and like Hamas Hezbollah is an Iranian back terror.
Group its Fighters have been exchanging hits with the Israeli military on the country's border with Lebanon for months now but in recent days Hezbollah has been intensifying the fighting there and there's threats that they could really even escalate further okay so that makes sense the trip to Israel makes sense the trip to cter makes sense especially.
Because cter has been playing such a key role in all these negotiations with hostage handovers and ceasefires the West Bank you mentioned so let's just remember for people who might not know the region as well Gaza is Palestinian territory on one side of Israel super small West Bank the other Palestinian territory much larger but it's on the.
Other side of Israel right so I mean why is Blink going there and what's he trying to accomplish sure well every time Secretary blink stops in Israel of course he can't go into Gaza right now which just security conditions won't allow for that but he goes to the West Bank and the big reason for that is because the Palestinian Authority.
Controls the West Bank and the US sees that group as being the best suited to govern Gaza after the war ends oh cuz like what almost 20 years ago Hamas was elected right before they took the whole place over but Israel is now like no like Hamas is not leading this place anymore it's going to be someone else right the US and Israel are of one mind.
Hamas cannot be in charge of Gaza in the future it cannot be in a place where they can launch what we saw on October 7th ever again is why ending the conflict and finding as we just discussed a genuinely durable lasting peace but the problem there is that there really aren't any.
Ideal options for someone who can take over in Gaza and also have the support of the Palestinian people now when we look at the Palestinian Authority really they're not wildly popular in the West Bank uh they've been plagued by corruption uh when it comes to Palestinian politics they're really leaders from a different generation but.
What secretary blink's trying to do is encourage them to get their act together so hopefully when this war does finally come to a close they'll be in a place where they can step in and at least help out during an intermediary period where elections can be planned in Gaza right really interesting and of course like the US and Israel can want whoever they.
Want to lead an area but like you can't just unilaterally install a new government so it's kind of about like getting everyone on the same page here big job for Anthony blinkin this week uh Shannon Crawford covering State Department thank you so much thank you Brad okay one more quick break when we come back it's the People's Park but.
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Streaming ABC News live and one last thing it's home to some of the most notable Civic protests of the Vietnam War era maybe a lot more things could be worked out now that the people have a park in 1969 people Park in Berkeley California was Ground Zero for activists it served as a.
Beacon of free speech with a microphone open to anyone and everyone who wanted to speak it was frequented by hippies by War protesters the Black Panther Party circulated articles about this Parks importance this weekend it looked like little more than a plot of dirt where grass and signs had once stood demolition crews had sprouted up instead.
See this isn't actually a traditional public park it's owned by the University of California Berkeley and the college now says it wants to build housing here but this is ignited protest reminiscent of half a century ago see back in the 1960s this lot was deret it was a giant mud patch home to.
Abandoned cars until local volunteers decided to turn it into a park forget that it's owned by somebody else they said this space will stand for power to the people we right when they had finally brought in trees and flowers and saw to revitalize the neighborhood the university said actually we are ready to.
Build here now you need to leave at one point there were violent clashes between police and thousands of protesters who tried to tear down chainlink fences that had gone up overnight the National Guard was called in this latest trouble at Berkeley may be over for a while at least until the rebels can find a new symbol but in an.
Area where feelings have been polarized to extremes tension remains and the troops are still in town well cut to last week this place had remained a park for the last five decades when police conducted an overnight raid police in full tactical gear arrived to close off streets and removed the remaining people living in the park protesters tried to.
Stop them but police arrested seven of them Crews put up new barriers not chaining fences this time the site has been surrounded by shipping containers so you can't even see inside this weekend you could hear the sound of chainsaws taking down trees local Advocates were Furious we need a place where community members can find each.
Other and learn about their history of Berkeley that's a human right knowing what your culture is having water having food this whole back and forth is fraught with irony because many of these activists have pressed for more affordable housing the original plans for the site would have built residences for lowincome and homeless people many.
Of who camped out in People's Park before this local students say rent in town is too high well this site would be home to new dorms it raises the question of what's more important space with which to protest or getting the stuff you protested for but it's not just awkward for the demonstrators before the 60s this spot used to be filled with.
Houses until UC Berkeley had them torn down that's right the school wanted to build bigger structures back then so they used eminent domain to kick people off their land the money then dried up up leaving just a vacant lot now they're kicking people off Parkland in the name of building houses we house currently about 20 to 23% of our undergraduate and.
Graduate student population so that is the lowest in the UC system school officials say the new site will be much improved and that post construction 2third of it will still be public space it'll largely still serve as a park but many locals say that misses the whole point University board trustees they say effectively gave up the rights to this.
Place through years of neglect it's now the People's Park they say and its fate should remain in the hands of neighbors there are still court rulings to be made on the construction itself but the demolition it's already happened it's done it's just a complete lightning rod there in the Bay Area more in all these stories at ABC news.com or the ABC.
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ABC News live hi I'm Diane meedo today on ABC News live first two storms are crossing the country bringing threats of tornadoes flooding strong winds and a blizzard this after the first snowstorm of the Season we have the aftermath and the forecast Republican Presidential.
Hopefuls are targeting the Hawkeye State with just one week left the candidates are out and forces voters in Iowa prepare to cast the first votes of the 2024 campaign the latest on the final push is Biden hits the campaign Trail too plus an ABC News exclusive Jonathan major sits down with ABC News live Prime anchor Lindsey Davis in his first.
Interview since being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault why he's speaking now and what he says happened with then girlfriend Grace Jabari plus if he thinks he'll work in Hollywood again and the star sted night in La the bear beef and oppenheim shine bright at the Golden Globes so what could it mean for the.
Oscars we begin with the FAA now temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9s after part of an Alaska Airlines plane fell off mid-flight the flight returned to Portland Oregon shortly after takeoff after losing a mid cabin door plug now a Portland teacher says he found the missing door plug in his backyard and another Oregon man says he.
Found a passenger's phone on the ground ABC Transportation correspondent Gio B TZ is in Portland Oregon with the latest the door plug that flew off an Alaska Airlines flight in midair leaving this gaping hole behind now found after a 3-day search the NTSB locating it in the backyard of a Portland school teacher the discovery coming as.
Authorities reveal no data can be pulled from the cockpit voice recorder because it was completely overwritten at 2 hours it writes it re-records over it so we have nothing from the CVR 171 Boeing 737 max9 planes now grounded globally as the NTSB races to investigate what went wrong we are emergency we are depressurized we do need to return back.
The Alaska jet with 177 people on board taking off from Portland Oregon Friday night when all of a sudden the so-called door plug which is used to cover and seal optional emergency exits flew off I look to my left and there's this huge chunk part of the airplane just like missing and and the wind is just Extremely Loud there's wind blowing.
Everywhere the plane depressurizing passengers describing the terror on board Not only was the plane falling but also the masks came down I was really praying I was asking God to put angels under the wings to hold us up the NTSB revealing the cockpit door flew open when the plug flew off the captain had a portion of the headset pulled off some.
Passengers losing cell phones out of the plane's hole the NTSB saying they've recovered at least two from the ground below flight attendants racing to keep everyone calm and safe I just noticed one flight attendant uh rushing down the aisle with a portable oxygen mask she was just trying to do a headcount make sure everybody.
Was accounted for make sure everybody was stable the plane which had been in operation since late October was on its third Flight of the day it took off for Ontario California around 5:00 p.m. Pacific when that nearly 2T wide door plug flew off from the 26th row of the plane where by Chance the two seats next to it were empty the NTSB saying it's.
Grateful the incident happened before the plane hit cruising altitude at 30,000 ft where experts say the outcome would have been very different it could have been a disastrous situation and people could have been sucked out of the airplane the pilot immediately heading back to Portland International Airport the entire ordeal lasting a harrowing 26.
Minutes the head of the NTS B telling ABC News pilots flying that same plane over the past month reported warning lights indicating some loss of cabin pressure on the jet a pressurization alert uh light lit up in the cockpit on December 7th on January 3rd on January 4th uh and uh it was described as pretty Bine maintenance teams looked at the.
Plane and decided to restrict it from flying long distances over open water does that concern you at all everything concerns us right now uh everything is part of this investigations we're going to uh look more at the maintenance records the electronic logs we're going to talk to maintenance personnel and really figure out what what occurred.
Here and we also learned overnight that the seat right next to that door plug actually lost its headrest its trade table its seat back so it's just incredible again that nobody was sitting in that seat really a miracle there and I asked the NTSB chairwoman could this affect other Boeing airplanes and she said that right now they're focusing.
Exclusively on this one airplane in particular but no doubt about it this investigation is important because remember this plane was built in the same Factory that a lot of other Boeing airplanes are built in so they really need this to roll on and and figure out exactly what happened here Diane a lot of questions there left to be answered.
Gio bonitz in Portland thank you Meanwhile we're tracking two new new cross country storms snows already falling in Arizona and more than 40 States from California to New York on alerts for blizzard strong winds flooding and heavy snow meanwhile the Northeast is cleaning up after a messy winter storm over the weekend ABC News.
Senior meteorologist Rob Marciano's in Springfield Massachusetts with the latest Rob what's it like there right now well the sun is is coming up so that's the good news uh but we're still below freezing that's the bad news and you can see here on Main Street uh we're still snow covered and and uh we got over a foot of snow throughout the.
Weekend ending not till late yesterday afternoon several rounds of plows coming through here still couldn't keep up obviously we got big banks on the sides of the roads and some fire hydrant are still need to be uncovered I mean they might not get to them because a lot of this is going to melt not so much today but as we go through uh the next couple.
Of days but anybody Inland of I95 with this storm got just really slammed in the face with heavy heavy snow a foot here really widespread of foot in many spots up to a foot and a half in some spots and this really for many of these big cities has been the first significant snowfall we've seen in nearly 2 years so most.
Folks we talked to took it fairly well schools were delayed for a couple of hours and now uh life is starting to get back up and running at least for now Diane that area is used to handling snow so it says something when areas like that are having trouble keeping up because it's coming down so quickly uh but Rob now we also have these two new.
Storms coming in what can we expect there well you can expect this scene to be completely different if not completely gone in about 36 hours because these new next two storms at least for the East Coast are going to be on the warm side look at all these alerts we've got slew of wind alerts this these powerful Dynamic storms and.
We've got flood watches that are up and down parts of the Northeast because it's going to be a warm storm snow and parts of the Midwest and and and severe thunderstorms later on tonight across the I 10 quarter including New Orleans we could see strong tornadoes develop during the overnight Peri period and then lasting tomorrow and through.
Georgia and the Carolinas and parts of Florida another significant uh uh severe weather threat with this storm so that's part of the Dynamics The Backs side of this we'll see some snow at at times blizzard conditions just west of uh of Chicago and heavy rain up and down the East Coast one to two to three inches of rainfall along the I95 Corridor uh which.
Is going to melt obviously a lot of the snow and it's gonna it's going to feed into some of the tributaries so River flooding is going to be a big issue and on top of that wind we could see winds topping 40 50 60 miles an hour in spots so power outage is coming with not just this next storm coming in but the one behind it so a very impactful week.
Weatherwise for much of the country Diane all right senior meterologist Rob Marciano stay warm Rob thank you and defense secretary Lloyd Austin is recovering in the hospital after medical scare over the holidays a Us official tells ABC News President Biden was exasperated at not being informed sooner saying the White House didn't.
Learn about Austin's hospitalization until 3 days after it happened Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raditz has the latest understand new details about the secret hospitalization of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin as lawmakers demand to know why it took so long to notify Congress and the White House ABC.
News learning this morning that Austin first entered Walter Reed National Medical Center on December 22nd while on leave for for what the Pentagon is calling elective surgery he was discharged the following day but on the evening of January 1st the Pentagon says he began to experience severe pain and was sent back to Walter Reed and.
Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit the Pentagon saying he was placed in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit to ensure immediate access due to his medical needs but then remained in that location in part due to hospital space considerations and privacy it was not until Thursday three days later that Austin or anyone at the Pentagon.
Disclosed to the White House that he'd been hospitalized secretary Austin releasing this statement from his hospital bed I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed I commit to doing better but this is important to say this was my medical procedure and I take full responsibility for my.
Decisions about disclosure a Us official telling ABC news that President Biden was exasperated after learning about Austin's lack of transparency but the White House saying Biden spoke to Austin on Saturday wishing him a speedy recovery in what an official describes as a warm conversation the Department of Defense.
Saying Deputy defense secretary Kathleen Hicks picked up duties on secretary Austin's behalf from her vacation spot in Puerto Rico until Friday night when the Pentagon says Austin resumed his duties from the hospital where he is said to be recovering well and in good spirits but even now 7 Days Later Austin has not revealed why he was in the.
Hospital in the first place an official tells me there will be a review of all that has happened Diane all right Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha radit thank you President Biden is set to give remarks at mother Emanuel Church in Charleston.
South Carolina this afternoon the Biden campaign says he's expected to issue a warning that Maga Republicans led by Trump are running on a hate fueled dangerous agenda the church was the sight of a racist mass shooting that left nine people dead in 2015 South Carolina congressman and Biden campaign co-chair Jim klyburn says the church has.
Spoken to the conscience of this nation and shown us the path forward after moments of division and despair mean Republican Presidential hopefuls are out in force in Iowa where the first votes of 2024 are just a week away candidates are crisscrossing the state trying to chip away at former president Trump's commanding lead Florida Governor Ronda.
Santis was long seen as Trump's toughest opponent now he's in a battle for second place with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley I'd like to be the underdog um so I'm just letting that sit uh let people say what they want do you believe you can win we've done it right and and and we're going to we're going to do well.
You do not place first or second place are you staying in this race we're in it for the long haul in it for the long hul regardless absolutely meanwhile Haley has spent the last several days walking back comments she made on the trail and now she's facing new questions from voters about why she isn't going after Trump harder we will have full coverage.
Of the Iowa caucuses next Monday January 15th right here on ABC News live and we're learning some exclusive new details on what Trump insiders told the special Council about the former president's conduct on January 6th sour forces familiar with the investigation say the most vivid descriptions came from one of Trump's closest AIDS calling.
What he saw quote very unsettling ABC News Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Carl has the details as the nation marks the three-year anniversary of the January 6th attack Donald Trump defended his supporters who ransacked the capital.
Calling for those who have been imprisoned for breaking into the building to simply be released I call call them hostages some people call them prisoners I call them hostages release the j6 hostages Joe the justice department is charged nearly 1300 people allegedly involved in the attack as well as Trump himself after lengthy Court.
Battles special councel Jack Smith's investigators have spoken to all of the senior AIDS who were with Trump at the White House while the capital was under attack including trusted a Dan scavino a man who has known Trump since he was a teenager and worked as his golf caddy inside the White House scavino ran Trump's Twitter accounts and all social.
Media the Great Dan scavino most powerful man in politics scavino spent much of January 6th at Trump's side sources say scavino told investigators that Trump sat in the dining room next to the Oval Office as his supporters attacked the capital and then as scavino and other AIDS pleaded with Trump to do something to stop the violence Trump sat.
In front of the TV unresponded responsive his arms folded scavino called Trump's demeanor very unsettling the sources say scavino told investigators that Trump was angry saying the election had been stolen from him and that his supporters were quote angry on his behalf much of that anger was directed at Trump's loyal vice.
President Mike Pence and sources say another White House Aid Nick Luna told investigators that when he informed Trump that Pence had to be evacuated to a secure location because of the threats Trump responded so what our sources tell us Dan scavino was also asked whether he ever saw any.
Evidence of election fraud in 2020 enough to change the results and like so many others in Trump's Inner Circle when asked that question under oath he said no he never saw any evidence that the election was stolen the Trump campaign has responded to our report by and quote Dan scavino is one of President Trump's longest serving most loyal allies his.
Actual testimony shows just how strong president Trump is positioned in this case Diane Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Carl thank you coming up Michael Bolton's Health scare what the singer telling fans about his surgery for a brain tumor also ahead the new beginnings for some Maui fire survivors how one family is adjusting to.
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The holidays requiring immediate surgery ABC's AIO RF has the details Michael Bolton opening up about his health scare revealing he had emergency brain surgery the two-time Grammy Award winning singer songwriter behind hits like how am I supposed to live without you how am I.
Without and the heartfelt rendition of When a Man Loves a Woman when a Bolton getting candid in a statement posted on Instagram saying just before the holidays it was discovered that I had a brain tumor which required immediate surgery and the surgery was a success success according to the.
American brain tumor Association brain tumors can affect people of all ages races ethnicities and genders and over 1.3 million Americans are living with a primary or secondary metastatic brain tumor today if the tumor is located in a part of the brain that controls language we would we would expect language to be impacted whereas if the tumor is located.
In a part of the brain that has more to do with movement or memory or Vision we would expect those things to be impacted 70-year-old Bolton has been making music for more than five decades also sharing in his post for the next couple of months I will be devoting my time and energy to my recovery which means I'll have to take a temporary break from.
Touring after a brain surgery the recovery happens over weeks to months for most people it's going to involve some kind of combination of physical therapy occupational therapy and speech therapy depending on what their individual needs are and as you heard there doctors say when it comes to brain tumors symptoms can.
Vary based on where it's located but common signs are headache confusion memory loss seizures and weakness of course contact your doctor immediately if you are experiencing any of those symptoms as for Bolton he says he hopes to recover and get back to performing for his devoted fans soon Diane all right Ariel rashev thank you coming up.
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Live welcome back the new year is bringing New Beginnings to thousands thousands of miles away for some Maui residents after wildfires ripped through their Community this summer one family is now sharing their Journey as they start 2024 in a new state and try to navigate the challenges of insurance claims ABC's Melissa Adon is exploring.
The spirit of Haka which means to begin in Hawaiian in the latest installment of Maui strong 808 as the new year begins it's a chance for a new start for the thousands of victims of the fires that devastated Maui last August for some that new start beginning thousands of miles away Anon and Janessa cabanilla were born and.
Raised in lahina she had a crush on me in second grade we've been together maybe 11 years strong ready they relocated to Las Vegas with their five and six-year-old after losing their home I didn't want my kids to wake up every day and see the scenery I didn't want them to kind of be reminded every day of what we gone through we took that.
Opportunity to you know let's get out there let's go to Vegas let's make our lives better but for now their days look like this trying to create some stability for their children as they rebuild their lives they were excited we got into the house but some days we'll have have those times where our kids are like you know when when are we going to.
Go back home back on Maui many still searching for a sliver of a new beginning Alfie borto lost his own home but is pouring into his community through his nonprofit planning to purchase and set up 11 more of these mobile homes on the 2 and 1 half acres of land he owns in an upscale gated community in L you have this land and.
You're thinking about these other families in need why is it so important to you the government is not going to come in and make us whole it is truly not so I think it's our responsibility to help each other out I I believe in that so strongly a neighboring homeowners association is suing claiming Alfie hasn't obtained the permits to.
Build residential structure structures they Overlook our burn Zone like it's like our community that they're refusing to help you've reviewed the emergency Proclamation what is it that you see that says hey no this is eligible so in my discussions with the county when I presented the idea of having RVs um you know their reply back to me.
Was because it's an RV and because it's got registration for the DMV and it's got a safety certificate it doesn't require permitting Alfie is awaiting a court hearing on January 11th or word from the county to see if he can move forward with his plan to build this legal tug-of War speaking to the largest issue clouding Maui's relief efforts.
More than 2400 households remain displaced as Governor green tries to compel 1,500 short-term rentals on Maui to convert to long-term housing by March 1st nelan Caesar has been living at the Royal lahina since August she says she faced issues with her Insurance claim what they give us is not enough hopefully they're going to give us more.
Because that's not what we expect everything here is so expensive and she's not alone says mahilani strong an insurance executive in lahina she says she's handling more than 1,000 home in autoc claims resulting from the fire according to Hawaii State Insurance division as of last October more than 3,500 homeowners have filed insurance.
Claims in the Maui fire with nearly 1,500 of those properties suffering a total loss their data shows roughly 40% of claim money has not been paid out totaling more than $773 million I think one of the biggest worries of the clients is when it comes time to rebuild will they still have money left for it because everybody's.
Paying out of their eyeballs for rent right now people are using their personal property funds to pay rent I want to rebuild our house My Heart Belongs to Laina this community yearning for New Beginnings calling to their ancestors and cleansing in the.
Watera is to like see the beginning when you're a navigator you have to see the beginning of the Horizon and know that you're going to chart a course to reach your destination Melissa Don thanks for that coming up Jonathan Majors is speaking out in an ABC News exclusive what he says happened with then girlfriend Grace.
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Insecurity and suffering the visit comes as Hezbollah claims a key Commander was killed in a strike on Lebanon meanwhile the World Health organiz ganization reports around 600 patients and medical workers are unaccounted for after being forced to flee the AL ASA Hospital in Gaza the relief organizations say the Israeli military dropped leaflets.
Designating areas around the hospital a Red Zone Rescuers hope to reach five people trapped in a Slovenian cave today the group is stuck more than a mile from the entrance after heavy rains caused flooding inside the cave on Saturday divers managed to take them food and clothing now officials are waiting for.
The water levels to fall and two undefeated teams are set to face off in the college football national championship tonight number one Michigan will take on second ranked Washington in Houston tonight is the final game of the current setup with four teams in the playoff next year it jumps to 12 coverage starts at 7:30 Eastern on ESPN.
And all its various platforms meanwhile a Portland teacher has found the missing door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard the 737 Max 9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to cover and seal emergency exits flew off mid-flight.
The cabin depressurized and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling the NTSB says there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9's ABC's Jaclyn Le is in Portland with some new details for us Jaclyn what a story so we learned over night that.
The seat next to this door plug lost its headrest the seat back and the trade table now luckily no one was sitting there so obviously this could have been worse but how are the passengers who were on board doing now hey Diane great to be with you yes obviously they are recovering and you know while there were no serious.
Injuries uh and everyone survived officials have acknowledged there's probably some psychological trauma that happened with this you have to think about it as they are uh going up in in the flight the the door plug rips off passengers talked about a lot of debris flying in the cabin it was very chaotic a lot of wind and of course you don't.
Know what's going to happen uh there was an interview done with one passenger who said that she saw that this boy's shirt ripped off his skin uh was red with what they presume was just chafing from all of that wind so obviously a very scary situation and of course there were other interviews done with passengers who said uh some of them actually said they they.
Weren't freaking out because they said if their time was going to come they were just going to accept it so of course there's just a huge spectrum of what that entire experience was like Diane that is some level of Cal for those passengers jacine we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open that the captain had a portion of the.
Headset pulled off what's the latest on the investigation so yesterday was the first full day of the investigation now there are some key components of this as you had mentioned they did find the plug door it was found in the backyard of a Portland teacher named Bob so the NTSB chair says that she was very relieved of.
That key piece of evidence was found unfortunately uh the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten and that is another key component that would have been part of this investigation but unfortunately that data is now gone forever uh they have several um people who are trying to rebuild exactly what happened they had the structures team.
Out there they're analyzing the door the door plug frame they're looking at the hinges and they're basically just trying to piece together all of these these pieces of the puzzle to figure out what went wrong overall Diane now we also know this plane was built in the same Factory as other Boeing planes so could this be a wider.
Issue so that's something that we have been asking I mean when I met with the chair I asked are you more concerned about overall Boe 737 Max Fleet and she said they're not rolling anything out you know there has been a history with Boeing they had grounded the 737 Max at Fleet for 2 years after there were two crashes that killed hundreds of people.
Ultimately Boeing did make some adjustments and ultimately the FAA allowed that plane to return into service um but in terms of the NTSB investigation they're going to be looking at everything and they did say though they're going to be very focused just on this plane and what went wrong first Diane all right Jaclyn Lee in.
Portland thank you and Hollywood is buzzing today after last night's Golden Globe Awards succession the bear and beef were all big winners for television and on the big screen Oppenheimer led the pack so what could it all mean for the Oscars Lara Spencer has more tlor Swift leading the crowd in a.
Standing ovation for Barbie as it beat out Swift's era tour film for one of the newest Golden Globes categories cinematic and box office achievement we made it for you and we made it with love and thank you for loving it back Robert Downey Jr Christopher Nolan Killian Murphy but it was Oppenheimer taking.
Home the gold with five wins a first question do I have lipstick all over my nose and earning the big prize at the end of the night best drama Motion Picture leading the night for TV the final season of succession tying the record for most wins for best TV drama series with its third and for the first time in Golden Globe history.
Standup comedy getting recognition and then you guys finally decided to invite the talented people with Ricky Jes taking home the globe you're not Ricky Jes I'll accept this award on his behalf give me it on the small screen the bear proving they know how to serve with Jeremy Allen White taking home best male actor in a.
TV musical or comedy series against some TV greates and his co-star Iowa debris winning best female actor alongside him thanking everyone from the top down all of my agents and managers assistance to the people who answer my emails y'all are real ones the cast of the Netflix show beef making history as well with firsttime nominee Ali Wong.
Becoming the first female of Asian descent to win best female actor in a limited series winning back to back with her co-star Steven young so weird the story I usually tell of myself to myself is uh one of isolation and like separateness and then you come up here and you have this moment and you can only just think about everyone.
Else and that feels like the plot of Frozen I just now just ly Gladstone and Lily Gladstone from the movie Killers of the flower Moon becoming the first indigenous woman to win best female actor in Emotion picture drama in Her speech Gladstone acknowledging her Roots this is for.
Every little res kid every little Urban kid every little native kid out there who has a dream who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words um with tremendous allies our thanks toara Spencer for that report and ABC News contributor in entertainment reporter at ESPN's.
Andscape Kelly Carter is joining me now for more on this Kelly what were your standout moments from the show last night I mean there were a couple first off we have to talk about Oppenheimer taking home the big drama win I mean that really was such a great moment I think for everyone also love seeing Divine Joy Randolph when she was a bit.
Of a surprise she was a pleasant surprise and I say that because Danielle Brooks has been such you know a darling so far this this award season and was kind of predicted to win that but this is going to be a really St category I think for the rest of the season so love seeing her get up there also got to talk about kieren culan who is the best worst.
Of the Roy kids getting up there and getting his win his speech was hilarious also very touching and I I really love seeing that moment as well it's also so great because of the character if you're a fan of the show to see him giving a speech which is part of the plotline that he can't do it in the show and so on uh I did love that moment as well.
What does this mean you think for Oscar nominations and the rest of the award season yeah you know not always the Golden Globes are predictors of what we should expect but they really definitely give filmmakers and and um creatives ammunition I think can kind of drive and fuel to go through the rest of the season so I think this kind of nicely.
Sets up a three-way conversation for Oppenheimer for the holdovers and for poor things to really be in cons consideration for some of the remaining Awards coming leading up of course to the Academy Awards all right Kelly Carter thanks as always and you can watch the Oscar nominations right here on ABC News live on January 3rd with.
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Traumatic nightmare people need to understand these were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I one wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on.
Hulu welcome back to ABC News live first actor Jonathan major is speaking out for the first time after being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Majors calls the twoe relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse ABC News life Prime.
Anchor lindsy Davis sat down with him for this exclusive interview I told you time isn't what you think less than a year ago the name Jonathan Majors was followed by talk of critical and box office success skyrocketing Fame even Oscar buzz I'm coming for everything but this morning a different conversation.
Surrounds that Marquee name something about sitting here right now now and and and looking at you and understanding the gravity of the situation um a situation that I in many ways you know put myself in the actor spoke exclusively with ABC news for the first time after being convicted in late.
December for harassment and misdemeanor Reckless assault in the third degree which could carry a penalty of up to a year Behind Bars why did you decide you wanted to talk now I felt like it was time um a lot has happened um in my personal life in my career um in the culture it's about.
Responsibility and coming forward and being brave and and giving my my part of the story your reaction to that verdict shock I was uh I was absolutely shocked and um afraid I'm standing there and the verdict comes out I say how how how is how is that.
Possible based off the evidence based off the prosecution's evidence let alone our evidence how is that possible but after only hours of deliberation a jury of his peers agreed with prosecutors that he did physically injure his then girlfriend Grace Jabari in an incident last March what happened exactly do you know no I don't know um.
Uh she's unconscious that 911 call from Majors came hours after an argument broke out with Jabari in the backseat of an SUV when Majors received a text from another woman saying oh how I wish to be kissing you Jabari testified that when she grabbed the phone Majors tried to get it back fracturing her finger and giving her a cut behind her ear she says.
Inside the car you hit her in the face twist her arm behind her back fracture her middle finger yeah that did not happen how did those injuries come about I I wish to God I knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't I have no question surveillance video.
Shows Majors getting out of the car followed by Jabari whom he then puts back inside the vehicle what happens next is what what the defense remains focused on Majors runs off and Jabari chases after him if you watch those videos and you reverse that and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street screaming and crying.
That man is going to be shot and killed in the streets of New York City Major's defense team shared these photos which he says show the injuries he received that night which were deemed inadmissible in court how were you injured injuries were um I had a scratch on my hand you know from clawing for the phone and I had a gash on my at the time.
I had a beard under my beard I had essentially a singing out scratch on my gu my cheek from pressure and that bled overnight but prosecutors say Majors was the aggressor district attorney Alvin Bragg says the evidence presented throughout this trial Illustrated a cycle of psychological and emotional abuse in court prosecutors pointed to a.
Previous argument during which he knocked knocked a candle to the floor I completely lost lost my temper in that moment and and threw it all on the ground that's not something I would want my uh child to do and I did that I absolutely did that um and felt terrible about it the prosecution also played audio Jabari had.
Recorded earlier in the relationship where Majors encouraged her to act more like ketta Scott King and Michelle Obama I a great man a great man I am doing great things not just for me but for my for my culture and for the world that is actually the position I'm in the woman that supports me needs to be a great woman there are some who question.
Especially in the black community as you're probably well aware that the people were saying why was he telling this woman to be like K Scott King and and Michelle Obama it was me trying to give an analogy of of what it is I'm aspiring to be you know these Great Men Martin President Obama um and trying to.
Give a reference point to that one of the things I also say is like I need her and I I Cas Grace to make the same sacrifices that I am making in a statement to ABC News an attorney for Jabari said in part it is not at all surprising that Mr major continues to take no accountability for his actions adding that the timing of.
These new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for his actions do you feel you're not responsible for her injuries at all I shouldn't have been in the car I shouldn't have stepped out of the relationship I shouldn't have been in the relationship if I'm not in the car none of this is.
Happening if I leave the relationship none of this is happening if I'm man enough or brave enough to say I want to see somebody else or I'm I'm done now I'm not in that car we're not here I'm responsible for those things but none of her injuries I can't say that.
None P Drees ABC News live Prime anchor lindsy Davis joins me now for more on this Lindsay thanks for coming on what did major tell you about why he didn't take the stand know Diane he said that all along he intended to testify in his own defense he said but as he listened to the prosecution layout there evidence.
And the defense he said uh he felt that it was so strong and compelling what more can I add he he's pointed specifically to the driver who was chauffeuring that SUV that night uh that man in testimony through a translator said that while he didn't see the altercation he heard it and he said that he felt that Jabari was quote doing.
Everything thing that he felt that she was the one hitting him and he said by the time he heard that testimony he felt that enough was going to be said and that he was shocked then as you heard him describe uh once he heard the verdict that sentencing is less than a month away could he actually end up having to do jail time here you know.
February 6 is the day that he's going to be sentenced most legal analysts say while it is possible it's unlikely that he'll ever serve that time behind bars though with that misdemeanor Reckless assault it can come with up to uh a year uh in jail but it does seem uh unlikely major says he plans to appeal what would that process look like yeah.
At this point uh his his attorney is saying look uh this was about his intent to hurt and that is it was kind of an all or nothing and the jury had to Define had to decide if he intentionally injured uh Grace Jabari in the end they said that he didn't they said that it was the result of his recklessness that she ended up being hurt and they're.
Saying that that wasn't even what the prosecution had put on the table that the jury shouldn't have been able to to rule uh that that the recklessness was was an option so they're saying based on that he's going to appeal take this back to court so Lindsay what's next for him uh you know he's saying that he believes he still has a future in Hollywood uh it.
Seems he says that that's something that he's hoping for that he's praying for uh ultimately it may be a matter of the the court of public opinion uh to decide if they still have a a taste to see him on the big screen uh but as you know uh Marvel has part parted ways has dropped him uh his management his PR firm uh they've all dropped him and so we'll see.
Uh if he's able to Curry for favor going forward all right Lindsay Davis thank you and we will have more on Lindsay's exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors right here on ABC News live throughout the day and you can catch the full interview on ABC News live Prime starting at 700 p.m Eastern coming up prepare for liftoff on an historic.
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Away at former president Trump's commanding lead senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has the latest from De Mo with the Iowa caucuses just one week away the Republican candidates are blitzing through the state still trying to catch Donald Trump the former president 30 points ahead facing.
Backlash for saying the Civil War which was fought over the issue of slavery could have been negotiated so many mistakes were made see there was something I think could have been negotiated to be honest with you do you find those comments acceptable I don't even know how to judge I don't even know what he's talking about I mean Lincoln.
Did what he had to do um he ended up ushering in the abolition of slavery uh and he saved the Union Florida Governor Ronda santis was long seen as Trump's toughest opponent he's already visited all 99 counties now he's in a battle for second place with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley I'd like to be the underdog um so I'm just letting that sit.
Uh let people say what they want do you believe you can win we've done it right and and and we're going to we're going to do well if you do not place first or second place are you staying in this race we're in it for the long haul in it for the long Hall regardless absolutely Haley has spent the last several days walking back comments she's made on the.
Trail first failing to mention the word slavery when asked by a voter what caused the Civil War then suggesting New Hampshire would correct the Iowa caucuses and now facing new questions from voters about why she isn't going after Trump harder prot trumpers don't think I love him enough anti-trumpers don't think I hate him enough for those.
That want me to hit Trump more I just am not going to do it Diane and the weather throwing these campaigns a curveball in the final stretch the Trump campaign forced to cancel a surrogate event for later today because of the brutal cold and the heavy snow that is on the way Diane Rachel Scott in De Moine Iowa thank you and we will have.
Full coverage of the Iowa caucuses is all day next Monday January 15th right here on ABC News live and we're learning some exclusive new details on what Trump insiders told the special Council about the former president's conduct on January 6th sources familiar with the investigation say the most vivid descriptions came from one of Trump's.
Closest AIDS calling what he saw quote very unsettling ABC News Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Carl has the details as the nation marks the 3-year anniversary of the January 6th theack Donald Trump defended his supporters who ransack the capital calling for those.
Who have been imprisoned for breaking into the building to simply be released I call them hostages some people call them prisoners I call them hostages release the J six hostages Joe the justice department has charged nearly 1300 people allegedly involved in the attack as well as Trump himself after lengthy Court battles special counsel.
Jack Smith's investigators have has spoken to all of the senior AIDS who were with Trump at the White House while the capital was under attack including trusted Aid Dan scavino a man who has known Trump since he was a teenager and worked as his golf caddy inside the White House scavino ran Trump's Twitter accounts and all social media the Great.
Dan scavino most powerful man in politics scavino spent much of January 6th at Trump's side sources say scavino told investigators that Trump sat in the dining room next to the Oval Office as his supporters attacked the capital and then es cavino and other AIDS pleaded with Trump to do something to stop the violence Trump sat in front of the TV.
Unresponsive his arms folded scavino called Trump's demeanor very unsettling the sources say scavino told investigators that Trump was angry saying the election had been stolen from him and that his supporters were quote angry on his behalf much of that anger was direct Ed at Trump's loyal vice president Mike.
Pence and sources say another White House Aid Nick Luna told investigators that when he informed Trump that Pence had to be evacuated to a secure location because of the threats Trump responded so what and chief Washington correspondent John Carl joins me now along with ABC News senior reporter Katherine falers.
John Dan cavino is a trusted Aid who Trump has known since he was a teen so how critical could his testimony be in this case well I think it's very critical not just scavino what what the special Council has done here is has gone through and methodically talked to all of the senior advisers who were with Trump while that attack on the capital.
Was going on you know the January 6 committee did a lot to try to reconstruct what uh Trump was doing during that time but they couldn't talk to scavino scavino uh defied their subpoena they also couldn't talk to the White House lawyers about what they had spoken to Trump about because they cited executive privilege and would not speak.
About their conversations uh with the president but what uh the special councel was able to do was go through a lengthy Court battle uh to compel the testimony of all of those people and to rule against executive privilege so you have quite a vivid portrayal of a president's Behavior at the critical moment at least for this case the.
Critical moment of the Trump presidency what he was doing and what he was not doing while the capital was under attack Katherine what does a special Council have to prove when it comes to the charges against Trump and how could scavo's claims factor into that well look I think it's not so much what Trump didn't do on the specific day of January.
6 is what he did do and of course as John just said we're learning much more about what Trump was doing inside the White House that day the special council's focused on for example Trump sending Tweets himself about his vice president president at the time but the charges specifically in the indictment at least some of them are conspiracy.
Charges conspiracy to defraud the United States conspiracy to corruptly uh impede the January 6 Congressional proceedings the special Council will focus not just on that day but what was happening leading up to that who he was uh talking to who was advising him those those sorts of things and even after January 6 so they also as John was mentioning.
Specifically will focus on Trump's State of Mind Of course on January 6th but also leading up that and they have spoken to multiple Witnesses who will testify to that if and when this goes to trial now of course Trump's team will try and use the testimony as a good thing they'll argue that these Witnesses are essentially confirming that Trump.
Believes the election was stolen that there was fraud uh but in terms of Smith proving this he has amassed a significant amount of evidence not just through testimony but also through documents that they have obtained that they believe they'll be able to prove this at trial John meanwhile Trump is calling for the releasee of those.
Imprisoned for breaking into the capital he's even calling them hostages what's his strategy there you know it's hard to use the word strategy uh to describe this but clearly uh he is doing some revisionist history on January 6th he is describing it as a great day uh not not a tragic day um and portraying the people that as we've.
Heard in in in what what in Katherine's great reporting here you know Dan scavo's line they were angry on my behalf um telling you know telling his AIDS his AIDS wanted to call the riot off get him out there you know do something make a statement go into the briefing room tell those people to stop tell them to go home and Trump didn't.
Want to do it because as we hear from scavino he felt that those people that were attacking the capital were angry on Trump's behalf um so it's really in a way highly consistent with what he is saying now it's taken him a while to get to the point where he is now publicly but to be calling these people these people that broke into the capital that.
Clashed with police uh to call them not law Breakers not prisoners who have been convicted many of them of crimes but hostages and one thing that was extraordinary to hear Yesterday um is to hear a member of the House of Republican leadership Alise stonic actually echoed that language so it's not just Trump now um you have you have others in positions.
Of authority within the Republican Party who are calling those people hostages all right John Carl kathern falers thank you both and defense secretary Lloyd Austin is recovering in the hospital after a medical scare over the holidays a Us official tells ABC News President Biden was exasperated at not being informed.
Sooner saying the White House didn't learn about Austin's hospitalization until 3 days after it happened Chief Global affairs correspondent Martha Ritz has the latest new details about the secret hospitalization of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin as lawmakers demand to know why it took so long to notify Congress.
And the White House ABC News learning this morning that Austin first entered Walter Reed National Medical Center on December 22nd while on leave for what the Pentagon is calling elective surgery he was discharged the following day but on the evening of January 1st the Pentagon says he began to experience severe pain and was sent back to Walter.
Reed and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit the Pentagon saying he was placed in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit to ensure immediate access due to his medical needs but then remained in that location in part due to hospital space considerations and privacy it was not until Thursday 3 days later that Austin or anyone at the Pentagon disclosed to.
The White House that he'd been hospitalized secretary Austin releasing this statement from his hospital bed I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed I commit to doing better but this is important to say this was my medical procedure and I take full responsibility for my decisions about.
Disclosure a Us official telling ABC news that President Biden was exasperated after learning about Austin's lack of transparency but the White House saying Biden spoke to Austin on Saturday wishing him a speedy recovery in what an official describes as a warm conversation the Department of Defense saying Deputy defense secretary.
Kathleen Hicks picked up duties on secretary Austin's behalf from her vacation spot in Puerto Rico until Friday night when the Pentagon says Austin resumed his duties from the hospital where he is said to be recovering well and and in good spirits and chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha RIT joins me now.
From Aman Jordan Martha what's the latest on the secretary's condition the Pentagon is not really saying anything beyond the fact that they say he's recovering well but he is still in the hospital so whatever happened was clearly quite serious you don't end up uh in the ICU for for a minor illness and they did say of course.
He was in severe pain what they're not saying they just aren't saying anything about what it was and you heard that statement from secretary Austin saying it was his medical procedure he clearly wanted to keep it private but he is a member of the cabinet and people at the Pentagon didn't know people at the White House didn't know now this comes as the.
Pentagon is embroiled in several major international issues including tensions in the Middle East related to the Israel Hamas war and of course the war in Ukraine what are the biggest concerns for the chain of command in a situation like this well it's decisionmaking and Kathleen Hicks according to an official.
Didn't really get a heads up that she would soon be making some of those decisions as we said she was on vacation in Puerto Rico in an official I talked to said they literally had to pull her out of the water and find a secure location so she could make some of those decisions you talk about the Middle East you talk about what's going on that's.
Why I'm here we've been crisscrossing this area we've been to Israel we've been to Dubai uh this is a crisis in Israel as we all know and in Gaza with that war raging on so secretary Austin certainly had some decisions to make during that period uh which is why when he went into the ICU uh those decisions were given to the deputy secretary of.
Defense how is the Pentagon responding to this and the concerns about how this was reported you know one of the things is there are so many questions about this there are people who absolutely would have known what's going on with secretary Austin to some degree he has a security detail he has a chief of staff.
He has a senior military assistant uh that is a a general or an admiral who would certainly know where he is at all times what did those people say about where secretary Austin was if someone asked did they say he was working from home because that would be a lie that is that is something that we will be reviewed according to an official uh who.
Told me about that possible review saying look we just want to know who was saying what because if you start telling people he's working from home that just simply wasn't true all right Martha radit in Aman Jordan Martha thank you coming up more and more people are using buy now pay later plans what you need to know about how they work so it.
Doesn't cost you in the long run and the the saga continues and I mean that literally not one two but three storms are getting ready to move across the US I'll let you know how that's going to be impacting your forecast for the week ahead stick around whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that.
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New York are bracing for two new cross country storms snow is already falling in Arizona and across the country alerts for blizzards strong wind flooding and heavy snow are already in effect meanwhile the Northeast is cleaning up after a weekend of messy winter storms ABC News meteorologist Samara Theodor is tracking it all for us hi Samara hey.
Good morning Diane okay so let me set the stage give you guys the story if you saw bad weather at the end of last week or this weekend it was likely storm number one that did that that's now moving out we've got our eyes on storm number two and at the same time I'm keeping track of storm number three that's getting to enter through the.
Northwest but let's talk more more about these storms and how they are just lighting up the board over 40 States say Diane said under some type of weather alert blizzard warnings just outside of Seattle they haven't seen the likes of that in that region in at least 12 years uh winter storm warnings through the northern tear of the country and then we.
Have this severe weather threat okay so timing this out today this morning through tonight lighting up the board along the Gulf Coast if you live in Houston Lake Charles Alexandria New Orleans Hattisburg mobile m monery Panama City you all have the threat for severe weather and we're not just talking any tornadoes we could see.
Strong tornadoes with some of these storms popping up especially in New Orleans and Mobile Alabama then what happens next is this storm shifts to the east coast it continues it on its trajectory towards the east and that threat for severe weather goes with it so Al Albany Georgia Tallahassee up into Wilmington Raleigh you guys can see.
Strong tornadoes well as well north of that into the Mid-Atlantic region del Marva Peninsula New York Tri area Philly that's where the flooding threat is elevated so by the time this is all said and done the northern portion of this storm is bringing snow and blizzard conditions into the plains 6 to 12 Ines possible for the southern part of the.
Country that's where we're seeing some of the heaviest totals through Wednesday this is certainly going to impact any travel folks have right now uh road conditions will be deteriorating as the days we're on especially the farther north you go with the blizzard conditions Diane and flooding is a real concern for us in the Northeast Tuesday.
Into Wednesday all right Samara Theodora thanks for that meanwhile buy now pay later purchases are breaking records the loans often let buyers pay for purchases and interest free installments but some experts say it might be hard for Shoppers to track what they're actually.
Spending ABC News business reporter Alexis christofer has more on that and your other business headlines Alexis what are you watching today hey there Diane actually we're watching uh lawmakers trying to avert a government shutdown I want to start with that because Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal this weekend setting a.
$1.6 billion federal spending limit for the year it's actually 1.6 trillion uh but some conservatives were quick to criticize the deal saying it doesn't include enough spending cuts among other things the deal would cut 20 billion dollar in funds for the IRS and cancel about 6 billion in covid relief money lawmakers need to pass legislation by.
January 19th to avert a government shutdown America's offices are emptier than at any point in the last four decades a new report from Moody's Analytics shows that nearly 20% of office space in major US cities was not least as of late last year that's the highest number since at least 1979 the new record shows just how.
Remote work and years of overbuilding have upended the office market and some iPhone owners are finally receiving their share of a $500 million settlement dubbed battery gate now some people who filed claims back in 2020 are now reporting payments of up to 92 bucks it's for a 2017 lawsuit accusing Apple of deliberately cutting the performance.
Of its older phones without informing consumers Apple says payments are going out all month long by now pay later purchases broke records this holiday season hitting $6.6 billion do in online sales alone these loans allow consumers to pay for purchases in installments often interest free which of course is attractive since credit card rates are.
Now topping 21% but some experts say buy now pay later may be encouraging younger and lower income Americans to spend more than they can afford and lose track of what they actually owe since the loans are not reported to major credit reporting agencies economists say it's hard for lenders to know how many loans a consumer has and how much of this.
So-called Phantom debt is actually out there so if you do buy now pay later make sure you put in your calendar when those payments are due all right great advice Alexis christop thank you and if you have any Finance questions for Alexis leave a message on her Instagram feed she might answer answer your question right here on Thursday coming.
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Week off on a strong note and if you're still struggling to jump start your Fitness routine for the new year our next guests have some tips to get you motivated and started right from home this is physique 57s Tori mackina and Adam Dickerson and Tori let's just get straight to it what is physique 57 and why do you think it's been effective for.
You so physic 57 is a bar-based work workout we focus on strength training it's low impact to use your own body weight for resistance and you can do it anytime anywhere with minimal equipment Adam some of us and I won't name any names but some of us have been slacking a little in the workout department so what do you suggest for trying to kind.
Of get a jump start on your Fitness routine if you haven't been in one for a while I would say sh uh set short-term goals like two weeks something that you can achieve something that's time based something manageable achievable and something that's fun so it doesn't even feel like a workout something that gets you going and high energy and cardio.
Strength training that all happens at physique so that's why I take T's class all the time uh some of the barrier can be oh I don't have the equipment I don't have the gym membership I don't want to leave the house so show us what we can do at home no equipment needed great so we have a chair all you'll need is a chair put one hand on it your feet.
Parallel bend your knees lift your heels a little and then you're start to shake your hips right and left now oh hey hey yeah not only that looks fun is it fun you're going to work the tops of your legs you're going to work your abs and as you get a a little lower and you lift up it's going to get the heart rate up okay One Stop Shop yes if you want to.
Work your glutes just turn around face the furniture one leg Bend 90° and then squeeze your glutes push it back and forth this is going to work your core your glutes look at that hamstring Shake how do you know you have the right form if you don't have an instructor watching you do this so with our on demand platform we give cues we give.
Instruction to really set yourself up for the correct technique right the the control room how we doing over there control what do you think is this something we can do they're trying apparently and if you if you don't any tips on how to make sure that you're doing things correctly.
If you don't have an instructor watching you you want to make sure that all of your core everything comes from your core you want to lock in your abs your ribs and from there your extremities can move more freely and in the right way so no hunching no hunching and no trying to pull from the shoulder area burn if you if if it's burning it's work oh we've.
Got the control room in with us all right see that you're already jump starting our workout here Tori Adam thank you so much thank you to the control room for getting into it uh and don't forget you can check out more of Tori and Adams workouts on ABC News Live's Instagram page thank you for streaming with us I'm Diane M ABC News.
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Warning a wider conflict would cause even more insecurity and suffering the visit comes as he BL claims a key Commander was killed in a strike on Lebanon meanwhile the World Health Organization reports around 600 patients and medical workers are unaccounted for after being forced to flee the AL ASA Hospital in Gaza the relief.
Organizations say the Israeli military dropped leaflets designating areas around the hospital a Red Zone Rescuers hope to reach five people trapped in a Slovenian cave today the group is stuck more than a mile from the entrance after heavy rains caused flooding inside the cave on Saturday divers managed to take them food and.
Clothing now officials are waiting for the water levels to fall and two undefeated teams are set to face off in the college football national championship tonight number one Michigan will take on second ranked Washington in Houston tonight is the final game of the current setup with four teams in the playoff next year it.
Jumps to 12 coverage starts at 7:30 Eastern on ESPN and all its various platforms meanwhile a Portland teacher has found the missing door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to cover and.
Seal emergency exits flew off mid-flight the cabin depressurized and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling the NTSB says there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9's ABC Jaclyn Le in Portland with some new details for us Jaclyn what a.
Story so we learned overnight that the seat next to this door plug lost its head rest the seat back and the trade table now luckily no one was sitting there so obviously this could have been worse but how are the passengers who were on board doing now hey Diane great to be with you yes obviously they are recovering and you.
Know while there were no serious injuries uh and everyone survived officials have acknowledged there's probably some psycholog iCal trauma that happened with this you have to think about it as they are going up in in the flight the the door plug rips off passengers talked about a lot of debris flying in the cabin it was very chaotic.
A lot of wind and of course you don't know what's going to happen uh there was an interview done with one passenger who said that she saw that this boy's shirt ripped off his skin uh was red with what they presume was just chafing from all of that wind so obviously a very scary situation and of course there were other inter done with passengers who said uh.
Some of them actually said they they weren't freaking out because they said if their time was going to come they were just going to accept it so of course there's just a huge spectrum of what that entire experience was like Diane that is some level of Cal for those passengers jacine we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open.
That the captain had a portion of the headset pulled off what's the latest on the investigation so yesterday was the first full day of the investigation now there are some key components of this as you had mentioned they did find the plug door it was found in the backyard of a Portland teacher named Bob so the NTSB.
Chair says that she was very relieved of that key piece of evidence was found unfortunately uh the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten and that is another key component that would have been part of this investigation but unfortunately that data is now gone forever uh they have several um people who are trying to rebuild exactly what.
Happened they had the structure team out there they're analyzing the door the door plug frame they're looking at the hinges and they're basically just trying to piece together all of these these pieces of the puzzle to figure out what went wrong overall Diane now we also know this plane was built in the same Factory as other Boeing planes so could.
This be a wider issue so that's something that we have been asking I mean when I met with the chair I asked are you more concerned about overall Boeing 737 Max Fleet and she said they're not rolling anything out out you know there has been a history with Boeing they had grounded the 737 Max 8 Fleet for 2 years after.
There were two crashes that killed hundreds of people ultimately Boeing did make some adjustments and ultimately the FAA allowed that plane to return into service um but in terms of the NTSB investigation they're going to be looking at everything and they did say though they're going to be very focused just on this plane and what went wrong.
First Diane all right Jaclyn Lee in Portland thank you and Hollywood is buzzing today after last night's Golden Globe awards succession the bear and beef for all big winners for television and on the big screen Oppenheimer led the pack so what could it all mean for the Oscars Lara Spencer has.
More Taylor Swift leading the crowd in a standing ovation for Barbie as it beat out Swift's era tour film for one of the newest Golden Globes categories cinematic and box office achievement we made it for you and we made it with love and thank you for loving it back Robert Downey Jr Christopher Nolan Killian Murphy but it was Oppenheimer taking.
Home the gold with five wins our first question do I have lipstick all over my nose and earning the big prize at the end of the night best drama Motion Picture leading the night for TV the final season of succession tying the record for most wins for best TV drama series with it third and for the first time in Golden Globe history standup.
Comedy getting recognition you guys finally decided to invite the talented people with Ricky Jes taking home the globe you're not Ricky jeras I'll accept this award on his behalf give me it on the small screen the bear proving they know how to serve with Jeremy Allen White taking home best male actor in a TV musical or comedy series against some.
TV great and his co-star Iowa debris winning best female actor alongside him thanking everyone from the top down all of my agents and manager assistance to the people who answer my emails y'all are real ones the cast of the Netflix show beef making history as well with firsttime nominee Ali Wong becoming the first female of Asian.
Descent to win best female actor in a lied series winning back to back with her co-star Steven young it's so weird the story I usually tell of myself to myself is uh one of isolation and like separateness and then you come up here and you have this moment and you can only just think about everyone.
Else and that feels like the plot of Frozen I just now just Lily Gladstone and Lily Gladstone from the movie Killers of the flower Moon becoming the first indigenous woman to win best female actor in AEM Motion Picture drama in Her speech Gladstone.
Acknowledging her Roots this is for every little re kid every little Urban kid every little native kid out there who has a dream who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words um with tremendous allies our thanks to Lara Spencer for that.
Report and ABC's contributor and Senior entertainment reporter at ESPN's andscape Kelly Carter's joining me now for more on this Kelly what were your standout moments from the show last night I mean there were a couple first off we have to talk about Oppenheimer taking home the big drama win I mean that really was such a great moment I.
Think for everyone also love seeing Divine Joy Randolph when she was a bit of a surprise she was a pleasant surprise and I say that because Danielle Brooks has been such you know a darling so far this this award season and was kind of predicted to win that but this is going to be a really St category I think for the rest of the season so love.
Seeing her get up there also got to talk about kieren culan who is the best worst of the Roy kids getting up there and getting his wi his speech was hilarious also very touching and I I really love seeing that moment as well it's also so great because of the character if you're a fan of the show to see him giving a speech which is part of the plotline.
That he can't do it in the show and so on I did love that moment as well what does this mean you think for Oscar nominations and the rest of the award season yeah you know not always the Golden Globes are predictors of what we should expect but they really definitely give filmmakers and and um creatives ammunition I think and kind of drive and.
Fuel to go through the rest of the season so I think this kind of nicely sets up a three-way conversation for Oppenheimer or the holdovers and for poor things to really be in consideration for some of the remaining Awards coming leading up of course to the Academy Awards that's gling Kelly Carter thank you as always and you can.
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Lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu welcome back to ABC News live first actor Jonathan major is speaking out for the first time after being convicted of.
Misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Majors calls the two-year relationship ship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse ABC News live Prime anchor Lindy Davis sat down with him for this exclusive interview I told you time isn't what you.
Think less than a year ago the name Jonathan Majors was followed by talk of critical and box office success skyrocketing Fame even Oscar buzz I'm coming for everything but this morning in a different conversation surrounds that Marquee name something about sitting here right now and and and looking at you.
And understanding the gravity of the situation um a situation that I in many ways you know put myself in the actor spoke exclusively with ABC news for the first time after being convicted in late December for harassment and misdemeanor Reckless assault in the third degree which could carry a penalty of up to a.
Year Behind Bars why did you decide you wanted to talk now I felt like it was time um a lot has happened um in my personal life in my career um in the culture it's about responsibility and coming forward and being brave and and giving my my part of the story your reaction to that.
Verdict shock I was uh I was absolutely shocked and um afraid I'm standing there and the verdict comes down I say how how how is how is that possible based off the evidence based off the prosecution's evidence let alone our evidence how was that possible but after only hours of.
Deliberation a jury of his peers agreed with prosecutors that he did physically injure his then girlfriend Grace Jabari in an incident last March what happened exactly do you know no I don't know um uh the she unconscious that 911 call from Majors came hours after an argument broke out with Jabari in the backseat of an SUV when Majors received a text from.
Another woman saying oh how I wish to be kissing you Jabari testified that when she grabbed the phone Majors tried to get it back fracturing her finger and giving her a cut but behind her ear she says inside the car you hit her in the face twist her arm behind her back fracture her middle finger yeah that did not happen how did those injuries come.
About I wish to God I knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't I have no question surveillance video shows Majors getting out of the car followed by Jabari whom he then puts back inside the vehicle what happens next is what the defense remains focused.
On Majors runs off and Jabari chases after him if you watch those videos and you reverse that and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street screaming and crying that man is going to be shot and killed in the streets of New York City Major's defense team shared these photos which he says show the injuries he received.
That night which were deemed inadmissible in court how were you injured my injuries were um I scratched on my hand you know from clawing for the phone and I had a gash on my at the time I had a beard under my beard I had essentially swinging out scratch on my gu my cheek from pressure and that bled overnight but prosecutors say Majors was.
The aggressor district attorney Alvin Bragg says the evidence presented throughout this trial Illustrated a cycle of psychological and emotional abuse in court prosecutors pointed to a previous argument during which he knocked a candle to the floor that completely lost lost my temper in that moment and.
And threw it all on the ground that's not something I would want my uh child to do and I did that I absolutely did that um and felt terrible about it the prosecution also played audio Jabari had recorded earlier in the relationship where Majors encouraged her to act more like ketta Scott King and Michelle Obama I am a great man a great man I am doing.
Great things not just for me but for my for my culture and for the world that is actually the position I'm in the woman that supports me needs to be a great woman there are some who question especially in the black community as you're probably well aware that that people were saying why was he telling this woman to be like RIS Scott King and.
And Michelle Obama it was me trying to give analogy of of what it is I'm aspiring to be you know these Great Men Martin President Obama um and trying to give a reference point to that one of the things I also say is like I need her in that that case Grace to make the same sacrifices that I am.
Making in a statement to ABC News an attorney for Jabari said in part it is not at all surprising that Mr major continues to take no accountability for his actions adding the timing of these new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for his actions do you feel you're not responsible for her injuries at all I shouldn't have been in the.
Car I shouldn't have stepped out of the relationship I shouldn't have been in the relationship if I'm not in the car none of this is happening if I leave the relationship none this is happening if I'm man enough or brave enough to say I want to see somebody.
Else or I'm I'm done now I'm not in that car we're not here I'm responsible for those things but none of her injuries I can't say that none of her injuries ABC News live Prime anchor lindsy Davis joins me now for more on this Lindsay thanks for coming on what did Majors tell you about why he didn't.
Take the stand you know Diane he said that all along he intended to testify in his own defense he said but as he listened to the prosecution lay out there evidence and the defense he said uh he felt that it was so strong and compelling what more can I add he he's pointed specifically to the driver who was chauffeuring that SUV that night uh.
That man in testimony through a translator said that while he didn't see the altercation he heard it and he said that he felt that Jabari was quote doing everything that he felt that she was the one hitting him and he said by the time he heard that testimony he felt that enough was going to be said and that he was shocked then as you heard him.
Describe uh once he heard the verdict now sentencing is less than a month away could he actually end up having to do jail time here you know February 6th is the day that he's going to be sentenced most legal analysts say while it is possible it's unlikely that he'll ever serve that time behind bars though with that misdemeanor Reckless assault it can.
Come with up to uh a year uh in jail but it does seem uh unlikely major says he plans to appeal what would that process look like yeah at this point uh his his attorney is saying look uh this was about his intent to hurt and that is it was kind of an all or nothing and the jury had to Define had to decide if he intentionally injured.
Uh Grace Jabari in the end they said that he didn't they said that it was the result of his recklessness that she ended up being hurt and they're saying that that wasn't even what the prosecution had put on the table that the jury shouldn't have been able to to rule uh that that the recklessness was was an option so they're saying based on.
That he's going to appeal take this back to court so Lindsay what's next for him uh you know he's saying that he believes he still has a future in Hollywood uh it seems he says that that's something that he's hoping for that he's praying for uh ultimately it may be a matter of the the court of public opinion uh to decide if they still have a a taste to see him on.
The big screen uh but as you know uh Marvel has part parted ways has dropped him uh his management his PR firm uh they've all dropped him and so we'll see uh if he's able to Curry for favor going forward all right lindsy Davis thank you and we will have more on Lindsay's exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors right here on ABC News live throughout.
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Is on for the first time in more than 50 years a lunar lander has blasted off from Cape canaval Florida if all goes according to plan the lunar lander will touch down on the moon next month and aims to PVE the way to put people back on the moon ABC's Derrick Dennis has the latest and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket liftoff.
Some 50 years after the first American Mission To The Moon A New American rocket is on its own giant leap for mankind launching overnight from Cape Canaveral marking the first lunar launch from the US since NASA's final Apollo Mission the brand new rocket the Vulcan is made by the private space company United launch Alliance hoping to jump.
Into the commercial space tourism industry if all goes according to plan a small lunar Landing will touch down on the moon on February 23rd they ask us as a company to buy a launch vehicle um and to build a Lander that can deliver their payloads in this case science payloads to the surface of the Moon Rod Roddenberry son of Star Trek Creator.
Jean Roddenberry paying special attention to the LA on board several experiments and the remains of 70 people including Roddenberry and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols he and the first lady of Star Trek along with a number of the other cast members from Star Trek along with countless other prominent wonderful people their ashes.
And their DNA are going to join together and be launched out humanity is going where no one has gone before astrobotics the company behind the Lander warns the mission is still risky it is A4 million miles away it is in the vacuum of space um you are controlling a vehicle that you can't use a joystick with from here on.
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Are out in force as voters and Iowa prepared to cast the first votes of the 2024 campaign the latest on the final push as Biden hits the campaign Trail 2 and ABC News exclusive Jonathan major sits down with ABC News live Prime anchor Lindsey Davis in his first interview since being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault why he's.
Speaking now and what he says happened with then girlfriend Grace Jabari plus here if he thinks he'll work in Hollywood again and it all comes down to tonight Michigan and Washington are set to face off in the college national title we're taking you to Houston where preparations are underway right.
now President Biden is set to give remarks at mother Emanuel Church in Charleston South Carolina this afternoon the Biden campaign says he's expected to issue a warning that Maga Republicans led by Trump are running on a hate filled fuel uh hate Rich excuse me hate fueled dangerous agenda the church was.
The sight of a racist mass shooting that left nine people dead in 2015 let's bring in senior White House correspondent Selena Wang ABC News political director Rick Klein and ABC's Alex pret in Iowa for more Selena South Carolina congressman and Biden campaign co-chair Jim klyburn says the church has spoken to the conscience of the nation.
And shown us the path forward after moments of division and despair how significant is this setting and what do you expect to hear from the president today well and the location is significant here by choosing this church as the location of his speech he's making an emotional appeal to the American people here this was the site.
Of that horrific mass shooting back in 2015 and the president is expected to make the case that the threats of political violence of racism extremism from 2015 well they haven't gone away today and sitting here in the church pews include survivors of that shooting as well as family members of those victims the president in being here in.
South Carolina he is also making an appeal and a pitch to South Carolina and its black voters they were critical to turning around his campaign bid back in 2020 to really rescuing his campaign and he's under pressure to show that he still has a support of that core critical Democratic base and the midst of this recent polls showed that.
President Biden's approval ratings among black voters has been lagging so the campaign tells me they are showing black voters that they are putting in the effort to earn their vote early on that they're not just going to parachute in the last minute but the president president has a lot to prove here today Rick this follows Biden's remarks near.
Valley Forge over the weekend he hammered former president Trump saying Trump is willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power what do you make of that messaging well I think it's the other pillar of the Biden campaign the the the speech of mother Emanuel today I think gets to the soul of the nation argument that he made as a.
Candidate uh originally four years ago and I think the the addition the added part of the of the threats to democracy that he's talked about I think is the other piece of it that has sort of enlivened his candidacy and is probably the underlying theme of 2024 I think it was an important speech it was a powerful speech important also in the.
Sense that so many Democrats have been looking to see how Joe Biden takes this fight to Donald Trump um hoping that people remember the horrors of January 6 clearly won't be enough that's not top of mind for people and it was about as clear and as direct as he has been so far and I think we'll see a lot more of that as this campaign year continues.
Alex next week President Biden will be one step closer to finding out who he'll be running against in the general election after the Iowa caucuses a former president Trump has a commanding lead so far so what are you hearing from voters there well Diane so he's got a 30-point lead right now and many of the folks we.
Were talking to don't see that particularly particularly changing for the caucuses but I do think I mean there is a big focus on uh who finishes second and third right we know that Ronda Sanz gner de Sanz has spent a lot of political Capital here in Iowa laying the groundwork uh he was campaigning here even before he actually officially.
Announced his candidacy and so you know for him to have a poor showing in Iowa could be detrimental to his campaign but I will tell you uh that despite all the uh the the visits from from from many of these candidates uh you know Trump has had uh far fewer visits here he had a he has an event that's already canceled uh for surrogates um uh later on this week.
Uh people are still really resonating with that 2016 America first message anecdotally we've talked to a number of folks here today uh that have said that you know that is something that they want to sign up for round two on Rick what are you watching for is a Republican candidates make their final push in Iowa it's been really striking.
To me Diane to see so many voters begin to question the strategy of the candidates in the closing uh days of this campaign and it's not atypical to have voters in Iowa and New Hampshire kind of asked questions as good as reporters or as good as pundits might but it is unusual for them to be saying the same thing to both to santis and.
Haley why aren't you taking the fight to Donald Trump and they're going to Town Halls over the next couple days and then a debate just the two of them on Wednesday night how much they kind of sharpen that that message in the closing days could be critical because as we know no one has actually voted yet in the state of Iowa all right Selena Wang.
Alex pet Rick Klein thank you and we will bring President Biden's remark to you live when they happen we'll have full coverage of the Iowa caucuses all day next Monday January 15th right here on ABC News live meanwhile House Republicans are moving forward with their efforts to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Cong.
Congress the house oversight committee released the text of their resolution along with a 19-page report calling the president's Sons Defiance of their subpoena contemptuous saying he must be held accountable for his unlawful actions Hunter Biden has insisted there's no fairness or decency in the committee's probe saying he's ready to.
Testify in public but refusing to testify behind closed doors Republicans have yet to present any hard evidence that the president personally benefited from his son's businesses and the FAA is now temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9s after part of an Alaska Airlines plane fell off mid-flight the flight.
Returned to Portland Oregon shortly after taking off after losing a mid-cabin door plug now a Portland teacher says he found the missing door plug in his backyard and another Oregon man says he found a passenger's phone on the ground ABC Transportation correspondent Gio bonitz is in Portland with the.
Latest the door plug that flew off an Alaska Airlines flight in midair leaving this gate aping hole behind now found after a 3-day search the NTSB locating it in the backyard of a Portland school teacher the discovery coming as authorities reveal no data can be pulled from the cockpit voice recorder because it was completely overwritten at 2 hours.
It writes it re-records over it so we have nothing from the CVR 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes now grounded globally as the NTSB races to investigate what went wrong we are emergency we are depressurized we do need to return back the Alaska jet with 177 people on board taking off from Portland Oregon Friday night when all of a sudden the so-called.
Door plug which is used to cover and seal optional emergency exits flew off I look to my left and there's this huge chunk part of the airplane just like missing and the wind is just Extremely Loud there's wind blowing everywhere the plane depressurizing passengers describing the terror on board Not only was the plane falling but also the masks.
Came down I was really praying I was asking God to put angels under the wings to hold us up the NTSB revealing the cockpit door flew open when the plug flew off the captain had a portion of the headset pulled off some passengers losing cell phones out of the plane's hole the NTSB saying they've recovered at least two from the ground below.
Flight attendant racing to keep everyone calm and safe I just noticed one flight attemp attendant uh rushing down the aisle with a portable oxygen mask she was just trying to do a headcount make sure everybody was accounted for make sure everybody was stable the plane which had been in operation since late October was.
On its third Flight of the day it took off for Ontario California around 5:00 p.m. Pacific when that nearly 2T wide door plug flew off from the 26th row of the plane where by Chance the two seats next to it were empty the NTSB saying it's grateful the the incident happened before the plane hit cruising altitude at 30,000 ft where experts say the.
Outcome would have been very different it could have been a disastrous situation and people could have been sucked out of the airplane the pilot immediately heading back to Portland International Airport the entire ordeal lasting a harrowing 26 minutes overnight the head of the NTSB telling ABC News pilots flying that same plane over the.
Past month reported warning lights indicating some l Lo of cabin pressure on the jet a pressurization alert uh light lit up in the cockpit on December 7th on January 3rd on January 4th uh and uh it was described as pretty benign maintenance teams looked at the plane and decided to restrict it from flying long distances over open water does that.
Concern you at all everything concerns us right now uh everything is part of the this investigation we're going to uh look more at the maintenance records the electronic logs we're going to talk to maintenance personnel and really figure out what what occurred here and we also learned overnight that the seat right next to that door plug actually lost its.
Headrest its trade table its seat back so it's just incredible again that nobody was sitting in that seat really a miracle there and I asked the NTSB chairwoman could this affect other Boeing airplanes and she said that right now we're focusing exclusively on this one airplane in particular but no doubt about it this investigation is important.
Because remember this plane was built in the same Factory that a lot of other Boeing airplanes are built in so they really need this to roll on and and figure out exactly what happened here Diane all right Gio bonitz in Portland thank you and Homeland Security secretary Alejandro mayorcas is traveling to Eagle Pass Texas today for.
An operational visit to the Border my orcus will meet with Customs and Border Protection personnel including US border patrol leadership as well as local officials this comes as the Republican House Majority is expected to hold a hearing on Wednesday to potentially impeach secretary mayorcas over his handling of the Border Matt Rivers joins.
Me now from Eagle pack Texas with more on this Matt how's significant is this visit considering this upcoming house hearing yeah I mean I I don't know that this particular visit is any more important than other visits that morcus regularly makes to the Border if only because everything that morcus does when it comes to migration these days is.
Under a microscope from the Republican side they are looking at everything my orcus is doing uh going through each one of his actions with a fine tooth comb and this visit won't be any different than that that said what my orcus is coming down here to try and do is show that he is managing a very bad situation as best as he can the line that we hear.
From my orcus all the time is that CBP border patrol everybody who's down here from the federal government is doing the best they can with a broken immigration system that they can only do so much when those Washington DC are not willing to figure out how to fix this issue on a substantive level and so if Republicans are saying that this issue is because of.
A dereliction of Duty on the part of mayorcas he's coming down here to say no we are managing this issue as best as we can given the tools The Limited tools and the limited resources that Congress is giving them and Matt what's the latest on the situation at the border and the number of people crossing.
Now yeah so in the month of December we saw a all-time monthly high of MiG encounters along the US Southwest border more than 300,000 encounters that's the first time it's ever topped 300,000 before but since the new year that number has dropped considerably I mean not just a few weeks ago this entire Field behind me would have been covered.
With migrants uh who have crossed over and we have seen that number slow to a trickle that's attributing really to two things on the one hand we always see an EB and flow around the Christmas and New Year season there's almost always a spike in the month of December with people trying to get across the border before the new year but also you have.
Seen Mexico Step Up enforcement actions on the other side they restarted deportation flights to Venezuela we've heard about more and more enforcement actions against migrants riding trains coming north of the Border trying to intercept those migrants on their way here so it's a mixture of things but as we see at the border all the time Diane.
This is an ebb and flow and those numbers even though they're lower right now they will go up again at some point all right Matt rivers in Eagle Pass Texas Matt thank you coming up Jonathan major sits down with ABC News live Prime anchor Lindsey Davis in his first interview since being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless.
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Welcome back to ABC News live first the man who attacked a Las Vegas judge during his sentencing hearing is set to appear in court doober readen and his attorney were asking judge Mary K hus for probation at that hearing but she felt his prior criminal history warranted prison time that's when Ren jumped over the judge's bench in a now.
Viral video tackling her and yelling expletives while repeatedly punching her now he's facing more than a dozen new charges and that same judge again ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire joins me now for more on this Brian Ren refused to appear in court last week what happened there and what should we expect today yeah I'm guessing that uh.
Probably wanted uh some cooler heads to to kind of prevail not a Repeat Performance yeah didn't want to Repeat Performance and also the fear of coming back before the same judge because that judge is also you're saying what's going to happen next is going to consider that sentencing that they're supposed to finish but also having the mindset that.
This person just assaulted me and so what we expect is probably a higher sentence from that first case and maybe if at all the judge will entertain resolving this assault case but I think more likely than not the defense will say let's have another judge kind of take on that case now the the original sentence was related to attempted.
Battery something along those lines so could this behavior in the courtroom affect that sentencing given the relevancy there absolutely because during the sentencing as we saw he was attempting to argue that he was a changed person that he was someone different that probation made more sense than a jail time that he wasn't a danger.
To society or other people but the whole danger to society aspect now I think he kind of proved the judge's point that probation wasn't proper here so he could get a lot lengthier sentence that he would have got originally except for this kind of hurdling over and attacking the judge so what kind of additional charges could he now face because you're.
Just talking about facing the sentencing for the original charges he was there for to begin with what happens now in terms of charges for this attack so extortion a number of battery and assault charges but also battery protected person they're often elevated charges for assaulting someone like law enforcement EMT nurses but judges are.
Also on that list as well so I would expect heightened uh uh charges as well as a potential sentence whether it's in front of this judge or one of this judge's colleagues uh down the road that the person gets ultimately sentenced to I would expect a lot of jail time all right legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you my pleasure meanwhile actor.
Jonathan major is speaking out for the first time after being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend May calls a two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse ABC News life Prime anchor Lindsey Davis sat down with him.
For this exclusive interview it has been very very very uh hard and very difficult and uh confusing in many ways Jonathan major breaking his silence just weeks after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor Reckless assault and Har harassment of his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabari the actor at times emotional oh sorry um you know.
I haven't I haven't seen my daughter in in a in a in a long time you know and um a lot of it has to do with this situation in a split verdict Majors was found not guilty of two other misdemeanors assault with intent to cause physical injury and aggravated assault they're saying you didn't intend.
To injure her right but the result of your recklessness injured her right were you Reckless I was Reckless with her heart not with her body not with her body the physical altercation started inside an SUV after Majors received a suggestive text message from another woman hours later after major placed a.
911 call police found Jabari unconscious on the closet floor in their apartment as seen in this body camera footage you feel that you did anything wrong on the night of March 25th if you could relive that night I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have put her back in the car I wouldn't have tried to keep her in the.
Car I would have gotten out that car and ran immediately the two met back in 2021 on the set of Ant-Man and the WASP Quantum Mania the prosecution has described your relationship with Grace Jabari as tumultuous and abusive how would you describe that to your relationship I loved Grace our relationship was it was not.
Healthy you know and that began to reveal itself over time why' you stay I I was I was scared um with the red flags I found that and I use this word I this is dangerous this is months before um um the incident I should have been Brave I should have said no this isn't working and I should have walked away um and I.
Didn't troubling signs in the relationship were revealed when prosecutors presented text messages where Majors expressed Suicidal Thoughts saying maybe I'm such a monster and horrible man that I don't deserve it and should just kill myself were you suicidal the ideations of removing myself from situations permanently is a.
Thought that I've had um I mean since I was a kid you know since I was a you know young boy on the farm in Texas you know it's not there anymore you know I've done that I'm doing the work to to keep it at Bay and make sure it's not there anymore the March 2023 incident thrust Major's dating history into the Forefront a rolling stone article back.
In June detailed multiple allegations of abusive Behavior dating back to Majors relationships in college allegations Majors vehemently denies his attorneys offered past partners to defend him have you ever had issues with domestic abuse I've I've witnessed it um but never participated you know I mean I've been smacked up before you.
Know but yeah never never exercised it those relationships went back to when I was you know 21 22 years old and I just think was I a jerk you know was I you know you know a mean guy you know and I go yeah knowing what I know now like oh severe depression childhood trauma.
I've had very few relationships um so I can I can I can gather um what situations we're talking about um yeah I was not the best boyfriend all the time but never hit a woman never hit a woman I've never but my hands have never struck a woman ever after gaining critical Acclaim for films like the last black man in San.
Francisco Majors once's red hot career is now seemingly at a standstill how are you feeling moments after the verdict Marvel Studios dropped him he was set to play The prominent character Kang in upcoming films I am Kang but despite the possibility of serving time Majors believes the script for his career is still being written you think he'll ever.
Work in Hollywood again yeah yeah I do I pray I do but it's uh it's God's plan and God's timing for those who say look he's he's convicted at this point what would you say I mean do you deserve a second chance I think I do I hope other people think.
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Are out in force as voters in Iowa prepare to cast the first votes of the 2024 campaign the latest on the final push as Biden hits the campaign Trail too two storms are crossing the country bringing threats of tornadoes flooding strong winds and a blizzard this after the first snowstorm of the season in the Northeast we have the aftermath and the.
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Just a week away candidates are crisscrossing the state trying to chip away at former president Trump's commanding lead senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has the latest from De Mo with the Iowa caucuses just one week away the Republican candidates are blitzing through the state still trying.
To catch Donald Trump the former president 30 points ahead facing backlash for saying the Civil War which was fought over the issue of slavery could have been negotiated so many mistakes were made see there was something I think could have been negotiated to be honest with you do you find those comments acceptable I don't.
Even know how to judge I don't even know what he's talking about I mean Lincoln did what he had to do um he ended up ushering in the abolition of slavery uh and he saved the Union Florida Governor Ronda santis was long seen as Trump's toughest opponent he's already visited all 99 counties now he's in a battle for second place with former South Carolina.
Governor Nikki Haley I'd like to be the underdog um so I'm just letting that sit uh let people say what they want do you believe you can win we've done it right and and and we're going to we're going to do well if you do not place first first or second place are you staying in this race we're in it for the long haul in it for the long H regardless.
Absolutely Haley has spent the last several days walking back comments she's made on the trail first failing to mention the word slavery when asked by a voter what caused the Civil War then suggesting New Hampshire would correct the Iowa caucuses and now facing new questions from voters about why she isn't going after Trump harder Pro.
Trumpers don't think I love him enough anti-trumpers don't think I hate him enough for those that want me to hit Trump more I just am not going to do it Diane and the weather throwing these campaigns a curveball in the final stretch the Trump campaign forced to cancel a surrogate event for later today because of the.
Brutal cold and the heavy snow that is on the way Diane Rachel Scott in De Moine Iowa thank you and we will have full coverage of the Iowa caucuses all day next Monday January 15th right here on ABC News live and we're learning some exclusive new details on what Trump insiders told the special coun about the former president's conduct on January.
6th sources familiar with the investigation say the most vivid descriptions came from one of Trump's closest AIDS calling what he saw quote very unsettling ABC News Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Carl has the details as the nation marks the three-year anniversary of the January.
6th attack Donald Trump defended his supporters who ransacked the capital calling for those who have been imprisoned for breaking into the building to simply be released I call them hostages some people call them prisoners I call them hostages released.
The J six hostages Joe the justice department has charged nearly 1300 people allegedly involved in the attack as well as Trump himself after lengthy Court battles special counsel Jack Smith's investigators have spoken to all of the senior AIDS who were with Trump at the White House while the capital was under attack including trusted a Dan.
Scavino a man who has known Trump since he was a teenager and worked as his golf caddy inside the White House scavino ran Trump's Twitter accounts and all social media the Great Dan scavino most powerful man in politics scavino spent much of January 6th at Trump's side sources say scavino told investigators that Trump sat in the dining room next.
To the Oval Office as his supporters attacked the capital and then es cavino and other AIDS pleaded with Trump to do something to stop the violence Trump sat in front of the TV unresponsive his arms folded scavino called Trump's demeanor very unsettling the sources say scavino told investigators that Trump was angry.
Saying the election had been stolen from him and that his supporters were quote angry on his behalf much of that anger was directed at Trump's loyal vice president Mike Pence and sources say another White House Aid Nick Luna told investigators that when he informed Trump that Pence had to be evacuated to a secure location.
Because of the threats Trump responded so what and chief Washington correspondent John Carl joins me now along with ABC News senior reporter Katherine falers John Dan cavino is a trusted Aid who Trump has known since he was a teenager so how critical could his testimony be in this case well I think it's very.
Critical not just scavino what what the special counsel has done here is has gone through and methodically talked to all of the senior advisers who were with Trump while that attack on the capital was going on you know the January 6 committee did a lot to try to reconstruct what uh Trump was doing during that time but they couldn't talk.
To scavino scavino uh defied their subpoena they also couldn't talk to the White House lawyers about what they had spoken to Trump about because they cited executive privilege and would not speak about their conversations uh with the president but what uh the special Council was able to do was go through a lengthy Court battle uh to compel the.
Testimony of all of those people and to rule against executive privilege so you have quite a vivid portrayal of a president's Behavior at the critical moment at least for this case the critical moment of the Trump presidency what he was doing and what he was not doing while the capital was under attack Katherine what does a special.
Council have to prove when it comes to the charge against Trump and how could scavo's claims factor into that well look I think it's not so much what Trump didn't do on the specific day of January 6 is what he did do and of course as John just said we're learning much more about what Trump was doing inside the White House that day the special.
Council's focused on for example Trump sending Tweets himself about his vice president at the time but the charges specifically in the indictment at least some of them are conspiracy charges conspiracy to defraud the United States conspiracy to corruptly uh impede the January 6 Congressional proceedings the special Council will focus not just on.
That day but what was happening leading up to that who he was uh talking to who was advising him those those sorts of things and even after January 6 so they also as John was mentioning specifically will focus on Trump's State of Mind Of course on January 6 but also leading up to that and they have spoken to multiple Witnesses who will testify to that if.
And when this goes to trial now of course Trump's team will try and use the testimony as a good thing they'll argue that these Witnesses are essentially confirming that Trump believes the election was stolen that there was fraud uh but in terms of Smith proving this he has amassed a significant amount of evidence not just through testimony but.
Also through documents that they have obtained that they believe they be able to prove this at trial John meanwhile Trump is calling for the release of those imprisoned for breaking into the capital he's even calling them hostages what's his strategy there you know it's hard to use the word strategy uh to describe this but clearly uh he is doing.
Some revisionist history on January 6th he is describing it as a great day uh not not a tragic day um and portraying the people that as we've heard in in in what what in Katherine's great reporting here you know Dan gavino's line they were angry on my behalf um telling you know telling his AIDS his AIDS wanted to call the riot off get them out there you.
Know do something make a statement go into the briefing room tell those people to stop tell them to go home and Trump didn't want to do it because as we hear from scavino he felt that those people that were attacking the capital were angry on Trump's behalf um so it's really in a way highly consistent with what he is saying now it's taken him a.
While to get to the point where he is now publicly but to be calling these people these people that broke into the capital that clashed with police uh to call them not law Breakers not prisoners who have been convicted many of them of crimes but hostages and one thing that was extraordinary to hear Yesterday um is to hear a member of the House.
Republican leadership Alise stonic actually echoed that language so it's not just Trump now um you have you have others in positions of authority within the Republican Party who are calling those people hostages all right John Carl Katherine falers thank you both and defense secretary L Austin is recovering in the hospital after a.
Medical scare over the holidays a Us official tells ABC News President Biden was exasperated at not being informed sooner saying the White House didn't learn about Austin's hospitalization until three days after it happened Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Ritz has the latest new details about the secret.
Hospitalization of Defense secretary Lloyd a as lawmakers demand to know why it took so long to notify Congress and the White House ABC News learning this morning that Austin first entered Walter Reed National Medical Center on December 22nd while on leave for what the Pentagon is calling elective surgery he was discharged the following day but on.
The evening of January 1st the Pentagon says he began to experience severe pain and was sent back to Walter Reed and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit the Pentagon saying he was placed in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit to ensure immediate access due to his medical needs but then remained in that location in part due to hospital space.
Considerations and privacy it was not until Thursday 3 days later that Austin or anyone at the Pentagon disclosed to the White House that he'd been hospitalized secretary Austin releasing this statement from his hospital bed recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed I commit to doing better but.
This is important to say this was my medical procedure and I take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure a Us official telling ABC news that President Biden was exasperated after learning about Austin's lack of transparency but the White House saying Biden spoke to Austin on Saturday wishing him a speedy.
Recovery in what an official describes as a warm conversation the Department of Defense saying Deputy defense secretary Kathleen Hicks picked up duties on secretary Austin's behalf from her vacation spot in Puerto Rico until Friday night when the Pentagon says Austin resumed his duties from the hospital where he is said to be.
Recovering well and in good spirits and chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha RIS joins me now from Aman Jordan Martha what's the latest on the secretary's condition the Pentagon is not really saying anything beyond the fact that they say he's recovering well but he is still in the hospital so whatever happened was.
Clearly quite serious you don't end up uh in the ICU for for a minor illness and they did say of course he was in severe pain what they're not saying they just aren't saying anything about what it was and you heard that statement from secretary Austin saying it was his medical procedure he clearly wanted to keep it private but he is a member of.
The cabinet and people at the Pentagon didn't know people at the White House didn't know now this comes as the Pentagon is embroiled in several major international issues including tensions in the Middle East related to the Israel Hamas war and of course the war in Ukraine what are the biggest concerns for the chain of command in a situation.
Like this well it's decisionmaking and Kathleen Hicks according to an official didn't really get a heads up that she would soon be making some of those decisions as we said she was on vacation in Puerto Rico and an official I talked to said they literally had to pull her out of the water and find a secure.
Location so she could make some of those decisions you talk about the Middle East you talk about what's going on that's why I'm here we've been crisscrossing this area we've been to Israel we've been to Dubai uh this is a crisis in Israel as we all know and in Gaza with that war raging on so secretary Austin certainly had some decisions to make.
During that period uh which is why when he went into the ICU uh those decisions were given to the deputy secretary of defense how is the Pentagon responding to this and the concerns about how this was reported you know one of the things is there is so many questions about this there are people who absolutely would.
Have known what's going on with secretary Austin to some degree he has a security detail he has a chief of staff he has a senior military assistant uh that is a a general or an admiral who would certainly know where he is at all times what did those people say about where secretary Austin was if someone asked did they say he was working from.
Home because that would be a lie that is that is something that will be reviewed according to an official uh who told me about that possible review saying look we just want to know who was saying what because if you start telling people he's working from home that just simply wasn't true all right Martha RIT inam on Jordan Martha thank.
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Country storms snow is already falling in Arizona and across the country alerts for blizzards strong wind flooding and heavy snow are already in effect meanwhile the Northeast is cleaning up after a weekend of messy winter storms ABC News meteorologist Samara Theodor is tracking it all for us hi Samara hey good morning Diane okay so let me set.
The stage give you guys the story if you saw bad weather at the end of last week or this weekend it was likely storm number one that did that that's now moving out we've got our eyes on storm number two and at the same time I'm keeping track of storm number three that's getting to enter through the Northwest but let's talk more about.
These storms and how they are just lighting up the board over 40 States says Diane said under some type of weather alert blizzard warnings just outside of Seattle they haven't seen the likes of that in that region in at least 12 years uh winter storm warnings through the northern tear of the country and then we have this severe weather.
Threat okay so timing this out today this morning through tonight lighting up the Border along the Gulf Coast if you live in Houston Lake Charles Alexandria New Orleans Hattisburg Mobile Montgomery Panama City you all have the threat for sever weather and we're not just talking any tornadoes we could see strong tornadoes with some of these storms.
Popping up especially in New Orleans and Mobile Alabama then what happens next is this storm shifts to the east coast it continues it on its trajectory towards the east and that threat for severe weather goes with it so Al alvany Georgia Tallahassee up into Wilmington Raleigh you guys can see strong tornadoes well as well north of that.
Into the Mid-Atlantic region del Marva Peninsula New York tri-state area Philly that's where the flooding threat is elevated so by the time this is all said and done the northern portion of this storm is bringing snow and blizzard conditions into the plains 6 to 12 Ines possible for the southern part of the country that's where we're seeing some.
Of the heaviest totals through Wednesday this is certainly going to impact any travel folks have right now uh road conditions will be deteriorating as the days we're on especially the farther north you go with the blizzard conditions Dian and flooding is a real concern for us in the Northeast Tuesday into.
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Among other things the deal would cut2 billion in funds for the IRS and cancel about 6 billion in covid relief money lawmakers need to pass legislation by January 19th to avert a government shutdown America's offices are emptier than at any point in the last four decades a new report from Moody's Analytics shows that nearly 20% of.
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Some people who filed claims back in 2020 are now reporting payments of 92 bucks it's for a 2017 lawsuit accusing Apple of deliberately cutting the performance of its older phones without informing consumers Apple says payments are going out all month long by now pay later purchases broke records this holiday season hitting 16.6 billion.
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What they actually owe since the loans are not reported to major credit reporting agencies economists say it's hard for lenders to know how many loans a consumer has and how much of this so called Phantom debt is really out there great advice Alexis christopherus thank you and if you have any Finance questions for Alexis leave a message on.
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House so show us what we can do at home no equipment needed great so we have a chair all you'll need is a chair put one hand on it your feet parallel bend your knees lift your heels a little and then you're start to shake your hips right and left now oh hey hey yeah not only that looks fun is it fun you going to work the tops of your legs you're going.
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Connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former companion galain Maxwell more than a dozen newly unsealed documents include a number of photographs from an accuser she provided dozens of photographs showing Epstein Maxwell herself and other young women and girls on Epstein's Private Island our team is now going through those.
Unsealed documents we will have much more on this story throughout the day here on ABC News live President Biden is set to give remarks at mother Emanuel Church in Charleston South Carolina within the hour the Biden campaign says he's expected to issue a.
Warning that Maga Republicans led by Trump are running on a hate fueled dangerous agenda the church was the site of a racist mass shooting that left nine people dead in 2015 let's bring in senior White House correspondent Selena Wang in Charleston ABC News political director Rick Klein and ABC's Alex pre in Iowa for more Selena this comes after.
Biden's remarks near Valley Forge over the weekend he hammered former president Trump saying Trump is willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power so how significant is this setting today and what do you expect to hear from the president well Diane the choice of location here is very important and.
President Biden in choosing this church is making an emotional appeal this church was the sight of that horrific mass shooting in 2015 and sitting here in the church pews today our family members of those victims of that shooting as well as survivors of that shooting the president he is going to make the case that hate extremism racism.
From 2015 well they are still problems in America today he's going to be setting the stakes of this election now also in coming here the president is making an appeal to South Carolina and its black voters they were critical to rescuing his campaign back in 2020 and the president is under pressure to show that he still has the support of that.
Key Democratic cons constituency as poll shows that his support among black voters has been lagging now Congressman Jim klyburn whose support was critical to Shoring up black support in South Carolina for Biden in 2020 and who is with the president today he said that no other place embodies the stakes of this election better than this church right.
Here he says this church witnessed the horrors of hate fied violence and that this election will decide whether or not Americans will stand up to what he calls the hate embodied by president Trump and the Maga Republicans Diane now Alex the Iowa caucuses are just a week away so how are Republican candidates there responding to President.
Biden's messaging here attacking Maga Republicans well Diane the messaging has been consistent in saying that they believe that Biden and the Biden policies are taking this country in the wrong direction they're hammering him on the economy certainly hammering him on the border which is something that has resonated uh across Ross the Midwest you.
Know we've been traveling in in in in touching base not just in in Iowa but also places like Ohio and and and other parts of the Midwest where that's something that's that's it's front and center but really kind of uh getting at this this idea that uh the uh the the trumpan policies and many of these Maga policies uh that were so popular for.
Many of the folks here many of the Republicans here in 2016 uh would be good going forward in 2024 uh and you've seen you've seen that but also I I would say just a week out from uh this these Iowa caucuses uh there is an understanding here from folks like Nikki Haley and Rhonda santis that they have to chip away at the lead that former.
President Donald Trump has it's about a 30-point lead and so you're seeing those attacks being lobbed his way as well now Rick South Carolina is another early primary State and it was a key in winning Biden the 2020 nomination so what's at stake there for the president this time around this is so interesting because it was so key that actually Joe.
Biden gave it a big benefit this time around and moved it to the front of the line and and for the Democrats it's the first contest that actually Awards delegates yes they will be voting in New Hampshire uh yeah there will be Iowa caucuses but they're all being reconfigured and kind of downplayed in service of South Carolina so there's.
Going to be other even other Democratic Challengers on the ballot in in other places including New Hampshire and Iowa uh South Carolina is the first contest in the primaries that will matter and Joe Biden needs an enormous showing there as Selena outlined it's key constituency for him it's also showing that he's got the support of the.
Democratic base and I think it is significant that he chose South Carolina for his first primary campaigning action of 2024 Joe Biden does not have serious primary challenges but he did reward the state um and bring it to the to the front of the democratic process going forward and if it's going to continue to to have that it's going to have to see.
Campaign action as well so I think that's just another another piece of the context for today all right Selena Wang Alex pase Rick Klein thank you all and we will bring you president Biden's remarks live when they happen we'll have full coverage of the Iowa caucuses as well all day next Monday January 15th right here on ABC News.
Live and former president Trump is seeking to dismiss the election interference case against him in Georgia Trump's legal team filed several new motions including one claiming presidential immunity Shields him from prosecution he also is expected to attend an appeals court hearing tomorrow in Washington where his team will make a.
Similar argument in the federal January 6th case the filing comes as ABC News is learning exclusive new details on what Trump insiders told the special counsel about the former president's conduct on January 6th sources say longtime Trump Aid Dan scavino told investigators that he and other AIDS pleaded with Trump to do something to stop the violence but.
Trump sat with his arms folded in front of the TV unresponsive scavino called Trump's demeanor quote very unsettling and rapper ASAP Rocky is being arraigned today in a Los Angeles courtroom for his non-fatal shooting in case the musician whose real name is raken Mayor is charged with two accounts of assault with a semi-automatic gun.
After allegedly shooting at former group member ASAP reli in 2021 ABC's Morgan Norwood and ABC's legal contributor Brian buckmire join me now for more on this Morgan what can we expect to happen in court today well Diane as you mentioned ASAP Rocky is expected to appear in court this is an arraignment hearing it comes after a judge rulle.
That he must stand trial on the charges and allegations that he fired at a former bandid and friend back in 2021 let's point out that he could face up to two years in prison if convicted as for today you know it's likely that he's going to be read the charges right Bon may come up as well we'll see if he enters a plea sometimes we don't know.
How these arraignment hearings will go but we do know there are going to be no cameras in the courtroom I do want to remind you though this is a high-profile case right you know just one year ago out in La Tory Lane's case Megan the stallion and so with that remember there were a lot of delays with that case over in La 2 so sometimes that's to be.
Expected with these high-profile cases so we're keeping an eye out for that potential but certainly locked in to see how things will play out today Diane Brian isap bracky pleaded not guilty to the charges he's denied the allegations so what evidence does the prosecution have here and what happens if he gets convicted so D we already saw uh a kind.
Of preview in the preliminary hearing from the judge where they have video but also the word of the alleged victim here now we know from the understandings that the accusations that ASAP Rocky shot at his friend and grazed his knuckles and that's where that friend and former uh rap mate uh testify to but there's also video surveillance there's video.
Surveillance of a person in a hoodie with a gun and they can identify what they believe to be a gun in that person's hand but they can't really see the person's face another subsequent video does show that person's face and law enforcement is saying that's ASAP Rocky now the interesting part here is after law enforcement kind of got to the.
Scene they didn't find any shell casings but two days later when this alleged victim uh went to report to the police he brought shell casings uh to the police so there's some kind of question marks as to when the shooting happened where where it happened and if at all interesting so Morgan what's next here yeah we'll see how all of this plays out.
If this has to trial here remember ASAP Rocky is a new father right he just welcomed baby number two with pop icon Rihanna uh he's going to fight this tooth and nail in fact according to US Weekly there appears to be even be some anxiety surrounding this case you know Rihanna saying quote the situation is out of her hands right but holding it.
All together of course as this legal battle um shakes out but there appears to be you know some concern some anxiety and and we'll see how all of this this place out Diane all right Morgan Norwood ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you both coming up Jonathan major sits down with ABC News live Prime anchor Lindsey.
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Attorney were asking judge Mary K hus for probation at that hearing but she felt his prior criminal history warranted prison time that's when Ren jumped over the judge's bench in a now viral video tackling her and yelling expletives while repeatedly punching her now he's facing more than a dozen new charges and that same judge again ABC.
News legal contributor Brian buckmire joins me now for more on this Brian Ren refused to appear in court last week what happened there and what should we expect today yeah I'm guessing that uh probably wanted uh some cooler heads to to kind of prevail not a Repeat Performance yeah didn't want to Repeat Performance and also the fear of coming.
Back before the same judge because that judge is also so that you're saying what's going to happen next is going to consider that sentence and that they're supposed to finish but also having the mindset that this person just assaulted me and so what we expect is probably a higher sentence from that first case and maybe if at all the judge will entertain.
Resolving this assault case but I think more likely the not that defense would say let's have another judge kind of take on that case now the the original sentence was related to attempted battery something along those lines so could this behavior in the courtroom affect that sentencing given the relevancy there absolutely because.
During the sentencing as we saw he was attempting to argue that he was a changed person that he was someone different that probation made more sense than a jail time that he wasn't a danger to society or other people but the whole danger to society aspect now I think he kind of proved the judge's point that probation wasn't proper here so he could.
Get a lot lengthier sentence that he would have got originally except for this kind of hurdling over and attacking the judge so what kind of additional charges could he now face because you're just talking about facing the sentencing for the original charges he was there for to begin with what happens now in terms of charges for this attack so.
Extortion a number of battery and assault charges but also battery protected person there are often elevated charges for assaulting someone like law enforcement EMT nurses but judges are also on that list as well so I would expect heightened uh uh charges as well as a potential sentence whether it's in front of this judge or one of.
This judge's colleagues uh down the road that this person gets ultimately sentenced to I would expect a lot of jail time all right legal contributor Brian buckmire thank you pleasure meanwhile actor Jonathan major is speaking out for the first time after being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his.
Ex-girlfriend Majors calls a two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse ABC News life Prime anchor Lindsey Davis sat down with him for this exclusive interview it has been very very very uh hard and very difficult and uh confusing in many ways is Jonathan major breaking.
His silence just weeks after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabari the actor at times emotional oh sorry um you know I haven't I haven't seen my daughter in in a in a in a long time you know and um a lot of it has to do with this situation in a split vers ICT Majors was.
Found not guilty of two other misdemeanors assault with intent to cause physical injury and aggravated assault they're saying you didn't intend to injure her right but the result of your recklessness injured her right were you Reckless I was Reckless with her heart not with her body not with her.
Body the physical altercation started inside an SUV after Majors received a suggestive text message from another woman hours later after Majors placed a 911 call police found Jabari unconscious on the closet floor in their apartment as seen in this body camera footage you feel that you did anything wrong on the night of March 25th if you could relive.
That night I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have put her back in the car I wouldn't have tried to keep her in the car I would have gotten out that car and ran immediately the two met back in 2021 on the set of Ant-Man and the WASP Quantum Mania the prosecution has described your relationship with Grace.
Jabari as tumultuous and abusive how would you describe that to your relationship I loved Grace our relationship was it was not healthy you know and that began to reveal itself over time why' you stay I I was I was scared um with the red flags I found that I and I use this word this is dangerous.
This is months before uh um the incident I should have been brave I should have said no this isn't working and I should have walked away um and I didn't troubling signs in the relationship were revealed when prosecutors presented text messages where Majors expressed Suicidal Thoughts saying maybe I'm such a monster and horrible man that I don't deserve it.
And should just kill myself were you suicidal the ideations of removing myself from situations permanently is a thought that I've had um I mean since I was a kid you know since I was a you know young boy on the farm in Texas you know it's not there anymore you know I've done that I'm doing the work to to keep it at Bay and.
Make sure it's not there anymore the March 2023 incident thrust Major's dating history into the Forefront a rolling stone article back in June detailed multiple allegations of abusive Behavior dating back to Majors relationships in college allegations Majors vehemently denies his attorneys offered past partners to defend him have.
You ever had issues with domestic abuse I've I've witnessed it um but never participated you know I I've been smacked up before you know but yeah never never exercised it those relationships went back to when I was you know 21 22 years old and I just think was I a jerk you know was I you.
Know you know a mean guy you know I go yeah knowing what I know now like oh severe depression childhood trauma I've had very few relations ships um so I can I can I can gather um what situations we're talking about um yeah I was not the best boyfriend all the time but never hit a woman never hit a woman I've never but my hands have never.
Struck a woman ever after gaining critical Acclaim for films like the last black man in San Francisco Major's once red hot career is now seemingly at a standstill how you feel moments after the verdict Marvel Studios dropped him he was set to play The prominent character Kang in upcoming.
Films I am King but despite the possibility of serving time Majors believes the script for his career is still being written you think you'll ever work in Hollywood again yeah yeah I do I pray I do but it's uh it's God's plan and God's timing for those who say look he's he's convicted at this.
Point what would you say I mean do you deserve a second chance I think I do I hope other people think that lindsy Davis thank you and we will have more of Lindsay's exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors right here on ABC News live throughout the day and you can catch the full interview on.
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live welcome back the new year is bringing New Beginnings to thousands of thousands of miles away for some Maui residents after wildfires ripped through their Community this summer one family is now sharing their Journey as they start 2024 in a new state and try to navigate the challenges of insurance.
Claims ABC's Melissa Adon is exploring the Spirit of Haka which means to begin in Hawaiian in the latest installment of Maui strong 808 as the new year begins it's a chance for a new start for the thousands of victims of the fires that devastated Maui last August for some that new start beginning thousands of miles away Anon.
And Janessa cabanilla were born and raised in Lina she had a crush eny in second grade we've been together maybe 11 years strong ready they relocated to Las Vegas with their five and six-year-old after losing their home I didn't want my kids to wake up every day and see the scenery I didn't want them to kind of be reminded every day of what.
We gone through we took that opportunity to you know let's let's get out there let's go to Vegas just make our lives better but for now their days look like this trying to create some stability for their children as they rebuild their lives they were excited we got into the house but some days we'll have have those times where our kids are like you.
Know when when are we going to go back home back on Maui many still searching for a sliver of a new beginning Alfie borto lost his own home but is pouring into his community through his nonprofit planning to purchase and set up 11 more of these mobile homes on the 2 and a half acres of land he owns in an upscale gated community in lahina you have this.
Land and you're thinking about these other families in need why is it so important to you the government is not going to come in make us whole it is truly not so I think it's our responsibility to help each other out I believe in that so strongly a neighboring homeowners association is suing claiming Alfie hasn't obtained the.
Permits to build residential structures they Overlook our burn Zone like it's like our community that they're refusing to help you've reviewed the emergency Proclamation what is it that you see that says hey no this is eligible so in my discussions with the county when I Pres presented the idea of having RVs M um you know their reply back to me was.
Because it's an RV and because it's got registration for the DMV and it's got a safety certificate it doesn't require permitting Alfie is awaiting a court hearing on January 11th or word from the county to see if he can move forward with his plan to build this legal tug of war speaking to the largest issue clouding Maui's relief efforts more than.
2400 households remain displaced as Governor green tries to compel 1,500 short-term rentals on Maui to convert to long-term housing by March 1st nelan Caesar has been living at the Royal lahina since August she says she faced issues with her insurance claim what they give us is not enough hopefully they're going to give us more because.
That's not what we expect everything here are so expensive and she's not alone says mahilani strong an insurance executive in lahina she's says she's handling more than 1,000 home in autoc claims resulting from the fire according to Hawaii State Insurance division as of last October more than 3,500 homeowners have filed insurance claims in the Maui.
Fire with nearly 1,500 of those properties suffering a total loss their data shows roughly 40% of claim money has not been paid out totaling more than $773 million I think one of the biggest worries of the clients is when it comes time to rebuild well they still have money left for it because everybody's paying out of their eyeballs for rent.
Right now people are using their personal property funds to pay rent I want to rebuild our house My Heart Belongs to lahina this community yearning for New Beginnings calling to their ancestors and cleansing in the water is to like see the beginning when.
You're a navigator you have to see the beginning of the Horizon and know that you're going to chart a course to reach your destination Melissa Don thanks for that and we have some great news here in our ABC newsfilm Le to kickoff 2024 our senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott is engaged she posted these.
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Anthony blinkin is set to arrive in Israel today after meeting with leaders in the Middle East the warning a wider conflict would cause even more insecurity and suffering the visit comes as Hezbollah claims a key Commander was killed in a strike on Lebanon meanwhile the World Health Organization reports around 600 patients in medical workers.
Are unaccounted for after being forced to flee the AL ASA Hospital in Gaza the relief organizations say the Israeli military dropped leaflets designating areas around the hospital a Red Zone Rescuers hope to reach five people trapped in a Slovenian cave today the group is stuck more than a mile from the entrance after heavy rains caused.
Flooding inside the cave on Saturday divers managed to take them food and clothing now officials are waiting for the water levels to fall and two undefeated team teams are set to face off in the college football national championship tonight number one Michigan will take on second ranked Washington in Houston tonight is the.
Final game of the current setup with four teams in the playoff next year it jumps to 12 coverage starts at 7:30 Eastern on ESPN and all its various platforms meanwhile a Portland teacher has found the missing door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday.
Night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to cover and seal emergency exits flew off mid-flight the cabin depressurized and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling the NTSB says there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737.
Max 9s ABC's Jaclyn Lee is in Portland with some new details for us jacine what a story so we learned overnight that the seat next to this door plug lost its headrest the seat back and the trade table now luckily no one was sitting there so obviously this could have been worse but how are the passengers who were on board doing.
Now hey Diane great to be with you yes obviously they are recovering and you know while there were no serious injuries uh and everyone survived officials have acknowledged there's probably some psychological trauma that happened with this you have to think about it as they are uh going up in in the flight the the door plug rips off.
Passengers talked about a lot of debris flying in the cabin it was very chaotic a lot of wind and of course you don't know what's going to happen uh there was an interview done with one passenger who said that she saw that this boy's shirt ripped off his skin uh was red with what they presume was just chafing from all of that wind so obviously a very scary.
Situation and of course there were other interviews done with passengers who said uh some of them actually said they they weren't freaking out because they said if their time was going to come they were just going to accept it so of course there's just a huge spectrum of what that entire experience was like Diane that is some level of C for those.
Passengers jacine we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open that the captain had a portion of the headset pulled off what's the latest on the investigation so yesterday was the first full day of the investigation now there are some key components of this as you had mentioned they did find the plug door it was found in the backyard of a.
Portland te teacher named Bob so the NTSB chair says that she was very relieved that that key piece of evidence was found unfortunately uh the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten and that is another key component that would have been part of this investigation but unfortunately that data is now gone forever uh they have several um people.
Who are trying to rebuild exactly what happened they had the structures team out there they're analyzing the door the door plug frame they're looking at the hinges and they're basically just trying trying to piece together all of these these pieces of the puzzle to figure out what went wrong overall Diane now we also know this plane was built in the.
Same Factory as other Boeing planes so could this be a wider issue so that's something that we have been asking I mean when I met with the chair I asked are you more concerned about overall Boe 737 Max Fleet and she said they're not rolling anything out you know there has been a history with Boeing they had grounded the 737 Max 8.
Fleet for 2 years after there were two crashes that killed hundreds of people ultimately Boeing did make some adjustments and ultimately the FAA allowed that plane to return into service um but in terms of the NTSB investigation they're going to be looking at everything and they did say though they're going to be very focused.
Just on this plane and what went wrong first Diane all right Jaclyn Lee and Portland thank you and Hollywood is buzzing today after last night's Golden Globe awards succession the bear and be for all big winners for television and on the big screen Oppenheimer led the pack so what could it all mean for the Oscars Lara.
Spencer has more tlor Swift leading the crowd in a standing ovation for Barbie as it beat out Swift's era's tour film for one of the newest Golden Globes categories cinematic and box office achievement we made it for you and we made it with love and thank you for loving it back Robert Downey Jr Christopher Nolan Killian.
Murphy but it was Oppenheimer taking home the gold with five wins our first question do I have lipstick all over my nose and earning the big prize at the end of the night best drama Motion Picture leading the night for TV the final season of succession tying the record for most wins for best TV drama series with its third and for the first.
Time in Golden Globe history standup comedy getting recognition and then you guys finally decided to invite the talented people with Ricky Jes taking home the globe you're not Ricky Jas I'll accept this award on his behalf give me it on the small screen the bear proving they know how to serve with Jeremy Allen.
White taking home best male actor in a TV musical or comedy series against some TV greats and his co-star IA debris winning best female actor alongside him thanking everyone from the top down all of my agents and managers assistance to the people who answer my emails y'all are real ones the cast of the Netflix show beef making history as.
Well with firsttime nominee Ali Wong becoming the first female of Asian descent to win best female actor in a limited series winning back to back with her co-star Steven young so weird the story I usually tell of myself to myself is uh one of isolation and like separateness and then you come up here and you have this moment you can only.
Just think about everyone else and that feels like the plot of Frozen I just now just Lily Gladstone and Lily Gladstone from the movie Killers of the flower Moon becoming the first indigenous woman to win best female actor in aemotion picture drama.
In Her speech Gladstone acknowledging her Roots this is for every little res kid every little Urban kid every little native kid out there who has a dream who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words um with tremendous allies our thanksa Spencer for that report and ABC new's contributor and.
Senior entertainment reporter at ESPN's ansap Kelly Carter is joining me now for more on this Kelly what were your standout moments from the show last night I mean there were a couple first off we have to talk about Oppenheimer taking home the big drama win I mean that really was such a great moment I think for everyone also love seeing.
Divine Joy Randolph when she was a bit of a surprise she was a pleasant surprise and I say that because Danielle Brooks has been such you know a darling so far this this award season and was kind of predicted to win that but this is be really St category I think for the rest of the season so love seeing her get up there also got to talk about.
Kieren culan who is the best worst of the Roy kids getting up there and getting his win his speech was hilarious also very touching and I I really love seeing that moment as well it's also so great because of the character if you're a fan of the show to see him giving a speech which is part of the plot line that he can't do it in the show and so.
On uh I did love that moment as well well what does this mean you think for Oscar nominations and the rest of the award season yeah you know not always the Golden Globes are predictors of what we should expect but they really definitely give filmmakers and and um creatives ammunition I think and kind of drive and fuel to go through the rest of.
The season so I think this kind of nicely sets up a three-way conversation for Oppenheimer or the holdovers and for poor things to really be in consideration for some of the remaining Awards coming leading up of course to the Academy Awards that's glaring Kelly Carter thank you as always and you can watch the Oscar nominations right here.
On ABC News live on January 23rd with coverage starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern coming up Jonathan Majors breaks his silence for the first time since being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault why he's speaking out now and what he says happened with then girlfriend Grace Jabari ABC News live Prime anchor lindsy Davis has the.
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What all the buzz is about experience the allnew ABC News app download it now ABC News live Prime winner of the Gracie Award for best news program in all of Television stream ABC News live Prime with lindsy Davis week nights on ABC News live so little bit of.
Sun just a little bit Brea just a little bit smile little more I'm in I've been running through the Str pictures on my phone like everything is so little bit of Good Morning America welcome back to ABC News live first actor Jonathan major is speaking.
Out for the first time after being convicted of misdemeanor Reckless assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Majors calls the two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse ABC News live anchor lindsy Davis sat down with him for this exclusive.
Interview I told you time isn't what you think less than a year ago the name Jonathan Majors was followed by talk of critical and box office success skyrocketing Fame even Oscar buzz I'm coming for everything but this morning a different conversation surrounds that Marquee name something about sitting here right now and and and.
Looking at you and understanding the gravity of the situation um a situation that I in many ways you know put myself in the actor spoke exclusively with ABC news for the hello everyone I'm Kira Phillips glad you're streaming with us hoping South Carolina can save him President.
Biden returning to the state that catapulted his campaign back in 2020 recharging his election bid one week from the Iowa Caucasus he is speaking at mother Emanuel Church there in Charleston the site of one of the worst racist mass shootings in our country let's listen in thank you please.
Thank thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you it's going to go to my head please thank you Jim we love you you know uh just say one thing about what Jim has been talking about that uh confuses me about our Republican friend sometimes the Maggie.
Republican no I mean I'm being sincere every one of the things that Jim mentioned saves the American taxpayer billions of dollars you realize if you have a prescription drug from any major drug company in America I can take you to Toronto Canada London Rome any major capital in the world and buy the same exact drug for sometimes half the.
Price that you get here look folks when the federal government through Medicare doesn't have to pay out as much money it means taxpayers pay less money because you fund the federal government you fund Medicare go down every one of these things that always confuse me they talk about being rational it's just about.
Excess profit but any rate I don't want to get off and that I'll get carried away I don't quite get these guys thank you Jim for your friendship and above all for your uh your fellowship and Bishop green thank you for those kind words I mean that's sincerely and thank you Reverend Manning uh for uh for uh you know uh The Shepherd of this house.
To uh allow me to stand to this Podium once again and all the faithful of mother Manuel and distinguished guest I was talking downstairs I uh I spent more time in uh the uh bethl am Church in Wilmington Delaware than I have than most people I know black orwe have spent in that church because that's where I started C.
No I'm serious I started a civil rights movement I used to go to 7:30 mass then I go to 10: o00 CL 10:00 service with the Reverend who was running the church is now the bishop she's a bishop and I'm told your Bishop had been there before in South Africa that's where he is right now the point is that I've been blessed to worship here before as well you know.
Uh uh you know it's a moments of joy and uh great joy and moments of great pain moments of unbearable loss on June 17 2015 the beautiful souls five survivors and five survivors invited a stranger to into this church to pray with them the word of God was pierced by bullets and hate rage propelled.
By not just gunpowder but by a poison poison has for too long haunted this nation what is that poison white supremacy oh it is is a poison throughout our history it's RI this nation apart this has no place in America not today tomorrow or.
Ever from that day this nation saw this congregation this community demonstrate one of the greatest acts of strength I have ever seen I mean it sincerely from the bottom of the act of forgiveness the act of Grace it was as President Obama sang from here Amazing Grace you changed Hearts you did.
Something that may not have happened but for your courage you brought down the Confederate flag in South Carolina you brought it down no you did and you help the nation heal you sure showed what America can overcome what we can be when we want to be something I'm deeply humbled to speak.
From this same Pulpit my friend and he was a friend Reverend Pinkney spoke from we all miss him none more than his family in this congregation but just as all the families of the Emanuel nine missed the pieces of their soul that they lost that day we also have been together at moments of unbearable loss for my family.
Two days after the service of re Reverend Pinkney my son and I my surviving son and I came back my family worship with you here's Sunday service to show our solidarity but my family also needed to be healed we didn't even realize how badly just 22 days before we had buried my son Bo a veteran exposed and died.
Because of those burn pits in Iraq for a year we were we we were we were in more pain than we knew we came here to offer Comfort I received comfort from you no I'm serious as I listened in the pews spent time with the families visited Reverend pinkney's.
Office visited the memorial for the victims outside I grew stronger my son my family grew stronger we prayed together we grieve together we found Hope together for real for real and you know it reminds me that through our pain each of us each of us must find purpose for me that purpose was to live.
A life worthy of my son Bo and I mean it sincerely for you that purpose is for the lives worthy of loved ones lost to make them proud so many of you were there for us during that loss including my dear friend Jim and Emily cver miss Emily I miss people of deep.
Faith Jim a great public servant the best friend you could ever have Jim I'm thinking Emily today we've talked about it downstairs a little bit I know you do every single solitary day she was special and that Bond you shared was something to behold as many of you know Jim is a teacher and.
A student of History he knows the power of History he knows the power of truth and the power of Lies he knows what happens when people are allowed to whitewash history erase history bury history he knows what the Bible teaches we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free right.
But the truth the truth is under assault in America as a consequence so is our freedom our democracy our very country because without the truth there's no light without light there's no path from this Darkness if you really care about the lives lost here then you should honor.
The lives lost and call for a ceas fire in Palestine CE that's all right that's all right that's all right now now now now.
down thank you look folks I understand.
Their I understand their passion and I've been quietly working I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gossip using all that I can to do that but I understand the passion look folks after the person you're understanding person they.
Don't realize that you're a good man well thank you look after the Civil War the defeated Confederates couldn't accept the verdict of the war they had lost so they say they embraced what's known as The Lost Cause a self-serving Li that the Civil War is not about.
Slavery but about State's rights they've called that the noble cause that was a lie a lie that had not just a lie but had terrible consequences it brought on Jim Crow so let me be clear for those who don't seem to know slavery was the cause of the Civil War there is no negotiation about that now now we're living in an era of a.
Second loss cause once again there are some in this country trying trying to turn a loss into a lie a lie which if allowed to live will once again bring terrible damage to this country this time the LIE is about the 2020 election the election which you made your voice is heard and your power known just two days ago we marked the third anniversary.
Of the dark one of the darkest days in American history January the 6th the day in which insurrectionist stormed the United States capital trying for the first time in American history to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the country we all saw with our own eyes the truth of what happened that violent mob was whipped up by lies from a defeated.
Former president smashing Windows smearing blood on statues ransacking offices outside insurrection insured Gallows chanting hang Mike Pence inside they hun for Nancy Pelosi chanting where's Nancy we saw something on January 6th we'd never seen before even during the Civil War insurrectionist waving Confederate flags inside the.
Halls of Congress built by enslaved Americans a mobbed attacked and called black officers black veterans defending the nation most vile of racist names and yet an extreme movement of America the Maga Republicans led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now they tried to steal an election now they're trying to steal history telling.
Us that violent mob was and I quote a peaceful protest that's that Insurrection those insurrections were his words Patriots that there was quote a lot of love that day in fact the rest of the nation and the world saw a lot of hate and violence for hours the defeated former president sat in the private ding off of my off of.
The Oval Office and did nothing nothing absolutely nothing his actions were among the worst derelictions of Duty by any president American history an attempt an attempt to overturn a free and fair election by force and violence let me say what others cannot we must reject political violence.
In America always not sometimes always it's never appropriate violence of January 6 was an extension of an old Playbook from the from the threats and violence and intimidation Atlanta Georgia two Brave black women mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and sheay Moss they had their lives.
Upended just doing their jobs menacing calls death threats forcing them to literally flee their homes those pushing the big lie have a conspiracy theory among conspiracy theories it outweighs them all that there's what and but here's the fact there's where we don't have facts their whole theory has no facts has no proof.
Has no evidence that's why time and again they lost in every court of law that challenge results 60 losses in courts of America there's one thing they don't have they don't have respect for the 80 million people have voted the other way voted for my candidacy and.
Voted to end the presidency in their world these Americans including you don't count but that's not the real world that's not democracy that's not America in America we all count in America we witness to serve all those who in fact participate and losers are taught to to concede when they.
Lose and he's a loser then we all came together to put the country before ourselves the lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that.
Throughout the mob the United States capital isn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to determine to erase history and your future Banning books denying your right to vote and have it counted destroying diversity equality inclusion all across America harboring hate and replacing.
Hope with anger and resentment and dangerous view of America that narrow view of America Zero Sum view of America that says if you win I lose if you succeed it must be I fail if you get ahead I fall behind and maybe worst of all if I hold you down I lift myself up that's not new in America every stride.
Forward has often been met with ferocious backlashes from those who fear the progress from those who exploit that fear for their own personal gain from those who traffic and lies told for profit and power but here in Charleston you know the power of Truth less than a mile from here was once support where almost half.
Of all enslaved Africans were trafficked to North America and forced on our Shores that's right and now you have a world class Museum there to tell the truth about the original sin and it matters and I want to thank former mayor Jim Riley for his leadership who saw to it the museum was built and for all of.
You who made that happen and with your help I made juneth the first federal holiday since Dr Martin Luther King G this work why because the truth matters the truth matters with your help we established the national mon monument in.
Honor M and Emma Till because we heard Mrs Till's call the mother of a 14-year-old son who was lynched and whose body was mutilated but the mother and sist isted on an open cast of this funeral because she said let the world see what I saw the truth matters it always matters we can't just to learn choose to learn.
What we want to know and not we should know we should know the good the bad the truth of who we are that's what great Nations do and we're a great nation the greatest of all Nations we're not perfect but at our best we learn from our past and we look to the Future a nation continuously striving to be a more perfect union I'm.
Here to speak to another truth it's because of this congregation and the black community of South Carolina and not exaggeration than Jim kurn that I stand here today as your president because of all of you that's a fact that's a fact.
And I owe you and I've done my best to honor your trust that means rejecting a small narrow cramped view of America as well as lifting up a bigger and broader view of America that holds that if you do well I do well we all do well we all do well if every race and.
Background of small towns and big cities is doing better when our freedoms are protected and we deny hate is a safe harbor where everyone has a fair shot at a life of dignity and opportunity and where our democracy works for everybody that benefits everybody I don't get these guys everybody does better even those folks who disagree with.
Us I'm keeping my commitment to you that's the America we're building together in instead of erasing history we're making history the starts in the starts of administration I committed to I said my Administration look like America and Taps into our full talents and strengths as a.
Nation starting with our incredible vice president K Harris when we came to office the country is in the depth of a Pand pandemic which we lost over a million2 200,000 people people so we moved Heaven and Earth to get the country vaccinated saving countless lives when the economy on the.
Brink we spent we sent $1,400 checks into the pockets of people who were hurting badly to keep them going I said we'd invest in all of America All America and we are the results are clear over 14 million new jobs the record economic growth the lowest inflation rate of any major economy in.
The world but we have more to do we see this progress for All America we have the lowest black unemployment rate recorded in long long time more blacks Americans of health insurance than ever bringing peace of mind and dignity to their lives I remember when I was a kid we lived in a three-bedroom house with four kids and a and a grandpa living.
With us and my headboard in my room was up against with a little split level home it wasn't we weren't poor we were anyway we weren't we sure weren't worth the wealthy and I remember really one night hear my dad Restless because the headboard was Along by my headboard on the other side of the wall I asked my.
Mom the next morning I said what's the matter with Dad she said honey his employer just told her they're dropping health insurance but that does it deprives a man and a woman and their dignity how do you look at your child and say I can't cover you I can't take care of and now as Jim pointed out I won't go.
Into it like I was going to because he said it better instead of about average of $400 a month for insulin for seniors with diabetes we're now paying $35 a month by the way they're still making a profit three times cost $10 to make it I've been trying to take on as couple of un audience know for my entire career.
Big farmer finally beat them finally finally finally we're going to go back and make sure the Medicare can no negotiate prices for everybody not just for seniors again it saves the American taxpayers billions of dollars not having to pay Farmer for these things you know.
We're growing back black wealth but we have a lot more to do the racial wealth cap is the smallest it's been in 20 20 years under my watch more black small businesses starting up than in decades and the ultimate act and opening new business the ultimate act act of hope we're taking on housing discrimination in many ways so a home owned by today a.
Home owned by a black family on one side of a highway built by the same Builder on the other side of the highway and a white guy living in it the white guy's home is valued more than the black guys no I I know you know it but guess what that's how you build generational wealth when you build your home common Li leading the charge mainly common to.
Protect the freedom to vote and that vote that be counted defending your freedom to choose we're keeping our commitment of providing incredible opportunities making historic investments in HBCU $7 billion 7 billion they're just as good as other.
Universities just some that they don't have the the billionaire contributors so they can't put the Laboratories together to get the contracts to be the ones that design new aircraft carrier decks being the ones that design what it's changing it's changing providing people a real shop by reducing the burden of student debt Jim went into it I won't go into as.
I was going to $132 billion 3.6 million people significant percentage of those students are African-American students despite our friends the other side of the table Supreme Court did everything we can to stop me replacing every lead pipe in America you know how many not just some every single lead pipe in America is going to be taken out and.
Replaced with the prop why because the mostly poor neighborhoods that's where those lead pipes are and that's why kids end up with brain damage because the lead there's so I'm not going to window but look you can turn on the floss if your a child and doesn't get sick and from.
Drinking the water and coming into the home delivering highspeed internet that's affordable for everybody everybody so you don't have to sit in McDonald's parking lot to your child to do their homework producing clean energy so you can finally breathe clean air without leaving home look I understand.
It we mooved from Scranton I was Regent Claymont Delaware more major refineries in any place including Houston Texas and just across the border in Chester not a joke I grew up with asthma most of us did because of the prevailing winds we go my mama drive us in school in the morning as young grade school turn out when there was a frost turn on the.
Windsh wer there be an oil slick on the way because guess what it's all the fence line communities to get hurt not on my watch it's changing we know there's more to do making child care and elder care more affordable which would save American taxpayers billions of dollars along the way early in my Administration we were out we we cut.
Child poverty in half child black child poverty in half by getting families checks every month through the child tax credit and the other side went ahead and blocked it we're going to get it back this look this fight is no over we're going to come back because no child in America should ever go to bed hungry period period period period.
After the historic movement for justice in the summer of 2020 I signed the most significant police reform executive order in history we didn't get the law passed but guess what I did it by executive order significant partment but now Congress has to step up and ask and get it do what I did and make it the law of the land just a few days ago the.
Defeated former president was asked about the recent shooting in Iowa do you hear this one I'm it's hard to believe you know what his response was all those kids dead we have to get over it end of quote I promise you we have to get over it my response is we have to stop.
It so your children your family your friends can leave your home walk the streets go to stores go to the grocery store and go to church to be safe from gun violence there's no excuse for this Carnage we have to ban assault weapons I did it once before and I'm going to come back again and do.
It ban high capacity magazine we have to pass a universal background checks it doesn't violate the Second Amendment it's common sense and it saves lives I'm determined to continue to deliver unequal justice under the law I made a commitment to you to nominate the first black woman and Jim's already.
Talked about it on the Supreme Court and by the way she's smarter than the rest of these guys oh her name is katoni brown Jackson but guess what she knows what she's doing and by the way as Jim pointed out more black women have been appointed to the federal circuit courts than every.
Other pres of American History is appointed every single solitary one counted and we're going to keep going look I want to make it clear you all made this possible because of your voice your voice was heard and shaping your destiny that's democracy I'm proud to have led the.
Effort to make sure your voice in South Carolina voice will always be heard because now you're first in the primary look our Northstar as a nation is the very idea of American and idea at once the most simple and most powerful idea in the history of the world that's.
Not hyperbole the fact the idea is this we're all created in the image of God equally we deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives that COV it's a covenant we made with each other a covenant we've never fully lived up to but we never fully walked away from either and faith in history teach us that however dark the.
Night joy cometh in the morning and that Joy comes with commands from scripture love the Lord thy God with all thy heart heart all thy mind all thy soul and love your neighbor as thyself not so easy it's hard but in those commands is the essence of the gospel and the essence of the American promise.
And in my life I've tried to live my faith and I've many times failed but I've learned as many of you might have learned in your path as well we're all we're all imperfect beings we don't know where fate will take or when but we can do our best to seek a life of light hope love and Justice and Truth folks let me close with this Denmark vessie arrived.
In Charleston enslaved one of too many too many From A Distant Shores wrenched from painful on a painful Journey not to a Promised Land but to a land that promised to deprive them of freedom but even though they arrived in the land were the life and rif of pain and persecution they still.
Believed they had promise the black church kept them moving they had Faith they found scripture faith is a substance of things hoped for evidence of Things Not Seen Bessie had his kind of Faith he became a carpenter and a movement leader concerned with the least Among Us that's why he help found this very.
Church 200 years ago only 40 years after the Declaration of Independence and this church your church now the black church has some to come to symbolize the faith and this purpose to Bear witness to those who are suffering to bring the good news of a future to come to follow its mission to be be the.
Light in the pathway of Darkness that's patriotism that's patriotism to love something so much you make it better no matter the struggle a patriotism that inspired generation before us to believe that in America we can do and be anything we want to be in our time there's still the old.
Ghost of new and new garments we all need to rise to meet the moment and the moment is now folks my fellow Americans This is a time of choosing so let us choose the truth let us choose America I know I know we can do it together and it's the gospel song sings we've come too far from where we started nobody told me the road would be.
Easy I don't believe you brought me this far to leave me my fellow Americans I don't think the good Lord brought us this far to leave us behind may God bless you all and may God protect our troops thank you thank you thank.
You oh the president there at uh mother Emanuel Church Charleston S South Carolina uh you can hear his supporters clearly throughout the pews uh cheering for four more years it did come with a little protest though a few protesters uh wanting to bring up and keep the war in in Gaza of course in the headlines but the president hoping to win a state.
That he wenton over in 2020 and it really catapulted his career back at that time will it work this time around our senior White House correspondent Selena Wang is there in Charleston she's traveling with the President also our ABC News political director Rick Klein is here for more so Selena let's talk about the president using the site here.
Of one of the worst racist shootings in our country to talk about Trump his extreme views and and warning uh that another Trump White House could be a threat to our democracy it seems to be a theme he is sticking with but this CH time choosing a background uh that's truly connected to extremism and racism in our.
Country yeah Cara this was a very fired up and emotional speech from President Biden you heard the chance there from the audience they were responding to the president emotional as well the program is still ongoing the president making very pointed comments and we've heard him now call out president Trump even harder this follows his Friday Valley.
Forge speech when he said Trump is only running to seek retribution and to enrich himself today the president saying that this election is a clear choice and for the campaign the choice of this location this church where there was that horrific mass shooting in 2015 that embodies the choice and the stakes here in this election they see it as the.
Embodiment of what they witnessed in 2015 here which was hate field violence and they said this time Americans need to choose if they're going to stand up to what they call the embodiment of Hate by Trump and the maggot campaign now South Carolina is also critical to the president as you said South Carolina and support from its black voters were key.
To catapulting President Biden turning around his election campaign bid back in 2020 and he needs to prove that he still has the support of this key Democratic Coalition as polls shows that support among black voters has been lagging the campaign telling me that they are not parachuting in they are earning the vote from black voters and they are doing the.
Work to do that so Rick Selena you know just mentioned uh that this comes day just a number of days after Biden delivered that one of his strongest speeches uh to marked January 6 is this theme of trump being a threat to our democracy going to work better for for him you think versus focusing on bionomics which is what he started out.
Doing and has seemed to move away from yeah and and the problem here Kira is that the economy and economics is where people live their lives and what we're seeing is the White House and the Biden campaign increasingly realize that convincing people that the economy is doing well and branding it around President Biden just has not worked.
Maybe it works eventually that's what they hope over time is that people have better perceptions but when when you talk about this issue and the issues of threats of democracy they aren't necessarily top of mind but the president is going to try to put them there and to underscore the stakes tonight or this afternoon we heard him.
Talk about a second loss cause that's a phrase that I think this crowd in South Carolina is very familiar with the Lost Cause of uh of the defeated Confederates in the Civil War and linking it now to what he called the second lost cause of the uh of Rel litigating and refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election that gives it resonance that gives it.
Some heft that gives it some historical significance we know the president has been meeting with historians behind closed doors and I think the through line of the speech on Friday and again today kind of ties together some of the the thematics that President Biden has long run on of trying to restore what he calls the soul of the nation and now.
Fighting for the survival of democracy so Selena protesters also made their way in clearly wanting to keep the war in Gaza in the conversation here but they were escorted out only lasted a couple minutes Bless yeah K it was a really heated moment the protesters chanting for a ceasefire now but then later drowned out.
By the audience here chanting for for four more years and President Biden as he waited for all this commotion to die down he said I understand their passion and I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to do all I can do but clearly this just paints a picture of the divisions within the Democratic party where you see more progressives.
And young people against Biden's staunch support and of the Israeli government we have seen the Biden Administration come out more forcefully saying they do not condone the humanitarian suffering that they want to see more a getting into Gaza they have been more publicly critical of the Israeli government but still a lot of angry Democrats out there.
But when I talk to the Biden campaign about this issue they say look it's still far out and they believe that as the campaign closes and they see this as a clear choice between Trump Maga Republicans and Biden they still think Biden will be the winner Selena Selena thank you Rick one more question I mean this is Nikki Haley's home state she.
Received a lot of backlash over those comments regarding the Civil War and the black community you think Biden can capitalize off this now well I President Biden has to worry about his own primaries first and U not to say that there's much of a worry but I think part of his audience is there it's interesting that when he talks about.
Republicans he's almost exclusively talking about Donald Trump right now I don't think the Biden campaign right now is squared up against Nikki Haley in a meaningful way I think if Nikki Haley were to win a couple of caucuses or primaries then I think that might change but the Biden team is geared up for a race against Trump Haley wouldn't.
Necessarily be an easy standin I think that would change a lot of the Electoral calculations so much of what we've heard Friday and again today is about Donald Trump Selena Wang Rick Klein thank you both so much you bet well actor Jonathan major speaking out for the very first time after being convicted of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend major calls.
The two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse he sat down exclusively with our Lindsay Davis I told you time isn't what you think less than a year ago the name Jonathan Majors was followed by talk of critical and box.
Office success skyrocketing Fame even Oscar buzz I'm coming for everything but this morning a different conversation surrounds that Marquee name something about sitting here right now and and and looking at you and understanding the gravity of the situation.
Um a situation that I in many ways you know put myself in the actor spoke exclusively with ABC news for the first time after being convicted in late December for harassment and misdemeanor Reckless assault in the third degree which could carry a penalty of up to a year Behind Bars why did you decide you wanted to talk now I felt like it was.
Time um a lot has happened um in my personal life in my career um in the culture it's about responsibility and coming forward and being brave and and giving my my part of the story your reaction to that verdict shock I was uh I was absolutely shocked.
And um afraid I'm standing there and the verdict comes down I say how how how is how is that possible based off the evidence based off the prosecution's evidence let alone our evidence how was that possible but after only hours of deliberation a jury of his peers agreed.
With prosecutors that he did physically injure his then girlfriend Grace Jabari in an incident last March what happened exactly do you know no I don't know um uh but she's unconscious that 911 call from Majors came hours after after an argument broke out with Jabari in the backseat of an SUV when Majors received a text from another woman saying oh how.
I wish to be kissing you Jabari testified that when she grabbed the phone Majors tried to get it back fracturing her finger and giving her a cut behind her ear she says inside the car you hit her in the face twist her arm behind her back fracture her middle finger yeah that did not happen how did those injuries come.
About I I wish to God I knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't I have no question surveillance video shows Majors getting out of the car followed by Jabar whom he then puts back inside the vehicle what happens next is.
What the defense remains focused on Majors runs off and Jabari chases after him if you watch those videos and you reverse that and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street screaming and crying that man is going to be shot and killed in the streets of New York City Major's defense team shared these photos.
Which he says show the injuries he received that night which were deemed inadmissible in court how were you injured my injuries were um a scratch on my hand you know from claing for the phone and I had a gash on Mye at the time I had a beard under my beard I had essentially a bring out scratch on my as my cheek from pressure and that bled.
Overnight but prosecutors say Majors was the aggressor district attorney Alvin Bragg says the evidence presented throughout this trial Illustrated a cycle of psychological and emotional abuse in court prosecutors pointed to a previous argument during which he knocked a candle to the floor I could completely.
Lost lost my temper in that moment and and threw it all on the ground that's not something I would want my uh child to do and I did that I absolutely did that um and felt terrible about it the prosecution also played audio Jabari had recorded earlier in the relationship where Majors encouraged her to act more like ketta Scott King and.
Michelle Obama I'm a great man a great man I am doing great things not just for me but for my for my culture and for the world that is actually the position I'm in the woman that supports me needs to to be a great woman there are some who question especially in the black community as you're probably well aware that the people were saying why was he.
Telling this woman to be like K Scott King and and Michelle Obama it was me trying to give an analogy of of what it is I'm aspiring to be you know these Great Men Martin President Obama um and trying to give a refence point to that one of the things I also say is.
Like I need her in that that case Grace to make the same sacrifices that I am making in a statement to ABC News an attorney for Jabari said in part it is not at all surprising that Mr major continues to take no accountability for his actions adding the timing of these new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for his actions do you feel.
You're not responsible for her injuries at all I shouldn't have been in the car I shouldn't have stepped out of the relationship I shouldn't have been in the relationship if I'm not in the car none of this is happening if I leave the relationship none of this is happening if I'm man enough or brave.
Enough to say I want to see somebody else or I'm I'm done now I'm not next car we're not here I'm responsible for those things but none of her injuries I can't say that another P injuries and our thanks to lindsy Davis you will have more of her exclusive interview though with Jonathan major.
Right here on ABC News throughout the day and you can catch the full interview on her show ABC News live Prime 700 p.m. eastern time thanks so much for streaming with us I'm Kira Phillips the news never stops neither do we we've got a lot more just minutes away.
We are here in Israel a nation at War we've seen tank after tank pouring into this area this is where it all began bullet holes all up the wall within minutes the AR Sirens going off you can hear the sound of explosion we are pinned down here tonight Israel waging a fierce bombardment of Gaza the Israel Hamas War for Non-Stop live coverage.
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Iowa the final Sprint is on where things stand now as the the front runner is spending more time in court this week than on the campaign Trail and in ABC News exclusive actor Jonathan major sitting down with our lindsy Davis speaking out for the very first time since being convicted in his domestic violence.
trial and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour it was the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes in our country now the president wants to reach those disaffected black voters de crying racism and ring their support President Biden in Charleston South Carolina.
Delivering remarks from inside the mother Emanuel African and Methodist Episcopal Church the side of that Massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners in 2015 Biden trying to make the connection between the danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying the Republican Contender is running on a hate fueled agenda and.
That's a threat to our democracy the lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States capitalisn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to determine to erase.
History and your future herac where he's in Saudi all right Rick stand by we're actually Commerce every day going through that that straight going through the Red Sea and these attacks are having a real effect on on the prices that people have to pay for food for medicine.
For energy ships have to get diverted to other places insurance rates go up and the basic principle of freedom of navigation is what's at stake so the International Community has a real stake and upholding uh that Principle as I said we've had 40 countries come together to make clear that what the houis are doing has to stop and we have.
Other countries that have made clear that if it continues uh there have to be consequences so our strong view our strong preference is that the houthis get the message that they're receiving from countries around the world that this needs to stop and that's what we're focused.
On very than um before the October s attacks you and other aids to President Biden were trying to pursue the idea of Saudi Israel normalization and that's become it seems that's become much more difficult in light of the text given the animists on different sides now but you're you still want to pursue that.
Because it might be one way for is to get Israel to recognize the aspirations of the Palestinians would did the crown what did Crown Prince Muhammad tell you today about the prospects for normalizing ation what's what conditions would he is he looking for to reach normalization and what do you think the US and Israel have to put forward to.
Reach that to reach uh an agreement um secondly would it Crown Prince muhamed and uh mbz today tell you about what they're willing to do in a postwar uh state in Gaza so second part of the uh the question first what I found virtually every stop was a willingness of uh all of the countries involved to uh do uh.
Important uh things to help Gaza uh stabilize and uh and Revitalize and I I heard that in every place uh and one of the things that we're going to be working on together is just what that would require uh and just what countries specifically are prepared to do but that was a pretty constant theme with regard to integration to normalization yes we.
Talked about that actually on every stop including of course here in Saudi Arabia and I can tell you this there's a clear interest uh here in pursuing that there's a clear interest in the region um in in pursuing that uh but it will require that the conflict end in Gaza and it will also clearly require that there be a um a practical Pathway to a.
Palestinian State this is what I heard from everyone we talked to about it but the the the interest is there it's real and it could be transformative thanks everyone thank you all right Secretary of State Anthony blinkin there uh clearly in the Middle East uh in Saudi right now uh heading uh.
To a number of meetings addressing the urgent need for humanitarian needs in Gaza uh ironically it came up today when the president of the United States was making a speech in Charleston South Carolina within the AMA am Church a couple of protesters uh Rick Klein I want to bring you in on this uh since we still have you uh wanting to keep it.
Into the headlines clearly it's on the Forefront of secretary blinken's agenda as well and that is when Israel is saying this war could be going on for at least a year uh there are tremendous concerns about this conflict not only widening throughout the region where we've already seen things happen from Iran Lebanon around the country.
Uh to the Red Sea yeah and and you heard with President Biden although he was interrupted by these protesters he decided to engage with them a little bit and say he was working quietly with the Israelis to try to deescalate and and remove uh the military presence from Gaza so kind of a striking moment that invaded the campaign messaging of the.
Day but it does underscore the stakes of this moment for President Biden for his administration uh the politics of it are are one thing the the National Security interests are another the Secretary of State obviously has both of those on on on his mind and as some form or fashion cira as as as this trip continues but it is going to be something that the.
President continues to confront uh and it's going to be a long time and a long time coming well this was not on the Forefront of what the president was talking about I'm going to take you back to the AMA Church there in Charleston that we were talking about before we went to see uh secretary blinkin there.
On the tarmac and Saudi and talk about his trip to the Middle East uh he was focused on uh really hammering former president Donald Trump and there he was standing in at the the head of the church the site of one of the most horrific racist shootings in our country talking about the former president and that he's a threat to our democracy and.
That he clearly wants to reach those disaffected voters there in South Carolina uh they helped him in 2020 and um looks like he wants them to help him once again yeah and look the president is not going to win South Carolina in the general election it's not going to be a competitive state but it's symbolically important as the place that.
Launched his candidacy during the primaries four years ago so much so that he moved around so their primary is actually first this time around and of course on the substance uh the the the historic black support for Democratic candidates and Joe Biden in particular so critical for the Coalition that Joe Biden will need going into the rest of.
This year you also heard in that speech a bunch of references to to to vice president Harris of praise for her and for her role the the reference to Kaji Brown Jackson the first black woman ever named to the Supreme Court by President Biden so look the there was a lot of politics that was packed into this speech I think kind of a pairing with.
The Friday speech and and today the language around this second lost cause the first one of course the Civil War and the Confederates that continue to that Confederate sympathizers that would continue to litigate that for for decades afterward and now for the president to talk now about this this new lost cause of people that want to.
Relitigate the 2020 election uh the threats to democracy a key part of that campaign messaging yeah he actually brought up the fact that look Donald Trump lost he's a loser so why do you want to vote for him he's going he's talking about Trump during covid and be and and trying to blame that entire situation on him the fact that he lost.
And all the lawsuits uh the 90 plus charges he's faced uh since being president uh he's starting to throw it all into a batch uh leading to this new theme of he is a threat to our democracy that's right and and I think you're going to hear this plus the the abortion rights being the the big the big pillars of this campaign going forward um it's.
Not to say that they're not going to talk about the president's own accomplishments about the economy and about the legislative achievements infrastructure what you name it there'll be lots of opportunities for that but the big stuff I think were outlined in this series of speeches along with abortion.
Rights appreciate you Rick thank you for rolling with me there than you bet so with the Iowa caucuses just one week away Republican presidential candidates are crisscrossing over the state now with the hope of chipping away at Donald Trump's commanding 30-point lead the former president speak speaking at an event in Iowa over the weekend urging.
His supporters to show up for him on caucus night take a listen our country is dying and there's no time to waste for your vote you have to get rid of these establishment career politicians that have sold you down the river let's bring in our Alex pret there in De Moine Iowa you've been there for a while now Alex let's talk about the.
Candidates basically making their last ditch effort to sway voters to their side give give us a lay of the land well K they're trying to but weather is making it a little difficult we're expecting uh that that snowstorm to make its way in uh overnight and already we've seen some events canceled in anticipation of that Nikki Haley was.
Supposed to have two events today one of those guy cancel she's got a town hall later on today and then also there was a trump surrogate event uh that has been cancelled but look this is the last push these final s days for these candidates to make their case as to why these Iowa Republicans should caucus for them I can tell you that look I mean the folks here.
By this point many of them have made up their mind but still there is some interest uh because this is an opportunity to get FaceTime and get uh those one-on-one and or or even you know have your question answered by uh directly by a candidate which we've seen certainly saw over the weekend but as you mentioned the former president has a.
30o lead here and so you know cobbling away at that um yes you have to play the game but cob way that is going to be a a ginormous feat uh for uh for his Challengers so Donald Trump is spending more time this week in court than he's campaigning especially campaigning in Iowa do you think that's going to have any uh effect on his lead I mean so far.
It doesn't seem like any of his legal troubles have hurt him it's helped him you're you're right k i I think it has been a boon in in in in many ways he's been able to fundraise off it primarily uh but there's no indication right now that him not being present on the ground here in Iowa is going to hurt him and also Kira I mean throughout this.
Uh this this this kind of primary cycle if you look at the number of visits actually I've got it up here you know Trump's got uh about 41 visits since about last March that we've we've tabulated that pales in comparison to many of his Challengers D santis who completed they call it the the the full grassly visiting all 99 counties here in.
Iowa he did that back in December uh RC ramaswami has well over uh 250 uh events that he's held here in Iowa and and in Haley uh is is encroaching on about about 70 so I mean you you look at Trump's presence here in the state and uh you know it's it's PED in comparison to some of his Challengers but still he's got a 30-point lead so there's.
There's no indication that his lack of presence here is is is going is going to hurt him on caucus day all right DeSantis and uh Haley are essentially battling for second place we've been talking about this now for months if one of them drops out of Iowa what do you think how will that impact the.
Race well I I think Kira it creates a vacuum um for for supporters and you'll you'll see uh you know whether it's a a a name like a VC or or or someone else uh ASA uh Hutchinson who's who's who's still around uh they're going to be trying to clamor going to be clamoring for for those support uh for that support that's that's that's um that's.
Uh that's up for grabs essentially and certainly um you know if you're Trump the former president uh and one of those uh Challengers drops out that's also another opportunity for him to further his lead all right Alex PR and Iowa there for us thank you so much and we will have full coverage of the Iowa caucuses.
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Convicted of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend major calls the two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse he sat down exclusively with our Lindsay Davis I told you time isn't what you think less than a year ago the name Jonathan Majors was followed by talk of.
Critical and box office success skyrocketing Fame even Oscar buzz I'm coming for everything but this morning a different conversation surround that name something about sitting here right now and and and looking at you and understanding the gravity of the situation.
Um a situation that I in many ways you know put myself in the actor spoke exclusively with ABC news for the first time after being convicted in late December for harassment and misdemeanor Reckless assault in the third degree which could carry a penalty of up to a year Behind Bars why did you decide you wanted to talk now I felt like it was.
Time um a lot has happened um in my personal life in my career um in the culture it's about responsibility and coming forward and being brave and and giving my my part of the story your reaction to that verdict shock I was uh.
I was absolutely shocked and um afraid I'm standing there and the verdict comes down I say how how how is how is that possible based off the evidence based off the prosecution's evidence let alone our evidence how was that possible but after only hours of deliberation a jury of his peers agreed.
With prosecutors that he did physically injure his then girlfriend Grace Jabari in an incident last March what happened exactly do you know no I don't know um uh the she unconscious that 911 call from Majors came hours after an argument broke out with Jabari in the backseat of anv when Majors received a text from another woman saying oh how I wish to be.
Kissing you Jabari testified that when she grabbed the phone major tried to get it back fracturing her finger and giving her a cut behind her ear she says inside inside the car you hit her in the face twist her arm behind her back fracture her middle finger yeah that did not happen how did those injuries come about I I wish to God I.
Knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of Peace about it but you're confident you didn't no question surveillance video shows Majors getting out of the car followed by Jabari whom he then puts back back inside the vehicle what happens next is what the defense remains focused on Majors runs off and Jabari chases after.
Him if you watch those videos and you reverse that and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street screaming and crying that man is going to be shot and killed in the streets of New York City Major's defense team shared these photos which he says show the injuries he received that night which were deemed.
Inadmissible in court how were you injured my injuries were um I scratched on my hand you know from clawing for the phone and I had a gash on my at the time I had a beard under my beard I had essentially fingerna out scratch on my it's my cheek from pressure and that bled overnight but prosecutors say Majors was the aggressor district.
Attorney Alvin Bragg says the evidence presented throughout this trial Illustrated a cycle of psychological and emotional abuse in court prosecutors pointed to a previous argument during which he knocked a candle to the floor I completely lost lost my temper in that moment and and threw it all on the ground that's.
Not something I would want my uh child to do and I did that I absolutely did that um and felt terrible about it the prosecution also played audio Jabari had recorded earlier in the relationship where Majors encouraged her to act more like ketta Scott King and Michelle Obama I'm a great man a great man I am doing great things not just for me but for my.
For my culture and for the world that is actually the position I'm in the woman that supports me needs to be a great woman there are some who question especially in the black community as you're probably well aware that the people were saying why was he telling this woman to be like R Scott King and and Michelle Obama it was me trying.
To give an analogy of of of what it is I'm aspiring to be you know these Great Men Martin President Obama um and trying to give a reference point to that one of the things I also say is like I need her in that that case Grace to make the same sacrifices that I am making in a statement to ABC News an.
Attorney for Jabari said in part it is not at all surprising that Mr major continues to take no accountability for his actions adding the timing of these new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for his actions do you feel you're not responsible for her injuries at all I shouldn't have been in the car I shouldn't have stepped out of the.
Relationship I shouldn't have been in the relationship if I'm not in the car none of this is happening if I leave the relationship none of this is happening if if I'm man enough or brave enough to say I want to see somebody else or I'm I'm done.
Now I'm not in that car we're not here I'm responsible for those things but none of her injuries I can't say that none of her injuries H our thanks to Lindsay we will have more for exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors right here on ABC News live throughout the day you can also catch the full interview on ABC News.
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Returns to the state that catapulted his campaign in 2020 recharging his reelection bid one week from the Iowa caucuses plus clean up on Isle Boeing the company scrambling after part of a 737 Max plane was torn off mid-flight what it means for those 737 planes still in the sky and it's almost game time Michigan.
Taking on Washington in tonight's college football national championship we are live in Houston with our Michigan superan and ABC News contributor Mike Muse and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour it was the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes in our country now the.
President wants to reach those disaffected black voters decrying racist and rallying their support President Biden in Charleston South Carolina delivering remarks from inside the mother Emanuel a church that's the site of that Massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners in 2015 Biden trying to make the connection between.
The danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying the Republican Contender is running on a hatefield agenda and that's a threat to our democracy the lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the the truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States.
Capital isn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to determine to erase history and your future our political director Rick Klein joining me once again so Rick let's talk about Democrats they're preparing to cast their votes in South Carolina's primary less than 1 month away what do.
You think is Biden in touch with the main issues that these voters want to hear that's going to be the first test that he has against other real competition on the ballot the Iowa caucuses don't involve the Democrats uh next week and then the week after that the New Hampshire primary he's not on the ballot it's just the right end so.
That'll be the first real gauge we get about how much his support has potentially slipped inside the Democratic party uh he doesn't have real opposition and the primaries we know that um despite the efforts of Congressman Dean Phillips and Mariann Williamson it's not really about the primaries it is about uh making sure.
You've got the voters on board for the general election and you could hear in the speech today an attempt to to connect and reconnect with black voters in particular the mentions of Vice President Harris the mentions of Supreme Court Justice kentan Brown Jackson this is a president who I think is mindful of the political challenges of the moment.
And trying to cast this race as about some very broad themes involving race and also involving democracy so a group of protesters as you know interrupted Biden's speech today calling for a ceasefire in Gaza let's take a listen if you really care about the Liv lost here that you should honor the.
Lives L and call for a ceasefire in Palestine ceas now ceas now now so with the polls showing that Biden's unequivocal support of Israel is putting him at odds with some of his key supporters younger voters as you can see uh are jumping in on the conversation here should Biden be concerned I I was struck by the the fact that they got.
Into a room like this as well as the fact that President Biden decided to engage with them of course he's concerned about where his support is inside his own party we've heard so many Democrats talk about it and the president saying back look he's working quietly with the Israelis to try to minimize civilian casualties to minimize.
The uh the the presence that uh the the Israeli military has in Gaza this is a challenge that he is going to face for a long time because of the way that it divides his own party a lot of Democrats have chastised him for his for being too close in their view to the Israeli government uh and this is going to be a series of voices whether they're.
Publicly heard in in forms like this or not that are very much going to be on the minds of the the Biden campaign so South Carolina was a key state that helped uh you know Biden win against Trump remind us just about this crucial Battleground for him and how do you think he's going to do I mean it played well in 2020 but this is a.
Different time yeah keep in mind in 2020 he lost in Iowa he lost in New Hampshire uh and it was only the South Carolina primaries that resuscitated his campaign and gave him the momentum he needed through super Tuesday and then Co hit and he was essentially the nominee anyway but without South Carolina President Biden probably is never the.
Democratic nominee and therefore not the president and what's interesting is it's not a Battleground state in the general election but it sure is important in the primaries and President Biden has made it even more important and of course as you see that the the president's approval numbers which which the L those lines having crossed in the summer of.
2021 they've never gotten close to meeting again president goes into this campaign distinctly less popular than he was in the last campaign and yes the first thing he has to do is worry about the primaries and that state that made such a difference for him four years ago Rick Klein thanks so much thanks G let's have head over to Capitol Hill now.
Congress is returning tomorrow from its three-week re recess with some pretty good news top Congressional leaders have finally reached an agreement on the overall price tag of the next batch of government spending bills marking a pretty major step toward averting a parcel shutdown that's set to begin actually later this month our Jay o'b is.
Up there on the hill covering that for us so let's talk about the details of the agreement Jay yeah and to understand this you just got to think about the timeline here for a second so remember Government funding was set to expire in the fall we had all those concerns about a government shutdown right and then lawmakers at the 11th Hour Kick the Can.
Down the road into the winter and then we have this same conversation in the winter right and the lawmakers pass another short-term Government funding measure kicks the can down the road into now government funding expires for some federal agencies in 11 days from now those agencies are for instance the Department of Transportation the.
Department of Veterans Affairs the list goes on then other agencies their funding expires in February and so that's what causes this deal with the top Democrats in the Senate who control that chamber led by Chuck Schumer and the top Republicans in the house who control that chamber led by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and the Topline.
Number is that it funds the federal government at about $1.6 trillion all the way until next fiscal year in the fall now the question becomes will this get enough momentum here on Capitol Hill to actually pass in the house and in the Senate we know that Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have signaled that this is something that they would.
Support certainly Democrats in the Senate brokered this deal in the house there are some conservatives in the house who have already said they're not going to back this measure the house Freedom caucus the Hardline group of house conservatives called this a quote unquote total failure so the question now facing Speaker of the House Mike.
Johnson is can he get enough Republicans in his party to support this and does he have to eventually turn to Democrats to get this over the goal line K which it's looking like he'll probably have to do so let's be realistic here then will this bill ever make it to the president's desk it really hinges on how much Mike Johnson can get it done in the.
House of Representatives because all things look poised for this measure to pass in the Senate and of course if it passes in the senate in the house remember we have a government shutdown so you have to look at the house and see how speaker Johnson is able to move within his own party here it is almost certain at this hour that it'll probably.
Have to turn to democratic votes to get this over the goal line the question becomes our house Democrats open to this and are there any kind of Hang-Ups between H Mike Johnson and house conservatives that may not push this into the P place where it doesn't pass but certainly delay this process and getting this bill onto the floor for a.
Vote another question for you House Republicans they're moving forward in holding Hunter Biden in contempt of congress still any movement there well remember this was that ongoing discussion that was in the later part of last year where uh House Republicans in the house oversight committee is part of their ongoing impeachment inquiry into.
President Biden said that they wanted to interview Hunter Biden behind closed doors Hunter Biden you may remember Kira you and I were on the air together comes out and gives a press conference on the steps of the capital in which he says I'm not going to be interviewed behind closed doors I will talk to the committee but in an open hearing that.
The American people can see so he essentially defies that subpoena and this is now House Republicans saying because Biden defied that subpoena they are going to hold him in contempt of congress this is an action by the committee it eventually would have to be brought to a vote on the house floor and only then could this wind up in court.
Like others who have defied Congressional subpoenas in the past most notably in terms of the January 6 committee but certainly it is AEP in the direction of House Republicans dragging Hunter Biden into court for what they say is defying their subpoena J O'Brien up on the hill Forest Jay thank you defense secretary Lloyd Austin is out of.
The ICU after catching the country off guard including members of his own staff even the president of the United States Austin kept an elected medical procedure secret but something went wrong and he ended up in intensive care well a Us official tells us President Biden was exasperated at not being being informed sooner and that the White House didn't.
Even learn about Austin's hospitalization until 3 days after it happened our senior Pentagon reporter L Martinez is trying to weave the web here and try to get any facts and it's been tough I mean why in the world was this kept secret do we know anything more about the Pentagon not informing the White House sooner and do you think jobs.
Will be at stake Louie Kira lots of questions being asked we've just gotten a new timeline that indicates that secretary Austin on Monday night New Year's day was taken via ambulance to the Walter Reed National military Medical Hospital uh for immediate treatment at that point the following day his chief of staff is informed other.
Senior officials including the Joint Chiefs of chairman are informed but apparently that information just stayed within that bubble he was in the ICU receiving immediate care and no notifications were made to the White House until Thursday and that actually kind of happened only because the number two here at the Pentagon deputy.
Secretary Kathleen Hicks who had assumed some temporary roles was made aware that he was actually in the ICU so it wasn't until that happened on Thursday that then the public disclosures happened on and Congressional notifications took place on Friday so lots of questions being asked fingers being pointed at the chief of staff um was some indication.
Saying that she was sick with the flu but then again if she's sick with the flu does that mean that that person can't call our contact the White House the pending on telling us that they are reviewing their procedures right now uh to ensure doesn't happen again and in the wake of this because so many questions Kira I know I've been asking.
You this all morning and afternoon but do we have any idea what the health scare was and will we find out Cara we just had a session here with Major General Pat Ryder he's the pentagon's top spokesman he was asked again today if he knows what that minor procedure was and he said he does not know um what we do know is that back on December 22nd.
When he underwent that procedure at Walter Reed uh temporary duties were sent to uh Kathleen Hicks again but it was just a routine matter and then he left the hospital the following day it was 10 days later that he was hospitalized with serious complications of severe pain is what the pend on is saying but for now there they don't.
Really know so it seems to be a matter of privacy again for secretary Austin it remains to be seen exactly when we may find out if at all so then let me ask you this it was just uh Friday a few days ago that I was talking with Pentagon Deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh about the US carrying out retaliatory strikes in Iraq and.
Targeting an iran-backed militia leader if Austin was out who was calling the shots what we are told is that the decision to carry out that retaliatory strike on the Wednesday had been pre-authorized one of the things that we are being told at the White House and here is that Austin participated in a National Security Council meeting with.
The president on Monday o to talk about matters about the Middle East so they're not saying it directly but it is conceivable that the authorization was given on that meeting on the Monday for the Wednesday strike but again nobody's saying that because what we do know is that that's possibly the last time that the White House knew that Austin uh was.
Okay because that night is when he went to the hospital and Via ambulance so it's as of right now they're saying that he was in charge but the authorization had already been given well hopefully we'll get more answers soon Louis Martinez appreciate it thanks here coming up Alaska Airlines loses part of its airplane midair what happened and.
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Flight that had a door plug blow right off the side of the plane well a Portland teacher has actually found that door in his backyard the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to cover and seal emergency exit exits just flew off mid-flight the cabin.
Depressurized and oxygen Mass fell from the ceiling the NTSB says that there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked right out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9 and our jacn Lee is in Portland following the story for us so we learned overnight that the.
Seat next to the door plug lost its headrest seat back and trade table but luckily no one was sitting there right it could have been much worse yes that's right Kira so the good news is there were no serious injuries everybody survived on board and uh the NTSB chair she even said this could have been a lot worse if you think of about.
It this happened when the plane was still at 16,000 ft it was not at cruising altitude which would have been 30,000 ft uh and she said what could have happened is if it was at cruising altitude people could have been walking around the cabin that's when that seat belt light comes off and people you know go to the bathroom and whatnot so had it.
Happened at that point this is this could have been a lot more catastrophic Cura but obviously also there's also a lot of psychological trauma which is what officials acknowledge as a result of this event yeah I can't even imagine it'd be traumatizing well we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open as well and that the captain had a.
Portion of his headset that was pulled off what do we know about that so we know that this is you know part of the investigation is figuring out what exactly led to this you know when the door plug flew off the there's a rapid uh decompress depressurization inside the cabin right so there's a lot of wind and uh passengers reported a lot.
Of debris flying around um and so what the NTSB is doing is now that they have launched their investigation yesterday was the first full day so they had the structures team uh analyzing the hinges the door the the frame around where the door plug was and the big piece was finding that door plug so hopefully they can figure out what happened Kira all.
Right the FAA now has approved the specifics of the inspections needed to get certain grounded Boeing 737 maxines back in the air so what is Boeing saying about just future plans for the plane so Boeing is saying it supports the fa's decision to inspect all of the planes with the same configuration as the one involved in the incident but Boeing said.
They they are not required to inspect uh the other members of the max family which would be the max 8 and the max 10 because they do not have that door plug as part of the configuration Kira all right Jack and Lee there in Portland Forest thank you and two new storms moving across the country bringing alerts to 40 States for blizzards strong.
Winds flooding and heavy snow and as the storm moves East well tornadoes and flash flooding are possible along the Gulf Coast while the Midwest will see snow tonight before the winter weather continues to move East our meteorologist Samar Theodore is here with more hi Samara hey K you know what the Saga just continues rounds of these storms as you.
Said so if you saw bad weather this past weekend or at the end of last week likely the culprit was storm number one that's out of here number two is impacting the central portions of the country and number three that is just now entering through the North West as a result of Storm 2 and three look at how many states are lit up here so as K said.
We have over 40 States under some type of weather alert today so timing this out this afternoon Storm's already getting going you can see kind of how this storm is split into two tears to the north we have snow up in the Great Lakes a little bit farther south that's where we have the heavy rain and the thunderstorms the severe threat is.
Significant strong tornadoes so not just any tornadoes we can see strong tornadoes in New Orleans mobile Panama City but that threat extends from Houston all the way to Montgomery Alabama as we F forward through time I'm taking you into Tuesday Tuesday Morning through Tuesday afternoon this is going to ride through the southeast the I95.
Corridor will be in the bullseye and as the storm shifts to the east so does the threat for severe weather so now Albany Tallahassee up into Wilmington and Raleigh you have the threat for strong tornadoes and flash flooding and on the Northern Tier of the storm the Mid-Atlantic DMV Baltimore Del Marva Peninsula New York Philadelphia we are.
Looking at heavy heavy rain that could lead to significant flooding by the time it's all said and done with these uh with this storm on Wednesday the northern portion of the storm may drop anywhere from 6 inches to 12 inches of snow from Omaha into the Great Lakes right on up into New England and then you can see where the bullseye is here.
Three to five plus inches of rain coming down really hard really fast that is what is going to lead to significant flooding so uh Kira for those living in the South this is picking up tomorrow and for those living living in the Northeast we have the threat for flash flooding Tuesday night into Wednesday all right we'll track it Samara thank.
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Boston wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News Live Well the wait is almost over in just a few hours from now Michigan will take on Washington in college football's national championship game in Houston it's the last title game before the college football playoff expands to 12.
Teams next year and as big blue hopes to take home its first title since 1997 let's bring in our resident Michigan Alum and ABC News contributor Mike Muse just for a moment do you think it's possible you could set aside your bias and tell us what we can expect tonight if not I understand okay Kira I'mma do my best I.
Can only guarantee 30 seconds of unbiased journalism and then the hat comes off so here goes my 30 seconds start the clock I am so excited for this incredible match up between the University of Michigan and University of Washington this is Big 10 pack 12 at its finest in particular as a p 12 concludes.
This conference rolls it up and folds itself majority into the Big 10 where they come into our conference next year you usually see Cara the Big 10 and Pack 12 meet up in the Rose Bowl and for their iconic New Year Day game and so I couldn't have think thought of a better poetic Shakespearean way for the Big 10 pack 12 to go out then not just at the.
Rose Bowl but on the national championship stage it's going to be a battle of the quarterbacks Kira we have JJ McCarthy versus Michigan going against Heisman trophy finalist Michael pinnick Jr who is an incredible quarterback who can run and he can throw and he has a great aim with his targets and so this is the matchup that everyone.
Has wanted to see both teams undefeated and both have an dric fan base uh that is here in Houston slightly removing my hat slowly definitely you see moris Amazing Blue here in Houston as we turn to amaz and blue but University Wasington this here and I couldn't be more excited for both of these teams both of this history and really for the.
History of the Pack 12 and the Big 10 we're in award season care with the Golden Globes last night this is made for TV made for movies so here's the deal I wasn't going to mention it but since you mentioned the Rose Bowl I'm going back to the ' 80s and I'm much older than you Mr Mike Muse but I just want you to know that my team my college.
Team crushed you in the Rose Bowl but I'm gonna move on now and talk about Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh all right we'll get back to that you know he missed the last three games as we uh mentioned of the season after being suspended for that sign stealing Scandal you say the team has been through a lot of adversity you know this season and.
That's true but a lot of it was self-inflicted it was I'm really so glad that you mentioned that K because if I could just unpack that a little bit what's important to note is that the NCAA has yet to conclude their investigation of what it is but all roles are leading to that University of Michigan football team and head coach.
Had no direction of sending that um that colleague out into different cities to do the sign stealing but Kira with that sign stealing we went on the road we beat Pinn State we faced a difficult University of Maryland we crushed the Ohio State University and we slam University of Alabama the SEC which I think is overrated but I digress and so.
There is no signs that we were winning off of signs dealing but we've been will winning off of our athletic ability we have one of the best defensive in the nation we have an incredible offense uh and we also do have an incredible offensive coordinator and Chiron Moore who was coach Harbaugh's replacement um in the final three suspensions handed.
Down by the Big 10 but you're right Ken in the beginning we did have some trouble uh things that we had to account for of recruiting the first three G that he had to sit on the sideline for well finally uh we know you're going to be there tonight and you were kind enough to share this fabulous picture.
With us of the last Michigan title game that you went to in January 1998 uh you may not recognize Mike he had a little hair back then um he's lost that because he's very nervous about his team uh losing but you know you look good you know with the shade Dome I got to tell you so I know you're excited I know you're pumped and is that.
Sweatshirt you wearing back from college yes so that those are side by side so that was at the Rose Bowl January 1st 1998 and then this is the Rose Bowl that we just passed January 1st 20124 I had more hair and Cara who knew you can lose eyebrows I don't know how that happened but I think I've been so.
Nervous Kira I literally got nauseous in the fourth quarter last week at the Rose Bowl because of so much but this is why this game is so incredible for me and for Lums across the country and really the world is to get back on this National a since 1998 is truly special with this team with this coach an incredible alumni fan base.
I'm just so excited I can't wait to tailgate and I can't wait to raise this trophy here and I'm gonna text you all night we did it I can't wait to get the text and by the way that picture um that that uh we're going back in time with the uh the hottie over your shoulder there you still in touch with her oh wait a minute there's three hotties.
Three of them all of them that's Erica that's visha that's daa right not picture the Chelle that is the crew and they're all doing great successful family children ah it's great to be a Michigan Wolverine is great to be a Michigan Wolverine on that note I'm getting the hard rap I'm getting the hard rap love you Mike I really support.
You I promise we'll be in touch you can catch the game and of course course Mike's recap uh tonight on ESPN coverage starts at 7:30 Eastern thank you so much for streaming with us I hope there's a lot of Michigan fans out there I'm Kiera Phillips from breaking news to all the stories that matter to you you can always find us on your favorite.
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We are live in Houston with our Michigan Super Fan and ABC News contributor Mike news and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour it was the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes in our country now the president wants to reach those disaffected black voters decrying racism.
And ring their support President Biden in Charleston South Carolina delivering remarks from inside the mother Emanuel am church that's the site of that Massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners in 2015 Biden trying to make the connection between the danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying the Republican Contender is.
Running on a hate fuel agenda and that's a threat to our democracy the lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States capitalisn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to.
Determine to erase history and your future our political director Rick Klein joining me once again so Rick let's talk about Democrats they're preparing to cast their vote in South Carolina's primary less than one month away what do you think is Biden in touch with the main issues that these voters want to.
Hear that's going to be the first test that he has against other real competition on the ballot the Iowa caucuses don't involve the Democrats uh next week and then the week after that the New Hampshire primary he's not on the ballot it's just the right in so that'll be the first real gauge we get about how much his support has.
Potentially slipped inside the Democratic party uh he doesn't have real opposition in the primaries we know that um despite the efforts of Congressman Dean Phillips and Mariann Williamson it's not really about the primaries it is about uh making sure you've got the voters on board for the general election and you could hear in the speech today.
Today an attempt to to connect and reconnect with black voters in particular the mentions of Vice President Harris the mentions of uh Supreme Court Justice KY Brown Jackson this is a president who I think is mindful of the political challenges of the moment and trying to cast this race as about some very broad themes.
Involving race and also involving democracy so a group of protesters as you know interrupted Biden's speech today calling for a ceasefire in Gaza let's take a listen if you really care about the lives lost here then you should honor the lives l call for a ceas fire in Palestine.
Ceas CE now CE now so with the polls showing that Biden's unequivocal support of Israel is putting him at odds with some of his key supporters younger voters as you can see uh are jumping in on the conversation here should Biden be concerned I I was struck by the the fact that they got into a room like this as well as the.
Fact that President Biden decided to engage with him of course he's concerned about where his support is inside his own party we've heard so many Democrats talk about it and the president's saying back look he's working quietly with the Israelis to try to minimize civilian casualties to minimize the uh the the presence that uh the the Israeli.
Military has in Gaza this is a challenge that he is going to face for a long time because of the way that it divides his own party a lot of Democrats have chastised him for his for being too close in their view to the Israeli government uh and this is going to be a series of voices whether they're publicly heard in in forums like this or.
Not that are very much going to be on the minds of the the Biden campaign so South Carolina was a key state that helped uh you know Biden win against Trump remind us just about this crucial Battleground for him and how do you think he's going to do I mean it played well in 2020 but this is a different time yeah keep in mind in 2020.
He lost in Iowa he lost in New Hampshire uh and it was only the South Carolina primaries that resuscitated his campaign and gave him the momentum he needed through super Tuesday and then Co hit and he was essentially the nominee anyway but without South Carolina President Biden probably is never the Democratic nominee and therefore not the.
President and what's interesting is it's not a Battleground state in the general election but it sure is important in the primaries and President Biden has made it even more important and of course as you see that the the president's approval numbers which which the L those lines having crossed in the summer of 2021 they've never gotten close to.
Meeting again president goes into this campaign distinctly less popular than he was in the last camp campaign and yes the first thing he has to do is worry about the primaries and that state that made such a difference for him four years ago R Clin thanks so much thanks G let's have head over to Capitol Hill now.
Congress is returning tomorrow from its three-week res recess with some pretty good news top Congressional leaders have finally reached an agreement on the overall price tag of the next batch of government spending bills marking a pretty major step toward averting a parcel shutdown that's set to begin actually later this month our J o' Bren.
Is up there on the hill covering that for us so let's talk about the details of the agreement Jay yeah and to understand this you just got to think about the timeline here for a second so remember Government funding was set to expire in the fall we had all those concerns about a government shutdown right and then lawmakers at the 11th.
Hour Kick the Can down the road into the winter and that we have this same conversation in the winter right and the lawmakers pass another short-term Government funding measure kicks the can down the road into now Government funding expired for some federal agencies in 11 days from now those agencies are for instance the Department.
Of Transportation the Department of Veterans Affairs the list goes on than other agencies their funding expires in February and so that's what causes this deal with the top Democrats in the Senate who control that chamber led by Chuck Schumer and the top Republicans in the house who control that chamber led by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and.
The Top Line number is that it funds the federal government at about $1.6 trillion all the way until next fiscal year in the fall now the question becomes will this get enough momentum here on Capitol Hill to actually pass in the house and in the Senate we know that Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have signaled that this is something.
That they would support certainly Democrats in the Senate brokered this deal in the house there are some conservatives in the house who have already said they're not going to back this measure the house Freedom caucus the Hardline group of house conservatives called this a quote unquote total failure so the question.
Now facing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is can he get enough Republicans in his party to support this and does he have to eventually turn to Democrats to get this over the goal line K which it's looking like he'll probably have to do so let's be realistic here then will this bill ever make it to the president's desk it really hinges on how.
Much Mike Johnson can get it done in the House of Representatives because all things look poised for this measure to pass in the Senate and of course if it passes in the senate in the house remember we avert a government shutdown so you have to to look at the house and see how speaker Johnson is able to move within his own party here it is almost.
Certain at this hour that he'll probably have to turn to democratic votes to get this over the goal line the question becomes our house Democrats open to this and are there any kind of Hang-Ups between H Mike Johnson and house conservatives that may not push this into the P place where it doesn't pass but certainly delay this process and.
Getting this bill onto the floor for a vote another question for you house Republican an they're moving forward in holding Hunter Biden in contempt of congress still any movement there well remember this was that ongoing discussion that was in the later part of last year where uh House Republicans in the house oversight committee as part of.
Their ongoing imp peachman inquiry into President Biden said that they wanted to interview Hunter Biden behind closed doors Hunter Biden you may remember Kiera you and I were on the air together comes out and gives a press conference on the steps of the capital in which he says I'm not going to be interviewed behind closed doors I will talk to the.
Committee but in an open hearing that the American people can see so he essentially defies that subpoena and this is now House Republicans saying because Biden defied that subpoena they are going to hold him in contempt of congress this is an action by the committee it eventually would have to be brought to a vote on the house floor and.
Only then could this wind up in court like others who have defied Congressional subpoenas in the past most notably in terms of the January 6 committee but certainly it is a step in the direction of House Republicans dragging Hunter Biden into court for what they say is defying their subpoena Jay O'Brien up on the hill Forest Jay.
Thank you defense secretary Lloyd Austin is out of the ICU after catching the country off guard including members of his own staff even the president of the United States Austin kept an elected medical procedure secret but something went wrong and he ended up in intensive care well a Us official tells us President Biden was exasperated at not.
Being informed sooner and that the the White House didn't even learn about Austin's hospitalization until 3 days after it happened our senior Pentagon reporter Lou Martinez is trying to weave the web here and try to get any facts and it's been tough I mean why in the world was this kept secret do we know anything more about the Pentagon not.
Informing the White House sooner and do you think jobs will be at stake Louie Cara lots of questions being asked we've just gotten a new timeline that indicates that secretary Austin on Monday night new day was taken via ambulance to the Walter Reed National military Medical Hospital uh for immediate treatment at that point the.
Following day his chief of staff is informed other senior officials including the Joint Chiefs of chairman are informed but apparently that information just stayed within that bubble he was in the ICU receiving immediate care and no notifications were made to the White House until Thursday and that actually kind of happened only.
Because the number two here at the Pentagon deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks who had assumed some temporary roles was made aware that he was actually in the ICU so it wasn't until that happened on Thursday that then the public disclosures happened on and Congressional notifications took place on Friday so lots of questions being.
Asked fingers being pointed at the chief of staff um was some indication saying that she was sick with the flu but then again if she's sick with the flu does that mean that that person can't call or contact the White House the Pentagon telling us that they are reviewing their procedures right now uh to ensure this doesn't happen again and in the way of.
This because so many questions Kira I know I've been asking you this all morning and afternoon but do we have any idea what the hell scare was and will we find out Cara we just had a session here with Major General Pat Ryder he's the pentagon's top spokesman he was asked again today if he knows what that minor procedure was and he said he does not.
Know um what we do know is that uh back on December 22nd when he underwent that procedure at Walter Reed uh temporary duties were sent to uh kathen Hicks again but it was just a routine matter and then he left the hospital the following day it was 10 days later that he was hospitalized with serious complications of severe pain is what the.
Penon is saying but for now they're they don't really know so it seems to be a matter of privacy again for secretary Austin it remains to be seen exactly when we may find out if at all so then let me ask you this it was just uh Friday a few days ago that I was talking with pentagon Deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh about the US carrying out.
Retaliatory strikes in Iraq and targeting an iran-backed militia leader if Austin was out who was calling the shots what we are told is that the decision to carry out that retaliatory strike on the Wednesday had been pre-authorized one of the things that we are being told at the White House and here is that Austin participated in a.
National Security Council meeting with the president on Monday uh to talk about matters about the Middle East so they're not saying it directly but it is conceivable that the authorization was given on that meeting on the Monday for the Wednesday strike but again nobody's saying that because what we do know is that that's possibly the last.
Time that the White House knew that Austin uh was okay because that night is when he went to the hospital and Via ambulance so it's as of right now they're saying that he was in charge but the authorization had already been given well hopefully we'll get more answers soon Louis Martinez appreciate it thanks here coming up Alaska Airlines loses.
Part of its airplane midair what happened and should you keep your upcoming flight next 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 mure America's number one most watched newscast across all of.
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Life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu glad you're streaming with us you will remember that Alaska Airlines.
Flight that had a door plug blow right off the side of the plane well a Portland teacher has actually found that door in his backyard the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to cover and seal emergency egit exits just flew off mid-flight the cabin.
Depressurized and oxygen Mass fell from the ceiling the NTSB says that there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked right out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9 and our Jack Lee is in Portland following the story for us so we learned overnight that the seat next to the door plug lost.
Its head rest seat back and trade table but luckily no one was sitting there right it could have been much worse yes that's right Kira so the good news is there were no serious injuries everybody survived on board and uh the NTSB chair she even said this could have been a lot worse if you think about it this happened when the plane was still.
At 16,000 ft it was was not at cruising altitude which would have been 30,000 ft uh and she said what could have happened is if it was at cruising altitude people could have been walking around the cabin that's when that seat belt light comes off and people you know go to the bathroom and whatnot so had it happened at that point this is this could have.
Been a lot more catastrophic cira but obviously also there's also a lot of psychological trauma which is what officials acknowledge as a result of this event yeah I can't even imagine it'd be traumatizing well we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open as well and that the captain had a portion of his headset that was pulled.
Off what do we know about that so we know that this is you part of the investigation is figuring out what exactly led to this you know when the door plug flew off there's a rapid uh decompress depressurization inside the cabin right so there's a lot of wind and uh passengers reported a lot of debris flying around um and so what the NTSB is.
Doing is now that they have launched their investigation yesterday was the first full day so they had the structures team uh analyzing the hinges the door the the frame around where the door plug was and the big piece was finding that door plug so hopefully they can figure out what happened Kira all right and the FAA now has approved the.
Specifics of the inspections needed to get certain grounded Boeing 737 max9 back in the air so what is Boeing saying about just future plans for the planes so Boeing is saying it supports the fa's decision to inspect all of the planes with the same configuration as the one involved in the incident but Boeing said they they are not required.
To inspect uh the other members of the max family which would be the max 8 and the max 10 because they do not have that door plug as part of the configuration Kira all right Jack and Lee there in Portland Forest thank you and two new storms moving across the country bringing alerts to 40 States for blizzard strong winds flooding and heavy.
Snow and as the storm moves East well tornadoes and flash flooding are possible along the the Gulf Coast while the Midwest will see snow tonight before the winter weather continues to move East our meteorologist smart Theodore is here with more hi Samara hey K you know what the Saga just continues rounds of these storms as you said so if you saw.
Bad weather this past weekend or at the end of last week likely the culprit was storm number one that's out of here number two is impacting the central portions of the country and number three that is just now entering through the Northwest as a result of Storm 2 and three look at how many states are lit up here so as Kier said we have over 40.
States under some type of weather alert today so timing this out this afternoon Storm's already getting going you can see kind of how this storm is split into two tiar to the north we have snow up in the Great Lakes a little bit farther south that's where we have the heavy rain and the thunderstorms the severe threat is significant strong tornadoes.
So not just any tornadoes we can see strong tornadoes in New Orleans mobile Panama City but that threat extends from Houston all the way to Montgomery Alabama as as we for forward through time I'm taking you into Tuesday Tuesday Morning through Tuesday afternoon this is going to ride through the southeast the I95 Corridor will be in the bullseye.
And as the storm shifts to the east so does the threat for severe weather so now Albany Tallahassee up into Wilmington and Raleigh you have the threat for strong tornadoes and flash flooding and on the Northern Tier of the storm the Mid-Atlantic DMV Baltimore delm Mara Peninsula New York Philadelphia we are looking at heavy.
Heavy rain that could lead to significant and flooding by the time it's all said and done with these two uh with this storm on Wednesday the northern portion of the storm may drop anywhere from 6 in to 12 Ines of snow from Omaha into the Great Lakes right on up into New England and then you can see where the bullseye is here three to five.
Plus inches of rain coming down really hard really fast that is what is going to lead to significant flooding so uh Kira for those living in the South this is picking up tomorrow and for those living in the Northeast we have the threat for flash flooding Tuesday night into Wednesday all right we'll track it Samara thank you and coming up can big.
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Live Well the weit is almost over in just a few hours from now Michigan will take on Washington in college football's national championship game in Houston it's the last title game before the college football playoff expands to 12 teams next year and as big blue hopes to take home its first title since.
1997 let's bring in our resident Michigan Alum and ABC News contributor Mike Muse just for a moment do you think it's possible you could set aside your bias and tell us what we can expect tonight if not I understand okay Kira I'mma do my best I can only guarantee 30 seconds of unbiased journalism and then the hat.
Comes off so here goes my 30 second start the clock I am so excited for this incredible matchup between the University of Michigan and University of Washington this is Big 10 pack 12 at its finest in particular as the Pack 12 concludes this conference rolls it up and folds itself majority into the Big.
10 where they come into our conference next year you usually see Cara the Big 10 and Pack 12 meet up in the Rose Bowl and for their iconic New Year's Day game and so I couldn't have think thought of a better poetic Shakespearean way uh for the Big 10 pack 12 to go out then not just at the Rose Bowl but on the national championship stage it's going.
To be a battle of the quarterbacks Kira we have JJ McCarthy versus Michigan going against Heisman trophy finalist Michael pinnick J J who is an incredible quarterback who can run and he can throw and he has a great aim with his targets and so this is the matchup that everyone has wanted to see both teams undefeated and both have a dric fan base uh that is.
Here in Houston slightly removing my hat slowly definitely you see Morris amaz and blue here in Houston as we turn to am and blue but Unity Washington is here and I couldn't be more excited for both of these teams both of this history and really for the history of the Pack 12 and the Big 10 we're in award season car the Golden Globes last night this is.
Made for TV made for movies so here's the deal I wasn't going to mention it but since you mentioned the Rose Bowl I'm going back to the 80s and I'm much older than you Mr Mike Muse but I just want you to know that my team my college team crushed you in the Rose Bowl but I'm GNA move on now and talk about Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh all right.
We'll get back to that you know he missed the last three games as we uh mentioned of the season after being suspended for that sign stealing scan you say the team has been through a lot of adversity you know this season and that's true but a lot of it was self-inflicted it was I'm really so glad that you mentioned that K because if I.
Could just unpack that a little bit what's important to note is that the NCAA has yet to conclude their investigation on what it is but all roles are leading to that University of Michigan football team and head coach had no direction of sending that um that colleague out into different cities to do the sign stealing but Kira with that.
Sign stealing we went on the road we beat Penn State we faced a difficult University of Maryland we crushed the Ohio State University and we slammed University of Alabama the SEC which I think is overrated but I digress and so there is no signs that we've been winning off of sign stealing but we've been will winning off of our athletic.
Ability we have one of the best defensive in the nation we have an incredible offense uh and we also do have an incredible offensive coordinator and Chiron Moore who was coach Harbaugh's replacement um in the final three suspensions handed down by the Big 10 but you're right K in the beginning we did have some trouble uh things that.
We had to account fors are recruiting the first three grantant that he had to sit on the sideline for well finally uh we know you're going to be there tonight and you were kind enough to share this fabulous picture with us of the last Michigan title game that you went to in January 1998 uh you may not recognize Mike had a.
Little hair back then um he's lost that because he's very nervous about his team uh losing but you know you look good you know with a shaved Dome I got to tell you so I know you're excited I know you're pumped and is that sweatshirt you wearing back from college yes so that those are side by side so that was at the Rose Bowl.
January 1st 1998 and then this is the Rose Bowl that we just passed January 1st 2024 I had more hair and Cara who knew you can lose eyebrows I don't know how that happened but I think I've been so nervous Kira I literally got nauseous in the fourth quarter last week at the Rose Bowl because of so much excitement but.
This is why this game is so incredible for me and for alums across the country and really the world it's to get back on this national state since 1998 is truly special with this team with this coach an incredible alumni fan base I'm just so excited I can't wait to tailgate and I can't wait to raise this trophy here and I'm going to text you all night we.
Did it I can't wait to get the text and by the way that picture um that that uh we're going back in time with the uh the hottie over your shoulder there you still in touch with her oh wait a minute there's three hotties three of them all of them that's Erica that's visha that's daa right not picture the Chelle that is the crew and they're all doing great.
Successful fames children oh it's great do be a Michigan Wolverine is great to be a Michigan Wolverine note I'm getting the hard wrap I'm getting the hard wrap love you Mike I really support you I promise we'll be in touch you can catch the game and of course Mike's recap uh tonight on ESPN coverage starts at 7:30 Eastern thank you so much for streaming.
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The company is now scrambling after part of a 737 Max plane was torn off mid-flight what it means for those 737 Max planes that are still in the sky and hope in the face of tragedy we're in Maui with the latest on the recovery efforts one building at a time not correct video we can change that good afternoon.
everyone and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips and I'm Terry Moran our top story at this hour it was the sight of one of the most horrific hate crimes in our country's history and now President Biden is there at the start of this election year seeking to frame this coming campaign in the starkest terms.
President Biden in Charleston South Carolina today at the mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church the sight of that Massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners back in 2015 Biden is trying to make the connection between the danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying the Republican Contender is running on a.
Hate fueled agenda and that he is a threat to our democracy the lies that led to January 6 are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States capital isn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to.
Determine to erase history and your future White House correspondent Selena is traveling with the president joins us now from Charleston along with our political director Rick Klein so Selena uh pretty focused speech today coming on the heels of arguably Biden's strongest speech uh to Mark January 6th he's.
Really focusing on this theme that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and making that speech from the sight of a horrific racist crime that happened a number of years ago yeah K this was an extremely fired up and emotional speech from President Biden and we should should expect him to continue to have these sharp and pointed.
Attacks at Donald Trump and what he sees as the underlying Stakes of this election which is American freedoms and democracy and choosing that location showing that the threats of violence the racism extremism that happened in 2015 with this horrific mass shooting well that has not gone away and the president's saying that Maga Republicans.
They're threatening not only to steal an election but to steal history following his strong comments on Friday in Valley Forge saying thatum TR is only running in this election so he can enrich himself now another important point in his speech here is also trying to remind the Americans that this is a choice that they have they have a choice in front of.
Them and it is a clear one thank you Selena Rick you know this has been the Touchstone of Biden's politics since he decided to run against Donald Trump in 2020 the soul of the nation is at stake but he was running against Donald Trump he's president for four years Reverend on him can this kind of repeat it's worked in 2020 worked in.
22 the country is clearly concerned about some of these issues but how do you read it as an incumbent running yeah inherently an incumbent running is a is a referendum but what the Biden campaign wants to do is to make it a choice and basically frame it as almost two incumbents two different people who represent much different visions of the.
Country a former president and and a current president uh it is unprecedented in so many different ways Terry as we've discussed and the other linkage that you heard from from the president today a second loss cause I feel like that was a term that's particularly resident in South Carolina talking about the attempts over decades to rewrite the.
History of the Confederacy and the Civil War which has been in the news recently and linking it to the efforts to rewrite the history around the 2020 election and around January 6th with the anniversary just a few days ago so I feel like these two speeches kind of bookends around the rationale for Biden but you're right it does reach back into uh to the Playbook.
That worked before and isn't necessarily something that work works for an incumbent president running for re-election and Selena as we heard the president he just didn't talk about uh Donald Trump and his words saying he's a a threat to democracy but he also talked about the fact that Trump lost this election do you want to vote for someone.
Who lost uh also emphasizing covid and and blaming uh covid on the former president as well so he really went after Trump and and hammered on him and here that was a moment when he got some of the biggest cheers when he called Donald Trump a loser you heard a lot of cheering in the crowd there and I was just speaking to the campaign and.
The campaign officials say that look the president he's going to continue to drive home these two-part messages which is one about his own election about being a referendum on what he's done for the American people that's part one and the other part is driving home that contrast with Donald Trump and what a Donald Trump second presidency would.
Mean and how that would undermine American democracy Now a big part of the trip as well to South Carolina K as we talked about earlier today is reaching out to Black voters in South Carolina they were critical to Biden's Resurgence in the 20120 campaign polls are showing a drop in support from black voters the campaign when I talk to them they say.
Look we're still early they believe that the choice will be clear they will still continue to shore up that support I was speaking to a woman earlier who is one of the family members of someone who is killed in that mass shooting here at that church in 2015 she said she believes that Biden is going to continue to have her support and that even though.
He hasn't achieved all of his goals because of what's happening in Congress she still thinks he's done the best he can all right Selena Wang Rick Klein thanks very much and now we want to turn to Capitol Hill Congress returns tomorrow from its three-week recess with some good news Believe It or Not Top Congressional.
Leaders have finally reached an agreement on the overall price tag of the next batch of government spending bills and that's marking a major step toward averting a partial shutdown that is set to begin later this month for more we of course bring in our Jo O'Brien who covers everything on the hill for us so let's just talk about the.
Details of this agreement what it means yeah partial good news right we're we're just there on terms of averting a potential shutdown remember we've been talking about this idea of a government shutdown since the fall which was When government funding was set to expire and then Republicans and Democrats at the 11th Hour in both the house and the.
Senate did this temporary Government funding measure that kicks the can down the road into the winter then they have to do another temporary funding measure in the winter that kicks the can down the road into where we are today where the government would have a partial shutdown in 11 days from now if there isn't some kind of funding deal reached.
And so this is the deal that Democratic Leadership in the Senate who control that chamber and Chuck Schumer who represents the Democrats there and Mike Johnson the Speaker of the House who represents Republicans in the house who control that chamber struck over the weekend to try to avert that shutdown the Topline number as you saw on your.
Screen is 1 . 6 trillion the question really becomes can this get through the house and the Senate it looks poised to get through the Senate with bipartisan support the question becomes can it get through the house there are Hardline conservatives who have already come out against this measure they believe it essentially spends too much money so.
It's looking like speaker Johnson will have to turn to Democrats to get this over the goal line guys you know Jay Once Upon a Time if the leaders got together and they did a deal you could bet it was going to get to the president's desk the times of ch changed so what are leaders good for anyway Jay thanks very much j o BR well you'll.
Remember that Alaska Airlines flight that had a door plug blow right off the side of a plane well the NTSB has actually recovered that door from a Portland Teachers backyard there's the picture the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after that door plug which is used to cover and seal.
Emergency exits by the way just flew off off mid-flight so the cabin depressurized and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling the NTSB says there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9es and.
So ABC's ja Jaclyn Lee is in Portland with us on this just incredible story jacine investigators have just now recovered that door SK was just showing us it fell off what's the latest yeah that's right guys you know that is that door plug is a huge piece of the puzzle so you bet that the NTSB they're going to be looking very closely at why.
It flew off so for example they're going to be looking at the hinges was it properly attached did it look like it ripped off is there metal that is deformed that's just some of the questions they're going to be looking at they also recovered two cell phones so they're going to see a lot more details about okay when did this go out of the.
Plane and maybe um a little more insight into how this happened but something that we noticed is that the the cockpit voice recorder unfortunately was overwritten after 2 hours so that was another massive component that unfortunately will not be at the ntsb's disposal yesterday was the first full day of their investigation they had the.
Structures team out there looking at everything on that plane they had another team looking at all of the damage so it's going to take some time to figure this out guys yeah Jack this is not reassuring for a lot of people who who fly what what's the latest on the condition of the passengers who did make get through this harrowing.
Experience so the good news is that there were no serious injuries I mean everybody on board survived but of course there is psychological trauma as mentioned by those officials you think about it they're just sitting on a plane thinking it's business as usual and then all of a sudden this violent explosive event happens we're told that passengers.
Saw debris flying there was wind everywhere so of course very scary moments all right Jaclyn Lee we will follow the investigation of course out of Portland there appreciate it and coming up he was convicted of domestic violence now the former star is talking about it Jonathan major sits down with our Lindsay Davis.
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Here well actor Jonathan Majors is speaking out for the very first time after being convicted of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend maor calls the two-year relationship with Grace Jabari toxic dangerous and unhealthy but he insists there was absolutely no physical abuse that's his claim and he sat down exclusively with our lindsy.
Davis it has been very very very uh hard and very difficult and uh confusing in many ways Jonathan major breaking his silence just weeks after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor recklessness assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabari the actor at times emotional oh sorry um you know I.
Haven't I haven't seen my daughter in in a in a in a long time you know and um a lot of it has to do with this situation in a split verdict Majors was found not guilty of two other misdemeanors assault with intent to cause physical injury and aggravated assault there saying you didn't intend to injure her right but the result of.
Your recklessness injured her right were you Reckless I was Reckless with her heart not with her body not with her body the physical altercation started inside an SUV after Majors received a suggestive text message from another woman hours later after major placed a 911 call police found Jabari unconscious.
On the closet floor in their apartment as seen in this body body camera footage you feel that you did anything wrong on the night of March 25th if you could relive that night I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have picked her up I wouldn't have put her back in the car I wouldn't have tried to keep her in the.
Car I would have gotten out that car and ran immediately the two met back in 2021 on the set of Antman and the WASP Quantum Mania the prosecution has described your relationship with Grace Jabari as tumultuous and abusive how would you describe that to your relationship I loved Grace our relationship was it was not.
Healthy you know and that began to reveal itself over time why you stay I I was I was scared um with the red flags I found that I and I use this word I this is dangerous this is months before um um the incident I should have been brave I should have said no this isn't working and I should have walked away um and I.
Didn't troubling signs in the relationship were revealed when prosecutors presented text messages where Majors expressed Suicidal Thoughts saying maybe I'm such a monster and horrible man that I don't deserve it and should just kill myself were you suicidal the ideations of removing myself from situations permanent.
Is a thought that I've had um I mean since I was a kid you know since I was a you know young boy on the farm in Texas you know it's not there anymore you know I've done that I'm doing the work to to keep it at Bay and make sure it's not there anymore the March 2023 incident thrust major dating history into the Forefront a rolling stone article back.
In June detailed multiple allegations of abusive Behavior dating back to Majors relationships in college allegations Majors vehemently denies his attorneys offered past partners to defend him have you ever had issues with domestic abuse I've I've witnessed it um but never participated you know I I've been smacked up before you know.
But yeah never never exercised it those relationships went back to when I was you know 21 22 years old and I just think was I a jerk you know was I you know you know a mean guy you know and I go yeah knowing what I know now like oh severe depression childhood trauma I've had very few relationships um so I could I can I can gather um what.
Situations we're talking about um yeah I was not the best boyfriend all the time but never hit a woman never hit a woman I've never but my hands have never struck a woman ever after gaining critical Acclaim for films like the last black man in San Francisco Major's once's red hot career is now seemingly at a standstill how are.
You feeling moments after the verdict Marvel Studios dropped him he was set to play The prominent character Kang in upcoming films I am King but despite the possibility of serving time Majors believes the script for his career is still being written you think you'll ever work in Hollywood again yeah yeah I do I pray I do but.
It's uh it's God's plan and God's timing for those who say look he's he's convicted at this point what would you say I mean do you deserve a second chance I think I do I hope other people think that Lindy Davis thank you for that interview with Jonathan Majors we're.
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Attacks on Ukraine overnight the Ukrainian Air Force says 51 Russian missiles were fired only 18 were shot down four people are confirmed dead and the attacks come as usaid to Ukraine is dwindling and now after 27 years Tiger Woods and Nike are officially parting ways you can't find many pictures of Tiger Woods without his beloved Nike.
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As you saw right here in the courtroom has been sentenced to up to two years in prison for the charges he was originally in court for well today that suspect entered the courtroom again looked a little different handcuffs shackles gloves and a mask for the sentencing he's also facing new charges for last week's attack on the judge as well yeah.
He's going away so the new year is bringing New Beginnings for some Maui residents after wildfires ripped through their Community last summer one family is now sharing their Journey with us as they start 2024 in a new state and just try to navigate the challenges that follow ABC's Melissa.
Adon exploring the spirit of the H Maka which means to begin in Hawaiian in the latest installment of our series Maui strong strong 808 as the new year begins it's a chance for a new start for the thousands of victims of the fires that devastated Maui last August for some that new start beginning thousands of miles away Anon a.
Janessa cabanilla were born and raised in laa she had a crush on me in second grade we've been together maybe 11 years strong ready they relocated to Las Vegas with their five and six-year-old after losing their home I didn't want my kids to wake up every day and see the scenery I didn't want them to kind of be reminded every day of.
What we gone through we took that opportunity to you know let's get out there let's go to Vegas let's make our lives better but for now their days look like this trying to create some stability for their children as they rebuild their lives they were excited we got into the house but some days we'll have have those times where our kids are.
Like you know when when are we going to go back home back on Maui many still searching for a sliver of a new beginning Alfie borto lost his own home but is pouring into his community through his nonprofit planning to purchase and set up 11 more of these mobile homes on the 2 and a half acres of land he owns in an upscale gated.
Community in Laha you have this land and you're thinking about these other their families in need why is it so important to you the government is not going to come in and make us whole it is truly not so I think it's our responsibility to help each other out I I believe in that so strongly a neighboring homeowners association is suing claiming.
Alfie hasn't obtained the permits to build residential structures they Overlook our burn Zone like it's like our community that they're refusing to help you've reviewed the emergency Proclamation what is it that you see that says hey no this is eligible so in my discussions with the county when I presented the idea of having.
RVs um you know their reply back to me was because it's an RV and because it's got registration for the DMV and it's got a safety certificate it doesn't require permitting Alfie is awaiting a court hearing on January 11th or word from the county to see if he can move forward with his plan to build this legal tug-of War speaking to the largest.
Issue clouding Maui's relief efforts more than 2400 households remain displaced as Governor green tries to compel 1,500 shortterm rentals on Maui to convert to long-term housing by March 1st nelan Caesar has been living at the Royal lahina since August she says she faced issues with her insurance claim what they gave us is not enough.
Hopefully they're going to give us more because that's not what we expect everything here are so expensive and she's not alone says mahilani strong an insurance executive in lahina she says she's handling more than 1,000 home in autoc claims resulting from the fire according to Hawaii's state insurance division as of last October more than.
3500 homeowners have filed insurance claims in the Maui fire with nearly 1,500 of those properties suffering a total loss their data shows roughly 40% of claim money has not been paid out totaling more than 770 $3 million I think one of the biggest worries of the clients is when it comes time to rebuild will they still have money left for it.
Because everybody's paying out of their eyeballs for rent right now people are using their personal property funds to pay rent I want to rebuild our house My Heart Belongs to lahina this community yearning for New Beginnings calling to their ancestors and cleansing in the.
Water is to like see the beginning when you're a navigator you have to see the beginning of the Horizon and know that you're going to chart a course to reach your destination and our thanks to Melissa for that report it's pretty awesome the work I think that we've been doing just following up with those in in Maui I.
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Kira Phillips our top story this hour it was the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes in our country now the president wants to reach those disaffected black voters decrying racism and rallying their support President Biden in Charleston South Carolina delivering remarks from inside the mother Emanuel am church that's the.
Sight of that Massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners in 2015 Biden trying to make the connection between the danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying the Republican Contender is running on a hate fueled agenda and that's a threat to our democracy wise that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the.
Truth of America today that we all have seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States capital isn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to determine to erase history and your future our political director Rick Klein joining me once again so Rick let's talk.
About Democrats they're preparing to cast their votes in South Carolina's primary less than one month away what do you think is Biden in touch with the main issues that these voters want to hear that's going to be the first test that he has against other real competition on the ballot the Iowa caucuses don't involve the Democrats uh.
Next week and then the week after that the New Hampshire primary he's not on the ballot it's just the right in so that'll be the first real gauge we get about how much his support has potentially slipped inside the Democratic party uh he doesn't have real opposition in the primaries we know that um despite the efforts of Congressman.
Dean Phillips and Marian Williamson it's not really about the primaries it is about uh making sure you've got the voters on board for the general election and you could hear in the speech today an attempt to to connect and reconnect with black voters in particular the mentions of Vice President Harris the mentions of uh Supreme Court Justice.
Kagi Brown Jackson this is a president who I think is mindful of the political challenges of the moment and trying to cast this race as about some very broad themes involving race and also involving democracy so a group of protesters as you know interrupted Biden's speech today calling for a ceasefire in Gaza let's take a.
Listen if you really care about the lives lost here then you should honor the lives lost and call for a ceasefire in Palestine CE so with the polls showing that Biden's unequivocal support of Israel is putting him at odds with some of his key.
Supporters younger voters as you can see uh are jumping in on the conversation here should Biden be concerned I I was struck by the the fact that they got into a room like this as well as the fact that President Biden decided to engage with him of course he's concerned about where his support is inside his own party we've heard so many Democrats.
Talk about it and the president's saying back look he's working quietly with the Israelis to try to minimize civilian casualties to minimize the uh the the presence that the the Israeli military has in Gaza this is a challenge that he is going to face for a long time because of the way that it divides his own party a lot of Democrats have chastised him.
For his for being too close in their view to the Israeli government uh and this is going to be a series of voices whether they're publicly heard in in forums like this or not that are very much going to be on the minds of the the Biden campaign so South Carolina was a key state that helped uh you know Biden win.
Against Trump remind us just about this crucial Battleground for him and how do you think he's going to do I mean it played well in 2020 but this is a different time yeah keep in mind in 2020 he lost in Iowa he lost in New Hampshire uh and it was only the South Carolina primaries that resuscitated his campaign and gave him the momentum he needed.
Through super Tuesday and then Co hit and he was essentially the nominee anyway but without South Carolina President Biden probably is never the Democratic nominee and therefore not the president and what's interesting is it's not a Battleground state in the general election but it sure is important in the primaries and President Biden has made.
It even more important and of course as you see the the the president's approval numbers which which the L those lines having crossed in the summer of 2021 they've never gotten close to meeting again president goes into this campaign distinctly less popular than he was in the last campaign and yes the first thing he has to do is worry about the.
Primaries and that state that made such a difference for him four years ago RI Klein thanks so much thanks G let's have head over to Capitol Hill now Congress is returning tomorrow from its three-week res recess with some pretty good news top Congressional leaders have finally reached an agreement on the overall price tag of the next batch of.
Government spending bills marking a pretty major step toward averting a partiel shutdown that's set to begin actually later this month our j o Brant is up there on the hill covering that for us so let's talk about the details of the agreement Jay yeah and to understand this you just got to think about the timeline here for a second so.
Remember Government funding was set to expire in the fall we had all those concerns about a government shutdown right and then lawmakers at the 11th Hour Kick the Can down the road into the winter and that we have this same conversation in the winter right and the lawmakers pass another short-term Government funding measure kicks the can.
Down the road into now Government funding expires for some federal agencies in 11 days from now those agencies are for instance the Department of Transportation the Department of Veterans Affairs the list goes on then other agencies their funding expires in February and so that's what causes this deal with the top Democrats in the.
Senate who control that chamber led by by Chuck Schumer and the top Republicans in the house who control that chamber led by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and the Topline number is that it funds the federal government at about $1.6 trillion all the way until next fiscal year in the fall now the question becomes will this get enough momentum.
Here on Capitol Hill to actually pass in the house and in the Senate we know that Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have signaled that this is something that they would support certainly Democrats in the Senate brokered this deal in the house there are some conservatives in the house who have already said they're not going to back.
This measure the house Freedom caucus the Hardline group of house conservatives called this a quote unquote total failure so the question now facing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is can he get enough Republicans in his party to support this and does he have to eventually turn to Democrats to get this over the goal line K which it's.
Looking like he'll probably have to do so let's be realistic here then will this bill ever make it to the president's desk it really hinges on how much Mike Johnson can get it done in the House of Representatives because all things look poised for this measure to pass in the Senate and of course if it passes in the senate in the house.
Remember we avert a government shutdown so you have to look at the house and see how speaker Johnson is able to move within his own party here it is almost certain at this hour that he'll probably have to turn to democratic votes to get this over the goal line the question becomes our house Democrats open to this and are there any kind of Hang-Ups.
Between H Mike Johnson and house conservatives that may not push this into the P place where it doesn't pass but certainly delay this process and getting this bill onto the floor for a vote another question for you House Republicans they're moving forward in holding Hunter Biden in contempt of congress still any movement there well.
Remember this was that ongoing discussion that was in the later part of last year where uh House Republicans in the house oversight committee is part of their ongoing impeachment inquiry into president Biden said that they wanted to interview Hunter Biden behind closed doors Hunter Biden you may remember Kier you and I were on the air together comes.
Out and gives a press conference on the steps of the capital in which he says I'm not going to be interviewed behind closed doors I will talk to the committee but in an open hearing that the American people can see so he essentially defies that subpoena and this is now House Republicans saying because Biden defied that subpena they.
Are going to hold him in contempt of congress this is an action by the committee it eventually would have to be brought to a vote on the house floor and only then could this wind up in court like others who have defied Congressional subpoenas in the past most notably in terms of the January 6 committee but certainly it is a step in.
The direction of House Republicans dragging Hunter Biden into court for what they say is defying their subpoena Jay O'Brien up on the hill Forest Jay thank you defense secretary Lloyd Austin is out of the ICU after catching the country off guard including members of his own staff even the president of the United States Austin kept an elected.
Medical procedure secret but something went wrong and he ended up in intensive care while a Us official tells us President Biden was exasperated at not being informed sooner and that the White House didn't even learn about Austin's hospitalization until 3 days after it happened our senior Pentagon reporter Lou Martinez is trying to weave the web.
Here and try to get any facts and it's been tough I mean why in the world was this kept secret do we know anything more about the Pentagon not informing the White House sooner and do you think jobs will be at stake Louie Cara lots of questions being asked we have just gotten a new timeline that indicates that secretary Austin on Monday night.
New Year's day was taken via ambulance to the Walter re National military Medical Hospital uh for immediate treatment at that point the following day his chief of staff is informed other senior officials including the Joint Chiefs of chairman are informed but apparently that information just stayed within that bubble he was in the ICU.
Receiving immediate care and no notifications were made to the White House until Thursday and that actually kind of happened only because the number two here at the Pentagon deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks who had assumed some temporary roles was made aware that he was actually in the ICU so it wasn't until that happened on Thursday that.
Then the public disclosures happened on and Congressional notifications took place on Friday so lots of questions being asked fingers being pointed at the chief of staff um was some indication saying that she was sick with the flu but then again if she's sick with the flu does that mean that that person can't call or contact the white house.
Depending on telling us that they are reviewing their procedures right now uh to ensure this doesn't happen again and in the wake of this because so many questions Kira I know I've been asking you this all morning and afternoon but do we have any idea what the health scare was and will we find out Cara we just had a session here with Major.
General Pat Ryder he's the pentagon's top spokesman he was asked again today if he knows what that minor procedure was and he said he does not know um what we do know is that back on December 22nd when he underwent that procedure at Walter Reid uh temporary duties were sent to uh Kathleen Hicks again but it was just a routine matter and then he.
Left the hospital the following day it was 10 days later that he was hospitalized with serious complications of severe pain is what the pen on is saying but for now they're they don't really know so it seems to be matter of privacy again for secretary Austin it remains to be seen exactly when we may find out if at all so then let me ask.
You this it was just uh Friday a few days ago that I was talking with Pentagon Deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh about the US carrying out retaliatory strikes in Iraq and targeting an iran-backed militia leader if Austin was out who was calling the shots what we are told is that the decision to carry out that retaliatory.
Strike on the Wednesday had been pre-authorized one of the things that we are being told at the White House and here is that Austin participated in a National Security Council meeting with the president on Monday uh to talk about matters about the Middle East so they're not saying it directly but it is conceivable that the authorization was.
Given on that meeting on the Monday for the Wednesday strike but again nobody's saying that because what we do know is that that's possibly the last time that the White House knew that Austin uh was okay because that night is when he went to the hospital in Via ambulance so it's as of right now they're saying that he was in charge but the authorization had.
Already been given well hopefully we'll get more answers soon Louis Martinez appreciate it thanks K coming up Alaska Airlines loses part of its airplane midair what happened and should you keep your upcoming flight next we are here in Israel a nation at War we've seen tank after tank pouring.
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Live glad you're streaming with us you will remember that Alaska Airlines flight that had a door plug blow right off the side of the plane well a Portland teacher has actually found that door in his backyard the 737 max9 was forced to head back to Portland Oregon Friday night with 177 people on board after the door plug which is used to.
Cover and seal emergency egit exits just flew off mid-flight the cabin depressurized and oxygen Mass fell from the ceiling the NTSB says that there isn't much cell phone footage because most of the phones were sucked right out of the plane now the FAA is temporarily grounding certain Boeing 737 Max 9 and our jacn Lee is in Portland following.
The story for us so he learned overnight that the seat next to the door plug lost its headrest seat back and tray table but luckily no one was sitting there right it could have been much worse yes that's right Kira so the good news is there were no serious injuries everybody survived on board and uh the NTSB chair she even said this could have.
Been a lot worse if you think about it this happened when the plane was still at 16,000 ft it was not at cruising altitude which would have been 30,000 ft uh and she said what could have happened is if it was at cruising altitude people could have been walking around the cabin that's when that seat belt light comes off and people you know go to the.
Bathroom and whatnot so had it happened at that point this is this could have been a lot more catastrophic Cura but obviously also there's also a lot of psychological trauma which is what officials acknowledge as a result of this event yeah I can't even imagine it'd be traumatizing well we're also hearing that the cockpit door flew open.
As well and that the captain had a portion of his headset that was pulled off what do we know about that so we know that this is you know part of the investigation is figuring out what exactly led to this you know when the door plug flew off the there's a rapid uh decompress depressurization inside the cabin right so there's a lot.
Of wind and uh passengers reported a lot of debris flying around um and so what the NTSB is doing is now that they have launched their investigation yesterday was the first full day so they had the structures team uh analyzing the hinges the door the the frame around where the door plug was and the big piece was finding that door plug so hopefully they.
Can figure out what happened Kira all right the FAA now has approved the specifics of the inspections needed to get certain uh grounded Boeing 737 Max 's back in the air so what is Boeing saying about just future plans for the planes so Boeing is saying it supports the fa's decision to inspect all of the planes with the same configuration as.
The one involved in the incident but Boeing said they they are not required to inspect uh the other members of the max family which would be the max 8 and the max x 10 because they do not have that door plug as part of the configuration Kira all right Jack and Lee there in Portland Forest thank you and two new storms moving across the.
Country bringing alerts to 40 States for blizzards strong winds flooding and heavy snow and as the storm moves East well tornadoes and flash flooding are possible along the Gulf Coast while the Midwest will see snow tonight before the winter weather continues to move East our meteorologist Samar Theodor is here with more hi Samara hey K you know what.
The Saga just continues rounds of these storms as you said so if you saw bad weather this past weekend or at the end of last week likely the culprit was storm number one that's out of here number two is impacting the central portions of the country and number three that is just now entering through the Northwest as a result of Storm 2 and.
Three look at how many states are lit up here so as K said we have over 40 States under some type of weather alert today so timing this out this afternoon storms already getting going you can see kind of this storm is split into two tiar to the north we have snow up in the Great Lakes a little bit farther south that's where we have the heavy rain and the.
Thunderstorms the severe threat is significant strong tornadoes so not just any tornadoes we can see strong tornadoes in New Orleans mobile Panama City but that threat extends from Houston all the way to Montgomery Alabama as we for forward through time I'm taking you into Tuesday Tuesday Morning through Tuesday afternoon this.
Is going to ride through the southeast the I95 Corridor will be in the bullseye and as the storm shifts to the east so does the threat for severe weather so now Albany Tallahassee up into Wilmington and Raleigh you have the threat for strong tornadoes and flash flooding and on the Northern Tier of the storm the Mid-Atlantic DMV Baltimore.
Delm Marva Peninsula New York Philadelphia we are looking at heavy heavy rain that could lead to significant flooding by the time it's all said and done with these uh with this storm on Wednesday the northern portion of the storm may drop anywhere from 6 in to 12 in of snow from Omaha into the Great Lakes right on up into.
New England and then you can see where the bullseye is here 3 to five plus inches of rain coming down really hard really fast that is what is going to lead to significant flooding so uh Kira for those living in the South this is picking up tomorrow and for those living in the north east we have the threat for flash flooding Tuesday night into.
Wednesday all right we'll track it Samara thank you and coming up can big blue get it done Michigan hoping to take home its first national title since the Clinton administration Michigan Super Fan and ABC News contributor Mike Muse with a very unbiased report coming up we have.
Really congratulations I was terrified it was just so traumatic nightmare people need to understand these were wanted babies 18 women facing life and death medical conditions their lives now out of their control I felt like I was going to die our lives and our health are debatable I wouldn't wish.
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well the weit is almost over in just a few hours from now Michigan will take on Washington in college football's national championship game in Houston it's the last title game before the college football playoff expands to 12 teams next year and as big blue hopes to take home its first title since.
1997 let's bring in our resident Michigan Alum and ABC News contributor Mike Muse just for a moment do you think it's possible you could set aside your bias and tell us what we can expect tonight if not I understand okay Kira I'mma do my best I can only guarantee 30 seconds of unbiased journalism and then the hat.
Comes off so here goes my 30 seconds start the clock I am so excited for this incredible match up between the University of Michigan and University of Washington this is Big 10 pack 12 at its finest in particular as the Pack 12 concludes this conference rolls it up and folds itself majority into the Big.
10 where they come into our conference next year you usually see Cara the Big 10 and Pack 12 meet up in the Rose Bowl and for their iconic New Year's Day game and so I couldn't have think thought of a better poetic Shakespearean way uh for the Big 10 pack 12 to go out than not just at the roll Bowl but on the national championship stage it's going.
To be a battle of the quarterbacks Kira we we have JJ McCarthy versus Michigan going against Heisman trophy finalist Michael pinnick Jr who is an incredible quarterback who can run and he can throw and he has a great aim with his targets and so this is the matchup that everyone has wanted to see both teams undefeated and both have an electric fan base uh.
That is here in Houston slightly removing my hat slowly definitely you see Morris am in blue here in Houston as we turn to MAA blue but Unity Washington is here and I couldn't be more excited for both of these teams both of this history and really for the history of the Pack 12 and the Big 10 we're in award season care with the Golden Globes.
Last night this is made for TV made for movies so here's the deal I wasn't going to mention it but since you mentioned the Rose Bowl I'm going back to the 80s and I'm much older than you Mr Mike Muse but I just want you to know that my team my college team crushed you in the Rose Bowl but I'm going to move on now and talk about Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh.
All right we'll get back to that you know he missed the last three games as we uh mentioned of the season after being suspended for that sign stealing Scandal you say the team has been through a lot of adversity you know this season and that's true but a lot of it was self-inflicted it was I'm really so glad.
That you mentioned that K because if I could just unpack that a little bit what's important to note is that the NCAA has yet to conclude their investigation on what it is but all roles are leading to that University of Michigan football team and head coach had no direction of sending that um that colleague out into different cities to.
Do the sign stealing but Kira with that sign stealing we went on the road we beat Penn State we faced a difficult University of Maryland we crushed the Ohio State University and we slammed University of Alabama the SEC which I think is overrated but I digress and so there is no signs that we were winning off of signs dealing but we've been will.
Winning off of our athletic ability we have one of the best defensive in the nation and we have an incredible offense uh and we also do have an incredible offensive coordinator and Chiron Moore who was coach Harbaugh's replacement um in the final three suspensions handed down by the Big 10 but you're right Ken in the beginning we did have some.
Trouble uh things that we had think account for are recruiting the first three gam that he had to sit on the sideline for well finally uh we know you're going to be there tonight and you were kind enough to share this fabulous picture with us of the last Michigan title game that you went to in January.
1998 uh you may not recognize Mike he had a little hair back then um he's lost that because he's very nervous about his team uh losing but you know you look good you know with a shaved Dome I got to tell you so I know you're excited I know you're pumped and is that sweatshirt you wearing back from college yes so that those are side by.
Side so that was at the Rose Bowl January 1st 1998 and then this is the Rose Bowl that we just passed January 1st 2024 I had more hair and Cara who knew you can lose eyebrows I don't know how that happened but I think I've been so nervous Kira I literally got nauseous in the fourth quarter last week at the Rose.
Bowl because of so much excitement but this is why this game is so incredible for me and for alums across the country and really the world is to get back on this national state since 1998 is truly special with this team with this coach an incredible alni fan base I'm just so excited I can't wait to tailgate and I can't wait to raise this trophy here and.
I'm gonna text you all night we did it I can't wait to get the text and by the way that picture um that that uh we're going back in time with the uh the hottie over your shoulder there you still in touch with her oh wait a minute there's three hotties three of them all of them that's Erica that's visha that's daa right not pictur is chamelle that is.
The crew and they're all doing great successful fam children oh it's great to be a Michigan Wolverine is great to be a Michigan wver and on that note I'm getting the hard rap I'm getting the hard wrap love you Mike I really support you I promise we'll be in touch you can catch the game and of course Mike's recap uh tonight on ESPN coverage starts.
At 7:30 Eastern thank you so much for streaming with us I hope there's a lot of Michigan fans out there I'm Kiera Phillips from breaking news to 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 neither do we we'll be right.
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live hello everyone I'm Kira Phillips some of the top headlines we're watching for you right now on ABC News Live President Biden and Charleston South Carolina hoping to reach black voters by decrying racism and rallying their support Biden delivering remarks at the mother Emanuel am Church the site of.
That horrific Massacre that took nine lives of black parishioners back in 2015 Biden laying out the stakes warning about magga Republicans led by Trump pointing to January 6 and the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election the lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have.
Seen before the same movement that throughout the mob the United States capital isn't just trying to rewrite history January 6 they're trying to determine to erase history and your future this comes as the 2024 presidential campaign is picking up momentum on both sides of the aisle.
Republican candidates are in Iowa hoping to make their final pleas to voters there with the first contest the Iowa caucus is just 8 days away the closing bell sounding on Wall Street stalks bouncing back as investors shake off their New Year's hangover the dowo up triple digits the NASDAQ gaining more than 2% and the S&P 500 closing more.
Than 1% higher as big gains and Chip stocks Drive the market upward but today's big loser Boeing shares of the Aerospace manufacturer were falling more than 8% after the door plug of an Alaska Airlines plane blew off mid-flight causing the FAA to temporarily ground certain Boeing 737 max9 airplanes after 27 years Tiger Woods and Nike are.
Officially parting ways you can't find many pictures of tiger not doning the Nike Swoosh but that is finally changing Nike says it's grateful for all their years working together and posting this photo saying it's been a hell of a round Woods thank Nike and Nike go for the partnership and tease that there will certainly be another chapter for him in.
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In Portland Oregon finding it in his backyard new details coming in about what happened on board also actor Jonathan major speaking out for the first time since his conviction and the misdemeanor Reckless assault you got you're kidding me right slow down I wrote somebody's and they're the ones you're laughing at plus.
The morning after with comedian Joe Coy what it was like to kick off award season hosting in the Golden Globes and the evening's biggest surprises a new year and a new start for a family who lost everything in the devastating fires in lahina creating a new life in Nevada our Maui strong 808 report plus it is money Monday and here.
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To what you need to know it's Monday it is Monday and it feels good yes and one of us went swimming over the weekend yes I'm back in the pool swim R Fitness routine felt good yeah I told you I'm still on that Journey but I feel like you're going to catch a cal in the winter time if you go swimming in no my friend actually exercise will bolster.
Your immune system and being wet does not transmit viruses I did put a hat on when I came out of the pool I worked out this weekend as well did minut did you first time in a couple of months right back in a saddle hey it's the baby steps it is the baby steps I agree um Dr Jen let's talk about an emergency that was just announced their Red Cross saying.
They're having a blood shortage so what do we need to know here yeah so let me take you through these because I want to be crystal clear this has the potential to affect all of us in an emergency situation in terms of the nation's blood supply um we are down about 40% over the last two decades more recently there's been a 7,000 blood unit shortfall in.
Donations that occurred over the last week of December during holidays weather surge of respiratory illnesses all those things uh can contribute to making turnout worse uh we need in this country donors of all blood types O Negative is the universal donor a lot of people don't know their blood type you don't need to know what your blood type is.
Before you go to donate just one donation one giving on the part of an individual can save up to three lives we talk about units that's those bags that are given it's equivalent to about half a liter uh of our circulating blood volume you can save lives it's not just about red blood cells it's about plasma platelets and that is urgently needed.
Now we can Al to our part talk thank you very much we appreciate it let's check in out with my friend ABC's J O'Brien in Washington for a look at your latest headlines good afternoon to you Jay to Marco good afternoon to you and we start with at least 40 States from California to New York on alert for snow heavy rain wind and flooding even blizzards as.
Millions dig out from the last storm let's go first to our Ginger Z with the latest there as advertised the coast didn't get a ton but you go west and Inland and Worcester had nearly 14 in Big Time problem on the roads that's clearing up but now we've got two more storms to watch and just smothered in alerts every state except North Dakota.
Blizzard warning for the first time in more than a decade around Seattle severe storms including tornadoes tonight that's from New Orleans and Baton Rouge over through the Florida Panhandle The Heavy Rain with flood watches up into the Northeast and snow for the backside with Iowa into Western Illinois also strong tornadoes tomorrow on top of all.
That rain you're also going to have winds in excess of 60 M hour Tuesday night National Transportation safety board investigators say a school teacher in Oregon has found that door plug that flew off an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 F feet into their backyard nearly 200 Boeing 737 max9 planes are now grounded until they figure out what went.
Wrong and ABC News is learning new details about what Donald Trump's closest advisors told special counsel Jack Smith's team about the former president's actions during the January 6th Capital attack former golf caddy and Trump a Dan cavino telling investigators that Trump was unresponsive when asked to stop the violence describing Trump's.
Behavior as quote unsettling scavino also testifying Underoath that he never saw any evidence that the election was stolen Trump has denied any wrongdoing the college football showdown tonight undefeated Michigan versus undefeated Washington 73,000 fans expected in Houston tonight both teams are 14 and0 and you can catch all of the action on.
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Was one of Hollywood's fastest rising stars until a jury found him guilty of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend and now our very own lindsy Davis is sitting down with majors in the exclusive first interview since his conviction why did you decide you wanted to talk now I felt like it was time.
Um a lot has happened um in my personal life in my career um and the culture it's about responsibility and coming forward and being brave and and giving my my part of the story there were four charges the jury convicted you of two of them mhm your reaction to that verdict.
Shocked I was uh I was absolutely shocked and um afraid I'm standing there and the verdict comes down I say how how how is how is that possible based off the evidence based off the prosecution's evidence let alone our evidence how is that possible in a split verdict Majors.
Was found not guilty of two other misdemeanors assault with intent to cause physical injury and aggravated assault they're saying you didn't intend to injure her right but the result of your recklessness right injured her right were you Reckless I was Reckless with her heart not with her body not with her.
Body she says inside the car you hit her in the face twist her arm behind her back fracture her middle finger yeah that did not happen how did those injuries come about I I wish the god I knew that would give Clarity that would give me some type of peace about it but you're confident you didn't C I.
Have no question in a statement to ABC News an attorney for Jabari said in part it is not at all surprising that Mr Majors continues to take no accountability for his actions adding the timing of these new statements demonstrates a clear lack of remorse for his actions do you feel you're not responsible for her injuries at all I.
Shouldn't have been in the car I shouldn't have stepped out of the relationship I shouldn't have been in the relationship if I'm not in the car none of this is happening if I leave the relationship none of this is happening if I'm man enough or brave enough to.
Say I want to see somebody else or I'm I'm done now I'm not in that car we're not here I'm responsible for those things but not of her injuries I can't say that none of her injuries but prosecutors say Majors was the aggressor district attorney Alvin Bragg says the evidence presented throughout this trial Illustrated a.
Cycle of psychological and emotional abuse you think he'll ever work in Hollywood again yeah yeah I do I pray I do but it's uh it's God's plan and God's timing for those who say look he's he's convicted at this point M what would you say I mean do you.
Deserve a second chance I think I do I hope other people think that and joining us now is the anchor of ABC News live Prime and the Sunday edition of World News Tonight our friend lindsy Davis good to see you and a fascinating interview here uh during the trial Major's attorney suggested the race may.
Have played a factor did he elaborate on that you know in the closing argument in fact she said that his greatest fear as a black man in America calling 911 came true he started to cry in court at that point invoking the idea of race so I did bring that up during the interview did he feel like that was playing a role he said absolutely it played a role he said.
I'm just going to say this if you had the reverse a black man who was chasing a white woman for several blocks in New York City crying he said that black man would have been shot to the to date uh she has not been she was arrested Grace jard was arrested uh but will not be prosecuted he says that that is unjust all thanks to you Lindsay you can see an.
Extended version of Lindsay's exclusive interview with jonan major tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern streaming on ABC News live Prime all right still ahead Joe Koy the golden globe's leading man that's right we have the MC of last night's ceremonies taking us behind the scenes of the awards show we'll be right.
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We'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live all right welcome back to gm3 this year's awards show season is officially underway with the 81st Golden Globes kicking off last night I'm here to tell us all about it the host with the most who took on the gig just two weeks ago please welcome comedian Joe Koy Joe good.
To see you man uh good to see you guys so I guess the first question is how was it well I mean uh I had fun you know it's it was a moment uh that I'll always remember and you know that's a tough room and uh it was a hard job I'm not going to lie that was uh getting that gig and then uh having the amount of time that you know we had to prepare was.
A that was that was a crash course you know but I I gotta be honest with you I was very proud I was sitting on my sofa in my room and I was very proud of you and thought you did really good off the top what do you say to the critics who you know felt like some of the jokes fell flat I mean that is a lot of pressure in that room I you know I I'd.
Be lying if it doesn't hurt you know uh you know I I I hit like a little uh uh moment there where I was just like ah you know hosting is just a it's it's a tough it's a tough gig you know and yes I have a standup comic but the the that that hosting position is a it's it's a different style you know it's not the same style so you know I I kind of went.
In and uh did the whole uh the writers thing and it's just like no we were all in that room together we just had 10 days to try and write something for this monologue it was it was a crash course and you know I I feel bad but uh hey I gotta I got I gotta still say that I loved uh uh what I did you know as far as like I.
Don't think you should feel bad I mean there you got a ton of laughs I mean if if you had I mean were there some specific moments that you're talking about I think when the uh I don't even know when but I think it was when uh the the Taylor uh uh Taylor one was just a little flat and I just uh you know it was it was a weird joke I.
Guess but uh it wasn't it was more on the NFL you know what I mean I was trying to make fun of the NFL using cutaways and and how uh you know the Globes didn't have to do that and so it was more of a a uh a jab towards the NFL you know I don't think her re it just didn't come out that way you know so would you agree to it if you were asked.
Again that's a that's a tough gig I'm not gonna lie like I I'm really I really love the yard to standup you know it was it was cool that the opportunity came to me and hting is just it is a beast and uh that's about it and you know the crash course was really hard to you know months to prepare I I literally got the call and haven't slept since.
Just trying to write you know something you know just to write what we had to write that one joke the the NFL joke was just ah ah you know don't beat yourself up Joe you did a phenomenal job and and you know what you can put it in your history books you did it not many of us would say we did that so you did it man and thank you the best of that's one.
Thing I want to be proud about you know like it's it was a long journey you know and the opportunity came and you know you know uh you know that no one knew where where the golden glowes was going to be and then last second CBS picked up the show and you know everyone was uh kind of turning down the offer because of the uh the time and I I jumped on it.
I was like you know what let's try let's go for it you know let's see what we can do in 10 days well like the church people say count it all joy it's all good now oh man thank you so much course I love you guys man it's never my intention you know that no we love you back thank you and thanks for coming on too man oh I love you guys all right.
Thank you all right just ahead on gma3 what you need to know from Dr Jen when you're trying to get rid of a lingering cough well star actor Sterling K Brown joins us here to talk American fiction the new film getting Oscar buzz come on back we have really good congratulations your I was terrified it was just so traumatic.
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Suicidal ideations and that's compared to other treatments I'm glad we're talking about this you guys and I want to give you the macro big picture view on this because these drugs wovi OIC Manjaro this class of medication has been in the headlines almost every single day for a variety of reasons most recently about anecdotal reports of a.
Possible link to suicidal ideation um it started with kind of reports that came out of Europe and then a couple of reports in the US may have suggested this I want to give you the important way to look at this when you look at any medication that works in the brain in any way shape or form which these drugs do of course you want to be able to have.
A good view of observational data on how people respond to that the more people that take a medication the more you can see even the most rare side effects that's the bottom line most recent data did not show an Associated risk of suicidal behavior um so again people need to keep an eye on that but this is important to look at this from that.
Standpoint but these drugs are really in the headlines right now everyone's talking about them and they should be for a good reason and they do more benefit than harm all right Dr Jim you bet and if you're experiencing Suicidal Thoughts you can call or text the 988 suicide and crisis Lifeline where you can reach a trained crisis counselor for.
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First After experiencing severe pain at his home Austin catching the country off guard including members of his own staff and even the president because the defense secretary kept an elected medical procedure a secret but something went wrong and he ended up in the ICU while a Us official tells us that the president was exasperated at not being.
Informed sooner and that the White House didn't even learn about his hospitalization until three days after it happened Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder apologizing to the Pentagon press Corp earlier today for not being more transparent about information as soon as he learned it United Airline says that loose bolts.
Have been found during an inspection of its Fleet of 737 max9 planes the airplane company revealing that the number of what they called installation issues says the findings are now being remedied by United's Tech Ops Team United says service on the max 9 aircraft will remain suspended as the company is working to return turn all of.
The aircrafts back to Boeing this comes after the FAA required all Airlines to complete enhanced inspections to all Max 9 planes before being allowed back in the air in response to a door plug from an Alaska Airlines 737 that flew off the fuselage midair over the weekend rapper ASO Rocky pled not guilty in court today on charges he allegedly fired a gun at a.
Friend in Hollywood back in 2021 as saaki whose real name is rakee Mayor pled not guilty to two felony counts of assault with a firearm the rapper's lawyer spoke about his court appearance we're going to try the case in the courtroom and when we do um facts will come out that show that he's truly innocent and he's a victim in this case.
We have a lot of evidence that you all don't know about that I have a strong suspicion the prostiution doesn't know about but they're going to find out the Grammy nominated rapper faces up to 24 years in prison if convicted glad you're streaming with us I'm Kira Phillips from breaking news to all the stories that matter to you ABC News live.
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Remove my IUD if I am in param menopod oh I love this question okay so in the world of OBGYN Women's Health per menopause having a moment that's the 10 years or so before a woman officially enters menopause so number one an IUD to prevent pregnancy still needed my friends you can get pregnant and pregnancies have occurred spontaneous.
Natural pregnancies even in women who are 50 that seems cruel and what is an IUD for the guy on the so an IUD is an intri for the guy on the sofa I apprciate on the sofa thank you stands for intrauterine device are a variety of different ones on the market here in the United States they can be left in for three to up to seven or 10 years largely.
To prevent against pregnancy but they also have an FDA indication and approval to reduce heavy bleeding which can be a symptom of per menopause so just because you think oh I I I don't really need it to get pregnant think again there are other benefits and other reasons that it might be beneficial for a woman all the way up until she goes into official.
Menopause at which point yes it should come out that's important so you can have hot flashes and get pregnant at the same time yeah isn't that evil wow she said isn't that evil so evil all right what's your prescription for right um inspired by the time of year a lot of people dealing with coughs respiratory infections so some tips on how to manage.
A chronic cough number one drink a lot of fluids a lot of it can come from just a dry esophagus and your throat getting dry this time of the year soothing throat um binges cough drops or honey my mom registered nurse always used to give honey um using a cool mist humidifier as you're sleeping uh also important and I want to just actually also include on.
This if you have a cough that does not go away by three four weeks you want to get that checked out most commonly at this time of year it's due to an infection but of course it could be something more serious it could even be GE reflux but it could also be um a primary lung issue uh lung cancer so do not ignore it I agree good advice here.
And folks we would love to hear from you so hit us up on Instagram with all of your medical questions for Dr Jen at ABC gma3 and up next here on gma3 on this eth day of the month time for another Maui strong 808 report we're zeroing in on a family making a big leap and a brand new start and later keytips her Building Wealth in the New Year Tik Tok.
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Homes and lives were upended and the wildfires last August ABC's Melissa Adon takes us to a family who moved all the way to Nevada a man trying to rebuild on land for others and navigating the challenges of insurance claim this month Melissa is exploring the spirit of ho omaka which means to begin in Hawaiian as the new year begins it's a.
Chance for a new start for the thousands of victims of the fires that devastated Maui last August for some that new start beginning thousands of miles away Anon and Janessa cabanilla were born and raised in Lina she had a crush on me in second grade we've been together maybe 11 years strong ready they relocated to Las Vegas with their five and.
Six-year-old after losing their home I didn't want my kids to wake up every day and see the scenery I didn't want them to kind of be reminded every day of what we gone through we took that opportunity to you know let's let's get out there let's go to Vegas just make our lives better but for now their days look like this trying to create some stability for.
Their children as they rebuild their lives they were excited we got into the house but some days we'll have have those times where our kids are like you know when when are we going to go back home back on Maui many still searching for a sliver of a new beginning Alfie borto lost his own home but is pouring into his community through his nonprofit.
Planning to purchase and set up 11 more of these mobile homes on the 2 and a half acres of land he owns in an upscale gated community in Lina you have this land and you're thinking about these other families in need why is it so important to you the government is not going to come in and make us whole it is truly not so I think it's our.
Responsibility to help each other out I believe in that so strongly a neighboring homeowners association is suing claiming Alfie hasn't obtained the permits to build residential structures they Overlook our burn Zone like it's like our community that they're refusing to help you've reviewed the emergency Proclamation what is it that you see.
That says hey no this is eligible so in my discussions with the county when I presented the idea having RVs um you know their reply back to me was because it's an RV and because it's got registration for the DMV and it's got a safety certificate it doesn't require permitting Alfie is awaiting a court hearing on January 11th or word.
From the county to see if he can move forward with his plan to build this legal tug of war speaking to the largest issue clouding Maui's relief efforts more than 2400 households remain displaced as Governor green tries to compel 1,500 short-term rentals on Maui to convert to long-term housing by March 1st nelan Caesar has been living at the.
Royal lahina since August she says she faced issues with her insurance claim what they gave us is not enough hopefully they're going to give us more because that's not what we expect everything here are so expensive and she's not alone says mahilani strong an insurance executive in lahina she says she's handling more than 1,000 home in.
Autoc claims resulting from the fire according to Hawaii State Insurance division as of last October more than 3,500 homeowners have filed insurance claims in the Maui fire with nearly 1,500 of those properties suffering a total loss their data shows roughly 40% of claim money has not been paid out totaling more than.
773 million I think one of the biggest worries of the clients is when it comes time to rebuild well they still have money left for it because everybody's paying out of their eyeballs for rent right now people are using their personal property funds to pay rent I want to rebuild our house My Heart Belongs to Laha this community yearning.
For New Beginnings calling to their ancestors and cleansing in the water is to like see the beginning when you're a navigator you have to see the beginning of the Horizon and know that you're going to chart a course to reach your.
Destination many thanks to Melissa Don you can watch Prime on ABC News live tonight for an in-depth look at the recovery efforts and of course you can catch our Maui strong 808 reports each month just ahead here on gma3 saving more in 24 we like that some great ideas to boost your wealth from a top Tick Tock expert when we come.
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Everyone's Rich BFF and favorite Wall Street girly and she happens to be a favorite of mine and her book is now a New York Times bestseller welcome Vivien 2 BBN thank you so much for having me good to have you back I so excited cuz I wasn't here the last time you were here talking about you all morning when I'm here okay let's start.
With the first things there's three things you say we can do to start the year off right yes absolutely first and foremost we are opening up high yield savings accounts if you've probably noticed if you have a traditional savings account you put in money and occasionally you'll get a couple cents here and there in interest that's not.
Enough for us this year we are opening up high yield savings accounts which let you earn up to 10 times as much interest and why wouldn't you want the money sitting aside in your emergency fund or being saved for a down payment or a vacation to be earning you money as well I would say two we got to make more money so easily we should create a brag.
Book in our emails this is making sure that you have a place to send all of those amazing compliments you're getting so if someone from the client is like oh Eva we couldn't have done done this without you or DeMarco save this project forward those emails to a folder you've titled brag book 20124 and then come midyear review or endof year review you.
Essentially have all of your greatest hits place that's so smart Y and then last but not least we are getting into the new year and people are very busy so you want to consider setting up auto payments if that is available to you you're so right about that let's talk about Building Wealth in the new year you say it's important to have a.
Conversation with your boss about your retirement plan yes absolutely so when you are talking with your company or your manager it's important to bring up things that really matter to you outside of just initial pay because there are so many other benefits you can tap into things like your retirement plan or a flexible working arrangement or you know.
Stock options or incentives other things that you can get paid but doesn't necessarily come directly from the budget that way they may be more inclined to give them to you also retirement plans are amazing because who doesn't like legally saving money on taxes you are able to put money aside for future you while also avoiding the.
Tax man just a little bit this year as well mhm and that really matters if you are able to get that raise that you want okay let's talk about some Financial resolutions starting off that we can make for ourselves this year let's start with credit card bills yes I think it is so important especially right after the holiday season you know we've probably.
Spent a lot more money than we normally would and now you are going to have to start paying those bills off I always recommend not putting any charges that you cannot pay off within one month's time in full into your credit card because credit cards have an incredibly High APR meaning the interest on them compounds very quickly so if you buy.
Something and don't pay it off in a month's time you're just going to be paying extra for it so we don't want to do that make sure you are making those credit card payments on time and in full every single month while also taking advantage of the rewards and cash back that might come with them and then I would say on the other hand it's also.
Really important at the beginning of the year to renegotiate some of those bills we all have cell phones we have Wi-Fi we have those streaming services but did you know if you go online and essentially pretend go through the motions of canceling some of those streaming services they will actually offer you a discount before they let you.
Get away now that's cool there same thing with calling your Wi-Fi or calling your uh phone company or even calling utilities basically saying hey I found a competitor that is offering me an introductory rate let me call you see if you'll match it and then you get you can really do yeah of course you can negotiate almost anything hm okay.
Money weing on the table yes and not to plug but if everybody wants to check out even more tips you can find them in richf my new book yes and you have great social media it's so easy to understand I love how easy you make it to understand Vivian's book as she just mentioned is everywhere that books are sold got to love it we could talk to you.
For a couple hours yeah yeah I know I want to have like a one-on-one when we come back leading man Sterling K Brown on his new role he is here in studio with more on the hot news film from American fiction stay with us first thing in the morning there's a lot going on everybody in that home is.
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Like I was going to die our lives and our health are I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy Diane Sawyer Rachel Scott on the brink now streaming on Hulu this is ABC News live the crush of families here in Poland at Refugee centers in Putin Russia on the ground in Ukraine close to the front line from the capital.
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Make it your daily first listen wherever you get your podcasts all right here we go you ready let's do it yes it's the show America wants and America needs right now this is what would you do let's go how are you I hug you yes so what will you be watching Saturdays on ABC News live what would you do hey I guess I just found.
Out the what would you do Marathon 2 to 6: Eastern every Saturday on ABC News live my favorite show it to from America's number one news comes the allnew ABC News app breaking news.
Incredible video faster smarter and customizable to your interests if you love being in the no you're going to love this experience the allnew ABC News app download it now did you know Dad had affairs oh for sure how you could just tell Lisa told me she saw him kissing a white woman once why did I have no idea why am I the last to.
Know cuz you loved them too much enemies see each other better than friends that's powerful and it's true it is true welcome back that was a clip from the new film American Fiction it's a satirical drama that tackles the portrayal of black people in media and it's getting rave reviews I'm joining us now is one of the film's stars who you.
Might also recognize from the hit TV show this is us and the black Blockbuster black panther welcome three-time Emmy award-winning actor and producer Sterling K Brown Sterling good to see you man good to have you here happy to be here how you doing this morning good you play all kinds of roles I try and this particular.
Role you're the younger brother like hot mess Express hot mess hot steaming do you find any similarities to you and this role sure I think everybody has a little bit of a hot mess in them from time to time nobody's perfect all the time we're finding him after 20 years of marriage and he's getting a divorce he's being.
Separated from his family and from his two young children and so he's sort of coloring outside of the lines if you will until he learns how to color back inside of the lines again so listen depending on when you meet me in life I've been known to color outside of the lines as well right now we're doing okay right now I'm keeping.
It yeah keep it in the bow you know what's interesting is meeting you in person I expected you to be more serious did you really yeah you are not a serious person I mean you I'm sure you are sometimes but you have not been You' how can you take him seriously now you are very funny well thank you Eva I appreciate that a great deal.
Listen I mean life is like this right you can't be serious all the time people would ask us when we did this is us were you guys just crying all the time like no there are so many laughs on that set because you kind of have to bring balance to the universe right if you just get mired down in the heaviness of it life's not worth living you got to.
Have light to go along with it so I just try to have a little bit of light a little bit of Gravitas and I'm like water like Bruce Lee whatever you need for your production I will bring it to you you want yucks I got you you need tears I got you I'm like a Swiss army knife of acting and that's why you the man I like that thank you I want to talk.
About another project that you may be launching with your real life partner your wife of 18 years Ryan Michelle be a podcast we're doing a podcast everyone is doing a podcast tell us about yours so let me tell you in the middle of the strike my wife is like we got to do something and I said what do you want to do she's like I think we should do a.
Podcast I was like do you want to stay married and she said yes and we agreed we came up with something cuz it's called we don't always agree and I was like that sounds like an apt title for 18 years of marriage you're newly married so you may not know exactly that right now but congratulations maybe you can have the after 18 years you'll find.
That you don't always agree but it for me it was about people come up to us and say like you guys are goals black love it's such an amazing thing and I say thank you but I wanted to dispel folks of thinking that it was easy mhm like it takes work for 18 years and it makes it takes a commitment of constantly saying yes and choosing each.
Other over and over again every day and so that's what the podcast is about is US navigating life figuring it out and sticking it out what anything off limits no so you're open about everything oh yeah like I almost walked off set on the first episode because she wasn't being honest about something I was like you better you better tell these people the.
Truth now woman you better tell them how it goes down cuz she tried to gasl me for a hot second and then she got it together and I stayed on sex so was cool what's the secret to your marriage you think yeah we laugh a lot and I think you know during those serious times and whatnot to be able to laugh at each other with each other is such a.
Beautiful healing bomb to the soul like it really does it's it's it's healing and medicine to your body and then when you stop talking to each other I think that's when problems can become their wor even if I'd rather argue than not talk mm wow love it see I get deep from time to.
Time so the the moral of the story is find a funny guy and a funny girl it goes both ways than thank you so much what a pleasure thank you guys Sterling K Brown American fiction is now playing in Select theaters and everywhere else starting this Friday and that is what you need to know for this Monday I'm even a pilgrim I'm DeMarco Morgan and.
I'm Dr Jen Ashton for all of us here at ABC News including Sterling right here have a good one and we'll see you tomorrow Bravo that is good you you know there's nothing nothing nothing why do so many people start their day here from ABC News this is.
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Have do you think we're going to be safe I don't know this is my pen inside that pen is a slice of human brain these are assassinations that people are going to be murdered definely there's really no telling what some of them will do oh my God it's happening everywhere and.
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San Francisco wherever the story is we'll take you there you're streaming ABC News live hi I'm K Whitworth here in Los Angeles and we begin with some breaking news Homeland Security secretary Alejandro mayor is set to speak now at any moment during a visit to the very busy border crossing of Eagle Pass Texas.
Now this visit coming as the Biden Administration faces growing pressure to address the record influx of migrants overwhelming law enforcement agents all along the southern border so we'll bring you the secretary's comments as soon as he speaks mayorca also under pressure from Republicans on the hill right now leading to an impeachment effort against.
Him over his handling of the crisis GOP lawmakers are actually set to hold a hearing on that later this week now Republicans say that they plan to evaluate the impacts of what they say are leadership failures and a quote refusal to enforce laws passed by Congress on the country meanwhile in New York City thousands of Migrant families.
Living in shelters are bracing for possible eviction a new policy which requires them to reapply for housing every 60 days takes effect tomorrow and in New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy is asking bus companies that are transporting migrants to provide 32 hours advanced notice of arrivals to the state's office of emergency management.
This is happening as Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is busing and flying migrants from the border to these Democrat run cities so ABC News foreign correspondent Matt Rivers is live more me right now in Eagle Pass Texas Matt thank you so much for joining us uh first of all what is mayorcas hoping to get out of his trip now to the Border.
Matt well there's no question Kana that mayorcas knows what Republicans are saying he hears it all the time he knows that there was some 60 plus House Republicans who came right here to Eagle Pass Texas where mycus is right now today last week he knows all that he knows that they're saying that he is.
Derelict in his duties as the Secretary of Homeland Security his argument on the other side of all that is that he's being dealt an extremely bad hand because of the situation already on the ground and the fact that no comprehensive immigration reform has been passed by the the US Congress in decades he's basically saying that he as.
The leader of DHS and the men and women that work Underneath Him are doing the best they can within a broken system so he knows what Republicans are saying but he's also coming down here to show that in his argument they're doing the best they can and that is certainly the message that he's down here pushing he's also talking about the fact Kaa that.
Even though we saw record high numbers of migrants last month the number of migrants crossing here behind me now are lower and he he's here to definitely take some credit for that although his leadership is being described as failed if you ask many Republicans but Matt when you talk about the numbers of people crossing at the.
Border they're down a little bit uh after the holiday but one thing I just don't think we can Overlook as I'm looking at you right now it's windy it's cold and people are suffering out there at these border crossings what are you seeing yeah there's no question and this is the reality every year you do see a spike in migration in December every.
Single year uh for the going back you know better part of a decade now and we did see that last month the big difference is you know the the water level's already high when there's a rising tide it goes even higher and that's what we're seeing now the number of migrants coming north higher than it's ever been so when there's spikes.
Like there were last month more than 300,000 migrant encounters last month that number has gone down in part because yes it is cold it is very difficult to cross the border these days this is not anything that anyone really wants to be doing crossing the border during these kinds of conditions and it only gets colder here in South Texas as.
We go through the winter months so it's important to keep that reality and M when we're talking about all the politics surrounding all this people out here are putting themselves out in the elements In Harm's Way to try and get to the United States right as many as um some 11,000 people even in a single day at one point just last month uh going.
Through some of these border crossings and so Matt when you're talking to people are they hoping that they might actually see a change when we see visits to the southern border like we saw from Republicans and like we're seeing from Alejandro mayorcas I I think it you talk to people here in Eagle Pass Texas they look at a.
Lot of these visits as just political theater I think you know someone like my orcus can come to here and say look I do need to know what's actually happening at the border my uh men and women underneath me do need to see me in a leadership capacity down here and I think on the other side you can make the same case I guess for Republican.
Congressmen who say they want to come here to the border and learn what they can about what's happening here but I think everyone in Eagle Pass who I speak to look at this as political theater they feel like they're political Pawns in all of this and what is true no matter whether you're a Republican or you're a Democrat I think this is the.
The kind of pragmatic approach that so many people here along the border take is that whether you're coming down here to hold a press conference if you're mayorcas or you're the Republicans nothing is actually getting fixed and what would take to get fixed is comprehensive immigration reform in Washington DC and we're a long way away.
From that so I think that's the takeway from people down here who feel this migrant crisis so acutely is that yeah politicians say things they come here there they give press conferences but in terms of actual things changing on the ground a lot of P pessimism here in South Texas certainly pessimism there but we are hearing from Senators who say.
They're working on these negotiations they remain hopeful that they could at least present a concept uh by week's in so we shall see Matt Rivers will be checking in with you throughout the day thank you so much out there in Eagle Pass Texas and again I want to remind our viewers that we will of course bring uh the statements from Alejandro.
Mayorcas as soon as he starts to talk down there at Eagle Pass Texas uh but for now we're going to move on to a new round of court filings related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released today now this new batch includes 17 documents in addition to the hundreds of records that have been unsealed since last week the documents.
Released today include a number of photographs from Sarah Ransom and you see her in this picture she's the one on the far left of her face is not blurred out an accuser of Epstein and his former Champion galain Maxwell who became involved in litigation as a potential witness in a settled civil defamation lawsuit Ransom was deposed and provided.
Dozens of photographs showing Epstein Maxwell herself and other young women and girls on the disgraced Finance Year's Private Island so far 208 documents have been unsealed they do anticipate a total round of 250 we do want to take you now live to Eagle Pass Texas Alejandro mayorcas is addressing the Press let's take a.
Listen process implemented regulatory changes that incentivize migrants to follow safe orderly and lawful Pathways and so much more we have listened to our Workforce and equip them with what they need to do their jobs including new technology logistical support processing coordinators Innovative Tools 11 new.
Processing facilities and hundreds of additional Personnel to support their operations including the first increase in the number of border patrol agents in 11 years the high number of migrants we have encountered at our Southern border is a challenge that is not unique to the United States countries throughout our.
Hemisphere in fact throughout the world are experiencing an unprecedented number of displaced people fleeing poverty authoritarian regimes homes destroyed by extreme weather events corruption and violence the regional challenges require Regional Solutions and that is why secretary of state Lincoln and I with the White House Homeland Security.
Adviser Sherwood Randall were in Mexico two weeks ago why I spoke with Panama's Min minister of security last week and why among other engagements in the region I will be traveling to Central America in the coming weeks as I have throughout the past 3 years we are grateful for Mexico's renewed enforcement commitments to.
Address the movement of people North we are working with other countries throughout Latin America including Panama to address the movement of people throughout the hemisphere we continue to develop lawful Pathways deliver consequences for those who do not use them address root causes and attack the ruthless smuggling organizations that.
Prey on the vulnerable some have accused DHS of not enforcing our nation's laws this could not be further from the truth having begun my public service career as a federal prosecutor for 12 years ultimately serving as the United States Attorney there is nothing I take more seriously than our responsibility.
To uphold the law and the men and women of DHS are working around the clock to do so the individuals who have been returned to their countries of origin certainly know this after the ending of title 42 in May of this year through the end of the fiscal year DHS removed or returned more non-citizens without a.
Basis to remain in the United States than in any other 5mon period in the last 10 years in fact the majority of all migrants in encountered at the Southwest border throughout this Administration have been removed returned or expelled a majority of them we are doing everything we can within a broken system to incentivize.
Non-citizens to use lawful Pathways to impose consequences on those who do not and to reduce irregular migration we will continue to do everything we can and we will continue to enforce the law but we need Congress to make the legislative changes and provide the funding that our Frontline officers so desperately need what is.
Remarkable is that through it all the brave men and women of US Customs and Border of protection and their Partners in the Department of Homeland Security have and will continue to put on their uniforms Dawn their badges and work at Great risk to themselves in the service of their mission to keep us and our country safe and secure I am.
Proud to be here to recognize commend and thank them and their families for their service and their sacrifice but they need and deserve more than just recognition they need and deserve support and resources only Congress can provide i' be pleased to answer your questions hi Mr secretary thank you.
Thank you for holding this press conference why were the apprehension numbers in December so high and are you confident that if Congress grants these resource requests will that be enough to take care of future surges uh as I mentioned um uh I have been privileged to participate in the negotiations the bipartisan negotiations.
With both Republican and Democratic senators if fixes to our broken immigration system are indeed delivered if they are indeed legislated and the resources we need to implement those legislative changes and address the under resourcing of our agencies I am confident that that will have a dramatic impact on the number of encounters we.
Are experiencing at the southern border with respect to your question about the December surge that was certainly an extraordinarily High number of encounters it coincides with a time when uh Mexican enforcement was no longer implemented the immigration enforcement agency in Mexico was not funded it is what prompted President Biden to.
Reconnect with President Lopez orador as he has done consistently through throughout his administration the two have a very close working relationship it is why I secretary blinken White House Homeland Security adviser shood Randall traveled to Mexico two weeks ago to ensure their recommitment of immigration enforcement authorities and.
Resources and for us to also recommit our partnership not only in the enforcement Arena but critically in ensuring the economic prosperity of both our countries given our tremendously close economic relationship uh Mr secretary um you you have mentioned a bunch of things that the administration is trying to do um.
But a new poll shows that 75% of the American people aren't getting it what can you do message wise to convince the American people that what's going on with immigration as far as the administration is concerned is in America's best interest so um it is opportunities like this uh that uh I will use to communicate the.
Facts to the American people as we all know all too well uh the issue of immigration is an issue that is highly politicized and it is very important that the American public understand the facts the extraordinary dedication of the Department of Homeland Securities Personnel all this Administration has done and it's very important that they.
Understand that the challenge that we are are experiencing is a challenge that is a function of a number of factors number one what we are experiencing at the southern border is not unique to the southern border or to the United States the entire hemisphere is gripped with a level of migration that is unprecedented in recent history in fact it is.
Something that is gripping the entire world number two we are dealing with fundamentally a broken immigration system and one that has been has been in dire need of repair for more than three decades but within the constraints of a broken immigration system in the at a time when the world and this hemisphere in particular is experiencing an.
Unprecedented level of displaced people we are um um creating Creative Solutions to a significant problem that is not unique to us and there you heard Homeland Security secretary Alejandro mayores speaking to the press and to the public live and Eagle Pass Texas uh he is addressing the.
Very dramatic and unprecedented influx of migrants that we are seeing at the southern Border in the United States although he has pointed out multiple times that according to him this is not a uniquely United States problem he said this is a problem that needs Regional Solutions because it is a regional problem he went on to call immigration.
System broken multiple times he said they're working to create lawful Pathways and to impose consequences on those who break the law again he talked a little bit about the smug smuggling institutions as well and he did address the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has been accused of not enforcing the nation's laws uh by House.
Republicans who are looking to impeach him and he unequivocally said that in his opinion that that is not true and then he again pointed the finger right at Congress he says they need some legislative changes and if they get those they will help address uh the under resourcing that they have there at the border so for more I want to bring.
In our ABC News Matt Rivers who is live for us in Eagle Pass Texas along with ABC News contributor and award-winning Hispanic journalist Maria Elena Selena so thank you so much for joining us to both of you so uh Maria I'd like to start here with you and essentially just get your reaction uh to what you heard from him there again it appears that we.
Keep seeing our United St leaders heading down to the southern border and they do a lot of talking and then we don't see a lot of action in the aftermath what's your take exactly I was not surprised at anything he said I think he was right on point when he said that this is a regional problem it's not the US I mean you think that there's at.
Least what some eight million Venezuelans that have left and about two million of them have come into the US that means that the rest of them are spread around Latin America so a lot of Latin American countries also have the same problem of high immigration but you know it's very difficult for secretary mayorcas to lay out any specific plans.
To stop the flow of migrants to the Border because it's a problem with so many layers so many different players that that need to contribute you know he has to be very careful also to not make promises that he can't keep or that are not in his hands to keep any immigration reform has to come from Congress and they have been trying for decades to fix.
Our broken immigration system but unfortunately politics gets in the way and it's continuing to get in the way one more time so I mean he was right on point in in what he was saying but I know that this is U more of a political debate than anything else at this moment and sometimes people will just not listen to the reality on the ground the.
Reality in the region the reality in the world that is driving all of these people to come to our border to try to enter in search of a better life in search of of safety to seek Asylum and um so the last question that they asked him in that press conference that you mentioned was why aren't people getting it they're just not getting.
It just not getting it across the board and and you're right they do talk a lot about politics and policy here but we're showing video of real people um young children that are at the border and so you're right to bring all that up and Maria I know you'll be talking uh more about this throughout the show and Matt Rivers as we check in there with you.
Again at a on a chilly windy day one thing that he said that surprised me is he said we feel like we have equipped Customs and Border Protection uh with what they need to do their jobs and he said that under his administration they've seen the first increase in border border patrol agents that they've had in some 10 years but Matt he's still.
Calling on Congress we're all watching Congress to see what they can do to make changes here at the southern border and he said that they need to make these very specific legislative changes what are some of the things that you think he's hoping for well I mean it starts with funding across the board I mean that's one thing.
That you hear from the Biden Administration consistently is that one of their their gripes with House Republicans right now is that House Republicans have refused to consider or pass any additional funding measures for not only for the Border but Ukraine and uh for Israel unless they get some of their border security measures passed so.
That's something we hear from the administration across the board is that they need more funding they need more uh Asylum processing agents they need more border patrol agents they need more people working at the ports of Entry here they need a lot of different things that mycus has asked for consistently and that very specific messaging is what.
We've heard before from my orcus Kaa he comes down here he says the system is broken and they're doing the best they can with what they have all right well we'll see where it goes from here Matt and Maria Elena thank you so much and coming up next here we have some new details on that scare in the air part of an airliner blowing out mid-flight we'll.
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Homeland Security secretary Alejandro mayorca is under pressure over the migrant crisis at our Southern border I'm Ken Whitworth here in Los Angeles and that is our big story today secretary mayorca is visiting the BS busy border crossing of Eagle Path Texas as the state's Republican Governor sends migrants by the bus load and plane load.
To Democrat run cities I'll speak with the mayor of one of those cities Sam Joi of Edison New Jersey about why his take on the crisis has stirred up some controversy in his very own Community also in our Spotlight ABC News exclusive reporting what sources are saying the special Council has learned about Donald Trump's alleged refusal to help stop the.
Violent attack on January 6th our panel weighs in of course we begin here with our big story the nation's top Homeland Security official visiting the southern border this as he faces a republican-led impeachment effort over his handling of the migrant Crisis crisis DHS secretary.
Alejandra mayorcas today speaking at the busy border crossing of Eagle PA Texas where the influxes of migrants have overwhelmed law enforcement agents take a listen the entire hemisphere is gripped with a level of migration that is unprecedented in recent history we are dealing with fundamentally a broken.
Immigration system and one that has been has been in dire need of repair for more than three decades well this is the migrant crisis grows at the southern border major cities and now smaller towns are feeling the pressure as more immigrants arrive by bus and by plane on the East Coast the buses from Texas and Louisiana have.
Arrived at several train stations in Fanwood Edison and Trenton New Jersey and all of this and is in an effort to avoid mayor Eric Adams new executive order that when buses can actually arrive at the Port Authority and many of these smaller towns say they're simply not equipped to handle the influx of people so joining us to discuss this is.
The mayor of Edison Sam Josie so thank you so much for joining us Mr Mayor and first I'd like to get your reaction to what we heard there from mayorcas today uh he pushed back on the house Homeland Security's comments and their accusations that he's not enforcing the laws that have currently been passed by Congress and instead he pointed the.
Finger right back at Congress blaming them for this broken system what's your take and I think it's the fault of both of them I think that look Congress needs to take action there's no question about it I think that we are in a problem that is a federal and national issue that has now fallen squarely on the laps of Mayors and that is wholeheartedly.
Unacceptable well also today New Jersey governor Phil Murphy sent a letter to several charter bus companies transporting these migrants from Texas and Louisiana uh to some these Transit sites in New Jersey I know you know that very well but he's asking them to essentially give State officials some kind of advanced notice of arrival so.
Have you spoken with Governor Murphy directly about your decision to turn these buses around uh I've not I've been in touch with their Administration uh but we you know bottom line is at the end of the day this is a federal issue this is not something that should fall on the laps of Mayors nor Governors quite frankly again.
Immigration itself at its core is a federal issue has to be dealt with on a national level and it's unacceptable that Mayors are feeling the pressure of this and while we wait on Congress to make a decision though it is falling in the lapse of democratic Mayors across this country so in the interim while you're dealing with this crisis as it.
Unfolds right now what a heads up like that from these bus companies would your Township then be able to gather resources to take care of these migrants or or would you be willing to so we don't have you know as a as a mayor in a municipality with about 108,000 people we simply do not have the resources financially social service resources or.
The school resources to address the needs of the migrants it is simply not within our budget it is not feasible and I know that you know having spoken to many of my colleagues and other Mayors as well they agree it's just simply not a function of a local municipality that's really important for everyone to understand here that we we simply do not.
Have those resources well the loudest voices in response to your comments and decision-making about turning these buses around and sending them back to the southern border I have been critical so who's supporting you right now who's supporting your stance on turning people away and is that something you'll.
Continue to do uh the the answer is yes and it's important to I I want to give you context I'm the son of immigrants uh the line share of my friends family members so many people within our our Township about 45% of our community is for are either immigrants or first generation and I can tell you this with confidence that the overwhelming line.
Share super majority of Edison Township residents agree wholeheartedly with my position and I'm proud of the position that I've taken and it's something that like I said has to be dealt with on a Federal and a national level this cannot fall on the laps of Edison res residents or taxpayers because my responsibility as a mayor ultimately is just to those.
Residents and taxpayers I'm curious have any other Mayors reached out to you that have dealt with a similar issue and asked you what your response was like is it something that they might consider as well um you know I won't I won't publicize the conversations that I've had with other Mayors on television but.
I will tell you that I have been in communication with uh neighboring municipalities uh across middle sex County across the state uh and other areas as well and I will be going to the United States mayor's conference uh next week in Washington DC as well and what do you plan to say there um you know it's it's similar to the position that.
I'm taking right now it's not a Lo it's not an issue for Mayors to take on it's something that exclusively has to be dealt with by the federal government and the federal government Congress Congress as well as Administration have to figure it out how much time do you feel like you and some of these other Democratic run.
Cities that are on the receiving end of these buses of migrants I mean how long can you hold out so it's it's the that's a great question and the answer is really coming down to how many at what point will we have to use resources like I said Edison does not have the resources at all to expend financially for social services or for school.
And we are you know we've made it really clear that we simply cannot handle the needs of the migrants at all and what are you waiting on particularly from Congress as the eyes really of the world right now are on Congress you heard Alejandra mayorcas to say say this is not a uniquely United States problem what we're dealing with.
At the border he called it a regional problem so first of all is that a sentiment that you share and then what are some of the changes that you hope to see in legislation from Congress I can tell you this as as a mayor uh that could be the truth but it doesn't matter at the end of the day ma a federal look a federal issue has fallen.
On the laps of Mayors so for me to hear that now an international issue is falling on the laps of Mayors that's not something that I want to hear that's understandable Mayor Sam Joi thank you so much for your time we appreciate it and I want to bring our big story to our panel here so joining us today is ABC News J O'Brien who's in.
Washington DC along with pre who is following some Republican candidates all throughout Iowa and ABC News contributor Maria Elena Selenas one of the most recognized Hispanic journalists in the industry we're so happy to have you with us and so Maria Elena uh let's start here with you one thing that the mayor said is he's being criticized not only.
For his stance Maria but he's being criticized for how he said it as well by essentially saying that these migrants are not welcome here and a lot of people are pointing the finger to him because he is the son of immigrants as well that's right and I think one of the things that is clouding this debate is is precisely the rhetoric these.
Immigrants are these migrants that are being busted into different cities around the country are referred to as undocumented immigrants or illegals as they like to call them but they are not they are Asylum Seekers they're already in the system but they're still in sort of a an immigration limbo and you know if if they are already in the country.
That means that they were allowed to come in and it it's very difficult for them to to be granted a asylum in this country you know an individual to show credible evidence that they cannot return to their country uh it takes a lot to be able to prove that they have to prove that they were persecuted in the past they have to have a.
Well-founded fear that they're going to be persecuted in the future because of their race their religion their nationality or because they're members of a particular social group or or political opinion that's very difficult to prove so the problem is who gets to decide that so at first instance it's asyl officers and judges but there's not.
Enough judges to go around and that's why the administration is asking for funds for more border control agents more Asylum officers and and more judges and now they have to think of funds also for some of these Democratic um municipalities are are at the receiving end of of these migrants that are are being sent in in in buses but I mean.
Just the fact that all of these migrants are being sent to cities with Democratic Mayors goes to show that this is a political move it's not that they're trying to send them out to different cities so that they can uh spread the burden around or or or or or spread the responsibility around around the country it's very specific and that just really.
Makes it a a political Ploy um that is coming from the state of of actually from Governor Abbott in this case so um yes the rhetoric I think is is is is really bad um you have to consider that a lot lot of these people that are now living in in the city in New Jersey probably were in the same boat um in in the past and people can't forget about.
That yeah he did note that most of his a large majority anyways of his Township is also made of of immigrants as well but he he went on to say that they're legal immigrants and he totally supports legal uh immigration and so Jay I want to take that to you one point that that Maria Elena brought up here is that some of these things like busing migrants and.
Flying migrants but then also these trips down to the border that we're seeing from Republicans all of these things are labeled by some people as gimmicks as opposed to actually pushing forward legislation that would help fund border security so where does all of that stand right now Jay well I mean you've got to kind of look at it from.
Two different tracks first and foremost this is a republican line of attack on President Biden that's frequently deployed Republicans talking about the ongoing crisis of the border and trying to lay it at the president's feet in the other track as you and and the mayor noted there's ongoing discussions about immigration reform happening right now.
On Capitol Hill now there are limited discussions they would if if everything goes according to plan and the deal making is still being done they would likely address the various requirements of those claiming Asylum and make those requirements stricter and things of that nature but those negotiations wouldn't reform the entire United States.
Immigration system which is something that the mayor was calling for and Alex let's go to the migrant crisis obviously a huge topic now on the Republican campaign Trail the debate is growing ahead of the Iowa caucus is just a week from today it's almost hard to imagine uh so how is this issue impacting the race there what is the.
Rhetoric like well Kaa we are smack dab in the middle of the country but if you ask the average Iowan Republican like what are their voting issues they will tell you the economy and and and most of them will tell you or a lot of them will tell you that immigration in the border is issue too for them actually I was just.
Uh reading a note from from Rachel Scott who's been uh following Governor Dan santis and even today as they're making their final pushes now just a week out from the Iowa caucuses the border is something front in Center in disantis in in criticizing former president Trump he says he couldn't negotiate funding for a border wall with Republican uh L.
Congress he did not negotiate his number one promise as a candidate to rebuild the walls and have Mexico pay for it that is something that is res with voters here the issue of B of of of of border security as as many of them have put forth and so whenever you look at the politics of whether it's busing or flying migrants that's playing out even.
At the national level it certainly is Alex J and Mar Elena our thanks to you as always and coming up next here the 2024 race in the spotlight as candidates make their last minute pitches ahead of the Iowa caucus President Biden is calling Donald Trump quote a threat to democracy we'll talk about that and break it down with our panel.
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Church in Charleston South Carolina now this is a site of a massacre that took the lives of nine black parishioners in 2015 Biden continuing to make the connection between the danger of extremism and Donald Trump saying that the GOP front runner is running on a hate fueled agenda that's his quote and is a threat to our democracy now this.
Follows ABC News exclusive reporting on what Trump insiders allegedly told special counsel Jack Smith about Trump's refusal to help stop the violent attack on the US capital 3 years ago on January 6th I want to bring back my panel here Jay O'Brien John catco Julie rinsky and joining us is ABC News Alex pet of course uh in Iowa for us and John let's.
Start here with you so John a allegedly told Jack Smith that Trump wasn't interested in doing more to stop this January 6th Riot and many of these exclusive details are coming from the questioning of Trump's former deputy chief of staff Dan cavino and some of these details are pretty significant revelation in there but um do we think.
That these developments will now impact Trump's 2024 campaign at all I mean it seems like allegations against him certainly don't I think in the primary it may not affect him too much but I think in a general election it's definitely going to be an issue especially for Independence I was in senior leadership.
Uh in the Republican party when that happened and what they're saying absolutely did happen he was asked several times on January 6 to get the crowds to stop and he refused to do so so and he was very angry that day because that morning he found out that Pence was going to certify the election uh as as his his constitutional Duty and.
He really didn't care it seemed from the phone calls I was made aware of that he didn't care uh if Trump was Pence was okay or not so what they're saying is very important uh in the general election I think it's going to be an issue about character and in a close election it could make a difference but in the primary I don't think it's going.
To make that much of a difference unfortunately and almost no one knows that better than Alex fret who's been in Iowa speaking with voters and of course uh the former president has a massive lead they heading into the Iowa caucuses and so Alex also today GOP Presidential candidate and former uh Governor Nikki.
Haley attacking the president's record on Race talking about President Biden um and she called his remarks that he gave today in South Carolina uh politicized racial speech and this of course to remind everybody Alex come after her misstep or so-called misstep where she failed to mention slavery when asked a question about the Civil War uh so what.
Do you make of her immediately pouncing and attacking Biden today well this is part of a push back right because I mean Nikki Haley has had kind of a rough week of of little gaps here the the the biggest one of which were uh whenever she failed to mention slavery as a cause for the Civil War and you heard uh I mean she she she's gotten.
Beat up by uh some of her Republican Challengers but also Biden in his speech today uh poked at you know this idea that uh this revisionist history is is is is dangerous and and and he also brought up uh slavery being a a primary cause for the Civil War and so you know this is a push back uh on on on her part on that she's referencing comments that.
He made back in 1974 uh she says you know if uh if if if a republican had made those that essentially you know they would they would be uh uh really criticized heavily criticized and so uh you know this is this is this is part of that what's interesting Kaa is that you know she's making these.
Challenges uh against Biden and criticizing him were literally just a day and a half ago uh where she was asked by Ians here whether or not uh she would hit Trump harder she basically said that you know she she's not going to do it interesting yeah a lot of people there in Iowa seem to want to see Haley.
Or Dan santis hit Trump back a little bit harder and Jay let's let's go to you we know that Trump is facing a slew of challenges as we've talked about at length and that includes a number of Trials uh and charges but House Republicans stand firm be behind him so Jay how crucial is that support and will that help his chances let's look at the.
General election I mean he's been endorsed by every single member of House Republican leadership there on Capitol Hill uh that's in the house in the Senate Mitch McConnell the top Republican there uh is no fan of Donald Trump and he's made that known but he's also said in the past that he would support whoever the Republican nominee.
Is and Trump looks like he's on track to be the Republican nominee I I can tell you privately as John probably knows better than anybody on this panel Republicans on Capitol Hill Republicans in Washington don't like to be hared by reporters like me at every little Trump posting or Trump comment and asked what do they think about this what do they.
Think about that but they're also looking at where the momentum is right now in the primary and Trump has got the momentum in the primary to John's point the question becomes does that momentum in the primary in some ways translate into the general or even heard him in the general depending upon what he says in the primary and that we don't know.
The answer to because you're looking at the possibility of a trump Biden rematch which means in certain swing States a very very narrow rematch a narrow rematch and let's uh Julia let's go to you here for more on this so uh of course Biden gave these statements today in South Carolina and what is the significance of Biden deciding to start.
Camp aing there what do you make of his messaging as he he talked about Trump but he did so in South Carolina of course as Nikki Haley seems to be also gaining at least a little momentum in this fight for second place yeah I think this is less about Nikki Haley than it is about the fact that Biden understands the president.
Understands that that um African-American voters and especially black women are critical to the success of any Democrat and certainly critical to the success of this Democrat um he went to Mother Emanuel Church for a reason um it is something that obviously resonates incredibly strongly with what happened with gun violence um so many.
Years ago in the r animus but also more importantly because it is such a significant place for African-American voters and that's something that's very important to the Democratic Coalition certainly is all right Jay John Julia and Alex please stay with us thank you so much and don't forget that we'll have full coverage of the Iowa caucuses all.
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