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. BREAKING NEWS. TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST, DESTROYING BUILDINGS. >> I WAS JUST SITTING THERE EATING SOME CHICKEN, AND I HEARD THAT FREIGHT TRAIN COMING. THAT’S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT REPORTED IN OHIO. >> SIGNIFICANT INJURIES IN INDIANA. THE IMAGES JUST IN. >> THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER FOUND GUILTY. JAMES CRUMBLEY, CONVICTED FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S DEADLY RAMPAGE. THE PRESIDENT THIS VERDICT COULD SET. AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR CRUMBLEY AND HIS WIFE? >> SHOTS FIRED ON A CROWDED COMMUTER TRAIN. NEW YORK SUBWAY RIDERS HIDE FOR COVER AS

A BRAWL ERUPTS INTO GUNFIRE. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT THE SHOOTER AND THE FUTURE OF TIKTOK IN THE U.S. STILL UP IN THE AIR AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS A CRACKDOWN, THE POTENTIAL NEW BUYERS EMERGING, INCLUDING A SHARK FROM SHARK TANK. LONG WEEKENDS FOREVER. A NEW PUSH FOR A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN THE U.S. THE LAWMAKER LEADING THE CHARGE. >> ALL THE BUZZ A WILD SIDE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, STINGING A STAR PLAYER, HALTING THE ACTION AND FRUSTRATED BY SELF-CHECKOUT. >> THE BIG CHANGES COMING TO TARGET AND WALMART. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK THIS

IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. >> I’M RHIANNON ALLY AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. ANDREW IS ON ASSIGNMENT. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SEVERAL REPORTED

TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST. AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN OHIO. >> CASUALTIES ALSO REPORTED IN INDIANA. FOUR STATES ENDURED A TERRIFYING NIGHT OF STORMS THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IS REPORTED IN MULTIPLE STATES, ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT INJURIES AFTER TORNADOES TORE THROUGH PARTS OF THE PLAINS IN THE MIDWEST, THE SIRENS WENT OFF HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, IT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN COMING THROUGH OUR FRONT

ROOM IN CENTRAL OHIO, AUTHORITIES RESPONDED TO A MASS CASUALTY EVENT AFTER A HALF MILE WIDE TORNADO HIT THE VILLAGE OF LAKEVIEW, DESTROYING A MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY AND BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN. >> OUR LAUNDROMAT IS GONE. THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. DOWNTOWN DOWN. IT’S BAD. YEAH, IT’S VERY BAD. IT’S PURE DEVASTATION. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. >> IN INDIANA, AUTHORITIES SAID THEY WERE WORKING TO CONFIRM REPORTS OF FATALITIES FROM A LIKELY TORNADO THAT HIT THE CITY OF WINCHESTER. THERE WERE POWERFUL WINDS, TORE APART THIS LARGE BUILDING, LEAVING THE METAL

SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES AND POWER LINES. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. >> WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. >> THESE IMAGES OF HOMES DAMAGED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND AN IMAGE OF BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IN NEIGHBORING KENTUCKY. AUTHORITIES NEAR LOUISVILLE SAY THE STORMS DAMAGED AT LEAST 50 BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HOMES. WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU GOES THROUGH YOUR HEAD IN A MOMENT LIKE THAT, WHERE IT’S LIKE THERE AIN’T NOTHING YOU CAN DO, BUT IT’S GOING

TO GET YOU. >> IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> AND FARTHER SOUTH, THIS DAMAGE IN HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARKANSAS, DEBRIS SCATTERED, THIS UTILITY POLE SHREDDED IN HALF ACROSS THE ROAD. NOW, OFFICIALS SAY THEY WON’T KNOW THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE UNTIL THE SUN COMES UP. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST IN JUST MOMENTS AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS OF DELIBERATIONS, A JURY HAS CONVICTED THE FATHER OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER ETHAN CRUMBLEY FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO STOP HIS SON FROM CARRYING OUT THE DEADLY ATTACK AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> THE VERDICT COULD HAVE FAR

REACHING CONSEQUENCES. GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER THIS MORNING, THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR JAMES CRUMBLEY IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR PARENTS NATIONWIDE. >> IT’S A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS WHEN IT COMES TO GUNS. >> A JURY IN MICHIGAN CONVICTING CRUMBLEY ON FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, HOLDING HIM PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILING TO PREVENT HIS SON ETHAN FROM FATALLY SHOOTING FOUR STUDENTS AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BUYING THE GUN FOUR DAYS EARLIER AND FAILING TO PROPERLY SECURE IT. >> THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT WAS HE JUST DIDN’T KNOW HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS SON WAS THIS

DANGEROUS, AND I SUSPECT THE JURORS SAW THROUGH THAT. THAT’S NOT OKAY FOR A PARENT TO HAVE NO IDEA THAT YOUR CHILD IS ON THE VERGE OF THIS KIND OF MASS MURDER. >> CRUMBLEY’S WIFE, JENNIFER, WAS CONVICTED ON THE SAME CHARGES LAST MONTH. PROSECUTORS ARGUED THE CRUMBLEYS MISSED WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THEIR SON’S MENTAL HEALTH, INCLUDING A TEXT MESSAGE IN WHICH ETHAN REVEALED HE WAS HEARING VOICES. HE WROTE, I ACTUALLY ASKED MY DAD TO TAKE ME TO THE DOCTOR YESTERDAY, BUT HE JUST GAVE ME SOME PILLS AND TOLD ME TO SUCK IT UP. PROSECUTORS ALSO DETAILED A

MEETING AT THE SCHOOL THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING BETWEEN ETHAN, HIS PARENTS AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS AFTER A MORBID DRAWING WAS FOUND ON ETHAN’S MATH ASSIGNMENT, THE SCHOOL SAYS ETHAN’S PARENTS REFUSED TO TAKE HIM HOME, AND ETHAN WAS ALLOWED TO STAY IN SCHOOL BECAUSE HE HAD NO PRIOR DISCIPLINARY INFRACTIONS. THE VICTIM’S PARENTS SAY LAST NIGHT’S VERDICT DOES NOT END THEIR PUSH FOR JUSTICE. >> WE NEED TO START FOCUSING ON IN THE SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL AND ITS FAILURES, THE THINGS THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO ADMIT TO. >> WE CAN PUT PEOPLE ON THE MOON , WE CAN

BUILD SKYSCRAPERS, HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SKILLS, OUR KIDS, SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> LEGAL EXPERTS NOTE THE CRUMBLEYS ARE THE FIRST PARENTS IN U.S. HISTORY CONVICTED IN A MASS SCHOOL SHOOTING. >> IT DOES SEND A MESSAGE THAT PROSECUTORS MIGHT PICK THIS UP AND START HOLDING PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE. ACTUALLY, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR MANSLAUGHTER AS IF THEY PARTICIPATED. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH ON THE SAME DAY AS HIS WIFE. THE CRUMBLEYS COULD FACE ANYWHERE FROM 15 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON. >> A TERRIFYING SCENE IN NEW YORK AS SHOTS

RANG OUT ON A CROWDED SUBWAY TRAIN. FLYING BULLETS SENT THESE PASSENGERS DUCKING FOR COVER. POLICE SAY ONE MAN WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY HIS OWN GUN AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. NOW, VIDEO SHOWS THE TWO MEN FIGHTING WHEN ONE OF THEM PULLS OUT A GUN, THE OTHER THEN GRABS IT AND FIRES, SPIKING CRIME RECENTLY PROMPTED THE GOVERNOR TO DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD ON THE SUBWAY. >> IT’S WHY WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST GUNS. THAT’S WHY THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO TAKE GUNS OFF THE STREET AND HAS HAD SOME SUCCESS. THAT’S WHY THE GOVERNOR

IS FIGHTING THESE CRAZIES WHO SAY GUNS SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE CARRIED EVERYWHERE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE, GET RID OF THE GUNS. >> THE MAN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER WAS ARRESTED. >> A SPECIAL MARINES RESPONSE UNIT HAS NOW ARRIVED IN HAITI TO HELP WITH AN INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT MISSION OF EVACUATING AMERICANS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IS NOT ALLOWING USE OF ITS HELIPAD BECAUSE STREET GANGS ARE FIRING AT INCOMING FLIGHTS. HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS ARE BELIEVED TO BE IN HAITI, WHICH IS IN CHAOS WITH NO PLAN YET TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. >> THERE ARE NEW QUESTIONS THIS MORNING

ABOUT WHETHER TIKTOK COULD BE BANNED HERE IN THE US. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE ALREADY COMING FORWARD. ABC’S EM NGUYEN IS HERE NOW WITH THE LATEST M. GOOD MORNING RHIANNON. >> GOOD MORNING. YEAH. THE FATE OF TIKTOK HERE IN THE U.S. REMAINS UNCLEAR, BUT SOME WEALTHY AMERICANS ARE STANDING BY HOPING FOR A CHANCE TO BUY IT. TWO DAYS AFTER THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT COULD BAN TIKTOK IN THE U.S. UNLESS ITS CHINESE OWNERS SELL THE APP, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS, AND I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY TIKTOK,

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS AMONG THOSE GATHERING INVESTORS INTERESTED IN THE VIDEO SHARING PLATFORM, WHICH ANALYSTS SAY COULD FETCH A PRICE OF MORE THAN $100 BILLION. >> IF THIS ORDER GOES THROUGH, IT’S GOT TO BE SOLD. >> I’M GOING TO PUT UP MY HAND AND SAY, I’LL BUY IT, SHARK TANK’S KEVIN O’LEARY ALSO THROWING HIS HAT IN THE RING, BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN, CHIEF AMONG THEM WILL THE SENATE EVEN TAKE UP THE HOUSE BILL? >> WHILE SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES AGREE THAT TIKTOK POSES A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN BECAUSE OF ITS CHINESE OWNER, SENATE

MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER HAS NOT YET INDICATED WHETHER HE’LL TAKE UP THE BILL. TIKTOK CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY. >> I HAVEN’T HEARD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE DONE THAT’S WRONG, HE INSISTS. >> TIKTOK KEEPS AMERICANS DATA ON SERVERS IN THE U.S, AND SAYS THE BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE WILL HURT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LIVING ON THE APP. >> JUST PASSING THE LAW. THIS IS A BAN ON OUR APP IN THIS COUNTRY. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS WHO USE OUR APP. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES. >>

EVEN IF THE SENATE PASSES THE BILL AND PRESIDENT BIDEN FOLLOWS THROUGH ON HIS PLEDGE TO SIGN IT , ANALYSTS SAY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD STILL NEED TO APPROVE THE SALE AND WOULD LIKELY WITHHOLD MUCH OF THE APPS UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY. IF THERE IS AN EVENTUAL SALE. ANALYSTS SAY THE LIST OF POTENTIAL BUYERS WOULD BE SMALL. MAJOR TECH COMPANIES WOULD LIKELY NOT BE INVOLVED DUE TO ANTITRUST CONCERNS. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT. I’M THANK YOU. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER HAS STUNNED WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL WITH A BLISTERING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, CALLING HIM AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE.

SCHUMER IS CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL. HE IS THE HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. REPUBLICANS HAVE CRITICIZED HIS REMARKS. >> MEANWHILE, IN GAZA, OFFICIALS CLAIM 20 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHILE WAITING FOR FOOD IN GAZA CITY. ISRAELI OFFICIALS DENY LAUNCHING AN ATTACK THERE. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FOR A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU ABOUT CARS TRACKING OUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR, POTENTIALLY LEADING TO HIGHER INSURANCE RATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES FIRST REPORTED THAT GENERAL MOTORS ONSTAR SERVICE WAS RECORDING SOME DRIVERS BEHAVIORS, INCLUDING SPEEDS AND HARD BRAKING, AND THEN SENDING THAT DATA TO A CLEARINGHOUSE THAT

WORKS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES. WELL, NOW A FLORIDA MAN IS SUING, CLAIMING VIOLATIONS OF CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS, BUT GM SAYS THAT SYSTEM CAN BE TURNED OFF. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. THE LAST OF THE SNOW WRAPPING UP IN DENVER LOOKING AT A FOOT OF SNOW DOWNTOWN. IT’S BEEN IMPRESSIVE THERE, BUT THERE’S SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE SOUTH TODAY AND THAT INCLUDES THE THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE PLOWING THEIR WAY ON SOUTH AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOWARDS THE I-10 CORRIDOR IN THE GULF COAST. IT

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NEARLY A WEEK IN NASHVILLE. >> HE WAS LAST SEEN AT A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, AUTHORITIES IN NASHVILLE ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER A COLLEGE SENIOR WHO WENT MISSING AFTER A NIGHT OUT DRINKING WAS OVERSERVED AT A LOCAL BAR. 22 YEAR OLD RILEY STRAIN WAS LAST SEEN BY FRIENDS LAST FRIDAY AT LUKE’S 32 BRIDGE, A BAR OWNED BY COUNTRY SINGER LUKE BRYAN. SECURITY VIDEO FROM AROUND 10 P.M. SHOWS STRAIN STUMBLING DOWN THE STREET AND FALLING. HE GOT BACK UP AND CONTINUED WALKING, VISIBLY UNSTEADY. STRAIN WAS ON A

TRIP WITH HIS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FRATERNITY BROTHERS. >> WHO IS IT THAT YOU’RE WANTING TO REPORT HIS MISSING? WE’RE HERE ON A FRATERNITY FORMAL TRIP. IT’S ONE OF MY GOOD BUDDIES. >> ONE OF STRAIN’S FRIENDS CALLED 911, SAYING HE HAD LOST SIGHT OF HIM RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAR. THE TENNESSEE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS NOW LOOKING INTO WHETHER BARTENDERS BROKE THE LAW, WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO SERVE ALCOHOL TO SOMEONE WHO IS VISIBLY INTOXICATED. BUT I GOT A BEER IN MY HAND. BRYAN NOW SPEAKING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTING Y’ALL, THIS

IS SCARY. PRAYING FOR HIS SAFE RETURN. AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR NEARLY A WEEK WITHOUT FINDING ANY TRACE OF STRAIN, EVEN DEPLOYING BOATS TO SEARCH WATERWAYS. HIS FAMILY, DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS, IS ASKING WHY NO ONE INTERVENED. >> WHY DIDN’T SOMEBODY HELP? I MEAN, WE SAW CARS DRIVE BY, STOP BESIDE. >> THEY’RE ALSO HOPING LUKE BRYAN CAN HELP. >> IT WAS ONE OF THE GUYS RILEY KIND OF LOOKED UP TO. SO WE WOULD LOVE IF HE COULD HELP US GET VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WHAT WENT ON INSIDE THAT BAR AND RIGHT OUTSIDE OF IT. SO, LUKE, HELP

US, PLEASE. PLEASE. >> BRYAN SAYS HIS BAR IS COOPERATING AND WILL PROVIDE POLICE WITH VIDEO FROM INSIDE THE BAR. POLICE SAY STRAINS PHONE WAS OFF. HIS FAMILY SAYS IT WAS LAST TRACKED TO A LOCATION LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE BAR. RHIANNON LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE. A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR KITCHEN APPLIANCE TO UPDATE YOU ON BEST BUY NOW RECALLING AIR FRYERS AND AIR FRYER OVENS FROM THE INSIGNIA BRAND. THE COMPANY SAYS THEY CAN OVERHEAT, CAUSING HANDLES TO BREAK AND GLASS DOORS TO SHATTER. THE RECALL AFFECTS

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of people are going to be murdered. No telling what some of them will do. Everywhere and anywhere. Wow. >> WHAT DO Y SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S BACK TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW

THAT’S DOCTOR ABOUT DUPIXENE MOST PRESCRIBED BIOLOGIC FOR ASTHMA. >> BACK NOW WITH A CLOSE CALL FOR A GIRL IN GLENDALE, ARIZONA, POLICE SAY SHE WAS ALMOST KIDNAPED ON HER WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL. THIS VIDEO SHOWING A MAN GETTING OUT OF AN SUV AND WALKING BEHIND THE 14 YEAR OLD. SHE BEGINS TO RUN AS SHE REALIZED SHE’S BEING FOLLOWED. LUCKILY, A PASSERBY CALLED POLICE AND THAT MAN WAS ARRESTED. >> REALLY SCARY VIDEO THERE. ALEC BALDWIN IS ASKING A JUDGE TO DISMISS THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM STEMMING FROM THE SHOOTING ON THE RUST MOVIE SET. HE HAS PLEADED

NOT GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR THE DEATH OF A CREW MEMBER WHO WAS SHOT WHEN A GUN HELD BY BALDWIN WENT OFF. BALDWIN’S LAWYERS ACCUSED PROSECUTORS OF, QUOTE, VIOLATING NEARLY EVERY RULE TO SECURE A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT, CLAIMING THEY WITHHELD EVIDENCE. NO RESPONSE YET FROM PROSECUTORS. THE MOVIE’S ARMORER WAS CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. SHE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> NOW TO THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT THAT’S GOT EVERYONE BUZZING AFTER AN INVASION OF BEES. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLAY SUSPENDED DUE TO BEE INVASION. >> THIS MORNING, A BIZARRE MOMENT. HALTING PLAY AT A MAJOR TENNIS MATCH.

NO, NOT THE BEES, NOT THE BEES. YES, NICOLAS CAGE BEES! >> YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS, MAN. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS. >> WE ARE SURROUNDED WITH BEES. HERE. PLAY. PAUSE, REWIND. >> THOUSANDS OF BEES SWARMING THE COURT AT THE INDIAN WELLS OPEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. >> YEAH, THAT IS A SPOT TO CAMP. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY VERY POPULAR WITH BEES. >> THE BEES STINGING. THE SECOND RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD, CARLOS ALCARAZ, ON THE HEAD AS THEY SWARMED THE CAMERA ABOVE THE COURT, THE QUEEN BEE APPARENTLY TAKING UP RESIDENCE ON THE CAMERA. IF THE QUEEN’S THERE, THEY

WILL FOLLOW THAT THING. OFFICIALS CALLING IN THIS MAN, LANCE DAVIS, WHO RUNS A BEE REMOVAL SERVICE CALLED KILLER BEE LIVE REMOVAL. >> I THINK HE’S DONE IT BEFORE. >> I THINK HE MIGHT BE RIGHT. >> DAVIS WAS ABLE TO VACUUM UP THE BEES, EVENTUALLY ALLOWING THE MATCH TO RESUME THE STING. CARLOS ALCARAZ SUFFERED DID NOT SLOW HIM DOWN. HE WENT ON TO EASILY BEAT HIS OPPONENT. >> WELL, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE, I’M A LITTLE BIT AFRAID OF THE BEES. >> WELL, THAT BEEKEEPER HAS NOW BECOME A CELEBRITY AT THE TOURNAMENT, EVEN TAKING SELFIES WITH

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>> IT IS TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE, BEGINNING WITH THE NEW PUSH FOR SHORTER WORKWEEK, SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS HAS INTRODUCED A BILL TO REDUCE THE STANDARD WORKWEEK FROM 40 HOURS TO 32. >> HIS IDEA, THOUGH, FELL FLAT WITH REPUBLICANS DURING A HEARING YESTERDAY AS A RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT YEARS AS AMERICAN WORKERS ARE NOW OVER 400% MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THEY WERE IN THE 1940S. >> EXTRAORDINARY. ALMOST ALL OF THE ECONOMIC GAINS OF THAT TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO THE TOP. THIS DISRUPTS THAT BALANCE, AND WE WON’T

MAINTAIN THE STATUS OF BEING THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST NATION. >> IF WE KNEECAP THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. >> DON’T EXPECT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL ANYTIME SOON. >> NEXT TARGET IS LAUNCHING A NEW SELF-CHECKOUT POLICY RESTRICTING YOU TO TEN ITEMS OR LESS. >> EXPRESS CHECKOUT LANES WILL DEBUT AT NEARLY 2000 LOCATIONS THIS SUNDAY, WITH THE GOAL OF SPEEDING THINGS UP. >> WALMART IS ALSO MAKING CHANGES, NOW DESIGNATING SOME SELF-CHECKOUT STATIONS FOR WALMART PLUS MEMBERS ONLY. NEXT THE FASTEST PASSENGER JET EVER HAS COMPLETED ITS SLOWEST JOURNEY. >> THE BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE HAS SLOWLY LIFTED ONTO A PIER HERE IN NEW YORK

AT THE INTREPID MUSEUM. AFTER MONTHS OF RESTORATION, THE PLANE WAS FLOATED UP THE HUDSON ON A BARGE AND FINALLY, THE COWBOY WHO DIDN’T LET TRAFFIC GET IN HIS WAY. HE WAS HEADED TO A RODEO IN HOUSTON, BUT THE TRAFFIC WAS SO BAD HE UNLOADED HIS HORSE AND THEN RODE IT TO NRG STADIUM. >> HE ARRIVED IN It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know, that sounds pretty good. Give your help your money. Breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends, and of

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DOESN’T HAVE ALLERGIES? >> YEAH, NICE. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES WIDESPREAD TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN FOUR STATES. AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN CENTRAL OHIO. SIGNIFICANT INJURIES ARE REPORTED IN INDIANA AND PARTS OF ARKANSAS GOT FIVE INCHES OF RAIN, TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING. >> DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS COULD FIND OUT TODAY IF SHE’LL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THE JUDGE IS CONSIDERING WHETHER WILLIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER PROSECUTOR IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY, THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER, HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR NOT

DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S ATTACK. HE AND HIS WIFE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> THE NCAA IS FACING A LAWSUIT FROM A GROUP OF COLLEGE ATHLETES TRYING TO BAN TRANSGENDER WOMEN FROM COMPETITION. THE SUIT CLAIMS THE ORGANIZATION VIOLATED THEIR TITLE NINE RIGHTS BY ALLOWING TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LEAH THOMAS TO COMPETE IN THE 2022 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. >> TODAY’S WEATHER RAIN FROM THE NORTHEAST TO TEXAS. STORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES ON THE GULF COAST, AND SNOW IN THE ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON, OUR DANNY. >> NEW REPORTS. WHILE KEVIN MCALLISTER MAY HAVE BEEN SCARED OF

A LADY WITH PIGEONS AT FIRST, THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON TIKTOK SURE DO LOVE THIS BROOKLYNITE AND HER PURSE PAL NAMED PIDGE. >> SHE’S SORT OF A BLEND OF A CAT AND A DOG, BUT SHE’S WEIRDER AND SHE FLIES. SHE DOES, LIKE UNDER HER CHIN SOMETIMES, LIKE, YEAH, ABBY HERE FIRST MET PIDGE THIS PAST SUMMER WHEN SHE SAW BABY PIDGE ALL ALONE ON THE STREET, AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A LOCAL WILDLIFE RESCUE. >> THEY SAID SHE WAS DEFINITELY TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT OF THE NEST, AND THAT ABBY COULD BRING HER INTO THE SHELTER. BUT AFTER

TAKING HER HOME FIRST WITHIN PROBABLY 15 MINUTES SHE WAS SNUGGLING AND CUTE AND I COULDN’T GET RID OF HER. SOON THEY BECAME INSEPARABLE, AND ABBY STARTED CHRONICLING THEIR NEW YORK JOURNEYS TOGETHER IN AN IMMEDIATELY VIRAL TIKTOK SERIES. ONE COMMENTER WRITING, THIS IS THE LIFE ALL PIGEONS DESERVE. FORGET PURSE DOGS, I WANT A PURSE PIGEON ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, ABBY AND PIDGE FLY TOGETHER. GO ON. CASUAL NEW YORK STROLLS TOGETHER, AND ABBY SAYS SHE’S EVEN TRAINED PIDGE TO USE THE LOO. >> I CAN HOLD HER OVER A TOILET AND SHE’LL JUST GO TO THE BATHROOM. >>

MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER, PIDGE MAY BE NEW YORK’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON. I LOVE YOU. OH, DOES NOT LIKE THE MIC, BUT YOU BETTER GET THAT MICROPHONE OUT OF HER FACE. BY THE WAY, IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY HARD TO TELL IF A PIGEON IS A BOY OR A GIRL. BUT THEN THIS HAPPENED. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE EGG, BUT IT DID OFFICIALLY CONFIRM WE HAVE A MISS PIDGE, QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. I LIKE THAT SHE IS THE QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. >> DANNY. THANK YOU. BROOKLYN STORY. THAT’S WHAT. RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. TORNADOES SLAMMING THE

MIDWEST, DESTROYING BUILDINGS. >> I WAS JUST SITTING THERE EATING SOME CHICKEN, AND I HEARD THAT FREIGHT TRAIN COMING. THAT’S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT REPORTED IN OHIO. >> SIGNIFICANT INJURIES IN INDIANA. THE IMAGES JUST IN. >> THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER FOUND GUILTY. JAMES CRUMBLEY, CONVICTED FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S DEADLY RAMPAGE. THE PRESIDENT THIS VERDICT COULD SET. AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR CRUMBLEY AND HIS WIFE? >> SHOTS FIRED ON A CROWDED COMMUTER TRAIN. NEW YORK SUBWAY RIDERS HIDE FOR COVER AS A BRAWL ERUPTS INTO GUNFIRE. WHAT

WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT THE SHOOTER AND THE FUTURE OF TIKTOK IN THE U.S. STILL UP IN THE AIR AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS A CRACKDOWN, THE POTENTIAL NEW BUYERS EMERGING, INCLUDING A SHARK FROM SHARK TANK. LONG WEEKENDS FOREVER. A NEW PUSH FOR A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN THE U.S. THE LAWMAKER LEADING THE CHARGE. >> ALL THE BUZZ A WILD SIDE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, STINGING A STAR PLAYER, HALTING THE ACTION AND FRUSTRATED BY SELF-CHECKOUT. >> THE BIG CHANGES COMING TO TARGET AND WALMART. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD

FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. >> I’M RHIANNON ALLY AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. ANDREW IS ON ASSIGNMENT. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SEVERAL REPORTED TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST. AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN OHIO. >> CASUALTIES ALSO REPORTED IN INDIANA. FOUR STATES ENDURED A TERRIFYING NIGHT OF STORMS THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IS REPORTED IN MULTIPLE STATES, ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT INJURIES AFTER TORNADOES TORE THROUGH PARTS OF THE PLAINS IN THE MIDWEST, THE SIRENS WENT OFF HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, IT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN COMING THROUGH OUR FRONT ROOM IN CENTRAL OHIO, AUTHORITIES RESPONDED

TO A MASS CASUALTY EVENT AFTER A HALF MILE WIDE TORNADO HIT THE VILLAGE OF LAKEVIEW, DESTROYING A MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY AND BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN. >> OUR LAUNDROMAT IS GONE. THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. DOWNTOWN DOWN. IT’S BAD. YEAH, IT’S VERY BAD. IT’S PURE DEVASTATION. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. >> IN INDIANA, AUTHORITIES SAID THEY WERE WORKING TO CONFIRM REPORTS OF FATALITIES FROM A LIKELY TORNADO THAT HIT THE CITY OF WINCHESTER. THERE WERE POWERFUL WINDS, TORE APART THIS LARGE BUILDING, LEAVING THE METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES AND POWER

LINES. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. >> WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. >> THESE IMAGES OF HOMES DAMAGED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND AN IMAGE OF BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IN NEIGHBORING KENTUCKY. AUTHORITIES NEAR LOUISVILLE SAY THE STORMS DAMAGED AT LEAST 50 BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HOMES. WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU GOES THROUGH YOUR HEAD IN A MOMENT LIKE THAT, WHERE IT’S LIKE THERE AIN’T NOTHING YOU CAN DO, BUT IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> IT’S GOING

TO GET YOU. >> AND FARTHER SOUTH, THIS DAMAGE IN HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARKANSAS, DEBRIS SCATTERED, THIS UTILITY POLE SHREDDED IN HALF ACROSS THE ROAD. NOW, OFFICIALS SAY THEY WON’T KNOW THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE UNTIL THE SUN COMES UP. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST IN JUST MOMENTS AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS OF DELIBERATIONS, A JURY HAS CONVICTED THE FATHER OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER ETHAN CRUMBLEY FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO STOP HIS SON FROM CARRYING OUT THE DEADLY ATTACK AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> THE VERDICT COULD HAVE FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES. GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER

THIS MORNING, THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR JAMES CRUMBLEY IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR PARENTS NATIONWIDE. >> IT’S A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS WHEN IT COMES TO GUNS. >> A JURY IN MICHIGAN CONVICTING CRUMBLEY ON FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, HOLDING HIM PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILING TO PREVENT HIS SON ETHAN FROM FATALLY SHOOTING FOUR STUDENTS AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BUYING THE GUN FOUR DAYS EARLIER AND FAILING TO PROPERLY SECURE IT. >> THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT WAS HE JUST DIDN’T KNOW HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS SON WAS THIS DANGEROUS, AND I SUSPECT THE JURORS

SAW THROUGH THAT. THAT’S NOT OKAY FOR A PARENT TO HAVE NO IDEA THAT YOUR CHILD IS ON THE VERGE OF THIS KIND OF MASS MURDER. >> CRUMBLEY’S WIFE, JENNIFER, WAS CONVICTED ON THE SAME CHARGES LAST MONTH. PROSECUTORS ARGUED THE CRUMBLEYS MISSED WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THEIR SON’S MENTAL HEALTH, INCLUDING A TEXT MESSAGE IN WHICH ETHAN REVEALED HE WAS HEARING VOICES. HE WROTE, I ACTUALLY ASKED MY DAD TO TAKE ME TO THE DOCTOR YESTERDAY, BUT HE JUST GAVE ME SOME PILLS AND TOLD ME TO SUCK IT UP. PROSECUTORS ALSO DETAILED A MEETING AT THE SCHOOL THE DAY

OF THE SHOOTING BETWEEN ETHAN, HIS PARENTS AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS AFTER A MORBID DRAWING WAS FOUND ON ETHAN’S MATH ASSIGNMENT, THE SCHOOL SAYS ETHAN’S PARENTS REFUSED TO TAKE HIM HOME, AND ETHAN WAS ALLOWED TO STAY IN SCHOOL BECAUSE HE HAD NO PRIOR DISCIPLINARY INFRACTIONS. THE VICTIM’S PARENTS SAY LAST NIGHT’S VERDICT DOES NOT END THEIR PUSH FOR JUSTICE. >> WE NEED TO START FOCUSING ON IN THE SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL AND ITS FAILURES, THE THINGS THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO ADMIT TO. >> WE CAN PUT PEOPLE ON THE MOON , WE CAN BUILD SKYSCRAPERS, HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE

HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SKILLS, OUR KIDS, SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> LEGAL EXPERTS NOTE THE CRUMBLEYS ARE THE FIRST PARENTS IN U.S. HISTORY CONVICTED IN A MASS SCHOOL SHOOTING. >> IT DOES SEND A MESSAGE THAT PROSECUTORS MIGHT PICK THIS UP AND START HOLDING PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE. ACTUALLY, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR MANSLAUGHTER AS IF THEY PARTICIPATED. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH ON THE SAME DAY AS HIS WIFE. THE CRUMBLEYS COULD FACE ANYWHERE FROM 15 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON. >> A TERRIFYING SCENE IN NEW YORK AS SHOTS RANG OUT ON A CROWDED SUBWAY

TRAIN. FLYING BULLETS SENT THESE PASSENGERS DUCKING FOR COVER. POLICE SAY ONE MAN WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY HIS OWN GUN AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. NOW, VIDEO SHOWS THE TWO MEN FIGHTING WHEN ONE OF THEM PULLS OUT A GUN, THE OTHER THEN GRABS IT AND FIRES, SPIKING CRIME RECENTLY PROMPTED THE GOVERNOR TO DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD ON THE SUBWAY. >> IT’S WHY WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST GUNS. THAT’S WHY THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO TAKE GUNS OFF THE STREET AND HAS HAD SOME SUCCESS. THAT’S WHY THE GOVERNOR IS FIGHTING THESE CRAZIES WHO SAY

GUNS SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE CARRIED EVERYWHERE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE, GET RID OF THE GUNS. >> THE MAN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER WAS ARRESTED. >> A SPECIAL MARINES RESPONSE UNIT HAS NOW ARRIVED IN HAITI TO HELP WITH AN INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT MISSION OF EVACUATING AMERICANS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IS NOT ALLOWING USE OF ITS HELIPAD BECAUSE STREET GANGS ARE FIRING AT INCOMING FLIGHTS. HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS ARE BELIEVED TO BE IN HAITI, WHICH IS IN CHAOS WITH NO PLAN YET TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. >> THERE ARE NEW QUESTIONS THIS MORNING ABOUT WHETHER TIKTOK COULD BE BANNED

HERE IN THE US. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE ALREADY COMING FORWARD. ABC’S EM NGUYEN IS HERE NOW WITH THE LATEST M. GOOD MORNING RHIANNON. >> GOOD MORNING. YEAH. THE FATE OF TIKTOK HERE IN THE U.S. REMAINS UNCLEAR, BUT SOME WEALTHY AMERICANS ARE STANDING BY HOPING FOR A CHANCE TO BUY IT. TWO DAYS AFTER THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT COULD BAN TIKTOK IN THE U.S. UNLESS ITS CHINESE OWNERS SELL THE APP, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS, AND I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY TIKTOK, FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS

AMONG THOSE GATHERING INVESTORS INTERESTED IN THE VIDEO SHARING PLATFORM, WHICH ANALYSTS SAY COULD FETCH A PRICE OF MORE THAN $100 BILLION. >> IF THIS ORDER GOES THROUGH, IT’S GOT TO BE SOLD. >> I’M GOING TO PUT UP MY HAND AND SAY, I’LL BUY IT, SHARK TANK’S KEVIN O’LEARY ALSO THROWING HIS HAT IN THE RING, BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN, CHIEF AMONG THEM WILL THE SENATE EVEN TAKE UP THE HOUSE BILL? >> WHILE SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES AGREE THAT TIKTOK POSES A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN BECAUSE OF ITS CHINESE OWNER, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER HAS NOT

YET INDICATED WHETHER HE’LL TAKE UP THE BILL. TIKTOK CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY. >> I HAVEN’T HEARD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE DONE THAT’S WRONG, HE INSISTS. >> TIKTOK KEEPS AMERICANS DATA ON SERVERS IN THE U.S, AND SAYS THE BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE WILL HURT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LIVING ON THE APP. >> JUST PASSING THE LAW. THIS IS A BAN ON OUR APP IN THIS COUNTRY. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS WHO USE OUR APP. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES. >> EVEN IF THE SENATE PASSES THE

BILL AND PRESIDENT BIDEN FOLLOWS THROUGH ON HIS PLEDGE TO SIGN IT , ANALYSTS SAY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD STILL NEED TO APPROVE THE SALE AND WOULD LIKELY WITHHOLD MUCH OF THE APPS UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY. IF THERE IS AN EVENTUAL SALE. ANALYSTS SAY THE LIST OF POTENTIAL BUYERS WOULD BE SMALL. MAJOR TECH COMPANIES WOULD LIKELY NOT BE INVOLVED DUE TO ANTITRUST CONCERNS. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT. I’M THANK YOU. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER HAS STUNNED WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL WITH A BLISTERING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, CALLING HIM AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. SCHUMER IS CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS

IN ISRAEL. HE IS THE HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. REPUBLICANS HAVE CRITICIZED HIS REMARKS. >> MEANWHILE, IN GAZA, OFFICIALS CLAIM 20 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHILE WAITING FOR FOOD IN GAZA CITY. ISRAELI OFFICIALS DENY LAUNCHING AN ATTACK THERE. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FOR A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU ABOUT CARS TRACKING OUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR, POTENTIALLY LEADING TO HIGHER INSURANCE RATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES FIRST REPORTED THAT GENERAL MOTORS ONSTAR SERVICE WAS RECORDING SOME DRIVERS BEHAVIORS, INCLUDING SPEEDS AND HARD BRAKING, AND THEN SENDING THAT DATA TO A CLEARINGHOUSE THAT WORKS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES. WELL, NOW

A FLORIDA MAN IS SUING, CLAIMING VIOLATIONS OF CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS, BUT GM SAYS THAT SYSTEM CAN BE TURNED OFF. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. THE LAST OF THE SNOW WRAPPING UP IN DENVER LOOKING AT A FOOT OF SNOW DOWNTOWN. IT’S BEEN IMPRESSIVE THERE, BUT THERE’S SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE SOUTH TODAY AND THAT INCLUDES THE THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE PLOWING THEIR WAY ON SOUTH AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOWARDS THE I-10 CORRIDOR IN THE GULF COAST. IT WILL BE A PRETTY ACTIVE SETUP

INTO THE NIGHT, AND THEN IT STAYS WET INTO THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE SOUTH, WHILE THE COOL AIR WORKS INTO THE NORTHEAST FOR THE WEEKEND. FOR ACCUWEATHER, I’M MELISSA CONSTANZA. >> COMING UP, A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR AIR FRYER. >> ALSO AHEAD, WHAT WE’VE NOW LEARNED ABOUT THAT PLANE THAT TOOK A NOSEDIVE IN MIDAIR, INJURING 50 PEOPLE. >> AND A NEW TWIST IN THE SEARCH FOR MISSING COLLEGE STUDENT. A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR People really want to know what it feels like to be a photographer right shoulder down Barry guy. Is this

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Rapids on it with this storm. I’m Ginger Zee your streaming ABC News live. ROOM. >> 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> BACK NOW WITH A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THIS WEEK’S TERRIFYING MID-AIR PLUNGE OF A BOEING JET OVER AUSTRALIA. 50 PEOPLE WERE INJURED ON THIS LATAM AIRLINES FLIGHT, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCIDENTALLY HIT A SWITCH ON THE PILOT’S SEAT, PUSHING THE PILOT FORWARD AND INTO THE CONTROLS, FORCING THE PLANE’S NOSE TO DROP. WE TURN NOW TO A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO’S BEEN MISSING NOW FOR NEARLY A WEEK IN NASHVILLE. >> HE WAS LAST SEEN

AT A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, AUTHORITIES IN NASHVILLE ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER A COLLEGE SENIOR WHO WENT MISSING AFTER A NIGHT OUT DRINKING WAS OVERSERVED AT A LOCAL BAR. 22 YEAR OLD RILEY STRAIN WAS LAST SEEN BY FRIENDS LAST FRIDAY AT LUKE’S 32 BRIDGE, A BAR OWNED BY COUNTRY SINGER LUKE BRYAN. SECURITY VIDEO FROM AROUND 10 P.M. SHOWS STRAIN STUMBLING DOWN THE STREET AND FALLING. HE GOT BACK UP AND CONTINUED WALKING, VISIBLY UNSTEADY. STRAIN WAS ON A TRIP WITH HIS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FRATERNITY BROTHERS. >> WHO

IS IT THAT YOU’RE WANTING TO REPORT HIS MISSING? WE’RE HERE ON A FRATERNITY FORMAL TRIP. IT’S ONE OF MY GOOD BUDDIES. >> ONE OF STRAIN’S FRIENDS CALLED 911, SAYING HE HAD LOST SIGHT OF HIM RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAR. THE TENNESSEE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS NOW LOOKING INTO WHETHER BARTENDERS BROKE THE LAW, WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO SERVE ALCOHOL TO SOMEONE WHO IS VISIBLY INTOXICATED. BUT I GOT A BEER IN MY HAND. BRYAN NOW SPEAKING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTING Y’ALL, THIS IS SCARY. PRAYING FOR HIS SAFE RETURN. AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN

SEARCHING FOR NEARLY A WEEK WITHOUT FINDING ANY TRACE OF STRAIN, EVEN DEPLOYING BOATS TO SEARCH WATERWAYS. HIS FAMILY, DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS, IS ASKING WHY NO ONE INTERVENED. >> WHY DIDN’T SOMEBODY HELP? I MEAN, WE SAW CARS DRIVE BY, STOP BESIDE. >> THEY’RE ALSO HOPING LUKE BRYAN CAN HELP. >> IT WAS ONE OF THE GUYS RILEY KIND OF LOOKED UP TO. SO WE WOULD LOVE IF HE COULD HELP US GET VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WHAT WENT ON INSIDE THAT BAR AND RIGHT OUTSIDE OF IT. SO, LUKE, HELP US, PLEASE. PLEASE. >> BRYAN SAYS HIS BAR IS COOPERATING

AND WILL PROVIDE POLICE WITH VIDEO FROM INSIDE THE BAR. POLICE SAY STRAINS PHONE WAS OFF. HIS FAMILY SAYS IT WAS LAST TRACKED TO A LOCATION LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE BAR. RHIANNON LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE. A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR KITCHEN APPLIANCE TO UPDATE YOU ON BEST BUY NOW RECALLING AIR FRYERS AND AIR FRYER OVENS FROM THE INSIGNIA BRAND. THE COMPANY SAYS THEY CAN OVERHEAT, CAUSING HANDLES TO BREAK AND GLASS DOORS TO SHATTER. THE RECALL AFFECTS ABOUT 187,000 DEVICES. OUR WEBSITE HAS THE COMPLETE LIST. >>

COMING UP, THERE’S A NEW CLAIM FROM ALEC BALDWIN CONCERNING THAT DEADLY SHOOTING ON HIS MOVIE SET. >> PLUS, A WILD SCENE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, FORCING PLAY TO BE A GMA we love dogs love dogs and next week. We’re about to reveal live only on GMA the most popular dog breeds right now. So what dogs made the list it’s going to be a big one. Give it to me. National Forest are good places to get away. But sometimes bad things happen in good places. It’s the stuff of nightmares. All I could see was

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what would you do if you saw a mother reject her son’s new girlfriend because of the color of her skin. I was going to meet your girlfriend you are eating my girlfriend. This is your girlfriend. Was there a misunderstanding? Well, maybe when you say something Mom you’re in a little crazy here, I think seriously, what do you mean knock it off? So the question is what would you do Sunday night all new right after American Idol on ABC Whenever Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in

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THE 14 YEAR OLD. SHE BEGINS TO RUN AS SHE REALIZED SHE’S BEING FOLLOWED. LUCKILY, A PASSERBY CALLED POLICE AND THAT MAN WAS ARRESTED. >> REALLY SCARY VIDEO THERE. ALEC BALDWIN IS ASKING A JUDGE TO DISMISS THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM STEMMING FROM THE SHOOTING ON THE RUST MOVIE SET. HE HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR THE DEATH OF A CREW MEMBER WHO WAS SHOT WHEN A GUN HELD BY BALDWIN WENT OFF. BALDWIN’S LAWYERS ACCUSED PROSECUTORS OF, QUOTE, VIOLATING NEARLY EVERY RULE TO SECURE A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT, CLAIMING THEY WITHHELD EVIDENCE. NO RESPONSE YET FROM

PROSECUTORS. THE MOVIE’S ARMORER WAS CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. SHE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> NOW TO THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT THAT’S GOT EVERYONE BUZZING AFTER AN INVASION OF BEES. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLAY SUSPENDED DUE TO BEE INVASION. >> THIS MORNING, A BIZARRE MOMENT. HALTING PLAY AT A MAJOR TENNIS MATCH. NO, NOT THE BEES, NOT THE BEES. YES, NICOLAS CAGE BEES! >> YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS, MAN. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS. >> WE ARE SURROUNDED WITH BEES. HERE. PLAY. PAUSE, REWIND. >> THOUSANDS OF BEES SWARMING THE COURT AT THE INDIAN WELLS OPEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. >>

YEAH, THAT IS A SPOT TO CAMP. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY VERY POPULAR WITH BEES. >> THE BEES STINGING. THE SECOND RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD, CARLOS ALCARAZ, ON THE HEAD AS THEY SWARMED THE CAMERA ABOVE THE COURT, THE QUEEN BEE APPARENTLY TAKING UP RESIDENCE ON THE CAMERA. IF THE QUEEN’S THERE, THEY WILL FOLLOW THAT THING. OFFICIALS CALLING IN THIS MAN, LANCE DAVIS, WHO RUNS A BEE REMOVAL SERVICE CALLED KILLER BEE LIVE REMOVAL. >> I THINK HE’S DONE IT BEFORE. >> I THINK HE MIGHT BE RIGHT. >> DAVIS WAS ABLE TO VACUUM UP THE BEES, EVENTUALLY ALLOWING

THE MATCH TO RESUME THE STING. CARLOS ALCARAZ SUFFERED DID NOT SLOW HIM DOWN. HE WENT ON TO EASILY BEAT HIS OPPONENT. >> WELL, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE, I’M A LITTLE BIT AFRAID OF THE BEES. >> WELL, THAT BEEKEEPER HAS NOW BECOME A CELEBRITY AT THE TOURNAMENT, EVEN TAKING SELFIES WITH THE FANS. >> HE SAVED THE DAY. GOT THAT QUEEN OUT OF THERE. COMING UP, THE NEW PROPOSAL TO ADOPT A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN THE US. It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know,

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your news only on ABC News live strongest females fight for the survival of their families Reporting from the New Year celebration in Times Square New York. I’m Alex for Shay. Wherever the story is will take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. GONNA TELL YOU AND REVEAL A NEW SONG ONLY ON GMA. >> IT IS TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE, BEGINNING WITH THE NEW PUSH FOR SHORTER WORKWEEK, SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS HAS INTRODUCED A BILL TO REDUCE THE STANDARD WORKWEEK FROM 40 HOURS TO 32. >> HIS IDEA, THOUGH, FELL FLAT WITH REPUBLICANS DURING A HEARING YESTERDAY

AS A RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT YEARS AS AMERICAN WORKERS ARE NOW OVER 400% MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THEY WERE IN THE 1940S. >> EXTRAORDINARY. ALMOST ALL OF THE ECONOMIC GAINS OF THAT TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO THE TOP. THIS DISRUPTS THAT BALANCE, AND WE WON’T MAINTAIN THE STATUS OF BEING THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST NATION. >> IF WE KNEECAP THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. >> DON’T EXPECT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL ANYTIME SOON. >> NEXT TARGET IS LAUNCHING A NEW SELF-CHECKOUT POLICY RESTRICTING YOU TO TEN ITEMS OR LESS. >> EXPRESS CHECKOUT LANES WILL DEBUT

AT NEARLY 2000 LOCATIONS THIS SUNDAY, WITH THE GOAL OF SPEEDING THINGS UP. >> WALMART IS ALSO MAKING CHANGES, NOW DESIGNATING SOME SELF-CHECKOUT STATIONS FOR WALMART PLUS MEMBERS ONLY. NEXT THE FASTEST PASSENGER JET EVER HAS COMPLETED ITS SLOWEST JOURNEY. >> THE BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE HAS SLOWLY LIFTED ONTO A PIER HERE IN NEW YORK AT THE INTREPID MUSEUM. AFTER MONTHS OF RESTORATION, THE PLANE WAS FLOATED UP THE HUDSON ON A BARGE AND FALLY, THE COWBOY WHO DIDN’T LET TRAFFIC GET IN HIS WAY. HE WAS HEADED TO A RODEO IN HOUSTON, BUT THE TRAFFIC WAS SO BAD HE

UNLOADED HIS HORSE AND THEN RODE IT TO NRG STADIUM. >> HE ARRIVED IN People really want to know what it feels like to be a photographer right shoulder down Barry guy. Is this Yang Yang of danger and this incredible raw Beauty. It’s his first breath. That’s so cool. All right. This is it these moments that you immortalize makes a lot of difference. There’s a masterpiece everywhere. Give it to me. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S BACK TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there streaming free on ABC News live. So the question is what would you do if you

saw a mother reject her son’s new girlfriend because of the color of her skin. I was going to meet your girlfriend you are eating my girlfriend. This is your girlfriend. Was there a misunderstanding? Well, maybe when you say something Mom you’re in a little crazy here, I think seriously, what do you mean knock it off? So the question is what would you do Sunday night all new right after American Idol on ABC N THAT GRASS AS IF SHE DOESN’T HAVE ALLERGIES? >> YEAH, NICE. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES WIDESPREAD TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN FOUR STATES.

AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN CENTRAL OHIO. SIGNIFICANT INJURIES ARE REPORTED IN INDIANA AND PARTS OF ARKANSAS GOT FIVE INCHES OF RAIN, TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING. >> DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS COULD FIND OUT TODAY IF SHE’LL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THE JUDGE IS CONSIDERING WHETHER WILLIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER PROSECUTOR IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY, THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER, HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S ATTACK. HE AND HIS WIFE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> THE

NCAA IS FACING A LAWSUIT FROM A GROUP OF COLLEGE ATHLETES TRYING TO BAN TRANSGENDER WOMEN FROM COMPETITION. THE SUIT CLAIMS THE ORGANIZATION VIOLATED THEIR TITLE NINE RIGHTS BY ALLOWING TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LEAH THOMAS TO COMPETE IN THE 2022 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSH POSSIBLE TORNADOES ON THE GULF COAST, AND SNOW IN THE ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON, OUR DANNY. >> NEW REPORTS. WHILE KEVIN MCALLISTER MAY HAVE BEEN SCARED OF A LADY WITH PIGEONS AT FIRST, THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON TIKTOK SURE DO LOVE THIS BROOKLYNITE AND HER PURSE PAL NAMED PIDGE. >> SHE’S SORT OF A BLEND

OF A CAT AND A DOG, BUT SHE’S WEIRDER AND SHE FLIES. SHE DOES, LIKE UNDER HER CHIN SOMETIMES, LIKE, YEAH, ABBY HERE FIRST MET PIDGE THIS PAST SUMMER WHEN SHE SAW BABY PIDGE ALL ALONE ON THE STREET, AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A LOCAL WILDLIFE RESCUE. >> THEY SAID SHE WAS DEFINITELY TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT OF THE NEST, AND THAT ABBY COULD BRING HER INTO THE SHELTER. BUT AFTER TAKING HER HOME FIRST WITHIN PROBABLY 15 MINUTES SHE WAS SNUGGLING AND CUTE AND I COULDN’T GET RID OF HER. SOON THEY BECAME INSEPARABLE, AND ABBY STARTED CHRONICLING THEIR

NEW YORK JOURNEYS TOGETHER IN AN IMMEDIATELY VIRAL TIKTOK SERIES. ONE COMMENTER WRITING, THIS IS THE LIFE ALL PIGEONS DESERVE. FORGET PURSE DOGS, I WANT A PURSE PIGEON ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, ABBY AND PIDGE FLY TOGETHER. GO ON. CASUAL NEW YORK STROLLS TOGETHER, AND ABBY SAYS SHE’S EVEN TRAINED PIDGE TO USE THE LOO. >> I CAN HOLD HER OVER A TOILET AND SHE’LL JUST GO TO THE BATHROOM. >> MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER, PIDGE MAY BE NEW YORK’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON. I LOVE YOU. OH, DOES NOT LIKE THE MIC, BUT YOU BETTER GET THAT MICROPHONE OUT OF

HER FACE. BY THE WAY, IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY HARD TO TELL IF A PIGEON IS A BOY OR A GIRL. BUT THEN THIS HAPPENED. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE EGG, BUT IT DID OFFICIALLY CONFIRM WE HAVE A MISS PIDGE, QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. I LIKE THAT SHE IS THE QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. >> DANNY. THANK YOU. BROOKLYN STORY. THAT’S WHAT. RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST, DESTROYING BUILDINGS. >> I WAS JUST SITTING THERE EATING SOME CHICKEN, AND I HEARD THAT FREIGHT TRAIN COMING. THAT’S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT REPORTED

IN OHIO. >> SIGNIFICANT INJURIES IN INDIANA. THE IMAGES JUST IN. >> THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER FOUND GUILTY. JAMES CRUMBLEY, CONVICTED FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S DEADLY RAMPAGE. THE PRESIDENT THIS VERDICT COULD SET. AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR CRUMBLEY AND HIS WIFE? >> SHOTS FIRED ON A CROWDED COMMUTER TRAIN. NEW YORK SUBWAY RIDERS HIDE FOR COVER AS A BRAWL ERUPTS INTO GUNFIRE. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT THE SHOOTER AND THE FUTURE OF TIKTOK IN THE U.S. STILL UP IN THE AIR AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS A CRACKDOWN, THE POTENTIAL NEW BUYERS EMERGING, INCLUDING

A SHARK FROM SHARK TANK. LONG WEEKENDS FOREVER. A NEW PUSH FOR A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN THE U.S. THE LAWMAKER LEADING THE CHARGE. >> ALL THE BUZZ A WILD SIDE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, STINGING A STAR PLAYER, HALTING THE ACTION AND FRUSTRATED BY SELF-CHECKOUT. >> THE BIG CHANGES COMING TO TARGET AND WALMART. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. >> I’M RHIANNON ALLY AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. ANDREW IS ON ASSIGNMENT. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SEVERAL REPORTED TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST. AT LEAST TWO

PEOPLE KILLED IN OHIO. >> CASUALTIES ALSO REPORTED IN INDIANA. FOUR STATES ENDURED A TERRIFYING NIGHT OF STORMS THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IS REPORTED IN MULTIPLE STATES, ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT INJURIES AFTER TORNADOES TORE THROUGH PARTS OF THE PLAINS IN THE MIDWEST, THE SIRENS WENT OFF HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, IT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN COMING THROUGH OUR FRONT ROOM IN CENTRAL OHIO, AUTHORITIES RESPONDED TO A MASS CASUALTY EVENT AFTER A HALF MILE WIDE TORNADO HIT THE VILLAGE OF LAKEVIEW, DESTROYING A MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY AND BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN. >> OUR LAUNDROMAT IS GONE.

THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. DOWNTOWN DOWN. IT’S BAD. YEAH, IT’S VERY BAD. IT’S PURE DEVASTATION. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. >> IN INDIANA, AUTHORITIES SAID THEY WERE WORKING TO CONFIRM REPORTS OF FATALITIES FROM A LIKELY TORNADO THAT HIT THE CITY OF WINCHESTER. THERE WERE POWERFUL WINDS, TORE APART THIS LARGE BUILDING, LEAVING THE METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES AND POWER LINES. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. >> WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT HAVE

BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. >> THESE IMAGES OF HOMES DAMAGED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND AN IMAGE OF BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IN NEIGHBORING KENTUCKY. AUTHORITIES NEAR LOUISVILLE SAY THE STORMS DAMAGED AT LEAST 50 BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HOMES. WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU GOES THROUGH YOUR HEAD IN A MOMENT LIKE THAT, WHERE IT’S LIKE THERE AIN’T NOTHING YOU CAN DO, BUT IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> AND FARTHER SOUTH, THIS DAMAGE IN HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARKANSAS, DEBRIS SCATTERED, THIS UTILITY POLE SHREDDED IN HALF ACROSS THE ROAD. NOW, OFFICIALS SAY THEY

WON’T KNOW THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE UNTIL THE SUN COMES UP. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST IN JUST MOMENTS AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS OF DELIBERATIONS, A JURY HAS CONVICTED THE FATHER OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER ETHAN CRUMBLEY FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO STOP HIS SON FROM CARRYING OUT THE DEADLY ATTACK AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> THE VERDICT COULD HAVE FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES. GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER THIS MORNING, THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR JAMES CRUMBLEY IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR PARENTS NATIONWIDE. >> IT’S A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS WHEN

IT COMES TO GUNS. >> A JURY IN MICHIGAN CONVICTING CRUMBLEY ON FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, HOLDING HIM PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILING TO PREVENT HIS SON ETHAN FROM FATALLY SHOOTING FOUR STUDENTS AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BUYING THE GUN FOUR DAYS EARLIER AND FAILING TO PROPERLY SECURE IT. >> THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT WAS HE JUST DIDN’T KNOW HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS SON WAS THIS DANGEROUS, AND I SUSPECT THE JURORS SAW THROUGH THAT. THAT’S NOT OKAY FOR A PARENT TO HAVE NO IDEA THAT YOUR CHILD IS ON THE VERGE OF THIS KIND OF MASS MURDER. >> CRUMBLEY’S WIFE,

JENNIFER, WAS CONVICTED ON THE SAME CHARGES LAST MONTH. PROSECUTORS ARGUED THE CRUMBLEYS MISSED WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THEIR SON’S MENTAL HEALTH, INCLUDING A TEXT MESSAGE IN WHICH ETHAN REVEALED HE WAS HEARING VOICES. HE WROTE, I ACTUALLY ASKED MY DAD TO TAKE ME TO THE DOCTOR YESTERDAY, BUT HE JUST GAVE ME SOME PILLS AND TOLD ME TO SUCK IT UP. PROSECUTORS ALSO DETAILED A MEETING AT THE SCHOOL THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING BETWEEN ETHAN, HIS PARENTS AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS AFTER A MORBID DRAWING WAS FOUND ON ETHAN’S MATH ASSIGNMENT, THE SCHOOL SAYS ETHAN’S PARENTS REFUSED TO TAKE HIM

HOME, AND ETHAN WAS ALLOWED TO STAY IN SCHOOL BECAUSE HE HAD NO PRIOR DISCIPLINARY INFRACTIONS. THE VICTIM’S PARENTS SAY LAST NIGHT’S VERDICT DOES NOT END THEIR PUSH FOR JUSTICE. >> WE NEED TO START FOCUSING ON IN THE SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL AND ITS FAILURES, THE THINGS THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO ADMIT TO. >> WE CAN PUT PEOPLE ON THE MOON , WE CAN BUILD SKYSCRAPERS, HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SKILLS, OUR KIDS, SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> LEGAL EXPERTS NOTE THE CRUMBLEYS ARE THE FIRST PARENTS IN U.S. HISTORY CONVICTED IN A

MASS SCHOOL SHOOTING. >> IT DOES SEND A MESSAGE THAT PROSECUTORS MIGHT PICK THIS UP AND START HOLDING PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE. ACTUALLY, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR MANSLAUGHTER AS IF THEY PARTICIPATED. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH ON THE SAME DAY AS HIS WIFE. THE CRUMBLEYS COULD FACE ANYWHERE FROM 15 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON. >> A TERRIFYING SCENE IN NEW YORK AS SHOTS RANG OUT ON A CROWDED SUBWAY TRAIN. FLYING BULLETS SENT THESE PASSENGERS DUCKING FOR COVER. POLICE SAY ONE MAN WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY HIS OWN GUN AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. NOW, VIDEO

SHOWS THE TWO MEN FIGHTING WHEN ONE OF THEM PULLS OUT A GUN, THE OTHER THEN GRABS IT AND FIRES, SPIKING CRIME RECENTLY PROMPTED THE GOVERNOR TO DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD ON THE SUBWAY. >> IT’S WHY WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST GUNS. THAT’S WHY THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO TAKE GUNS OFF THE STREET AND HAS HAD SOME SUCCESS. THAT’S WHY THE GOVERNOR IS FIGHTING THESE CRAZIES WHO SAY GUNS SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE CARRIED EVERYWHERE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE, GET RID OF THE GUNS. >> THE MAN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER WAS ARRESTED. >> A SPECIAL

MARINES RESPONSE UNIT HAS NOW ARRIVED IN HAITI TO HELP WITH AN INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT MISSION OF EVACUATING AMERICANS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IS NOT ALLOWING USE OF ITS HELIPAD BECAUSE STREET GANGS ARE FIRING AT INCOMING FLIGHTS. HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS ARE BELIEVED TO BE IN HAITI, WHICH IS IN CHAOS WITH NO PLAN YET TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. >> THERE ARE NEW QUESTIONS THIS MORNING ABOUT WHETHER TIKTOK COULD BE BANNED HERE IN THE US. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE ALREADY COMING FORWARD. ABC’S EM NGUYEN IS HERE NOW WITH THE LATEST M. GOOD MORNING RHIANNON. >> GOOD MORNING. YEAH. THE FATE

OF TIKTOK HERE IN THE U.S. REMAINS UNCLEAR, BUT SOME WEALTHY AMERICANS ARE STANDING BY HOPING FOR A CHANCE TO BUY IT. TWO DAYS AFTER THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT COULD BAN TIKTOK IN THE U.S. UNLESS ITS CHINESE OWNERS SELL THE APP, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS, AND I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY TIKTOK, FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS AMONG THOSE GATHERING INVESTORS INTERESTED IN THE VIDEO SHARING PLATFORM, WHICH ANALYSTS SAY COULD FETCH A PRICE OF MORE THAN $100 BILLION. >> IF THIS ORDER GOES THROUGH, IT’S

GOT TO BE SOLD. >> I’M GOING TO PUT UP MY HAND AND SAY, I’LL BUY IT, SHARK TANK’S KEVIN O’LEARY ALSO THROWING HIS HAT IN THE RING, BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN, CHIEF AMONG THEM WILL THE SENATE EVEN TAKE UP THE HOUSE BILL? >> WHILE SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES AGREE THAT TIKTOK POSES A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN BECAUSE OF ITS CHINESE OWNER, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER HAS NOT YET INDICATED WHETHER HE’LL TAKE UP THE BILL. TIKTOK CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY. >> I HAVEN’T HEARD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE DONE THAT’S WRONG, HE INSISTS.

>> TIKTOK KEEPS AMERICANS DATA ON SERVERS IN THE U.S, AND SAYS THE BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE WILL HURT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LIVING ON THE APP. >> JUST PASSING THE LAW. THIS IS A BAN ON OUR APP IN THIS COUNTRY. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS WHO USE OUR APP. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES. >> EVEN IF THE SENATE PASSES THE BILL AND PRESIDENT BIDEN FOLLOWS THROUGH ON HIS PLEDGE TO SIGN IT , ANALYSTS SAY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD STILL NEED TO APPROVE THE SALE AND WOULD LIKELY WITHHOLD

MUCH OF THE APPS UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY. IF THERE IS AN EVENTUAL SALE. ANALYSTS SAY THE LIST OF POTENTIAL BUYERS WOULD BE SMALL. MAJOR TECH COMPANIES WOULD LIKELY NOT BE INVOLVED DUE TO ANTITRUST CONCERNS. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT. I’M THANK YOU. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER HAS STUNNED WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL WITH A BLISTERING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, CALLING HIM AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. SCHUMER IS CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL. HE IS THE HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. REPUBLICANS HAVE CRITICIZED HIS REMARKS. >> MEANWHILE, IN GAZA, OFFICIALS CLAIM 20 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHILE WAITING

FOR FOOD IN GAZA CITY. ISRAELI OFFICIALS DENY LAUNCHING AN ATTACK THERE. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FOR A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU ABOUT CARS TRACKING OUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR, POTENTIALLY LEADING TO HIGHER INSURANCE RATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES FIRST REPORTED THAT GENERAL MOTORS ONSTAR SERVICE WAS RECORDING SOME DRIVERS BEHAVIORS, INCLUDING SPEEDS AND HARD BRAKING, AND THEN SENDING THAT DATA TO A CLEARINGHOUSE THAT WORKS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES. WELL, NOW A FLORIDA MAN IS SUING, CLAIMING VIOLATIONS OF CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS, BUT GM SAYS THAT SYSTEM CAN BE TURNED OFF. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD

MORNING. THE LAST OF THE SNOW WRAPPING UP IN DENVER LOOKING AT A FOOT OF SNOW DOWNTOWN. IT’S BEEN IMPRESSIVE THERE, BUT THERE’S SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE SOUTH TODAY AND THAT INCLUDES THE THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE PLOWING THEIR WAY ON SOUTH AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOWARDS THE I-10 CORRIDOR IN THE GULF COAST. IT WILL BE A PRETTY ACTIVE SETUP INTO THE NIGHT, AND THEN IT STAYS WET INTO THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE SOUTH, WHILE THE COOL AIR WORKS INTO THE NORTHEAST FOR THE WEEKEND. FOR ACCUWEATHER, I’M MELISSA

CONSTANZA. >> COMING UP, A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR AIR FRYER. >> ALSO AHEAD, WHAT WE’VE NOW LEARNED ABOUT THAT PLANE THAT TOOK A NOSEDIVE IN MIDAIR, INJURING 50 PEOPLE. >> AND A NEW TWIST IN THE SEARCH FOR MISSING COLLEGE STUDENT. A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike

and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii Charleston, South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland. Let’s go traveling with the president in Mexico City, wherever the story from the front lines from Southern Israel outside the Gaza Strip in Beirut from the FBI here at 10 Downing Street in London streaming live to you wherever the story is wherever the story is where Over the story is we’re going to take you there who are streaming ABC News

live ABC News live your streaming ABC News live ABC news live streaming free everywhere America’s number one streaming news. It’s lunchtime in America. So what are we serving up? Well, how about everything you need to know? You know, that sounds pretty good. Give your help your money. Breaking news pop culture with the biggest Stars music Trends, and of course, good food three. What you need to know a third hour of GMA in the afternoon. So, join us afternoon for everything you need to know. I love that. So Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne celebrity

attorney hum Girardi. This story was a nuclear explosion today several victims will get a chance to finally meet Eric majority and at sort of a loss for what to say. Did you see the documentary the house wife and husband? I did I wanted Erica to say I’m sorry face-to-face Erica. Why’d it te you so long? the housewife and the Hustler two on Hulu Reporting from the 2024 campaign Trail. I’m even Pilgrim wherever the story is will take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. ROOM. >> 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> BACK NOW WITH A POSSIBLE

EXPLANATION FOR THIS WEEK’S TERRIFYING MID-AIR PLUNGE OF A BOEING JET OVER AUSTRALIA. 50 PEOPLE WERE INJURED ON THIS LATAM AIRLINES FLIGHT, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCIDENTALLY HIT A SWITCH ON THE PILOT’S SEAT, PUSHING THE PILOT FORWARD AND INTO THE CONTROLS, FORCING THE PLANE’S NOSE TO DROP. WE TURN NOW TO A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO’S BEEN MISSING NOW FOR NEARLY A WEEK IN NASHVILLE. >> HE WAS LAST SEEN AT A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, AUTHORITIES IN NASHVILLE ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER A COLLEGE SENIOR WHO

WENT MISSING AFTER A NIGHT OUT DRINKING WAS OVERSERVED AT A LOCAL BAR. 22 YEAR OLD RILEY STRAIN WAS LAST SEEN BY FRIENDS LAST FRIDAY AT LUKE’S 32 BRIDGE, A BAR OWNED BY COUNTRY SINGER LUKE BRYAN. SECURITY VIDEO FROM AROUND 10 P.M. SHOWS STRAIN STUMBLING DOWN THE STREET AND FALLING. HE GOT BACK UP AND CONTINUED WALKING, VISIBLY UNSTEADY. STRAIN WAS ON A TRIP WITH HIS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FRATERNITY BROTHERS. >> WHO IS IT THAT YOU’RE WANTING TO REPORT HIS MISSING? WE’RE HERE ON A FRATERNITY FORMAL TRIP. IT’S ONE OF MY GOOD BUDDIES. >> ONE OF STRAIN’S

FRIENDS CALLED 911, SAYING HE HAD LOST SIGHT OF HIM RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAR. THE TENNESSEE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS NOW LOOKING INTO WHETHER BARTENDERS BROKE THE LAW, WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO SERVE ALCOHOL TO SOMEONE WHO IS VISIBLY INTOXICATED. BUT I GOT A BEER IN MY HAND. BRYAN NOW SPEAKING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTING Y’ALL, THIS IS SCARY. PRAYING FOR HIS SAFE RETURN. AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR NEARLY A WEEK WITHOUT FINDING ANY TRACE OF STRAIN, EVEN DEPLOYING BOATS TO SEARCH WATERWAYS. HIS FAMILY, DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS, IS ASKING WHY NO

ONE INTERVENED. >> WHY DIDN’T SOMEBODY HELP? I MEAN, WE SAW CARS DRIVE BY, STOP BESIDE. >> THEY’RE ALSO HOPING LUKE BRYAN CAN HELP. >> IT WAS ONE OF THE GUYS RILEY KIND OF LOOKED UP TO. SO WE WOULD LOVE IF HE COULD HELP US GET VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WHAT WENT ON INSIDE THAT BAR AND RIGHT OUTSIDE OF IT. SO, LUKE, HELP US, PLEASE. PLEASE. >> BRYAN SAYS HIS BAR IS COOPERATING AND WILL PROVIDE POLICE WITH VIDEO FROM INSIDE THE BAR. POLICE SAY STRAINS PHONE WAS OFF. HIS FAMILY SAYS IT WAS LAST TRACKED TO A LOCATION

LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE BAR. RHIANNON LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE. A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR KITCHEN APPLIANCE TO UPDATE YOU ON BEST BUY NOW RECALLING AIR FRYERS AND AIR FRYER OVENS FROM THE INSIGNIA BRAND. THE COMPANY SAYS THEY CAN OVERHEAT, CAUSING HANDLES TO BREAK AND GLASS DOORS TO SHATTER. THE RECALL AFFECTS ABOUT 187,000 DEVICES. OUR WEBSITE HAS THE COMPLETE LIST. >> COMING UP, THERE’S A NEW CLAIM FROM ALEC BALDWIN CONCERNING THAT DEADLY SHOOTING ON HIS MOVIE SET. >> PLUS, A WILD SCENE AS BEES INVADE A

TENNIS TOURNAMENT, FORCING PLAY TO Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii Charleston, South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland. Let’s go traveling with the president in Mexico City,

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MAY HAVE BEEN SCARED OF A LADY WITH PIGEONS AT FIRST, THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON TIKTOK SURE DO LOVE THIS BROOKLYNITE AND HER PURSE PAL NAMED PIDGE. >> SHE’S SORT OF A BLEND OF A CAT AND A DOG, BUT SHE’S WEIRDER AND SHE FLIES. SHE DOES, LIKE UNDER HER CHIN SOMETIMES, LIKE, YEAH, ABBY HERE FIRST MET PIDGE THIS PAST SUMMER WHEN SHE SAW BABY PIDGE ALL ALONE ON THE STREET, AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A LOCAL WILDLIFE RESCUE. >> THEY SAID SHE WAS DEFINITELY TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT OF THE NEST, AND THAT ABBY COULD BRING HER

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IT’S BRAD. AND WE’VE GOT A SPECIAL EPISODE OF START HERE FOR YOU TODAY. >> IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO THIS WEEK THAT A VIRUS EFFECTIVELY SHUT DOWN THE WORLD. A PANDEMIC HAD JUST BEEN DECLARED AND QUICKLY WE HAD TO MARSHAL EVERY PUBLIC HEALTH TOOL WE HAD AT OUR DISPOSAL THAT WE DEVELOPED FOR DECADES TALKING ABOUT VACCINE TECHNOLOGY, GENETIC SEQUENCING. THINK ABOUT HOW QUICKLY TESTS BECAME AVAILABLE AND ALL THIS WAS POSSIBLE BECAUSE FOR YEARS, SCIENTISTS HAD BEEN WARNING US HOW DEVASTATING A PANDEMIC COULD BE. WELL, RECENTLY, ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES APPROACHED ME ASKING, WHAT HAPPENS IF

THE NEXT INFECTIOUS DISEASE THREAT ISN’T A VIRUS AT ALL? TODAY, WE’RE DIVING DEEP, LITERALLY DEEP INTO THE EARTH TO LEARN ABOUT THIS EMERGING HEALTH THREAT. YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT FUNGUS. THAT’S RIGHT. THE STUFF THAT GROWS ON THE FOREST FLOOR OR THE THING THAT CAUSED YOUR ATHLETE’S FOOT. EVEN THE STUFF OF SCI FI. THE THING BEHIND THE ZBIE APOCALYPSE IN HBO IS THE LAST OF US. I TOOK DON’T LOOK BACK. THAT ZOMBIE FUNGUS DEPICTED IN THE SHOW IS BASED ON A REAL FUNGUS THAT INFECTS ANTS. GOOD NEWS DOESN’T INFECT PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE

OTHER FUNGAL INFECTIONS THAT KILL AN ESTIMATED 2 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ANNUALLY. WE’VE SEEN DEVASTATING CASES POP UP OVER JUST THE LAST FEW YEARS. >> FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE ON ALERT AFTER A JUMP IN CASES OF A DRUG RESISTANT FUNGUS. >> HEALTH OFFICIALS, THEY’RE INVESTIGATING NEARLY 100 SUSPECTED CASES. THIS IS A FUNGAL INFECTION LINKED TO A PAPER MILL IN MICHIGAN. A WARNING FROM THE CDC ABOUT TRAVELING TO MEXICO FOR PLASTIC SURGERY. SOME PEOPLE REPORTEDLY COMING BACK TO THE U.S. WITH A POTENTIALLY DEADLY FUNGAL INFECTION. >> THE SCARY PART OF THIS IS THE THREAT IS

GETTING WORSE. CLIMATE CHANGE, WARMING, TEMPERATURES MEAN THAT THIS INVASION IS GROWING EVER MORE REAL. TREATMENT OPTIONS ARE STILL LIMITED. SO TODAY WE SPEND OUR WHOLE SHOW ON THIS. SONY SALZMAN FROM ABC’S MEDICAL UNIT HAS BEEN REPORTING THIS OUT FOR MONTHS, TALKING TO SURVIVORS WHO HAVE BEEN INFECTED ALONG WITH EXPERTS ON THE FRONT LINES. WE’RE UNRAVELING MEDICAL MYSTERIES. >> AND SO HE’S GOING TO TAKE IT FROM HERE. ONE OF THE HOTBEDS OF FUNGAL INFECTION IN THE UNITED STATES MIGHT SURPRISE YOU. IT’S IN THE DRY DESERTS OF ARIZONA. >> HI. MY NAME’S ALISON KARSH MARSH. I LIVE

IN CHIEF FUN GUY, ARIZONA. I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF AS A MOM. >> ALLISON MOVED TO ARIZONA FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., WITH HER HUSBAND AND TWO KIDS A FEW YEARS AGO. IT WAS ENERGY STATEMENT. >> IT WAS A IT WAS A REAL SHOCK. MOVING TO THE DESERT AND IT WAS LIKE EVERYTHING WAS DRY. HE’S PRICKLY. WHERE ARE THE TREES? AND PARTICULARLY AS A MOM OF YOUNG KIDS, I FELT LIKE I HAD THIS FEELING FOR THE FIRST YEAR HERE. LIKE OUR ENVIRONMENT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH. >> BUT ALLISON EVENTUALLY GREW TO LOVE THE OUTDOORS IN ARIZONA, TOO. SHE

SPENT A LOT OF TIME HIKING WITH HER KIDS AND HER DOG. >> SHE’S ALSO INTO GARDENING. IN 2022, SHE STARTED GROWING NATIVE PLANTS IN HER DESERT YARD. >> BUT THERE’S A NICE, DUSTY. >> I SPENT MAYBE LATE FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL DIGGING A TON OF HOLES IN THE DIRT AND DIGGING, MOVING DIRT, JUST CONSTANTLY DOING ALL THIS LANDSCAPING. >> AND I REMEMBER AT SOME POINT IN APRIL, ABOUT ONCE A WEEK, I’LL TAKE MY DOG FOR A HIKE. AND I MADE IT BETWEEN FIVE AND 10 MINUTES. AND I WAS LIKE, I JUST KEEP DO THIS TODAY. >>

I JUST CAN’T KEEP WALKING. >> I REMEMBER WALKING A FEW MILES AND JUST BEING CONFUSED IS BECAUSE IT’S FLAT GROUND. IT’S NOT CHALLENGING. AND I COULDN’T EVEN PUT MY FINGER ON WHY I FELT LIKE I COULDN’T DO IT, BUT I JUST TURNED AROUND AND CAME HOME. >> ALISON CLIMBED INTO BED AND SHE COULD HARDLY GET OUT AGAIN FOR WEEKS. >> SHE WENT TO THE DOCTOR. IT WASN’T COVID. THEY PUT HER ON ANTIBIOTICS. THOSE DIDN’T HELP. NEITHER DID STEROIDS. SHE WAS SLEEPING 18 HOURS A DAY. THEN ALISON DEVELOPED A PAINFUL RASH ON HER LEGS. SHE WAS

EVENTUALLY DIAGNOSED WITH A RESPIRATORY DISEASE CALLED VALLEY FEVER, CAUSED BY A FUNGUS CALLED COCCIDIOIDES . SCIENTISTS CALL IT COCCI FOR SHORTER VALLEY FEVER. WASN’T SOMETHING ALISON HAD HEARD OF BEFORE SHE MOVED TO ARIZONA. AND IT CAN BE HARD TO DIAGNOSE. THE SYMPTOMS OFTEN LOOK LIKE PNEUMONIA. IN FACT, DOCTORS SAY AROUND A THIRD OF WHAT LOOK LIKE PNEUMONIA CASES IN THE TUCSON AND PHOENIX AREAS ARE ACTUALLY CASES OF VALLEY FEVER. FOR ALLISON ALL THE DIRT SHE’D BEEN HAULING AROUND TO BUILD HER GARDEN, IT MIGHT HAVE KICKED UP SPORES OF COCCI. JOHN GALGIANI IS ALLISON’S DOCTOR, AND

HE’S ONE OF THE LEADING EXPERTS ON VALLEY FEVER. >> IF YOU INHALE ONE OF THESE SPORES, IT GETS INTO YOUR LUNGS AND THAT STARTS AN INFECTION. AND THAT CAN HAPPEN WHETHER YOU’RE OUT DIRT BIKING OR DOING THINGS, KICKING UP A LOT OF DUST OR, IN FACT, JUST LIVING IN THE AREA WHERE THIS FUNGUS LIVES. ALSO, BECAUSE THE SPORES REALLY DO TRAVEL AROUND. >> JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE VALLEY IN VALLEY FEVER REFERS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA IN THE 1930S. >> THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED CASE AFTER CASE OF THIS UNIQUE SET OF SYMPTOMS CONNECTED

WITH COCCI. BUT THE VALLEY NAME IS A BIT OF A MISNOMER BECAUSE TWO THIRDS OF ALL VALLEY FEVER INFECTIONS WE KNOW ABOUT IN THE U.S. OCCUR IN ARIZONA WITH 50% OF ALL U.S. INFECTIONS IN PHOENIX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS LIVING ON EARTH, PEOPLE OFTEN THINK OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND SOMETIMES BACTERIA. BUT FUNGI ARE, THEIR OWN DIVERSE KINGDOM OF ORGANISMS FROM THE MUSHROOM YOU EAT TO TINY SPORES YOU CAN’T SEE WITH YOUR NAKED EYE. FUNGI ARE DECOMPOSERS. THEY EAT ROTTING MATTER AND MAKE WAY FOR NEW LIFE. >> BUT

THEY CAN ALSO OPPORTUNIST MAKING A HOME IN LIVING CREATURES. TRY IT WITH ME. TAKE A DEEP BREATH RIGHT NOW, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, YOU MAY BE INHALING DOZENS. >> MAYBE EVEN HUNDREDS OF FUNGAL SPORES. MOST LIKELY, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. THE VAST MAJORITY ARE HARMLESS ,BUT DEPENDING ON HOW MANY YOU INHALE AND THE SPECIES OF FUNGI LIVING IN YOUR AREA, YOU MIGHT GET SICK. THE SPORES THAT CAUSE VALLEY FEVER, FOR EXAMPLE, START OFF TINY. BUT ONCE INSIDE YOUR LUNGS, THEY TRANSFORM INTO A LARGER SPHERE LIKE ORGANISM. THOSE SPHERES EVENTUALLY BURST OPEN, SPEWING

HUNDREDS OF SPORES AND SPREADING THE INFECTION FURTHER. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM KICKS IN, FIGHTING BACK AND PUTTING THOSE SPORES TO SLEEP. PEOPLE WITH VALLEY FEVER WILL LIVE WITH THOSE SPORES INSIDE OF THEM IN HIBERNATION MODE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT CAN TAKE MONTHS BEFORE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN BEAT BACK THE INFECTION. AND FOR ALLISON, MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER SHE WAS FEELING THOSE SYMPTOMS, PHYSICAL EXERTION WAS STILL HARD FOR HER. >> THE CLOSEST THING THAT YOU CAN COMPARE IT TO IS HAVING A NEWBORN BABY WHERE IT’S LIKE ,THAT’S FATIGUE, THAT

YOU’RE SO TIRED THAT YOUR BRAIN JUST WANTS TO PUT YOU. YOU WANT POWER DOWN. IT’S LIKE IF HAD TO DO SOMETHING PHYSICAL RIGHT NOW TO KEEP US ALIVE, WE MIGHT NOT STAY. >> LIKE, IT’S REAL FATIGUE. AND I WOULD GET IN BED AND IN 90 SECONDS I’M UNCONSCIOUS. AND THEN MAYBE I WAKE UP AT 830 AND I CAN GET A FEW THINGS DONE UNTIL TEN. BUT EVEN EARLY OCTOBER, A FULL DAY, IT WAS LIKE BY 630, THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE. >> ALLISON GET BETTER. BUT NOT EVERYONE RECOVERS ON THEIR OWN. >> DR. GALGIANI

SAYS A SMALL PERCENTAGE SEE THE INFECTION TRAVELED BEYOND THE LUNGS. >> OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IT GO THROUGH THE BLOODSTREAM FROM THE LUNGS WERE ORIGINALLY STARTED TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY, LIKE BONES, LIKE SKIN LESIONS ABSCESSES. IT LITERALLY CAN GO ANYPLACE IN THE BODY, EVEN THE BRAIN. >> MENINGITIS IS THE WORST BECAUSE IT’S UNIFORMLY FATAL IF IT’S UNTREATED. >> YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD OF MENINGITIS BEFORE. IT’S THAT NASTY DISEASE THAT INVOLVES THE SWELLING OF THE MEMBRANES SURROUNDING THE BRAIN. IT CAN BE CAUSED BY A RANGE OF INFECTIONS SUCH AS BACTERIA AND VIRUSES OR A FUNGUS. AND

MENINGITIS CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. >> SO IF YOU GET MENINGITIS, YOU NEED TO BE DIAGNOSED CORRECTLY AND THEN TREATED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE OR THE DRUGS YOU HAVE AVAILABLE. SO IT’S A LONG TERM THING. >> IN EXTREME CASES, SOME PATIENTS NEED A PORT DRILLED INTO THE SKULL OR SPINE THAT CAN DELIVER MEDICINE DIRECTLY. AND IT’S RARE. >> BUT AS DR. GALGIANI SAYS, PEOPLE CAN DIE FIGHTING A FUNGAL INFECTION. >> JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE TROUBLE IS, PHYSICIANS IN ARIZONA AREN’T TESTING ENOUGH FOR VALLEY FEVER. THEY AREN’T TRAINED TO DETECT IT. AND THE TESTS THEMSELVES

CAN GIVE FALSE NEGATIVES. FOR ALLISON, WHO DID HAVE A FALSE NEGATIVE, THE DELAYING DIAGNOSIS MEANT IT WAS TOO LATE TO TAKE AN ANTIFUNGAL MEDICINE. >> GLOBALLY, FUNGI ARE CONSIDERED THE FORGOTTEN DISEASE. EVEN THOUGH THESE INFECTIONS KILL MORE PEOPLE, A THAN TUBERCULOSIS OR MALARIA, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THIS IS ALL GETTING WORSE AND THAT WE DON’T HAVE OUR ON THE BALL. >> THE MAIN FUNGUS EXPERT AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION HERE IN THE U.S. TRYING TO TRACK THESE THINGS IS DR. TOM CHILLER. >> I OFTEN CALL MYSELF A FUNGAL DOCTOR OR THE

CHIEF FUNGI AT CDC. >> CHILLER THE FUNGI THAT HE IS HEADS THE MICHAEL CRAIG DISEASES BRANCH AT THE CDC. >> SO I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO NOTE THAT, YEAH, WE NEED TO CONSIDER FUNGI IN ANY TYPE OF MILIEU WHERE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT INFECTIOUS DISEASES. THEY ARE THERE. THEY ARE HERE TO STAY. THEY ARE SMART. THEY ARE HARD TO TREAT. WE HAVE VERY LIMITED TREATMENT OPTIONS RIGHT NOW. >> SCHILLER ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3 TO 5 MILLION FUNGAL SPECIES EXIST, BUT HE SAYS ONLY ABOUT 120,000 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. >> AND OF THOSE, ONLY A FEW HUNDRED

CAUSE HUMAN DISEASE. THOSE ARE THE ONES HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT. HE’S WORKED ON THE MOST FUNGAL PRIORITY PATHOGENS LIST. THERE’S ASPERGILLUS, WHICH IS IN THE AIR WE BREATHE. THAT’S FINE FOR MOST PEOPLE, BUT IF YOU’RE IMMUNE COMPROMISED, IT CAN MAKE YOU SERIOUSLY ILL. THERE’S CRYPTOCOCCUS S THAT ATTACKS THE LUNGS OF PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED HIV. THERE’S CANDIDA AURIS, A YEAST WHICH STALKS SICK PEOPLE IN HOSPITALS, AND A NEW SPECIES OF CANDIDA BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2015. >> WHAT REALLY TURNED THE NOZZLE ON HIGH FOR US IS WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO COLLEAGUES IN ENGLAND, IN LONDON,

AND THEY WERE HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THIS ORGANISM IN A CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL, AND IT CAUSED THEM TO ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN THE UNIT TO BE ABLE TO TRY TO CLEAN UP THE HOSPITAL. >> THE BRITISH HOSPITAL HAD TO USE BLEACH TO KILL THE FUNGUS, WHICH IS PRETTY HARSH ON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. BUT EVEN WORSE, CHILLER SAYS, THE FUNGUS WAS EVOLVING TO RESIST TREATMENT AND STARTED SPREADING QUICKLY. >> AND THIS REALLY CAME OUT OF NOWHERE. YOU KNOW, ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, WE HAD NO IDEA, NO PRECEDENT FOR THIS IN THE FUNGAL WORLD. >> AND NOW IT’S IN PROBABLY

OVER 50 COUNTRIES AND IN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE REPORTED AT LEAST ONE CASE. IT’S DEFINITELY SPREADING. IT’S NOT GOING AWAY. >> IT’S HERE TO STAY. CHILLER SAYS HISTORICALLY, WE HAVEN’T WORRIED ABOUT FUNGI BECAUSE, FRANKLY, OUR BODIES ARE TOO HOT FOR THEM TO THRIVE. >> BUT TWIN CRISES ARE CONVERGING. >> CHANGE ALL OF THAT. ONE, WE’RE LIVING LONGER BUT SICKER WITH A HIGHER PREVALENCE OF THINGS LIKE OBESITY, DIABETES AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES AND MORE MODERN MARVELS LIKE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY. THOSE THINGS SAVE LIVES, BUT MAKE US MORE VULNERABLE AND BETTER HOSTS FOR THE FUNGI

TO THRIVE. SECOND, THE PLANET IS WARMING AND BOOM, THAT IS DOUBLE JEOPARDY. AS THE PLANET WARMS, IT BECOMES A COZIER HOME FOR FUNGI TO THRIVE. FARMERS HAVE TO USE MORE ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS TO PROTECT THEIR CROPS. NATURAL DISASTERS CREATE MOIST, UNTAMED CONDITIONS FOR FUNGI TO GROW AND POTENTIALLY INFECT VICTIMS THROUGH INJURIES AND FRESH. ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE, IF FUNGI CONTINUE TO EVOLVE IN AN INCREASINGLY WARMING WORLD, THEY COULD BECOME EVEN MORE ADEPT AT THRIVING IN OUR 98.6 DEGREE BODIES. >> SO OUR BIG PUSH IS TO SAY, LOOK, THESE AREN’T THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES VISAS. THEY AREN’T

THE LOWEST PRIORITY EITHER, BUT THEY’RE HERE TO STAY. WE NEED BETTER TOOLS TO DIAGNOSE THEM AND TO TREAT THEM. >> RIGHT NOW, THERE AREN’T ANY VACCINES TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM FUNGAL INFECTIONS. BUT GOOD NEWS THERE MIGHT BE A SOLUTION ON THE HORIZON, AT LEAST FOR VALLEY FEVER. AND THE ANSWER, AS STRANGE AS IT MIGHT SEEM, INVOLVES A RETIRED NFL TIGHT END AND HIS FRENCH BULLDOG. I’M OBSESSED WITH FRENCH BULLDOGS. SO I SAID, IF I WIN THE SUPER BOWL, I’M GOING TO GET THE FRENCH. >> I PROMISE. IT ALL CONNECTS. MORE AFTER THE BREAK. >> WITH

SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST IN U.S. NEWS. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. INSIDE THAT ROOM IS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAINS. I’VE NEVER SEEN A PLACE LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE. WOW. >> RIGHT NOW, THERE’S JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD, SO MUCH AT STAKE AT THE START OF EVERY MORNING. AND THAT’S WHY. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. WE’RE RIGHT HERE. AND WE GOT. WE GOT. WE GOT YOU. AND YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE

STREAMING NEWS. >> MY REPORTING, BREAKING NEW EXCLUSIVES TO STREAM WITH NBC NEWS. >> WE’VE TOLD YOU VALLEY FEVER IS A BIG PROBLEM FOR HUMANS, BUT ALSO RUNS RAMPANT IN DOGS IN ARIZONA TO AN ESTIMATED 6 TO 10% OF DOGS LIVING IN MAJOR COUNTIES IN ARIZONA GET VALLEY FEVER EVERY YEAR. >> JOHN GALGIANI ALISON KARSH IS DOCTOR SAYS IT’S 3 TO 4 TIMES MORE PREVALENT IN DOGS THAN IN PEOPLE. >> AND DR. GALGIANI POINTS OUT THAT EVEN THOUGH DOGS DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR SYMPTOMS LIKE HUMAN PATIENTS DO, IT’S CLEAR THAT THEY DO SUFFER . >> THEY

OFTEN HAVE COUGHS AND OFTEN THEY HAVE LUNG SYMPTOMS AND THEY’RE WHEEZING A LITTLE BIT. THE INFECTION GOES OUT OF THE LUNGS MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF WHAT IS DIAGNOSED IN CLINICAL PRACTICES. AND SO THEY HAVE SYMPTOMS OF PAIN AND SWELLING OUTSIDE OF THE CHEST OR THEY GET WEIGHT LOSS. AND THIS FIELD, AS IN WALK AROUND AND LIVE AND CAN’T MOVE. >> TREATMENT CAN BE REALLY EXPENSIVE FOR PET OWNERS. >> RESEARCHERS ESTIMATE THAT ARIZONA DOG OWNERS SPEND AT LEAST $60 MILLION A YEAR TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT AND CARE FOR THEIR WITH VALLEY FEVER. >>

ABOUT A QUARTER OF CASES INVOLVING DOGS GET QUITE BAD. SOME DON’T MAKE IT THROUGH. >> THEY DIE FIGHTING THE DISEASE OR THEIR OWNERS ARE UNABLE TO PAY FOR TREATMENT AND WIND UP HAVING TO PUT THEIR DOGS TO SLEEP. SO, UNDERSTANDABLY, FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, THIS FUNGUS IS NOT SOMETHING THEY WANT THEIR DOG TO MESS WITH. >> ONE OF THOSE CONCERNED DOG OWNERS IS ROB GRONKOWSKI. >> ROBBY, WHAT WE DO AND WE MADE IT RALPHIE. >> THAT’S ROB WITH HIS FRENCH BULLDOG RALPHIE. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF GRONKOWSKI OR GRONK. HE PLAYED 11 SEASONS IN

THE NFL. >> DEEP DROP BRADY DEEP BALL LOOKING FOR GRONKOWSKI HE’S GOT IT. FIRST FOR THE PATRIOTS, THEN FOR THE BUCCANEERS. BRADY KEEPS ENDS UP WIDE OPEN TOUCHDOWN GRONKOWSKI AND HE ADORES HIS FRENCHY. >> I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED A FRENCH BULLDOG. I’M OBSESSED WITH FRENCH BALL DOGS. ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FRENCH BULLDOGS AND EVERY TIME I WENT TO THEIR HOUSE, THE FRENCH BULLDOG AND WE ALWAYS CONNECTED . THEY ALWAYS SLEPT ON MY SHOULDER WHEN WE WERE GOING TO BED AT NIGHT. I’M LIKE, I GOT TO GET ONE OF THESE. SO I SAID, IF I WIN

THE SUPER BOWL. WHEN I WENT DOWN TO TAMPA BAY MY FIRST YEAR, I’M GOING TO GET THE FRONT YARD. AND WHAT HAPPENED? WE WON THE SUPER BOWL. TWO WEEKS LATER, I WENT AND GOT MY FIRST FRENCH BULLDOG EVER. AND THE GUY IS MY BEST FRIEND TO THIS DAY, GRONK IS MORE FAMILIAR WITH VALLEY FEVER THAN YOUR AVERAGE PERSON. HE’S HAD FRIENDS GET SICK FROM IT, STARTING WITH A TEAMMATE BACK IN COLLEGE WHEN HE PLAYED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. >> I REMEMBER HE WAS VERY, VERY SICK. AND AT THAT TIME WHEN YOU’RE IN COLLEGE, YOU

HEAR ABOUT A DISEASE AND YOU’RE JUST A KID. YOU KNOW, I’M AN 18-YEAR-OLD, 19-YEAR-OLD KID. I’M JUST LIKE, OH, MY FRIENDS, VERY SICK. YOU KNOW, HE’S GOT VALLEY FEVER. IT DOESN’T REALLY CLICK WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS TO ME. THAT TEAMMATE ULTIMATELY OVERCAME HIS INFECTION, BUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, ANOTHER ONE OF GRONK’S FORMER UVA TEAMMATES DIED FROM THE DISEASE. STERLING LEWIS, A LINEBACKER WHO USED TO LEAD THE WILDCATS IN TACKLES, WAS ONLY 32 YEARS OLD. >> I WAS VERY SAD ABOUT STERLING LEWIS. HE WAS A GREAT KID. HE WAS A HARD WORKER. HE MADE

ME A BETTER PLAYER. HE MADE ME A BETTER PERSON OUT THERE. I MEAN, I REMEMBER TO THIS DAY THE CONVERSATION WE HAD WHEN WE WERE BOTH LEAVING COLLEGE. HE GOES, YO, ROB, GOING TO MAKE THE PROS? TELL THEM YOU’RE NOT SIGNING UNLESS UNLESS IF I COME WITH YOU. >> AND THEN I SAW HIM AGAIN ONCE WHEN I WAS IN THE PROS. HE’S LIKE, YO, YOU FORGOT TO TAKE ME WITH YOU. AND WE JUST STARTED LAUGHING BECAUSE HE’S A GREAT KID. >> HE HAD A GREAT PERSONALITY. THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. STERLING’S DEATH FROM VALLEY FEVER

IN 2020 CAME AS A BIG SURPRISE TO GRONKOWSKI. >> IT JUST RAISED THAT MORE AWARENESS IN MY HEAD WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THAT SITUATION. SO IT WAS VERY, VERY SAD. YOU KNOW, HIS VERY YOUNG HE WAS A GREAT KID. HE DID A LOT OF GOOD HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. AND HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE, THINGS LIKE THAT BE PREVENTATIVE. AND THERE’S NO SITUATIONS LIKE THAT. >> IT’S PROBABLY NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT TWO OF GRONK’S FOOTBALL TEAMMATES ENCOUNTER AND GET SICK FROM VALLEY FEVER. TOM CHILLER R CHIEF FUN GUY AT THE CDC SAYS HE WORKED

AT A VALLEY FEVER CLINIC AND SAW THE MOST DEVASTATING CASES LIKE VALLEY FEVER, MENINGITIS. AND HE SAW THOSE CASES IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS THINK ABOUT THESE GUYS ARE IN THE DIRT. >> SOME OF THE MOST YOU KNOW, HIGHLY CONTAMINATED DIRT IN THE WORLD WITH THE FEVER. >> SO YEAH, I COULD SEE HOW A FOOTBALL PLAYER MIGHT BE AT AN OCCUPATIONAL RISK IF HE WAS PLAYING IN DIRT FOR SURE. >> BETWEEN BROCK’S EXPERIENCE AT U OF T AND WANTING TO PROTECT HIS DOG, RALPHIE. HE PUT HIS MIND AND HIS NFL DOLLARS TO HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF

VALLEY FEVER. HE’S BECOME AN INVESTOR IN A VALLEY FEVER VACCINE FOR DOGS. IT’S A PROJECT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AND A BIOTECH STARTUP CALLED ANIVIVE LIFE SCIENCES. A FRIEND INTRODUCED GRONK TO THE FOUNDER AND CEO, DYLAN BALSZ. >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY ARIZONA AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND SO FORTH, THE FAMILIES THAT ARE LOSING THEIR PETS THE MOST, THE VALLEY FEVER ARE LOWER INCOME FAMILIES. SO YOU ALREADY HAVE THIS DIFFICULT SITUATION. THEN YOUR DOG GETS DIAGNOSED. YOU CAN’T AFFORD THOUSAND BUCKS A YEAR TO TREAT IT. AND SO OUR WHOLE SORT OF MISSION IS HOW

DO WE BRING A $20 PREVENTATIVE VACCINE TO MARKET? ONE OF THE OTHER RESEARCHERS WORKING ON THE VACCINE IS JOHN GALGIANI ALISSON’S DOCTOR. >> THE IDEA THE VACCINE’S BEEN AROUND FOR 70 YEARS AND I’VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH MULTIPLE PROJECTS IN THE PAST SOME OF WHICH WENT TO CLINICAL TRIALS. BUT NOTHING HAS REALLY WORKED UNTIL RECENTLY. THE WAY THAT THE VACCINE WORKS IS THAT THERE’S A GENE IN THE VALLEY FEVER FUNGUS THAT’S CRITICAL TO ITS ABILITY TO CAUSE DISEASE. TAKE THAT GENE OUT. IT WON’T CAUSE SICKNESS. THE VACCINE IS THE FUNGUS WITHOUT THAT GENE. SO STUDIES SHOW

THAT IT’S SAFE AND PROTECTS AGAINST VALLEY FEVER IN THE TWO SPECIES OF ANIMALS IT’S BEEN TESTED ON, EVERYTHING. >> SHOWS THAT IT’S A VERY SPECIAL VACCINE. AND THAT MEANS IT’S NOW NOT JUST IN MICE, BUT IT’S ALSO IN. IN DOGS. >> IT’S PROTECTED. AND TO BE CLEAR, THIS VACCINE EVEN THOUGH IT’S ONLY MEANT FOR DOGS FOR NOW, IT WOULD BE GROUNDBREAKING. >> HERE’S DYLAN BALSZ AGAIN. IT WOULD BE THE FIRST PAN FUNGAL VACCINE FOR ANY SPECIES, HUMAN HEADS, ETC.. AND THIS WOULD OPEN THE DOOR TO CREATING VACCINES FOR. >> ANY NUMBER OF POTENTIAL FUNGI INFECTIONS

LIKE TAI HERNANDEZ. THEY WANT TO OPEN THE DOOR TO MORE ANTIFUNGAL VACCINES. VACCINES THAT WOULD WORK TO PROTECT PEOPLE TOO. BUT GETTING THOSE SHOTS INTO HUMAN ARMS IS GOING TO BE HARDER. FIRST OFF, THE IS TRICKY. IT’S TOUGH TO MAKE A MEDICINE OR A VACCINE THAT CAN FIGHT THE FUNGI BUT ISN’T TOXIC TO US . SECOND, DEVELOPING VACCINES FOR FUNGI IS EXPENSIVE REALLY EXPENSIVE. LABS HAVE TO GO THROUGH SUPER RIGOROUS SAFETY TESTING, WHICH MEANS THEY NEED A BIG PHARMA COMPANY THAT THINKS GOING TO MAKE A PROFIT. THAT CAN BE HARD MATH FOR THE PHARMA COMPANY

BECAUSE IDEALLY, IF A VACCINE WORKS GREAT, YOU ONLY NEED IT ONCE. GLOBALLY, FUNGAL INFECTIONS ARE SEEN AS MORE OF A PROBLEM IN POORER COUNTRIES WHERE GOVERNMENTS MIGHT NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PAY FOR A VACCINE. >> BUT SCIENTISTS HAVE HOPE THAT FUNGAL VACCINES WILL PAY OFF IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE PARADOXICALLY, THE SITUATION IS GETTING WORSE. MORE PEOPLE ARE GETTING INFECTED WITH FUNGI. JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE VALLEY FEVER VACCINE FOR ANIMALS COULD BE HERE SOON. THE DATA SHOW IT WORKS. IT’S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING USDA APPROVAL. BUT A HUMAN VACCINE TAKES YEARS LONGER. SCIENTISTS WILL

HAVE TO SHOW THE VACCINE IS AS SAFE IN PEOPLE AS IS IN DOGS, AND THEY NEED TO LEARN A LOT MORE ABOUT HOW IT WOULD WORK IN PEOPLE. >> BUT JOHN GALGIANI BELIEVES IT’S POSSIBLE. AN OPTIMIST. I THINK IF MONEY WAS NOT AN OBJECT, WE COULD HAVE THIS UNDER CONSIDERATION AT THE FDA WITHIN EIGHT YEARS, AND WE’RE WORKING ON THAT VERY HARD. BUT HOW FAST WE GET THIS DEPENDS REALLY ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE WANT THIS. FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AREAS THAT ARE AT RISK OF CATCHING VALLEY FEVER, THE WAIT FOR A VACCINE CAN FEEL

LONG. ALISON KARSH IN TUCSON WISHES IT HAD COME IN TIME FOR HER AND PREVENTED NINE MONTHS OF MISERY. >> BUT SHE AND HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ARE GRATEFUL THAT ALLISON FINALLY HER HEALTH BACK. >> YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. OKAY, SO NOT SO MUCH, BUT STILL A LOT. YEAH. YEAH. HOW DO YOU WISH I SLEPT LIKE. >> OH, ANYWAY, WHY NOT EVEN SLEEP AWAKE ALL THE TIME? >> AND EXCEPT FOR NIGHTTIME. YEAH. YEAH, I WOULD THAT TO BE FOR ALLISON. ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS ABOUT RECOVERY IS COMING TO TERMS WITH. THE FACT THAT WHAT MADE HER

SO SICK IS A FUNGUS. A FUNGUS? >> BACTERIA? WELL, WE HAVE ANTIBIOTICS, AND IT FEELS LIKE WE HAVE SOME CONTROL OR WAY TO RESPOND. >> AND VIRUSES, WHICH WE HAVE LEARNED IN RECENT YEARS, WE DO NOT HAVE THE CONTROL OVER IT THAT WE THINK, BUT WE HAVE VACCINES AND WE HAVE ANTIVIRALS. WE HAVE WAYS TO MEDIATE. WE FEEL AT LEAST THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL. IT’S NOT SOME CONTROL. >> I DON’T KNOW ABOUT FUNGUS. LIKE IF YOU TALKED TO A DOCTOR, THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO LIST OFF THINGS. BUT TO ME IT WAS LIKE THE FUNGI

IS THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN COMPARED TO US. THE FUNGUS WINS WINS. WE’RE INCREASINGLY LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE ORGANISMS RELATED TO THE MUSHROOMS. WE ARE GETTING US VERY SICK. MOST SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT OUR GREATEST INFECTIOUS THREAT IS FROM ANOTHER VIRUS LIKE COVID-19 CAPABLE OF CAUSING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. BUT EVEN IF FUNGI AREN’T THE HIGHEST PRIORITY PATHOGEN RIGHT NOW, THERE IS A REAL RISK THAT FUNGI WILL TAKE US BY SURPRISE AND WE WON’T HAVE ENOUGH VACCINES. TESTS TREATMENTS FOR AN INCREASINGLY URGENT THREAT. >> THAT WAS SO SALZMAN OF ABC’S MEDICAL UNIT. PHENOMENAL REPORTING, BY

THE WAY. SONY ASKED THE CDC CHIEF FUN GUY TOM CHILLER IF HE HAD EVER SEEN THE HBO THE LAST OF US, THE ONE ABOUT THE FUNGUS AND THE ZOMBIES. HE WAS LIKE, YEAH, OF COURSE. HE SAYS HE’S NOT WORRIED ABOUT ZOMBIE FUNGI EATING OUR BRAINS ANYTIME SOON. THAT’S GOOD. THIS SPECIAL EPISODE OF START HERE WAS REPORTED BY SONY SALZMAN AND NICOLE WETSMAN, PRODUCED BY VIKA ARONSON AND SASHA ASLANIAN WITH LOTS OF HELP FROM ERIC STRAUSS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR ABC’S MEDICAL UNIT. START HERE IS PRODUCED BY KELLY TEREZ JEN NEWMAN BRENDA SALINAS BAKER VIKA ARONSON CAMERON

CHERTAVIAN ANTHONY ALI MARWA MOUWAKI MADELINE WOOD. ARIELLE CHESTER IS OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER. JOSH COHAN DIRECTOR OF PODCAST PROGRAMMING. I’M OUR MANAGING EDITOR. LAWMAKERS ARE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. THANKS TO LAKEIA BROWN. JON NEWMAN TARA GIMBEL. LIZ ALESSE. SPECIAL THANKS THIS WEEK TO CHRIS BARRY ANDREW EVANS AND. AMIRA WILLIAMS. I’M BRAD MIELKE. I’M OFF TO START NEXT WEEK, BUT WE WILL HAVE ALL THE THE WEEKEND READY FOR YOU ON MONDAY. SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS, “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”

WITH DAVID MUIR. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING. THAT’S OFF TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT

BEEN SIGNED UP AND IS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAINS. I’VE NEVER SEEN A PLACE LIKE THIS IN MY. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH THE FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND. A REFUGEE CENTER IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL THE STRUCTURE CAT 4 STORM I FIVE IS IN THE POOL. >> LET’S ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS ON AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ON WITH THE GOOD BAD LUCK.

YEAH, IT’S BAD. >> A SOURCE OF THE SUN SHINES ON LITTLE BIT READ JUST A LITTLE BIT. RIGHT NOW ON AMERICA THIS MORNING. BREAKING NEWS. TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST, DESTROYING BUILDINGS. >> I WAS JUST SITTING THERE EATING SOME CHICKEN, AND I HEARD THAT FREIGHT TRAIN COMING. THAT’S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT REPORTED IN OHIO. >> SIGNIFICANT INJURIES IN INDIANA. THE IMAGES JUST IN. >> THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER FOUND GUILTY. JAMES CRUMBLEY, CONVICTED FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S DEADLY RAMPAGE. THE PRESIDENT THIS VERDICT COULD SET. AND WHAT

HAPPENS NEXT FOR CRUMBLEY AND HIS WIFE? >> SHOTS FIRED ON A CROWDED COMMUTER TRAIN. NEW YORK SUBWAY RIDERS HIDE FOR COVER AS A BRAWL ERUPTS INTO GUNFIRE. WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT THE SHOOTER AND THE FUTURE OF TIKTOK IN THE U.S. STILL UP IN THE AIR AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS A CRACKDOWN, THE POTENTIAL NEW BUYERS EMERGING, INCLUDING A SHARK FROM SHARK TANK. LONG WEEKENDS FOREVER. A NEW PUSH FOR A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN THE U.S. THE LAWMAKER LEADING THE CHARGE. >> ALL THE BUZZ A WILD SIDE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, STINGING A STAR PLAYER, HALTING

THE ACTION AND FRUSTRATED BY SELF-CHECKOUT. >> THE BIG CHANGES COMING TO TARGET AND WALMART. >> FROM ABC NEWS IN NEW YORK THIS IS AMERICA THIS MORNING. >> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE. >> I’M RHIANNON ALLY AND I’M LIONEL MOISE. ANDREW IS ON ASSIGNMENT. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SEVERAL REPORTED TORNADOES SLAMMING THE MIDWEST. AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN OHIO. >> CASUALTIES ALSO REPORTED IN INDIANA. FOUR STATES ENDURED A TERRIFYING NIGHT OF STORMS THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IS REPORTED IN MULTIPLE STATES, ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT INJURIES AFTER TORNADOES TORE THROUGH PARTS OF THE PLAINS IN THE MIDWEST,

THE SIRENS WENT OFF HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, IT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN COMING THROUGH OUR FRONT ROOM IN CENTRAL OHIO, AUTHORITIES RESPONDED TO A MASS CASUALTY EVENT AFTER A HALF MILE WIDE TORNADO HIT THE VILLAGE OF LAKEVIEW, DESTROYING A MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY AND BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN. >> OUR LAUNDROMAT IS GONE. THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. DOWNTOWN DOWN. IT’S BAD. YEAH, IT’S VERY BAD. IT’S PURE DEVASTATION. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. >> IN INDIANA, AUTHORITIES SAID THEY WERE WORKING TO CONFIRM REPORTS OF

FATALITIES FROM A LIKELY TORNADO THAT HIT THE CITY OF WINCHESTER. THERE WERE POWERFUL WINDS, TORE APART THIS LARGE BUILDING, LEAVING THE METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES AND POWER LINES. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. >> WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED ELSEWHERE IN INDIANA. >> THESE IMAGES OF HOMES DAMAGED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND AN IMAGE OF BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IN NEIGHBORING KENTUCKY. AUTHORITIES NEAR LOUISVILLE SAY THE STORMS DAMAGED AT LEAST 50 BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HOMES. WHAT DO YOU WHAT

DO YOU GOES THROUGH YOUR HEAD IN A MOMENT LIKE THAT, WHERE IT’S LIKE THERE AIN’T NOTHING YOU CAN DO, BUT IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> IT’S GOING TO GET YOU. >> AND FARTHER SOUTH, THIS DAMAGE IN HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARKANSAS, DEBRIS SCATTERED, THIS UTILITY POLE SHREDDED IN HALF ACROSS THE ROAD. NOW, OFFICIALS SAY THEY WON’T KNOW THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE UNTIL THE SUN COMES UP. WE WILL CHECK TODAY’S FORECAST IN JUST MOMENTS AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS OF DELIBERATIONS, A JURY HAS CONVICTED THE FATHER OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER ETHAN CRUMBLEY FOR NOT DOING

ENOUGH TO STOP HIS SON FROM CARRYING OUT THE DEADLY ATTACK AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> THE VERDICT COULD HAVE FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES. GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER THIS MORNING, THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR JAMES CRUMBLEY IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR PARENTS NATIONWIDE. >> IT’S A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS WHEN IT COMES TO GUNS. >> A JURY IN MICHIGAN CONVICTING CRUMBLEY ON FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, HOLDING HIM PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILING TO PREVENT HIS SON ETHAN FROM FATALLY SHOOTING FOUR STUDENTS AT OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL BUYING THE GUN FOUR DAYS

EARLIER AND FAILING TO PROPERLY SECURE IT. >> THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT WAS HE JUST DIDN’T KNOW HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS SON WAS THIS DANGEROUS, AND I SUSPECT THE JURORS SAW THROUGH THAT. THAT’S NOT OKAY FOR A PARENT TO HAVE NO IDEA THAT YOUR CHILD IS ON THE VERGE OF THIS KIND OF MASS MURDER. >> CRUMBLEY’S WIFE, JENNIFER, WAS CONVICTED ON THE SAME CHARGES LAST MONTH. PROSECUTORS ARGUED THE CRUMBLEYS MISSED WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THEIR SON’S MENTAL HEALTH, INCLUDING A TEXT MESSAGE IN WHICH ETHAN REVEALED HE WAS HEARING VOICES. HE WROTE, I ACTUALLY ASKED MY DAD TO TAKE

ME TO THE DOCTOR YESTERDAY, BUT HE JUST GAVE ME SOME PILLS AND TOLD ME TO SUCK IT UP. PROSECUTORS ALSO DETAILED A MEETING AT THE SCHOOL THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING BETWEEN ETHAN, HIS PARENTS AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS AFTER A MORBID DRAWING WAS FOUND ON ETHAN’S MATH ASSIGNMENT, THE SCHOOL SAYS ETHAN’S PARENTS REFUSED TO TAKE HIM HOME, AND ETHAN WAS ALLOWED TO STAY IN SCHOOL BECAUSE HE HAD NO PRIOR DISCIPLINARY INFRACTIONS. THE VICTIM’S PARENTS SAY LAST NIGHT’S VERDICT DOES NOT END THEIR PUSH FOR JUSTICE. >> WE NEED TO START FOCUSING ON IN THE SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL

AND ITS FAILURES, THE THINGS THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO ADMIT TO. >> WE CAN PUT PEOPLE ON THE MOON , WE CAN BUILD SKYSCRAPERS, HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SKILLS, OUR KIDS, SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> LEGAL EXPERTS NOTE THE CRUMBLEYS ARE THE FIRST PARENTS IN U.S. HISTORY CONVICTED IN A MASS SCHOOL SHOOTING. >> IT DOES SEND A MESSAGE THAT PROSECUTORS MIGHT PICK THIS UP AND START HOLDING PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE. ACTUALLY, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR MANSLAUGHTER AS IF THEY PARTICIPATED. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH ON THE SAME DAY AS

HIS WIFE. THE CRUMBLEYS COULD FACE ANYWHERE FROM 15 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON. >> A TERRIFYING SCENE IN NEW YORK AS SHOTS RANG OUT ON A CROWDED SUBWAY TRAIN. FLYING BULLETS SENT THESE PASSENGERS DUCKING FOR COVER. POLICE SAY ONE MAN WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY HIS OWN GUN AND WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. NOW, VIDEO SHOWS THE TWO MEN FIGHTING WHEN ONE OF THEM PULLS OUT A GUN, THE OTHER THEN GRABS IT AND FIRES, SPIKING CRIME RECENTLY PROMPTED THE GOVERNOR TO DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD ON THE SUBWAY. >> IT’S WHY WE NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING

AGAINST GUNS. THAT’S WHY THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO TAKE GUNS OFF THE STREET AND HAS HAD SOME SUCCESS. THAT’S WHY THE GOVERNOR IS FIGHTING THESE CRAZIES WHO SAY GUNS SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE CARRIED EVERYWHERE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE, GET RID OF THE GUNS. >> THE MAN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER WAS ARRESTED. >> A SPECIAL MARINES RESPONSE UNIT HAS NOW ARRIVED IN HAITI TO HELP WITH AN INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT MISSION OF EVACUATING AMERICANS. THE U.S. EMBASSY IS NOT ALLOWING USE OF ITS HELIPAD BECAUSE STREET GANGS ARE FIRING AT INCOMING FLIGHTS. HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS ARE BELIEVED TO

BE IN HAITI, WHICH IS IN CHAOS WITH NO PLAN YET TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. >> THERE ARE NEW QUESTIONS THIS MORNING ABOUT WHETHER TIKTOK COULD BE BANNED HERE IN THE US. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE ALREADY COMING FORWARD. ABC’S EM NGUYEN IS HERE NOW WITH THE LATEST M. GOOD MORNING RHIANNON. >> GOOD MORNING. YEAH. THE FATE OF TIKTOK HERE IN THE U.S. REMAINS UNCLEAR, BUT SOME WEALTHY AMERICANS ARE STANDING BY HOPING FOR A CHANCE TO BUY IT. TWO DAYS AFTER THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT COULD BAN TIKTOK IN THE U.S. UNLESS ITS CHINESE OWNERS SELL

THE APP, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS, AND I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY TIKTOK, FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS AMONG THOSE GATHERING INVESTORS INTERESTED IN THE VIDEO SHARING PLATFORM, WHICH ANALYSTS SAY COULD FETCH A PRICE OF MORE THAN $100 BILLION. >> IF THIS ORDER GOES THROUGH, IT’S GOT TO BE SOLD. >> I’M GOING TO PUT UP MY HAND AND SAY, I’LL BUY IT, SHARK TANK’S KEVIN O’LEARY ALSO THROWING HIS HAT IN THE RING, BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN, CHIEF AMONG THEM WILL THE SENATE EVEN TAKE UP THE

HOUSE BILL? >> WHILE SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES AGREE THAT TIKTOK POSES A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN BECAUSE OF ITS CHINESE OWNER, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER HAS NOT YET INDICATED WHETHER HE’LL TAKE UP THE BILL. TIKTOK CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY. >> I HAVEN’T HEARD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE DONE THAT’S WRONG, HE INSISTS. >> TIKTOK KEEPS AMERICANS DATA ON SERVERS IN THE U.S, AND SAYS THE BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE WILL HURT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LIVING ON THE APP. >> JUST PASSING THE LAW. THIS IS A BAN ON OUR APP

IN THIS COUNTRY. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS WHO USE OUR APP. IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES. >> EVEN IF THE SENATE PASSES THE BILL AND PRESIDENT BIDEN FOLLOWS THROUGH ON HIS PLEDGE TO SIGN IT , ANALYSTS SAY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD STILL NEED TO APPROVE THE SALE AND WOULD LIKELY WITHHOLD MUCH OF THE APPS UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY. IF THERE IS AN EVENTUAL SALE. ANALYSTS SAY THE LIST OF POTENTIAL BUYERS WOULD BE SMALL. MAJOR TECH COMPANIES WOULD LIKELY NOT BE INVOLVED DUE TO ANTITRUST CONCERNS. LIONEL >> ALL RIGHT. I’M THANK YOU. SENATOR

CHUCK SCHUMER HAS STUNNED WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL WITH A BLISTERING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, CALLING HIM AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. SCHUMER IS CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL. HE IS THE HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. REPUBLICANS HAVE CRITICIZED HIS REMARKS. >> MEANWHILE, IN GAZA, OFFICIALS CLAIM 20 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHILE WAITING FOR FOOD IN GAZA CITY. ISRAELI OFFICIALS DENY LAUNCHING AN ATTACK THERE. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FOR A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU ABOUT CARS TRACKING OUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR, POTENTIALLY LEADING TO HIGHER INSURANCE RATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES FIRST REPORTED THAT

GENERAL MOTORS ONSTAR SERVICE WAS RECORDING SOME DRIVERS BEHAVIORS, INCLUDING SPEEDS AND HARD BRAKING, AND THEN SENDING THAT DATA TO A CLEARINGHOUSE THAT WORKS WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES. WELL, NOW A FLORIDA MAN IS SUING, CLAIMING VIOLATIONS OF CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS, BUT GM SAYS THAT SYSTEM CAN BE TURNED OFF. >> TIME NOW FOR YOUR FRIDAY WEATHER. >> GOOD MORNING. THE LAST OF THE SNOW WRAPPING UP IN DENVER LOOKING AT A FOOT OF SNOW DOWNTOWN. IT’S BEEN IMPRESSIVE THERE, BUT THERE’S SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE SOUTH TODAY AND THAT INCLUDES THE THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE PLOWING THEIR WAY ON SOUTH AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOWARDS THE I-10 CORRIDOR IN THE GULF COAST. IT WILL BE A PRETTY ACTIVE SETUP INTO THE NIGHT, AND THEN IT STAYS WET INTO THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE SOUTH, WHILE THE COOL AIR WORKS INTO THE NORTHEAST FOR THE WEEKEND. FOR ACCUWEATHER, I’M MELISSA CONSTANZA. >> COMING UP, A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR AIR FRYER. >> ALSO AHEAD, WHAT WE’VE NOW LEARNED ABOUT THAT PLANE THAT TOOK A NOSEDIVE IN MIDAIR, INJURING 50 PEOPLE. >> AND A NEW TWIST IN THE SEARCH FOR MISSING COLLEGE

STUDENT. A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR Whenever news breaks, Nwe are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. Reporting from the earthquake in Turkey been rolling for this tornado tore through this little town from the most devastating disaster in Hawaii Charleston, South Carolina on the 2024 campaign Trail in Iceland. Let’s go traveling with the

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a serial killer now 2020 takes you inside the hunt for a monster. She felt like she was going to be killed one way or the other to make the decision to jump out. It’s exciting. This case has been cold for so long and there’s finally an answer Highway Hunter. The True Crime event. You have said you could feel the evil in the room only 2020 tonight at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC So Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne celebrity attorney hum Girardi. This story was a nuclear explosion today several victims will get a chance

to finally meet Eric majority and at sort of a loss for what to say. Did you see the documentary the house wife and husband? I did I wanted Erica to say I’m sorry face-to-face Erica. Why’d it take you so long? the housewife and the Hustler two on Hulu Reporting from Monterey Park, California, I’m Robin Roberts. Wherever wherever the story is, we’re going to take you there. You’re streaming ABC News live. ROOM. >> 2020 TONIGHT ON ABC. >> BACK NOW WITH A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THIS WEEK’S MIDA BOEING JET OVER AUSTRALIA. 50 PEOPLE WERE INJURED ON

THIS LATAM AIRLINES FLIGHT, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCIDENTALLY HIT A SWITCH ON THE PILOT’S SEAT, PUSHING THE PILOT FORWARD AND INTO THE CONTROLS, FORCING THE PLANE’S NOSE TO DROP. WE TURN NOW TO A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO’S BEEN MISSING NOW FOR NEARLY A WEEK IN NASHVILLE. >> HE WAS LAST SEEN AT A BAR OWNED BY A COUNTRY MUSIC STAR. HERE’S ABC’S ANDREA FUJII. >> THIS MORNING, AUTHORITIES IN NASHVILLE ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER A COLLEGE SENIOR WHO WENT MISSING AFTER A NIGHT OUT DRINKING WAS OVERSERVED AT A LOCAL BAR. 22 YEAR OLD RILEY STRAIN

WAS LAST SEEN BY FRIENDS LAST FRIDAY AT LUKE’S 32 BRIDGE, A BAR OWNED BY COUNTRY SINGER LUKE BRYAN. SECURITY VIDEO FROM AROUND 10 P.M. SHOWS STRAIN STUMBLING DOWN THE STREET AND FALLING. HE GOT BACK UP AND CONTINUED WALKING, VISIBLY UNSTEADY. STRAIN WAS ON A TRIP WITH HIS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FRATERNITY BROTHERS. >> WHO IS IT THAT YOU’RE WANTING TO REPORT HIS MISSING? WE’RE HERE ON A FRATERNITY FORMAL TRIP. IT’S ONE OF MY GOOD BUDDIES. >> ONE OF STRAIN’S FRIENDS CALLED 911, SAYING HE HAD LOST SIGHT OF HIM RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE

BAR. THE TENNESSEE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS NOW LOOKING INTO WHETHER BARTENDERS BROKE THE LAW, WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO SERVE ALCOHOL TO SOMEONE WHO IS VISIBLY INTOXICATED. BUT I GOT A BEER IN MY HAND. BRYAN NOW SPEAKING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTING Y’ALL, THIS IS SCARY. PRAYING FOR HIS SAFE RETURN. AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR NEARLY A WEEK WITHOUT FINDING ANY TRACE OF STRAIN, EVEN DEPLOYING BOATS TO SEARCH WATERWAYS. HIS FAMILY, DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS, IS ASKING WHY NO ONE INTERVENED. >> WHY DIDN’T SOMEBODY HELP? I MEAN, WE SAW CARS DRIVE BY, STOP BESIDE. >> THEY’RE

ALSO HOPING LUKE BRYAN CAN HELP. >> IT WAS ONE OF THE GUYS RILEY KIND OF LOOKED UP TO. SO WE WOULD LOVE IF HE COULD HELP US GET VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WHAT WENT ON INSIDE THAT BAR AND RIGHT OUTSIDE OF IT. SO, LUKE, HELP US, PLEASE. PLEASE. >> BRYAN SAYS HIS BAR IS COOPERATING AND WILL PROVIDE POLICE WITH VIDEO FROM INSIDE THE BAR. POLICE SAY STRAINS PHONE WAS OFF. HIS FAMILY SAYS IT WAS LAST TRACKED TO A LOCATION LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE BAR. RHIANNON LIONEL. >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

THAT UPDATE. A SAFETY RECALL INVOLVING A POPULAR KITCHEN APPLIANCE TO UPDATE YOU ON BEST BUY NOW RECALLING AIR FRYERS AND AIR FRYER OVENS FROM THE INSIGNIA BRAND. THE COMPANY SAYS THEY CAN OVERHEAT, CAUSING HANDLES TO BREAK AND GLASS DOORS TO SHATTER. THE RECALL AFFECTS ABOUT 187,000 DEVICES. OUR WEBSITE HAS THE COMPLETE LIST. >> COMING UP, THERE’S A NEW CLAIM FROM ALEC BALDWIN CONCERNING THAT DEADLY SHOOTING ON HIS MOVIE SET. >> PLUS, A WILD SCENE AS BEES INVADE A TENNIS TOURNAMENT, FORCING PLAY T Whenever news breaks, we are here in Israel a nation at war after

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>> BACK NOW WITH A CLOSE CALL FOR A GIRL IN GLENDALE, ARIZONA, POLICE SAY SHE WAS ALMOST KIDNAPED ON HER WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL. THIS VIDEO SHOWING A MAN GETTING OUT OF AN SUV AND WALKING BEHIND THE 14 YEAR OLD. SHE BEGINS TO RUN AS SHE REALIZED SHE’S BEING FOLLOWED. LUCKILY, A PASSERBY CALLED POLICE AND THAT MAN WAS ARRESTED. >> REALLY SCARY VIDEO THERE. ALEC BALDWIN IS ASKING A JUDGE TO DISMISS THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM STEMMING FROM THE SHOOTING ON THE RUST MOVIE SET. HE HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR THE DEATH OF

A CREW MEMBER WHO WAS SHOT WHEN A GUN HELD BY BALDWIN WENT OFF. BALDWIN’S LAWYERS ACCUSED PROSECUTORS OF, QUOTE, VIOLATING NEARLY EVERY RULE TO SECURE A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT, CLAIMING THEY WITHHELD EVIDENCE. NO RESPONSE YET FROM PROSECUTORS. THE MOVIE’S ARMORER WAS CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. SHE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> NOW TO THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT THAT’S GOT EVERYONE BUZZING AFTER AN INVASION OF BEES. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLAY SUSPENDED DUE TO BEE INVASION. >> THIS MORNING, A BIZARRE MOMENT. HALTING PLAY AT A MAJOR TENNIS MATCH. NO, NOT THE BEES, NOT THE BEES. YES, NICOLAS

CAGE BEES! >> YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS, MAN. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS. >> WE ARE SURROUNDED WITH BEES. HERE. PLAY. PAUSE, REWIND. >> THOUSANDS OF BEES SWARMING THE COURT AT THE INDIAN WELLS OPEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. >> YEAH, THAT IS A SPOT TO CAMP. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY VERY POPULAR WITH BEES. >> THE BEES STINGING. THE SECOND RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD, CARLOS ALCARAZ, ON THE HEAD AS THEY SWARMED THE CAMERA ABOVE THE COURT, THE QUEEN BEE APPARENTLY TAKING UP RESIDENCE ON THE CAMERA. IF THE QUEEN’S THERE, THEY WILL FOLLOW THAT THING. OFFICIALS CALLING IN THIS MAN,

LANCE DAVIS, WHO RUNS A BEE REMOVAL SERVICE CALLED KILLER BEE LIVE REMOVAL. >> I THINK HE’S DONE IT BEFORE. >> I THINK HE MIGHT BE RIGHT. >> DAVIS WAS ABLE TO VACUUM UP THE BEES, EVENTUALLY ALLOWING THE MATCH TO RESUME THE STING. CARLOS ALCARAZ SUFFERED DID NOT SLOW HIM DOWN. HE WENT ON TO EASILY BEAT HIS OPPONENT. >> WELL, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE, I’M A LITTLE BIT AFRAID OF THE BEES. >> WELL, THAT BEEKEEPER HAS NOW BECOME A CELEBRITY AT THE TOURNAMENT, EVEN TAKING SELFIES WITH THE FANS. >> HE SAVED THE DAY. GOT THAT

QUEEN OUT OF THERE. COMING UP, THE NEW PROPOSAL TO ADOPT A FOUR DAY WORKWEEK IN T So the question is what would you do if you saw a mother reject her son’s new girlfriend because of the color of her skin. I was going to meet your girlfriend you are eating my girlfriend. This is your girlfriend. Was there a misunderstanding? Well, maybe when you say something Mom you’re in a little crazy here, I think seriously, what do you mean knock it off? So the question is what would you do Sunday night all new right after American

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case has been cold for so long and there’s finally an answer Highway Hunter. The True Crime event. You have said you could feel the evil in the room only 2020 tonight at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC Reporting from the federal district court house in Washington. D.c., I’m Terry Moran. Wherever the news is, we’ll take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. E GONNA TELL YOU AND REVEAL A NEW SONG ONLY ON GMA. >> IT IS TIME TO CHECK THE PULSE, BEGINNING WITH THE NEW PUSH FOR SHORTER WORKWEEK, SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS HAS INTRODUCED A BILL TO

REDUCE THE STANDARD WORKWEEK FROM 40 HOURS TO 32. >> HIS IDEA, THOUGH, FELL FLAT WITH REPUBLICANS DURING A HEARING YESTERDAY AS A RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT YEARS AS AMERICAN WORKERS ARE NOW OVER 400% MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THEY WERE IN THE 1940S. >> EXTRAORDINARY. ALMOST ALL OF THE ECONOMIC GAINS OF THAT TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO THE TOP. THIS DISRUPTS THAT BALANCE, AND WE WON’T MAINTAIN THE STATUS OF BEING THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST NATION. >> IF WE KNEECAP THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. >> DON’T EXPECT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL ANYTIME SOON. >>

NEXT TARGET IS LAUNCHING A NEW SELF-CHECKOUT POLICY RESTRICTING YOU TO TEN ITEMS OR LESS. >> EXPRESS CHECKOUT LANES WILL DEBUT AT NEARLY 2000 LOCATIONS THIS SUNDAY, WITH THE GOAL OF SPEEDING THINGS UP. >> WALMART IS ALSO MAKING CHANGES, NOW DESIGNATING SOME SELF-CHECKOUT STATIONS FOR WALMART PLUS MEMBERS ONLY. NEXT THE FASTEST PASSENGER JET EVER HAS COMPLETED ITS SLOWEST JOURNEY. >> THE BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE HAS SLOWLY LIFTED ONTO A PIER HERE IN NEW YORK AT THE INTREPID MUSEUM. AFTER MONTHS OF RESTORATION, THE PLANE WAS FLOATED UP THE HUDSON ON A BARGE AND FINALLY, THE COWBOY WHO DIDN’T

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number one streaming news. So the question is what would you do if you saw a mother reject her son’s new girlfriend because of the color of her skin. I was going to meet your girlfriend you are eating my girlfriend. This is your girlfriend. Was there a misunderstanding? Well, maybe when you say something Mom you’re in a little crazy here, I think seriously, what do you mean knock it off? So the question is what would you do Sunday night all new right after American Idol on ABC So Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne celebrity attorney

hum Girardi. This story was a nuclear explosion today several victims will get a chance to finally meet Eric majority and at sort of a loss for what to say. Did you see the documentary the house wife and husband? I did I wanted Erica to say I’m sorry face-to-face Erica. Why’d it take you so long? the housewife and the Hustler two on Hulu Tonight there’s a killer on the loose. It was terrifying for all of us. The girls just happen across the path of a serial killer now 2020 takes you inside the hunt for a monster.

She felt like she was going to be killed one way or the other to make the decision to jump out. It’s exciting. This case has been cold for so long and there’s finally an answer Highway Hunter. The True Crime event. You have said you could feel the evil in the room only 2020 tonight at 9:00 8:00 Central on ABC THAT GRASS AS IF SHE DOESN’T HAVE ALLERGIES? >> YEAH, NICE. >> CHECKING MORE TOP STORIES WIDESPREAD TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN FOUR STATES. AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN CENTRAL OHIO. SIGNIFICANT INJURIES ARE REPORTED IN INDIANA

AND PARTS OF ARKANSAS GOT FIVE INCHES OF RAIN, TRIGGERING FLASH FLOODING. >> DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS COULD FIND OUT TODAY IF SHE’LL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, THE JUDGE IS CONSIDERING WHETHER WILLIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER PROSECUTOR IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. >> JAMES CRUMBLEY, THE FATHER OF THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER, HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PREVENT HIS SON’S ATTACK. HE AND HIS WIFE WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. >> THE NCAA IS FACING A LAWSUIT FROM A GROUP OF COLLEGE ATHLETES TRYING TO BAN TRANSGENDER

WOMEN FROM COMPETITION. THE SUIT CLAIMS THE ORGANIZATION VIOLATED THEIR TITLE NINE RIGHTS BY ALLOWING TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LEAH THOMAS TO COMPETE IN THE 2022 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. >> TODAY’S WEATHER RAIN FROM THE NORTHEAST TO TEXAS. STORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES ON THE GULF COAST, AND SNOW IN THE ROCKIES. >> FINALLY, AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON, OUR DANNY. >> NEW REPORTS. WHILE KEVIN MCALLISTER MAY HAVE BEEN SCARED OF A LADY WITH PIGEONS AT FIRST, THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON TIKTOK SURE DO LOVE THIS BROOKLYNITE AND HER PURSE PAL NAMED PIDGE. >> SHE’S SORT OF A BLEND OF A CAT AND

A DOG, BUT SHE’S WEIRDER AND SHE FLIES. SHE DOES, LIKE UNDER HER CHIN SOMETIMES, LIKE, YEAH, ABBY HERE FIRST MET PIDGE THIS PAST SUMMER WHEN SHE SAW BABY PIDGE ALL ALONE ON THE STREET, AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A LOCAL WILDLIFE RESCUE. >> THEY SAID SHE WAS DEFINITELY TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT OF THE NEST, AND THAT ABBY COULD BRING HER INTO THE SHELTER. BUT AFTER TAKING HER HOME FIRST WITHIN PROBABLY 15 MINUTES SHE WAS SNUGGLING AND CUTE AND I COULDN’T GET RID OF HER. SOON THEY BECAME INSEPARABLE, AND ABBY STARTED CHRONICLING THEIR NEW YORK JOURNEYS TOGETHER

IN AN IMMEDIATELY VIRAL TIKTOK SERIES. ONE COMMENTER WRITING, THIS IS THE LIFE ALL PIGEONS DESERVE. FORGET PURSE DOGS, I WANT A PURSE PIGEON ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, ABBY AND PIDGE FLY TOGETHER. GO ON. CASUAL NEW YORK STROLLS TOGETHER, AND ABBY SAYS SHE’S EVEN TRAINED PIDGE TO USE THE LOO. >> I CAN HOLD HER OVER A TOILET AND SHE’LL JUST GO TO THE BATHROOM. >> MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER, PIDGE MAY BE NEW YORK’S MOST FAMOUS PIGEON. I LOVE YOU. OH, DOES NOT LIKE THE MIC, BUT YOU BETTER GET THAT MICROPHONE OUT OF HER FACE. BY THE

WAY, IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY HARD TO TELL IF A PIGEON IS A BOY OR A GIRL. BUT THEN THIS HAPPENED. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE EGG, BUT IT DID OFFICIALLY CONFIRM WE HAVE A MISS PIDGE, QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. I LIKE THAT SHE IS THE QUEEN OF BROOKLYN. >> DANNY. THANK YOU. BROOKLYN STORY. THAT’S WHAT . HEY, IT’S BRAD. AND WE’VE GOT A SPECIAL EPISODE OF START HERE FOR YOU TODAY. >> IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO THIS WEEK THAT A VIRUS EFFECTIVELY SHUT DOWN THE WORLD. A PANDEMIC HAD JUST BEEN DECLARED AND QUICKLY WE HAD TO MARSHAL

EVERY PUBLIC HEALTH TOOL WE HAD AT OUR DISPOSAL THAT WE DEVELOPED FOR DECADES TALKING ABOUT VACCINE TECHNOLOGY, GENETIC SEQUENCING. THINK ABOUT HOW QUICKLY TESTS BECAME AVAILABLE AND ALL THIS WAS POSSIBLE BECAUSE FOR YEARS, SCIENTISTS HAD BEEN WARNING US HOW DEVASTATING A PANDEMIC COULD BE. WELL, RECENTLY, ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES APPROACHED ME ASKING, WHAT HAPPENS IF THE NEXT INFECTIOUS DISEASE THREAT ISN’T A VIRUS AT ALL? TODAY, WE’RE DIVING DEEP, LITERALLY DEEP INTO THE EARTH TO LEARN ABOUT THIS EMERGING HEALTH THREAT. YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT FUNGUS. THAT’S RIGHT. THE STUFF THAT GROWS ON THE

FOREST FLOOR OR THE THING THAT CAUSED YOUR ATHLETE’S FOOT. EVEN THE STUFF OF SCI FI. THE THING BEHIND THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN HBO IS THE LAST OF US. I TOOK DON’T LOOK BACK. THAT ZOMBIE FUNGUS DEPICTED IN THE SHOW IS BASED ON A REAL FUNGUS THAT INFECTS ANTS. GOOD NEWS DOESN’T INFECT PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE OTHER FUNGAL INFECTIONS THAT KILL AN ESTIMATED 2 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ANNUALLY. WE’VE SEEN DEVASTATING CASES POP UP OVER JUST THE LAST FEW YEARS. >> FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE ON ALERT AFTER A JUMP IN CASES OF A DRUG RESISTANT

FUNGUS. >> HEALTH OFFICIALS, THEY’RE INVESTIGATING NEARLY 100 SUSPECTED CASES. THIS IS A FUNGAL INFECTION LINKED TO A PAPER MILL IN MICHIGAN. A WARNING FROM THE CDC ABOUT TRAVELING TO MEXICO FOR PLASTIC SURGERY. SOME PEOPLE REPORTEDLY COMING BACK TO THE U.S. WITH A POTENTIALLY DEADLY FUNGAL INFECTION. >> THE SCARY PART OF THIS IS THE THREAT IS GETTING WORSE. CLIMATE CHANGE, WARMING, TEMPERATURES MEAN THAT THIS INVASION IS GROWING EVER MORE REAL. TREATMENT OPTIONS ARE STILL LIMITED. SO TODAY WE SPEND OUR WHOLE SHOW ON THIS. SONY SALZMAN FROM ABC’S MEDICAL UNIT HAS BEEN REPORTING THIS OUT FOR MONTHS,

TALKING TO SURVIVORS WHO HAVE BEEN INFECTED ALONG WITH EXPERTS ON THE FRONT LINES. WE’RE UNRAVELING MEDICAL MYSTERIES. >> AND SO HE’S GOING TO TAKE IT FROM HERE. ONE OF THE HOTBEDS OF FUNGAL INFECTION IN THE UNITED STATES MIGHT SURPRISE YOU. IT’S IN THE DRY DESERTS OF ARIZONA. >> HI. MY NAME’S ALISON KARSH MARSH. I LIVE IN CHIEF FUN GUY, ARIZONA. I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF AS A MOM. >> ALLISON MOVED TO ARIZONA FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., WITH HER HUSBAND AND TWO KIDS A FEW YEARS AGO. IT WAS ENERGY STATEMENT. >> IT WAS A IT WAS A REAL

SHOCK. MOVING TO THE DESERT AND IT WAS LIKE EVERYTHING WAS DRY. HE’S PRICKLY. WHERE ARE THE TREES? AND PARTICULARLY AS A MOM OF YOUNG KIDS, I FELT LIKE I HAD THIS FEELING FOR THE FIRST YEAR HERE. LIKE OUR ENVIRONMENT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH. >> BUT ALLISON EVENTUALLY GREW TO LOVE THE OUTDOORS IN ARIZONA, TOO. SHE SPENT A LOT OF TIME HIKING WITH HER KIDS AND HER DOG. >> SHE’S ALSO INTO GARDENING. IN 2022, SHE STARTED GROWING NATIVE PLANTS IN HER DESERT YARD. >> BUT THERE’S A NICE, DUSTY. >> I SPENT MAYBE LATE FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL

DIGGING A TON OF HOLES IN THE DIRT AND DIGGING, MOVING DIRT, JUST CONSTANTLY DOING ALL THIS LANDSCAPING. >> AND I REMEMBER AT SOME POINT IN APRIL, ABOUT ONCE A WEEK, I’LL TAKE MY DOG FOR A HIKE. AND I MADE IT BETWEEN FIVE AND 10 MINUTES. AND I WAS LIKE, I JUST KEEP DO THIS TODAY. >> I JUST CAN’T KEEP WALKING. >> I REMEMBER WALKING A FEW MILES AND JUST BEING CONFUSED IS BECAUSE IT’S FLAT GROUND. IT’S NOT CHALLENGING. AND I COULDN’T EVEN PUT MY FINGER ON WHY I FELT LIKE I COULDN’T DO IT, BUT I

JUST TURNED AROUND AND CAME HOME. >> ALISON CLIMBED INTO BED AND SHE COULD HARDLY GET OUT AGAIN FOR WEEKS. >> SHE WENT TO THE DOCTOR. IT WASN’T COVID. THEY PUT HER ON ANTIBIOTICS. THOSE DIDN’T HELP. NEITHER DID STEROIDS. SHE WAS SLEEPING 18 HOURS A DAY. THEN ALISON DEVELOPED A PAINFUL RASH ON HER LEGS. SHE WAS EVENTUALLY DIAGNOSED WITH A RESPIRATORY DISEASE CALLED VALLEY FEVER, CAUSED BY A FUNGUS CALLED COCCIDIOIDES . SCIENTISTS CALL IT COCCI FOR SHORTER VALLEY FEVER. WASN’T SOMETHING ALISON HAD HEARD OF BEFORE SHE MOVED TO ARIZONA. AND IT CAN BE HARD TO DIAGNOSE.

THE SYMPTOMS OFTEN LOOK LIKE PNEUMONIA. IN FACT, DOCTORS SAY AROUND A THIRD OF WHAT LOOK LIKE PNEUMONIA CASES IN THE TUCSON AND PHOENIX AREAS ARE ACTUALLY CASES OF VALLEY FEVER. FOR ALLISON ALL THE DIRT SHE’D BEEN HAULING AROUND TO BUILD HER GARDEN, IT MIGHT HAVE KICKED UP SPORES OF COCCI. JOHN GALGIANI IS ALLISON’S DOCTOR, AND HE’S ONE OF THE LEADING EXPERTS ON VALLEY FEVER. >> IF YOU INHALE ONE OF THESE SPORES, IT GETS INTO YOUR LUNGS AND THAT STARTS AN INFECTION. AND THAT CAN HAPPEN WHETHER YOU’RE OUT DIRT BIKING OR DOING THINGS, KICKING UP A

LOT OF DUST OR, IN FACT, JUST LIVING IN THE AREA WHERE THIS FUNGUS LIVES. ALSO, BECAUSE THE SPORES REALLY DO TRAVEL AROUND. >> JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE VALLEY IN VALLEY FEVER REFERS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA IN THE 1930S. >> THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED CASE AFTER CASE OF THIS UNIQUE SET OF SYMPTOMS CONNECTED WITH COCCI. BUT THE VALLEY NAME IS A BIT OF A MISNOMER BECAUSE TWO THIRDS OF ALL VALLEY FEVER INFECTIONS WE KNOW ABOUT IN THE U.S. OCCUR IN ARIZONA WITH 50% OF ALL U.S. INFECTIONS IN PHOENIX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. WHEN

YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS LIVING ON EARTH, PEOPLE OFTEN THINK OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND SOMETIMES BACTERIA. BUT FUNGI ARE, THEIR OWN DIVERSE KINGDOM OF ORGANISMS FROM THE MUSHROOM YOU EAT TO TINY SPORES YOU CAN’T SEE WITH YOUR NAKED EYE. FUNGI ARE DECOMPOSERS. THEY EAT ROTTING MATTER AND MAKE WAY FOR NEW LIFE. >> BUT THEY CAN ALSO OPPORTUNIST MAKING A HOME IN LIVING CREATURES. TRY IT WITH ME. TAKE AEEP BREATH RIGHT NOW, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, YOU MAY BE INHALING DOZENS. >> MAYBE EVEN HUNDREDS OF FUNGAL SPORES. MOST LIKELY, NOTHING

WILL HAPPEN. THE VAST MAJORITY ARE HARMLESS ,BUT DEPENDING ON HOW MANY YOU INHALE AND THE SPECIES OF FUNGI LIVING IN YOUR AREA, YOU MIGHT GET SICK. THE SPORES THAT CAUSE VALLEY FEVER, FOR EXAMPLE, START OFF TINY. BUT ONCE INSIDE YOUR LUNGS, THEY TRANSFORM INTO A LARGER SPHERE LIKE ORGANISM. THOSE SPHERES EVENTUALLY BURST OPEN, SPEWING HUNDREDS OF SPORES AND SPREADING THE INFECTION FURTHER. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM KICKS IN, FIGHTING BACK AND PUTTING THOSE SPORES TO SLEEP. PEOPLE WITH VALLEY FEVER WILL LIVE WITH THOSE SPORES INSIDE OF THEM IN HIBERNATION MODE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. BUT

FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT CAN TAKE MONTHS BEFORE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN BEAT BACK THE INFECTION. AND FOR ALLISON, MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER SHE WAS FEELING THOSE SYMPTOMS, PHYSICAL EXERTION WAS STILL HARD FOR HER. >> THE CLOSEST THING THAT YOU CAN COMPARE IT TO IS HAVING A NEWBORN BABY WHERE IT’S LIKE ,THAT’S FATIGUE, THAT YOU’RE SO TIRED THAT YOUR BRAIN JUST WANTS TO PUT YOU. YOU WANT POWER DOWN. IT’S LIKE IF HAD TO DO SOMETHING PHYSICAL RIGHT NOW TO KEEP US ALIVE, WE MIGHT NOT STAY. >> LIKE, IT’S REAL FATIGUE. AND I WOULD GET IN

BED AND IN 90 SECONDS I’M UNCONSCIOUS. AND THEN MAYBE I WAKE UP AT 830 AND I CAN GET A FEW THINGS DONE UNTIL TEN. BUT EVEN EARLY OCTOBER, A FULL DAY, IT WAS LIKE BY 630, THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE. >> ALLISON GET BETTER. BUT NOT EVERYONE RECOVERS ON THEIR OWN. >> DR. GALGIANI SAYS A SMALL PERCENTAGE SEE THE INFECTION TRAVELED BEYOND THE LUNGS. >> OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IT GO THROUGH THE BLOODSTREAM FROM THE LUNGS WERE ORIGINALLY STARTED TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY, LIKE BONES, LIKE SKIN LESIONS ABSCESSES. IT LITERALLY CAN GO ANYPLACE

IN THE BODY, EVEN THE BRAIN. >> MENINGITIS IS THE WORST BECAUSE IT’S UNIFORMLY FATAL IF IT’S UNTREATED. >> YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD OF MENINGITIS BEFORE. IT’S THAT NASTY DISEASE THAT INVOLVES THE SWELLING OF THE MEMBRANES SURROUNDING THE BRAIN. IT CAN BE CAUSED BY A RANGE OF INFECTIONS SUCH AS BACTERIA AND VIRUSES OR A FUNGUS. AND MENINGITIS CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. >> SO IF YOU GET MENINGITIS, YOU NEED TO BE DIAGNOSED CORRECTLY AND THEN TREATED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE OR THE DRUGS YOU HAVE AVAILABLE. SO IT’S A LONG TERM THING. >> IN EXTREME CASES, SOME

PATIENTS NEED A PORT DRILLED INTO THE SKULL OR SPINE THAT CAN DELIVER MEDICINE DIRECTLY. AND IT’S RARE. >> BUT AS DR. GALGIANI SAYS, PEOPLE CAN DIE FIGHTING A FUNGAL INFECTION. >> JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE TROUBLE IS, PHYSICIANS IN ARIZONA AREN’T TESTING ENOUGH FOR VALLEY FEVER. THEY AREN’T TRAINED TO DETECT IT. AND THE TESTS THEMSELVES CAN GIVE FALSE NEGATIVES. FOR ALLISON, WHO DID HAVE A FALSE NEGATIVE, THE DELAYING DIAGNOSIS MEANT IT WAS TOO LATE TO TAKE AN ANTIFUNGAL MEDICINE. >> GLOBALLY, FUNGI ARE CONSIDERED THE FORGOTTEN DISEASE. EVEN THOUGH THESE INFECTIONS KILL MORE PEOPLE, A THAN TUBERCULOSIS

OR MALARIA, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THIS IS ALL GETTING WORSE AND THAT WE DON’T HAVE OUR ON THE BALL. >> THE MAIN FUNGUS EXPERT AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION HERE IN THE U.S. TRYING TO TRACK THESE THINGS IS DR. TOM CHILLER. >> I OFTEN CALL MYSELF A FUNGAL DOCTOR OR THE CHIEF FUNGI AT CDC. >> CHILLER THE FUNGI THAT HE IS HEADS THE MICHAEL CRAIG DISEASES BRANCH AT THE CDC. >> SO I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO NOTE THAT, YEAH, WE NEED TO CONSIDER FUNGI IN ANY TYPE OF MILIEU WHERE

WE’RE TALKING ABOUT INFECTIOUS DISEASES. THEY ARE THERE. THEY ARE HERE TO STAY. THEY ARE SMART. THEY ARE HARD TO TREAT. WE HAVE VERY LIMITED TREATMENT OPTIONS RIGHT NOW. >> SCHILLER ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3 TO 5 MILLION FUNGAL SPECIES EXIST, BUT HE SAYS ONLY ABOUT 120,000 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. >> AND OF THOSE, ONLY A FEW HUNDRED CAUSE HUMAN DISEASE. THOSE ARE THE ONES HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT. HE’S WORKED ON THE MOST FUNGAL PRIORITY PATHOGENS LIST. THERE’S ASPERGILLUS, WHICH IS IN THE AIR WE BREATHE. THAT’S FINE FOR MOST PEOPLE, BUT IF YOU’RE IMMUNE COMPROMISED, IT CAN MAKE YOU SERIOUSLY

ILL. THERE’S CRYPTOCOCCUS S THAT ATTACKS THE LUNGS OF PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED HIV. THERE’S CANDIDA AURIS, A YEAST WHICH STALKS SICK PEOPLE IN HOSPITALS, AND A NEW SPECIES OF CANDIDA BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2015. >> WHAT REALLY TURNED THE NOZZLE ON HIGH FOR US IS WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO COLLEAGUES IN ENGLAND, IN LONDON, AND THEY WERE HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THIS ORGANISM IN A CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL, AND IT CAUSED THEM TO ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN THE UNIT TO BE ABLE TO TRY TO CLEAN UP THE HOSPITAL. >> THE BRITISH HOSPITAL HAD TO USE BLEACH TO KILL

THE FUNGUS, WHICH IS PRETTY HARSH ON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. BUT EVEN WORSE, CHILLER SAYS, THE FUNGUS WAS EVOLVING TO RESIST TREATMENT AND STARTED SPREADING QUICKLY. >> AND THIS REALLY CAME OUT OF NOWHERE. YOU KNOW, ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, WE HAD NO IDEA, NO PRECEDENT FOR THIS IN THE FUNGAL WORLD. >> AND NOW IT’S IN PROBABLY OVER 50 COUNTRIES AND IN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE REPORTED AT LEAST ONE CASE. IT’S DEFINITELY SPREADING. IT’S NOT GOING AWAY. >> IT’S HERE TO STAY. CHILLER SAYS HISTORICALLY, WE HAVEN’T WORRIED ABOUT FUNGI BECAUSE, FRANKLY, OUR BODIES ARE TOO HOT

FOR THEM TO THRIVE. >> BUT TWIN CRISES ARE CONVERGING. >> CHANGE ALL OF THAT. ONE, WE’RE LIVING LONGER BUT SICKER WITH A HIGHER PREVALENCE OF THINGS LIKE OBESITY, DIABETES AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES AND MORE MODERN MARVELS LIKE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY. THOSE THINGS SAVE LIVES, BUT MAKE US MORE VULNERABLE AND BETTER HOSTS FOR THE FUNGI TO THRIVE. SECOND, THE PLANET IS WARMING AND BOOM, THAT IS DOUBLE JEOPARDY. AS THE PLANET WARMS, IT BECOMES A COZIER HOME FOR FUNGI TO THRIVE. FARMERS HAVE TO USE MORE ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS TO PROTECT THEIR CROPS. NATURAL DISASTERS CREATE MOIST, UNTAMED CONDITIONS

FOR FUNGI TO GROW AND POTENTIALLY INFECT VICTIMS THROUGH INJURIES AND FRESH. ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE, IF FUNGI CONTINUE TO EVOLVE IN AN INCREASINGLY WARMING WORLD, THEY COULD BECOME EVEN MORE ADEPT AT THRIVING IN OUR 98.6 DEGREE BODIES. >> SO OUR BIG PUSH IS TO SAY, LOOK, THESE AREN’T THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES VISAS. THEY AREN’T THE LOWEST PRIORITY EITHER, BUT THEY’RE HERE TO STAY. WE NEED BETTER TOOLS TO DIAGNOSE THEM AND TO TREAT THEM. >> RIGHT NOW, THERE AREN’T ANY VACCINES TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM FUNGAL INFECTIONS. BUT GOOD NEWS THERE MIGHT BE A SOLUTION ON THE

HORIZON, AT LEAST FOR VALLEY FEVER. AND THE ANSWER, AS STRANGE AS IT MIG SEEM, INVOLVES A RETIRED NFL TIGHT END AND HIS FRENCH BULLDOG. I’M OBSESSED WITH FRENCH BULLDOGS. SO I SAID, IF I WIN THE SUPER BOWL, I’M GOING TO GET THE FRENCH. >> I PROMISE. IT ALL CONNECTS. MORE AFTER THE BREAK You should see the strongest females fight for the survival of their families. Oh wow. Inside the pen is a slice of human brain. I’ve never seen a place like this in my life. You’re watching America’s number one streaming news live reporting breaking new

exclusives keep streaming with ABC News live. ABC News live Prime winner of the Gracie Award for best news program in all of Television stream ABC News, live Prime with Lindsey Davis weeknights on ABC News live. WITH NBC NEWS. >> WE’VE TOLD YOU VALLEY FEVER IS A BIG PROBLEM FOR HUMANS, BUT ALSO RUNS RAMPANT IN DOGS IN ARIZONA TO AN ESTIMATED 6 TO 10% OF DOGS LIVING IN MAJOR COUNTIES IN ARIZONA GET VALLEY FEVER EVERY YEAR. >> JOHN GALGIANI ALISON KARSH IS DOCTOR SAYS IT’S 3 TO 4 TIMES MORE PREVALENT IN DOGS THAN IN PEOPLE. >>

AND DR. GALGIANI POINTS OUT THAT EVEN THOUGH DOGS DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR SYMPTOMS LIKE HUMAN PATIENTS DO, IT’S CLEAR THAT THEY DO SUFFER . >> THEY OFTEN HAVE COUGHS AND OFTEN THEY HAVE LUNG SYMPTOMS AND THEY’RE WHEEZING A LITTLE BIT. THE INFECTION GOES OUT OF THE LUNGS MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF WHAT IS DIAGNOSED IN CLINICAL PRACTICES. AND SO THEY HAVE SYMPTOMS OF PAIN AND SWELLING OUTSIDE OF THE CHEST OR THEY GET WEIGHT LOSS. AND THIS FIELD, AS IN WALK AROUND AND LIVE AND CAN’T MOVE. >> TREATMENT CAN BE REALLY EXPENSIVE FOR

PET OWNERS. >> RESEARCHERS ESTIMATE THAT ARIZONA DOG OWNERS SPEND AT LEAST $60 MILLION A YEAR TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT AND CARE FOR THEIR WITH VALLEY FEVER. >> ABOUT A QUARTER OF CASES INVOLVING DOGS GET QUITE BAD. SOME DON’T MAKE IT THROUGH. >> THEY DIE FIGHTING THE DISEASE OR THEIR OWNERS ARE UNABLE TO PAY FOR TREATMENT AND WIND UP HAVING TO PUT THEIR DOGS TO SLEEP. SO, UNDERSTANDABLY, FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, THIS FUNGUS IS NOT SOMETHING THEY WANT THEIR DOG TO MESS WITH. >> ONE OF THOSE CONCERNED DOG OWNERS IS ROB GRONKOWSKI. >> ROBBY, WHAT WE

DO AND WE MADE IT RALPHIE. >> THAT’S ROB WITH HIS FRENCH BULLDOG RALPHIE. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF GRONKOWSKI OR GRONK. HE PLAYED 11 SEASONS IN THE NFL. >> DEEP DROP BRADY DEEP BALL LOOKING FOR GRONKOWSKI HE’S GOT IT. FIRST FOR THE PATRIOTS, THEN FOR THE BUCCANEERS. BRADY KEEPS ENDS UP WIDE OPEN TOUCHDOWN GRONKOWSKI AND HE ADORES HIS FRENCHY. >> I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED A FRENCH BULLDOG. I’M OBSESSED WITH FRENCH BALL DOGS. ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FRENCH BULLDOGS AND EVERY TIME I WENT TO THEIR HOUSE, THE FRENCH BULLDOG AND WE ALWAYS CONNECTED . THEY ALWAYS

SLEPT ON MY SHOULDER WHEN WE WERE GOING TO BED AT NIGHT. I’M LIKE, I GOT TO GET ONE OF THESE. SO I SAID, IF I WIN THE SUPER BOWL. WHEN I WENT DOWN TO TAMPA BAY MY FIRST YEAR, I’M GOING TO GET THE FRONT YARD. AND WHAT HAPPENED? WE WON THE SUPER BOWL. TWO WEEKS LATER, I WENT AND GOT MY FIRST FRENCH BULLDOG EVER. AND THE GUY IS MY BEST FRIEND TO THIS DAY, GRONK IS MORE FAMILIAR WITH VALLEY FEVER THAN YOUR AVERAGE PERSON. HE’S HAD FRIENDS GET SICK FROM IT, STARTING WITH A TEAMMATE BACK

IN COLLEGE WHEN HE PLAYED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. >> I REMEMBER HE WAS VERY, VERY SICK. AND AT THAT TIME WHEN YOU’RE IN COLLEGE, YOU HEAR ABOUT A DISEASE AND YOU’RE JUST A KID. YOU KNOW, I’M AN 18-YEAR-OLD, 19-YEAR-OLD KID. I’M JUST LIKE, OH, MY FRIENDS, VERY SICK. YOU KNOW, HE’S GOT VALLEY FEVER. IT DOESN’T REALLY CLICK WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS TO ME. THAT TEAMMATE ULTIMATELY OVERCAME HIS INFECTION, BUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, ANOTHER ONE OF GRONK’S FORMER UVA TEAMMATES DIED FROM THE DISEASE. STERLING LEWIS, A LINEBACKER WHO USED TO LEAD THE WILDCATS

IN TACKLES, WAS ONLY 32 YEARS OLD. >> I WAS VERY SAD ABOUT STERLING LEWIS. HE WAS A GREAT KID. HE WAS A HARD WORKER. HE MADE ME A BETTER PLAYER. HE MADE ME A BETTER PERSON OUT THERE. I MEAN, I REMEMBER TO THIS DAY THE CONVERSATION WE HAD WHEN WE WERE BOTH LEAVING COLLEGE. HE GOES, YO, ROB, GOING TO MAKE THE PROS? TELL THEM YOU’RE NOT SIGNING UNLESS UNLESS IF I COME WITH YOU. >> AND THEN I SAW HIM AGAIN ONCE WHEN I WAS IN THE PROS. HE’S LIKE, YO, YOU FORGOT TO TAKE ME WITH

YOU. AND WE JUST STARTED LAUGHING BECAUSE HE’S A GREAT KID. >> HE HAD A GREAT PERSONALITY. THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. STERLING’S DEATH FROM VALLEY FEVER IN 2020 CAME AS A BIG SURPRISE TO GRONKOWSKI. >> IT JUST RAISED THAT MORE AWARENESS IN MY HEAD WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THAT SITUATION. SO IT WAS VERY, VERY SAD. YOU KNOW, HIS VERY YOUNG HE WAS A GREAT KID. HE DID A LOT OF GOOD HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. AND HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE, THINGS LIKE THAT BE PREVENTATIVE. AND THERE’S NO SITUATIONS LIKE THAT. >> IT’S PROBABLY NOT

A COINCIDENCE THAT TWO OF GRONK’S FOOTBALL TEAMMATES ENCOUNTER AND GET SICK FROM VALLEY FEVER. TOM CHILLER R CHIEF FUN GUY AT THE CDC SAYS HE WORKED AT A VALLEY FEVER CLINIC AND SAW THE MOST DEVASTATING CASES LIKE VALLEY FEVER, MENINGITIS. AND HE SAW THOSE CASES IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS THINK ABOUT THESE GUYS ARE IN THE DIRT. >> SOME OF THE MOST YOU KNOW, HIGHLY CONTAMINATED DIRT IN THE WORLD WITH THE FEVER. >> SO YEAH, I COULD SEE HOW A FOOTBALL PLAYER MIGHT BE AT AN OCCUPATIONAL RISK IF HE WAS PLAYING IN DIRT FOR SURE. >> BETWEEN

BROCK’S EXPERIENCE AT U OF T AND WANTING TO PROTECT HIS DOG, RALPHIE. HE PUT HIS MIND AND HIS NFL DOLLARS TO HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF VALLEY FEVER. HE’S BECOME AN INVESTOR IN A VALLEY FEVER VACCINE FOR DOGS. IT’S A PROJECT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AND A BIOTECH STARTUP CALLED ANIVIVE LIFE SCIENCES. A FRIEND INTRODUCED GRONK TO THE FOUNDER AND CEO, DYLAN BALSZ. >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY ARIZONA AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND SO FORTH, THE FAMILIES THAT ARE LOSING THEIR PETS THE MOST, THE VALLEY FEVER ARE LOWER INCOME FAMILIES. SO YOU ALREADY HAVE

THIS DIFFICULT SITUATION. THEN YOUR DOG GETS DIAGNOSED. YOU CAN’T AFFORD THOUSAND BUCKS A YEAR TO TREAT IT. AND SO OUR WHOLE SORT OF MISSION IS HOW DO WE BRING A $20 PREVENTATIVE VACCINE TO MARKET? ONE OF THE OTHER RESEARCHERS WORKING ON THE VACCINE IS JOHN GALGIANI ALISSON’S DOCTOR. >> THE IDEA THE VACCINE’S BEEN AROUND FOR 70 YEARS AND I’VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH MULTIPLE PROJECTS IN THE PAST SOME OF WHICH WENT TO CLINICAL TRIALS. BUT NOTHING HAS REALLY WORKED UNTIL RECENTLY. THE WAY THAT THE VACCINE WORKS IS THAT THERE’S A GENE IN THE VALLEY FEVER FUNGUS

THAT’S CRITICAL TO ITS ABILITY TO CAUSE DISEASE. TAKE THAT GENE OUT. IT WON’T CAUSE SICKNESS. THE VACCINE IS THE FUNGUS WITHOUT THAT GENE. SO STUDIES SHOW THAT IT’S SAFE AND PROTECTS AGAINST VALLEY FEVER IN THE TWO SPECIES OF ANIMALS IT’S BEEN TESTED ON, EVERYTHING. >> SHOWS THAT IT’S A VERY SPECIAL VACCINE. AND THAT MEANS IT’S NOW NOT JUST IN MICE, BUT IT’S ALSO IN. IN DOGS. >> IT’S PROTECTED. AND TO BE CLEAR, THIS VACCINE EVEN THOUGH IT’S ONLY MEANT FOR DOGS FOR NOW, IT WOULD BE GROUNDBREAKING. >> HERE’S DYLAN BALSZ AGAIN. IT WOULD BE THE

FIRST PAN FUNGAL VACCINE FOR ANY SPECIES, HUMAN HEADS, ETC.. AND THIS WOULD OPEN THE DOOR TO CREATING VACCINES FOR. >> ANY NUMBER OF POTENTIAL FUNGI INFECTIONS LIKE TAI HERNANDEZ. THEY WANT TO OPEN THE DOOR TO MORE ANTIFUNGAL VACCINES. VACCINES THAT WOULD WORK TO PROTECT PEOPLE TOO. BUT GETTING THOSE SHOTS INTO HUMAN ARMS IS GOING TO BE HARDER. FIRST OFF, THE IS TRICKY. IT’S TOUGH TO MAKE A MEDICINE OR A VACCINE THAT CAN FIGHT THE FUNGI BUT ISN’T TOXIC TO US . SECOND, DEVELOPING VACCINES FOR FUNGI IS EXPENSIVE REALLY EXPENSIVE. LABS HAVE TO GO THROUGH SUPER

RIGOROUS SAFETY TESTING, WHICH MEANS THEY NEED A BIG PHARMA COMPANY THAT THINKS GOING TO MAKE A PROFIT. THAT CAN BE HARD MATH FOR THE PHARMA COMPANY BECAUSE IDEALLY, IF A VACCINE WORKS GREAT, YOU ONLY NEED IT ONCE. GLOBALLY, FUNGAL INFECTIONS ARE SEEN AS MORE OF A PROBLEM IN POORER COUNTRIES WHERE GOVERNMENTS MIGHT NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PAY FOR A VACCINE. >> BUT SCIENTISTS HAVE HOPE THAT FUNGAL VACCINES WILL PAY OFF IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE PARADOXICALLY, THE SITUATION IS GETTING WORSE. MORE PEOPLE ARE GETTING INFECTED WITH FUNGI. JOHN GALGIANI SAYS THE VALLEY FEVER VACCINE FOR

ANIMALS COULD BE HERE SOON. THE DATA SHOW IT WORKS. IT’S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING USDA APPROVAL. BUT A HUMAN VACCINE TAKES YEARS LONGER. SCIENTISTS WILL HAVE TO SHOW THE VACCINE IS AS SAFE IN PEOPLE AS IS IN DOGS, AND THEY NEED TO LEARN A LOT MORE ABOUT HOW IT WOULD WORK IN PEOPLE. >> BUT JOHN GALGIANI BELIEVES IT’S POSSIBLE. AN OPTIMIST. I THINK IF MONEY WAS NOT AN OBJECT, WE COULD HAVE THIS UNDER CONSIDERATION AT THE FDA WITHIN EIGHT YEARS, AND WE’RE WORKING ON THAT VERY HARD. BUT HOW FAST WE GET THIS DEPENDS REALLY

ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE WANT THIS. FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AREAS THAT ARE AT RISK OF CATCHING VALLEY FEVER, THE WAIT FOR A VACCINE CAN FEEL LONG. ALISON KARSH IN TUCSON WISHES IT HAD COME IN TIME FOR HER AND PREVENTED NINE MONTHS OF MISERY. >> BUT SHE AND HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ARE GRATEFUL THAT ALLISON FINALLY HER HEALTH BACK. >> YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. OKAY, SO NOT SO MUCH, BUT STILL A LOT. YEAH. YEAH. HOW DO YOU WISH I SLEPT LIKE. >> OH, ANYWAY, WHY NOT EVEN SLEEP AWAKE ALL THE TIME? >> AND EXCEPT FOR NIGHTTIME.

YEAH. YEAH, I WOULD THAT TO BE FOR ALLISON. ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS ABOUT RECOVERY IS COMING TO TERMS WITH. THE FACT THAT WHAT MADE HER SO SICK IS A FUNGUS. A FUNGUS? >> BACTERIA? WELL, WE HAVE ANTIBIOTICS, AND IT FEELS LIKE WE HAVE SOME CONTROL OR WAY TO RESPOND. >> AND VIRUSES, WHICH WE HAVE LEARNED IN RECENT YEARS, WE DO NOT HAVE THE CONTROL OVER IT THAT WE THINK, BUT WE HAVE VACCINES AND WE HAVE ANTIVIRALS. WE HAVE WAYS TO MEDIATE. WE FEEL AT LEAST THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL. IT’S NOT SOME CONTROL. >> I

DON’T KNOW ABOUT FUNGUS. LIKE IF YOU TALKED TO A DOCTOR, THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO LIST OFF THINGS. BUT TO ME IT WAS LIKE THE FUNGI IS THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN COMPARED TO US. THE FUNGUS WINS WINS. WE’RE INCREASINGLY LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE ORGANISMS RELATED TO THE MUSHROOMS. WE ARE GETTING US VERY SICK. MOST SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT OUR GREATEST INFECTIOUS THREAT IS FROM ANOTHER VIRUS LIKE COVID-19 CAPABLE OF CAUSING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. BUT EVEN IF FUNGI AREN’T THE HIGHEST PRIORITY PATHOGEN RIGHT NOW, THERE IS A REAL RISK THAT FUNGI WILL TAKE US

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GUN. HOW POLICE SAY IT ALL UNFOLDED . MEGAN THEE STALLION IS READY FOR A HOT GIRL. SUMMER WHAT SHE’S SAYING ABOUT HER UPCOMING TOUR. PLUS, IN HONOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORY, WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING FEMALE ARTISTS. THAT’S ALL AHEAD IN THE DROP. >> WE BEGIN WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE HEARTLAND. AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER AT LEAST TEN REPORTED TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN IN FIVE STATES. NOW, OFFICIALS FROM TEXAS TO OHIO ARE COMBING THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION. ABC NEWS ALEX PRESHA IS IN HARD HIT LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO WITH THE LATEST. MILLIONS WAKING UP TO THE AFTERMATH

OF SEVERE WEATHER AFTER REPORTED TORNADOES TORE INTO THE HEARTLAND OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL OHIO. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE DIED IN LAKEVIEW WHEN SUSPECTED TORNADOES RIPPED THROUGH THE REGION. >> RESIDENTS, THEY ARE CALLING IT PURE DEVASTATION. OUR LAUNDRY MAT IS GONE. >> THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DOWNTOWN. IT’S BAD. IT’S VERY BAD. >> TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA HOMES AND STRUCTURES TORN APART. PEOPLE SEARCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT. >> ANYONE WHO MAY STILL BE TRAPPED. WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE IN THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. WE DO KNOW THAT

THERE ARE BITS OF BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT THEY DESTROYED. >> CARS MANGLED. POWER LINES STREWN. ROADS LEAVING THOUSANDS IN THE DARK. THIS BUILDING UNRECOGNIZED. IT’S METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES. I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN. >> AND THEN I STARTED HEARING SIRENS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN MY. MY WIFE. I GOT A TEXT FROM A FRIEND THAT SHE LIVES IN INDY AND HER LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AND THEIR HOUSE WAS GONE IN SELMA. >> AUTHORITIES SAY THAT UP TO 50% OF STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYTHING LIKE THIS

THAT I CAN RECALL HAS HAPPENED IN THE TOWN OF SELMA AND IN PARTS OF ARKANSAS DEALING WITH AS MUCH AS. ALEX PRESHA IN LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO. THANK YOU. MEANWHILE, PARTS OF COLORADO ARE DIGGING OUT FROM NEARLY FOUR FEET OF SNOW. AVALANCHE DANGER IS HIGH DUE TO THAT SNOW AND STRONG WINDS. ABC’S MOLA LENGHI IN GOLDEN, COLORADO WITH THE LATEST ON THAT STORY. >> HI, MARLA. WELL, THE IDEA WE’RE ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF DENVER HERE IN GOLDEN, COLORADO, WHERE JUST GOT SLAMMED ABOUT A FOOT OF SNOW OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS. YOU CAN SEE HOW

IT’S PILED UP ON THE GROUND. VEHICLES BURIED IN A CAR UNDERNEATH HERE, UNDERNEATH THIS, ROUGHLY A FOOT OF SNOW. BUT FORTUNATELY, THE SNOWFALL HAS STARTED TO TAPER OFF HERE AS THE STORM BEGINS TO MOVE OUT OF THE REGION. BUT AGAIN, NOT BEFORE SLAMMING THE REGION YESTERDAY. DENVER GETTING ABOUT TEN INCHES OF SNOW, CAUSING A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE ON AREA ROADWAYS. JUST A MESS OUT THERE. PEOPLE HAVE TO PUSH CARS AFTER GETTING STUCK. THEY’RE SPINNING OUT. TRACTOR TRAILERS WERE SPINNING THEIR WHEELS. PEOPLE GETTING OUT AND PUSHING, NEEDING HELP FROM THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TELLING VEHICLES OUT,

PUSHING VEHICLES OUT. I-70, WHICH IS A CRITICAL STRETCH OF INTERSTATE THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. MULTIPLE PARTS OF THAT WERE SHUT DOWN YESTERDAY AS TRACTOR TRAILERS WERE JACKKNIFED IN SPINNING THEIR THEIR TIRES AND ALSO NOT JUST ON THE ROADWAYS. AND IT WAS ALSO AT THE AIRPORT WHERE ABOUT 800 FLIGHTS IN AND OUT OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL WERE CANCELED. THAT WINTER STORM WARNING STILL IN EFFECT THIS MORNING, BUT IS EXPECTED TO EXPIRE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL AS THE STORM BEGINS TO MOVE OUT OF THE REGION. >> DIANE MOLA LENGHI IN GOLDEN ,COLORADO. THANK YOU. AND ABC NEWS

CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE IS TRACKING IT ALL FOR US. >> HI, GINGER. THIS IS A BIG FORECAST. WE ARE STILL SEEING SEVERE STORMS EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND IT’S GOING TO BE AN ALL DAY EVENT FOR SOME. WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. RIGHT. MORE THAN 350 SEVERE STORM REPORTS THAT INCLUDED THOSE TEN TORNADOES. THEY’RE GOING TO GET OUT AND DO THOSE SURVEYS TODAY, BUT THEY’LL BE BUSY AHEAD OF THAT FRONT BECAUSE MOSTLY HAIL THERE. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER DAY WITH, LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO, KIND OF THAT SOUTH

CENTRAL TEXAS AREA. BUT ALONG THE GULF, LOOK WHERE THOSE STORMS GET BY EVENING. SO SOME OF THAT IS GOING TO COME WITH DAMAGING WIND AND EMBEDDED TORNADOES. THAT SAME LINE THAT BLASTED THROUGH THE MID-SOUTH OVERNIGHT. THOSE GUSTY AND WILL ALSO COME ALONG WITH FLASH FLOOD THREAT BECAUSE YOU’VE BEEN SO SATURATED, YOU ADD ANOTHER 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI OR ALABAMA AND YOU COULD SEE SOME PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS AND SOME TROUBLES THERE. ALSO WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE’RE NOT DONE WITH THE SNOW IN THE WEST. YOU’VE ALSO GOT HIGH WIND ALERTS

THAT HAVE BEEN UP FOR PARTS OF CALIFORNIA. THE STATE THERE, NEVADA, TO EVEN UP INTO NORTH DAKOTA. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IT’S ABOUT THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM KIND OF CIRCULATING AROUND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST, GIVING THAT HAVE BEEN VERY DRY, MUCH NEEDED SNOW AROUND FLAGSTAFF WHERE OVER THERE, SANTA FE, THE TAOS SOUTHERN ROCKIES, FINALLY GETTING INTO SOME OF THE SNOWY FUN. >> DIANE AND CHIEF METEOROLOGIST GINGER ZEE, THANK . AND THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER IS FACING POTENTIAL PRISON TIME AFTER JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. JAMES CROMBIE WAS CONVICTED ON FOUR COUNTS FOR PROVIDING

THE GUN USED IN HIS SON’S ATTACK AND FAILING TO PREVENT THE SHOOTING. THE VERDICT COMES JUST WEEKS AFTER HIS WIFE JENNIFER, CRUMBLY, WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THE SAME CHARGES. ABC’S ALL HAS THE LATEST IN ANOTHER UNPRECEDENTED VERDICT IN MICHIGAN. JAMES AND JENNIFER CRUMBLY NOW BOTH GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD SHOOTING. >> THEY COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE SHOOTING AND SAVED THESE KIDS LIVES. A JURY OF SIX MEN AND SIX WOMEN, MANY OF THEM PARENTS AND GUN OWNERS, STAYING LATE AT THE COURTHOUSE THURSDAY. JAMES CRUMBLY GUILTY VERDICT AFTER 11

HOURS OF DELIBERATION. >> THIS VERDICT DOES NOT BRING BACK THEIR CHILDREN, BUT IT DOES MARK A MOMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY. >> JAMES CRUMBLY BOUGHT THE SHOOTER. THE WEAPON HE USED IN THE MASSACRE. THE FATHER AND SON SEEN ON VIDEO JUST DAYS BEFORE. PROSECUTORS SAY THE PARENTS IGNORED MULTIPLE RED FLAGS IN REGARDS TO THEIR SON’S MENTAL HEALTH. NOW THE COMMUNITY REMEMBERS THE FOUR OXFORD STUDENTS WHO WERE MURDERED. HANNAH SAID JULIANA MERE MADISON BALDWIN AND JUSTIN SCHILLING. MANY OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS IN COURT FOR BOTH PARENTS TRIALS. NOW CALLING FOR ACTION TO STOP FUTURE GUN VIOLENCE. CAN PUT

PEOPLE ON THE MOON. WE CAN BUILD SKYSCRAPERS, HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SCHOOLS, OUR KIDS SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> JAMES AND JENNIFER CRUMBLY WILL BE SENTENCED THE SAME DAY, APRIL 9TH. >> THEY’RE BOTH FACING UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR EACH COUNT. AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS SAY THEY AREN’T DONE. THERE IS STILL A PROMINENT LAWSUIT AGAINST THE SCHOOL THAT IS STILL ONGOING. >> DIANE TREVOR AULT, THANK YOU. AND THERE IS POTENTIAL HOPE FOR SOME OF THE THOUSANDS IN GAZA FACING STARVATION. AN AID SHIP WITH MUCH NEEDED

FOOD HAS ARRIVED IN THAT WAR RAVAGED REGION. THIS IS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER MADE A STUNNING REBUKE. ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER. HE’S CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS, CALLING AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE IN THE REGION. CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT GUTMAN HAS THE LATEST FROM JERUSALEM. >> JUST A BLISTERING CONDEMNATION. ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, BY THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER SCHUMER, WHO IS JEWISH, CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS, SAYING THAT NETANYAHU HAS, QUOTE, LOST HIS WAY. NOW, NETANYAHU’S LIKUD PARTY RESPONDING THAT ISRAEL IS NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC WHOSE LEADER CAN JUST BE SWAPPED OUT. >> WHAT IS UNMISTAKABLE IS THE

ENORMOUS PRESSURE THIS IS AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT. GOOD MORNING. I’M WHIT JOHNSON IN NEW YORK AND WE’RE COMING ON THE AIR RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN MCAFEE HAS JUST RULED. FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO OUR SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, AARON KATERSKY, BECAUSE AARON, THE WAY THE JUDGE LAID THIS OUT HERE, THERE ARE MULTIPLE OPTIONS TO WORK WITH. >> THERE ARE WITH BECAUSE HE DID NOT TOTALLY CLEAR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERE IN FULTON COUNTY FROM THE WHIFF OF IMPROPRIETY. BUT HE SAID DONALD TRUMP AND

SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS FAILED TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST POSED BY HER RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE PROSECUTION TEAM, NATHAN WADE, WHOM SHE HIRED TO HELP RUN THE CASE. BUT HE DID SAY THERE WAS AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. AND SO WHILE DISQUALIFICATION WAS NOT NECESSARY, THE JUDGE DID GIVE OPTIONS. THE DECISION, SAYS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAY CHOOSE TO STEP ASIDE ALONG WITH THE ENTIRETY OF HER OFFICE, OR SHE CAN LET NATHAN WADE GO AND THE CASE CAN CONTINUE. SO WHIT THE BALL IS NOW IN FANI WILLIS COURT TO DECIDE

HOW TO PROCEED. >> ALL RIGHT, AARON, STAND BY. LET’S BRING IN OLIVIA RUBIN, OUR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER. AND, OLIVIA, I KNOW YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CLOSELY. OF COURSE, THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP’S ATTORNEYS AND THE ATTORNEYS OF THE OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS WERE TRYING TO LAY OUT. >> IT’S EXACTLY WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S ATTORNEY, STEVE SADOW, AND MANY OF THE OTHER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS TOLD THE JUDGE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO REMOVE HER FROM THE CASE. THEY SAID THAT THERE IS ENOUGH IN GEORGIA LAW THAT SHOULD MEAN THAT AN APPEARANCE OF A CONFLICT SHOULD GET HER KICKED

OFF. BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DA ARGUED AGAINST TELLING THE JUDGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER WE SAW ALL OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, HIGH STAKES EVIDENTIARY HEARINGS SAYING THAT THERE IS NO CASE LAW, THAT JUST AN APPEARANCE OF CONFLICT SHOULD LEAD TO A DISQUALIFICATION, AND URGED THE JUDGE, REALLY, REALLY, IN THIS, I THINK IT WAS A 17 PAGE FILING SAYING THERE MUST BE AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. AND AS WE JUST HEARD FROM AARON, THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY FOUND THAT THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THAT THE TRIPS THAT THEY TOOK TOGETHER, THAT THE MONEY THAT WAS

PAID BY NATHAN WHITE’S CARD, REMEMBER FANI WILLIS SAID SHE PAID THAT BACK IN CASH, THAT SHE HAD NO FINANCIAL BENEFIT. AND THAT SHOULD DISPEL ANY IDEA THAT SHE HAD A FINANCIAL STAKE IN KEEPING THE CASE GOING. SO WHEN THE JUDGE HEARD THAT, IT SEEMS THAT THAT SEEMED TO DISPEL ANY NOTION THAT SHE HAD ANY SORT OF PERSONAL STAKE HERE. AND I THINK IT’S LIKELY THAT WE’RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE DA THAT THIS IS A WIN FOR HER CASE. I THINK IT’S NOT A, YOU KNOW, THE WORST OUTCOME THAT NATHAN WADE, WHICH IS LIKELY THE

OPTION THAT THEY’RE GOING TO CHOOSE, IS GOING TO HAVE TO STEP ASIDE BECAUSE THE CASE WILL CONTINUE FORWARD. FANI WILLIS CAN CONTINUE FORWARD AND IT DOES NOT HAVE TO GET TIED UP NOW BY THIS OUTSIDE BODY HAVING TO PICK AN ENTIRELY NEW TEAM TO COME IN AND PICK UP THE CASE, PROBABLY DELAYING IT INDEFINITELY. SO THAT HAS BEEN AVOIDED TODAY. IF THEY TAKE THE OPTION OF NATHAN WADE WITT AND OF COURSE, THE ATTORNEYS FOR TRUMP AND THE CO-DEFENDANTS WERE ACTUALLY SEEKING TO DISQUALIFY GUY WILLIS. >> SO NOW WE HAVE THESE OPTIONS TO WORK WITH. LET’S

BRING IN CHRIS TIMMONS, OUR ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR. FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR. AND CHRIS SO, SO WHERE DOES FANI WILLIS GO FROM HERE IN MAKING THIS DECISION? >> I MEAN, I THINK IT’S A NO BRAINER. I THINK NATHAN WADE, YOU KNOW, RESIGNS. I THINK HE FILED SOME SORT OF DOCUMENT THAT SAYS THAT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CASE, HE’S NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CASE. HE’S GOING TO HE’S GOING TO STEP DOWN. NOW. FANI WILLIS IS SOMEBODY WHO IS A LITTLE BIT OF A MAVERICK. SHE’S SOMEBODY WHO KIND OF FORGES HER OWN PATH. SO THERE

IS A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT SHE DECIDES TO CHALLENGE THIS RULING. BUT IF SHE’S SMART AND SHE IS VERY SMART, SHE’LL LET NATHAN WADE STEP ASIDE AND SHE’LL CONTINUE WITH THE REST OF THE OFFICE. THEY’VE GOT A DEEP BENCH IN FULTON COUNTY. THEY’VE GOT PLENTY OF PROSECUTORS WHO ARE CAPABLE OF STEPPING INTO HIS SHOES. SHE COULD BRING IN ANOTHER SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, BUT THIS LOOKS LIKE A WIN FOR THE STATE. JUST AS OLIVIA SAID, WITH ALL RIGHT, SO LET’S BRING IN BRIAN BUCHMEYER, OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND TRIAL ATTORNEY. >> AND BRIAN, JUST LOOKING AT THIS FROM THE

TRUMP AND THE CO-DEFENDANTS PERSPECTIVE, WHAT IS THE PERCEPTION OF ALL THIS DO? AND IS THERE MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR DELAY, WHICH IS WHAT THEY WANT. >> YEAH. WELL I THINK THERE IS A GOOD PERCEPTION HERE THAT WHILE IT IS ULTIMATELY IS A WIN FOR THE PROSECUTION HERE, THE JUDGE DID GIVE THEM A BIT OF AN OLIVE BRANCH, SAY THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY OR CONFLICT DID SEEM TO EXIST, AND IT MIGHT CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO APPEAL AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? THE JUDGE MADE AN INCORRECT STANCE OF APPLYING THE WRONG STANDARD, THE STANDARD OF BEING

ACTUAL CONFLICT RATHER THAN THE APPEARANCE OF IT. AND THEY CAN ASK A HIGHER COURT TO EVALUATE THIS CASE AND TAKE THE JUDGE’S ULTIMATE FINDING OF AN APPEARANCE OF CONFLICT AND SAY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE RULING. TAKE HIS UNDERSTAND OF WHAT THE EVIDENCE WAS AND COME TO A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION. AND THAT COULD CREATE A FURTHER DELAY, BRIAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. LET’S GO BACK TO AARON KATERSKY BECAUSE, AARON, I KNOW YOU’RE SORT OF DIGGING INTO THIS THIS DECISION FROM THE JUDGE HERE. AND WHAT MORE DID THE JUDGE SAY ABOUT THIS APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY? >> YEAH,

WE’RE EVEN THOUGH FANI WILLIS IS ALLOWED TO STAY ON THE CASE IF SHE GETS RID OF NATHAN WADE AS A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, THE DECISION IS REALLY UNKIND TO HER. THE JUDGE WRITING THAT AN OUTSIDER COULD REASONABLY THINK THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS NOT EXERCISING HER INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT TOTALLY FREE OF ANY COMPROMISE. RISING INFLUENCES AND ALSO LEFT UNRESOLVED, THE JUDGE SAID, IS THE ISSUE OF WHEN HER ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH NATHAN WADE STARTED THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS BELIEVED SHE HIRED HER BOYFRIEND THAT THEY WERE DATING BEFORE. BEFORE SHE BROUGHT WADE ON TO THE PROSECUTION TEAM. SHE DENIED

THAT PRETTY FORCEFULLY. BUT STILL, THE JUDGE’S DECISION SAID NEITHER SIDE WAS ABLE TO CONCLUSIVELY ESTABLISH A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE. WHEN THE RELATIONSHIP EVOLVED INTO A ROMANTIC ONE. HOWEVER, WITH THE DECISION, SAYS AN ODOR OF MENDACITY REMAINS, MEANING HE SEEMS TO DOUBT WHETHER FANI WILLIS AND NATHAN WADE WERE BEING FULLY TRUTHFUL IN THEIR TESTIMONY. >> ALL RIGHT, AARON KATERSKY, THANK YOU. LET’S GO BACK TO OLIVIA RUBIN. OLIVIA, I UNDERSTAND YOU’RE GETTING MORE REACTION TO THIS. >> WE ARE I’M JUST TEXTING RIGHT NOW WITH A COUPLE SOURCES DOWN THEIR WAY, AND THERE’S ONE ON THE DEFENSE

SIDE WHO WAS ALREADY STARTING TO HINT AT AN APPEAL FOR THIS RULING. THE INITIAL REACTION IS SAYING THEY FEEL THAT THE JUDGE, QUOTE, BENT OVER BACKWARDS TO PROTECT THE DA WITH THIS RULING. OF COURSE NOT NECESSARILY ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT IN THE ACTUAL RULING, BUT THAT IS THE SENTIMENT ON THE SIDE OF THE DEFENDANTS HERE WHO FOUGHT FOR TWO MONTHS AS PART OF THIS EFFORT TO GET THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY DISQUALIFIED AND ALREADY HINTING AT AN APPEAL, SAYING WE WILL NEED TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE APPELLATE COURT CHOOSES TO DECIDE, WHICH OF COURSE, IT WILL

KICK OFF ANOTHER SORT OF ENTIRE LEGAL ISSUE AS PART OF THIS EFFORT. AND AS I’M SURE CHRIS TIMMONS WILL TELL YOU , YOU KNOW, THERE IS A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CASE ON APPEAL. DOES IT GET STAYED AGAIN, WHICH COULD FEED RIGHT BACK INTO DONALD TRUMP’S GOAL OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS TO DELAY, DELAY, DELAY. SO ALREADY TALK OF AN APPEAL ON THE GROUND IN GEORGIA JUST MOMENTS AFTER THIS RULING HIT WITH OLIVIA. >> THANKS SO MUCH. LET’S BRING IN JOHN SANTUCCI, OUR EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER, AND JOHN, AS OLIVIA POINTED TO THERE, OF

COURSE, THE TIMING IS THE BIG QUESTION. HERE WE ARE IN AN ELECTION YEAR, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS NOW THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, AND ALL FOUR OF THESE CRIMINAL CASES NOW DEALING WITH DELAYS, POSSIBLY. >> YEAH. YOU REALLY CAN’T MAKE THIS STORY LINE UP IF YOU TRY TO IT. IT’S REMARKABLE. EVERY CASE DONALD TRUMP FACES RIGHT NOW. THE NEWS JUST YESTERDAY, THE PROSECUTORS IN MANHATTAN ARE NOW LOOKING FOR A 30 DAY DELAY IN THAT CASE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BEGIN LATER THIS MONTH ON MARCH 25TH. BUT NOW IN FULTON COUNTY AND WHIT I KNOW OLIVIA HAS

SPOKEN TO SEVERAL SOURCES AND DEFENSE ATTORNEYS. I’VE SPOKEN TO ATTORNEYS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. THEY ARE READING THIS RULING RIGHT NOW, AND I CAN TELL YOU IT THAT AS OLIVIA JUST REPORTED, THE SAME FOR TEAM TRUMP, THEY ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO APPEAL THIS CASE. BECAUSE, LOOK, IF NATHAN WADE STEPS ASIDE AS THIS RULING FROM JUDGE MCAFEE SAYS THE CASE CAN GO ON, THAT IS NOT WHAT TEAM TRUMP OR ANY OF THE OTHER 19 TOTAL DEFENDANTS WANTED HERE. THEY WANT THIS TO GO AWAY. SO HOW DO THEY GET THIS TO GO AWAY? THEY HAVE

AN APPEAL. LOOK AT ANOTHER CASE RIGHT NOW JUST FOR OUR VIEWERS AT HOME. AND STAY WITH ME. IF WE HEAD TO THE FEDERAL CASES RIGHT NOW, LOOK AT WHAT TEAM TRUMP HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL DOING IN THE JANUARY 6TH EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION CASE BROUGHT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH. THEY HAVE DELAYED THAT CASE BY APPEALING IT TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. SO HERE IN GEORGIA, OBVIOUSLY, WE’RE AT A STATE LEVEL. THE GOAL FOR TEAM TRUMP GET THIS TO THE GEORGIA STATE COURT OF APPEALS AND GET ANOTHER DELAY BECAUSE THE MOMENT, THOUGH, THERE IS NO

TRIAL DATE SET IN STONE IN GEORGIA, WIT THE PROPOSED DATE IS AUGUST. THAT IS TERRIBLY CLOSE FOR TEAM TRUMP TO NOVEMBER. >> JOHN SANTUCCI, OUR THANKS TO YOU AND THE ENTIRE TEAM ON THIS. AGAIN, THE BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. A GEORGIA JUDGE RULING DA FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THAT CASE OUT OF GEORGIA FOR NOW. WE DO WANT TO RETURN YOU TO REGULAR PROGRAMING FOR SOME PEOPLE IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. THAT’S GOOD MORNING AMERICA. OF COURSE, OUR COVERAGE CONTINUES ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND ABCNEWS.COM. AND I’LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THE ENTIRE TEAM

FOR WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. FOR NOW, I’M WHIT JOHNSON IN NEW YORK. HAVE A GREAT DAY. >> THIS HAS BEEN . THIS HAS BEEN A SPECIAL REPORT FROM ABC NEWS WATCHING ABC NEWS CONTINUING COVERAGE. THE JUDGE IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IN GEORGIA HAS RULED DAY FANI WILLIS MUST EITHER CHOOSE TO STEP ASIDE ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. SHE HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CAN WITHDRAW FROM THAT CASE. FOR MONTHS, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM

THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. I WANT TO BRING IN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT ERIC KATERSKY, WHO IS OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE. ERIN, HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS DECISION? >> WELL, IT’S SIGNIFICANT. THE JUDGE HAS SAID THAT FANI WILLIS PROBABLY DID NOT USE THE GREATEST JUDGMENT WHEN SHE BEGAN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE OF THE PROSECUTORS. ACTUALLY, HE SAID THAT AN OUTSIDER COULD REASONABLY BELIEVE A REASONABLE QUESTION. HER PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT, AND IT’S GOING TO FORCE HER TO MAKE

SOME CHANGES TO HER PROSECUTION TEAM IF SHE WANTS TO REMAIN ON THE CASE, EITHER. THE JUDGE SAID SHE AND HER WHOLE TEAM CAN GO OR NATHAN WADE, THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WHOM SHE DATED FOR A TIME, HAS TO GO. SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME CHANGES. BUT ULTIMATELY, THIS IS NOT WHAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME HIS CO-DEFENDANTS WANTED. THEY WANTED WILLIS DISQUALIFIED. THEY WANTED THE CASE DISMISSED. AND THE JUDGE WROTE, DIANE, THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SHOWING THAT THE DEFENDANT’S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED OR THAT THE ISSUES INVOLVED PREJUDICED THE DEFENDANTS

IN ANY WAY, NOR IS DISQUALIFICATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICER NECESSARY WHEN THERE IS A LESS DRASTIC OPTION AVAILABLE, NAMELY THAT, NATHAN WADE COULD SIMPLY RESIGN. NOW, IT’S GOING TO BE UP TO FANI WILLIS TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO FROM HERE. BUT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, SHE WOULD ACCEPT NATHAN RAY AND NATHAN WADE’S RESIGNATION AND, TRY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CASE HERSELF AND A NEW MEMBER OF THE TEAM. AND I WANT TO BRING IN FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMINS. >> CHRIS, I KNOW YOU WORKED WITH FANI WILLIS BEFORE. >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE JUDGE’S

DECISION HERE? I THINK IT’S A SMART DECISION BY THE JUDGE. I THINK IT’S A GOOD RULING ON BEHALF BECAUSE IT PUTS THE BALL BACK IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S COURT. IT TELLS YOU HAVE A CHOICE. IT’S FANI WILLIS. YOU CAN RESIGN, YOU CAN TAKE ENTIRE OFFICE WITH YOU OR YOU CAN HAVE NATHAN WADE RESIGN ONE OR THE OTHER. SO IT KIND OF PUTS THE BALL IN THEIR COURT. IT DOESN’T FORCE HIM TO MAKE THE ULTIMATE DECISION ON KEEPING THE ENTIRE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OUT BY DISQUALIFYING THEM. IT LETS THEM MAKE TO CHOOSE THINK IT’S A SMART DECISION.

IT’S A WELL-REASONED OPINION. IT’S A VERY LONG OPINION IMPORTANTLY FOR THE STATE. HE DID NOT FIND AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, JUST AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IS STERN TOWARDS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. I THINK, AS ERIN SAID EARLIER, AN ODOR OF MENDACITY INOT SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN AN OPINION ABOUT YOURSELF, PARTICULARLY ONE THAT’S GOING TO BE READ NATIONWIDE. SO IT’S A LITTLE BIT OF A WIN FOR THE D.A.’S OFFICE. I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO TO WHEN THEY GET TO STAY ON THE CASE, THE CASE GETS TO MOVE

FORWARD. >> AND I WANT TO GO TO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN. OLIVIA, WHAT COULD THIS MEAN FOR THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS NOW? WELL, I THINK IN SORT OF IMMEDIATE HERE AND NOW, THE D.A.’S OFFICE IS LIKELY TO SEE THIS AS WIN BECAUSE FANI WILLIS WANTED TO STAY ON THIS CASE. THE ENTIRE OFFICE WANTED TO STAY ON THIS CASE. THAT WAS THEIR GOAL. SO I THINK AS TOP AS IT MIGHT BE TO LET ONE PROSECUTOR GO, IT’S STILL A HUGE WIN FOR THEM TODAY. SO I THINK MOVING FORWARD, GOING TO SEE THEM START

TO WORK WITH THAT DECISION. BUT LIKE WE’VE STARTED TO HEAR OFF THE GROUND IS THAT WE’RE ALREADY HEARING WORD OF, YOU KNOW, TALKS AN APPEAL. SO THE QUESTION IS, DOES THIS NOW GET CAUGHT UP IN AN APPEAL? AND FOR THOSE THAT HAVE WATCHED DONALD TRUMP AND HIS OTHER LEGAL CASES, IT’S NOT EVER REALLY THE RULING THAT GETS YOU KNOW, THAT GETS THE CASE TRIPPED UP FOR HIM. IT’S THE STALLING ON THE APPEAL. THINK OF THE CASE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HE LOST HIS REQUEST TO BE GRANTED A PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY AND HAVE THE CASE TOSSED OUT, BUT

THE CASE IS STALLED. WHILE HE IS APPEALING THAT UP TO THE SUPREME COURT AND SO NOW THERE IS A QUESTION, IF IT GOES ELECTION DAY. SO THE QUESTION BECOMES, COULD THAT SAME SORT PLAN GET UNDER WAY IN GEORGIA WHERE THEY HAVE LOST THEIR EFFORT TO HAVE FULTON COUNTY D.A. FANI WILLIS THROWN OFF THE CASE, BUT CAN THEY STALL ENOUGH ON APPEAL AND THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR NOW IN GEORGIA TO SEE HOW MUCH CAN THEY TRIP IT UP? BECAUSE REMEMBER, THE D.A. HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE THAT

HAS NOT BEEN GRANTED. BUT WE WILL TRY TO SEE IF SHE IS ABLE TO GET THIS IN BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION AND. >> OUR EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER, JOHN SANTUCCI, IS WITH ME NOW IN STUDIO. JOHN TRUMP’S TEAM HERE REALLY WANTED FANI WILLIS FORCED OFF THIS CASE OR THE INDICTMENT DISMISSED ALTOGETHER. >> SO WHAT DOES THIS RULING MEAN FOR TEAM TRUMP? HOW BIG OF A BLOW IS THIS? IT’S A BIT OF A BLOW BECAUSE HERE’S THE REALITY, RIGHT? THE GOAL FOR TEAM TRUMP IS TO DELAY THE CASE. SO IF FANI WILLIS WANTS TO FIGHT THIS RIGHT,

IF SHE WANTS TO KEEP NATHAN WADE, THEN THEY GET THEIR WIN. IF I WAS FANI WILLIS GET RID OF NATHAN WADE, KEEP GOING. AND THAT’S PROBABLY, AS OLIVIA AND OTHERS ARE, IS PROBABLY WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO END UP DOING. THAT IS A MAJOR BLOW FOR TEAM TRUMP BECAUSE, LOOK, HERE’S THE REALITY AT THE MOMENT. THE D.A. HAS PROPOSED A TRIAL TO GO IN AUGUST. THAT’S RIGHT AFTER THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. COULD THEY GET IT DONE ALL IN TIME? NOT SURE. BUT THE REALITY IS DONALD TRUMP’S WHOLE LEGAL CALENDAR HAS GOTTEN SO COMPLICATED JUST

THE LAST 24 HOURS. RIGHT. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK. YOU HAVE A 30 DAY DELAY ON THAT CASE PROPOSED BY THE PROSECUTORS, NOT THE DEFENSE TEAM. THEY WANT 90 DAYS. PROSECUTORS EVEN SAYING, HEY, WE NEED MORE TIME. WE FOUND SOME NEW EVIDENCE. WE DON’T HAVE A DATE IN FLORIDA. WE’RE WAITING FOR THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH IS GOING TO HEAR THE ARGUMENTS NEXT MONTH ABOUT THE EFFORTS DELAY THE ELECTION, OVERTURNING CASE BY THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. SO THIS ONE NOW, WHICH I GOT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, MANY PEOPLE FIGURED IT WAS GOING TO BE

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER MEETING. IT WAS GOING TO GO MORE THROUGH OFF IN SOME WAYS. SO THIS GIVES THEM AN EXIT RAMP FOR THE D.A.’S. IT IS NOT A GOOD DAY FOR DONALD TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM. I CAN TELL YOU FROM WHAT HE’S SPEAKING TO ONE OF THE ATTORNEYS INVOLVED IN THIS CASE, DIANE. THEY ARE READING THIS. >> THEY’RE LOOKING AT HOW TO APPEAL. AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN FAST. AND I WANT TO BRING THAT POINT TO OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, BRIAN BUCKMIRE BRIAN, WHAT IS AN APPEAL LOOK LIKE? WHAT DOES THAT PROCESS LOOK

LIKE IN THIS CASE AND FOR THAT TIMELINE? >> WELL, TYPICALLY, DIANE, THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF APPEALS. THE OPTION OF THE COMMON ONE THAT WE SEE IS AFTER A CONVICTION. BUT WHAT I THINK DONALD TRUMP’S ATTORNEYS ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT OF WHAT’S CALLED A INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, THAT’S AN APPEAL BEFORE THE CASE IS DONE, WHICH WOULD AGAIN FEED INTO THIS OF DELAY DELAY. THE ONLY ISSUE I SEE WITH AN INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL IS IT’S AN EXCEPTION TO A RULE. WE TYPICALLY ASK DEFENDANTS TO WAIT TILL AFTER THE CASE IS DONE. >> THE OTHER ISSUE I

SEE HERE IS WHEN YOU GET THAT TYPE OF APPEAL, THEY’RE PRETTY MUCH THREE STANDARD TO ASK FOR ONE CONTROLLER IN QUESTION OF LAW OR, SOMETHING IN DISPUTE. THERE’S A SUBSTANTIAL GROUND FOR A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WHETHER TO USE ACTUAL CONFLICT OR THE APPEARANCE OF IT. >> BUT I THINK IS THE ISSUE FOR DONALD TRUMP AND HIS TEAM, THAT INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, IF SUCCESSFUL, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY ADVANCED THE ULTIMATE TERMINATION OF THE CASE. >> HAVING FANI WILLIS HER TEAM OFF THIS CASE WOULD HAVE DISMISSED THE ALLEGATIONS OR THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM OUTRIGHT. IT ONLY TO STOP DELAY

THE PROCESS UNTIL ANOTHER DAY IS FOUND. SO I DON’T THINK HAS A STRONG GROUND FOR A PASSING APPEAL IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS CASE. >> HE MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT TILL AFTERWARDS. CHRIS, COULD THIS SET A PRECEDENT? GEORGIA. I THINK SO. I MEAN, I THINK THE JUDGE DID A GREAT JOB EXPLAINING, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE LAW IS HERE ,FINDING THAT AND THAT SOMETIMES AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH. I THINK GETTING BACK TO BRIAN’S POINT THERE IN AN APPEAL, ONE OF THE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS IS TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST THIS ORDER WITH

THE ORDER THAT HE ISSUED TWO DAYS AGO. THE ORDER ON TWO DAYS AGO, THE TALK THAT KICKED OUT, THE SIX COUNTS SAID IN A FOOTNOTE THAT HE WOULD ALLOW A CERTIFICATE IMMEDIATE REVIEW, MEANING THAT HE WOULD LET AN APPEAL GO FORWARD. THAT LANGUAGE NOT IN THIS ORDER, MEANING THAT THE JUDGE IS SORT OF TIPPING HIS CAP, DIANE, THAT HE’S NOT GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL OF THIS PARTICULAR ORDER FOR THE APPEAL TO GO FORWARD TO BOTH THE JUDGE AND THE COURT OF APPEALS HAVE TO AGREE THAT THIS ISSUE IS APPEALABLE. THE JUDGE, BY LEAVING THAT

LANGUAGE OUT IN THIS ORDER ,SEEMS TO BE INDICATING THAT HE WOULD NOT ALLOW AN APPEAL TO GO FORWARD. NOW, THAT’S ABSOLUTE. THAT’S JUST SORT OF READING THE TEA LEAVES HERE, BUT THAT’S SOMETHING TO WATCH OUT FOR. >> SO, OLIVIA, TO JOHN’S POINT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY TRUMP’S TEAM WOULD LIKE THIS WHOLE INDICTMENT THROWN OUT. BUT THERE ARE OTHER STRATEGY IN THIS CASE AND ALL OF THEIR CASES IS TO DELAY, PARTICULARLY TO PUSH ALL OF THESE TRIAL DATES PAST THE ELECTION. SO HOW DOES THIS ALL FACTOR INTO THE TIMELINE HERE? >> WELL, I THINK SOMETHING THAT’S BEEN

LITTLE MISCONSTRUED DURING THIS CASE IS THE IDEA THAT NOTHING ELSE WAS GOING ON WHILE THIS TWO MONTH DISQUALIFICATION EFFORT WAS UNDERWAY. AND YES, IT CERTAINLY BACKED UP A LOT OF THE OXYGEN, UP A LOT OF THOUGHT OF THE HEARING TIME. THE JUDGE WAS NOT HEARING THINGS, OTHER ISSUES, BUT HE WAS ON THIS. SO THE QUESTION IS GOING TO BE HOW MUCH DID IT SET IT BACK? CAN THEY GET IT IN FOR THE AUGUST 5TH TRIAL DATE? DID LOSE ANY TIME. >> RIGHT. AARON KATERSKY JOHNSON, OLIVIA RUBIN, BRIAN BUCKMIRE AND CHRIS TIMMONS, THANK YOU. >> WE

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AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RULED DE FANI WILLIS MUST EITHER ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, SHE HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE FOR MONTHS. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE IMPROPRIETY. WE HAVE FULL TEAM COVERAGE BREAKING DOWN THIS DECISION, STARTING WITH SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, WHO’S OUTSIDE THAT COURTHOUSE.

>> ERIN, WALK US THROUGH THIS DECISION AND THE JUDGE’S LOGIC HERE. >> THE JUDGE DID NOT SEEM TERRIBLY PLEASED WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS AND HER EXPLANATION OF HER ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE HIRED FOR THE CASE, NATHAN WADE. BUT BOTTOM LINE, THE CASE CAN CONTINUE AS LONG AS WILLIS AGREES TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. AND THE JUDGE GAVE HER TWO OPTIONS. EITHER SHE AND HER ENTIRE TEAM CAN WALK AND TURN THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS OVER TO SOME OTHER PROSECUTOR OR NATHAN WADE. CAN SIMPLY GO. AND THAT, THE JUDGE SAID,

WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE REMEDY TO DISSIPATE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. HE DID NOT. THAT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL CONFLICT IN THE RELATIONSHIP. BUT HE DID SAY, DIANE, THAT A REASONABLE PERSON COULD CONCLUDE THAT WILLIS DID NOT EXERCISE PROPER PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT. >> NOW, I WANT TO BRING IN EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN FOR MORE ON THAT. BECAUSE, JOHN, ON THE SURFACE, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS WAS OF A WIN FOR TRUMP. BUT WHEN YOU DIG INTO IT, WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED WAS FANI WILLIS OFF THIS CASE OR THE INDICTMENT THROWN OUT ENTIRELY. SO WHAT HAPPENS? WELL, I MEAN,

BASICALLY, YOU DIDN’T GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, RIGHT? SO THE REALITY IT SAYS IT IN. THEY’RE RIGHT. THE D.A. COULD BE DISQUALIFIED ,BUT THE D.A. GETS AN OPTION, WHICH IS IF YOU THROW NATHAN WADE OFF, NEVER MIND. YOU CAN STAY. YOU WOULD THINK SHE’S GOING TO DO THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE HER GOAL IS OBVIOUSLY TO PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP. AND SHE SAID THAT YOU REMEMBER THAT TIME WHEN SHE WAS ON STAND FOR THAT UNBELIEVABLE DAY OF TESTIMONY. SHE LOOKED THE ATTORNEYS FOR DONALD TRUMP AND SAID TO THEM AT ONE POINT, YOU KNOW, I’M NOT THE ONE ON

TRIAL OVER HERE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION . THEY ARE NOT ME. BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT I’M UP HERE. SO THIS WHOLE SIDESHOW, THIS HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT’S REALLY WHAT THIS HAS DONE. THE GOAL OF TEAM TRUMP AND THE OTHER 18 DEFENDANTS HAD BEEN WHEN THIS FIRST CAME DOWN TO FIND WAYS TO DELAY THIS. RIGHT. AS ONE SOURCE SAID TO ME, WE HAVE TO FIND A BUNCH OF SHINY OBJECTS TO THROW IN THE ROAD JUST TO SLOW THIS DOWN. THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS DID THAT, BUT NOW WHAT THIS

RULING, DOES IT SAY WE’RE GETTING BACK ON TRACK THE TIME. AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TEAM TRUMP DID NOT WANT HERE. DIANE, I WANT TO GO TO FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS ON THAT BECAUSE, CHRIS, THE JUDGE FOUND HERE THAT THE DEFENDANTS FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN TO PROVE THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ACQUIRED AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR A POSSIBLE APPEAL? >> SO LOOKING AT THE DOCUMENT ITSELF, YOU HAVE TO COMPARE IT TO THE ORDER THAT CAME DOWN TWO DAYS AGO. IF YOU’LL REMEMBER, THERE WAS AN ORDER THAT CAME

DOWN TWO DAYS AGO THAT REMOVED SIX COUNTS, FOUND THAT THEY WERE INSUFFICIENT IN THAT ORDER. THERE WAS A VERY IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE THAT SAID, LOOK, IF THE D.A.’S OFFICE WANTS TO APPEAL THIS ISSUE. I WILL GRANT THEM A CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE REVIEW, MEANING I’M GOING TO LET THEM APPEAL THIS CASE. I LOOKED ALL OVER THIS ORDER TO SEE IF THERE WAS THAT SAME LANGUAGE HERE, WHICH THE JUDGE SAYS, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THE LAW IN THIS AREA IS CONFUSING. THERE’S NOT A LOT OF LAW IN THIS AREA. SO I’M GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL AS WELL. WE

DON’T SEE THAT LANGUAGE IN THIS PARTICULAR ORDER. INSTEAD, THE JUDGE IS SORT OF HIS CAP THAT HE’S NOT GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL. IT’S POSSIBLE. I MEAN, HE COULD LATER ON, IF SOMEBODY PUTS THE RIGHT INFORMATION IN THERE, THAT THAT THAT THEY CAN HAVE AN APPEAL. BUT I DON’T SEE IT RIGHT. AND SO I THINK AN APPEAL IS UNLIKELY EVEN IF THE DEFENSE WANTS ONE. >> JON, HOW’S TRUMP’S TEAM REACTING TO THIS? I HAVE A STATEMENT. WE LITERALLY JUST GOT DIANE AND THE READ IT IN PART, THIS IS FROM STEVE SAID OUR LEAD ATTORNEY ON

THE CASE READS IN PART WHILE RESPECTING THE COURT’S DECISION WE BELIEVE THE COURT DID NOT AFFORD APPROPRIATE SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OF WILLIS AND WADE, INCLUDING THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS TESTIFYING ON TRUTHFULLY ABOUT WHEN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BEGAN, AS WELL AS WILLIS’S EXTRAJUDICIAL MLK CHURCH SPEECH, WHICH IS REFERENCED IN THE RULING BY THE JUDGE WHERE SHE PLAYED THE CARD AND FALSELY ACCUSED THE DEFENDANTS AND THEIR COUNCIL OF RACISM. STEPHEN GOES ON TO SAY, WE WILL USE ALL LEGAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE AS CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO THE END OF THIS CASE, WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN

THE FIRST PLACE. THAT’S FROM STEVE SADOW, THE LEAD ATTORNEY ON THAT CASE . SO BASICALLY WHAT THAT GETS TO, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, PULL AWAY EVERYTHING ELSE. THEY’RE APPEALING. >> CHRIS, YOU HAVE WORKED WITH FANI WILLIS. YOU’VE WORKED IN THAT IN THAT SPHERE. WHAT DO YOU THINK? THIS APPEALS, LOOKS LIKE? >> I MEAN, I THINK IF THEY TRY TO APPEAL THE ISSUE THEY’RE GOING TO DO IS THEY’RE GOING TO ATTACK IT FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT BASICALLY THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE HERE TO SHOW AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. AND SO THAT’S REALLY WHERE THEY’VE GOT TO GET

IT. THAT’S AN UPHILL BATTLE, THOUGH, DIANE, BECAUSE IT’S THE COURT, THE TRIAL COURT HERE, JUDGE MCAFEE, THAT GETS TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE FACTS ARE. SO WHAT I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO DO IS THREAD THAT NEEDLE AND SAY, OKAY, WELL, THE JUDGE FOUND THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN FACTS HERE WITH REGARD TO THIS RELATIONSHIP AND YOU COURT OF APPEAL SHOULD FIND THAT THAT IS ENOUGH FOR AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. THUS THEY SHOULD BE GONE. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST STEP IN THAT PROCESS IS GETTING THE TRIAL JUDGE AGREE THAT

HE’S GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL TO PROCEED. AND THEN THE COURT OF APPEALS HAS TO SAY THAT AS WELL. AND HERE WE’RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN THAT ORDER COMPARED TO THE ORDER THAT WE SAW TWO DAYS AGO. THAT SUGGESTS THAT THE JUDGE WOULD ALLOW THEM TO APPEAL IT. WELL, SEE, THEY CAN CERTAINLY TRY. THEY’VE GOT TEN DAYS FROM NOW TO GET THAT APPEAL UP AND, GET THE CERTIFICATE OF A MEDIA RELEASE, AND THE CLOCK IS RUNNING WITH REGARD TO THE DEFENSE. >> BUT I JUST DON’T SEE IT MOVING FORWARD. I WANT TO BRING IN INVESTIGATIVE

REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN, BECAUSE OLIVIA, JOHN MENTIONED THAT CHURCH SPEECH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE. THE JUDGE ACTUALLY MENTIONS THAT IN THIS RULING. >> WHY DID THAT PLAY SUCH A BIG ROLE HERE? WELL, IT’S FASCINATING, DIANE, BECAUSE REMEMBER, IT NOT JUST THE ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT, AS YOU JUST HEARD FROM TRUMP. SORRY, DON, READING THE TRUMP STATEMENT, THEY HAD A NUMBER ISSUES THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO USE TO GET FANI WILLIS OFF THE CASE. AND STEVE SAID OUTCOMES ATTORNEY WAS REALLY LASER FOCUSED ON THE CHURCH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE RIGHT AFTER THESE ALLEGATIONS FIRST CAME OUT IN

JANUARY AND HAD TOLD THE JUDGE THAT EVEN SPEECH ALONE IN WHICH SHE SAID THAT THE ALLEGATIONS RACIALLY MOTIVATED SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GET HER KICKED OFF THE CASE. SHE SAID IT WAS PREJUDICE PREJUDICING THE DEFENDANT’S RACIAL ANIMUS. AND IT’S FASCINATING TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE THOUGHT ABOUT IT . AND IN HIS RULING, HE DID FIND THAT THE EFFECT HER SPEECH WAS TO CAST RACIAL ASPERSIONS, AN INDICTED DEFENDANT, WHICH IS FASCINATING, DIANE, BUT ULTIMATELY HE DID FIND THAT THE COURT COULD NOT FIND THAT THE SPEECH CROSSED LINE TO THE POINT WHERE THE DEFENDANTS WERE ACTUALLY DENIED

THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO A FAIR TRIAL. SO HE DID TAKE SOME ISSUE WITH THAT SPEECH, BUT THEN SAID IT WASN’T ENOUGH, WHICH IS REBUTTING TRUMP’S ATTORNEY, WHO SAID REALLY, IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH. DIANE. >> AND I WANT TO BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE FOR MORE ON THAT POINT, BECAUSE, BRIAN, NOT ONLY DID THE JUDGE HAVE THAT TO SAY ABOUT FANI WILLIS IN THE SPEECH AND SOME OF THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THIS PART OF THE CASE, THE JUDGE ALSO HAD SOME CRITICISM FOR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, NATHAN WADE, SAYING THAT HIS TESTIMONY INDICATED A

WILLINGNESS TO WRONGLY CONCEAL THE RELATIONSHIP. SO WHILE THIS RULING IS CONSIDERED A WIN FOR FANI WILLIS, WHAT DOES IT DO FOR HER CREDIBILITY AND NATHAN WADE’S CREDIBILITY? >> YEAH, WELL, I THINK AS THE JUDGE POINTED OUT, THERE’S AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY HERE . AND WHILE THE COURT OF APPEALS IN GEORGIA AND OTHER COURTS HAVE SAID THAT THERE ARE OTHER REMEDIAL ACTION THAT CAN BE TAKEN WHEN THERE IS AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY, HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? >> I DIDN’T LIKE THE WAY THAT THE TESTIMONY CAME OUT, THAT THERE WERE SOME FACTS HERE, THAT A PERSON

UNTETHERED BY KIND OF POLITICAL BIAS CAN SAY THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG HERE. AND AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED OF THEM BEING THE WAY THAT NATHAN WHEN HE TESTIFIED, AND I THINK THAT’S WHY GOING ABOUT THIS ROUTE OF THE JUDGE SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE’S NO ACTUAL HERE WHICH WOULD HAVE AN AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION. BUT THE APPEARANCE IT BASED ON THE CASE LAW, SAYS THAT I AS A JUDGE CAN COME IN AND SAY THERE ARE DIFFERENT REMEDIAL ACTION THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN. AND THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE DIFFERENT STEPS, EITHER FANI WILLIS STEPS DOWN OR NATHAN WADE NEEDS TO

BE REPLACED, IN PART BECAUSE I THINK THE WAY HE TESTIFIED. >> AND DARREN, SECOND TO GETTING THIS CASE DISMISSED, TRUMP’S TEAM WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. SO WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS HERE AND WHEN COULD WE SEE A TRIAL DATE? FANI WILLIS HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE HERE IN FULTON COUNTY, DIANE, BUT THE JUDGE HAS STILL NOT SET A TRIAL DATE. PROBABLY IN PART BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DEALING WELL WITH ALL OF THESE PRETRIAL MOTIONS. AT SOME POINT, ONCE WHATEVER APPEAL MAY OR MAY NOT OCCUR IS IS THROUGH, THE

JUDGE UNDOUBTEDLY IS GOING TO SIT DOWN, FIGURE OUT WITH THE ATTORNEYS WHEN THIS CASE CAN GO TO TRIAL. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERSELF HAS RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY NOT BE READY FOR TRIAL UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION OR EVEN INTO 2025, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE POINT OF THAT WOULD BE, BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY ALLEGATIONS IN THE INDICTMENT ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE IN THE 2020 ELECTION. BUT THERE IS NO TRIAL DATE HERE. THE ONLY FIRM TRIAL DATE THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FACING IS MARCH 25TH IN NEW YORK. AND

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TO HONOR THEIR LATE MOTHER PRINCESS DIANA, BUT THEY DID NOT APPEAR TOGETHER. THIS AS THE PALACE DEALS WITH THE FALLOUT FROM PRINCESS KATE’S PHOTO EDITING SCANDAL. ABC NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN HAS MORE. NEW SIGNS OF TROUBLE FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY. PRINCE WILLIAM AND HIS BROTHER HARRY APPEARING AT THE DIANA AWARDS, AN EVENT HONORING THEIR MOTHER BUT CHOOSING TO APPEAR TOGETHER. >> THIS EVENING’S LEGACY AWARD IS PARTICULARLY SPECIAL AS IT MARKS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR. THE DINNER RULED THAT LEGACY IS SOMETHING THAT BOTH CATHERINE AND ALL SORTS OF FOCUS ON THROUGH OUR WORK. >> WILLIAM

MADE HIS APPEARANCE IN DELIVERING REMARKS AND THEN LEAVING BEFORE PRINCE HARRY APPEARED FROM CALIFORNIA. >> MY MOM WILL BE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF ALL THE WORK THAT YOU’VE DONE. >> I’M INCREDIBLY PROUD. THIS THE FALLOUT FROM THE ROYAL SCANDAL AND CONFUSION SURROUNDING PRINCESS KATE’S HEALTH PLAGUED, THE FAMILY. THE AFP NOW SAYING KENSINGTON PALACE, WHICH HANDLES COMMUNICATIONS FOR WILLIAM AND KATE, ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT CONSIDERED A TRUSTWORTHY. THAT AFTER THEY PUT OUT THIS DOCTORED PHOTOGRAPH OF KATE AND THEIR. THESE AREAS SHOWING WHERE THE PHOTO WAS MANIPULATED. WHEN YOU’RE LET DOWN BY A SOURCE. THE BAR IS RAISED AND

WE SEND OUT TO ALL OUR TEAM AT THE MOMENT TO BE ABSOLUTELY SUPER MORE VIGILANT ABOUT THE CONTENT COMING ACROSS OUR DESK, EVEN FROM WHAT WE WOULD CALL TRUSTED SOURCES. >> THE PRINCESS ISSUING A RESPONSE AFTER AGENCIES TOOK IT DOWN, SAYING, LIKE MANY AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS, I DO OCCASIONALLY EXPERIENCE WITH EDITING. I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY APOLOGIES FOR ANY CONFUSION. THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH WE SHARED YESTERDAY CAUSED THE PHOTOSHOP DAMAGE. ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THE PUBLIC HAS SEEN KATE SINCE HER ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN JANUARY. CONCERNS OVER THE FUTURE QUEEN’S HEALTH NOW SPAWNING CONSPIRACY. >> THIS WILL

BE THE MOST SHOCKING VIDEO OF THE ENTIRE SERIES. AND I PRAY THIS IS NOT TRUE. >> I WISH IN THE SPRING. ALL THIS COMES AS HER SISTER-IN-LAW, MEGHAN MARKLE, DECIDED IT WAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE TO INSTAGRAM TO LAUNCH A NEW LIFESTYLE BRAND. AMERICAN RIVIERA ORCHARD, WHICH FEATURES THIS VIDEO OF THE MONTECITO BASED DUCHESS OF HARD AT WORK IN THE KITCHEN. >> NOW THE TRADEMARK REGISTRATION FOR MEGHAN’S NEW BRAND PROMISES THINGS LIKE COOKBOOKS, FOOD, TEXTILE OILS, TABLEWARE. >> AND THE BRAND IS ONLY LAUNCHED YESTERDAY ON INSTAGRAM, BUT ALREADY HAS WELL OVER 300,000 FOLLOWERS. DIANE JAMES

AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, AFTER LOSING LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP, HOW COLLEGE SUPERSTAR CAITLIN CLARK IS PREPARING FOR THIS YEAR’S MARCH MADNESS. ALSO AHEAD, THE SKIN CANCER SCARE. ACTRESS AND SUPERMODEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY AND HER WARNING FOR OTHERS. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. FRUSTRATED FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS AND PETITIONS. RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUCTURE FOR STORM I FIND MORE IS IN THE BULL’S. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER STREAMING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. >> IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US GIRLS TO JUST HAVE TO CROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE. HUNT FOR THE MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED. ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SHE MADE THE DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG. AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME OF THAT, YOU HAVE SAID. AND YOU COULD FEEL EVIL IN THE

ROOM ON THE 2022 1919 CENTRAL ON ABC. SO THE QUESTION IS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU SAW A MOTHER REJECT HER SON’S NEW GIRLFRIEND BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN? I’M GOING TO MEET YOUR GIRLFRIEND. YOU ARE LEAVING MY GIRLFRIEND. THIS IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND. WAS THERE A MISUNDERSTANDING. >> WELL, MAYBE. WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING? YOU’RE BEING CRAZY HERE, I THINK. >> SERIOUSLY? KNOCK IT OFF. WHAT DO YOU MEAN, KNOCK IT OFF? SO THE QUESTION IS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO SUNDAY NIGHT? ALL NEW RIGHT AFTER AMERICAN IDOL ON ABC. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION

CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. INSIDE PREMIERES A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAIN. I’VE NEVER SEEN A PLACE LIKE THIS IN MY REPORTING FROM MAR-A-LAGO IN RACHEL SCOTT. WHATEVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING. IF YOU KNEW WHY. >> WELCOME BACK. CHRISTIE BRINKLEY IS SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT A SKINCARE SCARE. THE ACTRESS AND SUPERMODEL SAYS SHE WAS LUCKY IT WAS CAUGHT EARLY AND NOT EVEN BY HER OWN DOCTOR. MORGAN NORWOOD

HAS MORE. >> SUPERMODEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY CONSIDERING MORE SELF-LOVE AFTER SHE HAD BASAL CELL CARCINOMA, THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF SKIN CANCER IN THE U.S. REMOVED FROM HER FACE. THE 70 YEAR OLD SHARING PHOTOS OF HER BANDAGED FACE WRITING ON INSTAGRAM THAT DOCTORS REMOVED THE CANCER INSTITUTE LINE UP TO PERFECTION LIKE A HOT COUTURE DIOR. >> ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY, DERMATOLOGY, MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA EVERY YEAR. >> LUCKILY, IT’S THE LEAST AGGRESSIVE OF ALL THE TYPES OF SKIN CANCER, SO WE FIND IT MOST COMMONLY ON THE HEAD AND

NECK. THOSE AREAS, THEY’RE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING UV LIGHT. YOU KNOW, THAT UV LIGHT IS ACROSS. >> BRINKLEY SHARING THAT THE CANCER WAS DISCOVERED NOT BY HER OWN DOCTOR, BUT HER DAUGHTERS. >> DURING HER DAUGHTER’S CHECKUP, SHE SAID SHE ASKED THE DOCTOR TO CHECK OUT A TINY DOT ON HER FACE. SHE WRITES, HE TOOK A LOOK AND, KNEW IMMEDIATELY IT NEEDED A BIOPSY. >> HE DID IT THEN AND THERE. SO EARLY DETECTION IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. IT’S ONE OF THE SKIN CANCERS THAT WE CAN CURE WHEN WE FIND IT. AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE ALWAYS

PREACHING ABOUT HAVING YOUR ANNUAL SKIN CHECKS AND SELF CHECKS AT HOME, BECAUSE IT REALLY CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. >> BRINKLEY NOW HER FANS AND FOLLOWERS TO USE SUN PROTECTION, ADMITTING I GOT SERIOUS A BIT LATE. I’LL BE SLATHERING ON MY SPF 30 REAPPLYING AS NEEDED, WEARING LONG SLEEVES AND A WIDE BRIMMED HAT AND DOING REGULAR TOTAL BODY CHECKUPS. THAT IS A MUST. >> AND DOCTORS RECOMMEND USING AT LEAST SPF 30 DAILY AND 50 IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE FOR A PROLONGED OF TIME. THEY EMPHASIZE THAT ANYONE CAN GET SKIN CANCER. SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO

TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT ANY NEW LESIONS OR MOLES. >> DIANE MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU. AND SO LET’S THIS TO OUR DOCTOR. >> ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL JOINS ME NOW MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL WE’RE HEADING INTO SPRING AND SPRING BREAK SEASON. SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW AS WE START TO SPEND MORE TIME OUTSIDE? AND WHAT SHOULD WE BE LOOKING FOR WHEN IT COMES TO MARKS ON OUR SKIN? >> YOU KNOW, I REALLY COMMEND CHRISTINE BRINKLEY AND SPREADING AWARENESS BECAUSE SKIN CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN THE UNITED STATES. ONE

IN FIVE PEOPLE WILL DEVELOP IT IN THEIR LIFETIME. AND ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY, EXPOSURE TO ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, WE KNOW THAT IS FROM THE SUN OR INDOOR TANNING BEDS IS THE MOST PREVENTABLE EXPOSURE. >> SO IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU AVOID THOSE TANNING BEDS. AND IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE ON THE SUN. YOU’RE COVERING UP WITH LONG SLEEVES, A HAT YOU’RE WEARING, SPF ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. >> NOW, SUBTLE FINDINGS OF SKIN CANCER COULD BE THE CHANGE IN THE SIZE, SHAPE OR COLOR OF A MOLE, A SKIN, LESIONS ANY ABNORMAL GROWTH ON YOUR

SKIN. >> SO YOU WANT TO GET THOSE CHECKED OUT BY A BOARD DERMATOLOGIST. AND THOSE SELF SKIN CHECKS ARE CRUCIAL. IN FACT HALF OF ALL MELANOMAS, WHICH ARE THE TYPE OF SKIN CANCER, ARE SELF DETECTED. >> SO THIS CAN ABSOLUTELY SAVE LIVES. IT’S GREAT ADVICE. IT’S ALSO FRIDAY. SO I WANT TO GET TO SOME VIEWER QUESTIONS. JAMES FROM VIRGINIA ASKS, HOW CAN I TELL IF A SORE THROAT IS, STREP THROAT OR SOMETHING ELSE? STREP THROAT SO PAINFUL. >> SO THE ONLY REAL WAY TO TELL IS TO GO TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE AND GET SWABBED BECAUSE

THE MAJORITY OF SORE THROATS ARE ACTUALLY CAUSED BY VIRUSES IN SOME THEY CAN CAUSE BACTERIA SUCH AS GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS, HENCE THE NAME STREP THROAT THAT PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THESE AWFUL SUCH AS PAIN WHEN SWALLOWING THOSE RED SWOLLEN TONSILS BUMPS ON THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH AND USUALLY NO COUGH. BUT YOU CAN HAVE A FEVER. AN IMPORTANT NOTE, DIANA, IF YOU ARE DIAGNOSED OR YOUR CHILD DIAGNOSED WITH STREP THROAT, YOU’RE GIVEN ANTIBIOTICS THAT YOU TAKE THEM AS AND FINISH THEM, EVEN IF YOU’RE FEELING BETTER BECAUSE UNTREATED STREP THROAT, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS

REALLY CONTAGIOUS, CAN LEAD TO SOME SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS. I WANT TO ALSO GET TO ALISHA FROM SAN DIEGO. SHE WRITES, THERE’S ALL THIS NEW RAGE AROUND MAGNESIUM AT NIGHT. IT IS EVERYWHERE NOW. >> THOUGHTS? I LOVE THE WAY ALISHA RAISES QUESTION BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF RAGE AROUND IT. >> AND I LOVE A GOOD SUPPLEMENT . DEEP DIVE. SO MAGNESIUM IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN OUR BODIES. IT’S INVOLVED HUNDREDS OF CELLULAR REACTIONS, INCLUDING MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS BRAIN SIGNALING HOW OUR HEARTS WORK AND SLEEP AND LOW. MAGNESIUM HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH POOR SLEEP QUALITY. NOW THE FLIPSIDE MAGNESIUM

SUPPLEMENTATION, WHICH IS ACTUALLY GIVEN UNDER MEDICAL GUIDANCE FOR A LOT OF CONDITIONS, CAN IMPROVE SLEEP QUALITY, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A MEDICAL REASON TO HAVE LOW MAGNESIUM. >> BUT IF YOUR SLEEP IS AFFECTED BY CONDITIONS SUCH AS NOCTURNAL CRAMPS OR RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME, MAGNESIUM MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER. SO, YES, PEOPLE WANT TO GO OUT AND TAKE MCG, BUT REMEMBER THERE CAN BE SIDE EFFECTS. MAGNESIUM CAN INTERACT WITH CERTAIN MEDICATIONS. SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO GET IT NATURALLY FROM YOUR DIET GREEN, LEAFY VEGETABLES, NUTS LEGUMES, WHOLE GRAINS. GREAT WAYS TO GET MAD.

AND IF YOU ARE WORRIED TO GET YOUR LEVELS CHECKED BY DOCTOR. >> GREAT WAY TO GET MAG. I THINK YOU JUST MAY HAVE CREATED A NEW TERM THERE. DR. PATEL. HASHTAG GET DR. ALOK PATEL. ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THANK YOU. >> AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR. PATEL, JUST LEAVE HIM A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED AT ABC NEWS LIVE AND HE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY. THEN ON MARCH MADNESS IS SET TO GET UNDERWAY AS COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAMS COMPETE FOR A SPOT IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. WE’VE ALREADY SEEN

SOME TEAMS PUNCH THEIR TICKETS, BUT WE’VE ALSO SEEN SOME STUNNING UPSETS. ABC’S MORGAN NORWOOD HAS THE HIGHLIGHTS AND A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME. >> AND Z STATE WINS IT OVER DUKE HERE IN THE QUARTERFINALS . >> THEY KNOCKED OFF THE NUMBER TWO SEED. THAT’S GOOD BALL MAGIC THAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MARCH. AS COLLEGE TEAMS BYE BOARD TAKE IT TO THE BIG DANCE WITH SELECTION SUNDAY JUST TWO DAYS AWAY. DO OR DIE BATTLE IN A STUNNING UPSET 10TH SEED NC STATE KNOCKING OFF SECOND SEED DUKE IN ATC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINALS KEEPING THEIR MARCH MADNESS HOPES ALIVE.

>> REALLY HAS TO WORK DEFENSIVELY TO THE BUCKET IN A DAY OF UPSETS. DEVIN CARTER LEADING THE SEVENTH SEEDED PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS TO ITS STUNNING UPSET OVER SECOND SEED BRITAIN TO REACH THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BIG EAST TOURNAMENT. ST BONAVENTURE AS THE NUMBER SEVEN SEED GOES INTO THE SEMIFINAL ROUND. THE BATTLING IT OUT FOR A SPOT ON SELECTION SUNDAY WHEN BOTH THE MEN AND WOMEN WILL FIND OUT WHO THEY’LL BE UP AGAINST FOR THE MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT WITH THE HANDS. BRILLIANT IN ALL EYES ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S AFTER LOSING TO LSU AND ANGEL REESE

IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP, WHICH DREW 9.9 MILLION VIEWERS. THE DEVIL IN SCORING LEADER TELLING ALL ROBERTS HOW SHE’S GEARING UP FOR THIS TIME AROUND. >> SO HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR FINAL MARCH MADNESS? MARCH MADNESS, I THINK, IN MY OPINION, IS THE BEST POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT. ALL SPORTS. AND I’VE BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE OF AN UPSET MY SOPHOMORE YEAR WE LOST A GREAT AND IN THE ROUND OF 32 AND WE WERE TWO SEED. SO I THINK UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR SEASON CAN END IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO PLAY.

BUT ALSO IT GOES SO FAST, LIKE JUST SOAK IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT AND EVERY SINGLE SECOND. SO JUST ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN WITH MY TEAMMATES CAUSE IT’LL BE OVER BEFORE I KNOW IT. >> AND SO A LOT OF EYES ON CAITLIN CLARK AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS MOMENT FROM OVERNIGHT. 2.3 SECONDS LEFT IN REGULATION. CAN JONES MARQUETTE WITH A BUZZER BEATER OVER THE WIN OVER SO THEY THOUGHT THE GOLDEN GOING INTO OVERTIME IN ORDER TO FINISH THE JOB AND THEN TEXAS A&M TAKING DOWN LAMAR PUNCHING THEIR TICKET TO THE BIG DANCE.

IT’S THE FIRST IN THE SCHOOL’S HISTORY. DIANE MORGAN NORWOOD, THANKS FOR THAT. AND CAITLIN CLARK WENT ONE ON ONE WITH OUR ROBIN ROBERTS TALKING ABOUT THE SOARING POPULARITY OF WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND WHY IT’S THE RIGHT FOR HER TO ENTER THE WNBA. YOU CAN SEE THAT NEWS SPECIAL TONIGHT AT 830 EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND STREAMING TOMORROW ON HULU. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO, ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. AND REMEMBER YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES

THE ABC NEWS AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NT? TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING. MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION AT “GMA3”. WE LOVE DOGS. LOVE DOGS. AND NEXT WEEK, WE’RE ABOUT TO REVEAL LIVE ONLY “GMA”. THE MOST POPULAR DOG BREEDS RIGHT NOW. SO WHAT MADE THE LIST? IT’S GOING TO BE A BIG ONE. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC

NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE” TO THE MOMENTUM AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST. >> LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US AS

IT HAPPENING ACROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW, 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SHE MADE THE DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG. AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID. >> YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON THE 2020 TO MAKE IT THE 19TH CENTURY ON ABC. WE’RE IN MIAMI. SHE’S GOT A GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT’S LOUD OUT AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE

ACCESS. WE ARE A POLITICAL PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING TO COUNTRY. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. SPORTS WASHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG A REGIME, YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAIN COLORS THE AND BUSINESS OF SPORTS WASHING NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> YOU’RE WATCHING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING LINE FOR BREAKING NEWS. EXCLUSIVES STREWN WITH NEWS LIVE. HI I’M DIANE POTATO TODAY ON ABC LIVE. FIRST BREAKING NEWS, THE JUDGE OVERSEEING THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GEORGIA RULES DATE CAN

REMAIN ON THE WITH CONDITIONS. BUT HE SAYS FANI WILLIS NEEDS TO DECIDE ORDER TO AVOID AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR. THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER REBUKE WHY HE’S CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL AND THE FALLOUT ON THIS FIRST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE UNDER SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS. AT LEAST TEN TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN FIVE STATES WHERE THE STORM IS HEADED NEXT. AND TODAY IS WORLD SLEEP DAY. YOU CAN PRIME YOUR BODY FOR QUALITY SLEEP AS WE HEAD INTO SPRING AND SUMMER. >> WE BEGIN

WITH THAT BREAKING NEWS. THE JUDGE IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RULED THAT DE FANI WILLIS MUST CHOOSE TO EITHER STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH. CAN FROM THE CASE. FOR MONTHS, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CODEFENDANT HAVE PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN. THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY

JOINS ME NOW FROM ATLANTA ALONG WITH ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI, FORMER PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS, AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE AS WELL AS IN OUR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN. >> SO, ERIN, WALK ME THROUGH ULTIMATUM. THE JUDGE ESSENTIALLY IS HANDING DOWN TO FANI WILLIS BECAUSE HE’S SAYING YOU CAN STAY, BUT THERE ARE DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE HERE. >> AND THAT, I THINK, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE RULING, THE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NOW MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS CAN CONTINUE. BUT IN ORDER FOR FANI

WILLIS TO REMAIN ON THE CASE, THE JUDGE WILL ALLOW HER TO DO, SHE’D HAVE TO FIRE HER EX-BOYFRIEND, NATHAN WADE. SHE HIRED HIM AND SUBSEQUENTLY SAYS BEGAN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP THAT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS SAID POSED AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND. THEY ARGUED THAT SHE ONLY HIRED HIM SO THAT HE COULDN’T AFFORD TO TAKE HER ON. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT SHE FORCEFULLY DENIED IN PUBLIC TESTIMONY. AND THE JUDGE’S ORDER SAID THERE IS AN ODOR OF MENDACITY ABOUT. WILLIS’S TESTIMONY. HE’S NOT CONVINCED THAT SHE TESTIFIED ABOUT WHEN THAT RELATIONSHIP BEGAN, BUT NONETHELESS SAID THERE

WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT PROOF. BUT THERE WAS AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED EITHER FANI WILLIS AND HER WHOLE TEAM PACKING UP AND LEAVING THE CASE OR BY ACCEPTING THE RESIGNATION OF NATHAN WADE. SO WE’LL WAIT TO SEE WHAT FANI WILLIS DOES. BUT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, DIANE, SHE WOULD OPT TO STAY ON THE CASE AND LET IT GO. CHRIS THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENT PIECES TO THE PUZZLE HERE, INCLUDING THE TIMING OF FANI WILLIS NATHAN WADE’S RELATIONSHIP, HOW THEY PAID FOR TRIPS AND DATES AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE TIMELINE IN THIS CASE.

SO WHAT DO YOU LOOKING AT THE JUDGE’S DECISION, WHAT STICKS OUT TO YOU? >> I MEAN, A COUPLE OF THINGS STICK OUT TO ME. FIRST OF ALL, THE RESULT AND THAT WAS SORT OF AN UNUSUAL DECISION. I DON’T THINK MANY PEOPLE SAW THAT COMING. I MEAN, THE THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAS TO MAKE BETWEEN RECUSING THE ENTIRE OFFICE VERSUS JUST REMOVING NATHAN WADE FROM THE CASE IS NOT SOMETHING I THINK THAT ANYBODY REALLY SAW. THE OTHER THING THAT STICKS OUT TO ME, THOUGH, IS THE LANGUAGE IS FAIRLY SCATHING TOWARDS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. I’M LOOKING AT

PAGE NINE RIGHT NOW AND IT SAYS ON IT, YOU KNOW, WE’RE FIRST TO A TREMENDOUS LAX LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND ALSO REFERS TO THE UNPROFESSIONAL MANNER OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S TESTIMONY DURING THE EVIDENTIARY HEARING. YOU JUST TYPICALLY DON’T SEE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT IN OPINION. SO THAT’S UNUSUAL AS WELL. >> DIANE. JOHN, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TRUMP’S TEAM HERE? BECAUSE ON THE ONE HAND, THEY GOT A FEW DIGS IN HERE TO NATHAN WADE AND FANI WILLIS HIS CREDIBILITY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS INDICTMENT IS NOT GETTING DISMISSED AND FANI WILLIS STAY ON THE CASE IF

SHE CHOOSES TO. >> IT’S NOT A GOOD DAY FOR DONALD TRUMP FOR HIS LEGAL TEAM. RIGHT. BECAUSE THE REALITY WAS AND OLIVIA, WHO KNOWS THIS BETTER THAN I DO, THEY HAVE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE THIS GO AWAY FOR THE LONGEST TIME POSSIBLE WITH THIS RULING. BASICALLY DOES IS, HEY, GET RID OF THIS ONE GUY THAT YOU’RE NOT REALLY A FAN OF PROBABLY RIGHT NOW ANYWAY, AFTER THE FACT THAT THIS IS ALL CAUSED BY THAT RELATIONSHIP. GET RID OF HIM. YOU CAN KEEP GOING IF THAT HAPPENS. THAT IS THE WORST RULING FOR DONALD TRUMP AND HIS

TEAM. AND I CAN TELL YOU ALREADY SPEAKING HIS LAWYERS, WE’VE ALREADY GOT A STATEMENT FROM THEM. THEY ARE GOING TO APPEAL THAT. AND I KNOW YOU’VE HEARD, OLIVIA, THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO THE SAME. THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE ELECTION, RIGHT? SO IF THEY CAN GET IT, IF A JUDGE SETS A DATE AS WELL, WE CAN MAYBE DO IT SOMETIME IN THE FALL. THEN YOU COULD SAY, WELL, JUDGE, WE’RE CLOSE TO ELECTION. HE’S THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. WE’RE CLOSE FOR COMFORT. BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS PROPOSED DATE OF AUGUST IS

A PROBLEM FOR TEAM TRUMP. NOW, LOOK, THE THING THAT WE SHOULD JUST MAKE NOTE OF AND CHRIS TIMMINS COULD YOU COULD WEIGH IN ON THIS BETTER THAN I CAN. THERE HAS AN ONGOING RICO CASE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA RIGHT NOW INVOLVING THE YSL GANG THAT IS GOING ON FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. SO EVEN IF LET’S SAY THEY COULD START A TRIAL IN AUGUST, IT’S NOT LIKE IT’D BE A CASE THAT WOULD GET DONE BEFORE NOVEMBER’S. THEY SAID WHEN THEY INITIALLY INDICTED DONALD TRUMP, THIS WOULD BE A CASE WOULD TAKE AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS. SO THE

REALITY IS THAT EVEN ON THAT AS HIGH AS THAT, IT’S STILL PRETTY TIGHT. BUT REGARDLESS, AT THE MOMENT, THEY GOT A GREEN LIGHT TO GO. IT MEANS AT THE MOMENT IT WILL GO JUST A MATTER OF WHEN. SO, CHRIS, I’LL LET YOU RESPOND TO THAT. WHAT DO YOU THINK IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE HERE, ESPECIALLY LOOKING AT THESE TWO CASES? AND DIANE, IT’S A CRAZY TIMELINE BECAUSE GOT TO ADD IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FACTORS, ONE OF WHICH IS FANI WILLIS AND THE BOTH HAVE OPPOSITION IN THIS CURRENT RACE COMING UP. SO LET’S ASSUME EITHER

ONE OF THEM LOSE THAT RACE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE MID TRIAL AND YOU’VE GOT A JUDGE WHO IS NO LONGER A JUDGE ANYMORE OR LET’S SAY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS MADE TRIAL AND THEN COME JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS PAST THAT FOUR MONTHS THAT SHE SUGGESTED THE CASE WOULD CHANGE ,THEY ARE WOULD TAKE TO TRY. SO THEN AT THAT POINT, YOU’VE GOT A NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN WHO MAY DECIDE TO DISMISS THE CASE. AND SO I THINK IT’S AN UNUSUAL SITUATION. WE KEEP SAYING THAT OVER AND OVER. I’VE HEARD AND OLIVIA

RUBIN SAY IT MULTIPLE TIMES. WE ARE IN UNCHARTED WATERS. >> AND SO IT’S DIFFICULT TO SAY WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. BRIAN, I’M SHORT ON, BUT QUICKLY, WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR IN TERMS OF THIS APPEAL? >> I’M LOOKING FOR WHAT THEY’RE ASKING FOR AND WHAT STANDARDS ARE ASKING FOR AND OR NOT? THIS IS AN INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, AS CHRIS TANDEN’S ALREADY HIGHLIGHTED. IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THE LANGUAGE IN THIS DECISION WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE WHO HAS TO AGREE TO IT, WOULD AGREE TO TO AN APPEAL TO GO TO A HIGHER COURT. I JUST

WANT TO SEE ARGUMENTS ON HOW DOUBLE DOWN ON THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT RATHER THAN AN ACTUAL IMPROPRIETY. >> OLIVIA, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS HERE FOR THIS TRIAL AND THIS TRIAL DATE? WELL, I THINK THERE’S SO MANY VARIABLES STILL AT PLAY, DIANE. REMEMBER, THERE IS THE QUESTION OF IS IT GOING TO GO TRIAL IN AUGUST? BUT ALSO, THE JUDGE HAS SAID THAT ALL OF THESE DEFENDANTS, THOSE 15 DEFENDANTS, THE JUDGE HAS ALREADY SAID WE CAN’T DO ONE TRIAL HERE. SO EVEN THOUGH THE D.A. HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST 5TH TRIAL,

SHE’S DEALING WITH THE REALITY THAT NOW SHE’S GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE TWO TRIALS. SO THERE ARE SO MANY STILL UP IN AIR. THE QUESTION ALSO IS HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY LOSE DEALING WITH THIS TWO MONTH DISQUALIFICATION EFFORT WHEN THE JUDGE WAS HOLDING EVIDENTIARY HEARING, READING MOTIONS, ISSUING RULINGS? HOW MUCH DID THAT REALLY SET THEM BACK? BECAUSE IF THEY’RE LOOKING FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE, EVERY DAY THEY SPEND ON THIS CLOSES THEIR WINDOW TO GET IN A TRIAL DAY BY DAY BY DAY. SO DID THEY GET SET BACK ENOUGH? I DON’T KNOW IF THE

JUDGE IS GOING TO FEEL COMFORTABLE HOLDING STARTING A FOUR MONTH TRIAL ON AUGUST ONE. DONALD TRUMP MIGHT BE OUT FOR THE ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 5TH. SO IT’S GOING TO BE A QUESTION OF HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY LOSE? HOW MUCH CAN THEY GET IN? IN ONE CASE? >> AND WILL THEY BE ABLE TO STICK IT FOR AUGUST 5TH? ALL RIGHT, AARON, JOHN, OLIVIA, CHRIS, BRIAN, THANK YOU ALL. MEANWHILE, AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER AT LEAST TEN REPORTED TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN IN FIVE STATES. NOW FROM TEXAS TO OHIO ARE COMBING THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION. ABC

NEWS ALEX PRESHA IS IN HARD HIT LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO WITH THE LATEST ON MILLIONS WAKING UP TO THE AFTERMATH. SEVERE WEATHER AFTER REPORTED TORNADOES TORE INTO THE HEARTLAND OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL OHIO. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE DIED IN LAKEVIEW WHEN SUSPECTED TORNADOES RIPPED THROUGH THE REGION. >> RESIDENTS, THEY ARE CALLING IT PURE DEVASTATION. OUR LAUNDROMAT GONE. THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED DOWNTOWN. IT’S BAD. YEAH, IT’S VERY BAD. >> TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA. HOMES, STRUCTURES TORN APART, PEOPLE SEARCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ANYONE WHO MAY STILL BE TRAPPED. >>

WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE IN THE SOUTH, IN THE TOWN. >> WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT THEY COMPLETELY DESTROYED CARS, MANGLED POWER LINES STREWN ACROSS ROADS, LEAVING IN THE DARK. THIS BUILDING UNRECOGNIZABLE. ITS METAL WRAPPED AROUND TREES. >> I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN AND THEN I STARTED HEARING SIRENS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN MY MY WIFE, I GOT A TEXT FROM A FRIEND THAT SHE LIVES IN INDIA AND HER PARENTS LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AND THEIR HOUSE WAS GONE IN SELMA. >> AUTHORITIES

THERE SAY THAT UP TO 50% OF STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYTHING LIKE THIS THAT I CAN RECALL HAS HAPPENED IN THE TOWN OF SELMA AND IN PARTS OF ARKANSAS DEALING WITH FLOODING AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES IN SOME PLACES. >> DIANE ALEX PRESHA IN LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO. ALEX, THANK YOU. AND ARE COMING IN AFTER SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER MADE A FORMAL ADDRESS ON THE SENATE WITH A STUNNING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. >> SCHUMER, WHO HAS LARGELY STAYED SILENT AS OTHERS IN HIS PARTY HAVE CRITICIZED THE

ISRAELI LEADER, CALLED NETANYAHU AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. >> ABC’S SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN JOINS US NOW FROM WITH MORE ON THAT. MATT, THIS MORNING WE HEARD NETANYAHU APPROVE PLANS FOR THE NEXT STAGE IN THE WAR. >> SO TELL US ABOUT WHAT’S EXPECTED TO HAPPEN NEXT YEAR AND WHAT THE GENERAL REACTION HAS BEEN IN ISRAEL TO SENATOR SCHUMER SPEECH. WELL, CERTAINLY, DIANE, THE DECISION TO LAUNCH THIS LONG ANTICIPATED INVASION OF THE SOUTHERN GAZA OF RAFAH IS NOT GOING TO INGRATIATE PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU ANY MORE TO THE DEMOCRATS AND TO SENATOR SCHUMER. THIS IS EXACTLY THE

KIND THING THAT THE MAJORITY LEADER SAID IN THE SPEECH THAT NETANYAHU HAS LOST HIS WAY. SO AS I UNDERSTAND IT FROM A BRIEFING THAT WE WERE IN, JUST THE OTHER NIGHT, WHAT THE ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS TO DO AND THIS IS THE APPROVED PLAN TO SOMEHOW EVACUATE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE, MANY OF WHOM HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED FROM OTHER AREAS IN GAZA TO DIFFERENT PLACES IN GAZA, INTO ENCLAVES THAT THEY SAY WILL BE PROTECTED BY HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND ISRAEL. AND THEN THEY’RE GOING TO GO IN TO GAZA. UNCLEAR WHEN THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN

OR HOW LONG IT’S GOING TO TAKE. BUT FOR ISRAEL THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LAST LINK IN THEIR WAR OR THE MAJOR PRIMARY MILITARY EFFORT IN THEIR WAR, HAMAS DIANA. AND, MATT, WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE ONGOING EFFORTS? >> GET MORE AID INTO GAZA? IS ISRAEL HELPING WITH THAT? SO ISRAEL IS DEFINITELY FEELING THE PRESSURE FROM THE U.S. AT THIS POINT AND MASSIVE PRESSURE AND TO THAT END. THEY ARE NOW TALKING ABOUT FLOODING THE GAZA STRIP WITH A THEY’VE OPENED UP TWO NEW LAND ROUTES. >> THEY’RE HAVE SHIPS COMING IN THE

WORLD KITCHEN SHIP IS LANDING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW, DELIVERING SUPPLIES. A NEW OPENING UP BY A U.S. SHIP THAT’S GOING TO BUILD A NEW PIER AIRDROPS AS WELL. ISRAEL SAYS THAT THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS DISTRIBUTION, THAT THE U.N. AND OTHER NGO IS ON THE GROUND SIMPLY DON’T HAVE THE CAPACITY, DON’T HAVE THE TRUCKS TO BE ABLE TO GET THE AID TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO. >> AND INDEED, WE SAW A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT OF AID JUST SITTING THERE IN THE SUN WAITING TO BE PICKED UP. THE U.N. CONTENDS THAT IT HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY.

THAT’S CAN’T PICK UP THE AID AND DELIVER IT. >> THIS IS AT THIS POINT A HE SAID SHE SAID. BUT WHAT IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR IS THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO GET MORE AID AND IS MUCH MORE SENSITIVE TO THE U.S. CRITICISM, WHICH IS BECOMING MUCH MORE CRITICAL, MUCH MORE INTENSE OVER PAST DAYS AND WEEKS DIANA. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN, THANK YOU. AND I WANT TO BRING IN SEAN CARROLL, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF AN ERA AND CEO OF AN ERA VENTURES, WHICH PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND SPECIFICALLY TO PEOPLE IN GAZA, THE

WEST BANK, LEBANON AND JORDAN. SEAN, THANKS FOR COMING ON. I KNOW IT’S A REALLY BUSY TIME FOR, YOU KNOW, A NURSE CURRENTLY WORKING TO DISTRIBUTE AID ON THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP, WHICH IS CALLED ARMS. AND CAN YOU ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON HOW THAT’S GOING THE TYPE OF AID ON BOARD AND WHEN IT’S EXPECTED REACH PEOPLE IN GAZA? >> WELL, WE BEEN WORKING AS A CLOSE PARTNER WITH WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN, THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS WAR. I CONTACTED THEM ON OCTOBER SEVENTH AND SAID, WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO WORK TOGETHER AGAIN

AS WE HAD IN IN PREVIOUS BOMBING CAMPAIGNS. AND THEY HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL PARTNER PROVIDING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL SUPPORT EARLY ON. SO THAT A NEAR AND IT’S TEAM IN GAZA, A TEAM OF PALESTINIANS WHO ARE ARE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE FROM COULD PROCURE FOOD LOCALLY BEGIN DELIVERING MORE THAN 100,000 MEALS A DAY HOT MEALS, FRESH PRODUCE, FOOD PARCELS, AND THEN WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAS BEEN HELPING BY BRINGING IN FOOD. AND THIS LATEST OF THEIRS TO BRING IN THIS BOAT IS ANOTHER HERCULEAN THAT BOTH SANDYS AND THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAVE UNDERTAKEN. NOT CLEAR, ACTUALLY,

WHAT ROLE WE OR OTHERS WILL HAVE ON THE DISTRIBUTION. THIS IS THIS IS A PILOT AND TO BE TESTED AND WE STAND READY TO HELP. BUT DISTRIBUTION IS DIFFICULT AS AS YOU WERE JUST DISCUSSING, WE NEED BUILD MORE CAPACITY. IT’S TRUE THAT THERE ISN’T ENOUGH CAPACITY INSIDE, BUT THAT’S BECAUSE THERE’S AN ONGOING WAR AND IT IS DANGEROUS AND NEAR LOST ONE OF ITS STAFF MEMBERS KILLED BY AN ISRAELI STRIKE LAST FRIDAY, A WEEK AGO, ONE OF OUR 12 STAFF IN GAZA, WE’VE NEVER LOST SOMEONE IN 56 YEARS OF WORKING IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. SO THIS

IS HARD FOR US AND IT MAKES THE WORK DIFFICULT. IT SCARES OUR OUR WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. BUT GOING TO KEEP GOING. WE’RE DELIVERING A MILLION MEALS A WEEK. WE WILL KEEP DOING THAT. BUT ALL OF US NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO INCREASE THE AID COMING IN, INCLUDING BY INCREASING CAPACITY ON THE INSIDE. IF IF THERE IF THE NUMBER OF TRUCKS ON THE INSIDE MEANING, THE TRUCKS THAT ARE COMING TO THE BORDER AREN’T ENOUGH, WE NEED TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER. WE ALSO NEED TO BRING TRUCKS IN STRAIGHT ACROSS THE BORDER. IT DOESN’T MAKE IT EASIER

IF TRUCKS NEED TO OFFLOAD AND THE NEW TRUCKS NEED TO COME AND UPLOAD, PARTICULARLY IF THERE AREN’T AS MANY TRUCKS ON THE INSIDE AS THERE ARE ON THE OUTSIDE. SO THERE ARE TOO MANY TRUCKS AT THE BORDER. WE NEED TO INCREASE CAPACITY ON THE INSIDE AND EUROPE CAN HELP WITH THAT. WE BECOME A TRUSTED AND WELL-KNOWN MILE PARTNER FOR MORE THAN 40 ORGANIZATIONS. WE NEED TO HAVE THE PERMISSIONS AND FUNDING, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM DONORS. WE NEED MORE IF GOING TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY BY ACTUALLY IMPORTING TRUCKS, ENSURING WE HAVE ENOUGH

FUEL. AND MOST OF ALL, ISRAEL NEEDS TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF AID WORKERS IN ALL OF THE ROUTES THAT WE TAKE AND WE STAND READY TO HELP AND DELIVER MORE AS LONG AS WE HAVE THOSE SECURITY ASSURANCES. >> SO, SEAN, IS IT AN EVEN IF YOU GET THOSE ASSURANCES, CAN YOU MEET THIS NEED? WE ARE CONSTANTLY FROM SOURCES LIKE THE U.N. ABOUT A FAMINE AND STARVATION, TERMS LIKE THAT, AND DESCRIBING WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GAZA. SO WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MEET THIS NEE >> WELL, LOOK, NO ONE IS IS NO ONE IN GAZA

IS HAVING MORE THAN A MEAL A DAY. THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS A GOOD PIECE TODAY ON FINDING FOOD IN GAZA AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. AND NO ONE NO ONE EXPECTS TO IS ABLE TO HAVE MORE THAN A MEAL A DAY. BUT EVEN AT THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, WE NEED OVER 2 MILLION MEALS. WE’RE PROVIDING ABOUT 150,000 A DAY. WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN, A SIMILAR NUMBER OR HIGHER TOGETHER. WE’VE WE’VE DELIVERED NEARLY 40 MILLION MEALS AND NEARLY 20 MILLION MEALS TODAY. IN FACT, DELIVERING OUR 20/20000000 MEAL IN GAZA. BUT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. IF WE

NEED 2 MILLION A DAY IN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AND MANY OTHERS ARE PROVIDING FOOD NOW. BUT — BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH. AND WE NEED TO INCREASE THAT CAPACITY. AND WE CAN’T HAVE 20% OF THE AID NECESSARY COMING IN. IT NEEDS TO BE 100% OR MORE. IT NEEDS TO GO OVER 100% TO MEET THE GAPS THAT WE HAVE OVER THESE PAST 160 DAYS OF WAR. >> ALL RIGHT. ARAB PRESIDENT AND CEO SEAN CARROLL. SEAN, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME AGAIN AND FOR THE WORK YOU’RE DOING. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. >> COMING UP,

NEW DETAILS ON THE PUSH BY SOME INVESTORS TO BUY TOK BEFORE IT’S POTENTIALLY BANNED IN THE U.S.. ALSO AHEAD, THE RECORD EXPERTS EXPECT TO BE BROKEN ON ST PATRICK’S DAY. STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH TORNADO TORE THROUGH

THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING IN HAWAII AND CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET’S GO BACK TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY WITH OVER STORY FROM FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, FROM THE FBI, BEFORE HE IS ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE,

STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S ONE STREAMING NEWS SORT OF POLITICS. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. SECRET WAR WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MORE INSIDE THAT AND AS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. I IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. >> ANYWHERE. WELL, I MEAN, WE’RE IN MIAMI, A GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT’S LOUD POUNDING AND IT’S CONTROVERSIAL WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABLE PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF

GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. SPORTS WASHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG IS A REGIME. >> YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER OF THE BOOMING BUSINESS OF SPORTS. >> WASHINGTON NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WELCOME. TIKTOK HAS BUYERS LINING UP EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT FOR SALE, AT LEAST NOT YET. >> PLUS, WE HAVE SOME NEW NUMBERS ON ST PATRICK’S DAY. ABC BUSINESS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS HAS MORE ON THAT AND YOUR OTHER BUSINESS HEADLINES. I WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? >> WHAT’S GOING ON? I’M ALREADY DEREK

OUT HERE AT LOVE IT RIGHT. BUT LET’S START WITH TIKTOK FIRST. THEY’RE REALLY NOT IN A SPIRIT BECAUSE POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP TO BID ON THE US OPERATIONS OF CHINESE OWNED TOCK. BUT THEY DO FACE AN UPHILL BATTLE. THAT’S BECAUSE THE CHINESE IS SIGNALING IT WON’T ALLOW A FOR SALE AND WOULD RATHER THE APP BE BANNED IN THE U.S. THAN BE SOLD? CHINESE OFFICIALS HAVE CRITICIZED THE U.S. FOR A BIPARTISAN BILL TARGETING THE APP. LAWMAKERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA’S ACCESS TO AMERICAN DATA. INTERESTED PARTIES HERE INCLUDE THE FORMER CEO, VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER ACTIVISION, AND

A CONSORTIUM OF INVESTORS LED BY FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN. ANY PRICE TAG? >> TIKTOK ESTIMATED TO BE MORE THAN $100 BILLION. AND IT MAY SOON BE IMPOSSIBLE TO HAIL AN UBER OR LYFT IN THE RIDE. HAILING APPS SAY THEY WILL PULL OUT OF THE TWIN CITIES MAY 1ST, AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ENACT A PAY RISE DRIVERS EQUIVALENT TO THE CITY’S MINIMUM WAGE OF $15.57 AN HOUR. UBER SAYS ITS BY THE DECISION. LYFT CALLS THE ORDINANCE DEEPLY FLAWED. THE MUCH SMALLER RIDE HAILING APP EMPOWER SAYS IT’S READY TO STEP IN IF THE COMPANIES

MAKE GOOD ON THEIR THREATS TO LEAVE. BY THE WAY, SEATTLE AND NEW YORK CITY HAVE PASSED SIMILAR POLICIES THAT INCREASE WAGES FOR RIDE HAILING DRIVERS. BUT UBER AND LYFT STILL OPERATE THOSE CITIES. AND I MAY BE GREEK AND ITALIAN, BUT THIS WEEKEND. OH, A LITTLE IRISH, AREN’T WE? A RECORD 162 MILLION PEOPLE. THAT’S ABOUT 62% OF AMERICANS PLAN TO CELEBRATE ST PATRICK’S . THAT’S MORE THAN 20 TIMES THE POPULATION OF IRELAND ITSELF. HERE’S A QUICK LOOK AT HOW WE’RE GOING TO BE SPENDING OUR GREEN ON THE HOLIDAY. FIRST OFF, MORE THAN 80% OF US PLAN

TO WEAR GREEN TO BE FESTIVE A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE GAME TODAY. NEARLY 30% WILL MAKE A SPECIAL MEAL LIKE THE TRADITIONAL CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE, WHILE 27% PLAN TO CELEBRATE AT A BAR OR RESTAURANT. AND WE’RE GOING TO WASH ALL THAT IRISH FOOD DOWN WITH BEER. OF COURSE, OVER 13 MILLION PINTS OF GUINNESS ARE CONSUMED WORLDWIDE ON JUST THAT ONE DAY. THAT’S A LOT OF BEER. ALL RIGHT. SO NOW WE KNOW THE TARGET TO BE. YEAH, EXACTLY. THE BAR IS HERE TO BEAT IT. ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS. THANK YOU. COMING UP. IT IS WORLD SLEEP DAY.

WE HAVE SOME TIPS TO HELP YOU GET YOUR BEST SLEEP. WE HEAD INTO SPRING AND SUMMER. ALSO AHEAD, THE CHAOS ON THE COURT. YOU TO SEE, TO BELIEVE THE FLYING INSECT SLEPT SOME OF THE WORLD’S TOP TENNIS PLAYERS RUNNING FOR COVER. TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US. THESE GIRLS JUST HAD TO CROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE, LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO MAKE A DECISION TO JUMP OUT .

IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG, AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON THE 2020. TONIGHT AT 9 P.M. CENTRAL ON ABC. TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM, THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS THE START HERE. TO BE IN THE

KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE AT “GMA”. WE LOVE DOGS. DOGS. AND NEXT WEEK WE’RE ABOUT TO REVEAL LIVE ONLY ON “GMA”. THE MOST POPULAR DOG BREEDS RIGHT

NOW. >> SO WHAT DOGS MADE THE LIST BE A BIG ONE ON BRITT CLENNETT ONBOARD A DESTROYER, THE USS GRAVELY ON THE RED SEA. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME. IT’S TIME FOR MR. MESSAGE WHERE I SHOW YOU SOME OF MY FAVORITE HACKS TO MAKE LIFE A LITTLE EASIER. AND IN HONOR OF WORLD SLEEP DAY TODAY, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A WAYS TO HELP GET THE QUALITY SLEEP YOU NEED NOW THAT WE’RE IN DAYLIGHT TIME, AT LEAST MANY OF US. AND AS WE HEAD INTO SPRING

AND SUMMER. SO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS HERE . >> YOU’RE PUMPED FOR THOSE BRIGHTER EVENINGS. BUT THERE’S JUST ONE PROBLEM. >> IT’S SUDDENLY EVEN HARDER TO WAKE UP. LUCKILY, IN ADDITION TO ANCHORING NEWS, I ALSO WROTE THE BESTSELLING BOOK THE SLEEP THAT. SO AS WE RECOVER FROM TURNING THE CLOCKS BACK, LET’S TALK ABOUT A FEW METHODS TO HELP YOU SLEEP. WELL, THIS WEEK IS ROUGH BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID WE LOSE AN HOUR OF SLEEP, BUT NOW WE’RE BASICALLY LAGGED BY AN HOUR. THIS CAN MAKE IT HARDER TO FALL ASLEEP AT BEDTIME AND TO WAKE UP

IN THE MORNING. IF YOU’RE ALREADY A NIGHT OWL LIKE ME, THIS CHANGE CAN BE ESPECIALLY HARD. >> THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TOOLS CAN USE TO HELP YOUR CHICKADEE RHYTHM ADJUST, STARTING WITH A THERAPY LIKE THE IDEAL HERE IS ACTUALLY TO GET DIRECT SUNLIGHT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THAT’S THE MOST POWERFUL SIGNAL TO SET OUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM. BUT THAT CAN BE HARD TO DO, ESPECIALLY SINCE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME MAKES THE SUNRISE SO MANY OF US ARE WAKING UP IN THE DARK. SO HERE’S MY HACK. I PUT A THERAPY LIGHT IN

MY BATHROOM. THIS IS JUST ON WHILE I’M GETTING READY AND IT’S TELLING MY BRAIN THAT IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP, WHICH NOT ONLY HELPS ME GET WAKEUP SIGNALS AT THIS TIME, BUT ALSO HELPS ME FEEL SLEEP HERE AT BEDTIME. >> SPEAKING OF BEDTIME DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ALSO MAKES SUNSET LATER, WHICH MAKES YOUR BRAIN NATURALLY THINK YOUR BEDTIME SHOULD BE LATER TOO. >> SO TIP NUMBER TWO, USE SUNGLASSES OR AMBER TINTED BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASSES IN THE EVENING. THIS TELLS YOUR BODY THAT BEDTIME IS COMING SOON, EVEN IF YOU’RE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THAT LATE DAY. SO TIP

NUMBER THREE, BE SURE YOU’RE ALSO REDUCING YOUR EVENING INSIDE WITH THE FOUR D’S DIMNESS. DISTANCE DURATION, DIRECTION BY DIMMING THE LIGHTS BEING FARTHER AWAY FROM THE LIGHT SOURCE, TURNING OFF LIGHTS WHEN YOU DON’T NEED THEM AND FACING THE LIGHT AWAY FROM YOUR EYES, YOU HELP TO SEND A SIGNAL TO YOUR BRAIN THAT IT’S NIGHTTIME AND TIME TO. PREPARE FOR SLEEP FOR DEVICES LIKE PHONES, TABLETS AND COMPUTERS. YOU CAN ALSO ADJUST THE BRIGHTNESS ON YOUR SCREENS AND SET THEM TO TURN ON BLUE LIGHT FILTERS AND DARK MODE IN THE EVENING AUTOMATICALLY, LIKE MAGIC TIP NUMBER FOUR

CONSIDER MELATONIN SUPPLEMENTS. AVOID SOME COMMON MISTAKES. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MELATONIN DOESN’T PUT YOU TO SLEEP. IT TELLS YOUR BODY IT’S NIGHTTIME. SO IT’S GREAT FOR ISSUES LIKE, JETLAG, SHIFT WORK AND ADJUSTING TO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME. BUT MOST PEOPLE TAKE TOO MUCH TOO LATE. I TAKE JUST HALF A MILLIGRAM FOR HOURS BEFORE BEDTIME, SO BE SURE TO TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR TO, ENSURE SAFETY AND TO GET THE DOSAGE AND TIMING RIGHT. ALSO, WHEN IT COMES TO MELATONIN, STUDIES HAVE SHOWN WHAT’S ON THE LABEL OFTEN ISN’T WHAT’S IN THE BOTTLE. SO BE SURE TO BUY FROM

A VERIFIED BRAND. FINALLY, TIP NUMBER FIVE GET PROFESSIONAL HELP. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD SLEEPER, SO IF YOU CONSISTENTLY HAVE TROUBLE FALLING ASLEEP OR STAYING ASLEEP SO YOU SPECIALIST’S. NEXT TOPIC. SWEET DREAMS AND YOU CAN SHARE. >> SAVE THIS HACK ON THE ABC NEWS LIVE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT AND US A COMMENT THERE FOR WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO TACKLE NEXT IN THIS ATO METHODS. AND FINALLY, A BIZARRE MOMENT BROUGHT A TENNIS MATCH TO A HALT. >> BEES INVADED THE COURT LEAVING THE NUMBER TWO RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SWATTING AT

THEM BEFORE HE EVENTUALLY HAD TO RUN FOR COVER. THE MATCH WAS SUSPENDED FOR 19 MINUTES AS REMOVAL SERVICES CAME IN TO HELP. ALCARAZ DID GO ON TO WIN THE MATCH, BUT HE ADMITTED HE WAS AFRAID OF THOSE BEES. >> DON’T BLAME HIM. THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> I’M DIANE MACEDO. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANYTIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON HULU ,ROKU, THE ABC NEWS APP, AND OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY

TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THEY SIMPLY DID NOT GET A CHANCE, AARON. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LAWSUIT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY IN THE HOUSE? I DID. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY. FACE, FACE. >> ERIKA, WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG? >> THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HOUSE SEARCHING ANYONE WHO KNEW THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE LUKAKU TO FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN OPERATIONS RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUCTURE KEPT FOR STORM I FIND OFTEN IS

IN THE MOVEMENT OF NBC NEWS LIKE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE. THAT’S UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. >> WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT SOME TIME IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES AND SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED

CHEATING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WHAT DO YOU SEE? >> MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD, OUR MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST

LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE FOR US. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS. THE JUDGE IN THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RULED DE FANI WILLIS MUST EITHER STEP ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. SHE HAD A ROMANTIC WITH CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE FOR MONTHS. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. THAT SPECIAL NATHAN WADE.

THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. WE HAVE FULL TEAM COVERAGE BREAKING DOWN THIS DECISION, STARTING WITH SENIOR INVESTIGATOR CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY, WHO’S OUTSIDE THAT COURTHOUSE. AARON, WALK US THROUGH THIS DECISION AND THE JUDGE’S LOGIC HERE. THE JUDGE DID NOT SEEM TERRIBLY PLEASED WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS AND HER EXPLANATION OF HER ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE HIRED FOR THE CASE, NATHAN WADE. BUT BOTTOM LINE, THE CASE CAN CONTINUE AS LONG AS WILLIS AGREES TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. AND THE JUDGE

GAVE HER TWO OPTIONS. EITHER SHE AND HER ENTIRE TEAM CAN WALK AWAY AND TURN THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS OVER TO SOME OTHER PROSECUTOR OR NATHAN WADE. CAN SIMPLY GO. AND THAT, THE JUDGE SAID, WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE REMEDY TO DISSIPATE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. HE DID NOT FIND THAT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL CONFLICT IN THE RELATIONSHIP. BUT HE DID SAY, DIANE, THAT A REASONABLE PERSON COULD CONCLUDE THAT WILLIS DID NOT EXERCISE PROPER PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT. >> NOW, I WANT TO BRING IN EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI FOR MORE ON THAT. BECAUSE, JOHN,

ON THE SURFACE, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS WAS OF A WIN FOR TRUMP, BUT WHEN YOU DIG INTO IT, WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED WAS FANI WILLIS OFF OF THIS CASE OR THE INDICTMENT THROWN OUT ENTIRELY. SO WHAT HAPPENS? >> WELL, I MEAN, BASICALLY, YOU DIDN’T GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, RIGHT? SO THE REALITY IS IT’S SENSITIVE AND THEY’RE RIGHT. THE D.A. COULD BE DISQUALIFIED ,BUT THE D.A. GETS AN OPTION, WHICH IS IF YOU THROW NATHAN WADE OFF, NEVER MIND. YOU CAN STAY. YOU WOULD THINK SHE’S GOING TO DO THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE HER GOAL IS OBVIOUSLY TO

PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP. AND SHE SAID THAT ACTUALLY REMEMBER THAT TIME WHEN SHE WAS ON STAND FOR THAT UNBELIEVABLE DAY OF TESTIMONY? SHE LOOKED WITNESS FOR DONALD TRUMP AND SAID TO THEM AT ONE POINT, YOU KNOW, I’M NOT THE ONE ON TRIAL OVER HERE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION THEY ARE NOT ME. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I’M UP HERE. SO THIS WHOLE SIDESHOW, THIS HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT’S REALLY WHAT THIS HAS DONE. THE GOAL OF TEAM TRUMP AND THE OTHER 18 DEFENDANTS HAD BEEN WHEN THIS FIRST CAME DOWN. FIND WAYS TO

DELAY THIS. RIGHT. AS ONE SOURCE SAID TO ME, WE HAVE TO FIND A BUNCH OF SHINY OBJECTS TO THROW IN THE ROAD JUST TO SLOW THIS DOWN. THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS DID THAT, BUT NOW WHAT THIS RULING DOES IT SAY WE’RE GETTING BACK ON TRACK WITH TIME? AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TEAM TRUMP DID NOT WANT HERE. DIANE, I WANT TO GO TO FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS ON THAT BECAUSE, CHRIS, THE JUDGE FOUND THAT THE DEFENDANTS FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN TO PROVE THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ACQUIRED AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR A POSSIBLE APPEAL. >> SO LOOKING AT THE DOCUMENT ITSELF, YOU HAVE TO COMPARE IT TO THE ORDER THAT CAME DOWN TWO DAYS AGO. IF YOU’LL REMEMBER, THERE WAS AN ORDER THAT CAME DOWN TWO DAYS AGO THAT REMOVED SIX COUNTS, FOUND THAT THEY WERE INSUFFICIENT IN THAT ORDER. THERE WAS A VERY IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE THAT SAID, LOOK, IF THE D.A.’S OFFICE WANTS TO APPEAL THIS ISSUE. I WILL GRANT THEM A CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE REVIEW, MEANING I’M GOING TO LET THEM APPEAL THIS CASE. I LOOKED ALL OVER THIS ORDER TO SEE IF THERE

WAS THAT SAME LANGUAGE HERE, WHICH THE JUDGE SAYS, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THE LAW IN THIS AREA IS CONFUSING. THERE’S NOT A LOT OF LAW IN THIS AREA. SO I’M GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL AS WELL. WE DON’T SEE THAT IN THIS PARTICULAR ORDER. AND SO THE JUDGE IS SORT OF HIS CAP THAT HE’S NOT GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL. IT’S POSSIBLE. I MEAN, HE COULD LATER ON, IF SOMEBODY PUTS THE RIGHT INFORMATION IN THERE, THAT THAT THAT THEY CAN HAVE AN APPEAL. BUT I DON’T SEE IT RIGHT. AND SO I THINK AN APPEAL IS UNLIKELY

EVEN IF THE DEFENSE WANTS ONE. >> JON, HOW’S TRUMP’S TEAM REACTING TO THIS? I HAVE A STATEMENT WE LITERALLY JUST GOT AND SOME READ IT IN PART, THIS IS FROM STEVE SADOW, LEAD ATTORNEY ON THE CASE. IT READS IN PART. WHILE RESPECTING THE COURT’S DECISION, WE BELIEVE THE COURT DID NOT AFFORD APPROPRIATE SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OF WILLIS AND WADE, INCLUDING THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS TESTIFYING ON TRUTHFULLY ABOUT WHEN THEIR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BEGAN, AS WELL AS WILLIS’S EXTRAJUDICIAL CHURCH SPEECH, WHICH IS REFERENCED IN THE RULING BY THE JUDGE WHERE SHE PLAYED RACE CARD AND FALSELY

ACCUSED THE DEFENDANTS AND THEIR COUNCIL OF RACISM. CNN GOES ON TO SAY, WE WILL USE ALL LEGAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE AS WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO THE END OF THIS CASE, WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE. THAT’S FROM STEVE SADOW, THE LEAD ATTORNEY ON THAT CASE . BASICALLY WHAT THAT GETS TO, WE JUST PULL AWAY EVERYTHING ELSE. THEY’RE APPEALING. >> CHRIS, YOU HAVE WORKED WITH FANI WILLIS. YOU’VE WORKED IN THAT IN THAT SPHERE. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK? THIS APPEALS, LOOKS? >> I MEAN, I THINK IF THEY TRY TO APPEAL THE ISSUE,

WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DO IS THEY’RE GOING TO ATTACK IT FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT BASICALLY THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SHOW AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. AND SO THAT’S REALLY WHERE THEY’VE GOT TO GET IT. THAT’S AN UPHILL BATTLE, THOUGH, DIANE, BECAUSE IT’S THE COURT, THE COURT HERE, JUDGE MCAFEE, THAT GETS TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE FACTS ARE. SO WHAT I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO DO IS THREAD THAT NEEDLE AND SAY, OKAY, WELL, THE JUDGE THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN FACTS HERE WITH REGARD TO THIS RELATIONSHIP AND YOU. COURT APPEALS SHOULD FIND THAT

THAT IS ENOUGH FOR AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. THUS THEY SHOULD BE GONE. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST STEP IN THAT PROCESS IS GETTING THE TRIAL JUDGE TO AGREE THAT HE’S GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL TO PROCEED. AND THEN THE COURT OF APPEALS HAS TO SAY THAT AS. AND HERE WE’RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN THAT ORDER, LIKE COMPARED TO THE ORDER THAT WE SAW TWO DAYS AGO THAT SUGGESTS THE JUDGE WOULD ALLOW THEM TO APPEAL IT. WELL, SEE, THEY CAN CERTAINLY TRY. THEY’VE GOT TEN DAYS FROM TO GET THAT APPEAL OFF AND GET

THE CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND THE CLOCK RUNNING. WITH REGARD TO THE DEFENSE, BUT I JUST DON’T SEE IT MOVING FORWARD. >> AND I WANT TO BRING IN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN, BECAUSE OLIVIA, JOHN MENTIONED THAT CHURCH SPEECH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE. THE JUDGE ACTUALLY MENTIONS THAT IN THIS RULING, WHY DID THAT PLAY SUCH A BIG ROLE HERE? >> WELL, IT’S FASCINATING, DIANE, BECAUSE REMEMBER, IT WAS NOT JUST THE ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT AS YOU JUST FROM TRUMP. SORRY, JOHN, READING THE TRUMP STATEMENT, THEY HAD A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO USE

TO GET FANI WILLIS THE CASE. AND STEVE SAY DONALD TRUMP’S ATTORNEY WAS REALLY IN LASER FOCUSED ON THE CHURCH SPEECH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE RIGHT AFTER THESE ALLEGATIONS FIRST CAME OUT IN JANUARY AND HAD THE JUDGE THAT EVEN THAT SPEECH ALONE IN WHICH SHE SAID THAT THE ALLEGATIONS WERE RACIALLY MOTIVATED SHOULD ENOUGH TO GET HER KICKED OFF THE CASE, SHE SAID IT WAS PREJUDICE PREJUDICING THE DEFENDANT, STOKING RACIAL ANIMUS. AND IT’S FASCINATING TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. AND IN HIS RULING, HE DID FIND THAT THE EFFECT OF HER SPEECH WAS TO CAST

RACIAL ASPERSIONS AT AN INDICTED DEFENDANT, WHICH IS FASCINATING. DIANE, ULTIMATELY, HE DID FIND THAT THE COURT COULD NOT FIND THAT THE SPEECH, THE LINE TO THE POINT WHERE THE DEFENDANTS WERE ACTUALLY DENIED THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO A FAIR TRIAL. SO HE DID TAKE SOME ISSUE WITH THAT SPEECH, BUT THEN SAID IT WASN’T ENOUGH, WHICH IS REBUTTING TRUMP’S ATTORNEY, WHO SAID REALLY IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH. DIANE AND I WANT TO BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE FOR MORE ON THAT POINT, BECAUSE, BRIAN, NOT ONLY DID THE JUDGE HAVE THAT TO SAY ABOUT FANI WILLIS

IN THE SPEECH AND SOME OF THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THIS PART OF THE CASE, THE JUDGE ALSO HAD SOME CRITICISM FOR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, NATHAN WADE, SAYING THAT HIS TESTIMONY INDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO WRONGLY CONCEAL THE RELATIONSHIP. SO WHILE THIS RULING IS CONSIDERED A WIN FOR FANI WILLIS, WHAT DOES IT DO FOR HER CREDIBILITY AND NATHAN WADE’S CREDIBILITY? >> YEAH, WELL, I THINK AS THE JUDGE POINTED OUT, THERE’S AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY HERE . AND WHILE THE COURT OF APPEALS IN GEORGIA AND OTHER COURTS HAVE SAID THAT THERE ARE OTHER REMEDIAL ACTION THAT CAN BE

TAKEN WHEN, THERE IS AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. >> HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? >> I DIDN’T LIKE THE WAY THAT THE TESTIMONY CAME OUT, THAT THERE WERE SOME FACTS HERE ,THAT A PERSON UNTETHERED BY KIND OF POLITICAL CAN SAY THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE. AND AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED, ONE OF THEM BEING THE WAY THAT NATHAN WADE TESTIFIED. AND I THINK THAT’S WHY WE’RE GOING ABOUT THIS ROUTE OF THE JUDGE SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE’S NO ACTUAL HERE WHICH WOULD HAVE AN AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION. BUT THE APPEARANCE OF IT, BASED ON THE CASE LAW, SAYS THAT I

AS A JUDGE CAN COME IN AND SAY THERE ARE DIFFERENT REMEDIAL ACTION THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN. AND THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE DIFFERENT STEPS, YOU KNOW, FANI WILLIS STEPS DOWN OR NATHAN WADE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED IN PART BECAUSE I THINK THE WAY HE TESTIFIED AND SECOND, TO GETTING THIS CASE DISMISSED, TRUMP’S TEAM WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. SO WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS HERE AND WHEN COULD WE SEE TRIAL DATE? FANI WILLIS HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE HERE IN FULTON COUNTY, DIANE, BUT THE JUDGE HAS STILL NOT

SET A TRIAL DATE, IN PART BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DEALING WELL WITH ALL OF THESE PRETRIAL. SO AT SOME POINT, ONCE WHATEVER APPEAL MAY OR MAY NOT OCCUR IS IS THROUGH, THE JUDGE UNDOUBTEDLY IS GOING TO SIT DOWN FIGURE OUT WITH THE ATTORNEYS WHEN THIS CASE CAN GO TO TRIAL. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERSELF HAS RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY NOT BE READY FOR TRIAL UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION OR INTO 2025, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE POINT OF THAT WOULD BE, BECAUSE THERE ARE SO SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS IN THE INDICTMENT ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S ATTEMPT

TO INTERFERE IN THE 2020 ELECTION. BUT THERE IS NO TRIAL DATE HERE. THE ONLY FIRM TRIAL DATE THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FACING IS MARCH 25TH IN NEW YORK. AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY THERE JUST SUGGESTED A 30 DAY DELAY. SO THE PROSECUTORS AND DEFENSE TEAM CAN REVIEW AGAIN, REVIEW NEWLY DISCLOSED EVIDENCE. >> RIGHT. >> AARON KATERSKY JOHN SANTUCCI, OLIVIA RUBIN, BRIAN BUCKMIRE AND TIMMINS. >> THANK YOU ALL. COMING UP, THE FORMER TOP TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL LOOKING TO BUY TIKTOK AS THE SENATE CONSIDERS A POTENTIAL BAN ON THE APP. >> ALSO AHEAD, THE NEW SIGNS OF TURMOIL

FOR THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY AND THE SURPRISE MOVE BY MEGHAN MARKLE. TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND, A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL MORE AMERICANS. TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. >> SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK WITH THUNDER BY BOLD EVENTS AND SO FAR, LITTLE SUNSHINE. THE

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>> THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY WEIGHING A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MAY SIMPLY BECOME WE’LL GET A CHANCE TO FINALLY MEET ERICA. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS FOR WHERE TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT HOUSE, WHICH I DIDN’T I WANTED ERICA TO. >> I’M SORRY. FACE TO FACE. ERICA, WHY DO YOU THINK YOU SAW THE HOUSE RIGHT. AND THE HOUSE THAT YOU YOU NOW . >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST BIG NAME, U.S. ARE LINING UP FOR A CHANCE TO BUY TIKTOK. THE SENATE

IS CONSIDERING BILL THAT COULD BAN THE APP IN THE U.S. IF ITS CHINA BASED OWNER DOESN’T AGREE TO SELL IT. NOW WE’RE LEARNING A TOP TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL IS AMONG THOSE INTERESTED BUYERS. ABC NEWS CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT REBECCA JARVIS HAS THE TIKTOK’S MANY SUITORS. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS. THEY MAY NOT LOOK LIKE TYPICAL INFLUENCERS. HERE’S A 15 SECOND TIKTOK TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS SEGMENT IS THE EASIEST TO CARE FOR PLANET OUT THERE. >> BUT BUTTONED UP EXECS FROM FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVE MNUCHIN. >> I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY

TIED TO SHARK TAKES KEVIN O’LEARY I’LL GUARANTEE IT’S SAFE FOR PARENTS, USERS, LARGE AND SMALL BUSINESSES ALIKE. >> AND FORMER ACTIVISION VIDEO GAME CEO BOBBY KOTICK, WHO, ACCORDING TO THE “WALL STREET JOURNAL”, HAS EXPRESSED INTEREST ALL LINING UP TO POTENTIALLY BUY AND INFLUENCE. TIKTOK, WHICH BOASTS 170 MILLION USERS IN THE US, ONE IN FOUR OF THEM UNDER THE AGE OF 20, EVEN THOUGH THE IS IT TECHNICALLY FOR SALE? IT COMES ON THE HEELS OF A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE. IF SIGNED INTO LAW, IT WOULD FORCE TIKTOK PARENT COMPANY BYTEDANCE, WHICH IS CHINESE TO

SELL TIKTOK OR FACE A BAN IN THE U.S. LAWMAKERS, ARE CONCERNED OVER CHINA’S ACCESS TO AMERICAN USER DATA. DESPITE TIKTOK’S EFFORTS TO MOBILIZE USERS AGAINST, THE MEASURE CAN IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS WHO USE THE APP. >> IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES AND I HOPE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD WITH BILLIONS ON THE LINE. THE BILL NOW HEADS TO THE SENATE PRESIDENT. BIDEN, WHO RECENTLY JOINED TIKTOK, HAS SAID HE’LL SIGN IT IF IT REACHES HIS DESK BEFORE, ANYTHING CHANGES HERE. THERE ARE A LOT OF HURDLES. FIRST, TIKTOK’S PRICE IT’LL COST BILLIONS AND THAT REALLY

NARROWS DOWN WHO CAN BUY IT. THEN THERE’S THE ALGORITHM, THE THING THAT DETERMINES WHAT POPS UP YOUR FEED. WOULD CHINA BE WILLING TO PART WITH THAT? AND THAT IS THE CHINESE AGREE TO SELL TIKTOK’S U.S. ARM AND THAT IS STILL A VERY BIG IF. >> DIANE. CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT REBECCA JARVIS, THANK YOU. AND NOW TO THE TURMOIL IN THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY. PRINCES WILLIAM AND HARRY APPEARED AT AN EVENT TO HONOR THEIR LATE MOTHER, PRINCESS DIANA, BUT THEY DID NOT APPEAR TOGETHER. THIS AS THE PALACE DEALS WITH THE FALLOUT FROM PRINCESS KATE’S PHOTO EDITING SCANDAL.

ABC NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN HAS MORE NEW SIGNS OF TROUBLE FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY. PRINCE WILLIAM AND HIS BROTHER APPEARING AT THE DIANA AWARDS, AN EVENT HONORING THEIR MOTHER. BUT CHOOSING NOT TO APPEAR TOGETHER. >> THIS EVENING’S LEGACY AWARD IS PARTICULARLY SPECIAL AS IT MARKS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR TO DAWN AWARD. THAT LEGACY IS THAT BOTH CATHERINE AND I SOUGHT TO FOCUS ON YOUR WORK. >> WILLIAM MADE HIS APPEARANCE IN PERSON, DELIVERING REMARKS AND LEAVING BEFORE PRINCE HARRY APPEARED VIRTUALLY FROM CALIFORNIA. >> MY MOM WOULD BE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF ALL THE WORK THAT YOU’VE

DONE. I’M INCREDIBLY PROUD. >> THIS AS THE FALLOUT FROM THE ROYALS, SUCH PHOTO SCANDAL AND CONFUSION SURROUNDING PRINCESS KATE’S HEALTH PLAGUED THE FAMILY. THE AFP NOW SAYING KENSINGTON PALACE, WHICH HANDLES COMMUNICATIONS FOR WILLIAM AND KATE, ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT CONSIDERED A TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE ,THAT AFTER THEY PUT OUT THIS DOCTORED PHOTOGRAPH OF KATE AND THEIR CHILDREN, THESE AREAS SHOWING WHERE THE PHOTO WAS MANIPULATED. >> WHEN YOU’RE LET DOWN BY A SOURCE, THE BAR IS RAISED AND WE SEND OUT NOTES TO ALL OUR TEAM. AT THE MOMENT, BE ABSOLUTELY SUPER MORE VIGILANT ABOUT THE CONTENT COMING ACROSS OUR

DESK, EVEN FROM WHAT WE WOULD CALL TRUSTED SOURCES. >> THE PRINCESS ISSUING A RESPONSE AFTER AGENCIES TOOK IT DOWN SAYING LIKE, MANY AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS. I DO OCCASIONALLY EXPERIMENT WITH EDITING. I TO EXPRESS MY APOLOGIES FOR ANY CONFUSION. THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH WE SHARED YESTERDAY CAUSED THE PHOTOSHOP DAMAGE ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THE PUBLIC HAS SEEN KATE SINCE HER ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN. CONCERNS OVER THE FUTURE QUEEN’S HEALTH NOW SPAWNING CONSPIRACY THEORIES. >> THIS WILL BE THE MOST SHOCKING VIDEO OF THE ENTIRE SERIES. AND I PRAY THIS IS NOT TRUE. >> I WISH IN IN THE SPRING.

ALL THIS COMES AS HER SISTER-IN-LAW, MEGHAN MARKLE, DECIDED IT WAS THE RIGHT MOMENT TO TAKE TO INSTAGRAM TO LAUNCH A NEW LIFESTYLE. >> AMERICAN RIVIERA ORCHARD BEACH FEATURES THIS VIDEO OF THE MONTECITO BASED DUCHESS OF SUSSEX, HARD AT WORK IN THE KITCHEN. NOW, THE TRADEMARK REGISTRATION FOR MEGHAN’S NEW BRAND PROMISES THINGS LIKE COOKBOOKS, TEXTILES, TABLEWARE. >> AND THE BRAND WAS ONLY LAUNCHED YESTERDAY ON INSTAGRAM, BUT ALREADY HAS WELL OVER 300,000 FOLLOWERS. >> DIANE JAMES LONGMAN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. >> THANK YOU. COMING UP, AFTER LOSING IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP HOW COLLEGE SUPERSTAR CAITLIN CLARK IS PREPARING

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PHOTOS OF HER BANDAGED FACE WRITING ON INSTAGRAM THAT. >> DOCTORS REMOVE THE CANCER AND STITCH ME UP TO PERFECTION . >> LIKE A HOT COUTURE DIOR. ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY . MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA EVERY YEAR. >> LUCKILY, IT’S THE LEAST AGGRESSIVE OF ALL THE TYPES OF SKIN CANCER, SO WE FIND IT MOST COMMONLY ON THE HEAD AND NECK. THOSE AREAS. ARE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING UV LIGHT. WE KNOW THAT UV LIGHT IS A CARCINOGEN. >> BRINKLEY SHARING THAT THE CANCER WAS DISCOVERED NOT BY HER OWN DOCTOR

BUT HER DAUGHTERS. DURING HER DAUGHTER’S CHECKUP, SHE SAID SHE ASKED THE DOCTOR TO CHECK OUT A TINY DOT ON HER FACE. SHE WRITES, TOOK A LOOK AND KNEW IMMEDIATELY IT NEEDED A BIOPSY. HE DID IT THEN AND THERE. >> SO EARLY DETECTION IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. IT’S ONE OF THE SKIN CANCERS THAT WE CAN CURE WHEN WE FIND IT EARLY. AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE ALWAYS PREACHING ABOUT HAVING YOUR ANNUAL CHECKS AND DOING SELF CHECKS AT HOME, BECAUSE IT REALLY CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. >> BRINKLEY NOW ENCOURAGING HER FANS AND FOLLOWERS TO USE

SUN PROTECTION ADMITTING I GOT SERIOUS A BIT LATE. I’LL BE SLATHERING ON SPF 30 REAPPLYING AS NEEDED, WEARING LONG SLEEVES AND A WIDE BRIMMED HAT AND DOING REGULAR TOTAL BODY CHECKUPS. >> THAT IS A MUST. AND DOCTORS RECOMMEND USING AT LEAST SPF 30 DAILY AND 50 IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME. THEY EMPHASIZE THAT ANYONE CAN GET SKIN CANCER. SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT ANY NEW LESIONS OR. >> DIANE MORGAN NORWOOD, THANK YOU. LET’S BRING THIS TO OUR DOCTOR. ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. ALOK PATEL JOINS

ME FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL, WE’RE HEADING INTO SPRING AND SPRING BREAK SEASON, SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW AS WE START TO SPEND MORE TIME OUTSIDE AND WHAT SHOULD WE BE LOOKING FOR WHEN IT COMES TO MARKS ON OUR SKIN? >> YOU KNOW, I REALLY COMMEND CHRISTINE BRINKLEY IN SPREADING AWARENESS BECAUSE CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN THE UNITED STATES. ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE WILL DEVELOP IT IN THEIR LIFETIME. AND ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN OF DERMATOLOGY, EXPOSURE TO ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, WHETHER THAT IS FROM THE SUN OR INDOOR TANNING BEDS, IS THE

MOST PREVENTABLE EXPOSURE. SO IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU AVOID THOSE TANNING BEDS AND YOU’RE GOING TO BE ON THE SUN. YOU’RE COVERING UP WITH LONG SLEEVES, A HAT WEARING SPF ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. >> NOW, SUBTLE FINDINGS OF SKIN CANCER COULD BE THE CHANGE IN THE SIZE, SHAPE OR COLOR OF A MOLE. >> A SKIN LESIONS, ANY ABNORMAL GROWTH ON YOUR SKIN. SO YOU WANT TO GET THOSE CHECKED OUT BY A BOARD CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGIST. AND THOSE SELF SKIN CHECKS ARE CRUCIAL. IN FACT, HALF OF ALL MELANOMAS, WHICH IS A TYPE OF SKIN CANCER, ARE SELF

DETECTED. >> SO THIS CAN ABSOLUTELY SAVE LIVES. THAT’S GREAT ADVICE. >> IT’S ALSO FRIDAY. SO I WANT TO GET TO SOME VIEWER QUESTIONS. JAMES FROM VIRGINIA ASKS, HOW CAN I TELL A 15 SORE THROAT IS STREP THROAT OR SOMETHING ELSE? >> OH, STREP THROAT SO PAINFUL. SO THE ONLY REAL WAY TO TELL IS TO GO TO A DOCTOR’S OFFICE AND GET SWABBED BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF SORE THROATS ARE ACTUALLY CAUSED BY VIRUSES. IN SOME CASES, THEY CAN CAUSE BACTERIA SUCH AS GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS, HENCE THE NAME STREP THROAT. NOW, PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THESE

AWFUL SYMPTOMS, SUCH AS PAIN SWALLOWING THOSE RED SWOLLEN TONSILS, RED BUMPS ON THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH AND USUALLY NO COUGH. BUT YOU CAN HAVE A FEVER, AN IMPORTANT DIANA, IF YOU ARE DIAGNOSED OR YOUR CHILD IS DIAGNOSED WITH STREP THROAT AND YOU’RE GIVEN ANTIBIOTICS, THAT YOU TAKE THEM AS DIRECTED AND FINISH, EVEN IF YOU’RE FEELING BETTER BECAUSE UNTREATED STREP THROAT, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS CONTAGIOUS, CAN LEAD TO SOME SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS. >> WANT TO ALSO GET TO ALISHA FROM SAN DIEGO. SHE WRITES, ALL THIS NEW RAGE AROUND MAGNESIUM AT NIGHT. IT IS EVERYWHERE NOW.

>> THOUGHTS? I LOVE THE WAY ELISA PHRASES BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF RAGE AROUND IT AND I LOVE A GOOD SUPPLEMENT. >> DEEP. >> SO MAGNESIUM IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN OUR BODIES. IT’S INVOLVED IN HUNDREDS OF CELLULAR REACTIONS, INCLUDING MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS, BRAIN SIGNALING. OUR HEARTS WORK AND SLEEP, AND LOW MAGNESIUM HAS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR SLEEP QUALITY. NOW, ON THE FLIPSIDE, MAGNESIUM ,WHICH IS ACTUALLY GIVEN UNDER MEDICAL GUIDANCE FOR A LOT OF CONDITIONS CAN IMPROVE SLEEP QUALITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE ELDERLY OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A MEDICAL REASON HAVE LOW MAGNESIUM. >> BUT IF YOUR SLEEP

IS AFFECTED BY CONDITIONS AS NOCTURNAL CRAMPS OR RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME, MAGNESIUM MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER. SO, YES, PEOPLE WANT TO GO OUT AND TAKE OR REMEMBER THERE CAN BE SIDE EFFECTS. MAGNESIUM CAN INTERACT WITH CERTAIN MEDICATIONS. >> SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO GET IT NATURALLY FROM YOUR DIET. GREEN, LEAFY VEGETABLES, NUTS, LEGUMES, WHOLE GRAINS. GREAT WAYS TO MAD. AND IF YOU ARE WORRIED TO GET YOUR LEVELS CHECKED BY DR. GREENWAY TO GET MAD, I THINK YOU JUST MAY HAVE CREATED A NEW TERM THERE. DR. PATEL HASHTAG GET MAD. DR. ALOK PATEL ALWAYS, GREAT TO

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NUMBER SEVEN SEED GOES INTO THE SEMIFINAL ROUND, THE TEAMS BATTLING IT OUT FOR A SPOT ON SELECTION SUNDAY WHEN BOTH THE MEN AND WILL FIND OUT WHO THEY’LL BE UP AGAINST FOR THE MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT. FANS WE’VE GOT COME IN ALL EYES ARE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S CAITLIN CLARK AFTER LOSING TO LSU AND ANGEL REESE IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP WHICH DREW 9.9 MILLION VIEWERS. >> THE NCAA SCORING LEADER TELLING OUR ROBIN ROBERTS HOW SHE’S GEARING UP FOR THIS TIME AROUND. >> SO HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR FINAL MARCH MADNESS? MARCH MADNESS, I THINK,

IN MY OPINION, IS THE BEST POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT. ALL SPORTS. AND I’VE BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE OF AN UPSET. MY SOPHOMORE YEAR WE LOST TO CREIGHTON IN THE ROUND OF 32 AND WE WERE TOO BUSY. SO I THINK UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR SEASON CAN END IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO PLAY. >> BUT ALSO IT GOES FAST, LIKE JUST SOAK IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT AND EVERY SINGLE SECOND. SO JUST ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN WITH MY TEAMMATES BECAUSE IT’LL BE OVER BEFORE I KNOW IT. >> AND SO A LOT OF

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THE CASE WITH CONDITIONS WHAT HE SAYS FANI WILLIS NEEDS TO DECIDE IN ORDER TO AVOID AN APPEARANCE ,IMPROPRIETY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. STUNNING REBUKE. WHY HE’S CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL AND THE FALLOUT ON THIS FIRST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN. >> MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE UNDER SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS. AT LEAST TEN TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN FIVE STATES WHERE THE STORM IS HEADED NEXT. AND TODAY IS WORLD SLEEP DAY. WE WE’RE CHECKING OUT SOME DEALS ON PILLOWS FOR ALL KINDS OF SLEEPERS AND THE RIGHT STUFF.

>> WE BEGIN WITH THAT BREAKING NEWS. THE JUDGE IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RULED FULTON COUNTY D.A. FANI WILLIS AND HER TEAM CAN STAY ON THE CASE IF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE WITHDRAWS. FOR MONTHS, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH WADE. AND THE JUDGE FOUND. THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. ABC NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT JOINS ME NOW FROM ATLANTA, ALONG WITH ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL

PRODUCER ABBY CRUZ INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN, FORMER GEORGIA CHRIS TIMMONS, AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. >> ERIN LET’S START WITH THE RECAP HERE. >> WALK US THROUGH THE DECISION. WHAT JUDGE FOUND HERE. >> THE JUDGE IS ALLOWING CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HERE IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, TO CONTINUE THE CASE, ACCUSES THEM OF TRYING TO INTERFERE WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE GEORGIA VOTE BACK IN 2020. AND THE JUDGE SAYS THAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE IF SHE DUMPS HER EX-BOYFRIEND FROM THE PROSECUTOR TEAM. THE JUDGE SAID THERE

WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST FANI WILLIS DID NOT DEVELOP A PERSONAL STAKE IN THE PROSECUTION OF TRUMP BY BRIEFLY DATING NATHAN WADE, SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE HIRED. BUT THE JUDGE ALSO SAID THAT HE CANNOT FULLY EXCUSE WHAT HE CALLED LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND A LACK OF PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT IN THE WAY SHE COMPORTED HERSELF, EITHER IN THE RELATIONSHIP OR IN THE WAY SHE TESTIFIED ABOUT IN OPEN COURT. SO HE IS SAYING THAT FANI WILLIS EITHER HAS TO TAKE HERSELF AND HER ENTIRE TEAM OFF THE CASE OR, GET RID OF NATHAN WADE, AND ALLOW THE CASE TO

CONTINUE AND ARE NOT. >> IT’S THAT OPTION SHE WOULD CHOOSE. CHRIS, THE JUDGES KIND OF THREADING THE NEEDLE HERE SAYING THERE WAS NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST BUT THAT WILLIS AND WADE CAN’T BOTH STAY ON THIS CASE DUE TO THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? SO IT IS KIND OF INTERESTING THAT HE’S THREADING THE NEEDLE. NOBODY REALLY SAW THAT COMING. I THINK MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD EITHER BE A DISQUALIFICATION OF THE ENTIRE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OR NO DISQUALIFICATION OF ANYONE. SO YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. HE’D RATHER THE NEEDLE BY GIVING THE

D.A.’S OFFICE A CHOICE, THEY CAN EITHER STEP AS THE OFFICE AS A WHOLE OR NATHAN WADE CAN RESIGN, AND HE CAN STEP DOWN AND THEN THE CASE CAN PROCEED. SO YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AND WHEN YOU SAY THE NEEDLE, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THE JUDGE DID. IT’S A GOOD ORDER. AND PROBABLY ISN’T GOING TO MAKE EITHER SIDE ALL THAT HAPPY. BUT I THINK THE D.A.’S OFFICE IS, JOHN SAID EARLIER, CAN DECLARE A WIN HERE. >> JOHN TRUMP IS ALREADY CAMPAIGNING OFF OF THIS. >> HIS LEGAL TEAM ALREADY SAYS THEY’LL APPEAL. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM? WELL, I

MEAN, LISTEN, THIS IS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED, RIGHT? THEY WANTED THIS ENTIRE CASE TO INTO THIN AIR. THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS RULING DOES FROM JUDGE MCCARTHY. BUT WHAT IT DOES DO IS IT ALLOWS TEAM TRUMP TO APPEAL. WE’VE ALREADY SEEN THEM DO THAT ON SEVERAL CASES SO FAR. LET’S MOVE FROM STATE TO FEDERAL AND LOOK WHAT THEY’RE DOING IN SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH’S CASE, THE ONE THAT’S OVERTURNING THE ELECTION RESULTS ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL. THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY APPEALED THAT UP TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. SO ALREADY THEY’VE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THAT BALL DOWN

THE FIELD. STUNNING BEING HEARD BY THE SUPREME COURT UNTIL LATE APRIL. NOW, WITH THIS PART OF THIS RULING FROM THE JUDGE ALLOWS TO GET APPEALED TO THE GEORGIA STATE COURT OF APPEALS. QUESTION BECOMES WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY PUT IN THAT APPEAL? AND I’M SURE, CHRIS, TO HAVE THOUGHTS ON THAT, BUT WHAT EXACTLY THEY PUT IN THAT APPEAL? HOW QUICKLY DOES THE COURT HEAR IT. HOW QUICKLY DID THEY RULE? BECAUSE ALL THROUGHOUT THAT TIME, JUDGE MCCARTHY OF HAS TO SIT STILL, LOOK AT IT AGAIN, COMPARE IT TO THE FEDERAL CASE. THE DISTRICT JUDGE ON THAT CASE

CANNOT MOVE FORWARD WITH NORMAL MOTIONS OR PROCEDURES UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT GIVES HER A GREEN LIGHT. THE SAME THING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO JUDGE MCCARTHY. SO, BRIAN, WHAT DOES THIS APPEALS PROCESS LOOK LIKE AND WHAT COULD THAT DO TO THE TIMELINE HERE? >> WELL, THERE’S TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPEALS. ONE WOULD BE AFTER A POTENTIAL CONVICTION. I DON’T THINK THAT’S THE ONE WE’RE REALLY DISCUSSING HERE. ANOTHER REASON IS CALLED INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL. AND THAT WOULD BE WHERE THE DEFENDANTS BECAUSE THEY LOST THE VERDICT HERE. THE DECISION HERE, SORRY, GOES TO A HIGHER COURT AND SAID,

HEY, WE UNDERSTAND WHAT DISTRICT COURT CAME UP WITH. THEY CHOSE TO GO WITH THE ACTUAL APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY RATHER THAN THE APPEARANCE OF THAT. WE BELIEVE THEY USE THE WRONG STANDARD. CAN YOU PUT A HOLD ON THE DISTRICT COURT CASE WHILE WE REMEDY IT OR RESOLVE THIS ISSUE BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO GO FORWARD? >> PART OF THE DIFFICULTY WITH THAT, THOUGH, IS, IS THAT BOTH THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE APPELLATE HAVE TO AGREE THAT THAT TYPE OF APPEAL SHOULD HAPPEN AND THAT CHARGE WILL OCCUR. AND I THINK, AS CHRIS OUTLINED IN THE PAST A FEW

MOMENTS, THAT THAT DOESN’T SEEM LIKELY WHEN YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DECISION TO DISMISS THE CHARGES THAT WE SAW SOME DAYS AGO WITH THIS CASE, I DON’T THINK THAT JUDGE MCCAFFERY IS GOING TO BE IN A POSITION OR WILLING TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET’S HOLD OFF ON MY DECISION AND PUT A PAUSE HERE. >> WE HAVE FANI WILLIS HAD SAID SHE WAS HOPING TO BRING THIS TRIAL IN AUGUST. WHAT DOES THIS ALL DO FOR THAT DATE NOW? WELL, I THINK WHAT EVERYONE’S GOING TO BE LOOKING WHAT HER NEXT FILING IS GOING TO BE ON

THE ACTUAL MERITS OF THE CASE, I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED. WE GET SOMETHING FROM HER RE-UPPING WHAT HER TRIAL DATE REQUEST IS AND READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH NEXT STEPS. AND I THINK SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING IS GOING TO BE HOW MUCH TIME THEY ACTUALLY LOST WITH THIS TWO MONTH DISQUALIFICATION AND SIDESHOW. BECAUSE ACTUALLY SOMETHING QUITE INTERESTING IS, IF YOU NOTICE WHO WAS ARGUING FOR THE DAY DURING THESE DISQUALIFICATION HEARINGS, IT’S NOT THE SAME PROSECUTORS THAT WERE ARGUING THE ACTUAL MERITS OF THE CASE. WHAT THOSE ATTORNEYS WERE DOING IS KEEPING UP THEIR WORK MOVING FORWARD WITH MOTIONS,

MOVING FORWARD WITH WORKING ON WHAT THEY WERE WORKING ON WHILE OTHER PROSECUTORS WERE HANDLING THE DISQUALIFICATION ISSUE. SO I THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP EVERYTHING MOVING AS MUCH AS COULD. AND WE SAW A SENSE OF THAT BECAUSE WE SAW THE JUDGE RULE EARLIER THIS WEEK TO DISMISS SIX OF THE COUNTS. THOSE WERE ON UNRELATED UNDERLYING MOTIONS. SO THE QUESTION REALLY IS GOING TO BE HOW MUCH WERE THEY ABLE TO KEEP GOING AND HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY LOSE BECAUSE OF THE DISQUALIFIED NATION EVER? BUT THE D.A.’S OFFICE HAS BEEN VERY DETERMINED IN MOVING FORWARD

WITH THE ACTUAL MERITS OF THE CASE, THE ACTUAL CHARGES, GETTING MOVING IT ALONG TO A TRIAL DATE. SO THE QUESTION IS, ARE THEY GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT OR AS JOHN SAID, CAN THE TRUMP TEAM USE THIS TO SLOW IT DOWN ENOUGH? CHRIS, YOU HAVE WORKED IN THIS SYSTEM. YOU HAVE WORKED DIRECTLY WITH FANI WILLIS. >> HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT? SO I DON’T THINK JUST AS BRIAN SAID EARLIER, I THINK THE TEA LEAVES WERE OUT THERE IN THE ORIGINAL ORDER THAT CAME OUT A COUPLE OF DAYS THAT THAT DISMISSED THOSE SIX

COUNTS. I THINK THE JUDGE INDICATED THERE THAT THERE COULD BE AN APPEAL. HE DIDN’T HAVE THAT LANGUAGE IN TODAY’S ORDER. SO I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO SEE AN APPEAL. SO THE NEXT STEP IS THE JUDGE SETTING THIS CASE DOWN FOR TRIAL AT SOME POINT. AND IT’S A LITTLE LIKE HERDING CATS WHEN YOU’VE GOT CASE THIS BIG BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT CONFLICTS FOR ALL OF THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS. I MEAN, THEY’VE GOT CASES THAT ARE PENDING ALL OVER THE PLACE HERE IN GEORGIA. SOME CASES THEY’VE GOT CASES PENDING NATIONALLY. AND SO THEY’VE GOT TO THIS CASE HAS

GOT TO GET IN LINE BEHIND SOME OF THOSE CASES, EVEN THOUGH. IT IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE THAT ANY OF THOSE ATTORNEYS HANDLING. SO THE NEXT STEP DOWN AND ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IS YOU KNOW, WE’RE WAITING FOR THE JUDGE TO SET IT DOWN FOR TRIAL. >> ALL RIGHT, ERIN, JOHN, OLIVIA, BRIAN, THANK YOU ALL. AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HOSTING IRELAND’S T SHOP OR PRIME MINISTER AT THE WHITE HOUSE AHEAD OF SAINT PATRICK’S DAY THIS YEAR. TENSIONS OVER THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR MAY CAST A SHADOW OVER WHAT HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN A LIGHTHEARTED OF FRIENDLY TIES BETWEEN THE

TWO REPUBLICS. THE PRESIDENT WELCOMED, THE PRIME MINISTER TO THE OVAL OFFICE JUST MOMENTS AGO. >> TAKE A LOOK. IRELAND MATTER OF FACT, MY COMMENTS REMINDER YOUR ACCOUNT. GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN. GREAT CHANCE TO RETURN SOME OF THE HOSPITALITY THAT YOU PROVIDED ME WHEN I WAS LAST. AND I KNOW ARE ALL KINDS OF IRISH, IRISH. AND FOR MY GRANDFATHER TO SAY THE HANDS OF OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER GO, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS. AND IRISH AMERICANS ARE ENCOURAGED BUT AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY OF THE COUNTRIES GOOD FRIENDS THEY CELEBRATE 100 YEARS AND 100 YEARS THE RELATIONS BETWEEN

OUR AND AS FAR AS OUR FRIENDSHIP GO, PAKISTAN NEVER TOGETHER OR DEEPEN OUR ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP OR 300,000 CREATE 3000 JOBS FOR OUR NATIONS AND WORKING TOGETHER TO INCREASE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN GAZA. WE BOTH KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY’RE STANDING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT, TO CREATE INNOVATION FOR SHOPPING, WHICH IMPACTED UKRAINIANS. AND I WANT TO THANK FOR YOU’RE WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETING WITH IRISH PRIME MINISTER LEO VARADKAR IN THE OVAL OFFICE. THEY REITERATED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES AND SPOKE ABOUT EFFORTS TO INCREASE AID TO GAZA, SAYING MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE.

ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE. MARYALICE SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE RUNS DEEP IN IRELAND OVER WHAT MANY CONSIDER IS A SHARED HISTORY OF OPPRESSION AND OCCUPATION. SO HOW THE WHITE HOUSE NAVIGATING THAT DAY. YEAH I THINK THE NEWS IS PART OF THE DAY FOR THE IRISH PRIME MINISTER WILL REALLY BE THE MORNING. HE HAD A BREAKFAST, VERY TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT AND SECOND GENTLEMAN, AND IT WAS THERE THAT HE MADE REALLY BOLD COMMENTS CONGRATULATING, APPLAUDING THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR WHAT HE SAID WERE POWERFUL WORDS WHEN SHE

SEEMED TO CALL PUBLICLY FOR A CEASE FIRE. THAT WASN’T EXACTLY WHAT SHE DID. YOU REMEMBER DIANE? SHE SORT OF SHE SORT OF PAUSED IN HER REMARKS A FEW WEEKS AGO AND SAID A FIRE, AT LEAST A TEMPORARY CEASE FIRE. BUT SHE SEEMED TO BE PUSHING THE LANGUAGE THE ADMINISTRATION IS USING, PUSHING AND ADDING PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO CONTINUE TO BE WORKING TOWARDS ANY CEASE FIRE, EVEN IF IT’S A TEMPORARY CEASE FIRE. >> AND YOU SAW THE IRISH LEADER THERE REALLY, REALLY STANDING STRONGLY WITH HER. HE SAID THERE IS A TERRIBLE HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE UNFOLDING IN GAZA,

A VERY HUMAN TRAGEDY, WHICH I THINK WILL HAUNT US FOR YEARS TO COME. I MEAN, THE REALITY IS THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN MORE AND MORE ISOLATED IN THERE IN ADMINISTRATION’S FULL SUPPORT OF ISRAEL. WE HAVE SEEN THAT PLAY OUT AT U.N. WE’VE SEEN THAT PLAY OUT IN THE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. MORE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS PUTTING INCREASING PRESSURE ON ISRAEL AND BY PROXY, THE UNITED STATES TO END THIS BOMBARDMENT AND THIS WAR IN GAZA. >> AND I AND PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID AN ISRAELI INVASION OF RAFAH WOULD BE A RED LINE. HE THEN LATER WALKED THOSE

COMMENTS. SO HOW’S THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDING TO THE ISRAELI WAR CABINET NOW APPROVING A PLAN FOR THE NEXT STAGE OF THIS WAR? YEAH, WE DON’T HAVE AN OFFICIAL COMMENT YET, BUT YOU’RE RIGHT THAT FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE’VE HEARD CONSISTENTLY FROM THE ADMINISTRATION THIS LINE THAT THEY CANNOT STAND WITH ISRAEL MOVING INTO RAFAH UNLESS THERE IS A PLAN THAT WOULD PROTECT CIVILIANS. AND THEY HAVE SAID OVER AND OVER THE PODIUM AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AT THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THEY HAVE NOT SEEN A PLAN THAT WOULD DO THAT. I MEAN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT

A PART OF GAZA WHERE SO MANY HAVE TAKEN REFUGE. CIVILIANS FLEEING OTHER PARTS AND SETTING UP CAMP THERE. I MEAN, MILLIONS THAT ARE WORRIED ABOUT THAT, THAT THE UNITED STATES IS WORRIED ABOUT THEIR PROTECTION, WORRIED ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD MEAN IF ISRAELI FORCES MOVED IN. WHERE SO MANY HAVE TAKEN REFUGE. AND SO CLEARLY, THIS HAS BEEN A DIVIDING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. I THINK IT IS GOING TO PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THE UNITED STATES NOW TO RESPOND IF. IT LOOKS, AGAIN LIKE ISRAEL IS DEFYING WHAT THE UNITED STATES SAID, ESSENTIALLY A

RED LINE. THE UNITED STATES SAYING THAT THEY WERE SO UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE IDEA OF ISRAELI FORCES MOVING INTO A PART OF GAZA WHERE SO MANY WERE WAITING AND TRYING TO TAKE SHELTER. >> NOW, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER IS ALSO FACING BACKLASH FOR CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS ISRAEL. HOW CRITICAL IS THIS ISSUE AS PRESIDENT BIDEN RUNS FOR REELECTION? I MEAN, ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL, OF COURSE AND IT CUTS MANY, MANY WAYS IN U.S. POLITICS. I MEAN, STANDING ISRAEL, A KEY, KEY COMPONENT OF A LONG STANDING COMPONENT OF TRADITIONAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. BUT WE HAVE SEEN A YOUNGER

VOTERS, PROGRESSIVE VOTERS, MIDDLE AMERICAN VOTERS, BUT NOT BUT NOT JUST MUSLIM AMERICAN VOTERS, ARAB AMERICAN VOTERS AND OTHERS EXTREMELY WORRIED ABOUT THE DEVASTATION THAT THEY’RE SEEING IN GAZA, WORRIED ABOUT AN UNFOLDING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AND PUSHING THE PRESIDENT TO DO MORE TO CALL FOR THAT CEASE FIRE. I MEAN, WE’VE SEEN VOTERS IN THOSE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES, KEY SWING STATES LIKE MICHIGAN, VOTING UNCOMMITTED, TRYING TO SEND A REAL PROTEST VOTE AS POTENTIAL DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, BUT SAYING THEY ARE NO, THEY ARE NOT YET READY TO TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT BIDEN UNLESS HE CHANGED HIS TACT AND PUTS MORE ON ISRAEL

TO CHANGE WHAT THEY ARE DOING. I THINK THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS VERY AWARE THE POLITICS OF THIS ARE VERY COMPLICATED. I MEAN, TAKING A STEP BACK, DIANE, IT IS INCREDIBLY HARD FOR ANY DEMOCRAT TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IF YOUNG VOTERS ARE NOT ON BOARD. AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS VERY AWARE THAT ON THIS ISSUE IN PARTICULAR, YOUNG VOTERS ARE SPEAKING OUT. ALL RIGHT. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS, THANK YOU. AND AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER AT LEAST TEN REPORTED TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN IN FIVE STATES. >> OFFICIALS FROM TEXAS TO OHIO ARE

THROUGH DESTRUCTION. ABC NEWS ALEX PRESHA IS IN HARD HIT LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO WITH THE LATEST. MILLIONS UP TO THE AFTERMATH OF SEVERE WEATHER AFTER REPORTED TORNADOES TORE INTO THE HEARTLAND OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL OHIO. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE DIED IN LAKEVIEW WHEN SUSPECTED TORNADOES RIPPED THROUGH THE REGION. RESIDENTS, THEY ARE CALLING IT PURE DEVASTATION. >> OUR LAUNDROMAT IS GONE. THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED DOWNTOWN. IT’S BAD VERY BAD. >> TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN WINCHESTER. HOMES AND STRUCTURES TORN APART. PEOPLE SEARCHING THROUGH NIGHT FOR ANYONE WHO MAY STILL BE TRAPPED. >> WE

DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE IN THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. WE DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. >> CARS MANGLED. POWER LINES STREWN ACROSS ROADS LEAVING THOUSANDS IN THE DARK. THIS BUILDING UNRECOGNIZABLE, ITS METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES. I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN. AND THEN I STARTED HEARING SIRENS AND THINGS THAT. AND THEN MY MY WIFE. I GOT A TEXT FROM A FRIEND THAT SHE LIVES IN INDY, AND HER PARENTS LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AND THEIR HOUSE WAS GONE. >> IN SELMA, AUTHORITIES THERE SAY

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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR GAME HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST ARMED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKING YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START. >> TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER

ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US AS GIRLS. THIS HAPPENED ACROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW, 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SHE MADE THE DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY. HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM. >> 20, 20 TONIGHT AT NINE CENTRAL ON ABC. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST,

AUTHORITIES IN MIAMI BEACH ARE BRACING FOR A CHAOTIC SPRING BREAK AND ST PATRICK’S DAY WEEKEND COMBINED. POLICE HAVE EXTRA OFFICERS ON THE STREET AND HAVE SET UP DUI CHECKPOINTS. >> ANDREW DYMBURT HAS MORE ON HOW OFFICIALS THERE ARE CRACKING DOWN ON PARTYING. >> MIAMI BEACH PUT TO THE TEST THIS WEEKEND IS REALLY. >> YES, IT’S — IT’S STRICTLY BETTER THAN OUR TOUGHEST WEEKEND AFTER YEARS OF SPRING BREAKERS WREAKING HAVOC ON THIS SMALL ISLAND. ARE LOOKING TO CURB THE CHAOS WITH ARGUABLY THE TOUGHEST RESTRICTIONS, INCLUDING DUI CHECKPOINTS, A $100 PARKING BAG CHECKS, $500 TOWING FEES, AND

NOW PARKING GARAGES WILL BE CLOSED TO VISITORS. MORE THAN A DOZEN DRONES BE PATROLLING OVERHEAD. 140 PLUS STATE TROOPERS AND EVEN THE COAST GUARD DEPLOYING TO HELP LOCAL POLICE. MIAMI BEACH COMMISSIONER DAVID SUAREZ SAYS THIS SEASON IS DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR. THERE WAS ALWAYS A SHOOTING AND THERE WAS ALWAYS DEATH. AND IT’S SAID THAT’S. THAT’S NOT MIAMI BEACH. WE NEED TO TALK. STARTED WITH THE NOW VIRAL AD WITH MORE THAN 200 MILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING UNTIL THEN. WE’RE BREAKING UP WITH YOU. LEADERS SAY, THE CRACKDOWN IS WORKING. NEARLY 600 SPRING BREAK RELATED ARRESTS LAST YEAR AND

TWO DEATHS COMPARED TO ROUGHLY 200 ARRESTS AND ZERO FATALITIES THIS YEAR. WE NEEDED TO END SPRING BREAK. WE’RE BRINGING BACK AND ORDER. >> BUT SOME VACATIONERS SAY IT’S ALL A BIT MUCH OVERWHELMING WITH THE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE. IT’S JUST OVERWHELMING. >> AND WITH MIAMI BEACH CRACKING DOWN NEARBY FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, ONLY ABOUT 30 MINUTES NORTH OF HERE, THEY ARE MASSIVE CROWDS. BUT LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES THERE TELL ME THEY, TOO, HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL. DIANE ANDREW DYMBURT IN MIAMI, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, JIMMY LIVESTOCK CONTRIBUTOR LORI BERGAMOTTO JOINS US FOR THE RIGHT STUFF. >> AND

WE ARE ENDING WEEK WITH THE BEST PILLOWS. IT’S TIME FOR THE RIGHT STUFF. WHEN WE COME BACK. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN. TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. >> SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK WITH TIGER

BAD. >> LET’S GET IT STARTED. SO I SHALL READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MODERN AMERICA. >> THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR, ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THEY SENT ALL VICTIMS. WE’LL GET A CHANCE TO FINALLY MEET OBITUARY. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS FOR WHAT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT HAS. I DID. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY FACE TO FACE. >> ERIKA, WHY DO YOU GIVE ME THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HOUSEWORK? >> YOU KNOW, WHY DO YOU SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY

HERE FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS

TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US GIRLS TO JUST HAVE TO CROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW, 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO MAKE A DECISION TO JUMP OUT. THAT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG. AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY UNDER THE TRUE CRIME OF. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON THE 2022 MAY 19 CENTRAL ON ABC. >> REPORTING IN LAS VEGAS THAT THE UNLV’S SHOOTINGS ON JACLYN LEE WHEREVER

THE STORIES WILL TAKE YOU THERE YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ABC NEWS. WELCOME BACK. YOU RECOGNIZE THAT MUSIC MEANS IT’S TIME FOR THE RIGHT STUFF WITH OUR FRIEND JIMI. LIFESTYLE CONTRIBUTOR LORI BERGAMOTTO. NOW FRIDAY LAURIE BRINGS UP SOME OF HER FAVORITE PRODUCTS AND TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING SLEEP DAY WITH LORI’S FAVORITE PILLOWS SO YOU CAN SHOP THESE. AND WHAT LORI SHARED ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA BY SCANNING A QR CODE IN THE BOTTOM CORNER OF YOUR SCREEN. SO, LORI, YOU SAY FIRST STEP IS THE BEST PILLOW SIDE SLEEPERS. THAT’S RIGHT. THIS IS ME. THIS IS ME.

YOU’RE A SIDE SLEEPER. I TRY TO BE A SLEEPER, BUT YEAH, YOU JUST GET YOUR BUT ALSO, I FEEL LIKE THE PRESSURE IS ON BECAUSE I KNOW YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT SLEEP. YOU ARE A RESIDENT EXPERT, SO WE’LL SEE WHAT YOU GOT. OKAY, SO THIS IS A TUCKED IN NEEDLE AND IS A DOWN ALTERNATIVE PILLOW. SO GREAT. IF YOU HAVE ALLERGIES. AND THE EXPERTS THAT WE SPOKE TO SAID THAT WHEN YOU ARE A SIDE SLEEPER, YOU WANT SOMETHING THAT IS A MEDIUM FILL THAT’S VERY PLUSH SO THAT YOU’RE FLUFFY. YES, NICE AND FLUFFY. AND

IT THAT SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, TO FILL IN THAT GAP BECAUSE WHAT YOU’RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, THAT’S FINE NEUTRALITY RIGHT, WHILE YOU’RE SLEEPING. SO WE LOVE THESE FROM TUFT NEEDLE THEY RATED VERY HIGH A BESTSELLER. THEY COME OBVIOUSLY IN THE TWO SIZES AND EVERYBODY THAT WALKS BY IS JUST LIKE, YEAH, I’M JUST I MAY JUST HUG THIS ONE FOR THE REST OF IT. YEAH. SO AND AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE ALLERGIES, IT’S GREAT BECAUSE THIS IS A DOWN ALTERNATIVE. SO REALLY GREAT FOR THAT. I THINK THIS SUMMER THIS IS A BACK SLEEPER, ONE. SO YEAH, SO THIS

IS BROOKLYN BEDDING SO THIS IS GREAT IF YOU’RE A BACK SLEEPER AND ARGUABLY IF YOU’RE A STOMACH SLEEPER BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PILLOWS, THIS ONE’S LIKE NICE A MUCH LESS ONE. SHE HAS MORE FILL THIS ONE. AND IF YOU BACK SLEEPER, YOU NEED LESS. YES. SO THIS ONE IS MADE WITH THE SAP FROM RUBBER TREES. OKAY. I DID NOT HAVE THAT ON MY FINGER. SO FEEL IT SO YOU’LL FEEL THAT IT HAS LIKE A NICE TWIST KIND OF RIGHT INTO THAT CONTOURING IN THAT RESPONSE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING

FOR IF YOU ARE A BACK OR STOMACH SLEEPER AGAIN, YOU WANT THAT OPTIMAL SLEEP POSITION AND THIS WILL HELP YOU GET IT. SUPER HIGHLY RATED REVIEWERS ARE LIKE I WANT TO HUG THIS OBSESSED WITH THE AIR I LIKE AND IT HAS THAT TENSILE LINING SO IT JUST FEELS REALLY FAST. IT FEELS COOL TO DOES HAVE SOME NATURALLY COOLING PROPERTIES BUT IF YOU ARE LOOKING IF IS LIKE YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY OKAY THIS IS REALLY FUN FOR TO SAY THIS IS FROM THE BRAND SUPER MODERN, NOT SUPER. >> HELLO. AND WE FOUND THIS IDEA OF A

GLAD FEEL THAT DIANE OH YEAH, THAT IS NICE AND COOL. >> SO EVERYBODY’S ALWAYS LOOKING TO ACHIEVE THAT COOL SIDE OF THE PILLOW KIND OF ASLEEP OR ALWAYS HAVING TO FLIP IT AND SCIENCE BEHIND THAT TO SUPPORT IT BECAUSE IT HELPS THE BODY. THAT THERMOREGULATION IS EXTREMELY CUTE RIGHT. >> SO THIS IS GREAT IF YOU’RE A PERSON WHO RUNS HOT. ALSO WEATHER IS GETTING WARMER, SO THAT REALLY CHANGES THINGS AS WELL. >> AND WHAT WE ALSO LIKED ABOUT THIS IS THAT YOU CAN SORT OF CUSTOMIZE HOW MUCH PHIL GOES IN THERE SO YOU CAN LOVE.

>> YEAH, SO THESE ARE GREAT. THESE ARE ON AMAZON AGAIN COOLING. SO IF YOU’RE A SIDE SLEEPER BACK OR STOMACH OR IF YOU RUN, WE’VE GOT SOME GOOD REST FOR YOU. BUT IT IS COLD IN THE STUDIO SO I WON’T HUG THAT ONE. I WILL STAY WITH THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. THANK YOU, LAURIE. THESE ARE GREAT. AND REMEMBER TO SHOP THESE PRODUCTS AND MORE OF THE RIGHT STUFF. YOU CAN JUST SCAN THAT QR CODE IN THE BOTTOM LEFT OF YOUR AND FOR YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF THE BEST LIFESTYLE CONTENT FROM LAUREN GOURMET, BE SURE TO

CATCH “GMA LIFE”. THAT’S WEEKENDS AT 9 A.M., 11 A.M. AND 1 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND STREAMING ON HULU. >> THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO. ABC NEWS IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES AND OF COURSE ON NEWS APP AND ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON. BUFFALO EVOLVED IN TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING

FORK, MISSISSIPPI. THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GIVING BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE FROM WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS YOU SCHOOL NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE EACH. THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. I HAVE A PACKED CONCERT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING

TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY TIME. INSIDE THE TENT IS A SOURCE OF HUMOR. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED BECAUSE MEAN NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL GO. THAT IS HAPPENING EVERY BIT OF IT. ANYWHERE. WOW. >> WE’RE IN MIAMI, A GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT’S LOUD, POUNDING AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING TO A COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. WE’RE JUST WATCHING AS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO

SOMETHING WRONG, A POLITICAL REGIME, YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER. >> PLAY THE PREMIUM BUSINESS OF SPORTS. WASHINGTON NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAYS TOP STORIES START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING IN YOUR DAILY FIRST. >> LISTEN. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . HI, I’M DIANE SAITO TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE FOR BREAKING THE JUDGE OVERSEEING THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IN GEORGIA RULES THE D.A. CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE WITH CONDITIONS, BUT HE SAYS FANI WILLIS NEEDS TO DECIDE IN ORDER TO AVOID AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER STUNNING REBUKE. WHY HE’S CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL AND THE FALLOUT ON THIS FIRST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS UNDER SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS. AT LEAST TEN TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN FIVE STATES WHERE THE STORM IS HEADED NEXT. AND TODAY IS WORLD SLEEP DAY. HOW YOU CAN PRIME YOUR BODY FOR

QUALITY SLEEP AS WE HEAD INTO SPRING AND SUMMER. >> WE BEGIN WITH THAT BREAKING NEWS. THE JUDGE IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RULED THAT D.A. FANI WILLIS MUST CHOOSE EITHER STEP ASIDE ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE . FOR MONTHS, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED AVOID

THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. ABC NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINS ME NOW FROM ATLANTA, ALONG WITH ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI, FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE, AS WELL AS IN OUR INVESTIGATIVE OLIVIA RUBIN. >> SO, AARON, WALK ME THROUGH THIS ULTIMATUM THAT THE JUDGE ESSENTIALLY IS HANDING DOWN TO FANI WILLIS BECAUSE. HE’S SAYING YOU CAN STAY, BUT THERE ARE DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE HERE. >> AND THAT, I THINK, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE RULING, THE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NOW

MORE A DOZEN OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS CAN CONTINUE. BUT IN ORDER FOR FANI WILLIS TO REMAIN ON THE CASE, WHICH THE JUDGE WILL ALLOW TO DO, SHE’D HAVE TO FIRE HER EX-BOYFRIEND, NATHAN WADE. SHE HIRED HIM AND SUBSEQUENTLY, SHE SAYS, BEGAN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP THAT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS SAID POSED AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. AND THEY ARGUED THAT SHE ONLY HIRED HIM SO THAT HE COULD THEN AFFORD TO TAKE HER ON VACATIONS. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT SHE FORCEFULLY DENIED IN PUBLIC TESTIMONY. >> AND THE JUDGE’S ORDER SAID. >> THERE IS AN ODOR OF MENDACITY ABOUT

WITNESS TESTIMONY, AND HE’S NOT CONVINCED THAT SHE TESTIFIED TRUTHFULLY ABOUT WHEN THAT RELATIONSHIP BEGAN. BUT NONETHELESS, HE SAID THERE WAS ACTUAL CONFLICT. TRUE, BUT THERE WAS AN APPEARANCE IMPROPRIETY THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED EITHER BY FANI WILLIS AND HER WHOLE TEAM PACKING UP AND LEAVING THE CASE OR BY ACCEPTING THE RESIGNATION OF NATHAN WADE. SO WE’LL WAIT TO WHAT FANI WILLIS DOES. BUT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, DIANE, SHE WOULD OPT TO STAY ON THE CASE AND LET IT GO BECAUSE THERE WERE A FEW DIFFERENT PIECES TO THE PUZZLE HERE, INCLUDING THE TIMING OF FANI WILLIS AND

NATHAN RELATIONSHIP, HOW THEY PAID FOR TRIPS AND DATES AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE TIMELINE IN THIS CASE. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK LOOKING AT THE JUDGE’S DECISION? >> WHAT STICKS OUT TO YOU? I MEAN, A COUPLE OF THINGS STICK OUT TO ME. FIRST OF ALL, THE RESULT AND THAT WAS SORT OF AN UNUSUAL DECISION. I DON’T THINK MANY PEOPLE SAW THAT COMING. I MEAN, THE CHOICE THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAD TO MAKE BETWEEN RECUSING THE ENTIRE OFFICE VERSUS JUST REMOVING NATHAN WADE FROM THE CASE IS NOT SOMETHING I THAT ANYBODY REALLY SAW. THE OTHER

THING THAT STICKS OUT TO ME, THOUGH, IS THE LANGUAGE IS FAIRLY SCATHING TOWARDS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. I’M LOOKING AT PAGE NINE RIGHT NOW AND IT SAYS ON IT, YOU KNOW, REFERS TO A TREMENDOUS LAX LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND ALSO REFERS TO THE UNPROFESSIONAL MANNER OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S TESTIMONY DURING THE EVIDENTIARY HEARING. YOU JUST TYPICALLY DON’T SEE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT IN. >> SO THAT’S UNUSUAL AS WELL. DIANE. JOHN, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TRUMP’S TEAM HERE? >> BECAUSE ON THE ONE HAND, THEY GOT A FEW DIGS IN HERE TO NATHAN AND FANI WILLIS HIS CREDIBILITY.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS INDICTMENT IS NOT DISMISSED AND FANI WILLIS CAN STAY ON THE CASE IF SHE CHOOSES TO. >> IT’S NOT A GOOD DAY FOR TRUMP OR HIS LEGAL TEAM, RIGHT? BECAUSE THE REALITY WAS AND OLIVIA, WHO KNOWS BETTER THAN I DO, THEY HAVE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE THIS GO AWAY FOR THE LONGEST TIME POSSIBLE. WHAT THIS RULING BASICALLY DOES IS, HEY, GET RID OF THIS ONE GUY THAT YOU’RE NOT REALLY A FAN OF PROBABLY RIGHT NOW. ANYWAY, AFTER THE FACT THAT THIS IS ALL CAUSED BY THAT RELATIONSHIP. GET RID OF HIM. YOU

CAN KEEP GOING IF THAT HAPPENS. THAT IS THE WORST RULING FOR DONALD AND HIS TEAM. AND I CAN TELL YOU ALREADY SPEAKING HIS LAWYERS, WE’VE ALREADY GOT A STATEMENT THEM. THEY ARE GOING TO APPEAL THIS. I KNOW YOU’VE HEARD OF LIBYA. OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO THE SAME. THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS GETTING VERY CLOSE THE ELECTION. RIGHT. SO IF THEY CAN GET IT, IF A JUDGE SETS A DATE AS WELL TO MAYBE DO IT SOMETIME IN THE FALL, THEN YOU COULD SAY, WELL, JUDGE, WE’RE CLOSE TO AN ELECTION. HE’S THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

WE’RE TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS PROPOSED DATE OF AUGUST IS A PROBLEM FOR TEAM TRUMP. NOW, LOOK, THE THING THAT WE SHOULD JUST MAKE NOTE OF AND CHRIS TIMMINS COULD WAIT ON THIS BETTER THAN I CAN. THERE HAS BEEN AN ONGOING RICO CASE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA RIGHT NOW INVOLVING THE YSL GANG THAT IS GOING ON FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. SO EVEN IF, SAY, THEY COULD START A TRIAL IN AUGUST, IT’S NOT LIKE IT’D BE A CASE THAT WOULD GET DONE BEFORE NOVEMBER’S ELECTION. THEY SAID WHEN THEY INITIALLY INDICTED DONALD TRUMP, IT

WOULD BE A CASE THEY WOULD TAKE AT LEAST MONTHS. SO THE REALITY IS THAT EVEN ON THAT AS HIGH AS THAT, IT’S STILL TIGHT. BUT REGARDLESS, AT THE MOMENT, THEY GOT A GREEN LIGHT TO GO IT MEANS AT THE MOMENT IT WILL GO JUST A MATTER OF WHEN. SO, CHRIS, I’LL LET YOU RESPOND TO THAT. WHAT DO YOU THINK IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE HERE, ESPECIALLY LOOKING AT THESE TWO CASES? >> AND DIANE, IT’S A TIMELINE BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT TO ADD IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FACTORS, ONE OF WHICH IS FANI WILLIS. AND THE JUDGE

BOTH HAVE OPPOSITION IN THIS CURRENT RACE COMING UP. SO LET’S ASSUME EITHER ONE OF THEM LOSE THAT RACE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE MID TRIAL AND YOU’VE GOT A JUDGE WHO IS NO LONGER A JUDGE ANYMORE OR LET’S SAY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS MADE TRIAL AND THEN COME JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS PAST THAT FOUR MONTHS THAT SHE SUGGESTED THE CASE WOULD CHANGE, THEY WOULD TAKE TO TRY. SO THEN AT THAT POINT, YOU’VE GOT A NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY COMING IN WHO MAY DECIDE TO DISMISS THE CASE. AND SO I THINK IT’S AN

UNUSUAL SITUATION. WE KEEP SAYING THAT OVER AND OVER. I’VE HEARD JOHN SANTUCCI AND OLIVIA RUBIN SAY IT MULTIPLE TIMES. WE ARE IN UNCHARTED WATERS. AND SO IT’S DIFFICULT TO SAY WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. >> BRIAN, I’M SHORT ON TIME, BUT QUICKLY, WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR IN TERMS OF THIS APPEAL? >> I’M LOOKING FOR WHAT THEY’RE ASKING FOR AND WHAT STANDARDS ARE ASKING FOR AND WHETHER OR NOT IS AN INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL. AS CHRIS TANDEN’S ALREADY HIGHLIGHTED, IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THE LANGUAGE IN THIS DECISION WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE, WHO HAS TO AGREE

TO IT, WOULD AGREE TO A SORT OF APPEAL TO GO A HIGHER COURT. I JUST WANT TO SEE THE ARGUMENTS AND HOW THEY DOUBLE DOWN ON THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT STANDARD RATHER THAN AN ACTUAL IMPROPRIETY. >> OLIVIA, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS HERE FOR THIS TRIAL AND THIS TRIAL? WELL, I THINK THERE’S SO MANY VARIABLES STILL AT PLAY AND THERE IS THE QUESTION OF IS IT GOING TO GO TO TRIAL IN AUGUST, BUT ALSO, THE JUDGE HAS SAID THAT ALL OF THESE DEFENDANTS OVER THERE, 15 DEFENDANTS, THE DEATH IS ALREADY

SAID WE CAN’T DO ONE TRIAL HERE. SO EVEN THOUGH THE D.A. HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST 5TH TRIALS IN DEALING WITH THE REALITY THAT NOW SHE’S GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE TWO TRIALS. >> SO THERE ARE SO MANY STILL UP THE AIR. THE QUESTION ALSO IS HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY LOSE DEALING WITH THIS TWO MONTH DISQUALIFICATION EFFORT WHEN THE JUDGE HOLDING EVIDENTIARY HEARINGS, READING MOTIONS, ISSUING HOW MUCH DID THAT REALLY SET THEM BACK? BECAUSE IF THEY’RE LOOKING FOR AN AUGUST 5TH TRIAL DATE, EVERY DAY THEY SPEND ON THIS CLOSES WINDOW TO GET IN A

TRIAL DAY BY DAY BY DAY. SO THEY GET SET BACK ENOUGH. I DON’T KNOW IF THE JUDGE IS GOING TO FEEL COMFORTABLE STARTING A FOUR MONTH TRIAL ON AUGUST ONE. DONALD TRUMP MIGHT BE OUT FOR THE ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 5TH. SO IT’S GOING TO BE A QUESTION OF HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY LOSE, HOW MUCH CAN THEY GET IN IN CASE, AND WILL THEY BE ABLE TO STICK IT FOR AUGUST 5TH? ALL RIGHT, JOHN, OLIVIA, CHRIS, BRIAN, THANK YOU. ALL. MEANWHILE, AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER AT LEAST TEN REPORTED TORNADOES DOWN IN FIVE

STATES. NOW, OFFICIALS FROM TEXAS TO OHIO ARE THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION. ABC NEWS ALEX PRESHA IS IN HARD HIT COUNTY, OHIO WITH THE LATEST ON MILLIONS WAKING UP TO THE AFTERMATH OF SEVERE WEATHER AFTER REPORTED TORNADOES TORE INTO THE HEARTLAND OF OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL OHIO. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE DIED IN LAKEVIEW WHEN SUSPECTED TORNADOES RIPPED THROUGH THE REGION. >> RESIDENTS, THEY ARE CALLING IT PURE DEVASTATION. OUR LAUNDRY MAT IS GONE. >> THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED DOWNTOWN. IT’S BAD. IT’S VERY BAD. >> DOWN IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA, HOMES AND STRUCTURES TORN APART.

PEOPLE SEARCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ANYONE WHO MAY STILL BE TRAPPED. >> WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. AND WE DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE BITS OF BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT THEY COMPLETELY DESTROYED, CARS MANGLED POWER LINES STREWN ACROSS ROADS, LEAVING THOUSANDS IN THE DARK. THIS BUILDING UNRECOGNIZABLE. ITS METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES. >> I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN. AND THEN STARTED HEARING SIRENS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN MY MY WIFE, I GOT A TEXT, A FRIEND THAT SHE LIVES IN INDY AND HER PARENTS

LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AND THEIR HOUSE WAS GONE IN SELMA. >> AUTHORITIES THERE SAY THAT UP TO 50% OF STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYTHING LIKE THIS THAT I CAN RECALL HAS HAPPENED IN THE TOWN OF SELMA AND PARTS OF ARKANSAS DEALING WITH FLOODING AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES IN SOME PLACES. DIANE ALEX PRESHA IN LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO. ALEX, THANK YOU. AND REACTIONS ARE COMING IN AFTER SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER MADE A FORMAL ADDRESS ON THE SENATE FLOOR WITH A STUNNING REBUKE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN. SCHUMER, WHO HAS

LARGELY STAYED SILENT AS OTHERS HIS PARTY HAVE CRITICIZED THE ISRAELI LEADER, CALLED NETANYAHU AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. >> ABC’S SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN JOINS US NOW FROM JERUSALEM WITH MORE ON THAT. MATT, THIS MORNING WE HEARD NETANYAHU APPROVE PLANS FOR THE NEXT STAGE IN THE WAR. >> SO TELL US ABOUT WHAT’S EXPECTED TO HAPPEN NEXT HERE AND WHAT THE GENERAL HAS BEEN IN ISRAEL TO SENATOR SCHUMER SPEECH. WELL, CERTAINLY, DIANE THE DECISION TO LAUNCH THIS LONG ANTICIPATED INVASION OF THE GAZA CITY OF RAFAH IS NOT GOING TO INGRATIATE. PRIME MINISTER ANYMORE TO THE DEMOCRATS

AND TO SENATOR SCHUMER. THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THING THAT THE MAJORITY LEADER IN HIS SPEECH THAT NETANYAHU HAS LOST HIS WAY. SO AS I UNDERSTAND FROM A BRIEFING THAT WE WERE IN JUST THE OTHER NIGHT, WHAT THE ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS DO, AND THIS IS THE APPROVED PLAN, IS TO SOMEHOW EVACUATE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE, MANY OF WHOM HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED FROM OTHER AREAS IN GAZA TO DIFFERENT PLACES IN GAZA, ENCLAVES THAT THEY SAY WILL BE PROTECTED BY HUMANITAIRE AND ORGANIZATIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND ISRAEL. AND THEN THEY’RE GOING TO GO IN TO GAZA.

UNCLEAR WHEN THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN OR HOW LONG IT’S GOING TO TAKE. BUT FOR ISRAEL, THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GOING BE THE LAST LINK IN THEIR WAR OR THE LAST LIKE MAJOR PRIMARY MILITARY EFFORT IN THEIR WAR AGAINST HAMAS. THAT. AND WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE ONGOING EFFORTS TO GET MORE AID INTO? >> GAZA? IS ISRAEL HELPING WITH THAT? SO ISRAEL IS DEFINITELY FEELING THE PRESSURE FROM THE U.S. THIS POINT, DIANE. MASSIVE PRESSURE. AND TO THAT END, THEY ARE NOW TALKING FLOODING THE GAZA STRIP WITH A THEY’VE OPENED UP TWO NEW LAND ROUTES.

THEY’RE HAVE SHIPS COMING IN THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN SHIP IS LANDING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW DELIVERING SUPPLIES. A NEW QUARTER UP BY A U.S. SHIP THAT’S GOING TO BUILD A NEW PIER AIRDROPS AS WELL. ISRAEL SAYS THAT THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS DISTRIBUTION, THAT THE U.N. AND OTHER NGOS ON THE GROUND SIMPLY DON’T THE CAPACITY DON’T HAVE THE TRUCKS TO BE ABLE TO GET THE AID TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO . >> AND INDEED, WE SAW A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ADJUSTING THERE IN THE SUN WAITING TO BE PICKED UP. THE U.N. CONTENDS, THAT

IT HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY. THAT’S WHY CAN’T PICK UP THE AID AND DELIVER IT. >> THIS IS AT THIS POINT A HE SAID SHE SAID, BUT WHAT IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR IS THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO GET MORE AID AND IS MUCH SENSITIVE TO THE U.S. CRITICISM, WHICH IS BECOMING MUCH MORE CRITICAL AND MUCH MORE INTENSE OVER THE PAST DAYS AND WEEKS. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN, THANK YOU. I WANT TO BRING IN SEAN CARROLL, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF AN ERA AND CEO OF AN AREA VENTURES, WHICH PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND SPECIFICALLY

TO PEOPLE IN GAZA, THE WEST BANK, LEBANON AND JORDAN. JOHN, THANKS FOR COMING ON. I KNOW IT’S A REALLY BUSY TIME FOR YOU. YOU KNOW AND THERE IS CURRENTLY WORKING TO DISTRIBUTE AID ON THE CENTRAL KITCHEN HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP, WHICH IS CALLED OPEN ARMS. >> AND CAN YOU ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON HOW THAT’S GOING TYPE OF AID ON BOARD AND WHEN IT’S EXPECTED TO REACH PEOPLE GAZA? >> WELL, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING AS A CLOSE PARTNER WITH WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN SINCE THE VERY OF THIS WAR. I CONTACTED THEM ON OCTOBER 7TH AND SAID,

WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO WORK TOGETHER AGAIN AS WE AND IN PREVIOUS BOMBING CAMPAIGNS. AND THEY HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL PARTNER PROVIDING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL SUPPORT EARLY ON THAT NYRA AND ITS TEAM IN GAZA, A TEAM OF PALESTINIANS WHO ARE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITIES THERE FROM COULD PROCURE FOOD LOCALLY. WE BEGAN DELIVERING MORE THAN 100,000 MEALS A DAY, HOT MEALS, FRESH PRODUCE, FOOD PARCELS. AND THEN WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAS BEEN HELPING BY BRINGING FOOD AND THIS LATEST EFFORT OF THEIRS TO BRING IN THIS BOAT IS ANOTHER HERCULEAN EFFORT THAT JOSE AND GREECE AND WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN

HAVE UNDERTAKEN. IT’S NOT CLEAR, ACTUALLY, WHAT ROLE WE OR OTHERS WILL HAVE ON THE DISTRIBUTION. THIS IS THIS IS A PILOT. AND TO BE TESTED AND WE’RE WE STAND READY TO HELP BUT DISTRIBUTE IS DIFFICULT AS AS YOU WERE JUST DISCUSSING WE NEED TO BUILD MORE CAPACITY. IT’S TRUE THAT THERE ISN’T ENOUGH CAPACITY INSIDE, BUT THAT’S BECAUSE THERE’S AN ONGOING WAR AND IT IS DANGEROUS AND NEARLY LOST. ONE OF ITS STAFF MEMBERS KILLED BY AN ISRAELI STRIKE LAST FRIDAY. WE CAN GO NOW ONE OF OUR 12 STAFF IN GAZA. AND WE’VE NEVER LOST SOMEONE IN

56 YEARS OF WORKING IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES. >> SO THIS IS HARD FOR US AND IT MAKES THE WORK DIFFICULT. IT SCARES OUR WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. AND WE’RE GOING TO KEEP GOING. >> WE’RE DELIVERING A MILLION MEALS A WEEK. WE WILL KEEP DOING THAT. BUT ALL OF US NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO INCREASE THE AID COMING, INCLUDING BY INCREASING CAPACITY ON THE INSIDE. >> IF IF THERE IF THE NUMBER OF TRUCKS ON THE INSIDE NEEDING ,THE TRUCKS THAT ARE COMING TO THE BORDER AREN’T ENOUGH, WE NEED TO INCREASE THAT. >> WE ALSO NEED TO

BRING TRUCKS IN STRAIGHT ACROSS THE BORDER. IT DOESN’T MAKE IT EASIER IF TRUCKS NEED TO OFFLOAD AND THE NEW TRUCKS NEED TO COME AND UPLOAD, PARTICULARLY IF, THERE AREN’T AS MANY TRUCKS ON THE INSIDE AS THERE ARE IN THE OUTSIDE, SO THERE ARE TOO MANY TRUCKS WAITING AT THE BORDER. WE NEED TO INCREASE CAPACITY ON THE INSIDE AND EUROPE CAN HELP WITH THAT. >> WE’VE BECOME A TRUSTED AND WELL-KNOWN MILE PARTNER FOR MORE THAN 40 ORGANIZATIONS. WE NEED TO HAVE THE PERMISSIONS AND THE FUNDING, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM DONORS. WE NEED

MORE IF WE’RE GOING TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY BY ACTUALLY IMPORTING TRUCKS, ENSURING WE HAVE ENOUGH FUEL AND OF ALL, ISRAEL NEEDS TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF AID WORKERS AND ALL OF THE ROUTES THAT WE TAKE AND WE STAND READY TO HELP AND DELIVER MORE AS LONG AS WE HAVE THOSE SECURITY ASSURANCES. >> SO, SEAN, IS IT AN EVEN IF YOU GET THOSE ASSURANCES, CAN YOU MEET THIS NEED? WE ARE CONSTANTLY HEARING FROM SOURCES LIKE THE U.N. ABOUT FAMINE AND STARVATION, USING LIKE THAT AND DESCRIBING WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GAZA. SO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO

MEET THIS NEED? >> WELL, LOOK, NO ONE IS IS NO ONE IN GAZA IS HAVING MORE THAN A MEAL A DAY THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS A GOOD PIECE TODAY ON FINDING FOOD IN GAZA AND DIFFICULT. IT IS. AND NO ONE NO ONE EXPECTS TO IS ABLE TO HAVE THAN A MEAL A DAY. BUT EVEN A MEAL A DAY. WE NEED OVER 2 MILLION MEALS. WE’RE PROVIDING ABOUT 150,000 A DAY. WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN, A SIMILAR OR HIGHER. TOGETHER, WE’VE DELIVERED NEARLY 40 MILLION MEALS IN THE YEAR AND 20 MILLION MEALS TODAY. IN FACT, WE DELIVERING

OUR 20/20000000 MEAL IN GAZA. BUT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. WE NEED 2 MILLION A DAY IN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM, AND MANY OTHERS ARE PROVIDING FOOD NOW. BUT — BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH. WE NEED TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY AND WE CAN’T HAVE 20% OF THE AID A NECESSARY COMING IN. IT NEEDS TO BE 100% OR MORE. IT NEEDS TO GO OVER 100% TO MEET THE GAPS THAT WE HAVE OVER THESE PAST AND 60 DAYS OF WAR. >> ALL RIGHT AN HOUR, PRESIDENT AND CEO SEAN CARROLL. SEAN, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME AND FOR THE WORK YOU’RE

DOING. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. >> COMING UP, NEW DETAILS ON THE PUSH BY SOME INVESTORS TO BUY TIKTOK BEFORE IT’S POTENTIALLY BANNED IN THE U.S.. ALSO AHEAD, THE RECORD EXPERTS EXPECT BE BROKEN ON ST PATRICK’S DAY. STAY WITH US. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK MAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL

SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS. SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED IN LONDON, IN BARCELONA, UVALDE IN TEXAS. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE’RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE AT “GMA3”. WE LOVED DOGS,

LOVE DOGS. AND NEXT WEEK WE’RE ABOUT TO REVEAL LIVE ONLY ON “GMA” THE MOST POPULAR DOG BREEDS RIGHT NOW. SO WHAT DOGS MADE THE LIST? IT’S GOING TO BE A BIG ONE. PRETTY SOON. MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE. ABC NEWS THIS START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> WHAT’S GOOD TO WATCH? READ? WHERE CAN I GET A GREAT DEAL AND WHAT I’M JUST

DYING BUY. OH, IT’S ALL RIGHT HERE “GMA LIFE” GET THE LATEST BUYS ,DEALS AND DEALS IN THE COOLEST LIFESTYLE TIPS FROM “GMA”. >> I LOVE THAT SO MUCH. WEEKENDS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. E E BABACK.. BUYERS LINING UP EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT FOR SALE, AT LEAST NOT YET. PLUS, WE HAVE SOME NEW NUMBERS ON ST PATRICK’S DAY. ABC NEWS REPORTER ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS HAS MORE ON THAT AND YOUR OTHER BUSINESS HEADLINES. ALEXIS, WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? >> WHAT’S GOING ON? I’M ALREADY DERRIDA FAVORITE. LOVE IT. BUT LET’S START WITH TIKTOK FIRST. THEY’RE REALLY NOT IN THE

SPIRIT BECAUSE. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP TO BID ON THE US OPERATIONS OF CHINESE OWNED TIKTOK, BUT THEY DO FACE AN UPHILL BATTLE. >> THAT’S BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SIGNALING IT WON’T ALLOW A FOR SALE. WOULD RATHER THE AP BAND IN THE U.S. THAN BE SOLD. CHINESE OFFICIALS HAVE CRITICIZED THE U.S. FOR A BIPARTISAN BILL TARGETING THE APP. LAWMAKERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA’S ACCESS AMERICAN USER DATA. INTERESTED PARTIES HERE INCLUDE THE FORMER CEO OF VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER ACTIVISION AND A CONSORTIUM OF INVESTORS LED BY FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN. ANY PRICE TAG FOR TIKTOK ESTIMATED

TO BE MORE THAN $100 BILLION. AND IT MAY SOON BE IMPOSSIBLE TO HAIL AN UBER OR LYFT IN MINNEAPOLIS. THE RIDE HAILING APPS SAY THEY WILL PULL OUT OF THE TWIN CITIES STARTING MAY 1ST, AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED ENACT A PAY RISE FOR DRIVERS EQUIVALENT TO THE CITY’S MINIMUM WAGE OF $15.57 AN HOUR. UBER SAYS IT’S DISAPPOINTED BY THE DECISION. LYFT CALLS THE ORDINANCE DEEPLY FLAWED. THE MUCH SMALLER RIDE HAILING APP EMPOWER SAYS READY TO STEP IN IF THE COMPANIES MAKE GOOD ON THEIR THREATS TO LEAVE . BY THE WAY, SEATTLE AND NEW YORK

CITY HAVE PASSED SIMILAR POLICIES INCREASE WAGES FOR RIDE HAILING DRIVERS. BUT UBER AND LYFT STILL OPERATE IN THOSE CITIES. AND I MAY BE GREEK AND ITALIAN BUT THIS WEEKEND ALL A LITTLE IRISH. AREN’T WE A RECORD 162 MILLION PEOPLE. THAT’S ABOUT 62% OF AMERICANS PLAN TO CELEBRATE ST PATRICK’S DAY. THAT’S MORE THAN 20 TIMES THE POPULATION OF IRELAND ITSELF. HERE’S A QUICK LOOK AT HOW WE’RE GOING TO BE SPENDING OUR GREEN ON THE HOLIDAY FIRST OFF, MORE THAN 80% OF US PLAN TO WEAR GREEN TO BE. I’M A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE GAME TODAY. NEARLY

30% WILL MAKE A SPECIAL MEAL LIKE THE TRADITIONAL CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE, WHILE 27% PLAN TO CELEBRATE AT A BAR OR RESTAURANT. AND WE’RE GOING TO WASH ALL THAT IRISH FOOD DOWN WITH BEER. OF COURSE, OVER 13 MILLION PINTS OF GUINNESS ARE WORLDWIDE ON JUST THAT ONE DAY. THAT’S A LOT OF BEER. ALL RIGHT SO NOW WE KNOW THE TARGET TO BE EXACTLY THE BAR IS HERE GOT TO BEAT IT ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS. THANK YOU. COMING UP, IT IS WORLD SLEEP DAY. WE HAVE SOME TIPS TO HELP YOU GET YOUR BEST SLEEP AS WE HEAD INTO

SPRING AND SUMMER. ALSO AHEAD, THE CHAOS ON THE COURT YOU NEED TO SEE TO BELIEVE THE FLYING INSECTS LEFT SOME OF THE WORLD’S TOP TENNIS PLAYERS RUNNING FOR COVER COVER. >> THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY ON THIS STORY. WHY A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TODAY? SO BIG TALKERS WILL GET A CHANCE TO BANG THE AMERICAN DREAM. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS FOR WHAT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THE HOUSEMATE? I DID. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY, FACE TO FACE. >> ERIKA, WHY DO YOU THINK THE HOUSE SWUNG

FROM THE HOUSE TO. >> OH, YOU KNOW, FIRST THING IN THE MORNING? THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING. THAT’S OFF TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT, OVERNIGHT? A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN THAT IS BILLIONAIRES. NOW, IT’S GOOD TO BE IN THE MOOSE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE

START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE 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 EDWARD, OUR MURROW AWARDS, AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC, WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> ABC NEWS, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE

NEWS SOURCE. I’M ROB MARCIANO REPORTING FROM STEAMBOAT, WHERE THE AVALANCHE DANGER REMAINS HIGH BECAUSE OF THIS. IT CONTINUES TO SNOW HERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK. IT’S TIME FOR SAITO METHODS WHERE I SHOW YOU SOME OF MY FAVORITE TO MAKE LIFE A LITTLE EASIER. AND IN HONOR OF WORLD SLEEP DAY TODAY, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A FEW WAYS TO HELP GET THE QUALITY SLEEP YOU NEED NOW THAT WE’RE IN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, AT LEAST MANY OF US, AND AS WE HEAD INTO SPRING SUMMER. SO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS HERE AND YOU’RE

PUMPED FOR THOSE BRIGHTER EVENINGS. BUT THERE’S JUST ONE PROBLEM. IT’S SUDDENLY EVEN HARDER TO WAKE UP. >> LUCKILY, IN ADDITION TO ANCHORING THE NEWS, I ALSO WROTE THE BESTSELLING BOOK THE SLEEP THING. SO AS WE RECOVER FROM TURNING THE CLOCKS BACK, LET’S TALK ABOUT A FEW METHODS TO HELP YOU SLEEP. WELL. THIS WEEK IS ROUGH BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID WE LOSE AN HOUR OF SLEEP, BUT NOW WE’RE BASICALLY JET LAG BY AN HOUR THIS CAN MAKE IT HARDER TO FALL ASLEEP AT BEDTIME AND HARDER TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING. IF YOU’RE ALREADY A NIGHT

OWL LIKE ME, THIS CHANGE CAN BE ESPECIALLY HARD. THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TOOLS YOU CAN USE TO HELP YOUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM ADJUST. STARTING WITH THERAPY. LIKE THE IDEAL HERE IS ACTUALLY TO GET DIRECT SUNLIGHT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THAT’S THE MOST POWERFUL SIGNAL TO SET OUR CIRCADIAN. BUT THAT CAN BE HARD TO DO, ESPECIALLY SINCE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME MAKES THE SUNRISE LATER. SO MANY OF US ARE WAKING UP IN THE DARK. SO HERE’S MY HACK. GO TO THERAPY LIGHT IN MY BATHROOM. THIS IS JUST ON WHILE I’M GETTING READY

AND IT’S TELLING MY BRAIN THAT IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP. NOT ONLY HELPS ME GET WAKEUP SIGNALS AT THIS TIME, BUT IT ALSO HELPS ME FEEL SLEEP HERE AT BEDTIME. >> SPEAKING OF BEDTIME, DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ALSO MAKES SUNSET LATER, WHICH MAKES YOUR BRAIN NATURALLY THINK YOUR BEDTIME BE LATER, TOO. >> SO TIP NUMBER TWO, USE SUNGLASSES OR AMBER TINTED BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASSES IN THE EVENING. THIS TELLS YOUR BODY BEDTIME IS COMING SOON, EVEN IF YOU’RE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THAT LATE DAY. SOME TIP NUMBER THREE. BE SURE YOU’RE ALSO REDUCING YOUR EVENING LIGHT INSIDE THE

FOUR DS DIMNESS, DISTANCE, DURATION AND DIRECTION BY DIMMING THE LIGHTS BEING FARTHER AWAY FROM THE LIGHT SOURCE, TURNING OFF LIGHTS WHEN YOU DON’T NEED THEM AND FACING THE LIGHT AWAY FROM YOUR EYES, YOU HAVE TO SEND A SIGNAL TO YOUR BRAIN THAT IT’S NIGHTTIME AND TIME TO PREPARE FOR SLEEP. FOR DEVICES LIKE PHONES, TABLETS AND COMPUTERS. YOU CAN ALSO ADJUST THE BRIGHTNESS ON YOUR SCREENS AND SET THEM TO TURN ON BLUE LIGHT FILTERS AND DARK MODE IN THE EVENING AUTOMATICALLY LIGHT MAGIC. TIP NUMBER FOUR CONSIDER MELATONIN SUPPLEMENTS, BUT AVOID SOME COMMON MISTAKES. CONTRARY TO POPULAR

BELIEF, MELATONIN DOESN’T PUT YOU TO SLEEP. IT TELLS YOUR BODY IT’S NIGHTTIME. SO IT’S GREAT FOR ISSUES LIKE JETLAG, SHIFT WORK AND ADJUSTING TO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME. BUT MOST PEOPLE TAKE TOO MUCH TOO LATE. I TAKE JUST HALF A MG FOR BEFORE BEDTIME, SO BE SURE TO TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR TO ENSURE SAFETY TO GET THE DOSAGE AND TIMING RIGHT. ALSO, WHEN IT COMES TO MELATONIN STUDIES SHOWN WHAT’S ON THE LABEL OFTEN ISN’T WHAT’S IN THE BOTTLE. SO BE SURE TO BUY A VERIFIED BRAND. FINALLY, TIP NUMBER FIVE GETS PROFESSIONAL HELP. THERE IS NO SUCH

THING AS A BAD . IF YOU CONSISTENTLY HAVE TROUBLE FALLING ASLEEP OR STAYING ASLEEP TO A SLEEP SPECIALIST, IT’S TOUGH TO DREAM A AND YOU CAN SHARE. >> SAVE THIS HACK ON THE ABC NEWS LIVE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT AND DROP US A COMMENT THERE FOR WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE IO METHODS. AND FINALLY, A BIZARRE MOMENT BROUGHT A MAJOR TENNIS MATCH TO A HALT. BEES INVADED THE COURT, LEAVING THE NUMBER TWO RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD. >> CARLOS ALCARAZ, SWATTING AT THEM BEFORE HE EVENTUALLY HAD TO RUN FOR COVER. THE MATCH WAS SUSPENDED FOR 19 MINUTES AS

BEE REMOVAL SERVICES CAME IN TO HELP. ALCARAZ DID GO ON TO WIN THE MATCH, BUT HE ADMITTED HE WAS AFRAID OF THOSE BEES. >> DON’T BLAME HIM. >> THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR ANY TIME. WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON HULU, ROKU, THE ABC NEWS APP, AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> TONIGHT, A GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS

TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK WITH THUNDER ABOUT. >> BUT FIRST, A LITTLE SUNSHINE ON SOME OF THE A LITTLE BIT MY LITTLE BOY JAMES. >> IN AMERICA TONIGHT THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US AS GIRLS. THIS HAPPENED ACROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW,

2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED. ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SHE MADE A DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG. AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME OF. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON YOUR 2022 19. CENTRAL ON ABC. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS THE START HERE. >> TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP. A

LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE WITH THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND . UKRAINE, ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR

MAKING ABC NEWS LAUREN AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS AND ZOHREEN SHAH REPORTING FROM THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WILL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE I AM DIANE MACEDO TODAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS. A JUDGE OVERSEEING THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IN GEORGIA RULES THE D.A. CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE WITH CONDITIONS. WHAT HE SAYS FANI WILLIS NEEDS TO DECIDE IN ORDER AVOID AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE CASE AGAINST. TRUMP. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. STUNNING REBUKE.

WHY HE’S CALLING FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL AND THE FALLOUT ON THIS FIRST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS UNDER SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS. AT LEAST TEN TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN FIVE STATES WHERE THE STORM IS HEADED NEXT. AND TODAY’S WORLD FLEET DAY, WE ARE CHECKING OUT DEALS ON PILLOWS FOR ALL KINDS OF SLEEPERS AND THE RIGHT STUFF . >> BUT WE BEGIN WITH THAT JUDGE IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT RULING FULTON COUNTY D.A. FANI WILLIS AND HER TEAM CAN STAY ON THE CASE IF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE WITHDRAWS. FOR MONTHS, FORMER

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM HER ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH WADE. THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. >> ABC NEWS SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY JOINS ME NOW FROM ATLANTA. ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN IS HERE. WE HAVE FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMINS, AS WELL AS ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE FOR MORE. ERIN, WALK US THROUGH THIS DECISION AND WHAT’S AT STAKE HERE. OVER 23 PAGES, JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE DID

TWO THINGS. DIANE. HE ALLOWED THE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND, 14 OTHERS TO CONTINUE CHARGING THEM WITH TRYING TO INTERFERE IN THE GEORGIA VOTE BACK IN 2020. BUT HE SAID IF FANI WILLIS, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS TO STAY HER EX-BOYFRIEND, NATHAN WADE HAS TO GO. HE SAID THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST POSED BY THEIR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, BUT IT CREATED WHAT HE CALLED THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. AND HE SAID THERE WAS AN ODOR OF UNTRUTHFULNESS IN THE WAY WILSON WADE TESTIFIED ABOUT THEIR ROMANCE. AND SO HE SAID, THE D.A., HAD TWO CHOICES. EITHER

SHE AND HER WHOLE TEAM GOES OR WADE CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE. NOW, OLIVIA, THE DEFENSE ASKED THE JUDGE TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER SOME PUBLIC REMARKS THAT MADE INCLUDING SOMETHING SHE SAID AT A AT A CHURCH. THE JUDGE ACTUALLY THAT IN THE RULING. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT AND WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN ON THAT FRONT? >> HE DID. AND THE REMARKS THAT BONNIE WELLS GAVE THE CHURCH WAS SOMETHING THAT TRUMP’S ATTORNEY DID SAY THAT REALLY NARROWED AND HE OFTEN BROUGHT IT UP IN COURT. HE MENTIONED IT IN HIS CLOSING REMARKS. HE SAID IT WAS AN

EXAMPLE OF FORENSIC MISCONDUCT COMMITTED BONNIE WILLIS WHEN THE ALLEGATIONS WERE LEVELED AND SHE WENT AND GAVE A CHURCH SPEECH AND SAID THAT THE ALLEGATIONS WERE RACIALLY MOTIVATED. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEY TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE. SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER PROSECUTOR. THEY WERE TRAVELING AROUND TOGETHER. SO WHAT DID THEY SAID WAS THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GET HER KICKED OFF THE CASE BECAUSE WAS PREJUDICING THE DEFENDANTS IN A RACIAL MANNER IN FRONT OF WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE THE JURY POOL IN THIS CASE? BUT THE JUDGE REALLY INTERESTINGLY, HE SAID THAT THERE WAS

SORT OF A PROBLEM WITH THOSE SAYING THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO INJECT RACE IN THE CASE, BUT IT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO GET HER KICKED OFF. SO IT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT TRUMP’S SAID, TRUMP’S ATTORNEY SAYING THAT’S FORENSIC MISCONDUCT, THAT GET HER KICKED OFF AND THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY SAYING, YES, IT WAS A PROBLEM, BUT THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE THAT IT’S ACTUALLY GOING TO GET IN THE WAY OF THE DEFENDANT’S RIGHT TO HAVE A FAIR TRIAL. SO THAT DIDN’T RISE TO THE LEVEL THAT IT WAS SOMETHING WE HEARD ABOUT OFTEN AND GRIPED BY TRUMP’S

ATTORNEYS. DO YOU SAY TO CHRIS, GIVEN THAT FOCUS ON COMMENTS MADE BY FANI WILLIS OUTSIDE OF THE COURTROOM, DO YOU THINK WE COULD SEE A GAG ORDER AGAINST HER IN THIS CASE? AND AS SOMEONE WHO’S WORKED DIRECTLY WITH HER, HOW DO YOU EXPECT HER TO PROCEED HERE? >> SO I THINK WITH REGARD TO A POTENTIAL GAG ORDER, PROSECUTORS BASICALLY HAVE A GAG ORDER IN THE PLACE OF IT’S AN ETHICAL RULE THAT SAYS THAT YOU CAN’T SPEAK NEGATIVELY ABOUT THE CASE IN THE PUBLIC. AND THAT’S WHAT THAT FORENSIC MISCONDUCT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. THEY WERE SAYING

THAT SHE VIOLATED THAT ETHICAL RULE. I THINK, YOU KNOW, NORMALLY IF YOU HAVE A GAG ORDER, IT DOES APPLY TO BOTH PARTIES. BUT NORMALLY COMES ABOUT WHEN THE STATE ASKS FOR IT TO KEEP THE DEFENDANT FROM, YOU KNOW, SAYING EXTRAJUDICIAL COMMENTS OR COMMENTS THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM IN OF LOOKING FORWARD. I THINK THE FIRST STEP IS TO SEE WHICH WAY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE IS GOING TO HANDLE THIS. THEY’VE GOT TWO OPTIONS, ONE OF WHICH IS THAT THEY CAN RECUSE THEMSELVES. ACTUALLY, THEY GOT THREE OPTIONS. ONE IS THAT THEY CAN RECUSE THEMSELVES. SECOND, THEY

CAN HAVE NATHAN WADE DOWN OR THEY COULD STUPIDLY BUT APPEAL THIS ORDER . I THINK THEY TAKE THE WIN. I THINK THAT NATHAN WADE ISSUED SOME OF GRACIOUS RESIGNATION.ANP HE STEPS DOWN, DIANE, AND THE CASE PROCEEDS WITH THE COURT SETTING IT DOWN FOR TRIAL. THERE’S A POSSIBILITY THAT THE DEFENDANTS MAY ATTEMPT TO APPEAL THIS THING, BUT I DON’T SEE THAT EITHER I THINK THEY OR THEY’LL MAKE THE ATTEMPT, BUT I DON’T SEE THE APPEAL GOING FORWARD. DIANE AND TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM IS ALREADY PROMISING TO APPEAL . OLIVIA TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN IS ALSO ALREADY CAMPAIGNING OFF THIS

CASE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THEM? >> WELL, I THINK THE QUESTION AMONG A LOT OF PEOPLE DOWN IN GEORGIA IS NOT IF THERE WILL BE AN APPEAL, BUT WHEN. BUT I THINK CHRISTINA JUST HIT ON SOMETHING THAT’S VERY KEY HERE. THE DEFENDANTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET AN APPEAL. THEY HAVE TWO HURDLES THEY NEED TO GET. THEY NEED TO GO TO JUDGE SCOTT MACCABEE AND ASK FOR A CERTIFICATE. HE NEEDS TO THEN GRANT THAT. THEN THEY NEED TO GO TO THE COURT OF APPEALS. AND THE COURT OF APPEALS NEEDS TO

AGREE TO HEAR IT. SO IT REALLY IS A DOUBLE HURDLE THEY NEED TO GET TO. SO THE QUESTION BECOMES, WILL THEY BE GRANTED THE ABILITY TO HAVE THIS APPEAL HEARD? AND WHAT IS SO KEY ABOUT THAT IS IF THEY DO SUCCEED IN GETTING THEIR APPEAL HEARD, IT’S GOING TO BE A STAY ON THE CASE. SO THE CASE WILL BE PARSED, WHICH IS THE LEGAL DREAM SCENARIO. TRUMP SO IT’S NOT REALLY A MATTER OF IF, IT’S A MATTER OF WHEN AND A OF WILL THEY BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT EFFORT. YOU JUST HEARD FROM. TIMMONS HE DOES

NOT THINK SO. SO, BRIAN, THE BIG QUESTION HERE, COULD WE SEE THIS GO TO TRIAL BEFORE THE ELECTION? >> NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> AND WHAT I WOULD TELL MOST PEOPLE IS LOOK AT THE WHY IS SO YOUNG. JASON IS FACING SIMILAR RICO CHARGES OUT OF THE EXACT SAME COUNTY BY THE SAME PROSECUTOR. I THINK TODAY, DAY 43 OF THAT TRIAL. BUT IT TOOK MONTHS FOR THEM TO PICK A JURY. IF WE’RE TALKING ABOUT AN ACTUAL TRIAL DATE THAT FANI WILLIS WANTS TO TRY TO ESTABLISH, WE’RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT JURY SELECTION MAY BEGIN. BUT THE NATURE

OF TRYING TO A RICO CASE WITH SO MANY DEFENDANTS WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE THE COUNTRY KNOW THE DEFENDANTS HAVE AN OPINION, AND WE HAVE TO A JURY THAT IS IMPARTIAL TO HEAR THIS CASE. IF YOU’RE ASKING WHEN THIS TRIAL WILL START, I DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL START BEFORE THE ELECTION, BUT WE MAY START JURY SELECTION OR OTHER TYPE OF PRETRIAL MOTIONS OR ARGUMENTS. >> RIGHT. >> AARON KATERSKY OLIVIA RUBIN, CHRIS TIMMONS, BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU. AND REACTIONS ARE COMING IN AFTER SENATE MAJORITY LEADER SCHUMER MADE A FORMAL ADDRESS ON THE SENATE FLOOR WITH A

STUNNING REBUKE. ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. SCHUMER, WHO HAS STAYED SILENT AS OTHERS IN HIS PARTY, HAVE CRITICIZED THE ISRAELI LEADER, CALLED NETANYAHU AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE. ABC SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN JOINS US NOW FROM JERUSALEM WITH MORE ON THAT. MATT, THIS MORNING WE HEARD NETANYAHU APPROVE PLANS THE NEXT STAGE IN THE WAR. >> SO TELL US ABOUT WHAT’S EXPECTED TO HAPPEN NEXT YEAR AND WHAT THE GENERAL REACTION HAS BEEN IN ISRAEL TO SENATOR SCHUMER SPEECH. WELL, CERTAINLY, DIANE, THE DECISION TO LAUNCH THIS LONG ANTICIPATED INVASION OF THE SOUTHERN GAZA CITY OF RAFAH IS

NOT GOING TO INGRATIATE PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU ANYMORE TO THE DEMOCRATS, TO SENATOR SCHUMER. THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THING THAT THE MAJORITY LEADER SAID IN HIS SPEECH THAT NETANYAHU HAS LOST HIS WAY. SO, AS I UNDERSTAND IT FROM A BRIEFING THAT WE WERE IN JUST THE OTHER NIGHT, WHAT THE ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS TO DO, AND THIS IS THE APPROVED PLAN, IS SOMEHOW EVACUATE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE WHO MANY OF WHOM HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED FROM OTHER AREAS IN, GAZA TO DIFFERENT PLACES IN GAZA, INTO ENCLAVES THAT THEY SAY WILL BE PROTECTED BY HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS, THE

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND ISRAEL. AND THEN THEY’RE GOING TO GO INTO GAZA. UNCLEAR WHEN THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN OR HOW LONG IT’S GOING TO TAKE. BUT FOR ISRAEL, THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LAST LINK IN THEIR WAR OR THE LAST MAJOR PRIMARY MILITARY EFFORT IN THEIR WAR AGAINST HAMAS DIANA. AND, MATT, WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE ONGOING EFFORTS TO GET MORE AID INTO GAZA? IS ISRAEL HELPING WITH THAT? SO ISRAEL IS DEFINITELY THE PRESSURE FROM THE U.S. AT THIS POINT AND MASSIVE PRESSURE. AND TO THAT END, THEY ARE NOW TALKING ABOUT

FLOODING THE GAZA STRIP WITH AID THEY’VE OPENED UP TWO NEW LAND ROUTES. THERE HAVE SHIPS COMING IN. THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN SHIP IS LANDING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW, DELIVERING SUPPLIES A NEW QUARTER OPENING UP BY A U.S. SHIP THAT’S GOING TO BUILD A NEW PIER AIRDROPS AS WELL. ISRAEL SAYS THAT THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS DISTRIBUTION, THAT THE U.N. AND OTHER NGO ON THE GROUND SIMPLY DON’T THE CAPACITY DON’T HAVE THE TRUCKS TO BE ABLE TO GET THE AID TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO. AND INDEED, WE SAW A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF AID JUST

THERE IN THE SUN WAITING TO BE PICKED UP. THE U.N. CONTENDS THAT IT HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY. THAT’S WHY CAN’T PICK UP THE AID AND DELIVER. THIS IS AT THIS POINT A HE SAID SHE SAID JUDGING BY WHAT IS ABSOLUTELY IS THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO GET MORE AID AND IS MUCH MORE SENSITIVE TO THE U.S. CRITICISM, WHICH IS BECOMING MUCH MORE CRITICAL, MUCH MORE INTENSE OVER THE PAST DAYS AND WEEKS THAN. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN, THANK YOU. AND PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HOSTING IRELAND’S TEA SHOCK OR PRIME MINISTER, THE WHITE HOUSE AHEAD OF ST

PATRICK’S DAY THIS YEAR. TENSIONS OVER THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR COULD CAST A SHADOW OVER WHAT HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN A LIGHTHEARTED CELEBRATION OF FRIENDLY TIES BETWEEN THE TWO REPUBLICS. EARLIER, THE PRESIDENT’S SAID THE RELATIONSHIP IS STRONGER THAN EVER, POINTING TO THEIR SHARED EFFORTS TO BOOST AID TO GAZA. >> WE’RE WORKING TOGETHER TO INCREASE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN GAZA AND WE BOTH KNOW THAT A LOT MORE HAS TO BE DONE. I WAS THINKING TO TALK ABOUT THE SITUATION IN GAZA AS WELL, THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE MY VIEW THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A CEASEFIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO

GET FOOD MEDICINE IN THE PASSAGE OF THAT. AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN. AND MOVE TOWARDS A TWO STATE SOLUTION, WHICH I THINK IS THE ONLY THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE LASTING AND SECURITY. ABC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE MARYALICE. WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE WHITE HOUSE’S EFFORTS TO GET MORE AID INTO GAZA? YEAH, WELL, WE HAVE A TASTE OF THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO WORK TO BUILD THAT TEMPORARY PIER OFF THE COAST OF GAZA A WAY

TO TO UNLOAD, DOCK AND UNLOAD MORE AID. I MEAN, THAT HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST CONCERN FROM THIS WHITE HOUSE THEY ARE NOW TAKING THIS EXTRAORDINARY STEP, THIS JUST THIS LAST THAT WE SAW, U.S. SAILORS AND SOLDIERS I SHOULD SAY, DEPARTING FROM HERE IN VIRGINIA AS A PART OF THAT MISSION TO GO AND SET UP THIS DOCK. STILL A LOT OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, THOUGH, ABOUT SOME OF THE REAL LOGISTICS, HOW IT WILL HOW THAT LIKE THIS SAW THAT FINAL PINCH, HOW WILL THE AID WILL GET FROM THE SHIPS TO THE DOCK INTO GAZA? BUT CLEARLY, THIS

IS IN MOTION AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS WORKING FAST, THE MILITARY WORKING FAST TO GET THAT PIER SET UP AND PRESIDENT ALSO SAID THAT SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER CONTACTED HIS STAFF OF HIS CALL FOR NEW ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL. BUT THE PRESIDENT DECLINED TO ELABORATE ON THAT. >> AND HE DID, THOUGH, SAY THAT SCHUMER MADE A GOOD SPEECH AND EXPRESSED SERIOUS CONCERNS. >> WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT? HOW THE WHITE HOUSE STANCE ON ISRAEL IS SHIFTING AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN? YEAH, AND SO INTERESTING. >> LOOK, IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THIS

HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH OFFICIAL IN THE UNITED STATES, CHUCK SCHUMER, THE HIGHEST RANKING DEMOCRAT COURSE IN THE SENATE, WOULD DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S BLESSING. NOW, I DON’T THINK THAT SCHUMER FEELS LIKE HE NEEDS THE WHITE HOUSE’S PERMISSION. IF THE WHITE HOUSE, FOR SOME REASON HAD TOLD HIM, PLEASE WAIT. WE ARE WORRIED OF THAT. THE IMPACT THAT YOUR REMARKS COULD HAVE, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT YOU WOULD LISTEN TO THAT. SO FOR ME THAT SPEECH WAS INCREDIBLY TELLING. VERY INTERESTING. IF THIS MARKS A REAL SHIFT IN POTENTIALLY U.S. POLICY AND NOT JUST U.S. RHETORIC. YOU HEARD

MATT GUTMAN THERE ON THE GROUND SAY THAT ISRAELI OFFICIALS STARTING TO FEEL THAT INCREASED PRESSURE FROM THE STATES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE LETTING AID IN TO THE CIVILIANS THAT ARE STRUGGLING THERE IN GAZA AND THAT THEY ARE PROTECT CIVILIANS AND TRYING TO AVOID CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. LOOK, WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE EFFECTS OF SCHUMER’S SPEECH WILL BE. IT IS POSSIBLE. IT ACTUALLY LEADS MORE ISRAELI OFFICIALS RALLY BEHIND NETANYAHU. >> BUT IT IS VERY CLEAR SCHUMER IS NOT ALONE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER DEMOCRATS HERE IN WASHINGTON AND AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT WORRY THAT THEY

WANT TO STAND WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL, BUT THEY WORRY THAT NETANYAHU IS INCREASINGLY MAKING ISRAEL AN OUTLIER ON THE GLOBAL STAGE, ISOLATING ISRAEL FROM THE REST OF THE GLOBAL STAGE, BY THE WAY, IT IS CONDUCTING THIS WAR. >> ALL RIGHT. >> HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS, THANK YOU. AND AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER AT LEAST TEN REPORTED TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN IN FIVE STATES. NOW, OFFICIALS TEXAS TO OHIO ARE COMBING THROUGH DESTRUCTION. ABC NEWS IS IN HARD HIT LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO, WITH THE LATEST ON KNOW MILLIONS WAKING UP TO THE AFTERMATH OF SEVERE AFTER

REPORTED TORNADOES TORE INTO THE HEARTLAND OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL OHIO. AUTHORITIES SAY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE DIED IN LAKEVIEW WHEN SUSPECTED TORNADOES RIPPED THE REGION. RESIDENTS, THEY ARE CALLING IT PURE DEVASTATION. OUR LAUNDRY MAT IS GONE. >> THE OLD PLASTICS BUILDING IS JUST COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED DOWNTOWN. IT’S BAD. YES, VERY BAD. >> TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA. HOMES AND STRUCTURES TORN APART. PEOPLE SEARCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ANYONE WHO MAY STILL BE TRAPPED. >> WE DON’T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME

BUILDINGS AND HOMES THAT THEY DESTROYED. >> CARS MANGLED. POWER LINES STREWN. ROADS LEAVING THOUSANDS IN THE DARK. THIS BUILDING UNRECOGNIZABLE. IT’S METAL SIDING WRAPPED AROUND TREES. I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN. >> AND THEN I STARTED HEARING SIRENS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN MY MY WIFE. I GOT A TEXT FROM MY FRIEND THAT SHE LIVES IN INDIA AND HER PARENTS LIVED DOWN THE ROAD AND THEIR HOUSE WAS GONE IN SELMA. >> AUTHORITIES THERE SAY THAT UP TO 50% OF STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYTHING LIKE THIS THAT I

CAN RECALL HAS HAPPENED IN THE TOWN OF SELMA. >> AND IN PARTS OF ARKANSAS, DEALING WITH FLOODING AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES IN SOME PLACES. DIANE ALEX PRESHA IN LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO, THANK YOU. >> AND THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER IS FACING A POTENTIAL PRISON TIME AFTER. A JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. JAMES CROWLEY WAS CONVICTED FOUR COUNTS FOR PROVIDING THE GUN USED IN HIS SON’S ATTACK AND FAILING TO PREVENT THE SHOOTING. THE VERDICT COMES JUST WEEKS AFTER WIFE JENNIFER CRUMBLEY WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THE SAME CHARGES. ABC’S TREVOR AULT HAS THE

LATEST. >> IN ANOTHER UNIMPRESSIVE ENDED VERDICT IN MICHIGAN, JAMES AND JENNIFER CRUMBLY. NOW BOTH GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD’S SCHOOL SHOOTING. THEY COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE SHOOTING AND SAVED THESE KIDS LIVES. A JURY OF SIX MEN AND SIX WOMEN, MANY OF THEM PARENTS AND, GUN OWNERS, STAYING LATE AT THE COURTHOUSE THURSDAY ANNOUNCING JAMES CROWLEY’S GUILTY VERDICT. AFTER 11 HOURS OF DELIBERATION. THIS VERDICT DOES NOT BRING BACK THEIR CHILDREN, BUT IT DOES MARK A MOMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY. >> JAMES CRUMBLY BOUGHT THE SHOOTER THE WEAPON HE USED IN THE

MASSACRE. THE FATHER AND SON SEEN ON VIDEO JUST DAYS BEFORE PROSECUTORS SAY THE PARENTS IGNORED MULTIPLE RED FLAGS IN REGARD TO THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. NOW THE COMMUNITY REMEMBERS THE FOUR OXFORD STUDENTS WHO WERE MURDERED, HANNAH SAINT JULIANA MILLER, MADISON BALDWIN AND JUSTIN SCHILLING. MANY THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS IN COURT FOR BOTH PARENTS TRIALS NOW CALLING FOR ACTION TO STOP FUTURE GUN VIOLENCE. WE CAN PUT PEOPLE ON THE MOON. WE CAN BUILD A HUGE MONUMENTS LIKE THE HOOVER DAM. AND WE CAN’T KEEP OUR SKILLS, OUR KIDS SAFE IN SCHOOLS. >> JAMES AND JENNIFER CRUMBLY WILL BE SENTENCED

THE SAME DAY, APRIL 9TH, AND BOTH FACING UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR EACH COUNT. AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS SAY, AREN’T DONE. THERE IS STILL A PROMINENT LAWSUIT AGAINST THE SCHOOL THAT IS STILL ONGOING. >> DIANE TREVOR AULT, THANK YOU. COMING UP, HOW AUTHORITIES IN MIAMI BEACH ARE PREPARING FOR, QUOTE, TOUGHEST WEEKEND AS SPRING BREAK AND ST PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATIONS COLLIDE. WHENEVER A NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF

A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE. TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII AND CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHERE MORNING FROM THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI BEFORE HE IS ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE

STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE THERE, STREAMING ABC LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> I HAVE A THEY’RE EXPECTING A SECRET WORLD. WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY INSIDE. THAT PAIN IS A SOURCE OF HUMOR FOR THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED BECAUSE. THEY’RE TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. >> ANYWHERE. WOW. WE’RE

IN MIAMI. >> CHECK OUT A GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT’S LOUD, POUNDING AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING TO THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. OH, SPORTS IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG IS A REGIME. YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STATE OF PLAY FROM THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS. >> WASHINGTON NOW STREAMING ON TO TO WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. AUTHORITIES IN MIAMI BEACH ARE BRACING FOR A CHAOTIC SPRING BREAK ST PATRICK’S DAY WEEKEND

COMBINED. POLICE ALREADY HAVE EXTRA OFFICERS ON THE STREET AND HAVE SET UP DUI CHECKPOINTS. ANDREW DYMBURT HAS MORE ON HOW OFFICIALS THERE ARE CRACKING DOWN ON PARTYING. >> MIAMI BEACH PUT TO THE TEST THIS WEEKEND IS REALLY. YES HISTORICALLY BEEN OUR TOUGHEST WEEKEND. AFTER YEARS SPRING BREAKERS WREAKING HAVOC ON THIS SMALL ISLAND. OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING TO CURB THE CHAOS WITH ARGUABLY THE TOUGHEST RESTRICTIONS YET, INCLUDING CHECKPOINTS. A $100 PARKING BAG CHECKS, $500 TOWING FEES, AND NOW ALL PARKING GARAGES WILL BE CLOSED TO VISITORS. MORE THAN A DOZEN DRONES WILL BE PATROLLING OVERHEAD. 140 PLUS STATE

TROOPERS AND EVEN THE COAST GUARD DEPLOYING TO HELP LOCAL. MIAMI BEACH COMMISSIONER DAVID SUAREZ SAYS THIS SEASON IS DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR. THERE WAS ALWAYS A SHOOTING AND THERE WAS ALWAYS A DEATH. AND IT’S SAID THAT’S THAT’S NOT MIAMI BEACH. >> WE NEED TO TALK. IT STARTED WITH THE NOW VIRAL AD WITH MORE THAN 200 MILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING. UNTIL THEN, WE’RE BREAKING WITH YOU. >> LEADERS SAY THE CRACKDOWN IS WORKING. NEARLY 600 SPRING BREAK RELATED ARRESTS LAST YEAR AND TWO DEATHS COMPARED TO ROUGHLY 200 ARRESTS AND ZERO FATALITIES THIS YEAR. WE NEEDED TO END SPRING

BREAK. WE’RE BRINGING LAW AND ORDER. >> BUT SOME VACATIONERS SAY IT’S ALL A BIT MUCH, NEARLY OVERWHELMING. >> BUT THE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE IS JUST OVERWHELMING. >> AND WITH MIAMI BEACH CRACKING DOWN NEARBY FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, ONLY ABOUT 30 MINUTES NORTH OF HERE, THEY ARE SEEING MASSIVE CROWDS. BUT LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES THERE TELL ME THEY, TOO, HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL. DIANE ANDREW DYMBURT IN MIAMI, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, JIMMY LIVESTOCK CONTRIBUTOR LORI BERGAMOTTO JOINS US FOR THE RIGHT STUFF. AND WE ARE ENDING WEEK WITH THE BEST PILLOWS IN TOWN FORORE BAC. >> THIS IS

ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRAWFORD FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, A REFUGEE CENTER ON THE GROUND, UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. DESTRUCTIVE FORCE FOR STORM ALONG I-5. BOSTON IS IN THE BULL’S EYE. LET’S. NBC NEWS LINE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STREET TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST NEWSCAST ON

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MONTHS. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND. SOME OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS HAD PUSHED TO DISQUALIFY WILLIS OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE BENEFITED FINANCIALLY FROM THAT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH. SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. THE JUDGE FOUND THERE WAS NO ACTUAL CONFLICT INTEREST, BUT CITED THE NEED TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. WE HAVE FULL TEAM COVERAGE BREAKING DOWN THIS DECISION, STARTING WITH SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE AARON KATERSKY WHO’S OUTSIDE THAT COURTHOUSE. ERIN, WALK US THIS DECISION AND THE JUDGE’S LOGIC HERE. THE JUDGE DID NOT SEEM TERRIBLY PLEASED WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS AND HER EXPLANATION OF HER ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE

HIRED FOR THE CASE. WADE. BUT BOTTOM LINE, THE CASE CAN CONTINUE AS LONG AS WILLIS AGREES TO MAKE SOME CHANGES AND THE JUDGE GAVE HER TWO OPTIONS, EITHER SHE AND HER ENTIRE TEAM CAN WALK AWAY AND TURN THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS OVER TO SOME OTHER PROSECUTOR OR NATHAN WADE. CAN GO. AND THAT, THE JUDGE SAID, WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE REMEDY TO DISSIPATE THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. HE DID NOT FIND THAT THERE WAS AN ACTUAL CONFLICT IN THE RELATIONSHIP. BUT HE DID SAY, DIANE, THAT A REASONABLE PERSON CONCLUDE THAT WILLIS DID NOT

EXERCISE PROPER PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT. >> NOW, I WANT TO BRING IN EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER FOR MORE ON THAT, BECAUSE, JOHN, ON THE SURFACE, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS WAS KIND OF A WIN FOR TRUMP, BUT WHEN YOU DIG INTO IT, WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED WAS FANI WILLIS OF THIS CASE OR THE INDICTMENT THROWN OUT ENTIRELY. SO WHAT HAPPENS? >> WELL, I MEAN, BASICALLY, YOU DIDN’T GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, RIGHT? SO THE REALITY IS IT’S SENSITIVE AND THEY’RE RIGHT. THE D.A. COULD BE DISQUALIFIED . THE D.A. GETS AN OPTION, WHICH IS IF YOU THROW NATHAN WADE OFF,

NEVER MIND. YOU CAN STAY. >> YOU WOULD THINK SHE’S GOING TO DO THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE HER GOAL IS OBVIOUSLY TO PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP. AND SHE SAID THAT AFTER YOU REMEMBER THAT TIME WHEN SHE WAS ON THE STAND FOR THAT UNBELIEVABLE DAY OF TESTIMONY, SHE LOOKED AT THE ATTORNEYS FOR DONALD TRUMP AND SAID TO THEM AT ONE POINT, YOU KNOW, I’M NOT THE ONE ON TRIAL OVER HERE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION. >> THEY NOT ME, BUT NEVERTHELESS, I’M UP HERE. SO THIS WHOLE SIDESHOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT’S REALLY

WHAT THIS HAS DONE. THE GOAL OF TEAM TRUMP AND THE OTHER 18 DEFENDANTS HAD BEEN WHEN THIS FIRST CAME DOWN, FIND WAYS TO DELAY THIS. RIGHT. AS ONE SOURCE SAID TO ME, WE HAVE TO FIND A BUNCH OF SHINY OBJECTS TO THROW IN ROAD JUST TO SLOW THIS DOWN. THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS DID THAT, BUT NOW WHAT THIS RULING DOES IT SAY WE’RE GETTING BACK ON TRACK WITH TIME AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TEAM TRUMP DID NOT WANT HERE. DIANE I TO GO TO FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS ON THAT BECAUSE, CHRIS, THE JUDGE

FOUND HERE THAT THE DEFENDANTS FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN TO PROVE THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ACQUIRED AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO WHAT DOES THAT FOR A POSSIBLE APPEAL? >> SO LOOKING THE DOCUMENT ITSELF, YOU HAVE TO COMPARE IT TO THE ORDER THAT CAME DOWN TWO DAYS AGO. IF YOU’LL REMEMBER, THERE WAS AN ORDER THAT CAME DOWN TWO DAYS AGO THAT REMOVED SIX COUNTS, FOUND THAT THEY WERE INSUFFICIENT IN THAT ORDER. THERE WAS A VERY IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE THAT SAID, LOOK, THE D.A.’S OFFICE WANTS TO APPEAL THIS ISSUE. I WILL GRANT THEM A CERTIFICATE ,IMMEDIATE REVIEW,

MEANING I’M GOING TO LET THEM APPEAL THIS CASE. I LOOKED ALL OVER THIS ORDER TO SEE IF THERE WAS THAT SAME LANGUAGE HERE, WHICH THE SAID, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THE LAW IN THIS AREA IS CONFUSING. THERE’S NOT A LOT OF LAW IN THIS AREA. SO I’M GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL AS WELL. WE DON’T SEE LANGUAGE IN THIS PARTICULAR ORDER. AND SO THE JUDGE SORT OF TIPPING HIS CAP THAT HE’S NOT GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL. IT’S POSSIBLE. I MEAN, HE COULD DECIDE LATER ON IF SOMEBODY PUTS THE RIGHT INFORMATION IN THERE THAT THAT THAT

THEY CAN HAVE AN APPEAL. BUT I DON’T SEE IT RIGHT. AND SO I THINK AN APPEAL IS UNLIKELY EVEN IF THE DEFENSE WANTS ONE. >> JON, HOW’S TRUMP’S TEAM REACTING TO THIS? THEY HAVE A STATEMENT WE LITERALLY JUST GOT AND FROM THE READ IT IN PART, THIS IS FROM STEVE, THE LEAD ATTORNEY ON THE CASE READS IN PART WHILE RESPECTING THE COURT’S DECISION WE BELIEVE THE COURT DID NOT AFFORD APPROPRIATE SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OF WILLIS AND WADE, INCLUDING THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS TESTIFYING ON TRUTHFULLY ABOUT WHEN THEIR PERSONAL KINSHIP BEGAN, AS WELL AS WILLIS’S

EXTRAJUDICIAL MLK CHURCH SPEECH, WHICH IS REFERENCED IN THE RULING BY THE JUDGE WHERE SHE PLAYED THE RACE CARD AND FALSELY ACCUSED THE DEFENDANTS AND THEIR COUNCIL OF RACISM STATEMENT GOES ON TO SAY, WE WILL USE ALL LEGAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE AS WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO THE END OF THIS CASE, WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE. THAT’S FROM STEVE SADOW, THE LEAD ATTORNEY ON THAT CASE . SO BASICALLY WHAT THAT GETS TO, WE JUST PULL AWAY EVERYTHING ELSE. THEY’RE APPEALING. >> CHRIS, YOU HAVE WORKED WITH FANI WILLIS, YOU’VE WORKED IN THAT IN

THAT SPHERE. WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS APPEALS LOOKS LIKE? I MEAN, I THINK IF THEY TRY TO APPEAL THE ISSUE, WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DO IS THEY’RE GOING TO ATTACK IT FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT BASICALLY THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE HERE TO SHOW AN APPEARANCE IMPROPRIETY. AND SO THAT’S REALLY WHERE THEY’VE GOT TO GET IT. THAT’S AN UPHILL BATTLE, THOUGH, DIANE, BECAUSE IT’S THE COURT, THE TRIAL COURT HERE, JUDGE MCCARTHY, THAT GETS TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE FACTS ARE. SO WHAT I THINK GOING TO TRY TO DO IS THREAD THAT NEEDLE AND SAY, OKAY,

WELL, THE JUDGE FOUND THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN FACTS HERE WITH REGARD TO THIS RELATIONSHIP. AND YOU COURT OF APPEAL SHOULD FIND THAT IS ENOUGH FOR AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. THUS THEY SHOULD BE GONE. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST STEP IN THAT PROCESS IS GETTING THE TRIAL JUDGE TO THAT. HE’S GOING TO ALLOW AN APPEAL TO PROCEED. AND THEN THE COURT OF APPEALS HAS TO SAY THAT AS WELL. AND HERE WE’RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN THAT ORDER LIKE COMPARED TO THE ORDER THAT WE SAW TWO DAYS AGO THAT SUGGESTED THE JUDGE ALLOW THEM

TO APPEAL IT. WELL, SEE, THEY CAN CERTAINLY TRY. THEY’VE GOT TEN DAYS FROM NOW TO GET THAT APPEAL UP AND THE CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE REVIEW, YOU SAID THE CLOCK IS RUNNING WITH REGARD TO DEFENSE, BUT I JUST DON’T SEE IT MOVING FORWARD. >> AND I WANT TO BRING IN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN, BECAUSE OLIVIA, JOHN MENTIONED THAT CHURCH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE. THE JUDGE ACTUALLY MENTIONS THAT IN THIS RULING. WHY THAT PLAY SUCH A BIG ROLE HERE? >> WELL, IT’S FASCINATING, DIANE, BECAUSE REMEMBER, IT WAS NOT JUST THE ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT, AS YOU JUST

HEARD FROM TRUMP. SORRY, DON, READING THE TRUMP STATEMENT, THEY HAD A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO USE TO GET FANI WILLIS OFF THE CAPE. AND STEVE, ZAIDOUN, TRUMP’S ATTORNEY, WAS REALLY LASER FOCUSED ON THE SPEECH THAT FANI WILLIS GAVE RIGHT AFTER THESE FIRST CAME OUT IN JANUARY AND HAD TOLD THE JUDGE EVEN THAT SPEECH ALONE IN WHICH SHE SAID THAT THE ALLEGATIONS WERE RACIALLY MOTIVATED SHOULD BE ENOUGH, GET HER KICKED OFF THE CASE. SHE SAID IT WAS PREJUDICE, PREJUDICING THE DEFENDANT, STOKING RACIAL ANIMUS. AND IT’S FASCINATING TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE THOUGHT

ABOUT IT. AND IN HIS RULING, HE DID FIND THAT THE EFFECT OF HER SPEECH WAS TO CAST RACIAL ASPERSIONS AT AN INDICTED DEFENDANT, WHICH IS FASCINATING, DIANE. BUT ULTIMATELY, HE DID FIND THAT THE COURT COULD NOT FIND THAT THE SPEECH CROSSED THE LINE TO THE POINT WHERE THE DEFENDANTS WERE ACTUALLY THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO A FAIR TRIAL. SO HE DID TAKE SOME ISSUE WITH THAT SPEECH, BUT JUST SAID IT WASN’T ENOUGH, WHICH IS REBUFFING TRUMP’S ATTORNEY. HE SAID REALLY IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH, DIANE. >> AND I WANT TO BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN,

FOR MORE ON THAT POINT, BECAUSE, BRIAN, NOT ONLY DID THE JUDGE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT FANI WILLIS IN THE SPEECH AND SOME OF THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THIS PART OF THE THE JUDGE ALSO HAD SOME CRITICISM FOR THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WADE SAYING THAT HIS TESTIMONY INDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO WRONGLY CONCEAL THE RELATIONSHIP. SO WHILE THIS RULING CONSIDERED A WIN FOR FANI WILLIS, WHAT DOES IT DO? >> HER CREDIBILITY AND NATHAN WADE’S CREDIBILITY? YEAH, WELL, I THINK AS THE JUDGE POINTED OUT, THERE IS AN APPEARANCE IMPROPRIETY HERE. AND WHILE THE COURT OF APPEALS IN, GEORGIA AND

OTHER COURTS HAVE SAID THAT THERE ARE OTHER REMEDIAL THAT CAN BE TAKEN WHEN THERE IS AN APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, I DIDN’T LIKE THE WAY THAT THE TESTIMONY CAME OUT, THAT THERE WERE SOME FACTS HERE THAT A PERSON ON BY KIND OF POLITICAL BIAS CAN SAY THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG HERE. AND AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED, ONE OF THEM BEING THE WAY THAT NATHAN WADE TESTIFIED. AND I THINK THAT’S WHY YOU’RE GOING ABOUT THIS ROUTE OF THE JUDGE SAYING. YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE’S NO ACTUAL IMPROPRIETY HERE, WHICH WOULD HAVE AN AUTOMATIC. BUT THE

APPEARANCE OF IT BASED ON THE CASE LAW, SAYS THAT I AS A JUDGE CAN COME IN AND SAY THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT REMEDIAL ACTION THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN. AND THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE THOSE DIFFERENT STEPS. EITHER FANI WILLIS STEPS DOWN OR NATHAN WADE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, IN PART BECAUSE I THINK THE WAY HE TESTIFIED. >> AND DARREN, SECOND TO GETTING THIS CASE DISMISSED TEAM WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. SO WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS AND WHEN COULD WE SEE A TRIAL DATE? FANI WILLIS HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST

TRIAL DATE HERE IN FULTON, DIANE, BUT THE JUDGE HAS STILL NOT SET A TRIAL DATE, PROBABLY IN PART BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DEALING WELL WITH ALL OF THESE PRETRIAL MOTIONS. SO AT SOME POINT, ONCE WHATEVER MAY OR MAY NOT OCCUR IS IS THROUGH THE JUDGE UNDOUBTEDLY GOING TO SIT DOWN, FIGURE OUT WITH THE ATTORNEYS WHEN THIS CASE CAN GO TO TRIAL. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERSELF HAS RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY NOT BE READY FOR TRIAL UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION OR EVEN INTO 2025, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE POINT OF THAT WOULD BE, BECAUSE

THERE SO MANY SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS IN THE INDICTMENT ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE IN THE 2020 ELECTION. BUT THERE IS NO TRIAL DATE HERE. THE FIRM TRIAL DATE THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FACING IS MARCH 25TH IN NEW YORK. AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY THERE JUST SUGGESTED A 30 DAY DELAY. SO THE PROSECUTORS AND THE DEFENSE TEAM CAN REVIEW AGAIN, REVIEW NEWLY DISCLOSED EVIDENCE. >> ALL RIGHT, AARON KATERSKY KEY JOHN SANTUCCI, OLIVIA RUBIN, BRIAN BUCKMIRE AND CHRIS TIMMINS, THANK YOU ALL. >> COMING UP, THE FORMER TOP TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL LOOKING TO BUY TIKTOK AS THE

SENATE CONSIDERS A POTENTIAL BAN ON THE APP. ALSO AHEAD, THE NEW SIGNS OF TURMOIL FOR THE BRITISH ROYAL AND A SURPRISE MOVE BY MEGHAN MARKLE TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. >> WHAT HAPPENS? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOW STORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN. TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED SUNDAY MORNING. >> A POWERHOUSE

ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK WITH THE GOOD VIBES, WHICH IS ALL BUT A SORE SUBJECT. IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT MY LITTLE I’M GOING TO END GOOD MORNING AMERICA. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR GAME HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO.

START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> START HERE. THE HOUSEWIVESF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY, GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THEY SAMPLED VICTIMS WILL GET A CHANCE TO THE THERAPY. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS IN A WAY TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT I DID? I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY. FACE TO FACE ERIKA. WHY DO YOU TAKE ME SO LONG? >> THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HOUSEWORK. YOU

KNOW KNOW. >> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. FIRST BIG NAME. U.S. INVESTORS ARE LINING UP FOR A CHANCE TO BUY TIKTOK. THE SENATE IS CONSIDERING A BILL THAT COULD BAN THE APP IN THE U.S. IF ITS CHINA BASED OWNER DOESN’T AGREE TO SELL IT. NOW WE’RE LEARNING A TOP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL IS AMONG THOSE INTERESTED BUYERS. ABC NEWS CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT REBECCA JARVIS HAS THE LATEST. >> SHE KICKED OUT MANY SUITORS. >> IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS. THEY MAY NOT LOOK LIKE TYPICAL INFLUENCERS. HERE’S A 15 SECOND TIKTOK TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE SNAKE PLANT

IS THE EASIEST TO CARE FOR PLANT OUT THERE. >> BUT BUTTONED UP EXECS FROM FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVE MENU. >> CHEN. I’M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A GROUP TO BUY TECH TIME TO SHARK TAKES KEVIN O’LEARY. I’LL GUARANTEE IT’S SAFE FOR PARENTS USERS, LARGE AND SMALL BUSINESSES ALIKE AND FORMER ACTIVISION VIDEO GAMES CEO BOBBY KOTICK, WHO, ACCORDING TO THE “WALL STREET JOURNAL” HAS EXPRESSED INTEREST. ALL LINING UP POTENTIALLY BUY AND INFLUENCE TIKTOK WHICH BOASTS HUNDRED AND 70 MILLION USERS IN THE US, ONE IN FOUR OF THEM UNDER THE AGE OF 20. EVEN THOUGH THE IS

IT TECHNICALLY FOR SALE? IT COMES ON THE HEELS OF A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT PASSED THE HOUSE. IF SIGNED INTO LAW, IT WOULD FORCE TIKTOK PARENT COMPANY BYTEDANCE, WHICH IS CHINESE TO SELL TIKTOK OR FACE A BAN. IN THE U.S. LAWMAKERS ARE CONCERNED OVER CHINA’S ACCESS TO AMERICAN USER DATA. DESPITE TIKTOK’S EFFORTS TO MOBILIZE USERS AGAINST THE MEASURE. >> IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 170 MILLION AMERICANS BASED ON APP . >> IT’S GOING TO IMPACT 7 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES AND I HOPE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD WITH BILLIONS ON THE LINE. THE BILL NOW HEADS TO THE SENATE

PRESIDENT. BIDEN, WHO RECENTLY JOINED TIKTOK, HAS SAID HE’LL SIGN IT IF IT REACHES HIS DESK. BEFORE ANYTHING CHANGES HERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF HURDLES. FIRST, TICK TAX PRICE, IT’LL COST BILLIONS. AND THAT REALLY NARROWS DOWN WHO CAN BUY IT. THEN THERE’S THE ALGORITHM. THE THING THAT DETERMINES POPS UP IN YOUR FEED WHEN CHINA BE WILLING TO PART WITH THAT. AND THAT IS IF THE CHINESE AGREE TO SELL TIKTOK’S U.S. ARM . AND THAT IS STILL A VERY BIG IF DIANE. CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT REBECCA JARVIS, THANK YOU. AND NOW TO THE TURMOIL IN THE BRITISH

ROYAL FAMILY. PRINCES WILLIAM AND HARRY APPEARED AT AN EVENT TO THEIR LATE MOTHER, PRINCESS DIANA, BUT THEY DID NOT APPEAR. THIS AS THE PALACE DEALS WITH THE FALLOUT FROM PRINCESS KATE’S PHOTO EDITING SCANDAL. ABC NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JAMES LONGMAN MORE. NEW SIGNS OF TROUBLE FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY PRINCE WILLIAM AND HIS BROTHER HARRY APPEARING AT THE DIANA AWARDS, AN EVENT HONORING MOTHER BUT CHOOSING NOT TO APPEAR TOGETHER. >> THIS EVENING’S LEGACY WOULD IS PARTICULARLY SPECIAL AS IT MARKS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR. THE DAUGHTER WOULD. THAT LEGACY IS SOMETHING BOTH CATHERINE AND I SOUGHT TO FOCUS

ON THROUGH OUR WORK. >> WILLIAM MADE HIS APPEARANCE IN PERSON, DELIVERING REMARKS AND THEN LEAVING BEFORE PRINCE HARRY APPEARED VIRTUALLY FROM CALIFORNIA. >> MY MOM WOULD BE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF ALL THE WORK THAT YOU’VE DONE. I’M INCREDIBLY PROUD. >> AS THE FALLOUT FROM THE ROYAL PHOTO SCANDAL AND CONFUSION SURROUNDING PRINCESS KATE’S HEALTH PLAGUED THE FAMILY, THE AFP NOW SAYING KENSINGTON PALACE, WHICH HANDLES COMMUNICATIONS FOR WILLIAM AND KATE, ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT CONSIDERED A TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE. THAT AFTER THEY PUT OUT DOCTORED PHOTOGRAPH OF KATE AND THEIR CHILDREN. THESE AREAS SHOWING WHERE THE PHOTO WAS MANIPULATED, LET DOWN

BY A SOURCE. THE BAR IS RAISED AND WE SEND OUT NOTES TO ALL OUR TEAM AT THE MOMENT TO BE PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT MORE VIGILANT ABOUT THE CONTENT COMING ACROSS OUR DESK, EVEN FROM WHAT WE WOULD CALL TRUSTED SOURCES. >> THE PRINCESS ISSUING RESPONSE AFTER AGENCIES TOOK IT DOWN, SAYING, LIKE MANY AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS, I DO OCCASIONALLY EXPERIMENT WITH EDITING. I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY APOLOGIES FOR ANY CONFUSION. THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH WE SHARED YESTERDAY CAUSED, THE PHOTOSHOP DAMAGE, ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THE PUBLIC HAS SEEN KATE SINCE HER ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN JANUARY. CONCERNS OVER

THE FUTURE HEALTH NOW SPAWNING CONSPIRACY THEORIES. >> THIS WILL BE THE MOST SHOCKING VIDEO OF THE ENTIRE SERIES, AND I PRAY THIS IS NOT TRUE. >> I WISH IN THE SPRING. >> ALL THIS COMES AS HER SISTER LAW MEGHAN MARKLE, DECIDED IT WAS THE RIGHT MOMENT TO TAKE TO INSTAGRAM TO LAUNCH A NEW LIFESTYLE BRAND. AMERICAN RIVIERA ORCHARD, WHICH FEATURES VIDEO OF THE MONTECITO BASED DUCHESS OF SUSSEX, HARD AT WORK IN THE KITCHEN. >> NOW, THE TRADEMARK REGISTRATION FOR MEGHAN’S NEW BRAND PROMISES THINGS, COOKBOOKS, FOOD, TEXTILES, TABLEWARE AND THE BRAND WAS ONLY LAUNCHED YESTERDAY ON

INSTAGRAM, BUT ALREADY HAS WELL OVER 300,000 FOLLOWERS. >> DIANE JAMES LONGMAN AT, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THANK YOU. >> COMING UP, AFTER LOSING IN LAST CHAMPIONSHIP, HOW COLLEGE SUPERSTAR CAITLIN CLARK IS PREPARING FOR THIS YEAR’S MARCH MADNESS. ALSO AHEAD, THE SKIN CANCER SCARE FOR AND SUPERMODEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY AND HER WARNING FOR OTHERS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR HERE? FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS

PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. LISTEN NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH YOU ARE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. I HAVE A THIRD CONCERN. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. MR. SPEAKER, ALONG

WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING ABOUT AND AS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAINS. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE. >> THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE. WOW. WE’RE IN MIAMI WITH A GOLF TOURNAMENT. THIS LOUD HOUSE AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING TO THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. SPORTS IS A FORM OF INFORMATION

MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG AS A REGIME, YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER. THE BOOMING BUSINESS OF SPORTS WASHING, NOW STREAMING ON CUE. >> RIGHT NOW, THERE’S JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD, SO MUCH AT STAKE AT THE START OF EVERY MORNING. MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL. THAT’S NOT ALWAYS SO EASY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE COME IN. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. WE YOU TO KNOW EVERY MORNING WE’RE RIGHT HERE AND WE GOT YOU. >> I THINK ABOUT IT TO PREPARE UKRAINIAN ATTACK HELICOPTERS IN EASTERN UKRAINE. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE

YOU THERE. YOU’RE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WELCOME BACK. CHRISTIE BRINKLEY IS SOUNDING THE ABOUT A SKIN CANCER SCARE. THE ACTRESS AND SUPERMODEL SAYS WAS LUCKY. IT WAS CAUGHT EARLY AND NOT EVEN BY HER OWN DOCTOR. >> MORGAN NORWOOD HAS MORE. SUPERMODEL CHRISTIE CONSIDERING HERSELF LUCKY AFTER SHE HAD BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF SKIN CANCER IN THE U.S. REMOVED FROM HER FACE. THE 70 YEAR OLD SHARING PHOTOS OF HER BANDAGED FACE WRITING ON INSTAGRAM, DOCTORS REMOVED THE CANCER AND STITCHED ME UP TO PERFECTION LIKE HOCKEY TOUR DIOR. >> ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN

ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY MORE THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA EVERY YEAR. >> LUCKILY, IT’S THE LEAST AGGRESSIVE OF ALL TYPES OF SKIN CANCER, SO WE FIND IT MOST COMMONLY ON THE HEAD AND NECK. THOSE. THEY’RE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING UV LIGHT. WE KNOW THAT UV LIGHT IS CARCINOGEN. >> BRINKLEY SHARING THAT THE CANCER WAS DISCOVERED NOT BY HER OWN DOCTOR, BUT HER DAUGHTERS. DURING HER DAUGHTER’S CHECKUP, SHE SAID ASKED THE DOCTOR TO CHECK OUT A TINY DOT ON HER FACE. SHE HE TOOK A LOOK AND KNEW IMMEDIATELY IT NEEDED A BIOPSY . >>

HE DID IT THEN AND THERE. SO EARLY DETECTION IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. IT’S ONE OF THE SKIN CANCERS THAT WE CAN CURE WHEN WE FIND IT EARLY. AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE ALWAYS PREACHING ABOUT HAVING YOUR SKIN CHECKS AND DOING SELF CHECKS AT HOME, BECAUSE IT REALLY CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. >> BRINKLEY NOW ENCOURAGING HER FANS AND FOLLOWERS TO USE SOME PROTECTION, ADMITTING I GOT SERIOUS A BIT LATE. I’LL BE SLATHERING ON MY SPF 30 REAPPLYING AS NEEDED, WEARING LONG SLEEVES, A WIDE BRIMMED HAT, AND DOING REGULAR TOTAL BODY CHECKUPS. >> THAT IS

A MUST. AND DOCTORS RECOMMEND USING AT LEAST SPF 30 DAILY AND 50 IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME. THEY EMPHASIZE THAT ANYONE GET SKIN CANCER. SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT ANY NEW LESIONS OR MOLES. >> DIANE MORGAN NORWOOD, YOU. AND SO LET’S BRING THIS TO OUR DOCTOR, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR DR. LUKE BATTELLE JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. DR. PATEL, WE’RE HEADING INTO SPRING SPRING BREAK SEASON, SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW AS WE START TO SPEND MORE TIME OUTSIDE? AND WHAT SHOULD WE

BE LOOKING FOR WHEN IT COMES TO MARKS OUR SKIN? >> YOU KNOW, I REALLY COMMEND CHRISTINE BRINKLEY IN AWARENESS BECAUSE SKIN CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN THE UNITED STATES. ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE WILL DEVELOP IT IN THEIR LIFETIME. AND ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY, EXPOSURE TO ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT THAT IS FROM THE SUN OR INDOOR TANNING BEDS IS THE MOST PREVENTABLE EXPOSURE. SO IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU AVOID THOSE TANNING BEDS AND. IF YOU’RE GOING BEYOND THE SUN, YOU’RE COVERING UP WITH LONG SLEEVES, A HAT, YOUR SPF ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. >>

NOW, SUBTLE FINDINGS OF SKIN CANCER BE THE CHANGE IN THE SIZE, SHAPE OR COLOR OF A MOLE, A SKIN LESIONS, ANY ABNORMAL GROWTH ON YOUR SKIN. SO YOU WANT TO GET THOSE CHECKED OUT BY A BOARD CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGIST. AND THOSE SELF SKIN CHECKS ARE CRUCIAL. IN FACT HALF OF ALL MELANOMAS WHICH ARE THE TYPE OF SKIN CANCER ARE SELF. >> SO THIS CAN ABSOLUTELY SAVE LIVES. THAT’S GREAT ADVICE. IT’S ALSO FRIDAY. SO I WANT TO GET TO SOME VIEWER QUESTIONS. JAMES FROM VIRGINIA ASKS, HOW CAN I TELL IF A SORE THROAT IS STREP THROAT OR

SOMETHING ELSE? OH, STREP THROAT SO PAINFUL. >> SO THE ONLY REAL WAY TO TELL IS TO GO TO A DOCTOR’S OFFICE AND GET SWABBED BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF SORE THROATS ARE ACTUALLY CAUSED BY VIRUSES . IN SOME CASES, THEY CAN CAUSE BACTERIA SUCH AS GROUP A, HENCE THE NAME STREP THROAT THAT PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THESE AWFUL SYMPTOMS, SUCH AS PAIN WHEN SWALLOWING THOSE RED SWOLLEN RED BUMPS ON THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH AND USUALLY NO COUGH, BUT YOU CAN HAVE A FEVER. AN IMPORTANT NOTE, DIANA, IF YOU ARE DIAGNOSED OR, YOUR CHILD IS

DIAGNOSED WITH STREP THROAT AND YOU’RE GIVEN ANTIBIOTICS THAT YOU TAKE THEM AS DIRECTED AND FINISH THEM EVEN IF YOU’RE FEELING BETTER BECAUSE UNTREATED STREP THROAT, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS REALLY CONTAGIOUS, CAN LEAD TO SOME SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS. I WANT TO ALSO GET TO ALICIA FROM SAN DIEGO. SHE WRITES, THERE’S ALL THIS NEW RAGE AROUND MAGNESIUM AT NIGHT. IT EVERYWHERE NOW. >> THOUGHTS? I LOVE THE WAY ALICIA PHRASES THIS QUESTION BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF RAGE AROUND IT, AND I LOVE A GOOD SUPPLEMENT. DEEP DIVE. SO MAGNESIUM IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN OUR BODIES. IT’S INVOLVED

IN HUNDREDS OF CELLULAR REACTIONS, INCLUDING MUSCLE BRAIN SIGNALING HOW OUR HEARTS WORK AND SLEEP AND LOW MAGNESIUM HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH POOR SLEEP QUALITY. >> NOW, ON THE FLIPSIDE, MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTATION, WHICH IS ACTUALLY GIVEN MEDICAL GUIDANCE FOR A LOT OF CONDITIONS, CAN IMPROVE SLEEP QUALITY, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY OR PEOPLE HAVE A MEDICAL REASON TO HAVE LOW MAGNESIUM. BUT IF YOUR SLEEP IS AFFECTED BY CONDITIONS SUCH AS NOCTURNAL CRAMPS OR RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME, MAGNESIUM MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER. SO PEOPLE WANT TO GO OUT AND TAKE OR REMEMBER, THERE CAN BE SIDE EFFECTS. MAGNESIUM CAN INTERACT

WITH CERTAIN MEDICATIONS. SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO GET IT NATURALLY FROM YOUR DIET GREEN, LEAFY VEGETABLES, NUTS, LEGUMES, WHOLE GRAINS, GREAT WAYS TO GET BACK THAT YOU ARE WORKING TO GET YOUR LEVELS BY DR. GREENWAY TO GET NAGGED. >> I THINK YOU JUST MAY HAVE CREATED A NEW THERE. DR. PATEL HASHTAG GET MAD. DR. LUKE BATTELLE, ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR. PATEL, JUST LEAVE HIM A MESSAGE ON OUR INSTAGRAM FEED ,ABC NEWS LIVE, AND HE MIGHT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION RIGHT HERE ON FRIDAY. MEANWHILE, MARCH MADNESS

IS SET TO GET UNDERWAY AS COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAMS COMPETE FOR A SPOT IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. WE’VE ALREADY SEEN SOME TEAMS PUNCH THEIR TICKETS, BUT WE’VE ALSO SEEN SOME STUNNING UPSETS . ABC’S MORGAN NORWOOD HAS THE HIGHLIGHTS AND A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME AND NC STATE WINS IT OVER DUKE HERE IN THE QUARTERFINALS THEY KNOCKED OFF THE NUMBER TWO SEED BASKETBALL MAGIC THAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MARCH. AS COLLEGE TEAMS BUY BOARD TICKETS TO THE BIG DANCE WITH SELECTION SUNDAY JUST TWO DAYS AWAY. A DO OR DIE BATTLE IN A STUNNING UPSET SEED NC STATE

KNOCKING OFF SECOND SEED DUKE AND ATC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINALS, KEEPING THEIR MARCH MADNESS HOPES ALIVE AFTER IT REALLY HAS COME TO THE BUCKET IN A DAY OF UPSETS. DEVIN CARTER LEADING THE SEVENTH SEEDED PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS WITH A STUNNING UPSET OVER SECOND TEAM CREIGHTON TO REACH THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BIG EAST TOURNAMENT AT SAINT BONAVENTURE AS THE NUMBER SEVEN SEED GOES INTO THE SEMIFINAL ROUND, THE TEAMS IT OUT FOR A SPOT ON SELECTION SUNDAY WHEN BOTH THE MEN WOMEN WILL FIND OUT WHO THEY’LL BE UP AGAINST FOR THE MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT TOURNAMENT THREE REALLY GOT IN

ALL EYES ARE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S CAITLIN CLARK AFTER LOSING TO LSU AND ANGEL REESE IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP, WHICH DREW 9.9 MILLION VIEWERS. >> THE NCAA SCORING LEADER TELLING ALL ROBIN ROBERTS HOW SHE’S GEARING UP FOR TIME AROUND. >> SO HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR FINAL MARCH MADNESS? MARCH MADNESS, I THINK, IN MY OPINION, IS THE BEST POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT. ALL SPORTS AND I’VE BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE OF AN UPSET. MY SOPHOMORE YEAR WE LOST TO CREATE AND IN ROUND OF 32 AND WE WERE TWO SEED. SO I THINK UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR

CAN END IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO PLAY. BUT ALSO IT GOES SO FAST, LIKE JUST SOAK IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT AND EVERY SINGLE SECOND. SO JUST ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN WITH MY TEAMMATES BECAUSE IT’LL BE OVER BEFORE I KNOW IT. AND SO A LOT OF EYES ON CAITLIN CLARK AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS MOMENT FROM OVERNIGHT. 2.3 SECONDS LEFT IN REGULATION, KAM JONES OF MARQUETTE WITH A BUZZER BEATER OVER THE SO THEY THOUGHT THE GOLDEN EAGLES GOING INTO OVERTIME ORDER TO FINISH THE JOB AND

THEN TEXAS A&M TAKING DOWN LAMAR THEIR TICKET TO THE BIG DANCE. IT’S THE FIRST IN THE SCHOOL’S HISTORY. >> DIANE MORGAN NORWOOD THANKS FOR THAT. AND CAITLIN CLARK WENT ONE ON ONE WITH OUR ROBIN ROBERTS TALKING ABOUT THE SOARING POPULARITY, WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND WHY IT’S THE RIGHT TIME FOR HER TO THE WNBA. YOU CAN SEE THAT NEW SPECIAL TONIGHT AT 830 EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND STREAMING TOMORROW ON HULU. >> THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M DIANE MACEDO IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS. AND

REMEMBER, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES. THE ABC NEWS APP OF COURSE, ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. WE’LL RIGHT BACK. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSHING FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTER IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL DESTRUCTIVE CAT 4 STORM HIGH FIVE IS IN THE BULL’S EYE OF ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREET ANYTIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THE GEORGIA ELECTION

CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL . MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION IN AMERICA. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE MORNING AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD, OUR MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS

PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER. >> GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. IT’S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU? NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. HERE’S HOW YOUR MONEY IS BREAKING NEWS MUSIC. AND OF COURSE GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF “GMA” IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTER DINNER FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. >> ME I’M KAYNA WHITWORTH AT THE APEX SUMMIT IN

SAN FRANCISCO. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT ,NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST, SO SAYS THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA FRAUD CASE, DECIDING DE FANI WILLIS CAN STAY ON BUT ONLY IF HER ROMANTIC PARTNER TURNED CO PROSECUTORS STEPS ASIDE. PLUS, THE RACE TO BUY TIKTOK WHO’S IN THE RUNNING TAKE OVER THE CHINESE RUN SOCIAL MEDIA APP IF IT ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SELL. AND A STORY THAT WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS. WE INTRODUCED YOU TO LUCAS AND THE PROJECT HELPING KIDS LIKE

HIM DISABILITIES GET ON THE FIELD. HOW ONE ORGANIZATION WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MICHIGAN STATE MADE HIS DREAMS COME TRUE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, BAD CHOICES LEADS TO BREAKING NEWS IN GEORGIA AND THE JUDGE DIDN’T MINCE WORDS IN HIS RULING. FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION FRAUD CASE, BUT JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE, IT VERY CLEAR THAT WILL IS STILL HAD A TREMENDOUS LAPSE JUDGMENT AND MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. THIS RULING COMES DESPITE EFFORTS BY TRUMP AND SEVERAL CO-DEFENDANTS TO GET WILLIS REMOVED, CITING

AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WADE. THE RULING SAYS WILLIS MUST NOW DECIDE WHETHER TO STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR WADE, CAN WITHDRAW THE CASE. THE JUDGE ALSO MAKING IT CLEAR THAT HIS DECISION DETERMINED TRUMP’S TEAM, ALSO FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROVING AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. A LOT TO TALK ABOUT LEADING US OFF. INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT RUBIN, ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ALSO FORMER PROSECUTOR AND CONTRIBUTOR HERE AT ABC, CHRIS TIMM. AND SO OLIVIA WHAT DO WE THINK HERE? MY GUESS IS THAT FANI WILLIS ISN’T TO GO

ANYWHERE AND IS GOING TO GET THE BOOT. I THINK THAT’S A PRETTY SET OF GUYS HERE. I THINK WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE JUDGE WAS SORT OF A SCOLDING FANI WILLIS, BUT ESSENTIALLY TELLING THE DEFENDANT, LOOK, MY HANDS TIED. SHE MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. SHE TESTIFIED UNPROFESSIONALLY. BUT UNDER GEORGIA LAW, A BAD CHOICE IS NOT LEGAL DISQUALIFICATION EVIDENCE. THERE HAS TO BE AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHICH THE DEFENDANTS ULTIMATELY WERE NOT ABLE TO PROVE SPECIFICALLY AS TOM MCAFEE SAID, THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT WILLIS HAD CONCOCTED A SCHEME TO HIRE SOMEONE, THAT SHE

WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP IN ORDER TO CREATE A PERSONAL FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR HERSELF AND. HE SAID THAT WAS THE STANDARD THAT THEY NEEDED TO MEET, NOT THE STANDARD BAD JUDGMENT, NOT THE STANDARD OF POOR CHOICES, THE STANDARD OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. AND ULTIMATELY, IT JUST WASN’T THERE. AND WE DID JUST HEAR NEW STATEMENT FROM ASHLEIGH MERCHANT, WHO IS THE ATTORNEY FOR MIKE ROMAN THAT BROKE OPEN THIS ENTIRE SORT OF SCANDAL. SHE UNCOVERED THE RELATIONSHIP. SHE UNCOVERED THE TRIPS, AND SHE FILED THE VERY FIRST MOTION TO DISQUALIFY TIFFANY WILLIS BACK IN JANUARY 8TH. AND SHE

SAID THAT SHE DID NOT AGREE THE COURT’S DECISION, BUT SHE DID PRAISE IT IN A WAY. SHE SAID IT WAS VINDICATION FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAD BEEN ALLEGING, WHICH FOR A WHILE UNANSWERED BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. SO FEELING A BIT VALIDATED IN THERE THAT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT THEY UNCOVERED ENDED UP BEING TRUE. >> WELL, CHRIS, SOME STRONG LANGUAGE FROM THE JUDGE CLEARLY REPRIMANDING FANI WILLIS. >> DO YOU AGREE WITH THE RULING ? I DO AGREE WITH THE RULING. I THINK THAT’S A BAD DAY. IF YOU’RE A DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO HAVE THE JUDGE CRITICIZING YOU SO

HARSHLY, JUST JUST KIND OF UGLY LANGUAGE ALONG THE LINES OF THAT TREMENDOUS IN JUDGMENT . THAT SAID, THOUGH, AS THE HEART OF THE RULING HAS TO WITH SUPERVISION OF NATHAN WADE. AND SO THERE’S SOME CONCERN THERE THAT THAT IF YOU’VE GOT A DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPROVING HIS BUDGET AND HIS SALARY, WHO HAS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, IT’S JUST A BAD. AND SO WHAT THE JUDGE SAID WAS THEY’VE GOT TWO CHOICES. THEY COULD EITHER REMOVE FANI WILLIS IN HER OFFICE, MEANING RIVET, REMOVE THE SUPERVISOR OR NATHAN WADE HIMSELF CAN STEP DOWN, MEANING THAT THERE’S NO NEED

FOR HIM TO BE SUPERVISED MORE. BUT YOU’RE RIGHT. IT’S — IT’S NOT A GOOD LOOK. AND OLIVER IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT AS WELL. >> SO, JOHN, THIS CERTAINLY ISN’T THE RULING THAT TRUMP WANTED. SO WHAT DOES HE DO NOW THAT I THINK IT’S NO SURPRISE HIS LAWYERS HAVE ALREADY HERE THAT THEY’RE GOING TO APPEAL THIS? I MEAN, LOOK WHAT THEY WANTED. ALL KNOW THIS. THEY WANT THIS TO GO AWAY. THEY WANTED TO DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR. THAT OBVIOUSLY, DID NOT HAPPEN HERE. SO WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO TRYING TO DO, OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE APPEAL IS THEY’VE SAID

THEY’RE GOING TO FILE IS BASICALLY REPLICATE WHAT DOING ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH’S CASE LOOKING TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION RESULT ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL. AND THERE THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DELAYED IT BECAUSE OF THE APPEALS PROCESS. AND OBVIOUSLY, AS WE KNOW, WE’RE WAITING ON THE SUPREME COURT TO TAKE THAT UP LATE, APRIL. SO HERE ON A STATE LEVEL, BASICALLY RINSE REPEAT. THEY WANT TO TAKE THIS RULING NOW, APPEAL IT TO A HIGHER COURT APPEALS AND HOPEFULLY KICK THIS CAN FURTHER DOWN CLOSER THE FALL KYRA. SO OLIVIA, JOHN,

CHRIS, CONTINUE TO FOLLOW, OF COURSE, THE OUTCOME AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EXTREME WEATHER NOW WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH DESTRUCTION. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO OHIO SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. COLORADO PUMMELED WITH SNOW MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS. INDIANA AND OHIO HIT WITH AN OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES THAT TURNED DEADLY. AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AFTER MULTIPLE TWISTERS RIPPED LAKEVILLE, LAKEVIEW, RATHER, OHIO. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE GROUND TODAY ASSESSING ALL THE DAMAGE IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA. SEVERAL POSSIBLE LEFT MORE THAN THREE DOZEN PEOPLE INJURED THERE. DOZENS OF

HOMES ALSO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. AND IN COLORADO, THE CITY OF DENVER HAMMERED RATHER BY HEAVY SNOW. THAT MAJOR STORM CLOSING HIGHWAYS AND SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS FOR A SECOND DAY NOW. LET’S BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST MELISSA GRIFFIN. >> SHE’S FOLLOWING IT ALL FOR US. OKAY. IT’S NOT OVER YET. RIGHT. WHAT’S NEXT? IT REALLY ISN’T OVER YET, KYRA, BECAUSE HAVE A BRAND NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THIS JUST POPPED UP JUST MOMENTS AGO HERE IN THE GULF COAST, IN THE DEEP SOUTH. THIS AFTER OVER 300 SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS STRETCHING FROM TEXAS ALL THE WAY TO, OHIO. ALREADY IN

OHIO, WE ARE SEEING AT LEAST FOUR CONFIRMED TORNADOES AS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS ONGOING WITH THEIR DAMAGE SERVICE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. >> BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER NOW IS MAKING WAY TO THE GULF COAST. SO WE HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FROM LOUISIANA ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. >> YOU CAN SEE THAT HEAVY RAIN MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND, INTO GEORGIA. THIS IS THE AREA WE’RE WATCHING CLOSELY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. THE ENHANCED RISK HERE FOR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THAT’S WHERE LARGE HAIL BUT

SEVERE WEATHER CAN STRETCH ALL ALONG THE GULF COAST, ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT, BUT TORNADOES AGAIN, CAN’T BE RULED OUT YET AGAIN TODAY. AND IT’S NOT JUST THE SEVERE. WE’LL BE WATCHING AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND, BUT IT’S ALSO THIS RAIN FORECAST. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO PUMMEL PARTS OF THE GULF COAST RIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SOME SPOTS FROM HOUSTON TO NEW ORLEANS INTO PARTS OF GEORGIA COULD SEE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH AND SUNDAY. THAT COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING AS THIS WEATHER

PATTERN REALLY REMAINS ACTIVE RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT, MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW, THE UNPRECEDENTED VERDICTS IN, MICHIGAN, A JURY NOW FINDING THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY, GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR BUYING THE GUN AND ENABLING HIS SON TO CARRY OUT THE ATTACK THAT KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> COUNT ONE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. >> AS TO MADISON BALDWIN GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS THE MADISON COUNTY IN MANSLAUGHTER. >> AS YOU TAKE ME TO GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, AS YOU TAKE NEAR JAMES CRUMBLY AND HIS

WIFE JENNIFER. NOW THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD’S SCHOOL SHOOTING. LET’S BRING IN OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, CHANNA LLOYD FOR MORE HERE. SO, SEAN, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T CONVICT ONE PARENT AND NOT THE OTHER SINCE THEY WERE BOTH DIRECTLY INVOLVED, NOT ONLY FAILING THEIR SON, BUT THOSE STUDENTS THAT HE KILLED ON. SO LEVELS. >> ABSOLUTELY. KARA, WHAT WE SEE HERE IS A REAL STATEMENT FROM THESE JURORS AND WHAT THEY FOUND IS THAT THE LEGAL STANDARD IN MICHIGAN SAYS THAT PARENTS HAVE A DUTY TO DO THINGS TO PROTECT

THEIR CHILD, OTHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN. AND HERE THAT DUTY WAS FAILED. AND THAT IS WHY THE JURY FOUND THEM GUILTY. >> NOW, LET’S BE CLEAR. MICHIGAN IS IT HAS THIS UNIQUE . >> IT IS NOT IN EVERY STATE. BUT I THINK WHAT WE SEE ARE GUN OWNERS AND JURY MEMBERS WHO WERE GUN OWNERS SAYING THAT THIS WAS NOT A RESPONSE USE AND STORAGE OF FIREARM. THEY IGNORED CLEAR SIGNS THAT THEIR SON MAY HAVE MAY HAVE POSED A POTENTIAL TO OTHERS, AND THEY DID NOTHING TO STOP IT. SO WHAT KIND OF PRECEDENT DO YOU THINK THIS

IS ACTUALLY GOING TO SET FOR PARENTS WITH CHILDREN INVOLVED IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS MOVING FORWARD? >> OR DO YOU THINK THIS CASE WAS TOO UNIQUE TO SET A BROAD PRECEDENT? >> IS IT AN OUTLIER CASE? YOU’RE NOT SURE IT’S AN OUTLIER BECAUSE THE SIGNS WERE SO CLEAR IN THIS PARTICULAR. BUT THIS COULD CAUSE A WAVE OF LEGISLATION THAT, BRINGS THESE TYPE OF LAWS TO STATES, TOO, THAT DON’T HAVE IT TO SAY PARENTS MUST BE AWARE. >> WHAT WE ALSO SEE IS THAT THE JURY IS SAYING THAT GUN OWNERSHIP AND HAVING IT AROUND CHILDREN CARRIES A RESPONSIBILITY

THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THAT THESE THINGS NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS. THESE PARENTS SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE SCHOOL OR SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES THAT KNEW HE HAD ACCESS TO THIS WEAPON. SO PARENTS OF THE VICTIMS SPOKE AFTER CRUMBLES VERDICT AND SAID THEY ARE STILL NOT LOOKING FOR JUSTICE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. >> LET’S TAKE A LISTEN. IT’S TIME FOR THE SCHOOL TO PONY UP BECAUSE WE’VE GOT FOUR KIDS HERE THAT AND NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY. WELL, CAN EXPECT TO SEE

THE SCHOOL HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ETHAN’S ACTIONS. >> YOU KNOW, THAT’S GOING BE AN INTERESTING ITEM BECAUSE SHOULD THEY HAVE REMOVED HIM, THE SCHOOL, SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO SEARCH HIS BAGS? HE DIDN’T SHOW ANY SIGNS THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO OTHERS WITH THE INFORMATION HAD. THIS IS WHERE THE PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY CAME IN BECAUSE HAD THEY NOTIFIED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THAT HE WAS IN POSSESSION, HE HAD ACCESS TO THAT MIGHT HAVE CHANGED THEIR PROTOCOLS. SO WE’RE GOING TO SEE THIS CASE PLAY OUT IN THE COURTS. BUT I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE

A LITTLE BIT HARDER WHEN WE’RE LOOKING AT THE SCHOOL VERSUS THE PARENTS WHO HAD ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE, HIS ACCESS TO THE WEAPON. >> CHANNA LLOYD, GREAT TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU. COMING UP, BIG NAME INVESTORS LINING UP FOR A CHANCE TO BUY TIKTOK. >> WHO’S TOPPING THE LIST AND HOW MUCH ARE THEY WILLING TO PAY WHENEVER A NEWS BREAKS? >> WE ARE HERE. ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE, A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYDAY,

THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY THIS MORNING ON THE FRONT LINES FROM ,SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP. IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY, WHEREVER THE STORY

IS, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS FOR ALL OF US AS GIRLS WAS HEADING ACROSS THE PATH OF THE SERIAL KILLER. NOW 22 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SHE MADE THE DECISION JUMP ON. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG AND FINALLY, AN ANSWER HIGHWAY.

HUNTER THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON THE 2022 1992 TRIAL ON ABC. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YOU. ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING. THAT’S UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. >> A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN THAT IS BILLIONAIRES. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHANGING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA.

THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. SO GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. WELL THE OFFICE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ANNOUNCING THE NEXT STAGE IN ITS WAR WITH HAMAS. THE IDF MAKING PLANS TO GO INTO RAFAH AND IGNORING CALLS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY HOLD OFF THAT. ALL THIS HAPPENING AS CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS ARE GOING NOWHERE. AND NETANYAHU IS CALLING HAMAS’S LATEST PROPOSAL ABSURD . ISRAEL HAS ALSO BEEN UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE TO ALLOW MORE AID INTO GAZA, BUT SO FAR THAT AID HAS BEEN A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED

TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY NEEDED. LET’S BRING IN OUR CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, MATT GUTMAN, WHO’S THERE IN COUNTRY FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS FOR US. SO, YOU KNOW, THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN SAYING THAT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE A PLAN FROM ISRAEL RELATED TO RAFAH, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT STAGE OF THIS WAR. SO WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED AND HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING HERE? THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT AN OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH WOULD A RED LINE IF IT DIDN’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS AND THAT ESSENTIALLY THE UNITED STATES WOULD LIKE TO SEE

A PLAN FOR IT? WELL, I HEARD ABOUT A PLAN FOR A TWO NIGHTS AGO. IT WOULD COMPRISE REMOVING 1.4 MILLION PALESTINIANS, ACCORDING TO IDF, FROM THAT SOUTHERNMOST CITY IN GAZA TO THE CENTER OF GAZA INTO HUMANITARIAN ENCLAVES THAT WOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THEY WOULD BE PROVIDING FOOD, WATER, TENTS, HOSPITALS, ETC.. IT’S UNCLEAR HOW WOULD DO THIS. AND WHAT IS ALSO UNCLEAR, SAY U.S. OFFICIALS, THAT THEY HAVEN’T SEEN ANY PLANS FOR THIS. ISRAEL HAS A PRETTY LIMITED NUMBER OF TROOPS RIGHT NOW IN GAZA. A LOT OF THE RESERVISTS WOULD BOLSTER REGULAR MILITARY FOR

MONTHS, ARE NOW BACK HOME. OTHER UNITS ARE IN OTHER. SO IT’S UNCLEAR HOW QUICKLY THIS COULD TAKE EFFECT AND WHAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE. BUT ONE THING WE DO UNDERSTAND, IF THEY TRY TO MOVE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE WHO’VE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED, SOMETIMES MORE THAN IT IS GOING TO BE A MASSIVE EFFORT AND A VERY, VERY PAINFUL ONE KYRA. >> SO, MATT, WE KNOW THAT SHIPS ARE FILLED WITH AID, ARE WORKING THEIR WAY TO GAZA. BUT LOGISTICALLY, IT’S — IT’S NOT EASY. I MEAN, THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO MAKE THESE DELIVERIES. SO

KIND OF WALK US THROUGH WHAT’S HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE AID FROM AIR LAND, SEA, WHAT’S GOING TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT? IS THERE AN EASIER ROUTE? THE SHORT ANSWER IS IT’S COMPLICATED THE LONG ANSWER IS IT’S GREAT. AND I THINK EVERYBODY FROM THE ISRAELIS TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO THE U.S. ARE VERY HAPPY THAT A MARITIME QUARTER THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED HAS BEEN OPENED. WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAS A BOAT THEY ARE OFFLOADING SOME OF THE 200 TONS OF AID INTO GAZA. RIGHT NOW. IT IS VERY CUMBERSOME AND IT’S BEEN VERY SLOW, MUCH SLOWER, I

THINK, THAN PEOPLE HAD ANTICIPATED. AND THAT’S WHY THE THE U.N. ARE SAYING THE BEST WAY, THE WAY THAT WE’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS IS SENDING TRUCKS IN. THE PROBLEM IS DISTRIBUTION. SO MANY PARTS OF GAZA ARE UNSAFE. U.N. TRUCKS AND DRIVERS AND PERSONNEL ARE AFRAID TO GO TO CERTAIN AREAS. ISRAEL SAID IT WILL FACILITATE SECURITY, BUT THERE’S A LOT OF SECURITY CONCERN. ISRAEL SAYS, HEY, ALLOWING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF AID AND WE ARE TRYING TO FLOOD THE GAZA STRIP. THE ISSUE IS NOT WITH US, IT’S WITH THE NGOS. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION .

WE’RE OPENING UP THE GATES, THE AID IS GOING IN, AND THEN PALESTINIAN TRUCKS ARE SUPPOSED TO PICK IT UP, BUT IT’S JUST BEING LEFT THERE. THEY’RE UNABLE TO DISTRIBUTE IT. SO IT IS COMPLICATED I THINK WHAT BOTH SIDES WANT TO SEE AT THIS POINT IS A MORE STREAMLINED TO GET THAT AID TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MOST RIGHT NOW. THOSE PEOPLE IN NORTHERN GAZA WHERE FAMINE IS ON THE DOORSTEP ,NEARLY HALF OR OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING STARVATION THERE. THERE. I’M JUST GLAD YOU’RE THERE COVERING THE STORY, MATT, WE’RE GOING TO STAY

CLOSE TOUCH. APPRECIATE YOU. THANKS, CAROL. WELL, THE HOUSE HAS PASSED A BILL TO BAN TIKTOK AND NOW IT’S IN THE SENATE’S HANDS. THE CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY FOR A MEETING WITH SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN AND ACTUALLY TOLD REPORTERS HE’S DISAPPOINTED BY THE HOUSE’S TO MOVE FORWARD. SO AS THAT BIPARTISAN BILL AWAITS A SENATE VOTE, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP TO BID ON THE U.S. OPERATIONS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT. LET’S BRING IN OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOPHERS FOR MORE ON THIS. BOY, TALK ABOUT A TALKER. ALEXIS, A GREAT STORY FOR YOU. SO MANY PEOPLE

WONDERING WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO TICK TOCK IF INDEED THESE INVESTORS HERE LOCALLY LIKE AND OTHERS WILL BUY IT. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE THROWING IN THEIR HAT. HOW YOU SEE THIS ALL PLAYING OUT? >> WELL, THERE’S A LOT TO DIG INTO HERE. YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, KYRA. AND FIRST OFF, I THINK THE QUESTION NEEDS TO BE WILL CHINA ACTUALLY SELL ITS U.S. OPERATIONS OF TICK? AND I THINK IT’S NOT AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING ARE SLIM TO NONE. IT’S VALUED SOME EXPERTS VALUING, ITS U.S. OPERATIONS AT SOMETHING LIKE $100 BILLION. AND

LOOK AT ITS CORE WHAT MAKES IT SO VALUABLE IS ITS ALGORITHM. RIGHT. THAT IS TARGETING PEOPLE WITH ADS AND ALSO COLLECTING DATA. ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS THE U.S. HAS, OF COURSE, IS THAT THE COMPANY IS COLLECTING DATA FOR THE INESE GOVERNMENT. >> REMEMBER, WE’RE DEALING WITH CHINA HERE. UNLIKE THE U.S., THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAN STEP IN AND TELL A PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY IN CHINA, NO, YOU CAN’T. YOUR OPERATIONS HERE, WE DON’T WANT YOU TO SELL IT TO THAT PARTICULAR ENTITY. CHINA HAS SIGNALED IT’S NOT INTERESTED IN SELLING TIKTOK AND IN FACT, WOULD PREFER TO

SEE A BAN BEFORE IT ACTUALLY WINDS UP SELLING THE COMPANY. >> SO I THINK THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF WHAT COULD BE A LONG AND DRAWN OUT SITUATION BECAUSE AS WE SEE TICK HAS REALLY BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN AN ELECTION YEAR. >> ALL RIGHT. >> SO AS WE JUST MENTIONED, FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS KIND OF LEADING THE CHARGE HERE AND GATHERING INVESTORS TO TRY ACQUIRE TIKTOK, AT LEAST TALKING ABOUT IT. VERY INTERESTING. I MEAN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A FORMER TRUMP CABINET MEMBER. I GUESS WE SHOULDN’T BE THAT HE’D BE INTERESTED IN

BUYING THIS COMPANY. I SORT WONDER, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING AN ELECTION YEAR, THE TIMING OF ALL THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING. >> THAT IT IS. BUT YOU KNOW HE IS A IS A BUSINESSMAN FIRST AND FOREMOST. HE’S GOING BACK TO HIS ROOTS WHEN HE WAS IN PRIVATE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HE WAS PART OF THE BIG GROUP THAT HELPED BAIL OUT NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. SO HE’S TRYING TO BRING TOGETHER THIS CONSORTIUM OF INVESTORS. WHO WOULD BUY TIKTOK. AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS YOU CAN’T BUY SOMETHING THAT’S NOT FOR SALE. SO, YOU KNOW, WILL

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT OKAY SALE AND IF SO, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? DOES IT INCLUDE THAT ALL IMPORTANT ALGORITHM OR NOT? ARGUABLY, WITHOUT THE ALGORITHM, THE VALUE OF THE COMPANY SORT DISAPPEARS KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, WE’LL KEEP TALKING ABOUT A STORY THAT EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW THAT IMPACTS SO MANY PEOPLE. THANKS, ALEXIS. SURE. WELL, UP SEEKING SUNSHINE AND LIFTING YOUR SPIRITS. >> WE INTRODUCE TO THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT AND HOW IT’S HELPING KIDS. THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE ON AND OFF THE PLANE FIELD. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING

DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK, BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S. IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP. THE NOMINATIONS LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK WITH THEM. >> GOOD, BAD LUCK. LET’S GET A SO-CALLED SIDESHOW . THE LITTLE THINGS, MY LITTLE ONE. I’M GOING TO AMERICA. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC

NEWS. THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. START ABC NEWS. WE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST. >> LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. >> WE THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAMES CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI

THIS STORY A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TODAY SEVERAL VICTIMS WILL GET A CHANCE TO MARK THE END THEIR AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS IN A WAY TO SAY DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT I DID I WANTED ERIKA TO I’M SORRY, FACE TO FACE. >> ERIKA, WHY DO YOU TAKE SO LONG? THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HOUSE SO ANYONE WHO KNEW REPORTING FROM THE STATE HOUSE IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, I’M ABC NEWS ELIZABETH SCHULZE. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE TODAY WE ARE SEEKING SUNSHINE BY FOCUSING ON SOME PRETTY REMARKABLE KIDS

AND THEIR ABILITIES, NOT THEIR DISABILITIES. TRUST ME, THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS . BY THE WAY, THESE COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE HELPING KIDS LIKE LEWIS WITNESS RISE TO THE OCCASION. >> TAKE A LOOK AT IT. GO LOOK. >> YEAH. AS YOU CAN SEE, 12-YEAR-OLD LUCAS IS QUITE THE WARRIOR. AND HE’S NOT ONLY BEING LIFTED UP PHYSICALLY, BUT MENTALLY AS HE’S BEEN GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE GAME AND OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOOTBALL AT MICHIGAN PRACTICE FACILITY RIGHT THERE WITH ITS TOP PLAYERS. AND IT’S ALL DUE TO THIS MAN, BRYCE WEILER, CO-FOUNDER OF THE BEAUTIFUL

LIVES PROJECT. BRYCE WAS ACTUALLY BORN AN EYE CONDITION THAT LEFT HIM BLIND, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP HIM FROM LIVING HIS BEST LIFE, NOR CHANGING THE LIVES OF IN THE PROCESS. THAT’S WHY HE CREATED THIS PROGRAM TO GIVE YOUNG AND OLDER FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES A CHANCE. EXPERIENCE SPORTS AND PERFORMING ARTS IN AN INCLUSIVE . WHAT A JOY TO HAVE. BRYCE, LUCAS AND LUCAS, HIS MOM JENNIFER JOIN ME TODAY. IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU THREE. >> ALL RIGHT. I GOT TO SEE A BIG SMILE. LUCAS. YES, THERE WE GO. BRYCE HOW DID YOU CONVINCE TEAMS

LIKE MICHIGAN STATE TO BELIEVE IN YOUR PROJECT? >> I CONTACTED THE MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL. WE’VE DONE EVENTS WITH MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AS. WELL, AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE I HAD WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE. I WAS ABLE SIT ON THE EVANSVILLE ACES MEN’S BASKETBALL BENCH AND GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO BE A PART OF SPORTS. AND I WANTED TO HELP ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH ANY DISABILITIES TO BE ABLE TO LIVE THEIR DREAMS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO SURROUND THEM WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO BELIEVE IN THEM AND WHO

WANT TO HELP THEM OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES. >> ABSOLUTE BECAUSE IT’S NOT JUST IMPACTING KIDS LIKE LUCAS, BUT I MEAN, THE PLAYERS TOO. THEY’RE BECOMING MENTORS, AND I’M SURE IT’S CHANGING THEIR LIVES JUST AS MUCH AS IT’S CHANGING THE LIFE OF KIDS LIKE. AND JEN, I’VE GOT TO ASK YOU, YOU’VE BEEN ABLE SEE YOUR SON PRACTICE WITH MICHIGAN STATE’S FOOTBALL TEAM BASKETBALL TEAM, BASEBALL TEAM. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT SO FAR YOU’VE BEEN ABLE TO OBSERVE OR MAYBE A MOMENT THAT LUCAS RESPONDED IN A WAY YOU HAD NEVER SEEN HIM

RESPOND BEFORE. WE ENABLE TO SEE THE ATHLETES INTERACT WITH LUCAS AND TREAT HIM JUST LIKE HE’S TYPICAL. YOU KNOW, GIVING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT THERE. THREE, FOUR ATHLETES COMING UP, SUPPORTING HIM, WORKING WITH HIM SO HE CAN THROW A BALL SO HE CAN KICK THE BALL AND THE SMILES ON HIS FACE. IT’S JUST AMAZING. HE ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT. AND LUCAS I KNOW YOU’RE NON-VERBAL, BUT YOU SAY EVERYTHING THROUGH YOUR EYES, YOUR SMILE, JUST THE WAY YOU YOU LOVE ON YOUR MOM AND WATCHING YOU WITH THESE PLAYERS. IT’S SO INCREDIBLE TO WATCH. AND JENNIFER,

NOT ONLY DID WE GET TO SEE LUCAS ON THE FOOTBALL, BUT WE ALSO HAD SOME INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF HIM ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND. >> LET’S CHECK IT OUT AT ALL. RIGHT. YOU GOT RIGHT BACK. THE PLAYERS SAID TO YOU, JEN, WE KNOW HOW THIS MAKES LUCAS FEEL. YOU CAN TELL US THAT. WE CAN SEE IT IN HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE. >> BUT WHAT HAVE THESE ATHLETES SAID TO YOU ABOUT THE POWER OF YOUR SON? >> SO I THINK THE ATHLETES, THEY’VE COME TO ME AND THEY’RE SURPRISED BY JUST HOW VERBAL HERE EVEN THOUGH HE’S NONVERBAL AND

HOW MUCH HE CAN DO, THEY’RE SHOCKED THAT HE WANTS TO BE OUT THERE PARTICIPATING. HE HOLDS THE PLAYERS AND IS ABLE TO INTERACT WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, WE’RE ALWAYS THE LAST ONES TO LEAVE THE EVENTS BECAUSE IS INTERACTING WITH THE PLAYERS AND WITH THE ADULTS. THERE AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW HE’S THERE AND STOPPING AND GETTING THOSE SIGNATURES AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, HE’S OH, HE’S SEEN ALL RIGHT. AND BRYCE BEFORE WE GO, TELL US HOW YOUR PROGRAM HAS NOT ONLY CHANGED THE LIVES OF YOUNG KIDS ALL THE WAY TO ADULTS AND THESE

OPPORTUNITIES, BUT YOU KNOW HOW THEY SEE AND FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES, WHAT TYPE OF OF CHANGES HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO FEEL AND OBSERVE? >> IT’S HELPED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THEIR TO REALIZE THAT SPORTS TEAMS, CHEERLEADING TEAMS ARE GROUPS WHO WANT TO GIVE THEM THESE OPPORTUNITIES. IT’S SHOWN PARENTS THAT THEIR CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAN HAVE THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE JUST AS WILLING AS JENNIFER AND HER HUSBAND TO LET LUCAS COME TO EVERY EVENT. I HAD THREE EVENTS LAST YEAR IN THREE STRAIGHT DAYS WITH HOPE COLLEGE, MEN’S BASKETBALL. THE SECOND DAY WAS

GRAND VALLEY STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL, AND THEN THE THIRD DAY WAS MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL. >> AND JENNY ALLOWED LUCAS TO COME TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE EVENTS. AND THAT’S WHAT WE LOVE, IS WHEN PARENTS WILL ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN OR ADULTS TO ATTEND THESE EVENTS. HAVE THESE AND CREATE LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS WITH THE PLAYERS, COACHES, OTHER PARTICIPANTS, AND EVERYONE INVOLVED. >> THE EVENT AMEN AND LIVED THEIR BEST LIVES. IT’S CALLED THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT. AND BRYCE, YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING, JENN. SO ARE YOU AND LUCAS. SO ARE YOU. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR NEXT

SPORT THAT YOU TAKE ON. THANK YOU TO ALL THREE OF YOU, SO GRATEFUL. >> THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS NEEDED AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM NEWS? >> THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWSROOM. AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES

IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS ,START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING HITS UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE

MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING. AMERICANS ONE. >> EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT ABC NEWS. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. A TRIMMED LAPSE IN JUDGMENT BUT NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO SAYS THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION FRAUD CASE DECIDING BODY LEWIS CAN STAY ON BUT ONLY IF A ROMANTIC PARTNER TURNED CAPROCK STEPS ASIDE. PLUS, THE RACE TO BUY TIKTOK. WHO’S IN THE RUNNING TO TAKE OVER THE CHINESE RUN SOCIAL MEDIA APP. IF IT ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SELL. AND

A STORY THAT WILL LIFT YOUR. WE INTRODUCED YOU TO LUCAS AND THE PROJECT HELPING. KIDS LIKE HIM WITH DISABILITIES GET ON THE FIELD. HOW ONE ORGANIZATION WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MICHIGAN STATE MADE HIS DREAMS COME TRUE. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, BAD CHOICES LEADS TO BREAKING NEWS IN GEORGIA. AND THE JUDGE DIDN’T MINCE IN HIS RULING. FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS COULD REMAIN ON DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION FRAUD CASE, BUT JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE MADE IT VERY THAT WILL IS STILL HAD A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT ,MADE BAD CHOICES

REPEATEDLY. THIS RULING COMES DESPITE EFFORTS BY TRUMP AND SEVERAL CO-DEFENDANTS TO GET WILLIS REMOVED, CITING AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. THE RULING SAYS WILLIS MUST NOW DECIDE WHETHER TO STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE. OR WADE CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE. THE JUDGE ALSO MAKING IT CLEAR THAT HIS DECISION DETERMINED TRUMP’S TEAM ALSO TO MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROVING AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF. A LOT TO TALK ABOUT LEADING US OFF. INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT OLIVIA RUBIN, ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ALSO FORMER GEORGIA AND CONTRIBUTOR HERE AT ABC. >> CHRIS.

AND SO OLIVIA, WHAT DO WE THINK HERE? MY GUESS IS THAT BONNIE WILLIS ISN’T GOING TO GO ANYWHERE AND IT’S GOING TO GET THE BOOT. I THINK THAT’S A SAFE, GUYS. I THINK WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE JUDGE WAS SORT OF A SCOLDING FANI WILLIS, BUT ESSENTIALLY TELLING THE DEFENDANT, LOOK, MY HANDS ARE SHE MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. SHE TESTIFIED. BUT UNDER GEORGIA LAW, A BAD CHOICE IS NOT DISQUALIFICATION EVIDENCE. THERE HAS TO BE AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, WHICH THE DEFENDANTS ULTIMATELY WERE ABLE TO PROVE. SPECIFICALLY, JUDGE MCAFEE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE

THAT WILLIS HAD CONCOCTED A SCHEME TO HIRE SOMEONE, THAT SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP IN ORDER TO CREATE A PERSONAL FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR HERSELF. AND HE SAID THAT THE STANDARD THAT THEY NEEDED TO MEET, NOT THE STANDARD OF BAD JUDGMENT, NOT THE STANDARD OF POOR CHOICES, THE STANDARD OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. AND ULTIMATELY IT JUST WASN’T THERE. AND WE DID JUST HEAR A NEW STATEMENT, ASHLEY MERCHANT, WHO IS THE ATTORNEY FOR MIKE ROMAN THAT BROKE THIS ENTIRE SORT OF SCANDAL. SHE UNCOVERED THE RELATIONSHIP. SHE UNCOVERED THE TRIPS, AND SHE FILED THE VERY FIRST MOTION

TO DISQUALIFY FANI WILLIS BACK JANUARY EIGHT. AND SHE SAID THAT SHE DID NOT AGREE WITH THE DECISION, BUT SHE DID PRAISE IT IN A WAY, SHE SAID IT WAS VINDICATION FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAD BEEN ALLEGING, WHICH FOR A WHILE UNANSWERED BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. SO FEELING, YOU KNOW, A BIT VALIDATED THERE THAT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT THEY UNCOVERED ENDED UP BEING TRUE. >> WELL, CHRIS, SOME STRONG LANGUAGE FROM THE JUDGE CLEARLY RECOMMENDING FANI WILLIS. >> DO YOU AGREE WITH THE RULING ? I DO AGREE WITH THE RULING. I THINK THAT’S A BAD DAY. IF A

DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO HAVE THE JUDGE CRITICIZING YOU SO HARSHLY, JUST JUST KIND OF UGLY LANGUAGE ALONG THE LINES OF THAT TREMENDOUS IN JUDGMENT. THAT SAID, THOUGH, AT THE HEART OF THAT RULING HAS TO DO WITH SUPERVISION OF NATHAN WADE. AND SO THERE’S SOME CONCERN THAT THAT IF YOU’VE GOT A DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPROVING HIS BUDGET AND APPROVING HIS SALARY, WHO HAS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, IT’S JUST A BAD LOOK. AND SO WHAT THE JUDGE SAID WAS THEY’VE GOT TWO CHOICES. THEY CAN EITHER REMOVE FANI WILLIS HER OFFICE, MEANING REVIEW AND REMOVE THE SUPERVISOR OR NATHAN

WADE HIMSELF CAN STEP DOWN, MEANING THAT THERE’S NO NEED FOR HIM TO BE SUPERVISED. BUT YOU’RE RIGHT. IT’S NOT A GOOD LOOK. AND LIBBY IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT AS WELL. >> SO, JOHN, THIS CERTAINLY ISN’T THE RULING THAT TRUMP. SO WHAT DOES HE DO NOW THAT I THINK IT’S NO SURPRISE, HIS LAWYERS HAVE ALREADY SAID, KYRA, THAT THEY’RE GOING TO APPEAL THIS. I MEAN, LOOK WHAT THEY WANTED WE ALL KNOW THIS. THEY WANT THIS TO GO AWAY. THEY WANTED TO DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR. THAT OBVIOUSLY DID NOT HAPPEN HERE. SO WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO

DO OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE APPEAL IS THEY’VE SAID THEY’RE GOING TO FILE IS BASICALLY REPLICATE WHAT THEY’RE DOING ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL SMITH’S CASE, LOOKING INTO TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION RESULTS ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL. AND THERE THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DELAYED IT BECAUSE OF THE APPEALS PROCESS. AND OBVIOUSLY, AS WE KNOW, WE’RE WAITING ON THE SUPREME COURT TO TAKE THAT UP LATE APRIL. SO HERE ON A STATE LEVEL, BASICALLY RINSE, REPEAT. THEY WANT TO TAKE THIS RULING NOW APPEAL IT TO A HIGHER COURT OF APPEALS AND HOPEFULLY KICK THIS

CAN FURTHER DOWN CLOSER TO THE FALL KYRA. SO, OLIVIA JOHN, CHRIS, WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW, OF COURSE, THE OUTCOME AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EXTREME WEATHER NOW WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO OHIO SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. COLORADO PUMMELED WITH SNOW FOR TREACHEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS. INDIANA AND OHIO HIT WITH AN OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES THAT HAVE TURNED DEADLY. AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AFTER TWISTERS RIPPED THROUGH LAKEVILLE, LAKEVIEW, RATHER, OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE GROUND TODAY ASSESSING ALL THE DAMAGE IN WINCHESTER. SEVERAL

POSSIBLE TORNADOES LEFT MORE THAN THREE DOZEN PEOPLE INJURED THERE. DOZENS OF HOMES ALSO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. AND IN COLORADO, THE CITY OF DENVER HAMPERED, HAMMERED RATHER, BY HEAVY SNOW. THAT MAJOR STORM CLOSING HIGHWAYS AND SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS FOR A SECOND DAY NOW. >> LET’S BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST, MELISSA GRIFFIN. SHE’S FOLLOWING IT ALL FOR US. >> OKAY. IT’S NOT OVER YET, RIGHT? >> WHAT’S NEXT? IT REALLY ISN’T OVER YET, KYRA, BECAUSE WE HAVE A BRAND NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THIS JUST POPPED UP JUST MOMENTS AGO HERE, THE GULF COAST IN THE DEEP SOUTH. >> THIS

AFTER OVER 300 SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS STRETCHING FROM TEXAS ALL THE WAY TO OHIO. >> ALREADY IN OHIO, WE ARE SEEING AT LEAST FOUR CONFIRMED TORNADOES AS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS ONGOING WITH THEIR DAMAGED SERVICE THROUGH AFTERNOON. >> BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER NOW IS MAKING ITS WAY INTO THE GULF . >> SO WE HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FROM LOUISIANA ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. YOU CAN SEE THAT HEAVY RAIN MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND INTO GEORGIA. THIS THE AREA WE’RE WATCHING CLOSELY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON

INTO THE EVENING. THE ENHANCED RISK HERE FOR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THAT’S WHERE LARGE HAIL BUT SEVERE WEATHER CAN STRETCH ALL ALONG THE GULF COAST, ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR TORNADOES. CAN’T BE RULED OUT YET AGAIN TODAY. AND IT’S NOT JUST THE SEVERE WEATHER. WE’LL BE WATCHING AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND, BUT IT’S ALSO THIS RAIN FORECAST OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO PUMMEL PARTS OF THE GULF COAST RIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SOME SPOTS FROM HOUSTON TO NEW ORLEANS EVEN INTO PARTS OF GEORGIA COULD

SEE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THAT COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING AS THIS WEATHER PATTERN REALLY REMAINS ACTIVE RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT, MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW, THE UNPRECEDENTED VERDICTS . MICHIGAN, A JURY NOW FINDING THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER. ETHAN CRUMBLY, GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR BUYING THAT AND ENABLING HIS SON TO CARRY OUT THE ATTACK THAT KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. COUNT ONE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. AS TO MADISON BALDWIN, GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS THE BALDWIN COUNT COUNTY INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. AS

YOU TAKE MERE GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS, YOU TAKE YOUR JAMES CRUMBLY AND HIS WIFE JENNIFER. NOW, THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD’S SCHOOL SHOOTING. LET’S BRING IN OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND CRIMINAL OFFENSE, ATTORNEY CHANNA LLOYD FOR MORE HERE. SO SEAN, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T CONVICT ONE PARENT AND NOT THE OTHER SINCE. THEY WERE BOTH DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN NOT ONLY FAILING THEIR SON, BUT THE THAT HE KILLED. >> ON SO MANY LEVELS. >> ABSOLUTELY. CARA, WHAT WE SEE HERE IS A REAL STATEMENT FROM THESE JURORS. AND WHAT THEY FOUND IS

THAT THE LEGAL STANDARD IN MICHIGAN SAYS THAT PARENTS HAVE A DUTY TO DO THINGS TO PROTECT THEIR OTHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN. AND HERE THAT DUTY WAS FAILED. >> THAT IS WHY THE JURY FOUND THEM GUILTY. NOW, LET’S BE CLEAR. MICHIGAN, IT HAS THIS UNIQUE LAW. >> IT IS NOT IN EVERY STATE, BUT THINK WHAT WE SEE ARE GUN OWNERS AND JURY MEMBERS WHO WERE GUN OWNERS SAYING THIS WAS NOT A RESPONSIBLE USE AND STORAGE OF FIREARM. THEY IGNORED CLEAR SIGNS THAT THEIR SON MAY HAVE CONTENT, MAY HAVE POSED A POTENTIAL DANGER TO OTHERS AND DID

NOTHING TO STOP IT. >> SO WHAT KIND OF PRECEDENT DO YOU THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY GOING TO SET FOR PARENTS WITH CHILDREN INVOLVED IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS MOVING FORWARD? >> OR DO YOU THINK THIS CASE WAS UNIQUE TO SET A BROAD PRECEDENT? >> IS IT AN OUTLIER CASE? >> YOU KNOW, IT’S AN OUTLIER BECAUSE THE SIGNS SO CLEAR IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. >> BUT THIS COULD CAUSE A WAVE OF LEGISLATION THAT BRINGS THESE TYPE LAWS TO STATES JUST THAT DON’T HAVE IT TO SAY PARENTS BE AWARE. >> WHAT WE ALSO SEE IS THAT THE JURY IS

SAYING THAT GUN OWNERSHIP AND HAVING IT AROUND CHILDREN CARRIES RESPONSIBILITY THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THAT THESE NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS. THESE PARENTS SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE SCHOOL OR SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE. >> THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES THAT KNEW HE HAD ACCESS TO THIS WEAPON. SO PARENTS OF THE VICTIMS SPOKE AFTER CRUMBLES VERDICT AND SAID THEY ARE STILL NOT DONE LOOKING FOR JUSTICE FOR THEIR CHILDREN . >> LET’S TAKE A LISTEN. IT’S TIME FOR THE SCHOOL TO PONY UP BECAUSE WE’VE GOT FOUR KIDS HERE

DEAD AND NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY. WELL CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE THE SCHOOL HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ETHAN’S ACTIONS? >> YOU KNOW, THAT’S GOING TO AN INTERESTING ITEM BECAUSE SHOULD THEY HAVE REMOVED HIM, THE SCHOOL, SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO SEARCH HIS BAGS? >> HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY SHOW ANY SIGNS THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO OTHERS WITH THE THEY HAD. THIS IS WHERE THE PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY CAME IN BECAUSE HAD THEY NOTIFIED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THAT HE WAS POSSESSION HE HAD ACCESS TO, THAT MIGHT HAVE CHANGED THEIR PROTOCOL. SO WE’RE GOING TO

SEE THIS CASE PLAY OUT IN THE COURTS. BUT I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT HARDER WHEN WE’RE LOOKING AT THE SCHOOL VERSUS THE PARENTS WHO HAD ACTUAL OF HIS ACCESS TO THE WEAPON. >> CHANNA LLOYD. ED, GREAT TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU. COMING UP, BIG NAME INVESTORS LINING UP FOR A CHANCE TO BUY TIKTOK. >> WHO’S TOPPING LIST AND HOW MUCH ARE THEY WILLING TO PAY? THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA, ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE

FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUCTURE KEPT FOUR STORIES HIGH. FIVE ORPHAN IS IN THE BULL’S EYE. LET’S GO TO ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREET IS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE STREAMING ,24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS TONIGHT. >> THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS. A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL MORE AMERICANS. TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR ON THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY . SO WHAT’S

NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC. THIS IS THE START HERE. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. START HERE. ABC NEWS

IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON YET AVALANCHE WARNING THAT’S UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. >> A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN THAT IS BILLIONAIRES. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS

MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER. >> EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT? SO GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. WELL, THE OFFICE OF ISRAELI MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ANNOUNCING THE NEXT STAGE IN ITS WAR WITH HAMAS. THE IDF MAKING PLANS TO GO INTO GAZA AND IGNORING ALL CALLS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY HOLD OFF THAT INCURSION. ALL THIS HAPPENING AS CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS ARE GOING NOWHERE AND IS CALLING HAMAS’S LATEST PROPOSAL ABSURD. ISRAEL HAS ALSO BEEN UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE TO ALLOW MORE AID INTO GAZA, BUT SO FAR THAT AID HAS BEEN A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED TO

WHAT IS ACTUALLY NEEDED. LET’S BRING IN OUR CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, MATT GUTMAN, WHO’S THERE IN COUNTRY FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS FOR US. SO, MATT, YOU KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN SAYING THAT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE PLAN FROM ISRAEL RELATED TO RAFAH, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU THE NEXT STAGE OF THIS WAR. SO WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED AND HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING HERE? THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT AN OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH WOULD BE A RED LINE IF IT DIDN’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS AND THAT ESSENTIALLY THE UNITED STATES WOULD LIKE TO SEE A

PLAN FOR IT. WELL, I HEARD ABOUT A PLAN FOR TWO NIGHTS AGO. IT WOULD COMPRISE REMOVING POINT 4 MILLION PALESTINIANS, ACCORDING TO THE IDF FROM THAT SOUTHERNMOST CITY IN GAZA TO THE CENTER OF GAZA INTO, HUMANITARIAN ENCLAVES THAT WOULD BE PROTECTED, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, THEY WOULD BE PROVIDING THEM FOOD, WATER, TENTS, HOSPITALS, ETC.. IT’S UNCLEAR HOW ISRAEL WOULD DO THIS AND WHAT ALSO UNCLEAR, SAY U.S. OFFICIALS, THAT THEY HAVEN’T SEEN ANY PLANS FOR THIS. ISRAEL HAS A PRETTY LIMITED NUMBER OF TROOPS RIGHT NOW IN GAZA. A LOT OF THE RESERVISTS WOULD BOLSTER THE REGULAR MILITARY

FOR MONTHS, ARE NOW BACK HOME. OTHER UNITS ARE IN OTHER PLACES. SO IT’S UNCLEAR HOW THIS COULD TAKE EFFECT AND WHAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE. BUT ONE THING WE DO UNDERSTAND, IF THEY TRY TO MOVE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE WHO’VE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED, SOMETIMES MORE THAN ONCE, IT IS GOING BE A MASSIVE EFFORT AND A VERY, VERY PAINFUL ONE KYRA. SO, MATT, WE KNOW THAT SHIPS ARE FILLED WITH AID, ARE WORKING THEIR WAY TO GAZA. LOGISTICALLY, IT’S NOT EASY. I MEAN, THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO MAKE THESE DELIVERIES. SO KIND OF WALK

THROUGH WHAT’S HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE AID FROM AIR, LAND, SEA. WHAT’S GOING TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT? IS THERE AN EASIER ROUTE? THE SHORT ANSWER IS IT’S COMPLICATED. THE LONG ANSWER, IT’S GREAT. AND I THINK EVERYBODY FROM THE ISRAELIS TO, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO THE U.S. ARE VERY HAPPY THAT A MARITIME QUARTER THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED HAS BEEN OPENED. WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAS A BOAT THEY ARE OFFLOADING SOME OF THE 200 TONS OF AID INTO GAZA RIGHT NOW. IT IS VERY CUMBERSOME AND IT’S BEEN VERY SLOW, MUCH SLOWER, I THINK THAN PEOPLE HAD ANTICIPATED.

AND THAT’S WHY THE NGOS, THE U.N. ARE SAYING THE BEST WAY, THE WAY THAT WE’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS IS SENDING TRUCKS IN. THE PROBLEM IS DISTRIBUTION. SO MANY PARTS OF GAZA ARE UNSAFE. TRUCKS AND DRIVERS AND PERSONNEL ARE AFRAID TO GO TO CERTAIN AREAS. ISRAEL SAID IT WILL FACILITATE SECURITY, BUT THERE’S A LOT OF SECURITY CONCERN. ISRAEL SAYS, HEY, WE’RE ALLOWING A AMOUNT OF AID AND WE ARE TRYING TO FLOOD THE GAZA STRIP. THE ISSUE IS NOT WITH US, IT’S WITH THE NGOS. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION . WE’RE OPENING UP THE GATES.

THE AID IS GOING IN. AND THEN PALESTINIAN TRUCKS ARE SUPPOSED TO PICK IT UP, BUT IT’S JUST BEING LEFT THERE. THEY’RE UNABLE TO IT. SO IT IS COMPLICATED. I THINK WHAT BOTH SIDES WANT TO SEE AT THIS POINT IS A MORE STREAMLINED WAY TO. GET THAT AID TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MOST. RIGHT NOW, THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN NORTHERN GAZA. FAMINE IS ON THE DOORSTEP. NEARLY HALF OR OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING STARVATION NOW, KYRA. I’M JUST GLAD YOU’RE THERE COVERING THE STORY, MATT. WE’RE GOING TO STAY IN CLOSE TOUCH. APPRECIATE YOU

EXPERIENCE. WELL, THE HOUSE HAS PASSED A BILL TO BAN TIKTOK AND NOW IT’S IN THE SENATE’S HANDS. THE CEO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY FOR A MEETING WITH SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN AND ACTUALLY TOLD REPORTERS HE’S DISAPPOINTED BY THE HOUSE’S VOTE TO MOVE FORWARD. SO AS BIPARTISAN BILL AWAITS A SENATE VOTE, POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP BID ON THE U.S. OPERATIONS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT. LET’S BRING IN OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS FOR MORE ON THIS BOY TALK A TALKER. ALEXIS, WHAT A GREAT STORY FOR YOU. SO MANY WONDERING WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO TICK

TOCK IF INDEED INVESTORS HERE LOCALLY, LIKE MANOOGIAN AND OTHERS, WILL BUY. A LOT OF PEOPLE THROWING IN THEIR HAT. HOW DO YOU SEE THIS ALL PLAYING ? >> WELL, THERE’S A LOT TO DIG INTO HERE. YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AND FIRST OFF, I THINK THE QUESTION NEEDS TO BE, WILL CHINA ACTUALLY ITS U.S. OPERATIONS OF TICK TOCK? AND I THINK IT’S NOT EXAGGERATION TO SAY THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING ARE SLIM TO NONE. IT’S VALUED SOME EXPERTS VALUING ITS U.S. OPERATIONS, SOMETHING LIKE $100 BILLION. AND LOOK AT ITS CORE, WHAT MAKES IT SO VALUABLE IS ITS

ALGORITHM, RIGHT. THAT IS TARGETING PEOPLE WITH ADS AND ALSO COLLECTING DATA. ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS THE U.S. HAS, OF COURSE, IS THAT THE COMPANY IS COLLECTING DATA FOR THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. REMEMBER, WE’RE DEALING WITH CHINA HERE. UNLIKE THE U.S., THE GOVERNMENT CAN STEP IN AND TELL A PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY IN CHINA, NO, YOU CAN’T SELL YOUR OPERATIONS OR WE DON’T WANT YOU TO SELL TO THAT PARTICULAR ENTITY. CHINA HAS SIGNALED IT’S NOT INTERESTED IN SELLING TIKTOK AND IN FACT WOULD PREFER TO SEE A BAN BEFORE IT ACTUALLY WINDS UP SELLING THE COMPANY. SO I

THINK THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF WHAT COULD BE A LONG AND DRAWN OUT SITUATION BECAUSE AS WE SEE, TIKTOK HAS REALLY BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN AN ELECTION YEAR. ALL RIGHT. SO AS WE JUST MENTIONED FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS KIND OF LEADING THE CHARGE HERE AND GATHERING INVESTORS TO TRY AND ACQUIRE TIKTOK, AT LEAST TALKING ABOUT IT. VERY INTERESTING. I MEAN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A FORMER TRUMP CABINET MEMBER. I GUESS WE SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED THAT HE’D BE INTERESTED IN BUYING THIS COMPANY. I SORT OF WONDER, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING AN ELECTION YEAR, THE TIMING

OF ALL THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING. THAT IT IS. BUT YOU KNOW, HE IS MANOOGIAN IS A BUSINESSMAN FIRST AND FOREMOST. HE’S GOING BACK TO HIS ROOTS WHEN HE WAS IN IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HE ACTUALLY WAS PART OF THE BIG GROUP THAT BAIL OUT NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK CORP. JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. SO HE’S TRYING TO TOGETHER THIS CONSORTIUM OF INVESTORS WHO WOULD BUY TOCK. AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS YOU CAN’T BUY SOMETHING THAT’S NOT FOR SALE. SO, YOU KNOW, WILL THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT OKAY A SALE? AND IF SO, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

DOES IT INCLUDE THAT ALL IMPORTANT ALGORITHM OR NOT? ARGUABLY, WITHOUT THE ALGORITHM, THE VALUE OF THE COMPANY SORT OF DISAPPEARS, CAROL. >> ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, WE’LL KEEP TALKING ABOUT A STORY THAT EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, THAT IMPACTS SO MANY PEOPLE. >> THANKS, ALEXIS. SURE. WELL, COMING UP, SEEKING SUNSHINE AND LIFTING YOUR SPIRITS. >> WE INTRODUCE YOU TO THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT AND HOW IT’S HELPING KIDS MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE ON AND OFF THE PLAYING FIELD. THE HOUSEWIVES BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY, A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MAY SIMPLY VICTIMS

WILL GET A CHANCE TO FINALLY READ AND THAT SORT OF A LOSS. YOU WENT TO SAY, DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY ASPECT OF THE HOUSE? I DID. I WANTED ERIKA SAY I’M SORRY. >> FACE TO FACE. ERIKA, WHY DID YOU SELL THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE LAWSUIT, ANGELO? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY? FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST WITH FOUR EDWARD R

MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE GET YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S PART OF A STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> CHEERS TO GOOD MORNING AMERICA. NEWS THAT INSPIRE FILLED WITH HOPE, KINDNESS, JOY, SURPRISES AND SO MUCH FUN. START YOUR DAY WITH GOOD MORNING AMERICA’S RAY OF SUNSHINE HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST OF AMERICA. GET READY TO SMILE AND PUT YOUR MORNING AMERICA. >> YOU KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE THE MORNING BETTER? A

LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE FOR TODAY WE ARE SEEKING SUNSHINE, FOCUSING ON SOME PRETTY REMARKABLE KIDS AND, THEIR ABILITIES, NOT THEIR DISABILITIES. AND TRUST ME, THE LIVES PROJECT WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS SIMPLY, BY THE WAY, COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE HELPING KIDS LIKE LOUIS BACK RISE TO THE OCCASION. >> TAKE A LOOK. DID IT MAKE. >> YEAH. AS YOU CAN SEE, 12-YEAR-OLD LUCAS IS QUITE THE WARRIOR. AND HE’S NOT ONLY BEING LIFTED UP PHYSICALLY, BUT MENTALLY AS HE’S BEEN GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE GAME AND OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOOTBALL. MICHIGAN STATE’S PRACTICE FACILITY RIGHT THERE WITH ITS TOP

PLAYERS. AND IT’S ALL DUE TO THIS MAN, BRYCE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT. BRYCE WAS ACTUALLY BORN WITH AN EYE CONDITION THAT LEFT HIM BLIND. BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP HIM FROM LIVING HIS BEST LIFE, NOR CHANGING THE LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE PROCESS. THAT’S WHY HE CREATED THIS PROGRAM, TO GIVE YOUNG AND OLDER FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE SPORTS AND PERFORMING ARTS IN AN INCLUSIVE WAY. WHAT A JOY TO HAVE. BRYCE LUCAS AND LUCAS, HIS MOM, JENNIFER, JOIN ME TODAY. IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU THREE. ALL RIGHT. I GET TO

SEE A BIG SMILE. LUCAS YES. >> THERE WE GO. BRYCE HOW DID YOU CONVINCE TEAMS LIKE MICHIGAN STATE JUST TO BELIEVE IN YOUR PROJECT? I CONTACTED THE MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL COACHES. WE’VE DONE EVENTS WITH MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AS WELL, AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE I HAD WHEN I WAS COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE. I WAS ABLE TO SIT ON EVANSVILLE ACES MEN’S BASKETBALL BENCH, AND THAT GAVE ME THE TO BE A PART OF SPORTS. AND I WANTED TO HELP ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH ANY DISABILITIES TO BE ABLE TO LIVE

THEIR DREAMS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO SURROUND THEM WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO BELIEVE IN THEM AND WHO WANT TO HELP THEM TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES. >> ABSOLUTELY BECAUSE IT’S NOT JUST IMPACTING KIDS LIKE LUCAS, BUT I MEAN THE PLAYERS. THEY’RE BECOMING MENTORS, AND I’M SURE IT’S CHANGING LIVES JUST AS MUCH AS IT’S CHANGING THE LIFE OF KIDS. LIKE LUCAS AND JEN. I’VE GOT TO ASK YOU, YOU’VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE YOUR SON PRACTICE WITH MICHIGAN STATE’S FOOTBALL TEAM, TEAM, BASEBALL TEAM. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS BEEN JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT SO FAR THAT YOU’VE ABLE

TO OBSERVE OR MAYBE A MOMENT THAT LUCAS RESPOND IN A WAY YOU HAD NEVER SEEN HIM RESPOND BEFORE? BEING ABLE TO SEE THE ATHLETES INTERACT WITH LUCAS AND TREAT HIM JUST LIKE HE’S TYPICAL, U KNOW, GIVING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT THERE. THREE OR FOUR ATHLETES COMING OUT SUPPORTING, HIM WORKING WITH HIM SO HE CAN THROW A BALL, SO HE CAN KICK BALL AND THE SMILES ON HIS FACE AND JUST AMAZING. HE ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT. >> AND LUCAS, I KNOW YOU’RE NON-VERBAL, BUT SAY EVERYTHING THROUGH YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES, YOUR SMILE ,ALL JUST THE WAY

YOU YOU LOVE ON YOUR MOM AND WATCHING YOU WITH THESE PLAYERS. IT’S SO INCREDIBLE TO WATCH. AND JENNIFER, NOT ONLY DO WE GET TO SEE LUCAS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, BUT WE HAS INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF HIM ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND. >> LET’S CHECK IN RIGHT NOW FOR THE PLAYERS SAID TO YOU, JEN, WE KNOW HOW THIS MAKES LUCAS FEEL. YOU CAN TELL US THAT WE CAN SEE IT IN HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE. >> BUT WHAT HAVE THESE ATHLETES SAID TO YOU ABOUT THE POWER YOUR SON? SO I THINK THE ATHLETES THAT COME TO ME AND THEY’RE

SURPRISED JUST HOW VERBAL HERE, EVEN THOUGH HE’S NONVERBAL, HOW MUCH HE CAN DO, THEY’RE SHOCKED THAT HE WANTS BE OUT THERE PARTICIPATING. HE CALLS THE PLAYERS IN, IS ABLE TO INTERACT WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, WE’RE ALWAYS THE LAST ONES LEAVE THE EVENTS BECAUSE HE IS INTERACTING WITH THE PLAYERS AND WITH THE ADULTS THERE AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW HE’S THERE AND STOPPING AND GETTING THOSE SIGNATURES AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, HE’S SEEN OH, HE’S SEEN. >> RIGHT. AND BRYCE, BEFORE WE GO, TELL US HOW YOUR HAS NOT ONLY CHANGED THE LIVES OF YOUNG

KIDS ALL THE WAY TO ADULTS AND AND THESE OPPORTUNITIES, BUT YOU KNOW HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES AND FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES. WHAT TYPE OF OF CHANGES HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO FEEL AND OBSERVE? >> IT’S HELPED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THEIR SHELLS TO REALIZE THAT SPORTS CHEERLEADING TEAMS ARE GROUPS WHO WANT TO GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITIES. >> IT’S SHOWN PARENTS THAT THEIR CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAN HAVE THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE JUST AS WILLING AS JENNIFER AND HER HUSBAND TO LET LUCAS COME TO EVERY EVENT. I HAD THREE EVENTS LAST YEAR IN MICHIGAN, THREE

STRAIGHT DAYS WITH COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL. THE SECOND DAY WAS GRAND VALLEY STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL, AND THEN THE THIRD DAY WAS MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AND JENNY ALLOWED LUCAS TO COME TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE EVENTS. AND THAT’S WHAT WE LOVE. WHEN PARENTS WILL ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN, ADULTS TO ATTEND THESE EVENTS, HAVE THESE EXPERIENCES AND CREATE LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS WITH THE PLAYERS, COACHES, OTHER PARTICIPANTS AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE EVENT. AMEN AND LIVE THEIR BEST LIVES. IT’S CALLED THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT. AND BRYCE, YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. JEN, ARE YOU AND LUCAS

SO ARE YOU. I CAN’T WAIT TO. SEE YOUR NEXT SPORT THAT YOU TAKE ON. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU. >> SO GRATEFUL. THANK YOU. >> AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS NEEDED WAY. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM, THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY . SO WHAT’S NEXT?

IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN. TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED SUNDAY. >> MORNING. THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. >> IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US. AND GIRLS JUST HAVE TO CROSS THE PATH OF THE SERIAL KILLER. NOW, 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. TAKING DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER,

THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM. AND 20, 20 TO MAKE IT THE 19TH CENTURY ON ABC. THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY JOE GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THEY A SAMPLE BECAUSE WE’LL GET A CHANCE TO THE THERAPY AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS FOR WHAT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT HOUSE MAN? I DIDN’T. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY FACE TO FACE. >> ERIKA. WHY DID IT TAKE YOU SO LONG? THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HOUSE TO.

>> YOU KNOW, THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. >> THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING. REPORTING FROM THE AUTOWORKERS LINES IN MICHIGAN. I’M FAITH ABUBEY. WHEREVER THE STORY IS WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> THIS ABC RIDE RIGHT AND ABC NEWS LIVE. A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT BUT CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO SAYS THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP. GEORGIA ELECTION FRAUD CASE DECIDING DE FANI WILLIS CAN STAY ON,

BUT ONLY IF HER ROMANTIC PARTNER, TURNCOAT PROSECUTOR STEPS ASIDE. PLUS, CAN A POLITICIAN BLOCK YOU ON FACEBOOK? THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHING IN ON THAT QUESTION TODAY. WE’VE GOT THE RULING STRAIGHT AHEAD. TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH AND A TON OF SNOW OUT WEST. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SOME KIND OF WEATHER ALERT TODAY. WE’VE GOT YOUR FORECAST THIS HOUR. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY, BAD CHOICES, LEADS TO BREAKING NEWS IN GEORGIA THIS HOUR. AND THE JUDGE DIDN’T MINCE WORDS IN HIS RULING WHEN IT CAME TO FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS. JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE

SAYS WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION FRAUD CASE, BUT ALSO MADE IT VERY CLEAR SHE STILL HAD A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. IT’S REALLY COME EFFORTS BY TRUMP AND SEVERAL CO-DEFENDANTS TO GET WILLIS REMOVED, CITING AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP. THE PROSECUTOR, NATHAN WADE, NOW WILLIS, MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OFFICE OR HAVE WADE WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE. >> THE JUDGE ALSO MAKING CLEAR THAT HIS DECISION DETERMINED TRUMP’S TEAM ALSO FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROOF OF ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. WELL, YES, OFF OUR INVESTIGATIVE

CORRESPONDENT, LIBBY, ARUBAN EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI, AND FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR AND CONTRIBUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS. ALL RIGHT, OLIVIA, SO WHO IS IT GOING TO BE, WILLIS OR WADE? I THINK WE KNOW WHERE WE’RE PUTTING OUR BETS. I DO I WOULDN’T SAY THAT I AM A GAMBLER, KIERA, BUT I THINK IF I HAD BET ON THIS ONE, I THINK THAT NATHAN WADE WOULD BE THE VERY SAFE CHOICE HERE. BECAUSE THINK ABOUT IT. IF FANI WILLIS REMOVES HER ENTIRE OFFICE AND THIS CASE GETS SENT ESSENTIALLY INTO NO MAN’S LAND TO THIS INDEPENDENT STATE BODY, THAT IS THEN

GOING TO HAVE TO SCOUR THE STATE FOR A NEW PROSECUTOR TO TAKE OVER THE INVESTIGATION. AND WHAT THAT IS GOING TO DO IS EFFECTIVELY DELAY IT IN. I THINK THERE WOULD BE NO CHANCE THAT THEY COULD TRY TO SNEAK THIS TRIAL BEFORE THE 2024 ELECTION. BUT IF WADE GOES, THE CASE CARRIES ON. AND OF COURSE, THERE IS STILL THE ISSUE OF INDEPENDENT WILL BE GRANTED APPEAL. COULD THE CASE GET STAYED? BUT SETTING ASIDE, IF WILLIS MAKES THE DECISION OF WEDDING LETTING WADE, SHE’S GOING TO BE FREE AND CLEAR TO KEEP GOING ON HER OWN AS

SOON SHE MAKES THAT DECISION. SO ARE WE GOING TO SEE APPEAL HERE BY THE TRUMP TEAM, JOHN? >> WELL, KYRA, I LEARN SOMETHING NEW. OLIVIA IS NOT A GAMBLER BUT I AM. ABSOLUTELY. THEY’RE GOING TO APPEAL THIS RULING. IT’S WITHOUT QUESTION THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE DONALD TRUMP PLAYBOOK. WE HAVE SEEN THIS TIME AND TIME AN APPEAL EQUALS A DELAY FOR TEAM TRUMP. SO YOU HAVE IMAGINE RIGHT NOW WE’VE BEEN HEARING FROM TEAM TRUMP AND OTHER ATTORNEYS INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. THEY’VE GONE THROUGH THIS RULING FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT THEIR

OPTIONS TO APPEAL BECAUSE THE REALITY IS THIS AN APPEAL EQUALS DELAY, DELAY, GET YOU CLOSER TO THE FALL AND HOPEFULLY TO MAKE THIS ALL GO AWAY. AND LOOK, WE SHOULD JUST TAKE A STEP BACK HERE, RIGHT THIS. >> IS NOT A GOOD RULING FOR TEAM TRUMP BECAUSE AS OLIVIA JUST SAID, IF THEY GET RID OF NATHAN WADE, CASE ON THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TEAM TRUMP DID NOT WANT HERE. SO THEIR ONLY OPTION RIGHT NOW TO TRY TO MAKE THIS SOMEONE DISAPPEAR AGAIN IF THEY’RE LUCKY IS APPEAL. >> ALL RIGHT. SO, CHRIS, YOU HAVE WORKED ALONGSIDE

WILLIS AND SHE HAS SAID THAT HER ROMANCE WITH WADE IS OVER. I IMAGINE SHE’S GOING TO MOVE ON FROM THIS CASE THAT SHE HAS CAMPAIGNED ON. >> YEAH, I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT. I THINK THAT THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION HERE IS NATHAN WADE, RIGHT, SARAH RESIGNATION THAT SAYS SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF THIS CASE IS THAN ME. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC NEEDS ME TO STEP ASIDE. SO, YOU KNOW, IT’S A PLEASURE TO SERVE THE CITIZENS OF FULTON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. BUT TIME FOR ME TO RESIGN AND MOVE FORWARD. I THINK THAT’S WHAT WE’RE GOING TO

SEE HERE. I MEAN, NATURALLY, WHAT THE D.A.’S OFFICE IS DOING AT THIS POINT IS LOOKING WHETHER THEY’VE GOT A POSSIBILITY TO APPEAL. BUT I THINK THEY’D BE SMART JUST TO TAKE THE WIN AND MOVE ON. >> ALL RIGHT. SO CHRIS, DO YOU THINK THE RULING TAKES AWAY ANY OF HER CREDIBILITY MOVING FORWARD? >> I MEAN, IT DOES IS THAT SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IN THERE WAS SCATHING, YOU KNOW, ODOR OF MENDACITY, SOUNDS LIKE A METAL BAND, BUT IT ALSO NOT SOMETHING GOOD THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE YOURSELF DESCRIBED AS HAVING. ALSO JUST TALKED ABOUT HER

LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM ON THE STAND. I MEAN, JUST IT REALLY CONTAINS A OF LANGUAGE THAT SUGGESTS THAT SHE JUST DIDN’T ACT THE RIGHT WAY. SO I THINK GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH THE RESULT. BUT THEY’RE SURE AS HECK NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE LANGUAGE AND SHE WAS DESCRIBED HERE. >> SO, OLIVIA, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS HERE AND WHEN COULD WE SEE THE CASE FINALLY GO TO TRIAL? >> WELL FIRST, WE NEED THE DECISION FROM THE FULTON COUNTY D.A. FANI WILLIS. SHE NEEDS TO SAY. IS SHE GOING OR IS NATHAN WADE GOING? AND THEN WE’RE GOING

TO START TO SEE DEFENDANT START TO TRY TO GET THEIR APPEAL UNDERWAY. AND WE’LL SEE IF IT’S GRANTED. BUT REALLY, I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF WE SEE A FILING FROM THE D.A.’S OFFICE SOON MOVING FORWARD WITH THEIR CASE. REMEMBER THEY’VE REQUESTED THE AUGUST DATE. THEY COULD COME OUT OF THE GATE. YOU KNOW AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK AND SAY, HEY, REMINDER, WE WANT TRIAL IN AUGUST. NOW THAT WE’RE DONE WITH THE DISQUALIFICATION SIDESHOW. SO IT’S GOING TO REALLY BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HER VERY FIRST MOVE IS MOVING FORWARD. ALL RIGHT. OLIVIA, JOHN, CHRIS,

THANKS, GUYS. WE’LL BE ON TO THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY NOW, GETTING BATTERED BY EXTREME WEATHER BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. COLORADO PUMMELED WITH MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS. INDIANA AND OHIO NOW WITH AN OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES THAT HAVE TURNED DEADLY. NOW, AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER MULTIPLE TWISTERS RIPPED THROUGH LAKEVIEW, OHIO. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS ON THE GROUND ASSESSING THE DAMAGE RIGHT NOW. IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA, SEVERAL POSSIBLE TORNADOES LEFT MORE THAN THREE DOZEN PEOPLE INJURED, DOZENS OF HOMES. ALSO DAMAGED OR

DESTROYED. THEN OVER IN COLORADO, THE CITY OF DENVER HAMMERED THE HEAVY SNOW. THAT MAJOR STORM CLOSING HIGHWAYS AND SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS FOR SECOND DAY NOW. OUR METEOROLOGIST HAS BEEN FOLLOWING IT ALL. IT’S NOT OVER YET, IS IT? IT REALLY ISN’T. WE STILL HAVE SEVERE WEATHER NOW MOVING OUT OF THE HEARTLAND AND INTO THE DEEP SOUTH. AND THAT’S WHY WE HAVE THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT NOW THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS TO BATON ROUGE ALL ACROSS THE GULF COAST, MOBILE, PENSACOLA, EVEN INTO SOUTHERN. AND THIS COMES AFTER ALREADY SIX CONFIRMED TORNADOES. NOW,

AS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUES TO SURVEY THAT DAMAGE. OHIO, INDIANA, MISSOURI, THE HIGHEST ONE IN IF TWO CONFIRMED IN OHIO THERE. SO THOSE DEADLY NOW THE SEVERE WEATHER IN THE GULF COAST, ANYWHERE FROM TEXAS ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. >> THIS IS THROUGH THIS EVENING. SO SAN ANTONIO, THAT LARGE HAIL ENHANCED THREAT THERE THROUGH TONIGHT, HOUSTON NEW ORLEANS UNDER THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALL THE WAY UP INTO PARTS OF ALABAMA, FLORIDA, AS WELL, WITH THAT DAMAGING WIND THREAT. BUT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE COLD SIDE OF THIS STORM, TOO, BECAUSE PARTS

OF THE COLORADO ROCKIES GOT OVER FOUR FEET OF SNOW. AVALANCHE WARNINGS NOW IN EFFECT DUE TO THE WIND AND ALL OF THAT BLOWING SNOW IN PARTS OF NEW MEXICO OVER INTO ARIZONA. >> ALSO UNDER WINTER STORM WARNINGS AS WELL THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME THESE AREAS COULD GET 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW. THAT INCLUDES FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA THROUGH TODAY. THE COLORADO ROCKIES, THOSE SKI RESORTS GETTING ANOTHER ROUND SNOW OVER THE 3 TO 4 FEET. THEY SAW JUST YESTERDAY ANOTHER TO 12 INCHES POSSIBLE THERE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SO ANYONE GOING OUT THERE TO SKI IS GOING TO

GET SOME FRESH POWDER, THAT’S FOR SURE, KYRA. THIS WEEKEND. THAT’LL MAKE SKIERS HAPPY, THAT’S FOR SURE. MELISSA GRIFFIN, THANK. WELL, THE SUPREME COURT IS LAYING OUT NEW GUIDELINES FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES USING SOCIAL MEDIA. THE JUSTICES SAYING IT’S OKAY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO BLOCK FOLLOWERS, BUT ONLY IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES. THE CASE STARTED WHEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN MICHIGAN AND CALIFORNIA BLOCKED FOLLOWERS WHO WERE CRITICAL OF THEM ON FACEBOOK AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS ACTUALLY CHALLENGED THEM. >> JOINING US NOW TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID IN THIS RULING IS OUR SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, DEVIN DWYER. SO

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS RULING MEANS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA USERS AND THE POWER THAT IT GIVES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. IT’S A GREAT CASE, KYRA, BECAUSE THESE DAYS. JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY IN OFFICE, AS YOU KNOW, HAS A FACEBOOK, AN X ACCOUNT IN THEIR NAME. AND THIS CASE TOOK ON THE BIG QUESTION OF WHEN CAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BLOCK YOU OR DELETE YOUR COMMENTS? >> SOCIAL MEDIA. WHEN IT COMES TO BEING A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AND WHEN IT INTERACTS WITH PERSONAL CONDUCT IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AS YOU KNOW, PROTECTS THE ABILITY OF ALL OF FOR FREE SPEECH, IT ALSO

PROTECTS THE ABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES. BUT THE SUPREME COURT TODAY, IN A UNANIMOUS SAID THAT WHAT REALLY MATTERS HERE IS THE SUBSTANCE, NOT THE STATUS OF THE PERSON SAYING IT. IN OTHER WORDS, DOES AN OFFICIAL HAVE ACTUAL AUTHORITY TO SPEAK ON A SUBJECT AND ARE THEY PURPORTING TO EXERCISE THAT AUTHORITY IF THEY ARE ON BOTH OF THOSE COUNTS, KYRA. THEY CANNOT BLOCK YOU OR DELETE THEIR CRITICISM. IT’S A PRETTY NARROW STANDARD, WHICH MEANS THAT THE SUPREME COURT TODAY DID CONCEDE IMPLICITLY LEAST, THAT THERE ARE CASES WHEN IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE

FOR A GOVERNMENT ON A PRIVATE ACCOUNT TO BLOCK YOU FROM THEIR PAGE OR POSTING COMMENTS. SO PRETTY INTERESTING WITH THE SUPREME SORT OF SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE HERE IN THIS CASE, SAYING NOT CASES CAME PUBLIC. OFFICIALS SAY THAT REAL DONALD TRUMP OR JOE BIDEN BLOCK YOU OR DELETE COMMENTS WHEN YOU’RE ONLINE. GOT IT. SO THEN WHERE DOES THE CASE GO FROM HERE? >> WELL, THOSE TWO CASES YOU MENTIONED, ONE OUT OF MICHIGAN AND ONE OUT OF CALIFORNIA WILL NOW GO BACK TO LOWER COURTS WHERE THEY’VE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE FACTS IN THOSE CASES. THAT WAS IN

MICHIGAN, IN PORT HURON A LITTLE EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHERE WE MET THE MAN, KEVIN, WHO WAS SUING THE CITY MANAGER, JAMES FREED, OVER THIS VERY. LINSKY HAD COMMENTED ON FRED’S PAGE ON FACEBOOK ABOUT HIS HANDLING OF THE COVID PANDEMIC, SAID THAT HE DID AN ABYSMAL JOB FREE, DELETED THE COMMENTS, BLOCKED HIM FROM FACEBOOK. THIS CASE ENSUED, AND NOW THE APPEALS COURT, CAROL, WILL HAVE TO USE THIS NEW TEST FROM THE SUPREME COURT TODAY TO DECIDE WHETHER THE CITY MANAGER AND ALL OTHER PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE VIOLATING THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF THEIR RESIDENTS WHEN THEY CENSOR

THEIR FEEDBACK ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> SEVEN. THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. YOUTUBE. THE WHITE HOUSE ISSUING A SCATHING STATEMENT TELLING HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON IT’S OBVIOUSLY TIME TO MOVE, URGING THE SPEAKER AND HIS CHAMBER TO END THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN. IT READS, IT’S OBVIOUSLY TIME TO MOVE ON. MR. SPEAKER, THIS IMPEACHMENT IS OVER. THERE IS TOO MUCH IMPORTANT WORK TO BE DONE FOR THE PEOPLE TO CONTINUE WASTING TIME ON THIS CHARADE. AND THIS COMES AS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS MEETING WITH SPEAKER JOHNSON ON CAPITOL HILL AT THIS VERY MOMENT FOR THE ANNUAL

FRIENDS OF IRELAND LUNCHEON TO CELEBRATE SAINT PATTY’S DAY. JAY O’BRIEN. I WONDER IF THEY’LL BE DOING A IRISH JIG TOGETHER OR MAYBE JUST THROWING DOWN GUINNESS AND MOVING THE OTHER WAY. OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE. A YEAR. YOU AND I WERE ON TV TOGETHER WHEN IT WAS JOE BIDEN AND, KEVIN MCCARTHY SITTING IN THOSE CHAIRS. THE SPEAKER OF THE NOW. BUT YOU’RE RIGHT THAT THE HEADLINE THAT KIND OF HANGS OVER MEETING IS THIS LETTER THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAS SENT AND FRAYED RELATIONS OBVIOUSLY, BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE INVESTIGATING HIM. THE OPERATIVE WORDS

IN THAT LETTER THAT THE WHITE HOUSE SENT WERE IT’S OVER, AS YOU NOTED, MOVE ON. THEY’RE SAYING HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE UNCOVERED NO EVIDENCE OF ANY KIND OF IMPEACHABLE. AND IT DOES COME AS HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE EVEN SPLIT ON. EXACTLY WHAT FORM THIS THE ENDING OF THIS INQUIRY IS GOING TO TAKE RIGHT NOW, IT’S FAIR TO SAY HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOT HAVE THE VOTES TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN IF IT WERE TO BE BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE FLOOR. SO WHERE DOES THIS INVESTIGATION GO FROM HERE AFTER THEY HAD THAT VERY PUBLIC BEHIND CLOSED DOORS DEPOSITION OF, HUNTER BIDEN,

WHICH WAS REALLY THE HIGH WATERMARK OF THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. IT’S WORTH NOTING THAT, OF COURSE, SPEAKER JOHNSON’S OFFICE HAS RESPONDED THE BOTTOM LINE OF THEIR RESPONSE IS THAT IT’S NOT THE WHITE HOUSE’S JOB TO CALL FOR THE END OF AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT’S IN CONGRESS’S IN THE CONSTITUTION. >> BUT NONETHELESS, IT CALLS INTO QUESTION EXACTLY WHERE THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IS GOING TO GO FROM. KYRA, REPUBLICANS HAVE PRESENTED NO EVIDENCE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO HIS SON’S OVERSEAS BUSINESS DEALINGS. WELL, THIS COMES AS HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER IS HOPING TO MOVE AHEAD

WITH THIS PLANNED HEARING NEXT WEEK, DESPITE HUNTER BIDEN’S DECISION NOT TO APPEAR. >> WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS? SO THIS WAS GOING BE A PUBLIC HEARING WHERE HUNTER BIDEN FACED QUESTIONS IN A PUBLIC FORUM FROM LAWMAKERS. THAT’S AT LEAST WHAT HOUSE REPUBLICANS WANTED. DON’T FORGET, HUNTER BIDEN SAT FOR HOURS IN A CLOSED DOOR DEPOSITION IN FEBRUARY. HUNTER BIDEN SAYS THAT HE HAS SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. HIS LAWYERS ALSO HAVE SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE AT THAT PUBLIC HEARING. BUT ALSO NOTE THAT, AGAIN, THEY SAT FOR THE COMMITTEE’S QUESTIONS UNDER OATH FOR HOURS BEFORE.

AND THEIR ARGUMENT IS THAT THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IS BASELESS AS WELL, AND THAT THIS GOAL TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, IN THEIR VIEW, IS A FISHING EXPEDITION ON THE PATH OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS. THIS IS STILL SCHEDULED. IT’S STILL ON THE BOOKS, BUT IT GOES TO THAT BROADER THEME OF WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS WHAT FORM DOES THIS INQUIRY NOW GOING FORWARD AS REPUBLICANS ARE REALLY SPLIT ON THE FUTURE OF WHAT THIS INVESTIGATION IS REALLY GOING TO LOOK LIKE? ALL RIGHT, APPRECIATE IT. NOW TO THE UNPRECEDENTED VERDICTS IN. >> MICHIGAN, A JURY FINDING

THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL AT THE SCHOOL SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY, GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR BUYING THE GUN AND ENABLING HIS SON TO CARRY OUT THAT ATTACK THAT KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. >> HOW ONE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS TO MADISON BALDWIN. GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. >> ASHLEY MADISON. BALDWIN CAN’T CHOOSE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. >> AND AS YOU TAKE NEAR GUILTY OF JAMES CRUMBLY AND HIS WIFE JENNIFER, THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD’S SCHOOL SHOOTING. >> COMING UP, SUBWAY RIDERS SCRAMBLING THE RUSH HOUR MAYHEM AS GUNFIRE RANG OUT IN NEW

YORK CITY. WHEN EVER A NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE AND THE NEED FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY ENROLLING IT. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY

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>> IT’S JUST MY PARENTS INSIDE OUT AND AS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAIN. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED AS I YOU KNOW, TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. >> I DON’T. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. ANYWHERE. WOW. WE’RE IN MIAMI AT A GOLF TOURNAMENT. THAT’S LOUD AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. OH, SPORTS WASHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING AS A POLITICAL REGIME, YOU

CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER. THE BOOMING BUSINESS OF SPORTS, WASHING, NOW STREAMING HULU. >> GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. WELL GUNSHOTS SENT TERRIFIED NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY RIDERS SCRAMBLING AFTER. A DISTURBING FIGHT WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. IT ALL PLAYED OUT DURING YESTERDAY’S HOUR ON A MOVING TRAIN AND A CROWDED DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN STATION. POLICE SAY ONE MAN PROVOKED ANOTHER RIDER. A SCUFFLE HAPPENED AND THEN IT ENDED WITH THE MAN BEING SHOT BY HIS OWN GUN. HE’S NOW IN CRITICAL CONDITION . SHOOTING HAPPENED JUST A WEEK AFTER THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR DEPLOYED NATIONAL GUARD

TROOPS ON THE SUBWAY SYSTEM TO HELP COMBAT THE SPIKE IN CRIME. OUR MORGAN NORWOOD HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY FOR US. MORGAN, WHAT MORE DO WE KNOW? >> WELL, HERE THE NEW YORK POLICE CHIEF SPEAKING OUT TODAY AND BASICALLY RUNNING DOWN HOW THIS TERRIFYING ORDEAL UNFOLDED. BASICALLY SAYING THAT A MAN GOT ON THE TRAIN WITHOUT PAYING HIS FARE AND FOR SOME REASON ATTACKED ANOTHER MAN, WHICH ENDED IN THAT FIGHT THAT WE SAW PASSENGERS TO BREAK THAT FIGHT UP AT. THINGS, THOUGH, TAKING A TURN AT ONE POINT WHEN AUTHORITIES SAY THE ATTACKER PULLED OUT A GUN,

HE WAS THEN AND THEN SHOT WITH HIS OWN WEAPON. THE CHIEF SAYING DESPITE SITUATION, 1 MILLION PEOPLE GOT ON THE TRAIN, GOT TO THEIR DESTINATION THROUGHOUT THAT TRANSIT SYSTEM. BUT HE ALSO WALKED IN ON FARE, WHICH HE SAYS HAPPENS PRETTY OFTEN, WHICH IS OFTEN THE ROOT SUBWAY CRIME. MEANWHILE, WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THIS VICTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION, AS YOU MENTIONED, SHOT FOUR TIMES. POLICE SAY THAT HE WAS ARMED BOTH A KNIFE AND A GUN. BUT WE’RE ALSO LEARNING THAT NO WILL BE FILED AGAINST THE 32 YEAR OLD GUNMAN AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYING THAT

HE ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION. SO THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AS THE NEW YORK SUBWAY HAS SEEN THIS SPIKE IN CRIME. WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR WEEKS NOW. SO WHAT’S THE MTA DOING TO ENHANCE SAFETY THERE IN THE SYSTEM, EVEN AS WE WATCH THIS UNFOLD? I THOUGHT THEY WERE BEEFING UP SECURITY AND SENDING IN NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS. YOU KNOW, KYRA, I THINK YOU HAVE THE QUESTION THAT MANY NEW YORKERS HAVE THIS AFTERNOON. THE MTA AND NYPD ARE FACING QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT SAFETY IN THE WAKE OF THIS SITUATION. BY THE WAY, IT COMES

JUST DAYS AFTER THE GOVERNOR ORDERED THE NATIONAL GUARD TO PATROL THE SUBWAYS. AND AMID A 13% SPIKE IN SUBWAY CRIME JUST THIS YEAR ALONE. MEANWHILE, THE MTA, MTA SAYS THAT THEY ARE TAKING STEPS TO IMPROVE SECURITY. THAT INCLUDES PUTTING UP MORE CAMERAS INSIDE THE TRAINS AND DEPLOYING TRAINED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. BUT THEN ALSO METAL DETECTORS. >> HERE’S WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY EARLIER TODAY TO BE IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE WITH THAT KIND OF VIOLENCE GOING ON IS THE MOST UNSETTLING THING THAT CAN HAPPEN. THEY ALSO TOLD ME THAT THE ONE THING THAT MAKES THEM FEEL

IN GENERAL IS TO HAVE UNIFORMED OFFICERS CONSTANTLY PRESENT THE SYSTEM AND THE CAMERAS ARE ACTUALLY BEING INSTALLED. WE SPEAK. THAT WAS AN INITIATIVE THE GOVERNOR PUSHED OUT AND SHE ACTUALLY SQUEEZED THE TIMETABLE DOWN. COULD IT BE DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR? WE’VE ALREADY HAD CASES WHERE WE APPREHENDED CRIMINALS WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH ATTACKS BECAUSE WE HAVE CAMERAS INSIDE THE TRAINS. >> SO UNIFORMED OFFICERS AND CAMERAS. BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE LINGERING QUESTION THAT, YOU KNOW, MANY NEW YORKERS HERE WANT TO KNOW IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD UNIFORM OFFICERS IN THIS PARTICULAR

SITUATION. THEY RESPONDED FAIRLY QUICKLY, ACCORDING TO THE NYPD. BUT THE BIG QUESTION NOW IS WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL THIS MAKE? OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE NATIONAL HAS BEEN DEPLOYED AND THAT’S BUT A LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND, OF COURSE, THIS INVESTIGATION INTO THIS PARTICULAR HERE CONTINUES. >> ALL RIGHT, MORGAN, THANKS. WE’LL FOLLOW IT. HEADING TO MIAMI BEACH NOW WHERE IT’S BRACING FOR A PRETTY CHAOTIC WEEKEND. SPRING BREAK ON ITS WAY, COLLIDING WITH SAINT PATRICK’S DAY. POLICE ALREADY DEPLOYING EXTRA OFFICERS AND SETTING UP DUI CHECKPOINTS ACROSS THE CITY. ANDREW DYMBURT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING IT. >>

MIAMI BEACH PUT TO THE TEST THIS WEEKEND IS REALLY. YES, IT’S STARKLY DIFFERENT THAN OUR TOUGHEST WEEKEND AFTER YEARS OF SPRING BREAKERS WREAKING HAVOC ON THIS SMALL ISLAND. OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING TO CURB THE CHAOS WITH ALL DUE TO THE TOUGHEST RESTRICTIONS YET, INCLUDING DUI CHECKPOINTS. A $100 PARKING BAG CHECKS, $500 TOWING FEES AND. NOW ALL PARKING GARAGES WILL BE CLOSED TO VISITORS. MORE THAN A DOZEN DRONES WILL BE PATROLLING OVERHEAD, 140 PLUS STATE TROOPERS AND EVEN THE COAST DEPLOYING TO HELP LOCAL POLICE. MIAMI BEACH COMMISSIONER DAVID SUAREZ. THIS SEASON IS DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR. THERE WAS

ALWAYS A SHOOTING AND THERE WAS ALWAYS A DEATH. AND IT’S SAD. SAID THAT’S THAT’S NOT MIAMI BEACH. WE NEED TO TALK. IT STARTED WITH THE NOW VIRAL AD WITH MORE THAN 200 MILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING. UNTIL THEN, WE’RE BREAKING UP WITH YOU. LEADERS SAY THE CRACKDOWN IS WORKING THROUGH NEARLY 600 SPRING BREAK RELATED ARRESTS LAST YEAR AND TWO DEATHS COMPARED TO ROUGHLY HUNDRED ARRESTS AND ZERO FATALITIES THIS YEAR. >> WE NEEDED TO END SPRING BREAK. WE’RE BRINGING BACK LAW AND ORDER. BUT SOME VACATIONERS SAY IT’S A BIT MUCH OVERWHELMING WITH THE HEAVY PRESENCE IS JUST

TOO OVERWHELMING. >> AND WITH MIAMI BEACH CRACKING DOWN IN NEARBY FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, ONLY ABOUT 30 MINUTES NORTH OF HERE. THEY’RE SEEING MASSIVE CROWDS. BUT LAW SOURCES THERE TELL ME THEY, TOO, HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREW, THANK YOU. AND COMING UP, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OFFICIALLY CAST HIS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. CAN YOU GUESS WHO HE’S VOTING FOR? >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE IN FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA. ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINES FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUCTURE THAT FORCED A

LONG TIME. >> BOSTON IS IN THE BULL’S EYE. LET’S GO. ABC LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRING TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP

CLINCHED . THE NOMINATIONS LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE NEWSROOM AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY, SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S

A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING GETS UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES AND SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING

NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY REPORTING IN FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY, RIGHT HERE IN THE FAT TUESDAY STORM. I’M GINGER ZEE WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOUR SCREEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. SOME OTHER TOP HEADLINES FOLLOWING FOR YOU THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE AS VOTING BEGINS IN RUSSIA, SO DO THE PROTEST AS POLLS HAVE PROVEN WAYS TO WIN ON FIRST DAY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, VLADIMIR PUTIN SUBMITTING HIS ONLINE BALLOT, HIS OFFICE IN IRAN. HE’S ALMOST CERTAIN TO TAKE ELECTION NOT ONLY SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT’S PUTIN, BUT ALSO FOR UNUSUAL PROTESTS IN

A NATION CHALLENGED BY PUTIN’S TWO YEAR WAR IN UKRAINE AND HARSH POLITICAL REPRESSIONS . TALK ABOUT A MACK ATTACK, A SYSTEM FAILURE, FAILURE IMPACTING. MCDONALD’S WORLDWIDE LEADING TO COMPLAINTS FROM CUSTOMERS AND WHAT THE FAST FOOD GIANT CALLED A TECHNOLOGY OUTAGE. MCDONALD’S ADDING IT WASN’T A CYBERSECURITY ATTACK BUT DIDN’T PROVIDE ANY OTHER DETAILS. IN AN OFF SEASON SHOCKER, L.A. RAMS ALL-PRO RUSHER DONALD SAYS HE’S RETIRING FROM THE NFL. THE FUTURE HALL OF FAME DEFENSIVE LINEMAN POSTING THAT HE’S HANGING UP THE HELMET AFTER TEN YEARS WITH THE TEAM, INCLUDING A SUPER BOWL WIN BACK 2022. WELL, SUNDAY’S

ELECTION ONLY TWO DAYS AWAY AND WELL, THIS TIME MONDAY WE ARE GOING TO FINALLY KNOW WHO MADE THE BRACKET AND WHO WILL GRACE THE COURTS FOR 2024 NCAA TOURNEY MARCH MADNESS ARE MORGAN HAS A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME AT NC STATE WINS IT OVER DUKE HERE IN THE QUARTER THEY KNOCKED OFF THE NUMBER TWO SEED THAT’S THE BALL MAGIC THAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MARCH AS COLLEGE TEAMS VIE FOR TICKETS TO THE BIG DANCE WITH SELECTIONS SUNDAY JUST TWO DAYS AWAY. >> A DO OR DIE BATTLE IN A STUNNING UPSET 10TH SEED NC STATE, KNOCKING

OFF SECOND SEED DUKE IN ATC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINALS KEEPING THEIR MARCH MADNESS HOPES ALIVE. CARTER REALLY HAS TO WORK TO CATCH ON TO THE BUCKET IN A DAY OF UPSETS. DEVIN CARTER LEADING THE SEVENTH SEEDED PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS TO A STUNNING UPSET OVER SECOND SEED BRITAIN TO REACH THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BIG TOURNAMENT. SAINT BONAVENTURE HAS THE NUMBER SEVEN SEED GOES INTO THE SEMIFINAL ROUND. THE BATTLING IT OUT FOR A SPOT ON SELECTION SUNDAY WHEN BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WILL FIND OUT WHO THEY’LL BE UP AGAINST FOR THE MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT WITH THE PORTLAND HOUNDS THREE

IN ALL ARE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S CAITLIN CLARK AFTER LOSING TO LSU AND ANGEL REESE IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP, WHICH DREW 9.9 MILLION VIEWERS. THE NANCY DEVLIN SCORING LEADER TELLING OUR ROBIN ROBERTS HOW SHE’S GEARING UP FOR THIS TIME AROUND. >> SO HAVING A PRAYER FOR YOUR FINAL MARCH MADNESS. MARCH MADNESS, I THINK IN OPINION, IS THE BEST POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT. ALL SPORTS AND I’VE BEEN ON THE SIDE OF AN UPSET MY SOPHOMORE YEAR. WE LIKE TO CREATE IN AND AROUND THE 32 AND THERE TO SEE SO I THINK UNDERSTANDING YOU KNOW YOUR SEASON CAN

END IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO PLAY. BUT ALSO IT GOES SO LIKE JUST SOAK IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT AND EVERY SINGLE SECOND. SO JUST ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN WITH MY TEAMMATES BECAUSE IT’LL BE OVER BEFORE I KNOW IT. >> AND SO A LOT OF EYES ON CAITLIN CLARK AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS MOMENT FROM OVERNIGHT, 2.3 SECONDS LEFT IN REGULATION CAM JONES AND MARQUETTE WITH THE BUZZER BEATER OVER THE WITH NOVA SO THEY THOUGHT THE GOLDEN EAGLES GOING INTO OVERTIME ORDER TO FINISH THE JOB

AND THEN TEXAS A&M TAKING DOWN LAMAR PUNCHING THEIR TICKET TO THE BIG DANCE THE FIRST IN THE SCHOOL’S HISTORY. >> KYRA. PRETTY AWESOME. MORGAN, THANKS SO MUCH. AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS, AND NEITHER DO WE, AND NEITHER DOES THE STEP DANCING UP ON CAPITOL HILL AS WE HONOR SAINT PATRICK’S DAY AND ALL THAT GREEN BEER, THAT’S GOING TO INSPIRE YOUR GILLIES COME SUNDAY. >> AND AM REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY, A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION FOR A CENTRAL TIME.

WE’LL GET A CHANCE TO FINALLY MEET ERICA. AND THAT SORT OF A LOSS FOR TO SAY, DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT I DIDN’T. I WANTED ERICA TO SAY I’M SORRY FACE TO FACE. >> ERICA, WHY DO YOU THINK YOU SAW THE HOUSE AND THE HOUSE SEARCHING AND HULU? >> THIS IS ABC NEWS. WHY THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL. THE STRUGGLE FOR STORIES I FIND OFTEN IS IN THE MOLD BY ABC NEWS. LIKE AMERICA’S NUMBER

ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS. LAUREN AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. WE HAVE ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING. IT’S UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES AND SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. IT’S A MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE

MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST. WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S A PART OF

THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT, BUT NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST, SAYS THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION FRAUD CASE, DECIDING FANI WILLIS CAN STAY ON, BUT ONLY IF HER ROMANTIC PARTNER CO PROSECUTOR, STEPS ASIDE. PLUS, THE RACE BUY TIKTOK WHO’S IN THE RUNNING TO TAKE OVER THE CHINESE RUN SOCIAL MEDIA APP IF IT ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SELL AND STORY THAT WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS. WE INTRODUCED YOU TO LUCAS AND THE PROJECT HELPING KIDS LIKE HIM

WITH DISABILITIES GET ON THE FIELD. HOW? ONE ORGANIZATION WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MICHIGAN STATE, MADE HIS DREAMS COME TRUE. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. >> I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR, BAD CHOICES LEADS TO BREAKING NEWS IN GEORGIA. AND THE JUDGE DIDN’T MINCE WORDS IN HIS RULING. FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS COULD REMAIN ON DONALD ELECTION FRAUD CASE. BUT JUDGE SCOTT MCCARTHY MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT WILL IS STILL HAD A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. >> THIS RULINGOMES DESPITE EFFORTS TRUMP AND SEVERAL CO-DEFENDANTS TO GET WILLIS REMOVED, CITING

AN INTERPOL PRINT RELATIONSHIP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE. THE RULING SAYS WILLIS NOW DECIDE WHETHER TO STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OR WADE, CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE. THE JUDGE ALSO MAKING IT CLEAR THAT HIS DECISION DETERMINED TRUMP’S TEAM ALSO FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROVING AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. A LOT TO TALK ABOUT LEADING US OFF. INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT OLIVIA RUBIN, ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ALSO FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR AND CONTRIBUTOR HERE AT ABC. CHRIS AND SO OLIVIA, WHAT DO WE THINK HERE? MY GUESS IS THAT FANI WILLIS ISN’T

GOING TO GO ANYWHERE AND WADE IS GOING TO GET THE BOOT. I THINK THAT’S A PRETTY SAFE GUESS. I THINK WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE JUDGE WAS SORT OF A SCOLDING FOR FANI WILLIS, BUT ESSENTIALLY TELLING THE DEFENDANT, LOOK, MY HANDS ARE TIED, MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. SHE TESTIFIED UNPROFESSIONALLY . UNDER GEORGIA LAW, A BAD CHOICE IS NOT LEGAL DISQUALIFICATION EVIDENCE. THERE HAS TO BE AN ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHICH THE DEFENDANTS ULTIMATELY WERE NOT TO PROVE. SPECIFICALLY, JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE SAID THAT WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT WILLIS HAD CONCOCTED A SCHEME TO HIRE SOMEONE, THAT

SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP IN ORDER TO CREATE A PERSONAL FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR HERSELF. AND HE SAID THAT WAS STANDARD THAT THEY NEEDED TO MEET, NOT THE STANDARD OF BAD JUDGMENT, NOT STANDARD OF POOR CHOICES, THE STANDARD OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND IT JUST WASN’T THERE. AND WE DID JUST HEAR A NEW STATEMENT FROM, ASHLEY MERCHANT, WHO IS THE ATTORNEY FOR MIKE ROMAN THAT BROKE OPEN THIS ENTIRE SORT OF SCANDAL. SHE UNCOVERED THE RELATIONSHIP, SHE UNCOVERED THE TRIPS, AND SHE FILED THE VERY FIRST MOTION TO DISQUALIFY FANI WILLIS BACK IN JANUARY EIGHTH. AND SHE

SAID THAT SHE DID NOT AGREE WITH THE COURT’S DECISION . SHE DID PRAISE IT IN A WAY. SHE SAID IT WAS VINDICATION FOR . EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAD BEEN ALLEGING, WHICH FOR A WHILE WENT UNANSWERED BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. SO FEELING A BIT INVALIDATED THERE THAT THE ALLEGATIONS THAT THEY UNCOVERED ENDED UP BEING TRUE. >> WELL, CHRIS, SOME STRONG LANGUAGE FROM THE JUDGE CLEARLY REPRIMANDING FANI WILLIS. DO YOU AGREE WITH THE RULING? I DO AGREE WITH THE RULING. I THINK THAT’S A BAD DAY IF YOU’RE A DISTRICT ATTORNEY, TO HAVE THE JUDGE CRITICIZING YOU SO

HARSHLY JUST JUST KIND OF UGLY LANGUAGE ALONG THE LINES OF THAT TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT. THAT SAID, THOUGH, AT THE HEART OF THE RULING HAS DO WITH SUPERVISION OF NATHAN WADE. AND SO THERE’S SOME THERE THAT THAT IF YOU’VE GOT A DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPROVING HIS BUDGET AND APPROVING HIS SALARY, WHO HAS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, IT’S JUST A BAD. AND SO WHAT THE JUDGE SAID WAS THEY’VE GOT TWO CHOICES. THEY CAN EITHER REMOVE FANI WILLIS HER OFFICE, MEANING REVIEW OR REMOVE THE SUPERVISOR. OR NATHAN WADE HIMSELF STEP DOWN, MEANING THAT THERE’S NO NEED FOR

HIM TO BE SUPERVISED ANYMORE. BUT, KYRA, YOU’RE RIGHT. IT’S NOT A GOOD LOOK. AND LIBBY IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. AS. >> SO, JOHN, THIS CERTAINLY ISN’T THE RULING THAT TRUMP WANTED. SO DOES HE DO NOW THAT I THINK IT’S NO SURPRISE HIS LAWYERS HAVE ALREADY HERE THAT THEY’RE GOING TO APPEAL THIS? I MEAN, LOOK WHAT THEY WANTED. WE ALL KNOW THIS. THEY WANTED THIS TO GO AWAY. THEY WANTED TO DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR. OBVIOUSLY, DID NOT HAPPEN HERE. SO WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO TRY DO, OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE APPEAL IS THEY’VE SAID THEY’RE GOING TO FILE IS

BASICALLY REPLICATE . THEY’RE DOING ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH’S CASE, LOOKING INTO TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION RESULT ON, THE FEDERAL LEVEL. AND THERE THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DELAYED IT BECAUSE OF THE APPEALS PROCESS. AND OBVIOUSLY, AS WE KNOW, WE’RE WAITING ON THE SUPREME COURT TO TAKE THAT UP LATE APRIL. SO HERE ON A STATE LEVEL, BASICALLY RINSE, REPEAT, THEY WANT TO TAKE THIS RULING NOW, APPEAL IT TO A HIGHER OF APPEALS AND HOPEFULLY KICK THIS CAN FURTHER DOWN CLOSER TO THE FALL KYRA. SO OLIVIA, JOHN, CHRIS, CONTINUE

TO FOLLOW, OF COURSE, THE OUTCOME AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. TO THE EXTREME WEATHER NOW WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LEAVING BEHIND A PATH DESTRUCTION. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO OHIO SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. COLORADO PUMMELED WITH SNOW MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS. INDIANA AND OHIO HIT WITH AN OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES HAVE TURNED DEADLY. AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AFTER MULTIPLE TWISTERS THROUGH LAKEVILLE, LAKEVIEW, RATHER, OHIO. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE GROUND TODAY ASSESSING ALL THE DAMAGE IN WINCHESTER, INDIANA. SEVERAL TORNADOES LEFT MORE THAN THREE DOZEN PEOPLE INJURED THERE. DOZENS OF HOMES ALSO

DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. AND IN COLORADO, THE CITY OF DENVER HAMMERED RATHER BY HEAVY SNOW. THAT MAJOR STORM CLOSING HIGHWAYS AND SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS FOR A SECOND DAY NOW. >> LET’S BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST MELISSA. >> SHE’S FOLLOWING IT ALL FOR US. OKAY. IT’S NOT OVER YET. >> RIGHT. WHAT’S NEXT? IT REALLY ISN’T OVER YET, KYRA, BECAUSE WE A BRAND NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THIS JUST POPPED UP JUST MOMENTS AGO HERE IN THE GULF COAST, IN THE DEEP SOUTH. THIS AFTER OVER HUNDRED SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS STRETCHING FROM TEXAS ALL THE WAY TO, OHIO. ALREADY IN OHIO,

WE ARE SEEING AT LEAST FOUR CONFIRMED TORNADOES AS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS ONGOING WITH THEIR APP AND SERVICE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. >> BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER NOW IS MAKING ITS WAY TO THE GULF COAST. WE HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FROM ALL THE WAY TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. >> YOU CAN SEE THAT HEAVY RAIN MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND INTO GEORGIA. THIS IS THE AREA WE’RE WATCHING CLOSELY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING THE ENHANCED RISK HERE FOR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THAT’S WHERE LARGE HAIL BUT SEVERE

WEATHER CAN STRETCH ALL ALONG THE GULF COAST, ALL THE WAY TO THE PANHANDLE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT, BUT TORNADOES AGAIN CAN’T BE RULED OUT YET AGAIN TODAY. AND IT’S NOT JUST THE SEVERE WEATHER. BE WATCHING AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND, BUT IT’S ALSO THIS RAIN FORECAST ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO PUMMEL PARTS OF THE GULF COAST RIGHT THROUGH AND SUNDAY. SOME SPOTS FROM HOUSTON TO NEW ORLEANS, EVEN INTO PARTS OF GEORGIA COULD SEE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH SATURDAY. AND THAT COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING AS THIS WEATHER

PATTERN REALLY REMAINS ACTIVE RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND KYRA. >> ALL RIGHT, MELISSA, YOU SO MUCH. NOW, THE UNPRECEDENTED VERDICTS IN MICHIGAN, A JURY NOW FINDING THE FATHER OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER, ETHAN CRUMBLY, GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR BUYING THE GUN AND ENABLING HIS SON TO CARRY OUT THE ATTACK THAT KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021. COUNT ONE INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. >> AS TO MADISON BALDWIN GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS THE MADISON COUNTY INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS YOU TAKE NEAR GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, AS YOU TAKE NEAR . JAMES CRUMBLY AND HIS WIFE JENNIFER, NOW

THE FIRST PARENTS HELD CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD’S SCHOOL. LET’S BRING IN OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND CRIMINAL OFFENSE, ATTORNEY CHANNA LLOYD FOR MORE. SO, SEAN, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T CONVICT ONE PARENT AND NOT THE OTHER. THEY WERE BOTH DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN NOT ONLY FAILING THEIR SON, BUT STUDENTS THAT HE KILLED ON SO MANY LEVELS. >> ABSOLUTELY. KARA, WHAT WE SEE HERE IS A REAL STATEMENT FROM THESE JURORS. AND WHAT THEY FOUND IS THAT THE LEGAL STANDARD IN MICHIGAN SAYS THAT PARENTS HAVE A DUTY TO DO THINGS TO PROTECT OTHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN. >>

AND HERE THAT DUTY WAS FAILED. THAT IS WHY THE JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY. NOW, LET’S BE CLEAR. MICHIGAN IS IT HAS THIS UNIQUE LAW. >> IT IS NOT IN EVERY STATE. BUT I THINK WHAT WE SEE ARE GUN OWNERS AND JURY MEMBERS WHO WERE GUN OWNERS SAYING THAT THIS WAS NOT A RESPONSIBLE USE AND STORAGE OF FIREARM. THEY IGNORED CLEAR SIGNS THAT THEIR SON MAY HAVE CONTENT, MAY HAVE POSED A POTENTIAL DANGER TO OTHERS, AND THEY DID NOTHING TO STOP IT. SO WHAT KIND OF PRECEDENT, DO YOU THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY GOING TO SET FOR

PARENTS WITH CHILDREN INVOLVED IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS MOVING FORWARD, OR DO YOU THINK THIS CASE WAS TOO UNIQUE TO SET A BROAD PRECEDENT? IS IT AN OUTLIER CASE? >> YOU KNOW, CURIOUS. IT’S AN OUTLIER BECAUSE THE SIGNS WERE SO CLEAR IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. BUT THIS COULD A WAVE OF LEGISLATION THAT BRINGS THESE TYPE OF LAWS TO STATES THAT DON’T HAVE IT TO SAY PARENTS MUST BE AWARE. WHAT WE ALSO SEE IS THAT THE JURY IS SAYING THAT GUN OWNERSHIP AND HAVING IT AROUND CHILDREN CARRIES A RESPONSIBILITY, HAS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THAT THESE THINGS

NEED TO BE BROUGHT THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS. THESE PARENTS SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION, THE SCHOOL OR SOMEONE ELSE, BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES THAT KNEW HE ACCESS TO THIS WEAPON. >> SO PARENTS OF THE VICTIMS SPOKE AFTER ACCOMPLICE VERDICT AND SAID THEY ARE STILL NOT DONE LOOKING FOR JUSTICE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. >> LET’S TAKE A LISTEN. IT’S TIME FOR THE SCHOOL TO PONY BECAUSE WE’VE GOT FOUR KIDS HERE DEAD AND NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY. WELL, CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE THE SCHOOL HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ETHAN’S ACTIONS ?

YOU KNOW, THAT’S GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING ITEM BECAUSE SHOULD THEY HAVE REMOVED HIM FROM THE SCHOOL, SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO SEARCH HIS BAGS. HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY SHOW ANY SIGNS THAT WAS A DANGER TO OTHERS WITH THE INFORMATION THEY HAD. THIS IS WHERE THE PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY CAME IN BECAUSE HAD THEY NOTIFIED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THAT HE WAS IN POSSESSION. HE HAD ACCESS TO THAT MIGHT HAVE CHANGED THEIR PROTOCOLS. SO WE’RE GOING TO SEE CASE PLAY OUT IN THE COURTS. BUT I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT HARDER WHEN WE’RE LOOKING AT THE SCHOOL

VERSUS THE PARENTS WHO HAD ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIS ACCESS THE WEAPON. >> CHANNA LLOYD GREAT. >> SEE YOU. THANK YOU. COMING UP, BIG NAME INVESTORS LINING UP FOR A CHANCE TO BUY TIKTOK. WHO’S TOPPING THE LIST AND HOW MUCH ARE THEY WILLING TO PAY? >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A

THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED SUNDAY MORNING. THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR ARE AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY

FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. VERY TANGIBLE. VICTIMS WILL GET A CHANCE TO FINALLY CARE AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS IN A WAY TO SAY DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT HOUSE WHEN I DID I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY FACE TO FACE. ERIKA, WHY DO YOU THINK THIS THE HOUSEWIFE AND HER HUSBAND, YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE WATCHING? AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE

STREAMING NEWS ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVES, MINES REPORTING ACROSS THE GLOBE KEEP STREAMING WITH ABC NEWS LIVE. SO GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. WELL, THE OFFICE OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ANNOUNCING THE NEXT STAGE IN ITS WAR WITH HAMAS. THE IDF MAKING PLANS TO GO INTO GAZA AND IGNORING ALL CALLS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY HOLD OFF THAT INCURSION. ALL THIS HAPPENING AS CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS ARE GOING NOWHERE. NETANYAHU IS CALLING HAMAS’S LATEST PROPOSAL ABSURD. ISRAEL HAS ALSO BEEN UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE TO ALLOW MORE AID INTO GAZA, BUT SO FAR THAT AID

HAS BEEN A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY NEEDED. LET’S BRING IN OUR CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, MATT GUTMAN, WHO’S THERE IN COUNTRY FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS FOR US. SO, YOU KNOW, THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN SAYING THAT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE A PLAN FROM ISRAEL RELATED TO RAFAH, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT STAGE OF THIS WAR. SO WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED AND HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT HERE? THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT AN OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH WOULD A RED LINE IF IT DIDN’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS AND

THAT ESSENTIALLY THE UNITED STATES WOULD LIKE TO SEE A PLAN FOR IT? WELL, I HEARD ABOUT A PLAN FOR TWO NIGHTS AGO. IT WOULD COMPRISE OF REMOVING 1.4 MILLION PALESTINIANS, ACCORDING TO IDF, FROM THAT SOUTHERNMOST CITY IN GAZA TO THE CENTER OF GAZA INTO HUMANITARIAN ENCLAVES THAT WOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THEY WOULD BE PROVIDING FOOD, WATER, TENTS, HOSPITALS, ETC.. IT’S UNCLEAR HOW WOULD DO THIS AND WHAT IS ALSO UNCLEAR. SO U.S. OFFICIALS THAT THEY HAVEN’T ANY PLANS FOR THIS. ISRAEL HAS A PRETTY LIMITED NUMBER OF TROOPS RIGHT NOW IN GAZA. A LOT

OF THE RESERVISTS WOULD BOLSTER REGULAR MILITARY FOR MONTHS, ARE NOW BACK HOME. OTHER UNITS ARE IN OTHER. SO IT’S UNCLEAR HOW QUICKLY THIS COULD TAKE EFFECT AND, WHAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE. BUT ONE THING WE DO UNDERSTAND, IF THEY TO MOVE 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE WHO’VE ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED, SOMETIMES MORE, ONCE, IT IS GOING TO BE A MASSIVE EFFORT AND A VERY, VERY PAINFUL ONE KYRA. >> SO, MATT, WE KNOW THAT SHIPS ARE FILLED WITH AID, ARE WORKING THEIR WAY TO GAZA, BUT LOGISTICALLY, IT’S NOT. I MEAN, THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO

MAKE DELIVERIES. SO KIND OF WALK US THROUGH WHAT’S HAPPENING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE AID FROM AIR LAND, SEA, WHAT’S GOING TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT? IS THERE AN EASIER ROUTE? THE SHORT ANSWER IS IT’S COMPLICATED THE LONG ANSWER IS IT’S GREAT. AND I THINK EVERYBODY FROM THE ISRAELIS TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO THE U.S. ARE VERY HAPPY THAT A MARITIME CORRIDOR THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED HAS BEEN OPENED. WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN HAS A BOAT. THEY ARE OFFLOADING SOME OF THE 200 TONS OF AID INTO GAZA RIGHT NOW. IT IS VERY CUMBERSOME AND IT’S BEEN VERY SLOW.

MUCH SLOWER, I THINK, THAN PEOPLE HAD ANTICIPATED. AND THAT’S WHY THE THE U.N. ARE SAYING THE BEST WAY, THE WAY THAT WE’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS IS SENDING TRUCKS IN. THE PROBLEM IS DISTRIBUTION. SO MANY PARTS GAZA ARE UNSAFE. U.N. TRUCKS AND DRIVERS AND PERSONNEL ARE AFRAID TO GO TO CERTAIN AREAS. ISRAEL SAID IT WILL FACILITATE SECURITY, BUT THERE’S A LOT OF SECURITY CONCERN. ISRAEL SAYS HEY, WE’RE ALLOWING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF AID AND WE ARE TRYING TO FLOOD THE GAZA STRIP. THE ISSUE IS NOT WITH US, IT’S WITH THE NGOS ALL ABOUT THE

DISTRIBUTION. WE’RE OPENING UP THE GATES, THE AID IS GOING IN, AND THEN PALESTINIAN TRUCKS ARE SUPPOSED TO PICK IT UP, BUT IT’S JUST LEFT THERE. THEY’RE UNABLE TO DISTRIBUTE IT. SO IT IS COMPLICATED. I THINK WHAT BOTH SIDES WANT TO SEE AT THIS POINT IS A MORE STREAMLINED WAY TO GET THAT AID TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MOST. RIGHT NOW, THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN NORTHERN GAZA WHERE FAMINE IS ON THE DOORSTEP, NEARLY HALF OR OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING STARVATION THERE KYRA. I’M JUST GLAD YOU’RE THERE COVERING THE STORY, MATT. WE’RE GOING

TO STAY IN CLOSE TOUCH. APPRECIATE YOU. THANKS, CHRIS. WELL, THE HOUSE HAS PASSED A BILL TO BAN TIKTOK AND NOW IT’S IN THE SENATE’S HANDS. THE CEO WAS ON CAPITOL YESTERDAY FOR A MEETING WITH SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN AND ACTUALLY TOLD REPORTERS HE’S DISAPPOINTED BY THE HOUSE’S VOTE TO MOVE FORWARD. >> SO AS THAT BIPARTISAN BILL AWAITS A SENATE VOTE. POTENTIAL BUYERS ARE LINING UP TO ON THE U.S. OPERATIONS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT. LET’S BRING IN OUR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT ALEXIS CHRISTOFORS FOR MORE ON THIS. BOY, TALK ABOUT A TALKER. >> ALEXIS, WHAT A GREAT STORY

FOR YOU. SO MANY PEOPLE WONDERING WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO TICK TOCK IF INDEED THESE HERE LOCALLY, LIKE MANOOGIAN AND OTHERS, WILL BUY IT. A LOT OF PEOPLE THROWING IN THEIR HAT. HOW DO YOU SEE THIS ALL PLAYING OUT? >> WELL, THERE’S A LOT TO DIG INTO HERE. YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, KYRA. AND FIRST OFF, I THINK THE QUESTION NEEDS TO BE WILL CHINA ACTUALLY SELL ITS U.S. OPERATIONS OF TICK TOCK? AND I THINK IT’S NOT AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING ARE SLIM TO NONE. IT’S SOME EXPERTS VALUING ITS U.S. OPERATIONS AT

SOMETHING LIKE $100 BILLION. A LOOK AT ITS CORE, WHAT MAKES SO VALUABLE? IT’S ITS ALGORITHM, RIGHT? THAT IS TARGETING PEOPLE WITH ADS AND ALSO COLLECTING DATA. ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS THE U.S. HAS, OF COURSE, IS THAT THE COMPANY IS COLLECTING DATA FOR THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. REMEMBER, WE’RE DEALING WITH CHINA HERE. THE U.S., THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAN STEP IN AND TELL A PRIVATELY COMPANY IN CHINA, NO, YOU CAN’T SELL YOUR OPERATIONS. WELL, DON’T WANT YOU TO SELL IT TO THAT PARTICULAR ENTITY. CHINA HAS SIGNALED NOT INTERESTED IN SELLING TIKTOK AND IN FACT, WOULD PREFER SEE

A BAN BEFORE IT ACTUALLY WINDS UP SELLING THE COMPANY. SO I THINK THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF WHAT COULD BE A LONG AND DRAWN OUT SITUATION BECAUSE AS WE SEE, TIKTOK HAS REALLY BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN AN ELECTION YEAR. >> ALL RIGHT. SO AS WE JUST MENTIONED, FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN IS KIND OF LEADING THE CHARGE HERE AND GATHERING INVESTORS TO TRY AND ACQUIRE TIKTOK, AT LEAST TALKING ABOUT IT. VERY INTERESTING. I MEAN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A FORMER TRUMP MEMBER. >> I GUESS WE SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED THAT BE INTERESTED IN BUYING THIS

COMPANY. I SORT OF WONDER, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING AN ELECTION YEAR, THE TIMING OF ALL THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING. >> THAT IT IS. BUT YOU KNOW, HE IS MANOOGIAN IS A BUSINESSMAN FIRST AND FOREMOST. HE’S GOING BACK TO HIS ROOTS WHEN HE WAS IN PRIVATE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HE ACTUALLY WAS PART OF A BIG GROUP THAT HELPED BAIL OUT NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. SO HE’S TRYING TO BRING TOGETHER THIS CONSORTIUM OF INVESTORS WHO BUY TIKTOK. AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS YOU CAN’T BUY SOMETHING THAT’S NOT FOR. SO, YOU KNOW, WILL THE

CHINESE GOVERNMENT OKAY A SALE AND IF WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? DOES IT INCLUDE THAT ALL IMPORTANT ALGORITHM OR NOT. ARGUABLY, WITHOUT THE ALGORITHM, THE VALUE OF THE COMPANY SORT OF DISAPPEARS. >> ALL RIGHT, ALEXIS, WE’LL KEEP TALKING ABOUT A STORY THAT EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW THAT IMPACTS SO MANY PEOPLE. THANKS, ALEXIS. SURE. WELL, COMING SEEKING SUNSHINE AND LIFTING YOUR SPIRITS, WE INTRODUCE YOU THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT AND HOW IT’S HELPING KIDS MAKEOME TRUE ON AND OFF. THE PLAYING FIELD. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A

MASSIVE SNOWSTORM, THREATENING MILLIONS. AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WHEN, DAVID, YOU ARE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> I HAVE A CONCERT. THEY’RE EXPECTING. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS MY TURN. INSIDE THE TENT IS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAINS. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. >> THERE’S NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. ANYWHERE. WOW. >> WE’RE IN MIAMI. SHE GOT A GOLF TOURNAMENT. THAT’S SHOUTING AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT

EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. SPORTS WASHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG AS A POLITICAL REGIME, YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER. THE BOOMING BUSINESS OF SPORTS WASHING IS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. START HERE. THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT

YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> YOU HAD YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . REPORTING FROM JOINT BASE IN SAN GIOVANNI SAYS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS WALL TODAY. WE ARE SEEKING SUNSHINE BY FOCUSING ON PRETTY REMARKABLE KIDS AND THEIR ABILITIES, NOT DISABILITIES. AND TRUST ME, THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRITS. SIMPLY. BY THE WAY, THESE COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE KIDS LIKE LEWIS WITNESS RISE TO THE OCCASION. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT IT IS LIKE GROWING HERE. >> AS YOU CAN SEE, 12-YEAR-OLD LUCAS IS QUITE

THE WARRIOR. AND HE’S NOT ONLY LIFTED UP PHYSICALLY, BUT MENTALLY AS HE’S BEEN GIVEN GIFT OF THE GAME AND OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOOTBALL AT MICHIGAN STATE’S PRACTICE FACILITY RIGHT THERE WITH ITS TOP PLAYERS. AND IT’S ALL DUE TO THIS MAN, BRYCE WEILER, CO-FOUNDER OF THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT. BRYCE WAS ACTUALLY BORN WITH EYE CONDITION THAT LEFT HIM BLIND, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP HIM FROM LIVING HIS BEST LIFE, NOR CHANGING THE LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE PROCESS. THAT’S WHY HE CREATED THIS PROGRAM, TO GIVE YOUNG, OLDER FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE SPORTS AND PERFORMING

ARTS IN AN INCLUSIVE WAY. WHAT A JOY TO HAVE. BRYCE, LUCAS AND LUCAS, HIS MOM, JENNIFER, JOIN ME TODAY. IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU THREE. >> ALL RIGHT. I GOT TO SEE A BIG SMILE. LUCAS YES. >> THERE WE GO. BRYCE, HOW DID YOU CONVINCE TEAMS LIKE MICHIGAN STATE JUST TO BELIEVE IN YOUR PROJECT? I CONTACTED THE MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL COACHES. WE’VE DONE EVENTS WITH MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AS. WELL, AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE I HAD WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE. I WAS ABLE

TO SIT ON THE EVANSVILLE ACES MEN’S BASKETBALL BENCH AND GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO BE A PART OF SPORTS. AND I WANTED HELP ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH ANY DISABILITIES TO BE ABLE TO LIVE THEIR DREAMS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO SURROUND THEM WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO BELIEVE IN THEM AND WHO WANT TO HELP THEM TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES. >> ABSOLUTE BECAUSE IT’S NOT JUST IMPACTING KIDS LIKE LUCAS, BUT I MEAN THE PLAYERS. THEY’RE BECOMING MENTORS, AND I’M SURE IT’S CHANGING THEIR LIVES JUST AS MUCH AS IT’S CHANGING THE LIFE OF KIDS LIKE. LUCAS AND JEN, I’VE

GOT TO ASK YOU, YOU’VE BEEN ABLE TO YOUR SON PRACTICE WITH MICHIGAN STATE’S FOOTBALL TEAM BASKET, BALL TEAM, BASEBALL TEAM. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS BEEN JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT SO FAR THAT? YOU’VE BEEN ABLE TO OBSERVE OR MAYBE A MOMENT THAT LUCAS, IN A WAY, YOU HAD NEVER SEEN HIM RESPOND BEFORE, BEING ABLE TO SEE THE ATHLETES INTERACT WITH LUCAS, TREAT HIM JUST LIKE HE’S TYPICAL, YOU KNOW GIVING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT THERE. THREE FOR ATHLETES COMING OUT, SUPPORTING HIM, WORKING WITH HIM SO HE CAN THROW A BALL, SO HE CAN

KICK THE BALL AND THE SMILES ON HIS FACE. IT’S JUST AMAZING. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT. >> AND LUCAS, I KNOW YOU’RE NON-VERBAL BUT YOU SAY EVERYTHING THROUGH YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES, YOUR SMILE, JUST THE WAY YOU YOU LOVE ON YOUR MOM AND WATCHING YOU WITH THESE PLAYERS. IT’S SO INCREDIBLE TO WATCH. AND JENNIFER, NOT ONLY DO WE GET TO SEE LUCAS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, BUT WE HAS INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF HIM ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND. >> LET’S CHECK IT BACK. THE PLAYERS SAID TO YOU, JEN, WE KNOW HOW THIS MAKES LUCAS FEEL. YOU CAN TELL US

THAT. WE CAN SEE IT IN HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE. BUT WHAT HAVE THESE ATHLETES SAID TO YOU ABOUT THE POWER YOUR SON? >> SO I THINK THE ATHLETES THAT COME TO ME AND THEY’RE SURPRISED BY JUST HOW VERBAL HE IS, EVEN THOUGH HE’S NONVERBAL AND HOW MUCH HE CAN. THEY’RE SHOCKED THAT HE WANTS TO BE OUT THERE PARTICIPATING. HE CALLS THE PLAYERS AND IS ABLE TO INTERACT THEM. YOU KNOW, WE’RE ALWAYS THE LAST ONES TO LEAVE THE EVENTS BECAUSE HE IS INTERACTING WITH THE PLAYERS AND WITH THE ADULTS. THERE AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW HE’S

THERE AND STOPPING AND GETTING THOSE SIGNATURES AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, HE’S OH, HE’S SEEN ALL RIGHT. AND BRYCE, BEFORE WE GO, TELL US HOW YOUR PROGRAM HAS NOT ONLY CHANGED THE LIVES OF YOUNG KIDS ALL THE WAY TO ADULTS AND AND THESE OPPORTUNITIES, BUT YOU KNOW HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES AND FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES. WHAT TYPE OF OF CHANGES HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO FEEL AND OBSERVE? >> IT’S HELPED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THEIR TO REALIZE THAT SPORTS TEAMS CHEERLEADING TEAMS ARE GROUPS WHO WANT TO GIVE THEM THESE OPPORTUNITIES. IT’S PARENTS THAT THEIR

CHILDREN, ADULTS CAN HAVE THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE JUST WILLING, AS JENNIFER AND HER HUSBAND, TO LET LUCAS COME TO EVERY EVENT. I HAD THREE EVENTS LAST YEAR AND MICHIGAN THREE STRAIGHT DAYS WITH HOPE COLLEGE, MEN’S BASKETBALL. THE SECOND DAY WAS GRAND VALLEY STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL, AND THEN THE THIRD DAY WAS MICHIGAN STATE BASEBALL. >> AND SOFTBALL. AND JENNY ALLOWED LUCAS TO COME AND THAT’S WHAT WE LOVE IS WHEN PARENTS WILL ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN OR ADULTS TO ATTEND THESE EVENTS, HAVE THESE EXPERIENCES, AND CREATE LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS WITH THE PLAYERS, COACHES AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS

AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE EVENT. AMEN. AND LIVED THEIR BEST LIVES. IT’S CALLED THE BEAUTIFUL LIVES PROJECT. AND BRYCE, YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. JENN, ARE YOU AND LUCAS? SO ARE YOU. I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR NEXT SPORT THAT YOU TAKE ON. THANK YOU TO ALL THREE OF YOU. >> SO GRATEFUL. >> THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER NEEDED A WAY. >> WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CLUSTER FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, A REFUGEE CENTER IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA ON

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NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THEY SAID, OH, BIG TIME. WE’LL GET A CHANCE TO ERROR MAJORITY. WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG? THAT’S WHY THE SO 220, SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR HERE. FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS THE START HERE TO BE THE MIDDLE AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN

NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> IT’S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE THOSE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOU HAVE YOUR MONEY BREAKING NEWS, MUSIC AND, OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF “GMA” IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTER DINNER FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. ME FROM AN ISRAELI MILITARY POSITION NEAR GAZA. I’M JAMES LONGMAN WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE FOR STREAMING ABC

NEWS LIVE RIGHT NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE. A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT, BUT NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST. SO THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION FRAUD CASE DECIDING THE FANI WILLIS CAN STAY ON, BUT ONLY IF HER ROMANTIC PARTNER TURNED CO PROSECUTORS, STEPS ASIDE. PLUS, A JURY HAS CONVICTED JAMES CRUMBLEY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. HIS SON ETHAN SHOT AND KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL IN MICHIGAN IN 2021. WE’VE GOT THE FALLOUT, INCLUDING HOW MUCH JAIL TIME JAMES CRUMBLY IS FACING? TORNADOES, THE SOUTH AND A TON OF SNOW OUT WEST. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS UNDER SOME

KIND OF WEATHER ALERT TODAY. WE’VE GOT YOUR FORECAST THIS HOUR. GOOD, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. AND I’M TERRY MORAN. AND OUR TOP STORY THIS HOUR BREAKING NEWS OUT OF GEORGIA. THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL RULED THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THAT CASE. THIS RULING COMES DESPITE EFFORTS BY TRUMP AND SEVERAL CO-DEFENDANTS TO GET FANI WILLIS REMOVED, CITING AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR HIRED NATHAN WADE. >> BUT THE JUDGE DIDN’T MINCE WORDS IN HIS RULING SAYING, ALTHOUGH TRUMP’S TEAM FAILED TO MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROVING AN

ACTUAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, WILLIS SHOWED WHAT THE JUDGE CALLED A TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN JUDGMENT AND MADE BAD CHOICES REPEATEDLY. >> THE, SAYS WILLIS, MUST NOW DECIDE WHETHER TO STEP ASIDE, ALONG WITH HER ENTIRE OR WADE, CAN WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE, LEADING US OFF OUR INVESTIGATIVE OLIVIA RUBIN, ALSO A FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR AND CONTRIBUTOR HERE AT ABC NEWS, CHRIS TIMMINS. SO, OLIVIA, IT LOOKS LIKE WILLIS IS GOING TO BE KICKING FORMER FLAME TO THE CURB. I THINK THAT’S WHAT WE SHOULD TO SEE OUT OF THE D.A.’S OFFICE. IT’S FASCINATING, THOUGH, BECAUSE THIS RULING CAME DOWN JUST

BEFORE 9 A.M. THIS MORNING. THE D.A.’S HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY SILENT. NOT A STATEMENT, NOT COMMENT, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. BUT I THINK IT’S A SAFE BET THAT THAT IS THE PATH THAT THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE. BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THE WORST NIGHTMARE FOR THE D.A. WAS NOT BEING ABLE TO PROSECUTE HER CASE, IT BEING SENT INTO NO MAN’S LAND WITH A NEW INDEPENDENT BODY HAVING TO PICK WHO IS GOING TO BE THE NEW PROSECUTOR PICKING UP THE CASE AND ESSENTIALLY DELAYING INDEFINITELY. BUT IF SHE GOES WITH THE ROUTE OF KICKING NATHAN WADE OFF THE

CASE, THEN SHE CAN HOPEFULLY, IN HER CASE, BUY BACK OF THE LOST TIME THAT SHE MAY HAVE LOST WITHIN THIS EFFORT. AND GOING IMMEDIATELY. SO BY PICKING THE OPTION OF REMOVING NATHAN WADE, SHE DOES NOT HAVE TO STALL THE CASE ANY LONGER. AND SHE CAN FORWARD AS SOON AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN, WHICH FOR A DAY HAS REQUESTED AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE. YOU GOT TO THINK THAT’S THE ROUTE THAT THEY’RE GOING TO GO. ABSOLUTELY. AND CHRISTINE, IS THE USED SOME JUST BLISTERING LANGUAGE IN HIS OPINION, TALKED ABOUT WAS HIS PROFESSIONALISM, HER JUDGMENT, THE ODOR OF MENDACITY,

HE SAID, STILL HUNG AROUND HER TESTIMONY AND THE TESTIMONY OF NATHAN WADE. >> AND I WONDER, EVEN THOUGH THIS RULING HAS HER REMAIN ON THE CASE, COULD THE TRUMP TEAM TAKE AN APPEAL? AND HERE’S THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE USED THAT JUDGE’S CONDEMNATION AND SAYS HE JUST GOT THE RESULT WRONG, THAT ACTUALLY ALL OF THAT ADDS UP IN WHAT THE JUDGE FOUND TO BE TRUE TO A DISQUALIFICATION. SO, TERRY, THERE’S ONE OPTION FOR APPEAL HERE, AND THAT’S WHAT’S REFERRED TO AS AN INTERLOCUTORY OR KIND OF MID TRIAL APPEAL. NOW, IN ORDER TO GET AN APPEAL LIKE

THAT, THEY’VE GOT GET PERMISSION FROM TWO DIFFERENT BODIES. FIRST, THEY’VE GOT TO GET PERMISSION FROM JUDGE MCCARTHY ,WHO JUST ISSUED THAT RULING, AND THEN AFTER THAT, THEY’VE GOT TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE GEORGIA COURT OF APPEALS ITSELF TO SEE WHETHER THEY’RE ACTUALLY GOING TO UP THE APPEAL. WITH REGARD TO JUDGE MCCARTHY, THOUGH, YOU CAN READ THE TEA LEAVES A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE HE ISSUED AN ORDER TWO DAYS AGO. SEEMS LIKE JUST, YOU KNOW, 5 MINUTES AGO, BUT ISSUED AN ORDER TWO DAYS AGO WHERE HE STRUCK SIX OF THE COUNTS FROM THE INDICTMENT. AND IN THAT

ORDER, HE SAID THAT HE WOULD GRANT IT IN A LOCAL AREA APPEAL BY GIVING A CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE REVIEW. WE DIDN’T SEE THAT EXACT SAME LANGUAGE IN THE ORDER THAT WAS ISSUED TODAY, MEANING THAT I DON’T THINK HE’S GOING TO GRANT AN APPEAL IF EITHER DECIDES THAT THEY WANT TO ASK FOR ONE. >> ALL RIGHT CHRIS, YOU KNOW, FANI WILLIS, YOU’VE WORKED ALONGSIDE HER. WE KNOW SHE HAS CAMPAIGNED ON THIS CASE. I CAN’T IMAGINE SHE’S GOING TO GIVE THIS UP. SHE HAS GOT TO BE CALLING UP NATHAN WADE AND SAYING, BUDDY, YOU’RE OUT OF HERE,

THIS IS MINE. >> WELL, I THINK WHAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE HERE IS SOME SORT OF RESIGNATION BY NATHAN WADE. I THINK GOING TO WRITE A LETTER, MAYBE EVEN GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE, BUT PROBABLY MORE LIKE A LETTER SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES SENT TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYING THAT WHILE HE MAY NOT AGREE SOME OF THE STATEMENTS IN JUDGE MCCARTHY’S ORDER, IT’S CLEAR FOR THE OF THE CASE THAT HE’S GOT TO RESIGN. I THINK WE’LL SEE SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. YOU KNOW, THE CASE IS BIGGER THAN HIM. THE STATE OF GEORGIA IS BIGGER THAN HIM.

YOU KNOW, THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MATTER TO THE NATION IS BIGGER THAN HIM. AND SO I THINK WE’RE GOING GET SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. NOW, WHAT THE D.A.’S OFFICE AT THIS POINT IS PROBABLY DOING IS ASSESSING THE RULING, DECIDING WHETHER THEY WANT TO OUT ANY SORT OF PUBLIC STATEMENT AND DECIDE WHAT THEIR NEXT MOVE. THEY COULD IF THEY WANTED APPEAL THIS CASE AS WELL. BUT I DON’T THINK THEY’LL DO THAT. I THINK THEY’LL TAKE THE WHEN NATHAN WADE GOES AWAY AND WE MOVE ON TOWARDS TRIAL JUST AS OLIVIA JUST

INDICATED A FEW MOMENTS AGO. >> YEAH, THE D.A. PROBABLY WANTS TO GET THIS RULING ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT THAT CONDEMNATORY LANGUAGE BEHIND HER AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. BACK TO YOU. LET’S SAY THAT NO APPEAL IS TAKEN, THIS TRIAL PROCEDURE. WHAT’S THE TIMING ON A POTENTIAL TRIAL, THIS CASE, THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE? AND HOW DOES THAT KIND OF SYNC WITH ALL THE OTHER ISSUES THAT TRUMP IS FACING? >> WELL, BONNY WOLF HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE, BUT THE QUESTION IS, WITH THE TWO MONTHS THAT WAS JUST SPENT ON THE DISQUALIFICATION, AS YOU CAN SHE STILL

GET THE CASE IN IN TIME. BUT FOR TRUMP LEGAL YOU KNOW, FOR CASES. ON A BROADER NOTE, THINK ABOUT IT. HE HAS FOUR CASES AND FOUR EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT IS SPENT TALKING ABOUT DISQUALIFICATION OR, YOU KNOW, VAGUENESS IN FLORIDA OR IMMUNITY IN D.C. OR DELAYED DOCUMENT TURNOVER. NEW YORK, THE TIME AND THE CLOCK IS RUNNING OUT THE WINDOW TO GET IN FOR TRIAL BEFORE THE ELECTION DAY IS GETTING SHORTER AND SHORTER. SHORTER AND SHORTER. SO EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT HE IS ABLE TO DELAY ONE OF THESE EFFORTS, IT LOOKS LESS AND LESS LIKELY THAT

ANY OF THESE TRIALS GOING TO GET IN IN TIME, ALTHOUGH IT’S POSSIBLE ONE OR TWO COULD. BUT IT JUST DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THERE’S ENOUGH DAYS IN THE CALENDAR TO GET IN FOR AT THIS POINT. BUT IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. I GUESS YOU NEVER KNOW THESE TRIALS. >> WE CERTAINLY DON’T. EVERY ROOM YOU DO AND YOU’RE COVERED FOR US IN PERSON BECAUSE WE REALLY APPRECIATE BRINGING YOUR EXPERTISE TO THIS. >> APPRECIATE IT. LET’S HEAD OVER TO THE EXTREME WEATHER NOW. AND JUST IT’S HAVOC ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND IT’S LEAVING BEHIND A PATH OF DESTRUCTION IN

SO MANY PLACES. NOW ACROSS THE COUNTRY, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO OHIO BEING SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. CALIFORNIA PUMMELED WITH SNOW MAKING FOR TREACHEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS THERE. INDIANA AND OHIO ALSO HIT WITH AN OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES THAT HAVE TURNED DEADLY, AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AFTER MULTIPLE TWISTERS RIPPED THROUGH OHIO AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE TODAY ASSESSING THE DAMAGE THERE IN LAKEVIEW. ALSO IN WINCHESTER, SEVERAL POSSIBLE TORNADOES LEFT MORE THAN THREE DOZEN PEOPLE INJURED ,DOZENS OF HOMES ALSO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. AND COLORADO, THE CITY OF DENVER WAS HAMMERED BY HEAVY SNOW.

THE MAJOR STORM CLOSING HIGHWAYS AND SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS FOR A SECOND DAY. EXTREME TEAM IS TRACKING ALL OF IT. LET’S BEGIN WITH ABC’S ALEX PRESHA. >> YOU’RE IN OHIO. THEY’RE YOUR NEW HOME THERE OVER THE PAST SEVER MONTHS, BIG TORNADOES TOUCHING DOWN OVERNIGHT. TELL US ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THERE. HEY, TERRY AND KYRA. WELL, I’M HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT, OHIO. THIS IS A LAKE COMMUNITY AND IT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST HIT IN THE STATE. AND FOR STARTERS, TERRY, IS A VISUAL FOR YOU. THAT BEHIND ME, THAT IS A REFRIGERATOR. IT USED TO BELONG IN SOMEONE’S

HOME. NOW IT IS SITTING HERE AND THE DOCK BAY. AND I MEAN, YOU LOOK TO MY RIGHT OVER HERE AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE. THERE ARE THINGS LIKE THIS ALL OVER THIS COMMUNITY. YOU GO BACK BEHIND BOATS ON THAT OTHER SIDE AND IT IS COMPLETE, JUST SPLINTERED. AND THIS IS THE ONLY POCKET IN THIS REGION ACROSS WAY IN LAKEVIEW, HOUSE AFTER HOUSE, ROW, AFTER JUST COMPLETELY DECIMATED. I GOT A CHANCE TO TALK WITH A NUMBER RESIDENTS WHO WERE COMING BACK THIS MORNING TO SEE WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR PROPERTY. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MANY OF

THEM, NOT MUCH. >> BUT IT’S IT’S — IT’S CAUSED A HUGE RESPONSE FROM THIS COMMUNITY. AND ALSO OFFICIALS OUT AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHAT THIS COMMUNITY ACTUALLY NEEDS. >> TAKE A LISTEN. >> WE ACTIVATED PARTIALLY ACTIVATED THE STATE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER LAST NIGHT. WE BROUGHT IN ALL THE RELEVANT STATE AGENCY PARTNERS TO HELP RESPOND TO ANY LOCAL UNMET NEEDS. WE WILL BE ON THE GROUND EVALUATING ALL OF THE DAMAGE AND THE INJURIES THAT OCCURRED IN THIS COMMUNITY. AND WE WILL MAKE MAKING DETERMINATIONS FROM THAT POINT WHETHER OR NOT THERE’S ANY STATE OR FEDERAL FUNDING THAT

WILL BE IN. SO ALL DAY TODAY, THERE HAVE BEEN SEARCH GRADES UNDERWAY TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NOT ANY OTHER FOLKS, YOU KNOW, TRAPPED UNDERNEATH OF THE RUBBLE HERE. AND WE’VE ALSO SEEN CLEANUP CREWS, DUMPSTER BINS AND NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS AS THEY’RE JUST TO PUT BACK THE PIECES HERE, GUYS. >> LET’S BRING IN OUR METEOROLOGIST, MELISSA GRIFFIN NOW. MELISSA YOU KNOW, THE EXTREME WEATHER ISN’T OVER YET. WHETHER IT’S WHERE ALEX IS OR EVEN PARTS OF COLORADO TO CALIFORNIA. WHAT ARE TRACKING RIGHT NOW? YES. HI, KAREN. TERRY. SUCH AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WE’VE SEEN OVER THIS

WEEK WITH THIS MAJOR STORM AND THE TWO PARTS OF IT, LIKE YOU JUST MENTIONED, COLORADO, WITH THE 3 TO 4 FEET OF SNOW AND THEN THE SEVERE WEATHER. >> OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IN THE HEARTLAND, AT LEAST 11 CONFIRMED TORNADOES ACROSS SEVEN STATES. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUES TO SURVEY DAMAGE. BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT WHERE THE SEVERE WEATHER IS RIGHT NOW THIS AFTERNOON, ANOTHER NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR PARTS OF TEXAS . THAT INCLUDES SAN ANTONIO AND HOUSTON. LARGE HAIL, THE BIGGEST THREAT THERE THIS EVENING. AND THEN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS

CONTINUE TO ROLL THROUGH THE GULF COAST, BATON ROUGE TO NEW ORLEANS, UP THROUGH MOBILE, ALABAMA. PENSACOLA, FLA. THAT THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7:00 TONIGHT. SO STILL ACTIVE WEATHER ALL THE WAY SOUTH ACROSS THE GULF COAST. AND IT’S NOT JUST TODAY, BUT INTO THE WEEKEND. >> WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE ROUNDS OF STORMS, THESE GROUNDS THAT ALREADY SATURATED AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY FROM HOUSTON TO NEW ORLEANS. SO MORE FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THIS ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN. >> KAREN TERRY CONTINUES INTO THE WEEKEND. ALL

RIGHT. CAN’T WAIT. THANKS VERY MUCH, ALEX PRESHA AND MELISSA GRIFFIN. SO WE’VE GOT BREAKING NEWS. WE’RE GOING TO HEAD BACK ACTUALLY TO GEORGIA, WHERE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR THERE, NATHAN WADE, WHO WE JUST MENTIONED HAS ACTUALLY RESIGNED FROM DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION. AS YOU KNOW, WE REPORTED THE JUDGE’S RULING, SCOTT, TODAY, WHERE HE SAID THAT DA FANI WILLIS COULD REMAIN ON THE CASE IF NATHAN WADE WERE TO LEAVE. AND IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT WE WERE PREDICTING HAS HAPPENED. WE’VE NOW RECEIVED ACTUALLY THE LETTER THAT NATHAN WADE WROTE TO THE OFFICE OF FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY THERE,

FANI WILLIS THAT HE WAS GOING TO REMOVE HIMSELF FROM THE CASE. AND HE SAYS IN THIS LETTER THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE NORTH STAR OF OUR COMBINED EFFORTS IN THE PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE ATTEMPTED WITH OTHER RESULTS OF GEORGIA’S ELECTION AS DIRECTED BY THE ORDER IN THE STATE AND IN THE CASE, HE SAYS, I HEREBY OFFER MY RESIGNATION. FANI WILLIS WROTE HIM BACK. NATHAN WEDGE SAYS, I WILL ALWAYS AND WILL REMIND EVERYONE THAT YOU WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STEP FORWARD, TO TAKE

ON THIS INVESTIGATION. YOU ARE AN OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE. PLEASE ACCEPT MY SINCERE GRATITUDE ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FOR YOUR PATRIOTISM, COURAGE, AND DEDICATION TO JUSTICE. LET’S IN ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER LIBBY RUBIN, ALONG WITH FORMER GEORGIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY PROSECUTOR CHRIS AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR CHRIS TIMMINS. SO FIRST, OLIVIA, CATCH US UP TO SPEED. I’M JUST TAKING A QUICK LOOK AT THIS. >> THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE, RIGHT? NO SURPRISE AT ALL. AND I THINK YOU JUST HIT THE KEY POINTS IN THAT LETTER SAYING IT FROM THE WAY THAT HE IS RESIGNED

IN THE INTEREST OF DEMOCRACY. AND I THINK WHAT IS SO KEY TO ABOUT THIS DECISION THAT THE D.A.’S OFFICE MADE HERE, TERRY IS THAT THIS IS THE ROUTE THAT IS GOING TO LET THEM MOVE FORWARD. THE PROSECUTION OF DONALD TRUMP AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. YOU KNOW, POSSIBILITY OF AN APPEAL ASIDE, EFFORTS TO APPEAL, SET ASIDE MEANS THAT THE CASE WILL MOVE FORWARD, ESSENTIALLY EFFECTIVE BECAUSE SHE IS NOT STEPPING DOWN. SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE CASE TO GO OVER TO AN INDEPENDENT BODY TO HAVE A NEW PROSECUTOR OR ASSIGNED TO SLOW THE CASE DOWN

IN THAT WAY. IT PREVENTS ANY FURTHER STALLING IN THIS. AND SO BECAUSE OF THIS DECISION, THE CASE NOW MOVES FORWARD WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND, HER ENTIRE TEAM THAT HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS CASE, MANY OF THEM FOR YEARS TERRY. SO, CHRIS, WE’RE ALL READING THE LETTERS HERE. AND I DON’T KNOW IF YOU YOU BOTH HAD A CHANCE TO READ BOTH. BUT THE LETTER THAT WADE SENT AND THEN FANI WILLIS RESPOND TO WADE, I MEAN, THEY MAY HAVE BROKE IT UP AND IT MAY NOT HAVE WORKED OUT ROMANTICALLY. BUT THESE LETTERS, I MEAN, JUST ADDRESSING

THE ELEPHANT, THE ROOM HERE. OKAY. BUT THE LETTERS HERE, THEY’RE VERY RESPECTFUL. THEY CLEARLY THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THEY SAID. THEY’RE BEING VERY LEGAL IN IN WHAT THEY’RE WRITING, BUT ALSO KIND OF EACH OTHER ON THE BACK AS IN, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE BRAVE, YOU WERE GREAT. GLAD WE DID THIS AND GOOD LUCK AND KEEP ON WITH YOUR ADVENTURE HERE. YEAH. I MEAN, CHRIS, THESE LETTERS WERE WRITTEN IN MIND WITH MILLIONS PEOPLE GOING TO BE READING THEM. SO I’M SURE THERE WERE MULTIPLE DRAFTS BETWEEN THE TIME THAT WE GOT THE RULING EARLY THIS MORNING. AND NOW

I’M SO YOU KNOW, I THINK SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE SHE WANTED TO SAY. IT’S ESSENTIALLY A PRESS RELEASE FROM BOTH OF THEM. NATHAN WADE SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, NOW IT’S THE TIME FOR US TO PUT FORWARD THE INTERESTS OF THE CITIZENS OF THE STATES, THE VOTERS WHO VOTED IN THE 2020 ELECTION, AND TO POINT OUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS ABOVE HIMSELF. SO IT’S A VERY WELL-WRITTEN LETTER, A VERY GRACIOUS, BUT IT DOES EXACTLY WHAT JUDGE MCCARTHY WANTED TO HAVE HAPPEN . THIS CASE. THAT MEANS THAT NATHAN WADE IS RESIGNING. THERE’S NO REASON AT THIS POINT

FOR THE STATE TO APPEAL HIS ORDER. NOT THAT WE THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO THAT, BUT THAT REMOVES ANY QUESTION OF THE STATE COMING IN TO AN APPEAL AND THEN SETS UP WHETHER THE DEFENSE AT THIS POINT WANTS TO TRY TO REMOVE FANI WILLIS WHO REMAINS. AND SO THAT’S REALLY WHERE WE ARE AT THIS POINT HERE, THAT WE’VE ESSENTIALLY GOT TWO PRESS RELEASES THAT CAME OUT AND TELL US IMPORTANTLY THAT THOSE TWO WERE OFF THE CASE OR THAT NATHAN WADE IS OFF THE THAT SHE REMAINS. >> RIGHT. AND CHRIS, IF I CAN FOLLOW

UP AND ASK YOU QUESTION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE JUDGE IS A JUDGE. MCAFEE’S ORDER WAS SO TOUGH, YOU KNOW, HE SAID THERE WASN’T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO DETERMINE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BUT THAT WAS IN PART BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID WAS THE ODOR OF MENDACITY AROUND TESTIMONY. >> AND WHAT IS THE REACTION OF THE OF THE PUBLIC THEN, THEIR END OF THE BAR? YOU KNOW, THESE THESE LETTERS, VERY FEW SIVE IN THEIR LANGUAGE TOWARDS EACH OTHER. IS THAT OPINION BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC OR IS THIS KIND OF A BLACK EYE ON THE FULTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S

OFFICE? >> SO LIKE I SAID THE ORDER OF MENDACITY IS NOT SOMETHING YOU’VE EVER ONCE SAID ABOUT YOU OR. YOUR CASE AS A PROSECUTOR, IT’S HIGHLY, HIGHLY UNUSUAL. SEE A JUDGE CRITICIZE THE SITTING DISTRICT ATTORNEY. KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS THE ONLY CASE SHE HAS BEFORE. JUDGE MCAFEE, HE CAN HAVE UP TO A THOUSAND CRIMINAL CASES, ALL OF WHICH ARE BROUGHT IN THE NAME OF FANI WILLIS PENDING IN HIS COURTROOM AT ANY GIVEN TIME. SO, YOU KNOW, TO USE KIND OF LANGUAGE TOWARD HER, I THINK WAS DONE THOUGHTFULLY. BUT ALSO TO INDICATE HIS DISPLEASURE WITH

THE WAY THAT THIS CASE HAD BEEN TREATED UP UNTIL THIS POINT. NEVERTHELESS, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE D.A.’S OFFICE, DESPITE HAVING THESE COMMENTS WRITTEN ABOUT THEM, IS ABLE TO CONTINUE . THAT’S SORT OF WHAT YOU’RE GETTING FROM THE BAR, IS THAT THIS WAS NOT A GOOD LOOK ON BEHALF OF FANI WILLIS OR NATHAN WADE. THERE WAS EVEN SOME CONFUSION AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS CASE AS TO WHY NATHAN WADE WAS HANDLING IT. NOW, IT’S SORT OF ALL WRAPPED UP. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, ALL EYES ON GEORGIA AND LET’S

MOVE AHEAD WITH THIS WITH THIS TRIAL. >> YOU’VE WITH FANI WILLIS. I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE WORKED WITH NATHAN WADE. PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU HAVE OR HAVEN’T. BUT DO YOU KNOW. OKAY. YOU HAVE. SO DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IF THEY’RE STILL FRIENDS? >> I DOUBT SO. I’M NOT PERSONAL FRIENDS WITH EITHER ONE OF THEM. NATHAN WADE WAS A LONG TIME DEFENSE ATTORNEY, PARTICULARLY, HAD A NUMBER OF CASES UP COBB COUNTY. AND THAT’S ONE OF THE JURISDICTIONS WHERE I WAS A PROSECUTOR. YOU KNOW, GOOD GUY, VERY NICE, EASY TO WORK WITH, THOUGHTFUL. SO, YOU

KNOW, I’M NOT SURPRISED THAT HE STEPPED DOWN. I’M A LITTLE SURPRISED AT THE SPEED I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, YOU KNOW, MAYBE DO IT MONDAY. YOU KNOW, THAT’S A CREDIT TO HIS CHARACTER THAT HE HE RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS AN IMPEDIMENT TO THIS PROSECUTION, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE JUDGE, AND HE REMOVED HIMSELF IN THAT IMPEDIMENT FROM THE CASE. I WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN SURPRISED EVEN IF THERE WAS NO DISQUALIFICATION OF EITHER ONE OF THEM FOR HIM TO RESIGN JUST TO GET HIM OUT OF THE PICTURE I THINK, AS NATHAN WADE

IS, YOU KNOW, SITTING IN A COURTROOM, PARTICULARLY WITH A GROUP OF JURORS, THOSE JURORS ARE GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP THAT HE HAS WITH BONNIE. SO I THINK MOVING FORWARD, WE WON’T SEE NATHAN WADE, OBVIOUSLY, ANYMORE. BUT I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO SEE MUCH OF FANI WILLIS IN THE COURTROOM. I THINK SHE’S GOING TO TRY AND REMOVE HERSELF FROM THE SITUATION, GET RID OF THAT ODOR OF MENDACITY THAT THE TALKED ABOUT, GET RID OF, YOU KNOW, THE IMAGE OF HER BEING UNPROFESSIONAL ON STAND AND LET THE FACTS OF THIS CASE GOVERN WHETHER

THERE’S GUILT OR INNOCENCE, ANY OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THIS CASE. >> YOU KNOW, IT’S BEEN QUITE SIDESHOW, CHRIS, AND I WONDER IF GOING FORWARD THIS IMPACTS THE CASE AT ALL WHEN YOU HAVE POTENTIAL JURORS. WELL, JURORS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COME AND THEY’LL BE ASKED ABOUT IT AND THE PUBLIC TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE ORIGINAL VERDICT. THIS CASE STARTED OUT LIKE GANGBUSTERS. THIS THIS RICO INDICTMENT, THIS SWEEPING SPEAKING INDICTMENT, OUTLINING STEP BY STEP BY STEP HOW THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE THAT DONALD TRUMP AND ASSOCIATES WERE TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE GEORGIA STATE ELECTION. AND YET

NOW HERE IT IS WITH THIS. YOU KNOW WHAT? WHAT IS IT BETTER TO THREE WEEKS SIDESHOW? HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THE CASE? >> SO I TEACH GEORGIA. I TEACH AT GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW. AND ONE OF THE CLASSES THAT I TEACH THERE IS JURY SELECTION, BECAUSE IN MIND AND I THINK THE MIND OF MOST ATTORNEYS, JURY SELECTION IS GOING BE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ANY TRIAL. YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS GOT TWO PARENTS IN THEIR HOME KNEW THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WENT WHEN, YOU WANTED ONE ANSWER. YOU GET A MOM. WHEN YOU

WANTED ANOTHER ANSWER, YOU’D GET A DAD. AND SO MOST IMPORTANT, PART OF ANY DECISION IS THE DECIDER. AND HERE A CASE LIKE THIS, AS IT IS IN ANY CRIMINAL CASE WHERE THERE’S A JURY TRIAL, IT’S THE JURY THAT IS THE DECIDER OF ULTIMATE GUILT OR NOT GUILT, THIS PARTICULAR CASE. SO WHAT WE’VE GOT HERE IS WITH THIS LANGUAGE THAT’S THIS ORDER. BUT ALSO, I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA AND FULTON COUNTY THAT I’VE HEARD FROM DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, BOTH JUST BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, FINALLY, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, GETTING INVOLVED WITH THIS GUY? SO THE

FARTHER AWAY THEY CAN GET FROM THIS SCANDAL, THE FARTHER DOWN THE THEY GET, WHERE WE’RE BACK, FOCUSING ON THE FACTS, WAS THERE ELECTION INTERFERENCE? WERE THIS ELECTORS FAKE ELECTORS OR WERE THEY ALTERNATE ELECTORS? WERE THERE FALSE STATEMENTS MADE TO VARIOUS OFFICIALS FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA? THAT’S THE THOSE ARE THE FACTS THAT WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE CONCENTRATING ON AT THIS POINT. THAT’S WHERE THE STATE WANTS THE EMPHASIS TO BE. AND SO THEY’RE HOPING THAT THIS SIDESHOW IS OVER. THEY’RE HOPING THAT THERE WILL NOT BE AN INTERLOCUTORY OR AN INTERMEDIATE APPEAL GRANTED BY THE JUDGE

OR EITHER THAT OR IF THE JUDGE GIVES IT TO THE COURT OF APPEALS IS GOING TO TURN IT DOWN. BUT THEY WANT THIS TRAIN BACK ON THE TRACK. >> THEY WANT THAT MOVING TOWARDS A TRIAL DATE, WHICH THEY HOPE TO BE IN AUGUST. OKAY, THEN TWO QUESTIONS, JUST SO I UNDERSTAND THIS ONE, WE WILL FANI WILLIS BE WORKING FROM BEHIND THE SCENES, THEN, CHRIS. >> SHE’LL HAVE OTHER ATTORNEYS OUT FRONT ON THIS. SHE WORKS BEHIND THE SCENES. SO ALL YOU SEE ARE OUR NEW ATTORNEYS BRINGING UP THE SAME EVIDENCE THAT PHONE CALLS, THE TEXT MESSAGES,

THE I MEAN, THERE’S A LOT OF EVIDENCE HERE THAT, OF COURSE, LED TO THIS. AND THAT THAT TRUMP ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED HERE. SO ONCE, IF YOU DON’T SEE HER, YOU HAVE NEW LAWYERS OUT FRONT AND THEN YOU JUST BRING BACK ALL THE EVIDENCE. ISN’T IT SORT OF EASY FOR ALL THE OTHER STUFF TO KIND OF GO AWAY? I MEAN, LOOK AT HOW QUICKLY, WE FORGOT ABOUT THE CASE WHEN WE WERE JUST FOCUSING ON THE AFFAIR. >> SERIOUSLY? I MEAN, THAT’S THE 24 HOUR NEWS CYCLE IS, YOU KNOW, WE’RE ON TO THE NEXT STORY IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS

ONE ENDS. BUT, YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK THAT THE FOCUS AT POINT IS GOING TO BE BACK ON THE CASE. IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS IN THE STATE, GEORGIA, PARTICULARLY IN THE LARGER OFFICES, AREN’T IN THE COURTROOM VERY OFTEN. THEY’RE LARGELY BUREAUCRATS. I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THE BUDGET. THEY SPENT A LOT OF SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH MANAGEMENT. THEY’LL MAKE STRATEGIC DECISIONS ON THE CASES, WHETHER TO BRING THEM. SOMETIMES THEY’LL GET A LITTLE BIT AS WHAT EVIDENCE IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT. BUT TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, ANY CASES BEING BROUGHT IN FULTON COUNTY,

GEORGIA, RIGHT NOW, FANI WILLIS WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN THAT CASE. AND I THINK THAT THIS CASE FALLS BACK INTO THAT. REMEMBER, WE SAW HER AT THE VERY OF THIS CASE WHEN THE INDICTMENT CAME DOWN. SHE GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE. BUT AFTER THAT, WE DIDN’T SEE HER IN MOTIONS UNTIL SHE WAS BROUGHT TO THE STAND TO TESTIFY. AND I THINK YOU SAW WHAT SOME OF THE PROSECUTORS IN THE COURTROOM WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THE COURTROOM VISIBLY SURPRISED THAT SHE WAS THERE. SO TYPICALLY, THE D.A. IS NOT GOING TO BE HANDLING THE CASE. THERE WAS SOME

THOUGHT THAT SHE MIGHT STEP INTO THIS VERY RARE EXCEPTION. THE ROLE THAT D.A. DOESN’T TRY CASES THAT SHE MIGHT COME IN ON THIS ONE, GIVEN THE NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF IT. BUT I THINK NOW SHE’S GOT TO BE REALIZING STRATEGICALLY THAT SHE IS A DISTRACTION IF SHE COMES IN AND TRIES THIS CASE, EVEN THOUGH IS A VERY COMPETENT PROSECUTOR AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, ONE OF THE RARE PROSECUTORS IN THE STATE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH RICO TRIALS. >> SO I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO SEE HER HERE. SO THAT IS A LOSS TO THE BECAUSE OF HER EXPERIENCE.

ON THE OTHER HAND, AS YOU POINT OUT, IF SHE CAME INTO THE COURTROOM, SHE’D BRING A LOT WITH HER. THAT MIGHT NOT BE GREAT FOR THE CASE. LET’S BRING IN OUR SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AARON KATERSKY, WHO IS IN FULTON COUNTY. AND, ERIN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A MAJOR STEP, A STEP THAT THE PROSECUTION HAD TO TAKE GIVEN THE JUDGE’S ORDER. AND I JUST WONDER WHAT YOUR FEELING AND WHAT YOUR ASSESSMENT IS OF THE ON THIS CASE THAT YOU’VE COVERED SO MUCH FOR US. NATHAN WADE SAID IT HIMSELF, TERRY. HE’S RESIGNING, HE SAYS, IN THE INTEREST

OF DEMOCRACY, BUT ALSO TO MOVE THE CASE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. HIS PARTICIPATION AS A SPECIALIST ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SIMPLY BECAME UNTENABLE AFTER THE JUDGE, SCOTT MCAFEE, SAID THAT HIS TESTIMONY HIS PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH FANI WILLIS RAISED THE SPECTER OF IMPROPRIETY. AND SO EITHER SHE AND THE WHOLE TEAM HAD TO GO OR NATHAN WADE HAD TO GO. AND JUST HOURS AFTER THE JUDGE’S DECISION, NATHAN WADE TAKES THE STEP THAT I THINK EVERYBODY KNEW WAS COMING TO RESIGN HIS POSITION. IT DOES SORT OF END AT LEAST THIS VERY STRANGE CHAPTER, A DELVING INTO THE PERSONAL LIVES

OF THE PROSECUTOR HANDLING THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. BUT IT DOES GO TO, I THINK, HOW TAXING THIS CASE AND ALL OF TRUMP’S LEGAL CASES HAVE BEEN ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AS AS IT SEEKS TO BALANCE SPEED AND, FAIRNESS TO THE MOST UNIQUE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT THE COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. SO, ERIN SINCE YOU’RE THERE, HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO GET ANY KIND OF REACTION OR RESPONSE OR SINCE YOU’RE NOT FAR FROM WHERE ALL THE ACTION HAPPENED OR THE ACTIONS, SO TO SPEAK, OR IS IS REALLY IN THE FORM OF PAPER FILINGS AND LETTERS TO THE

COURT. I WAS JUST INSIDE THE COURTHOUSE THERE BEHIND ME, ALL QUIET. IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE JUDGE MCCARTHY IS EVEN HERE. THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE INSIDE THE COURTHOUSE. AND IF ANYONE IS PAYING ATTENTION, THESE FILINGS, YOU’D NEVER TELL BY THE POSTURE OF THAT ARE INSIDE. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF WEDDINGS GOING ON IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE ,AND SO PEOPLE ARE TAKING PICTURES OUT FRONT. BUT THAT’S THAT’S KIND OF IT. AND SO AS LOUD AS THESE FILINGS LAND IN IN IN IN THE WARD, A COUPLE OF PEOPLE KIND OF FOLLOWING THE CASES OF DONALD TRUMP. THERE

ARE YOU KNOW THOSE HERE WHERE IT’S — IT’S BUSINESS AS USUAL NOW NO BUSINESS AS USUAL IN THIS CASE. ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES IS NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. TRYING TO HAPPEN. >> I’M ALREADY SEEING THE SERIES TO THE NETFLIX OR THE SERIES OR OLIVIA, RUBEN’S BACK WITH US. >> SO, OLIVIA, WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LETTERS, WE’VE NOW READ THEM, WE’VE HIGHLIGHTED CERTAIN PARTS OF THEM. WE WERE TALKING THE FACT THAT THERE’S A LOT OF LEGALESE AND PROFESSIONALISM, AND LAYING OUT DETAILS IN THESE LETTERS, BUT THERE IS CLEARLY A LOT OF RESPECT AND AFFECTION. I

GUESS YOU COULD THAT’S DISPLAYED IN THESE LETTERS AS WELL TO, YOU KNOW, FROM FANI WILLIS TO NATHAN WADE AND VICE VERSA. IT’S VERY APPARENT. AND IT’S FASCINATING BECAUSE THE PAST TWO MONTHS BETWEEN THE D.A.’S OFFICE AND THE DEFENDANTS HAVE IT HAS BEEN SUCH A CONTENTIOUS AND KIND OF HEATED DEBATE AND ARGUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN UNDER WAY DOWN THERE. AND IT REALLY COULD HAD THE POTENTIA TO SORT OF RIP THE TEAM APART IN SOME INSTANCES. YOU KNOW, I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LETTER, JUST SORT OF THE PRAISE FANI WILLIS STILL HAS FOR NATHAN WADE.

AND I JUST HAVE IT HERE ON MY PHONE IS EXTREMELY APPARENT. SHE PRAISES HIM, EVEN ACCEPTING THE ROLE, SAYING OTHERS WHO WERE CONSIDERED WERE CONCERNED FOR THEIR SAFETY AND DID NOT TAKE IT. SHE SAID YOU WERE THE ONE WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT THIS ROLE, EVEN THOUGH YOU DID NOT SEEK IT. AND SHE SAID, I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER AND WILL REMIND EVERYONE THAT YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STEP FORWARD AND TAKE THIS INVESTIGATION. AND SHE ALSO HINTS, WHICH IS THAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM BONNIE WELLS A LOT LATELY, IS THE WAY THAT, YOU KNOW,

ANY PROSECUTOR WHO HAS TAKEN ON DONALD TRUMP HAS FACED THREATS. IT HAS TURNED THEIR LIFE UPSIDE DOWN. FANI WILLIS TESTIFIED THE STAND ABOUT ESSENTIALLY LIVING A LIFE OF ISOLATION BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THIS CASE HAS CHANGED HER LIFE. SO SHE TRIED CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN THIS LETTER, WHICH IS QUITE POWERFUL ,POINTS TO TO SORT OF DISPLAY WHAT A PROSECUTOR OF PROSECUTING DONALD TRUMP, THE LIFE THAT THEY LIVE. SO VERY APPARENT AND SORT OF SOMEWHAT OF AN EMOTIONAL LETTER FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERE. YES, SORRY, GO AHEAD. YOU CAN CERTAINLY FEEL THAT EMOTION COMING RIGHT

OFF RIGHT OFF THE PAGE IN A WAY THAT JOHN SANTUCCI. I WANT TO BRING IN OUR OUR SENIOR REPORTER ON EDITOR, WHATEVER TITLE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING? I GUESS IN MY HEAD, I CAN NEVER KEEP IT IN MY HEAD. >> DO IT ALL. SO, YOU KNOW, ALL THINGS. TRUMP YOU’RE VERY CLOSE TO THE STORY HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS. WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD WHAT ARE HEARING ABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF A TRUMP APPEAL OF THE RULING? >> YEAH, TERRY, IT’S FUNNY. SO JUST A COUPLE OF MOMENTS AGO, I SPOKE TO ONE OF THE ATTORNEYS INVOLVED IN THE

CASE THAT AN ATTORNEY FOR DONALD TRUMP. BUT ATTORNEY INVOLVED. AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE VERY ACTIVELY DISCUSSING AMONGST ALL OF THE DEFENDANTS. BECAUSE REMEMBER, TERRY, THOUGH ,IS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE TRUMP CASE, ONE OF THE TRUMP CASES THIS, ONE IS DIFFERENT, RIGHT? IT’S NOT JUST DONALD TRUMP. IT’S TRUMP PLUS MANY OTHER DEFENDANTS. AND THIS MOTION TO DISQUALIFY THE D.A. ORIGINALLY WAS FILED. ANOTHER CODEFENDANT THAT DONALD TRUMP AND OTHERS, ALONG WITH RUDY GIULIANI, JOINED ON, TOO. SO WHAT I’M TOLD IS THAT AN APPEAL IS BEING VERY SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED AMONGST ALL OF THE ATTORNEYS ON

THIS. AND REALLY THAT SHOULDN’T BE TOO SURPRISING. RIGHT? FOR TWO REASONS. ONE, IT’S DONALD TRUMP. IF HE DOESN’T LIKE SOMETHING, HE’S GOING TO APPEAL IT. BUT TO LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENING IN THE OTHER CASES INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP. AND LET’S FOR A SECOND GO TO YOUR CITY AND WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE WASHINGTON D.C. SPECIAL COUNSEL CASE, THAT BEING THE EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION BROUGHT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH. DONALD TRUMP’S TEAM HAS SUCCESSFULLY APPEALED THAT CASE TWICE NOW WAITING FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN LATE NEXT MONTH. SO NOW YOU HAVE

TO IMAGINE THAT IS THE GOAL TO DO THIS WITH THE GEORGIA CASE. ALL RIGHT. JOHN SANTUCCI, THANKS VERY MUCH. >> THANKS TO ALL. WE WILL BE BACK WITH MORE RIGHT AFTER THIS. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING GETS UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING

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AMERICA? YOU’RE PART OF AN OPERATION. COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE’RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. SIMPLY REACT RECEIVED A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG CARRIER HOW IMPORTANT IT PAY THE USA WORK. HI APPRECIATES. THANK ISMAIL DAVID, I’M DAVID. DO YOU DO IT EVERY NIGHT ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID. HERE IS AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. AND GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. I’M TERRY MORAN. AND OUR TOP STORY AT THIS HOUR, BREAKING NEWS. >> GEORGIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE HAS JUST RESIGNED FROM DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA

ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL. THIS COMING AFTER THE JUDGE’S RULING EARLIER TODAY, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FINDING WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THIS CASE. >> SO WADE RELEASED A LETTER ADDRESSED TO WILLIS SAYING BECAUSE THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE NORTH STAR OF OUR EFFORTS IN THE PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE ATTEMPTED TO OVERTHROW THE RESULTS OF GEORGIA’S 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, HE IS STEPPING DOWN EFFECTIVE. >> SO LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN, EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AARON KATERSKY AND A

FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR, AND OUR ABC CONTRIBUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS. SO, OLIVIA, FIRST, CATCH US UP TO SPEED HERE ON THIS WHIRLWIND OF A DAY. WHAT’S THE MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT? >> WELL, I WOULD SAY IT GOES BACK TO MONTHS AGO, TERRY, WHEN THIS ALL STARTED UNFOLDING AND THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO ESSENTIALLY TAKE OUT THE DEA AND HER SPECIAL PROSECUTOR OVER HAVING THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU REFERENCED. SO TODAY, AFTER MULTIPLE EVIDENTIARY, THE JUDGE FINALLY CAME OUT WITH HIS RULING SAYING THAT HE WOULD NOT KICK THE ENTIRE OFFICE OFF OF THE CASE. BUT IN OF AN UNCONVENTIONAL RULING

THAT THE DEA HAS A CHOICE. THERE IS NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE. BUT THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. SO EITHER SHE CAN TAKE HER OFFICE OFF OF THE CASE OR SHE CAN TAKE NATHAN WADE OFF OF THE CASE. AND I THINK FOR MANY PEOPLE, AS WE’VE BEEN DISCUSSING HERE, TODAY, WAS PROBABLY AN EASY DECISION THAT NATHAN WADE HAD TO GO. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE JUST SAW FROM THE OFFICE. A QUICK RESIGNATION FROM NATHAN WADE, A QUICK ACCEPTANCE OF THE RESIGNATION FROM BONNIE WILLIS. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THE CASE

ESSENTIALLY MOVES FORWARD IMMEDIATELY. NOW, OF COURSE, THERE’S ALWAYS THE QUESTION OF, WILL THE DEFENDANTS APPEAL? WILL DONALD TRUMP OF THE APPEAL, CAN THEY GET A BUT BECAUSE THIS IS THE ROUTE THAT FANI WILLIS TAKEN, THERE WILL BE NO OUTSIDE GROUP COMING IN LOOKING AT THE CASE, PICKING A NEW PROSECUTOR TO TAKE OVER. NO HER OFFICE CARRIES ON JUST WITHOUT NATHAN WADE. SO IT IS A WIN FOR THEM PRETTY MUCH TODAY, A VERY DIFFICULT TWO MONTHS WHICH COULD HAVE GONE THE OTHER WAY. IF YOU LISTEN TO SOME LEGAL EXPERTS, TERRY. OF COURSE. SO, CHRIS, HOW DOES

THIS MOVE FORWARD? I KNOW WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT SINCE THE NEWS BROKE, BUT NOW AT THE TOP OF THE HALF HOUR HERE WHERE FOLKS ARE JUST JOINING IN AND LEARNING THAT FANI WILLIS IS ON THE CASE, NATHAN WADE IS OUT VISUALLY. HOW WILL THIS LOOK GOING FORWARD? WHO WILL WE SEE WHEN WE START TO SEE THE EVIDENCE RE INTRODUCED NOW THAT THIS SORT OF SIDESHOW HAS BEEN THE CURTAIN IS CLOSED ON THIS, ON THE SIDESHOW, YEAH. IT’S LARGELY BEEN PUT TO BED. THERE’S ONE KIND OF FINAL PIECE HERE, AND THAT’S THE APPEAL I THINK

JOHN SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER, THAT THE TRUMP TEAM AND HIS OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS, COUNSEL ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER THEY WANT TO APPEAL THIS DECISION OR NOT. I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO MAKE THAT DECISION IF THAT HAPPENS, IF THEY DECIDE TO APPEAL IT, THEN IT GOES TO JOE, BACK TO JUDGE MCCARTHY. AND THAT’S GOT TO BE A DECISION THAT’S MADE WITHIN THE NEXT TEN DAYS. THERE’S THE OLD SAYING, IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO, YOU STILL HAVE MADE A CHOICE WITH REGARD TO A JUDGE. IF HE CHOOSES NOT TO RESPOND AT ALL TO THESE MOTIONS

FOR AND A LOCATOR APPEAL, THAT MEANS THAT HE’S ESSENTIALLY DENIED THE APPEAL. SO IF WE DON’T HEAR ANYTHING BY THE END OF THE DAY ON MARCH 25TH, THEN WE KNOW THAT IN INTERLOCUTORY IS NOT COMING AND THAT WE TRULY ARE HEADED DOWN THOSE TRACKS. AS FAR AS WHAT THE CASE LOOKS LIKE FROM HERE, NATHAN, WAIT IS OUT. I SUSPECT FANI WILLIS WILL MOVE TO THE BACKGROUND AS SHE WAS BEFORE SHE SHE APPEARS PERIODICALLY IN THE CASE. YOU’LL SEE HER COME IN FOR THE OCCASIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE SHE DID FOR THE INDICTMENT. AND THEN I THINK WE

SAW THAT KIND OF PSEUDO PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE CHURCH. AND THEN AGAIN WE SAW HER TESTIFY. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE REALLY HAVEN’T SEEN HER IN MOTIONS. SO MAYBE MAKING THE CAMEO PERIOD, THAT APPEARANCE, BUT SHE’S NOT GOING TO BE THERE . NOW THAT ACTUALLY IS A LITTLE BIT OF A BLOW TO THE PROSECUTION TEAM BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY WILL REMEMBER BONNIE WILLIS IS ONE OF THE FEW PROSECUTORS IN THE UNITED WITH RICO EXPERIENCE. IT’S A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED SKILL, VERY FEW ATTORNEYS HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE, BUT SHE IS ONE OF THEM. SO LOSING ABILITY TO HAVE

HER AT THE TABLE, OR AT LEAST THEY SHOULD KEEP HER AWAY FROM THE TABLE, GET RID OF THE STIGMA THAT’S ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RELATIONSHIP COULD BE A BLOW TO THE. NEVERTHELESS, THEY’RE CELEBRATING TONIGHT. THEY GET TO HEAD FORWARD. THEY’VE GOT TEN DAYS BEFORE THE FINAL. I GUESS KIND OF DECISION IS MADE OR NOT MADE. AND THEN AT THAT POINT, THEY CAN GET THE TRAIN BACK ON THE TRACKS AND. >> WE MOVE FORWARD. WHAT THEY’RE HOPING FOR IS AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE. MM-HMM. AND, JOHN, WHAT ARE WE HEARING FROM TRUMP’S CAMP? >> LISTEN, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY,

THEY ISSUED A STATEMENT EARLIER THIS MORNING WHERE THEY SAID THAT THEY RESPECTED THE DECISION AND THEY WERE LOOKING AT OPTIONS. I CAN TELL YOU FROM JUST SPEAKING TO ONE OF THE OTHER ATTORNEYS INVOLVED IN THIS CASE, NOT ATTORNEY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, BUT THEY’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, TERRY, AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT APPEAL OPTIONS. AND AGAIN, THIS SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISING YOU KNOW, I HAD ONE SOURCE CLOSE TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHEN THIS TRIAL FIRST BEGAN, WHEN HE ARRIVED, THE INDICTMENT. AND I THINK, A, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS? I MEAN,

THIS IS A REALLY COMPLICATED CASE. THIS IS RICO, THIS IS DIFFERENT. AND THEY SAID WE’RE GOING TO FIND EVERY SHINY OBJECT POSSIBLE AND THROW IT ON TO THE ROAD, AS OLIVIA JUST NOTED WITH YOU AND KYRA, THAT EXACTLY WHAT THIS SIDESHOW WAS FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS. THIS WAS A HUGE, SHINY OBJECT. IT IS DERAILED THE CASE FOR THE LAST LITTLE BIT. SO NOW, IT’S A COUPLE OF THINGS. GETTING THIS TRAIN BACK ON THE TRACKS IS THE GOAL IDEA. BUT THE GOAL FOR TEAM TRUMP AND THE REMAINING 14 DEFENDANTS IS THROW MORE SHINY OBJECTS, GET

IT DELAYED? AND THAT IS THE GAME WITH APPEALS. AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I BELIEVE TEAM TRUMP AND THE OTHERS WILL DO IN THIS CASE. TERRY. SO ERIN, LET’S TALK ABOUT HOW FUNNY IS STAYING ON THE CASE. >> AND NATHAN, WAIT OUT. SO HOW DO YOU SEE THINGS MOVING FORWARD HERE? NATHAN WADE SAID HE WAS RESIGNING SO THE CASE COULD FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. HE KNEW, KYRA, THAT HIS PARTICIPATION HAD BECOME UNTENABLE AFTER THE JUDGE RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY DUE TO RELATIONSHIP THAT HE HAD WITH FANI WILLIS, THE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, AND

ALSO DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE JUDGE SENSED AN ODOR OF MENDACITY ABOUT THE TESTIMONY THAT WADE AND WILLIS GAVE ABOUT THE TIMING OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. THE DEFENSE HAD CLAIMED THAT FANI WILLIS HIRED NATHAN WADE, HER BOYFRIEND, THEY CLAIMED, SO THAT HE COULD AFFORD TO TAKE ON NICER VACATIONS. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT FANI WILLIS VEHEMENTLY. SHE SAID SHE DOESN’T NEED A MAN FOR ANYTHING. AND NATHAN WADE SAID THAT ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT FANI WILLIS IS THAT SHE IS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT, THAT SHE WOULD CARRY HER OWN WEIGHT. BUT THE JUDGE SAID HE COULDN’T HELP BUT SENSE

SOME UNTRUTHFULNESS AND THE RECORD COULD NEVER REALLY ESTABLISH THE QUESTION OF WHEN THAT RELATIONSHIP BEGAN. AND HE ALSO TOOK WILLIS TO TASK FOR HER SPEECH AT A AT A HISTORICALLY BLACK CHURCH WHICH IN WHICH SHE SUGGESTED THAT SOME OF HER CRITICS MAY BE RACIALLY MOTIVATED. THE JUDGE SAID THAT MAY NOT HAVE CROSSED THE LINE, BUT — BUT IT WAS LEGALLY IMPROPER. AND SO EVEN THOUGH THE CASE IS GOING TO MOVE FORWARD AND FANI WILLIS IS GOING TO BE A PART OF IT THIS IS AN UNFLATTERING AND DEEPLY RULING, I THINK, FOR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE.

ABSOLUTELY. IT MAY STILL, AS JOHN WAS, JUST TALKING ABOUT, OFFER GROUNDS FOR APPEAL. IF THAT APPEAL WOULD BE ALLOWED. >> SO, OLIVIA, LET ME GO BACK TO YOU. IS THIS THIS STORY, THIS SAGA HAS DOMINATED THIS CASE. THERE IS A TRIAL TO BE HAD FOR 19 DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT STATES. >> WHAT’S THE SCHEDULE FOR THAT? WELL I THINK WITH THIS DISQUALIFICATION ISSUE PUT TO UNDER THE TABLE FOR NOW, BARRING ANY SORT OF APPEAL EFFORTS, WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IS I THINK THE D.A. IS GOING TO GET HER EYES BACK ON THE BALL IN

TERMS OF THE ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CASE, NOT THE DISQUALIFICATION ISSUES, THOUGH, AS WE KEEP SAYING, SHE HAS ASKED FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE. AND WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE QUESTION HERE IS HOW MUCH TIME DID THEY EAT UP DEALING WITH THIS TWO MONTH DISQUALIFICATION EFFORT? I THINK WHAT’S SUPER IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER IS THAT OTHER BUSINESS OF, THE CASE WAS STILL MOVING FORWARD DURING THIS PERIOD, NOT AS QUICKLY AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN, BUT IT CERTAINLY WAS MOVING. I MEAN, WE GOT A RULING FROM THE JUDGE JUST DAYS AGO STRIKING SIX OF THE COUNTS

BASED ON MOTIONS FILED MONTHS AGO BY SOME OF THE DEFENDANTS. SO CLEARLY, BUSINESS WAS MOVING FORWARD. IT’S JUST GOING TO BE A QUESTION OF HOW MUCH EXACTLY DID THEY GET SET BACK IF THE JUDGE EVEN THOUGHT THAT AUGUST WAS REALISTIC ANYWAY. REMEMBER, HE HAS NOT YET WEIGHED IN ON WHEN A POSSIBLE TRIAL MIGHT BE. SO ALL EYES ARE BACK AGAIN ON JUDGE SCOTT MACCABEE, WHO IS GOING TO HAVE TO SET A TRIAL DATE AT POINT IN THIS CASE. AND WE REALLY HAVE NO INDICATION YET WHEN IS THINKING . AND THEN, CHRIS, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

FOR PROSPECTIVE JURORS? YES, SIR, HERE. THAT’S A GOOD POINT. I MEAN, BECAUSE AT THE END OF ALL OF THIS IS THERE’S GOING TO BE A TRIAL. IT’S GOING TO BE A JURY TRIAL. AND SO IN ANY DECISION, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THAT DECISION IS WHO’S THE DECISION. AND SO THEY’VE GOT TO GET, YOU KNOW, THE JURORS, THIS CASE THAT ARE IMPARTIAL, THAT THAT AREN’T GOING TO HAVE SOME SORT OF CLOUDED VIEW OF THE CASE FROM ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER. AS JOHN MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THE SHINY OBJECTS IN THE RED WHERE

YOUR JURORS ARE SEEING THE SHINY OBJECTS IN THE ROAD AS WELL AND GETTING DISTRACTED BY THEM. THE GOAL IS, THOUGH, TO POINT NATHAN, TO POINT FANI WILLIS INTO THE BACKGROUND SO THAT THOSE SHINY OBJECTS THAT JOHN IS TALKING ABOUT THAT MIGHT DISTRACT YOUR JURORS BECOME LESS SHINY, AND THEN YOU CAN GET A JURY PUT INTO PLACE AND MOVE FORWARD. I MEAN, DISTRACTING A JURY WITH THESE SALACIOUS ALLEGATIONS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN NATHAN LANE AND BONNIE FANI WILLIS ARE JUST YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU SAID IT WORK HERE JUST KIND OF CREEPY. AND SO GETTING THE JURY’S

ATTENTION ON THOSE CREEPY ALLEGATIONS DID A LOT OF GOOD FOR THE DEFENSE AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THAT THOSE MEMORIES OF THOSE ALLEGATIONS GOING TO SLIP BACK INTO THE VAST MEMORY BAGS OF OUR. AND HOPEFULLY THEY’LL FORGET ABOUT THEM SO WE CAN GET A JURY IMPANELED AND MOVE CASE FORWARD AND LET ME GO. >> THANK YOU, CHRIS. LET ME GO TO JOHN SANTUCCI ON THE LENGTH OF A TRIAL. LOOK, A LOT OF THE COURTS WANT TO GET A TRUMP TRIAL DONE TO VERDICT AND WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT, IF THERE’S CONVICTION SENTENCE BY ELECTION DAY, I’M NOT SURE

THAT’S THE BUSINESS OF THE COURTS TO FOLLOW THE POLITICAL CALENDAR, BUT IT’S CLEARLY PART OF THE EQUATION. SO HOW LONG DOES A TRIAL IN THIS CASE TAKE? >> WELL, LISTEN, WE DON’T EVEN HAVE TO SPECULATE. LET’S LOOK AT A CURRENT RICO CASE THAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, THE YSL GANG, WHICH ALSO IS BEING PROSECUTED BY D.A. FANI WILLIS D.A.’S OFFICE. IT TOOK SEVERAL, I THINK. CHRIS TIMMONS, YOU COULD FACT CHECK ME IN REAL TIME. I ABOUT SEVEN MONTHS TO SEE A JURY IN THAT CASE. AND OBVIOUSLY OF THE THINGS THAT’S

GOING TO BE A HUGE ISSUE WITH SEEING A JURY THAT ONE QUESTION EVERYONE’S GOING TO BE ASKED, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DEFENDANT’S YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, JEAN, WHO ON THIS PLANET IS GOING TO SAY. YEAH, NEVER HEARD OF THEM. I MEAN, THAT REALLY IS GOING TO COMPLETE ALL OF THIS TAKE THAT IS BUCKET ONE. BUT THEN THINK ABOUT THE COLLISION COURSE, TERRY AND KYRA, OF ALL OF THE CASES. LET’S RUN UP HERE TO NEW YORK FOR 2 SECONDS. YOU CAN TAKE THE RIDE WITH ME. THIS DELAY, IT’S BEING PROPOSED BY THE

PROSECUTORS, LET’S SAY THAT HAPPENS. RIGHT? SO WE’VE GOT A MARCH 25TH DATE THEN, PLUS 30, GET YOU TO APRIL 25TH. THE PROBLEM, THIS JUDGE IN THE CASE ALSO HAS A CASE IN MAY IN STEVE BANNON’S CASE. >> SO THEN YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU DO THAT. IT’S SO MANY FASCINATING PUZZLE PIECES AND THE DOMINO EFFECT OF ONE CASE DELAYED OVER THE OTHER. IT’S REALLY A QUESTION OF WHICH ONE, IF ANY, ONE GETS IN A COURTROOM. >> CHRIS, YOU’VE TRIED A LOT OF RICO CASES. IS THIS A RICO CASE THAT YOU’D TO JUMP IN

ON? >> THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION. YOU’RE NOT THE FIRST PERSON WHO’S ASKED ME THAT. A FEW PEOPLE ASK ME WHEN I’M COMING IN FOR NATHAN WAY. AND I TOLD THEM I’M HAVING WAY TOO MUCH FUN WORKING WITH ABC NEWS. SO I’M NOT COMING IN TO TRY THIS CASE ANYTIME SOON. BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I TRY. I’VE TRIED MORE RICO CASES PROBABLY THAN ANYBODY ELSE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. THEY’RE COMPLICATED. THEY TAKE A LONG TIME TO TRY. IT’S A MARATHON RATHER THAN A SPRINT. I MEAN, MOST MURDER CASES TAKE TWO, THREE, FOUR DAYS TO

TRY. A RICO CASE C TAKE MONTHS IN THE STATES TALKING THAT RIGHT NOW THAT THEY’RE SAYING THINKING THAT EVEN THEIR SIDE OF THE CASE IS GOING TO BE FOUR MONTHS PLUS AS JOHN MENTIONED BEFORE YOU’VE GOT JURY SELECTION BEFORE THAT. AND AS JOHN MENTIONED, YSL TOOK A LONG TIME TO GET A JURY IN PLACE AND I THINK THEY TOOK THEM ALMOST A YEAR HERE. I THINK JUDGE IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENT. I THINK YOU SAW THAT SHOT CLOCK THAT HE HAD UP DURING THE ARGUMENTS, THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS FOR THIS PARTICULAR THAT

HE JUST ISSUED THE ORDER ON. HE INDICATED TO ME WHEN WAS TALKING WITH HIM AT A PARTY THAT HE’S GOING TO PUT THOSE SHOT CLOCKS IN EACH SIDE IS GOING TO HAVE AN HOUR PER JUROR. AND THAT’S ABOUT IT. AND THE OTHER THING YOU SHOULD KEEP IN MIND WITH REGARD TO JURY SELECTION, IT’S NOT WHETHER THEY’VE HEARD THE CASE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE HAS HEARD ABOUT THE CASE AT THIS POINT. BUT THE QUESTION IS, CAN THEY PUT WHAT THEY’VE HEARD ABOUT THIS CASE OUT OF THEIR MINDS AND JUST DECIDE THIS CASE BASED ON THE FACTS AS

THEY COME FROM THE WITNESS STAND AND THE LAW AS IT COMES FROM THE JUDGE? AND SO IT’S GOING TO BE TRICKY TO GET JURORS BECAUSE EVERYBODY HAS A PRETTY FIXED OPINION ON THIS CASE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. BUT THERE ARE FOLKS OUT THERE THAT CAN DO IT? AND SO IT’S JUST A MATTER OF FINDING THEM INTO PLACE AND THEN GETTING GOING ON AT LEAST THE FOUR MONTHS OF THE STATE’S CASE, WHICH, AS JOHN MENTIONED, COULD TAKE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT TIME TO EVEN GET STARTED. >> ALL RIGHT, OLIVIA, ERIN, JOHN, CHRIS, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

>> WELL, AS YOU KNOW, THE NEWS NEVER STOPS AND IT IS THE BREAKING NEWS. WE’VE GOT A LOT MORE ON THE OTHER SIDE. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE QUESTION OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, AT REFUGEE CENTERS, IN OPERATIONS, RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINES FROM THE CAPITAL, DESTRUCTIVE CAT 4 STORM I FIND IS IN THE BULL’S EYE. LET’S GET ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO EUROPE FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THE

GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING. MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK, BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED SUNDAY MORNING POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE NORTH 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 PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND. SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE THAT’S UP TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A

DANGEROUS STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. >> WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN THAT AS BILLIONAIRE. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? GLAD YOU’RE STREAMING WITH US. WHILE GUNSHOTS SENT TERRIFIED YORK CITY SUBWAY RIDERS SCRAMBLING AFTER A DISTURBING FIGHT WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. IT ALL PLAYED OUT DURING YESTERDAY’S RUSH HOUR ON A MOVING TRAIN AND CROWDED DOWNTOWN

BROOKLYN STATION. POLICE SAY ONE MAN PROVOKED ANOTHER RIDER. A SCUFFLE HAPPENED AND THEN IT ENDED WITH THE MAN BEING SHOT BY HIS OWN GUN. HE’S NOW IN CRITICAL CONDITION. SHOOTING HAPPENED JUST A WEEK AFTER THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR DEPLOYED NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS ON THE SUBWAY SYSTEM TO HELP COMBAT THE SPIKE IN CRIME. OUR MORGAN NORWOOD HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY FOR US. MORGAN, WHAT MORE DO WE KNOW? YEAH, WE’LL HEAR THE NEW YORK POLICE CHIEF SPEAKING OUT TODAY AND BASICALLY RUNNING DOWN HOW THIS TERRIFYING ORDEAL UNFOLDED, BASICALLY SAYING THAT A MAN ON THE TRAIN WITHOUT

PAYING HIS FARE AND FOR SOME REASON ATTACKED ANOTHER MAN, WHICH ENDED IN THAT FIGHT THAT WE SAW PASSENGERS TRYING TO BREAK THAT FIGHT UP. THINGS, THOUGH, TAKING A TURN AT ONE POINT WHEN AUTHORITIES SAY THE ATTACKER PULLED OUT A GUN, HE WAS THEN DISARMED, THEN SHOT WITH HIS OWN WEAPON. THE CHIEF SAYING DESPITE THE SITUATION, MILLION PEOPLE GOT ON THE TRAIN, GOT TO THEIR DESTINATION SAFELY THROUGHOUT THAT TRANSIT SYSTEM. BUT HE ALSO LOCKED IN ON FARE EVASION, WHICH HE SAYS HAPPENS PRETTY OFTEN, WHICH IS OFTEN THE ROOT OF SUBWAY CRIME. MEANWHILE, WE ARE LEARNING MORE

ABOUT THIS VICTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION. AS YOU MENTIONED, FOUR TIMES. POLICE SAY THAT HE WAS ARMED WITH A KNIFE, A GUN. BUT WE’RE ALSO LEARNING THAT NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST THE 32 YEAR OLD GUNMAN AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT HE ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION. >> SO THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AS THE NEW YORK SUBWAY SEEN THIS SPIKE IN CRIME. WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR WEEKS NOW. SO WHAT’S MTA DOING TO ENHANCE SAFETY? THEY’RE IN THE SYSTEM EVEN AS WE WATCH UNFOLD. I THOUGHT THEY WERE BEEFING UP SECURITY AND SENDING IN

NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS. YEAH. HERE I THINK YOU HAVE THE QUESTION THAT SO MANY NEW YORKERS HAVE THIS AFTERNOON. THE MTA AND NYPD ARE FACING TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY IN THE WAKE OF THIS SITUATION. BY THE WAY, IT COMES JUST AFTER THE GOVERNOR ORDERED THE NATIONAL GUARD TO PATROL THE SUBWAY SYSTEM. AND AMID A 13% SPIKE IN SUBWAY CRIME JUST THIS YEAR ALONE. MEANWHILE, THE MTA, MTA SAYS THAT THEY ARE TAKING STEPS TO IMPROVE SECURITY. THAT INCLUDES PUTTING UP MORE CAMERAS INSIDE THE TRAINS AND DEPLOYING TRAINED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, BUT THEN ALSO METAL DETECTORS. HERE’S WHAT

THEY HAD TO SAY EARLIER TODAY. >> TO BE IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE WITH THAT KIND OF VIOLENCE GOING ON IS THE MOST UNSETTLING THING THAT CAN HAPPEN. THEY ALSO TOLD ME THAT THE ONE THING THAT MAKES THEM FEEL SAFER IN GENERAL IS TO HAVE UNIFORMED OFFICERS CONSTANTLY. THE SYSTEM, THE CAMERAS ARE ACTUALLY BEING INSTALLED AS WE SPEAK. THAT WAS AN INITIATIVE THE GOVERNOR PUSHED OUT AND SHE ACTUALLY SQUEEZED THE TIMETABLE DOWN. GOING TO BE DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR. WE’VE ALREADY HAD CASES WHERE WE APPREHENDED CRIMINALS WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH ATTACKS BECAUSE WE

HAVE CAMERAS INSIDE THE TRAINS EVERY SO UNIFORMED OFFICERS AND CAMERAS. BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE LINGERING QUESTION THAT, YOU KNOW, MANY NEW YORKERS HERE WANT TO KNOW IS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD UNIFORM OFFICERS IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION. THEY RESPONDED FAIRLY QUICKLY, ACCORDING TO THE NYPD. BUT THE BIG QUESTION NOW IS, WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL THIS MAKE? OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS BEEN DEPLOYED IN THIS, BUT A LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND, OF COURSE, INVESTIGATION TO THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION HERE CONTINUES. >> ALL MORGAN, THANKS. >> WE’LL FOLLOW IT. HEADING TO

MIAMI BEACH NOW, WHERE IT’S BRACING FOR A PRETTY CHAOTIC SPRING BREAK ON ITS WAY, COLLIDING WITH SAINT PATRICK’S. POLICE ALREADY DEPLOYING EXTRA OFFICERS AND SETTING UP DUI CHECKPOINTS. >> THE CITY. ANDREW DYMBURT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING IT. >> MIAMI BEACH PUT TO THE TEST THIS WEEKEND IS. YES. IT’S HISTORICALLY BEEN THAT OUR TOUGHEST WEEKEND AFTER YEARS OF SPRING BREAKERS WREAKING HAVOC ON THIS SMALL ISLAND, OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING TO CURB THE CHAOS WITH ARGUABLY THE TOUGHEST RESTRICTIONS YET, INCLUDING DUI CHECKPOINTS. A $100 PARKING BAG, $500 TOWING FEES, AND NOW ALL PARKING GARAGES WILL BE CLOSED TO VISITORS.

MORE THAN A DOZEN DRONES WILL BE PATROLLING OVERHEAD 140 PLUS STATE TROOPERS AND EVEN THE COAST GUARD DEPLOYING TO HELP LOCAL POLICE. MIAMI BEACH COMMISSIONER DAVID SUAREZ SAYS THIS SEASON IS DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR. THERE WAS ALWAYS A SHOOTING AND THERE WAS ALWAYS A DEATH. AND IT’S SAD AND THAT’S THAT’S NOT MIAMI BEACH. WE NEED TO TALK. IT STARTED WITH THE NOW VIRAL AD WITH MORE THAN 200 MILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING UNTIL THEN. WE’RE UP WITH YOU. LEADERS SAY THE CRACKDOWN IS WORKING. THERE WERE NEARLY 600 SPRING BREAK RELATED ARRESTS LAST YEAR AND TWO DEATHS COMPARED

TO ROUGHLY 200 ARRESTS AND ZERO FATALITIES THIS YEAR. WE NEEDED TO END SPRING BREAK. WE’LL BRING IT LAW AND ORDER. >> BUT SOME VACATIONERS SAY IT’S ALL A BIT MUCH OVERWHELMING. THE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE, THIS TALK ABOUT RAIN. >> AND WITH MIAMI BEACH CRACKING IN NEARBY FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, ONLY ABOUT 30 MINUTES NORTH OF HERE. THEY’RE MASSIVE CROWDS, BUT LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES THERE TELL ME THEY, TOO, HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL KYRA. ALL RIGHT, ANDREW, THANK YOU. >> AND COMING UP. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIRCIALLR PRESIDENT. CAN YOU GUESS WHO VOTING FOR FIRST THING IN THE MORNING? THERE’S

A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER WARNING THAT’S OFF TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. >> WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. THAT IS BILLIONAIRES. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT 20? SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC. >> THIS IS THE START HERE. TO BE IN

THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE. SOME OTHER TOP HEADLINES WE’RE FOLLOWING FOR YOU THIS HOUR AT ABC NEWS LIVE AS BEGINS IN RUSSIA. SO DO THE PROTESTS AS POLLS

HAVE PUTIN POISED TO WIN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, VLADIMIR PUTIN SUBMITTING ONLINE BALLOT FROM HIS OFFICE IN IRAN IS ALMOST CERTAIN TO TAKE THE ELECTION NOT ONLY SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT’S PUTIN, BUT ALSO FOR THE UNUSUAL PROTESTS IN A NATION CHALLENGED BY PUTIN’S TWO YEAR WAR IN UKRAINE AND HARSH POLITICAL REPRESSIONS . TALK ABOUT A MAC ATTACK, A SYSTEM FAILURE, FAILURE IMPACTING WORLDWIDE, LEADING TO COMPLAINTS FROM CUSTOMERS AND WHAT THE FAST FOOD GIANT CALLED A TECHNOLOGY OUTAGE. MCDONALD’S ADDING IT WASN’T A CYBERSECURITY ATTACK BUT DIDN’T PROVIDE ANY OTHER DETAILS. AND OFFSEASON SHOCKER.

L.A. RAMS ALL-PRO RUSHER AARON DONALD SAYS HE’S RETIRING FROM THE NFL. THE FUTURE HALL OF FAME DEFENSIVE LINEMAN POSTING THAT HE’S HANGING UP THE HELMET AFTER TEN YEARS WITH THE TEAM, INCLUDING A SUPER BOWL WIN BACK IN 2022. WELL, SUNDAY SELECTION ONLY TWO DAYS AWAY AND WELL, THIS TIME MONDAY WE’RE GOING TO FINALLY KNOW WHO MADE THE BRACKET AND WHO WILL GRACE THE COURTS. THE 2024 NCAA TOURNEY MARCH MADNESS ARE MORGAN. >> NORWOOD HAS A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME. NC STATE WINS IT OVER DUKE HERE IN THE QUARTER FINALS THEY KNOCKED OFF THE NUMBER

TWO SEED THAT’S GOOD BALL MAGIC THAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MARCH AS COLLEGE TEAMS VIE FOR TICKETS. THE BIG DANCE WITH SELECTION SUNDAY JUST TWO DAYS AWAY. A DO OR DIE BATTLE IN A STUNNING UPSET 10TH SEED NC STATE KNOCKING OFF SECOND SEED DUKE IN SCC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINALS KEEPING THEIR MARCH MADNESS HOPES ALIVE. >> CARTER REALLY HAS TO WORK DEFENSIVELY TO LOCK IN A DAY OF UPSETS. DEVIN CARTER LEADING THE SEVENTH SEEDED PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS TO A STUNNING UPSET OVER SECOND SEED CREIGHTON TO REACH THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BIG EAST TOURNAMENT SAINT BONAVENTURE AS THE NUMBER

SEVEN SEED MOVES INTO THE SEMIFINAL ROUND. >> THE TEAMS BATTLING IT OUT FOR A SPOT ON SELECTION SUNDAY WHEN BOTH THE MEN AND WOMEN WILL FIND OUT WHO THEY’LL BE UP AGAINST FOR THE MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT WITH THE THREE THREE COME IN ALL EYES ARE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S CAITLIN CLARK AFTER LOSING TO LSU AND ANGEL REESE IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP WHICH DREW 9.9 MILLION VIEWERS. THE NCAA SCORING LEADER TELLING ROBIN ROBERTS HOW SHE’S GEARING UP FOR THIS TIME AROUND. >> SO HOW DO IN PRAYER FOR YOUR FINAL MARCH MADNESS? MARCH MADNESS, I THINK

IN MY OPINION IS THE BEST POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT ALL SPORTS AND I’VE BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE AN UPSET MY SOPHOMORE YEAR WE LOST TO CREIGHTON IN THE ROUND OF 32 AND WE WERE TO SEE SO I THINK UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR SEASON CAN END WITH ICE. SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO PLAY. BUT ALSO IT GOES SO FAST, LIKE JUST SOAK IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT AND EVERY SINGLE SECOND. SO ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN WITH MY TEAMMATES BECAUSE IT’LL BE OVER BEFORE I KNOW IT. >> AND SO A LOT OF EYES ON CAITLIN CLARK AND A

LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS MOMENT FROM OVERNIGHT. 2.3 SECONDS LEFT IN REGULATION KIM JILTED MARQUETTE WITH ATHOUN EAGLES GOING INTO OVERTIME IN ORDER TO FINISH THE JOB AND TEXAS A&M TAKING DOWN LAMAR PUNCHING THEIR TICKET TO THE BIG DANCE FIRST IN THE SCHOOL’S HISTORY KYRA. PRETTY AWESOME. THANKS SO MUCH. AND THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. I’M KYRA PHILLIPS. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS AND NEITHER DO WE, AND NEITHER DOES THE STEP DANCING UP ON CAPITOL HILL AS WE HONOR SAINT PATRICK’S DAY AND ALL THAT GREEN BEER. >> THAT’S GOING TO INSPIRE YOUR SKILLS COME

SUNDAY. AND I TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN. “WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” WITH DAVID. YOU ARE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST TELEVISION. THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY VOTERS FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S THIS WEEK. >> TONIGHT, THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US GIRLS ESCAPING ACROSS THE PATH OF A

SERIAL KILLER. NOW 2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO MAKE A DECISION TO JUMP OUT. IT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG AND THERE’S FINALLY ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM. >> AND IN 2022 MADE IT MAGGIE CENTRAL ON ABC. THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY TOM GIRARDI. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THE SO-CALLED VICTIMS WILL GET A CHANCE TO,

FILE AN OBITUARY. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS. WHAT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY THAT HOUSE YOU. I DID. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY FACE TO FACE. >> ERIKA, WHY DO YOU TAKE SO LONG? >> THE HOUSEWIFE AND MYSELF. YOU KNOW, THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE COMFORT OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS. LAUREN AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. WE’RE REPORTING ON BOARD A U.S. NAVY IN THE EASTERN

MEDITERRANEAN. I MAGGIE RULLI WHEREVER THE STORY. >> WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE. HELLO, TERRY MORAN. WE’RE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS AT ABC NEWS LIVE AT THIS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE HAS JUST FROM DONALD TRUMP’S GEORGIA ELECTION TRIAL. WADE RELEASED A LETTER ADDRESSED DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS SAYING BECAUSE THE QUOTE, FURTHERANCE THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE NORTHSTAR OF OUR COMBINED EFFORTS IN THE PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO ARE ALLEGED HAVE ATTEMPTED TO OVERTHROW THE RESULTS OF GEORGIA’S 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. UNQUOTE HE IS STEPPING DOWN EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.

THE RESIGNATION COMES AFTER A RULING FROM JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE EARLIER TODAY THAT HELD THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON CASE BUT ONLY IF NATHAN WADE WERE TO WITHDRAW. AND HE HAS. LET’S BRING IN ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN. JOHN WILL HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED WADE’S RESIGNATION, SO HE’S GONE. >> WHAT HAPPENS NOW? WELL, BASICALLY, ACCORDING TO THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE, THAT OPTION ONE OF TWO, TERRY, OPTION TWO WAS THE FANI WILLIS STEPPED THE CASE WOULD GET REASSIGNED TO A WHOLE NEW PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, GEORGIA. BUT BY

TAKING OPTION ONE WITH NATHAN WADE STEPPING ASSIGNED AND D.A. FANI WILLIS ACCEPTING THAT RESIGNATION JUST SHORTLY THEREAFTER, IT MEANS, ACCORDING TO THE JUDGE’S RULING, THE CASE CAN PROCEED AS PLANNED, MEANING FANI WILLIS HER TEAM MINUS NATHAN WADE WILL CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP AND THE REMAINING 14 CO-DEFENDANTS IN THAT CASE. NOW, OBVIOUSLY, THE QUESTION BECOMES WHEN WOULD THIS TRIAL HAPPEN? AT THE MOMENT, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAS PROPOSED AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE THAT HAS NOT BEEN REACTED TO BY THE JUDGE IN THE CASE. SO THAT’S ALREADY GOING TO BE THE NEXT QUESTION. AND OBVIOUSLY, WE

ALSO HAVE TO WONDER IF TEAM TRUMP AND OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS LOOK TO APPEAL THE DECISION BY JUDGE MCAFEE. DO THEY WANT TO PUSH AHEAD FURTHER? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY GOT RID NATHAN WADE, BUT THEY REALLY WANT TO GET RID OF THE D.A.’S OFFICE, TERRY, BECAUSE THAT HAPPENS. >> IT COULD REALLY DELAY THIS CASE. A LOSS TO COME IN THIS CASE AND ALL THE OTHERS AND JOHN SANTUCCI YOUR REPORTING ON IT FOR US. THANKS VERY MUCH. THANKS, DEREK. AND YOU FOR SERVING WITH US. I’M TERRY MORAN. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH THE LATEST

NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS AND YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. >> THE NEWS NEVER STOPS NEITHER D.A. FANI WILLIS MUST STEP ASIDE. >>> THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK. 300 STORMS SWEEPING THE MIDWEST AND SOUTH WITH AT LEAST 10 TORNADOS REPORTED. >> Eva: OUR FRONT ROW SEE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S KITCHEN TABLE TALK WITH A MICHIGAN VOTER AND HIS SON. WE HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE INSIDE THE REVEALING BLUE STATE STOP. >>> AND ACING IT. WE’LL MEET THE MILITARY VETS AT THE NET. THEIR WEEKLY TENNIS GAMES TRANSFORMING

INTO LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIPS. >> DeMarco: AND THE ONE AND ONLY TAMRON HALL IS HERE WITH HER SECOND CRIME NOVEL. >> Eva: AND MITCH ALBOM MAKING HEADLINES HERE WITH HIS ESCAPE FROM HAITI. JOINING US HERE WITH AN IMPORTANT FAITH FRIDAY MESSAGE. ♪ ♪ >> DeMarco: AND THE NEW SCI-FI DRAMA LANDING AT NETFLIX. ACTOR BENEDICT WONG TAKES US BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE “3 BODY PROBLEM.” >> Announcer: NOW FROM TIMES SQUARE, DeMARCO MORGAN AND EVA PILGRIM WITH DR. JEN ASHTON AND “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” ♪ I’M COMING OUT ♪ >> DeMarco: IT IS FRIDAY, EVERYBODY. GOOD

AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.” I FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE I’M LIKE IT’S FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND IS HERE, BUT I WAS OFF THE LAST COUPLE DAYS. >> Eva: DR. DARIEN AND I LOOKED AT EACH OTHER LIKE WHAT? >> DeMarco: LET’S TALK MEDICAL NEWS. THERE’S A NEW BLOOD TEST UP FOR FDA APPROVAL THAT COULD DETECT COLON CANCEL. >> Dr. Darien: THE LAST TIME WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WE WERE IN YOUR DOCTOR’S OFFICE GETTING READY FOR YOUR COLONOSCOPY. THIS NEW BLOOD TEST IS RELATIVELY ACCURATE. IN THIS STUDY THEY GAVE PATIENTS THE BLOOD TEST AND

THE COLONOSCOPY. THEY FOUND IT WAS UP TO 83% ACCURATE. IT WAS LESS ACCURATE FOR DETECTING PRECANCER LESIONS. COLONOSCOPY IS THE NUMBER ONE FORM OF SCREENING, BUT IT PROVIDES ACCESS FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO DO THAT OPTION. >> Eva: IS IT AN ALTERNATIVE TO A COLONOSCOPY? >> Dr. Darien: MAYBE IN THE FUTURE WE FIND THINGS THAT ARE MORE ACCURATE. IT’S NOT AN ALTERNATIVE. COLONOSCOPIES ARE THE GOLD STANDARD. THIS IS COMPARATIVE TO TESTS LIKE STOOL TESTING. IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT ACC ACCESSIBILITY FACTORS. >> DeMarco: YOU COULD GET A GOOD RESULT FOR THE BLOOD TEST, BUT YOU

COULD HAVE PO LIPS. >> Dr. Darien: COLONOSCOPIES ARE PREVENTIVE TREATMENT. BUT IT’S MORE RESEARCH AND MORE WAYS FOR SAID THERE WAS I INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. >>> NOW TO OUR GINGER ZEE ON THE LATEST STORMS. >> MORE THAN 350 SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS AND 10 TORNADOS FROM OHIO TO INDIANA. WE HAVE SEEN MORE OF THIS ACTION TODAY. SEVERE STORMS HAVE MOVED INTO ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI AND TEXAS. TODAY THE BILG HAILERS, THE BIG THUNDERSTORMS. SAN ANTONIO OR AUSTIN COULD PRODUCE AN ISOLATED TORNADO. >> Reporter: AFTER 11 HOURS OF DELIBERATION THE UNPRECEDENTED VERDICT IN MICHIGAN. A

JURY FINDING THE MICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER’S FATHER GUILTY ON ALL FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. JAMES CRUMBLEY AND HIS WIFE JENNIFER, WHO WAS FOUND GUILTY ON SIMILAR CHARGES IN A SEPARATE TRIAL, WILL BE SENTENCED APRIL 9th. >>> AFTER THAT REBUKE BY SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER CRITICIZING BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, NETANYAHU RESPONDING THAT ISRAEL IS NOT A, QUOTE, BANANA REPUBLIC WHOSE LEADER CAN BE SWAPPED OUT. >>> CITY OFFICIALS IN MIAMI BEACH LOOKING TO CRACK DOWN ON SPRING BREAK CHAOS AHEAD OF WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY SEEN AS ONE OF THE WORST WEEKENDS OF THE YEAR WITH ST. PATRICK’S DAY AND

SPRING BREAK MERGING. OFFICIALS COURTING CHAOS WITH DUI CHECK POINTS, $100 PARKING AND $500 TOWING FEES AND PARKING GARAGES CLOSED. >>> AT A MAJOR TENNIS MATCH IN CALIFORNIA THAT SWARM OF BEES STINGING THE SECOND-RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD AND HALTING PLAY AT THE INDIANA WELLS OPEN UNTIL THE BEES COULD BE REMOVED. A A ALCAREZ WENT ON TO WIN THE MATCH. >>> AND THE MEGA MILLION JACKPOT CLOSING IN ON $$800 MILLION. IT WOULD BE THE SIXTH LARGEST JACKPOT SINCE THE GAME BEGAN. LOTTERY OFFICIALS CALLING THIS ITS OWN VERSION OF MARCH MADNESS. YOU CAN WIN THE GAME IF

YOU’RE NOT IN THE GAME. >> DeMarco: I NEVER WIN. >> Eva: THE ODDS ARE AGAINST US. >> Dr. Darien: BIG TIME. >> DeMarco: THANK YOU, EM. >>> STILL AHEAD, L.Z. GRANDERSON WAS THE ONLY JOURNALIST INVITED TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S KITCHEN TABLE CONVERSATION. >> Eva: PLUS, LOVER ON ON THE C FOR MILITARY VETERANS, MEETING ON THE COURT FOR We’re in Miami check out a golf tournament. That’s loud Audi and controversial. We’ve got exclusive access to Party. We’re not from the country club. We love the game of golf. We’re trying to have fun with it Sports washing is

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to say I’m sorry face-to-face Erica. Why’d it take you so long? the housewife and the Hustler two on Hulu >> Eva: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3.” PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ACCELERATING HIS RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN TAKING A TRIP THROUGH TWO OF THE SO-CALLED BLUE WALL STATES, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. >> DeMarco: HE STOPPED IN MICHIGAN FOR A KITCHEN TABLE CONVERSATION. OUR L.Z. GRANDERSON WAS THE ONLY REPORTER INVITED IN THE ROOM. GREAT TO SEE YOU. >> Reporter: GREAT TO SEE YOU. >> DeMarco: YOU WERE IN THE ROOM WHEN THE PRESIDENT BIDEN MET WITH THIS MAN AND 13-YEAR-OLD SON. HOW DID THIS

MEETING COME ABOUT AND WHAT WERE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS? >> Reporter: THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ORCHESTRATING THESE SORT OF KITCHEN TABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT. VERY INTIMATE SETTINGS, POSTING VIDEOS SOCIALLY, BUT TRYING TO KEEP THE MOMENT BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND VOTERS AS HE’S TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT AMERICANS WANT FROM HIM IN A SECOND TERM AND HOW THE CURRENT TERM IS GOING. THE MICHIGAN VISIT WAS WITH THE FATHER AND SON THAT ARE A LONG LINEAGE. THE FATHER IS THE IV. THE PRESIDENT AND THE FATHER TALKED ABOUT FAMILY. IT WAS A GREAT MOMENT TO SEE THE

PRESIDENT CONNECT WITH VOTERS ON LEGISLATIVE ISSUES AND PERSONAL FAMILY ISSUES. >> Eva: I’M CURIOUS WHERE THE FATHER STANDS POLITICALLY AND WHAT HE WAS WANTING TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT. >> Reporter: HE’S A BIDEN SUPPORTER. I WOULD THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY MANY OF THE PEOPLE THE PRESIDENT’S MET WITH HAVE BEEN PREVIOUS VOTERS OR SUPPORTERS. WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THOUGHT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MR. III, I WILL CALL HIM, WERE VERY ASTUTE. HE WAS A SUPPORTER OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, BUT HE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND WHAT HE HAS BEEN EXPERIENCING AND

GOING THROUGH. >> DeMarco: LET’S TALK NUMBERS. THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN MICHIGAN REVEALED THERE ARE MORE THAN 100,000 UNCOMMITTED VOTERS PROTESTING PRESIDENT BIDEN’S HANDLING OF THE WAR IN GAZA. WHAT DOES BIDEN HAVE TO DO TO WIN THAT GROUP OF VOTERS OVER? >> Reporter: WELL, I THINK YOU’RE STARTING TO SEE HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THE DISCONTENT HAPPENING FROM SOME OF THE PROGRESSIVES ON HIS SIDE OF THE PARTY, WHETHER IT’S A STRONGER RHETORIC WHEN IT COMES TO TALKING ABOUT NETANYAHU AND THE NEED TO BE CAREFUL IN TERMS OF HARMING INNOCENT CIVILIANS DURING THE WAR, OR EVEN STRONG WORDS FROM SENATOR

CHUCK SCHUMER THIS WEEK ASKING ISRAEL TO RECONSIDER ITS LEADERSHIP. YOU’RE SEEING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACKNOWLEDGING THERE ARE MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S HANDLING OF THIS AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS BEING VERY FORCEFUL IN TRYING TO PRESSURE ISRAEL TO BE MORE CAUTIOUS IN TERMS OF HOW IT’S GOING ABOUT TRYING TO ELIMINATE HAMAS. >> Eva: WHERE YOU ARE THERE’S A HIGH CON VENN CENTRATION OF BLA VOTERS. DO YOU THINK HE’S DOING ENOUGH TO ENERGIZE BLACK VOTERS? >> Reporter: I THINK HE’S DOING A GOOD JOB OF TRYING TO USE WORD OF MOUTH. I CAN’T

SPEAK TO ANY OTHER GROUP, BUT AS A BLACK PERSON, I CAN TELL YOU WORD OF MOUTH IS AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF GETTING IMPORTANT INFORMS OUT THERE. THESE KITCHEN TABLE CONVERSATIONS AREN’T DESIGNED TO GATHER A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR HIM TO BELT OUT RHETORIC AND RED MEAT TO A CROWD, BUT TO GET TO KNOW PEOPLE PERSONALLY. IF YOU DO THAT WITH BLACK VOTERS IN PARTICULAR, WE TALK IN OUR CHURCHES, IN OUR SCHOOLS AND BARBER SHOPS AND TALK ABOUT THE INTERACTION WITH THE PRESIDENT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE’S DOING IS REALLY SMART IS BECAUSE SO

MUCH FOCUS AND DISCONTENT IS ABOUT WHAT CONGRESS WASN’T ABLE TO DO. CONGRESS DIDN’T PASS COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. BIDEN IS USING THIS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS HE WAS ABLE TO DO. WHILE IN MILWAUKEE HE ANNOUNCED A $36 MILLION PROJECT, PART OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL TO RECONNECT NEIGHBORHOODS. DURING THE 1950s AND ’60s DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS MANY OF THE AREAS WHERE BLACK PEOPLE LIVED WERE RIPPED APART TO BUILD THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ANNOUNCING A PLAN TO GO THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA THAT WAS TORN APART BY RECONSTRUCTION SO THEY

CAN BUILD THOSE COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. MILWAUKEE HAS $36 MILLION. MORE THAN $140 MILLION TO ATLANTA. $140 MILLION TO PHILADELPHIA. AREAS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY TORN APART BY SEGREGATION DUE TO THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO RECONNECT THAT TO HELP AREAS OF MINORS. ALSO, LOOKING AT THE JUDGES HE APPOINTED. MORE THAN 66% ARE WOMEN. MORE THAN 66% ARE MINORITIES. THESE ARE LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS. WHEN YOU COMPARE THEM TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT, HE ONLY APPOINTED 12% MINORS AND LESS THAN 20% WERE WOMEN. THERE’S A STARK CONTRAST IN TERMS OF HOW THE TWO ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE TRIED TO

GET THE VOTES OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES, BUT ACTUALLY DO THINGS TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE REPRESENTED IN GOVERNMENT. >> DeMarco: L.Z., THANK YOU. >> Eva: GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON. >>> JUST AHEAD ON “GMA3,” THEIR NET GAME IS GOING TO MEET THE MILITARY VETS WHO BUILT Tonight the Georgia election case what happens next plus tracking damaging winds and a massive snow storm threatening millions and travel more Americans turn to World News Tonight with David Muir the most-watched news cast on television. So Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne celebrity attorney hum Girardi. This story was a

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it a threat to National Security + Biden and Trump clinched the nominations leaving many voters frustrated Sunday morning the PowerHouse Roundtable on ABC’s this week. ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THEIR DAY HERE AT ABC NEWS. >> THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE NEWS AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES First thing in the morning, there’s a lot going on yet. G Another Avalanche warning. That’s up to catch you up with what happened overnight a dangerous ice storm is impacting the morning commute. What’s

happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straight forward with some fun in between passes billionaire. Sounds good to me. The Moose started chasing a dog first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. I’m with Johnson reporting from Maui wherever the story is, will take you there. You’re streaming, ABC News live. >> DeMarco: FOLKS, WE’RE BACK WITH INSPIRATION AT THE NET FOR WAR TIME VETS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, BONDED BY A LOVE OF THE GAME AND THEIR MILITARY

SERVICE. WHAT STARTED AS A CASUAL COURT MEET-UP BLOSSOMING INTO LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIPS. >> IT STARTED OUT AS A GROUP PLAYING TENNIS. WE’RE DOWN TO RIGHT NOW FE GEEZERS AND WE’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR SOME 45, 48 YEARS. >> I TURNED 100 LAST SEPTEMBER AND PLAYED TENNIS WITH THESE GENTLEMEN AND WE TELL FUNNY STORIES OVER AND OVER BECAUSE WE CAN’T REMEMBER. >> ART SOLOMON IS THE ONLY ONE WITH MOBILITY. >> WE GET A LITTLE EXERCISE AND STAY OUT OF TROUBLE FOR A FEW HOURS ANYWAY. >> CLOSE ENOUGH. >> WE’RE ALL GEEZERS AND SINCE WE CAN’T HEAR

VERY WELL, WE MIGHT AS WELL GIVE THEM A CALL SIGN THAT MAYBE THEY CAN UNDERSTAND THAT BETTER. >> YOU’RE NUMBER ONE. >> I’M NUMBER TWO. >> YOU’RE THREE. >> I’M THREE. >> YOU’RE WHAT? >> I’M GEEZER FOUR. >> I’VE BEEN IN THE CLUB A LONG TIME. MY NUMBER IS 0001. I ENJOY PLAYING WITH THESE GUYS VERY MUCH. >> I’VE BEEN PRIVILEGED AND HONORED TO BE ABLE TO FILL IN WHEN ONE CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE COURT. THESE ARE GUYS WHO ARE INCREDIBLE WHEN YOU GET TO KNOW THEM. >> ED AND I WERE FIGHTER PILOTS IN

THE ’50s. WE’VE KNOWN ONE ANOTHER FOR OVER 70 SOME YEARS. WE FLEW FIGHTERS TOGETHER. >> THERE WAS A TIME ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR WHEN IT WAS NECESSARY TO KEEP NUCLEAR WARHEADS IN THE AIR. THESE GUYS VOLUNTEERED FOR THAT. >> WHAT’S IMPORTANT FOR THESE FOLKS IS GETTING OUT HERE TWICE A WEEK? >> IT’S WONDERFUL TO FIND A GROUP THAT’S WILLING TO HAVE ME. THEY PUT UP WITH ME. I FIND IT UNUSUALLY COMPATIBLE. >> WE GET ALONG WELL TOGETHER BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH ENERGY TO GET MAD. WE NO LONGER EAT HEALTHY. WE EAT PRESERVATIVES AND THAT

KEEPS US GOING. >> WE ENJOY EACH OTHER’S COMPANY. I CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE BEYOND THE GOOD TIMES AND GOOD FRIENDSHIP. >> THAT’S ALL YOU GET. >> Eva: I LOVE THAT. >> DeMarco: TALK ABOUT A BOND. >> Eva: I LOVE THAT, WE DON’T HAVE THE ENERGY TO GET MAD AT EACH OTHER. >> DeMarco: I AGREE. >> Eva: JUST AHEAD ON “GMA3,” DR. DARIEN’S TIPS FOR SOLID HEALTH ADVICE ONLINE. >> DeMarco: AND THE TALK SHOW HOST SLEUTHING ON THE TAMRON HALL IS HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE First thing in the morning, there’s a lot going

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>> Eva: BACK NOW WITH DR. DARIEN. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. ROBIN SAT DOWN WITH CHRISTINA APPLEGATE FOR A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. WHY DO WOMEN SEEM TO BE MORE AT RISK? >> Dr. Darien: AN ESTIMATED 200 PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED EVERY WEEK. WOMAN MORE SO THAN MEN. SCIENTISTS ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY. A COUPLE FACTORS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED. NUMBER ONE HORMONES. THERE’S A QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT HORMONES LIKE ESTROGEN PLAY A ROLE. WE LOOK AT WAIT. WOMEN CARRY WEIGHT DIFFERENTLY THAN MEN. WOMEN HAVE HIGHER RATES OF BODY FAT THAN MEN. IT CAN MESS UP THE

INFLAMMATORY PROFILE OF A PERSON THAT CAN PUT THEM AT RISK. THERE ARE MANY OTHER FACTORS SCIENTISTS ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. >> DeMarco: WHY SHOULD MEN NOT LET THEIR GUARD DOWN? >> Dr. Darien: PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR SYMPTOMS ARE VITAL. WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THOSE LIVING WITH MS, OFTEN IT’S SYMPTOMS PUT ASIDE. THEY SAY MAYBE IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL. IF YOU NOTICE NUMBNESS, TINGLING, WEAKNESS, YOU SHOULD GET EVALUATED. >> DeMarco: THANK YOU, DR. DARIEN. WE APPRECIATE IT. >> Dr. Darien: OF COURSE. >> DeMarco: BACK IN A MOMENT. STAY WITH US. ♪ ♪ WOW. >> WHAT

DO YOU SAY I PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS “START HERE”. TO BE IN THE MIDDLE AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET’S BACK TO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS. AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC IS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW THAT’S Tonight there’s a killer on the loose. It was terrifying for all of us. The girls just happen across the

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THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. >> ABC NEWS LIVE CRIME WILL TAKE YOU THERE STREAM ABC LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE. HELLO I’M MORAN. WE’RE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS AT ABC NEWS LIVE AT THIS HOUR. GEORGIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE HAS JUST RESIGNED FROM TRUMP’S ELECTION INTERFERENCE TRIAL THERE. WADE RELEASED A LETTER ADDRESSED TO FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS WRITING BECAUSE THE QUOTE, FURTHERANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE NORTHSTAR OF OUR COMBINED EFFORTS, THIS PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE

ATTEMPTED TO OVERTHROW THE RESULTS OF GEORGIA’S 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, UNQUOTE, HE IS STEPPING DOWN EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. THE RESIGNATION COMES AFTER RULING FROM JUDGE SCOTT MCAFEE EARLIER TODAY SAYING DISTRICT FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE ONLY IF NATHAN WERE TO WITHDRAW. HE HAS. MEANWHILE, WE’RE ALSO LEARNING THAT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE WILL NOT BE ENDORSING DONALD TRUMP AS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. >> PENCE REVEALED THAT NEWS ON FOX NEWS JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO, SAYING HIS DECISION SHOULD ,QUOTE, COME AS NO SURPRISE. HE CERTAINLY HAD HARSH WORDS FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT, BUT LET’S

BRING IN ABC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN TO BREAK GEORGIA CASE DOWN FOR US. OLIVIA WILL IS ALREADY WADE’S RESIGNATION. SO HE’S GONE. WHAT HAPPENS NOW AND HOW IS TRUMP RESPONDING? WELL, THE CASE MOVES FORWARD, TERRY, WHICH I THINK EXACTLY WHY THE DA CHOSE TO GO THE ROUTE OF REMOVING WADE INSTEAD OF HER ENTIRE OFFICE, BECAUSE NOW THEY AVOID THAT SLOW, STICKY PROCESS OF THIS OUTSIDE BODY TAKING OVER THE CASE, FINDING A NEW PROSECUTOR, THE NEW PROSECUTOR GETTING UP TO SPEED WITH WILL. CERTAINLY DONALD TRUMP’S ALL SLOW THE CASE DOWN, BUT THAT HAPPEN NOW DE

FANI WILLIS AND THE REST OF HER TEAM THAT HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE CASE FOR YEARS, MINUS NATHAN WADE, MOVES FORWARD IMMEDIATELY. SO DONALD TRUMP HAS ALREADY REACTED ON HIS OWN SOCIAL MEDIA SITE TO SOCIAL ACKNOWLEDGING THAT NATHAN WADE HAS STEPPED DOWN. HE SENT OUT A FUNDRAISING EMAIL EARLIER RESPONSE TO THE JUDGE’S ORDER SAYING THAT IT WAS NOT ENOUGH. SO CLEARLY TEAM NOT HAPPY WITH HOW THE JUDGE CAME DOWN, BUT IT IS THE RULING THAT HAS BEEN HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FOR WEEKS AND NOW IT SEEMS, BARRING ANY SORT OF APPEAL, WHICH I’M SURE IS LIKELY COME

THE CASE MOVES FORWARD, THE QUESTION IS, DOES IT GET TIED UP ON APPEAL, TERRY? >> YES, AND THAT CERTAINLY WOULD BE TRUMP’S PREFERENCE. OLIVIA RUBIN, THANKS VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. AND THANK YOU STILL BEING WITH US. I’M TERRY MORAN. ABC NEWS LIVE IS HERE FOR YOU ANY TIME WITH. THE LATEST NEWS, CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS AND YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND US ON VARIOUS STREAMING SERVICES ON THE ABC NEWS APP AND OF COURSE ON ABCNEWS.COM. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS AND MORE ♪ >> Eva: BACK NOW WITH DR. DARIEN ANSWERING ONE OF YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS. CAN MOUTH WASH

RAISE YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE? >> Dr. Darien: WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS QUESTION, MY FIRST RESPONSE WAS NO. I DID SOME DATA. WE WENT INTO THE RESEARCH AND THE ANSWER IS THERE’S SOME FINDINGS THAT SHOW MOUTH WASH CAN INCREASE ONE’S BLOOD PRESSURE. WE HAVE BACTERIA IN OUR MOUTH THAT PRODUCES NITRATES. THAT LOWERS OUR BLOOD PRESSURE. WHEN YOU USE MOUTH WASH, YOU GET RID OF THE BACTERIA AND DON’T HAVE THE NITRATES. WHERE PEOPLE REPEATEDLY USE MOUTH WASH, THEY HAVE ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE BY TWO TO FIVE POINTS. IT’S NOT SIGNIFICANT, BUT IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

IT. >> DeMarco: KEEP USING IT. >> Eva: NO ONE LIKES STINKY BREATH. >> DeMarco: WHAT’S YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR WELLNESS? >> Dr. Darien: IT’S ABOUT FINDING INFORMATION ONLINE. AS A PHYSICIAN, I’M USED TO PATIENTS SAYING I FIGURED THIS OUT ONLINE. TELL ME IF IT’S TRUE OR NOT. SO SOME BASIC THINGS YOU SHOULD DO. FIRST AND FOREMOST, CHECK THE ORIGINAL SOURCE. UNDERSTAND WHERE THE INFORMATION COMES FROM, WHO’S FINANCING IT, WHO’S PUBLISHING IT. ALSO, CHECK THE WEB ADDRESS. IF YOU SEE .GOV OR .EDU, IT’S SOMETHING YOU CAN PROBABLY BELIEVE MORE. ALSO, CHECK THE DATE. MAKE SURE IT WAS

PUBLISHED RECENTLY SO YOU CAN USE THE MOST UP TO DATE INFORMATION. >> DeMarco: AND FOLLOW UP WITH YOUR DOCTOR BECAUSE I DIAGNOSED MYSELF. >> Eva: DR. GOOGLE. >> Dr. Darien: WE ALL KNOW. BRING THAT INFORMATION TO THE DOCTOR. ASK THEM ABOUT IT. EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON. >> Eva: DON’T YOU LOVE IT WHEN YOU HAVE A PATIENT THAT SAYS, I KNOW WHAT I HAVE. CAN YOU GIVE ME THIS PRESCRIPTION? >> DeMarco: THANKS, DOC. FOLKS, WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. HIT US UP ON INSTAGRAM WITH YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS FOR US @ABCGMA3.

>> Eva: UP NEXT, OUR FRIEND TAMRON HALL CELEBRATING THE DEBUT OF HER SECOND NOVEL. >> DeMarco: PLUS, A NEW SCI-FI DRAMA FROM THE MAKERS We’re in Miami check out a golf tournament. That’s loud Audi and controversial. We’ve got exclusive access to Party. We’re not from the country club. We love the game of golf. We’re trying to have fun with it Sports washing is a form of information manipulation. When you do something wrong as a political regime, you can’t just get rid of the stain the booming business of sports washing now streaming. A GMA we love

dogs love dogs and next week. We’re about to reveal live only on GMA the most popular dog breeds right now. So what dogs made the list it’s going to be a big one. Wherever news breaks, it’s so important to always remember that lives are changed getting you behind the stories as they happen ABC News live Prime will take you there streaming free on ABC News live. First thing in the morning, there’s a lot going on yet. Another Avalanche warning. That’s up to catch you up with what happened overnight a dangerous ice storm is impacting the

morning commute. What’s happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straight forward with some fun in between passes billionaire. Sounds good to me. The Moose started chasing a dog first thing in the morning America this morning America’s number one early morning news on ABC News live. Tonight the Georgia election case what happens next plus tracking damaging winds and a massive snow storm threatening millions and travel more Americans turn to World News Tonight with David Muir the most-watched news cast on television. Which could do watch. Read, where

can I get a great deal on? What? I’m just dying to buy. Oh, it’s all right here. GMA life get the latest celebrity, Buzz Deals and Steals, and the coolest lifestyle tips from GMA, I love that so much steam weekends on, ABC News live, ♪ BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE ♪ >> DeMarco: WELCOME BACK TO “GMA3.” WE’RE JOINED BY ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE ABC FAMILY WHO IS NOT ONLY AN EMMY AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST, BUT THE HOST OF HER OWN TALK SHOW IN ITS FIFTH SEASON. >> Eva: SHE’S ALSO AN AWARD WINNING AUTHOR AND SHE IS

HERE TO SHARE “WATCH WHERE THEY HIDE.” PLEASE WELCOME TAMRON HALL. >> DeMarco: GOOD TO SEE YOU. >> Eva: THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK SCARES ME. >> IT’S SUPPOSED TO. IT’S A TRUE THRILLER, MYSTERY. JORDAN MANNING, A CHARACTER INSPIRED BY MY YEARS OF BEING A CRIME REPORTER AND HOSTING “DEADLINE CRIME.” SHE’S A WORK OF FICTION, BUT I NEEDED HER TO HAVE THAT CREDIBILITY SO I PULL FROM THOSE YEARS. MY WHOLE GOAL IS TO KEEP YOU UP AFTER YOU READ IT. THE LAST PAEJGE, I NEED YOU TO STAY UP PROPERLY THREE DAYS. >> Eva: SO DON’T READ

THIS BOOK LATE AT NIGHT. >> DO BECAUSE THAT MAKES IT EXTRA SCARY. >> DeMarco: IN THE BOOK YOU TALK ABOUT RACIAL INEQUALITY. RACIAL PLAYS A FACTOR WHEN IT COMES TO MISSING PERSON CASES IN THE NEWSROOM. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS? >> THE FIRST BOOK WAS “AS THE WICKED WATCHES” WHICH IS ABOUT TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS. I TAKE THE READER INTO THE WORLD OF MISSING PERSONS, BUT IN THIS CASE SHE HAPPENS TO BE A WHITE MOM OF TWO AND HER SISTER TRAVELS FROM INDIANA TO CHICAGO, WHICH IS WHERE JORDAN IS A REPORTER, PLEADING FOR HELP.

IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO MAKE THE DISTINCTION AS A REPORTER, ESPECIALLY A GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER, YOU DON’T PICK WHO YOU ARE COVERING. YOUR JOB IS TO COVER EACH PERSON. IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME IN THE SECOND BOOK THAT JORDAN’S CASE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS WHITE, SOMEONE WHO WAS A MOM. THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM JORDAN. THAT’S A VERY CRITICAL THING AT THIS VERY DIVISIVE TIME THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, AS A REPORTER, YOUR ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY IS YOUR CRE CREDIBILITY AND YOUR LOYALTY TO THE JOB OF REPORTING. THAT JOB IS TO PRESENT THE FACTS LUXURY OF FICTION,

WHERE SHE’S NOT A VIGILANTE, SHE’S CLIMBING THE RIGHT LOW. I’M TERRY MORAN WE’VE GOT SOME NEWS OUT OF NEW YORK CITY. THE JUDGE IN DONALD TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY CASE, THAT’S THE ONE INVOLVING STORMY DANIELS AND PAYMENTS TO HER DURING 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. THIS TRIAL HAS NOW BEEN DELAYED . THE JUDGE FOR 30 DAYS. ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITOR PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI, IS HERE, ALONG WITH INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN. AARON. >> NOW, FIRST, LET ME GO TO JOHN CLEESE ON THIS. JOHN I JUST WONDER IF YOU CAN GIVE US A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WHAT WAS BEFORE THE

AND WHAT THE JUDGE DECIDED. SO, TERRY, THIS ALL CAME DOWN TO NEW THAT PROSECUTORS DISCOVERED IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. REMEMBER THIS TRIAL WAS GEARING UP TO BEGIN LATER THIS MONTH ON MARCH 25TH. PROSECUTORS HAD TURNED OVER ABOUT 73,000 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS IN JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, SAYING THEY WEREN’T IMPERATIVE TO THE TRIAL AND THUS THINGS COULD PROCEED. HOWEVER, IN JUST WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, PROSECUTORS FOUND 31,000 ADDITIONAL PAGES OF DOCUMENTS. AND IT WAS IN THOSE DOCUMENTS THEY, THE PROSECUTORS, TO THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE, JUDGE MARCIA AND HERE

IN MANHATTAN, AND SAID, WE MORE TIME, WE NEED 30 DAYS NOW. TEAM TRUMP RESPONDED SAYING THIS WAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE AND HE NEEDED AT LEAST A 90 DAY DELAY. AND NOW WE HAVE A RULING FROM THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE JUST MOMENTS AGO, OUR AARON KATERSKY REPORTING TERRY HAS GIVEN A 30 DAY DELAY IN THIS CASE. THAT MEANS IT WILL NOT BEGIN ON MARCH FIFTH. AT THE MOMENT, IT COULD BEGIN IN LATE APRIL. PROSECUTORS AND THE DEFENSE TEAM WILL HAVE TO GIVE THE JUDGE SOME FURTHER GUIDANCE ON HOW MUCH TIME AND ENERGY THEY’RE GOING

TO NEED TO SPEND TO GO THROUGH THIS INFORMATION. SO MAYBE IT EXTENDS BEYOND THOSE 30 DAYS REENTRY. >> I WAS SPEAKING TO ONE ATTORNEY EASILY AND THEY JUST MADE THE POINT TO ME THAT, LISTEN, ONCE YOU START GETTING MORE EVIDENCE, IT ALLOWS FOR THE DEFENSE TEAM TO TURN AROUND AND SAY, HEY, WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE? AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT DONALD TRUMP’S TEAM’S PLAYBOOK IN EVERY CRIMINAL CASE THEY FACED RIGHT NOW, ANY WAY TEAM TRUMP CAN SAY DELAY THING IN ANY OF THE FOUR CRIMINAL CASES THEY HAVE, THEY WILL CERTAINLY, TERRY, TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY.

>> THAT HAS BEEN THE STRATEGY. LET’S GO TO RUBIN NOW ON HOW THIS CASE FITS IN. YOU’VE BEEN THE FULTON COUNTY ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE IN GEORGIA FOR US. WELL, SO HOW DOES THIS CASE, THIS DELAY LOOK, THIS CALENDAR GETTING STACKED UP FOR DONALD TRUMP? WE MAY NOT SEE A TRIAL AT ALL UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. >> WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER. THINK IT THERE ARE FOUR CRIMINAL TRIALS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND NOW THE PHYSICAL DATE IN THE CALENDAR UNTIL THE ELECTION ARE TICKING DOWN WITH EVERY SINGLE DELAY. THERE IS A SETBACK IN ONE

OF THESE TRIALS. SO THE FIRST ONE AND POTENTIALLY THE ONLY ONE BECAUSE IT’S THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD A SET TRIAL DATE IS THE NEW YORK CASE. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MARCH 25TH. NOW THERE IS A 30 DAY DORMANT. WHO KNOWS? THERE COULD BE MORE, IT SEEMS FROM THE LETTER THAT THE JUDGE ISSUE IS THAT HE IS SETTING A HEARING TO COME IN A FEW WEEKS OVER THIS ISSUE OF THE DISCOVERY. MAYBE DONALD TRUMP CAN GET A LONGER DELAY AND THEN THAT SHORTENS THE TIME THAT YOU CAN EVEN GET IN THE OTHER THREE TRIALS,

EACH OF WHICH SUPPOSED TO BE MULTIPLE WEEKS LONG. THE GEORGIA CASE ALONE WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT A LOT TODAY IS EXPECTED TO BE AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS. SO IT IS STARTING TO BECOME A SYMBOL MATH PROBLEM WITH THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN THE CALENDAR AND THE NUMBER OF DAYS PROSECUTORS NEED DONALD TRUMP IN A COURTROOM. AND IT IS SEEMING UNLIKELY THAT ALL FOUR OF THESE CASES WILL IN BEFORE THE ELECTION. BUT IT SEEMS AS OF NOW, WITH JUST A 30 DAY DELAY, AT LEAST ONE OF THEM WILL. BUT AGAIN, THE QUESTION ANY OTHER CASE

BE ABLE TO SLOT IN AND THE TICKING DOWN TIME FOR. >> YEAH, MAYBE THE TRUMP’S OPPONENTS OR INVESTIGATORS INVITED HIM MANY TIMES. OLIVIA AND JOHN, THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THAT AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING ON TERRY MORAN. THANKS FOR WITH US. MORE NEWS JUST AHEAD TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. >> WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOW THREATENING MILLIONS. AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. >> WHAT YOU GET TO WATCH READ WHERE CAN I GET A GREAT DEAL AND WHAT I’M

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TELL US WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE. YOU WERE THERE VISITING THIS ORPHANAGE YOU’VE HELPED FOUND. SO MUCH OF YOUR HEART IS WITH THOSE KIDS. AND THEN THE VIOLENCE JUST TOOK A TURN. I GO EVERY MONTH HAITI WITH MY WIFE, SO I’M KIND OF USED TO IT. BUT THIS TIME WE BROUGHT EIGHT PEOPLE, VISITORS WITH US, AND AS SOON AS WE GOT THERE, THE VIOLENCE REALLY SURGED BY THE GANGS. THE AIRPORTS CLOSED, ROADS CLOSED, THE PORTS CLOSED. IT WAS PRETTY APPARENT, WAS NOT GOING TO BE ANY WAY OUT. AND ULTIMATELY, WE TO ARRANG TO CORY MILLS

AND LISA MCCLAIN, WHO WERE IN CONGRESS. BUT IT WAS A PRIVATE THING. AND THEY CAME IN IN DARK OF NIGHT WITH A HELICOPTER. AND WE WERE EVACUATED IN ABOUT 60 SECONDS. AND AS WE FLEW OVER, YOU KNOW, HAITIAN AIRSPACE OUT OF THE SAFETY, MY WIFE AND I GOT A BIG GUT PUNCH. I WAS HAPPY WE WERE SAFE, BUT I WAS SAD AND HEARTBROKEN BE LEAVING OUR KIDS. SO WHAT DO YOU WANT OUR VIEWERS TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE PEOPLE THERE ARE NOW? SEEMS LIKE THERE’S NO END IN SIGHT. WELL, WHAT WE’VE DEALT WITH, BEING ABLE

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IT FOLLOWS THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT ONE LIE ON HIM, HIS FAMILY, THE GIRL, AS HE SEEKS TO BE FORGIVEN THE WHOLE REST OF HIS LIFE. AND AS THE GIRL SEEKS TO FIND HIM AGAIN OVER THE MANY YEARS TO FORGIVE HIM SO. IT’S A STORY ABOUT TRUTH, HOPE AND FORGIVENESS SET DURING A VERY VERY DIFFICULT TIME. IT SOUNDS LIKE A PAGE TURNER THERE, AND IT’S NO SECRET THAT IT’S A LOT GOING ON IN THE WORLD, NOT JUST IN HAITI, BUT TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST . AT THIS POINT IN THIS SEGMENT, WE SORT OF SOLICIT WORDS

OF ADVICE AND WISDOM. WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR US AS WE GO INTO OUR WEEKEND. WELL, I’VE BEEN TEASED ABOUT BEING THE KING HOPE WHEN IN MY BOOKS THE CRITICS DON’T SEEM TO LIKE THAT. I’M A HOPEFUL WRITER. BUT I THINK HOPE IS IS THE CRACK OF LIGHT UNDER THE DOOR AND THERE’S A SCENE IN THE BOOK THAT I CREATED WHERE THE GRANDFATHER OF THE FAMILY IN, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS EVERY NIGHT, CALLS HIS FAMILY MEMBERS TOGETHER IN THE BARRACKS AND WHISPERS. WE HAVE TO SAY ONE GOOD THING THAT HAPPENED TODAY TO US, YOU’RE WHAT DO

YOU SAY? GOOD THING HAPPENS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP. AND ONE SAYS, WELL, I HAD AN EXTRA SPOONFUL OF SOUP. ONE SAYS, MY ROTTED TOOTH FELL OUT. ONE SAYS THE GUARD ALWAYS BEATS ME WASN’T ON TODAY, SO I DIDN’T GET BEATEN. AND IT’S THAT HOPE THAT BELIEF THAT SOMETHING GOOD COULD HAPPEN. AS VICTOR FRANKEL IN HIS AMAZING BOOK, THE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THOSE CAMPS WERE THE ONES WHO BELIEVED THAT TOMORROW COULD BE BETTER AND THE ONES WHO THOUGHT THAT THIS IS IT, THIS IS THEY DIDN’T LIVE. SO THAT BELIEF THAT TOMORROW HOLDS SOMETHING BETTER IS WHAT

WE NEED TO GET THROUGH DARK TIMES. IT’S MOST DEFINITELY WHAT WE NEED IN HAITI AND WHAT WE TEACH OUR KIDS. AND SO I BELIEVE NO MATTER HOW DARK TODAY IS, TOMORROW CAN BE BETTER. AND I HOLD ON TO HOPE AS SOMETHING TO DIVINE HOPE IS THE CRACK OF LIGHT UNDER THE DOOR. YEAH, WE CAN TAKE THAT WITH US. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US TODAY. WE’RE THINKING OF THOSE KIDS. I AM TOO. YOU CAN PICK UP A COPY OF THE LITTLE LIAR ANYWHERE BOOKS ARE SOLD. >> AND JUST AHEAD, THREE-BODY PROBLEM. THE

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AS A MIND BENDING. >> AND HERE TO TELL US MORE IS THE VERY TALENTED BENEDICT WONG. YEAH WELL THE W SEE YOU AS I LIKE TO CALL IT. LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THIS IS BASED ON AN INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED NOVEL. >> YEAH, RIGHT. THAT’S RIGHT. YEAH. IT’S — IT’S A TRILOGY OF BOOKS BY SECTION LIU AND THAT HAS BEEN ADAPTED BY DAN, DAVID AND ALEX. >> YEAH. IT’S A LOT OF PRESSURE BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE BOOKS. THEY DO GOOD. THEY’VE KIND OF GOT A SPARE ONE HAND AND A FLOWER ON THE OTHER. WE LIKE ACTION THOUGH,

IN THIS SHOWS FROM THE CREATORS ALSO ABOUT THE GAME OF THRONES IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. TRUE BLOOD. >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN THEY ASKED YOU TO BE A PART OF THE SERIES? YEAH, WELL, I WELL. I MET THEM WHILE I WAS FILMING DOCTOR STRANGE. ACTUALLY, I WAS ON A ZOOM CALL. AND THEN THERE’S DAN, DAVID AND ALEX, I MEAN, I WAS WONDERING, WHY IS THE THREE SHOWRUNNERS ON THIS SECRET PROJECT? YOU KNOW, I DIDN’T HAVE THE SCRIPTS, BUT THEY GAVE A CHARACTER BREAKDOWN. AND, YOU KNOW, PARENTS FROM HONG KONG, WHO BORN IN THE

SEVENTIES, LIVED THERE FOR 20 YEARS IN MANCHESTER. I WAS KIND OF GO, GUYS, THIS SOUNDS AWFULLY LOT LIKE ME. AND ALEX CONFESSED THAT THEY HAD JUST COPIED MY WIKIPEDIA. >> THAT’S WHAT GAME OF THRONES SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? >> WELL, YEAH, YEAH, DEFINITELY. I MEAN, WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT’S THIS IS, YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO BE COURTED, YOU KNOW? DON’T WE ALL. EXACTLY. HERE’S A FUN THAT PEOPLE MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU. SO WE KNOW YOU AS BENEDICT WONG. BUT I SOME RESEARCH THIS MORNING. YOU’RE ALSO

KNOWN AS OBI-WAN. >> YOU LOOK AT THIS AND I MEAN GUYS, PLEASE PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME ON I MEAN LIKE MY FAVORITE I MEAN, THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA SIMPLY ASKING I MEAN DOES HE TALL IS IF FOR HIGHER. YES I AM CONTACT ME ON MY IMDB PAGE I NOW WHAT YEAH THAT’S COOL. >> SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO. OKAY I WELL YOU KNOW, I WAS ALWAYS LIKE A LOVER OF MUSIC AS WE ALL ARE, AND IT WAS ABOUT TEN YEARS. IT STARTED OFF IN THE BEDROOM AND REMAINED IN THE BEDROOM AND STUFF AND

STUFF THAT THAT’S THE STUDIO AND YOU KNOW, THOSE ,I MEAN, LIKE MARCO POLO, WE WOULD JUST KIND OF DESCEND AT VARIOUS PLACES AND BUILD A PARTY. AND WHY WOULDN’T YOU TO DO THAT? WELL, YOU NEED MUSIC FOR YOUR PARTY, SO YOU’RE IMPORTANT IN THAT REGARD. YEAH. THANK YOU. THERE WAS ONE TIME IN SLOVAKIA WE KIND OF HELD PARTY AT A OUT-OF-SEASON SKI LODGE AND THE END OF THE NIGHT THE OWNER WANTED TO KEEP ME AS THE DJ. I THOUGHT, I HAVE TO CONTINUE. MY CALLING FOR THE ARTS. WHERE YOU DO BOOKS, RIGHT? WELL. WELL, THE

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IT SOUNDS SAD. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS “START HERE” TO BE IN THE KNOW 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 EDWARD ARMOR AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE ABC NEWS MEETING YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START

HERE. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM. MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. I HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T. THIS IS MY INSIDE OUT AND IS A SLICE OF HUMAN BRAIN. THESE ARE ASSASSINATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE. WOW. >>

RIGHT NOW, THERE’S JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD. SO MUCH AT STAKE AT THE START OF EVERY MORNING. MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL. THAT’S NOT ALWAYS SO EASY. AND THAT’S WHERE WE COME IN. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. I WANT YOU TO KNOW EVERYONE. >> WE’RE RIGHT HERE. AND WE GOT YOU. IT’S LUNCHTIME IN AMERICA. >> SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. YOU? HOW YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS, MUSIC. AND, OF COURSE, GOOD FOOD. A THIRD HOUR OF “GMA” IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN AFTER DINNER

FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. I LOVE THAT. ME REPORTING IN SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. IN THE AFTERMATH, HURRICANE IDALIA. I’M EM NGUYEN. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU’RE STRINGING ABC NEWS LIVE. BREAKING NEWS NOW ON ABC NEWS LIVE IKE EJIOCHI WASHINGTON. THE JUDGE IN THE NEW YORK HUSH MONEY CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP PUSHING BACK THE START OF THE TRIAL BY 30 DAYS FOLLOWING A REQUEST FROM PROSECUTORS. MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ASKED FOR THE DELAY, CITING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF NEWLY DISCLOSED DOCUMENTS. THE TRIAL WAS PREVIOUSLY SET TO BEGIN ON

MARCH 25TH. TRUMP’S ATTORNEYS WERE PUSHING FOR A 90 DAY DELAY. THIS COMES JUST HOURS AFTER MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE SEPARATE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE. TRUMP IN GEORGIA. ONE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS TOP PROSECUTORS NATHAN WADE RESIGNING AFTER THE JUDGE THERE SAID EITHER HE OR WILLIS NEEDED TO STEP DOWN FOR THAT CASE TO MOVE FORWARD. JOINING US NOW FOR MORE, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AARON KATERSKY LIVE, THE COURTHOUSE IN ATLANTA, ALONG WITH INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OLIVIA RUBIN. IN OUR NEW YORK STUDIOS, ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR

CHRIS TIMMINS. NOW, I WANT TO START WITH YOU. WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS DELAY, NEW YORK? >> THIS JUST CAME BY A LETTER, JUDGE JUAN MERSHON, WHO SAID IN LIGHT OF SEVERAL ISSUES REGARDING POTENTIAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE, HE WAS WILLING TO THE START OF THE TRIAL FROM MARCH 25TH UNTIL SOMETIME AROUND APRIL 15TH, HE SAID IT BE PUSHED EVEN FARTHER THAN THAT. BUT INSTEAD OF GATHERING POTENTIAL JURORS EYE ON MARCH 25TH IN HIS COURTROOM TO HEAR FIRST CRIMINAL TRIAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE’S GOING BE GATHERING THE LAWYERS TO TALK ABOUT

SOME OF THESE DISCOVERY ISSUES TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY PROSECUTORS OVER EVIDENCE. THE DEFENSE HAS SAID THAT THESE DOCUMENTS WERE DELAYED, THAT PROSECUTORS SHOULD BE SANCTIONED AND THE INDICTMENT SHOULD BE THROWN OUT UNTIL ALL OF THE POTENTIAL EVIDENCE HAS BEEN COLLECTED AND PROPERLY TURNED OVER. PROSECUTORS, OF COURSE, ARE PUSHING BACK ON THIS, BUT IT HAS RESULTED NOW IN A DELAY 30 DAYS FROM NOW, ABOUT 20 DAYS FROM WHEN THE ACTUAL TRIAL WAS SET TO BEGIN. >> AND OLIVIA TRUMP’S TEAM WAS PUSHING FOR A 90 DAY DELAY. HOW DO WE EXPECT

THEM TO REACT TO THIS? >> WELL, I THINK IT’S QUITE POSSIBLE, AS AARON JUST REFERENCED, THAT HEARING COMING UP ON MARCH 25TH, THAT HIS LEGAL TEAM IS GOING TO GO THAT COURTROOM AND LOOK FOR MORE DATES. AND AS AARON JUST LAID OUT, THE JUDGE VERY MUCH LEFT OPEN THE POSSIBILITY HE COULD DELAY THIS FURTHER. AND HE WROTE IN THAT LETTER SAYING THAT THERE ARE ISSUES OF FACT THAT HE NEEDS TO GO THROUGH BEFORE. HE CAN RULE ON DONALD TRUMP’S MOTION, WHICH IS THERE. AND AGAIN, JUST THAT INCLUDES DISMISSING THE INDICTMENT, EXCLUDING CERTAIN WITNESSES, ISSUING SANCTIONS.

SO I THINK IT’S VERY POSSIBLE THAT ON MARCH 25TH, WE SEE ANOTHER EFFORT FROM DONALD TRUMP TO SQUEEZE A LITTLE BIT MORE OUT OF THIS JUICE THAT HE HAS BEEN GIVEN, WHICH WAS THIS IN DOCUMENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT’S VERY LIKELY WE’RE GOING TO TRY TO SEE HIM GET SOME MORE OUT OF THIS. I DON’T THINK THEY’RE GOING TO SATISFIED WITH JUST THE 30 DAYS WHEN ALREADY THE JUDGE HAS LEFT OPEN THE POSSIBILITY TWO MORE. >> NOW, IS THIS A LEGAL VICTORY FOR TRUMP, CONSIDERING HE’S WORKING TO GET TO DELAY ALL OF THESE CASES?

>> YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS, BECAUSE PART OF THIS IS ONLY REQUESTED THE INFORMATION LATE AND THEN THEY ALLOWED THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS EXTENSIONS IN TIME, WHICH MEANS OF THEY’RE NOT GOING TO PRODUCE THE DOCUMENTS UNTIL LATER, WHICH MEANS YOU NEED MORE TO REVIEW THEM. SO ESSENTIALLY, HE DID HAVE A WIN IN THAT IT GOT MORE TIME TO REVIEW THESE DOCUMENTS THAT THEY’VE JUST RECEIVED NOW AND WANT TO GET BACK TO YOU AND BACK TO THAT MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA. WHAT MORE ARE WE LEARNING ABOUT NATHAN WADE’S DECISION TO STEP DOWN AND HOW IS FANI WILLIS

REACTING? NATHAN WADE OPTED TO RESIGN AS THE SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY HANDLING THE TRUMP PROSECUTION HERE IN GEORGIA. AFTER THE JUDGE FAULTED HIS TESTIMONY AND THAT OF WILLIS AS HAVING AN ODOR OF MENDACITY, THE JUDGE SAID HE WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOME FACTS ABOUT HIS ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH WILLIS WHEN IT BEGAN, WHAT IT MEANT. BUT HE CRITICIZED THEM FOR NOT NECESSARILY TESTIFYING ABOUT IT. FANI WILLIS CAN REMAIN ON THE CASE. THE CASE CAN GO FORWARD, BUT ONLY IF WADE IS OUT. SO HE SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION. HE SAID IN THE INTEREST OF DEMOCRACY AND IN THE INTEREST

OF TRYING TO MOVE THE CASE FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. FANI WILLIS IN HER OWN LETTER COMMENDED WADE’S PROFESSIONALISM AND DIGNITY, SAID ATTACKS ON HIM WERE UNFAIR. BUT REALLY THE SUCH AS THEY WERE MAINLY TODAY CAME FROM THE JUDGE WHO WAS NONE TOO KIND TO WILLIS, SAYING THAT SHE EXHIBITED UNPROFESSIONALISM IN THE WAY SHE CONDUCTED ON THE WITNESS STAND AND SAID THAT SOME OF WHAT SHE SAID CHURCH ALLEGING RACISM WAS IMPROPER. >> NOW, CHRIS, IT APPEARS FANI WILLIS IS CLEARED TO MOVE FORWARD, AT LEAST WHEN IT COMES TO TODAY’S RULING FROM THE JUDGE IN GEORGIA.

BUT COULD FOR TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS STILL SUCCEED IN HAVING HER REMOVED? >> SO I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT. THE NEXT STEP IN THIS IS DECISION BY THE DEFENSE TEAM WHETHER TO APPEAL. WE THOUGHT THAT THE STATE ALSO HAVE A CHANCE OF THAT, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A STUPID MOVE. BUT THEY’VE SHOWN US THEIR CARDS BY HAVING NATHAN WADE RESIGN IN THAT RESIGNATION ACCEPTANCE. WE SHOULDN’T EXPECT AN APPEAL FROM THE STATE, BUT WE MAY SEE AN ATTEMPTED APPEAL. THE DEFENSE, AND IT’S WHAT’S CALLED AN INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL TO GET INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL OR APPEAL BEFORE THE END

OF TRIAL. GOT TO GET WHAT’S REFERRED TO AS A CERTIFICATE OF IMMEDIATE REVIEW. OTHER WORDS, PERMISSION FROM THE TRIAL COURT THAT BEING JUDGED BACK IN THE TO GO FORWARD. SO FAR, WHAT WE HAVEN’T SEEN THAT WE’LL KNOW WITHIN TEN DAYS ON MARCH 25TH. >> ALL RIGHT, OLIVIER, AARON SCHOTT, I THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. NOW TO A DEVELOPING IN CONNECTICUT WHERE A STATE TROOPER WHO SHOT AND KILLED A BLACK MAN AFTER CAR CHASE HAS BEEN ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. TROOPER BRIAN FACED UP TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON IN THE 2020 SHOOTING OF MUBARAK SOULEYMANE. NORTH FIRED

SEVEN TIMES AT SULEIMAN AS HE SAT BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A STOLEN CAR HOLDING A KITCHEN KNIFE. DURING THE TRIAL, THE TROOPER TESTIFIED HE THOUGHT SOULEYMANE, WHO SUFFERED FROM MENTAL ILLNESS WAS GOING TO ATTACK OTHER OFFICERS. AND NOW TO THE SEVERE WEATHER WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LEAVING BEHIND THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM CALIFORNIA TO OHIO SLAMMED BY POWERFUL STORMS. INDIANA AND OHIO HIT WITH AN OF TORNADOES THAT HAVE TURNED DEADLY. AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN MULTIPLE TWISTERS THAT RIPPED THROUGH LAKEVIEW OHIO OVERNIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THE GROUND

TODAY ASSESSING DAMAGE. ABC NEWS ALEX PRESHA HAS MORE FROM OHIO. >> HEY, I’M HERE IN RUSSELLS POINT. THIS IS A LAKE COMMUNITY. IT’S ALSO ONE OF THE HARDEST HIT FROM THOSE OVERNIGHT STORMS. FOR INSTANCE. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. THAT IS A REFRIGERATOR USED TO BELONG IN SOMEONE’S HOME. NOW, JUST SITTING IN THIS DOCKING BAY AND THEN OVER HERE TO MY RIGHT, THAT’S COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE. THAT STRUCTURE. THERE ARE SCENES LIKE THAT ALL ACROSS THIS COMMUNITY. POCKETS THAT ARE COMPLETELY DECIMATED AND SPLINTERED DOWN TO THE GROUND. AND ALSO ACROSS THE WAY IN THE TOWN OF, WE

SAW SIMILAR SCENES, HOMES THAT HAD THE FRONTS COMPLETELY RIPPED OFF, TREES RIPPED TO SHREDS. SO MANY PEOPLE COMING BACK THIS MORNING TO FIND NOTHING. THEIR HOME, THEIR BELONGINGS, THEIR MEMORABILIA, THEIR CHILD’S TOYS, ALL OF THAT GONE. CARS COMPLETELY TWISTED INTO METAL. SO MUCH, SO MUCH DESTRUCTION HERE. NOW, ALL DAY, THERE HAVE BEEN TEAMS, SEARCH TEAMS DOING THEY CALL A SEARCH SPREAD JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE AREN’T ANY OTHER TRAPPED UNDERNEATH THIS RUBBLE. WE’VE SEEN A CADAVER ALSO OUT AND ABOUT. THIS COMMUNITY IS GOING TO NEED A OF SUPPORT, A LOT OF HELP GOING FORWARD.

GOVERNOR DEWINE HERE ON THE GROUND TODAY SAYING THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG REBUILDING EFFORT. LIKE ALEX PRESHA, THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT. PROSECUTORS SAY THEY WILL NOT FILE CHARGES AGAINST THE MAN THEY SAY SHOT ANOTHER MAN WITH HIS OWN GUN ON A CROWDED NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY TRAIN. THE PROSECUTOR CITING EVIDENCE SELF-DEFENSE. THIS AS AMATEUR VIDEO CAPTURES THE THE TERRIFYING MOMENTS WHEN GUNFIRE ERUPTED FOLLOWING THE FIGHT ON THE TRAIN YESTERDAY. ABC NEWS MORGAN MOORE, MORGAN NORWOOD HAVE THE LATEST FROM NEW YORK. THIS WAS THE TERRIFYING MOMENT PASSENGERS WERE SENT SCRAMBLING ,DUCKING FOR

COVER AND SCREAMING IN HORROR AFTER GUNSHOTS RANG OUT INSIDE THIS CROWDED DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION. >> YOU HEAR YOU HEAR POPS LIKE LIKE THREE MORE SHOTS. POP, POP, POP THEN THE DOORS OPEN. >> EVERYBODY COME FLYING OUT. POLICE SAY CHAOS UNFOLDED DURING THE HEIGHT OF RUSH HOUR WHEN A 36 YEAR OLD MAN WHO WITNESSES SAY WAS ACTING AGGRESSIVELY CONFRONTED, A 32 YEAR OLD PASSENGER. >> THE TUSSLE SCENE IN THIS VIDEO EVIDENCE HAS BEEN OBTAINED, INCLUDING AN EXTENDED VIDEO OF CAPTURING A FEMALE THAT WAS ON THE TRAIN, APPARENTLY WITH THE 32-YEAR-OLD. IT CAPTURES HER INVOLVED IN

THE INCIDENT. ALSO, POLICE SAY THE 36 YEAR OLD ATTACKER PULLED OUT A GUN, BUT AT SOME POINT THE OTHER MAN GOT A HOLD OF IT AND FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS, SHOOTING HIM IN THE HEAD. BUT AUTHORITIES NOW SAY THE GUNMAN WILL NOT FACE CHARGES. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THE EVIDENCE SO FAR SUGGESTS HE ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE. >> THAT IN TRANSIT OFFICERS, SHOOTERS AND THEN SHOTS FIRED IN TRANSIT. THE SHOOTING COMES JUST ONE WEEK AFTER GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL SENT THE NATIONAL GUARD TO SUBWAY SYSTEM TO HELP ADDRESS CRIME ON CITY TRAINS. THE NYPD FACING TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY

AND HIGHLIGHTING DEPARTMENT EFFORTS CRACK DOWN ON THEIR EVASION, SAYING THE INDIVIDUAL WHO STARTED THE BRAWL GOT ON THE TRAIN WITHOUT PAYING. >> OFTENTIMES WE SEE PEOPLE EXITING THE SUBWAY STATION LOOKING TO CAUSE HARM AND THEY NEVER PAY THE FARE. >> AND MEANWHILE, THE MTA SAYS THEY’RE TAKING STEPS TO IMPROVE SECURITY, INCLUDING PUTTING UP CAMERAS INSIDE THE TRAINS, DEPLOYING TRAIN MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIANS AND METAL DETECTORS. AS FOR THE ASSAILANT WAS SHOT, AUTHORITIES SAY HE’S IN CRITICAL CONDITION. I. MORGAN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE TURN NOW TO GAZA. ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ANNOUNCING HIS APPROVAL FOR

THE IDEA OF SOME MILITARY OPERATIONS IN RAFAH IGNORING GROWING CALLS FROM INTERNATIONAL LEADERS TO HOLD OFF THE FIGHTING. NEARLY 1 MILLION DISPLACED PEOPLE HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE IN THE CITY OF RAFAH, THE FIRST VESSEL ARRANGED BY THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN CHARITY, WHICH SAILED CYPRUS, ARRIVED OFF THE GAZA AND COAST TODAY TO HELP EASE HOME CRISIS. ABC NEWS CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT GUTMAN HAS MORE. >> LIKE ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS OFFENSIVE FOR WEEKS NOW. AND THIS OFFENSIVE, BY THE WAY, IN THE SOUTHERNMOST GAZA CITY OF RAFAH WHERE THERE ARE ABOUT 1.4 MILLION

DISPLACED PEOPLE. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FORCED OF THEIR HOMES MORE THAN ONCE, IS WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLED RED LINE. IF ISRAEL DOESN’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS. I GOT A BRIEFING FROM AN IDF GENERAL A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. ESSENTIALLY, ISRAEL WOULD WANT TO MOVE SOMEHOW THE 1.4 MILLION DISPLACED PEOPLE FROM THAT CITY OF, RAFAH, TO THE CENTER OF THE GAZA STRIP, WHICH IS NOT A BIG PLACE, THEM IN HUMANITARIAN ENCLAVES THAT WOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE COMMUNITY. SOMEHOW THEY WOULD BE GIVEN FOOD, WATER, HOSPITALS, ETC., HE SAID.

IT’S UNCLEAR HOW THIS WOULD HAPPEN. IT’S ALSO UNCLEAR IF THERE IS ANY INTERNATIONAL BUY IN. I SPOKE A U.S. OFFICIAL TONIGHT WHO SAID HE HASN’T EVEN HEARD OF THIS PLAN. THEY HAVEN’T BEEN PRESENTED WITH ANYTHING. SO THIS COULD BE FAR OFF, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS DEMOBILIZED SO MANY OF ITS RESERVISTS WHO ARE CRITICAL TO MAJOR OFFENSIVE. 40 ISRAELI MILITARY, THAT IS ISRAEL SAYS IT’S TRYING TO FLOOD AT GAZA WITH AID. IT’S BEEN A BIT OF A CUMBERSOME ORDEAL. ISRAEL SAYS IT’S ALLOWING A LOT OF AID IN. IT’S BLAMING THE U.N. FOR DISTRIBUTING IT EFFICIENTLY. THE

U.N. IS SAYING THAT WE HAVE SECURITY. WE CAN’T SEND OUR TRUCKS EVERYWHERE IN GAZA FOR FEAR THAT DRIVERS AND THE TRUCKS WILL BE ATTACKED. THERE’S ALSO BEEN LOOTING AND, SHOOTING OF SOME OF THESE TRUCKS. SO IT’S VERY COMPLICATED. WHAT CLEAR IS THAT DESPITE NEW MARITIME QUARTERS FOR AID AIRDROPS, THE TRUCKS COMING IN? PEOPLE IN GAZA ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH SUSTENANCE AND NOT GETTING THE KIND OF PROVISIONS AID THAT THEY NEED, WHICH IS WHY THE U.N. IS WARNING THAT FAMINE IS ON THE DOORSTEP, SPECIFICALLY FOR ABOUT A HALF MILLION PEOPLE, MOST OF THEM IN THE NORTHERN

PART OF THE GAZA STRIP. >> I. >> MATT, THANK YOU. COMING UP, RUSSIA KICKING OFF VOTING TODAY WITH SOME DISRUPTERS PROTESTING AT THE BALLOT BOX. WE’LL BRING YOU A REPORT ON THE STATE OF RUSSIA’S OPPOSITION AS PUTIN IS POISED TO SERVE FIFTH TERM AS PRESIDENT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR. >> THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS. ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING, ABC NEWS IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MACHINE STRIKE IN HEBREW, UKRAINE,

REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE. TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET’S GO THERE. TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN FROM THE FBI, REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU. THE STORY IS WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. WE’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS

LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE HERE, STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS, LIVE STREAMING EVERYWHERE. >> AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. I HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT. THEY’RE EXPECTING US. IT’S OUR SECRET WORLD WE HAVE. DO YOU THINK WE’RE GOING TO BE SAFE? I DON’T KNOW. THIS IS ONE INSIDE OUT AND THIS ONE IS COMING IN. >> THESE ARE ASSASSINATION THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE MURDERED. THERE’S REALLY NO TELLING WHAT SOME OF THEM WILL DO DO. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE. WOW. WE’RE IN MIAMI WITH A GOLF TOURNAMENT THIS SHOUTING AND CONTROVERSIAL. WE’VE GOT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS.

WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. OH, SPORTS WASHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG AS A POLITICAL REGIME, YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STATE POWER. PLAY THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS. WASHINGTON NOW STREAMING ON TO RUSSIA BEGINS THREE DAYS OF VOTING TODAY IN AN ELECTION THAT IS ALMOST CERTAIN TO KEEP VLADIMIR PUTIN IN POWER FOR ANOTHER SIX YEAR TERM. WE SEE HIM HERE CASTING HIS VOTE AND THERE WERE SOME RARE GLIMPSES OF

DISRUPTERS AT THE BALLOT BOX TODAY AS WELL. THIS JUST WEEKS AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXEI NAVALNY, FORMERLY ONE OF PUTIN’S MOST VOCAL CRITICS. ABC’S BRINGS US THIS REPORT ON THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE STILL FIGHTING TO KEEP THEIR OPPOSITION ALIVE. >> FOUR DAYS AFTER ALEXEI NAVALNY’S FUNERAL IN MOSCOW, THOUSANDS CONTINUE TO BRING FLOWERS COMING TO HONOR RUSSIA’S MOST FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION FIGURE, HIS GRAVE DISAPPEARING UNDER A VAST MOUND OF CARNATIONS AND ROSES. WE LOST ALL HOPE. BUT NOW WE CAME HERE. AND TOGETHER WE PERHAPS WE CAN FIND IT AGAIN. BUT NAVALNY’S DEATH IN AN ARCTIC PRISON HAS BLOWN

A HUGE HOLE IN RUSSIA’S OPPOSITION. WHILE THE FUNERAL SHOWED IS STILL DISSENT IN THE COUNTRY, IT ALSO UNDERLINED HOW CONTROL THE KREMLIN HAS. >> THIS WEEKEND, RUSSIA WILL HOLD ITS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT WILL CROWN PUTIN FOR A FIFTH TERM. >> VIRTUALLY ALL LEADING RUSSIAN FIGURES ARE EITHER IN JAIL OR IN EXILE. AND RESISTANCE TO PUTIN HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DANGEROUS. >> OBVIOUSLY, ALEXEI WAS AT THE HEART OF YOUR MOVEMENT. IS IT POSSIBLE TO CONTINUE WITHOUT HIM? >> WELL, OF COURSE, WE HAVE AN THAT WILL CONTINUE. AND HE WAS LIKE, NEVER GIVE UP TOURISM AND IF

HE WOULD STOP NOW, IT WOULD BE LIKE A BETRAYAL. HIS LEGACY. HE DEFINITELY WANTS US TO CONTINUE AND NOT TO GIVE UP. BUT HE IS NOT REPLACEABLE. >> LEONID VOLKOV WAS NAVALNY’S RIGHT HAND MAN FROM EXILE IN EUROPE. HE AND NAVALNY’S TEAM SAY THEY WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT PERSONAL RISKS FOR EVERYONE. >> THE LEADERS ARE, OF COURSE, VERY HIGH BE THE WE ARE WELL AWARE OF THIS PERSON RISKS, BUT THAT’S OUR CHOICE TO KEEP GOING. >> A WEEK AFTER WE SPOKE. VOLKOV WAS ATTACKED NEAR HIS HOME IN LITHUANIA. HE HIT 15 TIMES WITH A HAMMER

AND SPRAYED WITH TEAR GAS. >> SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO, GOVERNOR DIDN’T PROMOTED ACHIEVE CHARACTER ME. WHEN DID THE REVIEW OF THE SPEECH EMERGES? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, YEARS LAYING FLOWERS IS ALSO HOW THEY PROTEST. ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION, MOSCOW EACH WEEKEND FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WIVES OF SOLDIERS DRAFTED TO FIGHT IN UKRAINE GATHER HERE BENEATH THE WALLS OF THE KREMLIN AT THE MEMORIAL TO THE UNKNOWN. THEY COME TO CALL FOR THEIR HUSBANDS TO BE RETURNED HOME, STUDY BEFORE THE ARCHITECTURE. NOT ONLY AROUND TWO DOZEN ATTEND. THEY ARE CAREFUL NOT TO SAY THEY

OPPOSE THE WAR, CALLING IT BY THE KREMLIN’S NAME, THE SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION . THEY JUST SAY CIVILIANS SHOULD NOT SERVE INDEFINITELY. I’M THE POLICE ARE WARY OF DETAINING THE WOMEN BUT NOT OF THE JOURNALISTS COVERING THE DEMONSTRATION WHO ARE DRAGGED TWO VANS. THE KREMLIN PEEVED THAT EVEN THIS SMALL PROTEST STAY UNNOTICED, THAT IT’S PROBABLY THEM. >> BUT THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO RISK DEMONSTRATING PUBLICLY IN RUSSIA ARE A TINY MINORITY RIGHT NOW. THERE IS NO DOUBT AROUND THE OUTCOME OF WEEKEND’S ELECTION. >> PUTIN CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION IN 2020 TO ALLOW HIM TO RUN DESPITE A

TWO TERM LIMIT. OFFICIALS CLOSE TO THE KREMLIN HAVE SUGGESTED EVEN HOLDING ELECTIONS IS POINTLESS. >> WE COULD HAVE HAD THE ELECTION TOMORROW WHERE IN 5 MINUTES THE RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME. HE DOESN’T NEED A CAMPAIGN IN. THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION. SOMETHING UNEXPECTED DID HAPPEN. FEW PEOPLE HEARD OF BORIS IN THE DESERT IN THREE MONTHS AGO. A LONG TIME POLITICIAN. ON STATE TV, HE’S BEEN ONE OF THE ONLY VOICES TO CRITICIZE THE WAR. >> YET I HAVE ALTERNATIVE MEANS. OF COURSE, I’M NOT GOING TO JUST LET IT GO. BUT IT DOES. >>

IN DECEMBER, HE ANNOUNCED HE WOULD RUN AGAINST PUTIN ON AN ANTI-WAR PLATFORM. LONG LINES SUDDENLY BEGAN APPEARING, PEOPLE WAITING TO SIGN UP TO SUPPORT HIS CANDIDACY. >> IN EFFECT, SOME OF THE LARGEST ANTI-WAR PROTESTS SINCE THE FULL SCALE INVASION. >> I AM SURE THAT MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN RUSSIA WANTED A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION BE STOPPED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. AND OF COURSE, THE SUPPORT OF NEWS VERY WEAK IN RUSSIA. >> ABC SAT DOWN WITH THE DAYS BEFORE NAVALNY’S DEATH ASKING WHY HE WAS ABLE TO CHALLENGE PUTIN. >> THERE TWO BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND FOR

EXAMPLE BETWEEN ME AND ALEXEI NAVALNY. IT’S FIRST, I NEVER CRITIQUES PUTIN PERSONALLY. I THINK IT’S A POLITICS OF MUTUAL, BUT I NEVER CRITICS . PUTIN LIKE A PERSON IN A BIT. WORDS NEVER. >> BUT IN THE END, DECISION WAS KEPT OFF THE BALLOT. AUTHORITIES CLAIMED THE SIGNATURES FOR HIS CANDIDACY INVALID. IT MEANS PUTIN WON’T FACE ANY CHALLENGER, ALEXEY NAVALNY’S WIDOW, YULIA HAS STILL CALLED FOR PEOPLE TO JOIN A PROTEST ON ELECTION DAY, AS HER HUSBAND HAD BEFORE HIS DEATH. >> VANYA, A NUMBER OF PRESTIGIOUS THAT I KNEW. AND IF YOU COULD SEE FOR PUTIN THAT

IT SHOULD BE YOU WOULD GO TO REMOVE DOSSIER WHICH WOULD CONDITION WHICH D’AUBUISSON IS JUST. NORMALLY SHOULD HAVE NO MUSLIM ATTACKER WAS AVAILABLE, BUT IT IS POISON WHICH BROUGHT YOUR NEWBORN. >> NAVALNY’S TEAM HAVE URGED PEOPLE SIMPLY QUIETLY COME TO POLLING STATIONS AT MIDDAY ON SUNDAY AND TO FOR ANY CANDIDATE EXCEPT PUTIN WILL SPOIL THEIR VOTES. ANYTHING MORE THEY SAY IS NOW TOO DANGEROUS. WE DON’T EXPECT THE RESULTS WILL BE COUNTED. THEY WILL NOT. BUT PEOPLE WHO COME TOGETHER WILL SEE EACH OTHER. THEIR PRISONERS AND WE’LL HAVE THIS FEELING THAT THEY ACTUALLY EXIST. >> THEY’RE

ACTUALLY NOT THE MARGINAL MINORITY AS THE PROPAGANDA PRETENDS THEY ARE. BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY HUGE CROWDS FOR THOSE OPPOSED TO PUTIN IN RUSSIA. THE GOAL RIGHT NOW, JUST TO SHOW EACH OTHER THAT THEY STILL EXIST. >> OUR THANKS TO PATRICK FOR, THAT REPORT. COMING UP, WHAT’S MARCH WITHOUT SOME MADNESS? WE’LL YOU THE LATEST AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. THAT’S AFTER THE BREAK. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER AVALANCHE WARNING. THAT’S ALL TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING

COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHTFORWARD, SOME IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES SOUNDS GOOD TO ME IN THE MIDDLE EAST. STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC. >> WHY THE TICK TOCK BAN PASSES IN THE HOUSE AND NOT EVERYONE’S HAPPY. SO WHAT’S NEXT? IS IT A THREAT TO NATIONAL? PLUS, BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCHED THE NOMINATIONS, LEAVING MANY FRUSTRATED. SUNDAY MORNING, THE POWERHOUSE ROUNDTABLE ON ABC’S WEEK. >> TONIGHT, THE GEORGIA ELECTION

CASE. WHAT HAPPENS? PLUS, TRACKING DAMAGING WINDS AND A MASSIVE SNOWSTORM THREATENING MILLIONS AND TRAVEL. MORE AMERICANS TURN TO WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ON TELEVISION. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS, THIS IS THE 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 RIGHT TO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST

WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSHING OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS REPORTING FROM THE OSCARS RED CARPET. I’M MELISSA DON. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, TAKE YOU THERE. YOU’RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE .

>> WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE. LISTEN IT’S THAT OF YEAR WHEN THE WORD BRACKET LOOMS LARGE IN OUR NATIONAL VOCABULARY. THAT’S RIGHT. MARCH MADNESS IS ALMOST HERE JUST TWO DAYS UNTIL SELECTIONS SUNDAY WHEN THE BRACKETS ARE NOW SOME TEAMS FIND OUT THEIR FATE AND OTHERS PUNCHING THEIR TICKET TO THE BIG DANCE DURING CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS. WE’VE ALREADY SEEN SOME BIG UPSETS ON THE MEN’S SIDE. THE TENNESSEE STATE KNOCKING OFF DUKE AND PROVIDENCE BEATING CREIGHTON LAST NIGHT. AND THERE’S HUGE BUZZ FOR THE WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT AS CAITLYN CLARK’S IOWA HAWKEYES LOOK TO HEAD BACK TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

GAME THIS YEAR. THE IOWA BREAKING MULTIPLE RECORDS THIS YEAR, CAITLIN CLARK GOING ONE ON ONE WITH OUR ROBIN ROBERTS TALKING ABOUT THE SOARING POPULARITY OF WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND WHY IT’S THE RIGHT TIME FOR HER TO THE WNBA. YOU CAN SEE THE NEW SPECIAL TONIGHT AT 8:30 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND STREAMING TOMORROW ON HULU. MUCH MORE NEWS AHEAD HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AND TODAY’S BIG STORY, MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, IN LEGAL CASES SURROUNDING DONALD TRUMP. HIS NEW YORK HUSH MONEY CASE DELAYED AND PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE STEPPING DOWN IN THE GEORGIA ELECTION

CASE. I’LL SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPACT OF IT ALL. FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR IN AN HOUR SPOTLIGHT. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS MEETING WITH RAPPER FAT JOE AND OTHERS TO DISCUSS MARIJUANA LAWS. OUR PANEL IN ON THE PUSH FOR REFORM IN AMERICA’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. THE HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ERIKA JAYNE, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY. THIS STORY WAS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. THE CENTRAL VICTIMS WILL GET A CHANCE, FIND AN OBITUARY. AND THAT’S SORT OF A LOSS FOR WHAT TO SAY. DID YOU SEE THE DOCUMENTARY IN THAT HOUSE? I DID. I WANTED ERIKA TO SAY I’M SORRY. THANKS TO FACE.

>> ERIKA, WHY DO YOU THINK THIS THE HOUSEWIVES AND ALSO TO HULU . >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE WITH TRUSTED FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS AND PATIENTS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL DESTRUCTIVE FORCE STORM ALONG I-5. >> BOSTON IS IN THE BULL’S EYE. LET’S GET ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE’S A LOT GOING ON. YET ANOTHER. AVALANCHE WARNING

THAT’S OFF TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. A DANGEROUS ICE STORM IS IMPACTING THE MORNING COMMUTE. WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. HOW DOES BILLIONAIRES. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. THE MOVE STARTED CHASING A DOG FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA’S NUMBER EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT WHAT WHAT DO YOU SEE? MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE START HERE. TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET

A DIFFERENT TAKE ON DAY’S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD OUR MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT’S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE TONIGHT. >> THERE’S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR ALL OF US GIRLS HAPPENED ACROSS THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER. NOW

2020 TAKES YOU INSIDE THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. SHE, LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO MAKE A DECISION TO JUMP OUT . THAT’S EXCITING. THIS CASE HAS BEEN COLD FOR SO LONG AND THERE’S FINALLY AN ANSWER. HIGHWAY HUNTER, THE TRUE CRIME EVENT. YOU HAVE SAID YOU COULD FEEL THE EVIL IN THE ROOM ON THE 2020. TONIGHT AT NINE EIGHT CENTRAL ON ABC, WE’RE IN MIAMI WITH A GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT’S LOUD POUNDING, CONTROVERSIAL. YOU CAN GET EXCLUSIVE ACCESS. WE ARE ABOUT TO PARTY. WE’RE NOT GOING THE COUNTRY CLUB. WE

LOVE THE GAME OF GOLF. WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE FUN WITH IT. SPORTS WATCHING IS A FORM OF INFORMATION MANIPULATION. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG IS A POLITICAL REGIME. >> YOU CAN’T JUST GET RID OF THE STAYING POWER PLAY FROM THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS. WASHINGTON NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN TWO OF DONALD TRUMP’S MOST HIGH PROFILE LEGAL CASES. MICHAEL JACKSON IN WASHINGTON. AND TODAY’S BIG STORY, A NEW YORK HUSH MONEY CASE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT DELAYED BY 30 DAYS. AND PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE STEPPING DOWN IN THE GEORGIA ELECTION CASE. I’LL SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPACT

OF IT ALL WITH A FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR. AND IN OUR SPOTLIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS MEETING WITH RAPPER FAT JOE AND OTHERS TO DISCUSS MARIJUANA. OUR PANEL WEIGHS IN ON THE PUSH TO REFORM AMERICA’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE. BUT WE BEGIN WITH OUR BIG STORY. THOSE MAJOR MOVES IN TWO OF DONALD TRUMP’S CRIMINAL CASES. FIRST, BREAKING A SHORT AGO, THE JUDGE IN THE NEW YORK HUSH MONEY CASE AGAINST A FORMER PRESIDENT. DELAYING THE START OF THE TRIAL BY 30 DAYS AFTER PROSECUTORS SAID NEEDED MORE TIME TO REVIEW TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF NEWLY DISCLOSED DOCUMENTS. AND

IN GEORGIA, ONE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS IS TOP PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE, RESIGNING FROM HER ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST. >> THIS AFTER THE JUDGE IN GEORGIA TOLD WILLIS SHE OR WAY NEEDED TO STEP DOWN FOR THAT CASE TO PROCEED AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM. LAWYERS FOR TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS WERE SEEKING TO HAVE WILLIS REMOVED FROM THE CASE AND ARE VOWING TO FIGHT TODAY’S RULING. JOINING US NOW FOR MORE ABC NEWS, LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER GEORGIA PROSECUTOR CHRIS TIMMONS. >> CHRIS, WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON THE DELAY IN THIS HUSH MONEY CASE AGAINST

TRUMP. SO AS WE SAY, AS PROSECUTORS AGE LIKE MILK, NOT LIKE WINE. SO ANY IN A CRIMINAL CASE IS GOING TO FAVOR THE DEFENSE. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THE TRUMP WANTS. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT ACROSS ALL FOUR OF THEIR CASES. THEY’RE TRYING TO DELAY YOU’VE GOT, YOU KNOW, IN D.C. WHERE THAT CASE IS UP ON APPEAL. GOT FLORIDA POSSIBLY AN APPEAL PENDING. AND EVEN IN GEORGIA, WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO SLOW THE CASE DOWN WITH THIS SIDESHOW INVOLVING FANI WILLIS. SO AS FAR AS THE MONEY CASE IS CONCERNED IN NEW YORK, THIS DELAY

OBVIOUSLY FAVORS THE DEFENSE. >> NOW, BACK NOW TO GEORGIA. NATHAN WADE ANNOUNCED TODAY HE’S RESIGNING. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS IS STILL ALLOWED TO STAY ON AND PROSECUTE THE CASE, BUT IS THERE STILL DAMAGE TO HER CREDIBILITY HERE? >> IF SO, HOW COULD THAT IMPACT THE CASE? LIKE FOR THERE’S DAMAGE LEFT OVER FROM, YOU KNOW, THIS RULING, EVEN THOUGH RULING ULTIMATELY FAVORED THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THERE’S A LOT OF LANGUAGE IN THAT’S JUST DAMAGING AND ATTACKS ON HER PERSONALLY REFERRED TO AN ODOR OF MENDACITY HANGING OVER HER TESTIMONY. IT TALKED ABOUT HOW HER TESTIMONY WAS UNPROFESSIONAL, HOW

THAT COULD AFFECT THE CASE, EVEN THOUGH SHE GETS TO STAY ON, IS THAT HER NAME’S THAT INDICTMENT. I MEAN, THE JURORS, WHEN THEY’RE BACK IN THE JURY ROOM TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THIS CASE, ARE GOING TO SEE HER NAME ASSOCIATED WITH IT, EVEN SHE’S NOT IN THE COURTROOM. SO DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHE LIVES I MEAN, SHE’S DEFINITELY WOUNDED AND WE’VE GOT ISSUES WITH JURY SELECTION COMING. >> CHRIS, COULD THESE ISSUES MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND IMPARTIAL JURORS IN THIS CASE? ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, ANY TIME YOU ADD NEW FEELING ABOUT THE

CASE, THAT’S GOING TO AFFECT WHETHER SOMEBODY CAN BE IMPARTIAL OR NOT. SO YOU MAY HAVE A FEW JURORS WHEN THEY COME IN AND SAY, LOOK, YOU KNOW, ORDINARILY I COULD HAVE BEEN FAIR IN DECIDING THIS CASE, BUT BASED ON WHAT I HEARD ABOUT FANI WILLIS, I KNOW SHE’S THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. I KNOW ULTIMATELY SHE’S IN CHARGE OF THIS PROSECUTION. SO AS A JUROR, JUST DON’T THINK CAN BE FAIR. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE’S A TAINT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CASE BECAUSE BROUGHT HER BOYFRIEND IN AS THE FIRST SPECIAL PROSECUTOR AND BECAUSE OF THAT TAINT, EVEN

THOUGH THERE’S ARE TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. BUT BECAUSE OF THAT TEAM, I JUST DON’T THINK THE CASE AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FAIR AND SAID THAT COULD AFFECT JURY SELECTION MOVING FORWARD. >> RIGHT NOW, JUDGE SCOTT SAID WILSON’S COMMENTS AT ATLANTA CHURCH BACK IN JANUARY, WHERE ACCUSED THE DEFENDANTS AND THEIR COUNSEL OF RACISM WERE LEGALLY EVEN A WARNING OF THE POTENTIAL FOR A GAG ORDER IN THE FUTURE. IT NOW, IF WILLIS IS ASSIGNED A GAG ORDER, HOW WOULD THAT CHANGE THE PROSECUTION STRATEGY? >> WELL, SO I DON’T THINK THERE’S GOING TO BE MUCH CHANGE IN THE

PROSECUTION STRATEGY. I THINK AS YOU SAW, EVEN WITH TO THIS PARTICULAR MOTION, THE PROSECUTION DOESN’T LIKE SPEAKING IN THE MEDIA. AND THAT’S BECAUSE THERE’S AN ETHICAL PROVISION THAT TALKS ABOUT PRECISELY WHAT WE ABOUT WITH REGARD TO HER SPEECH BEFORE THE CHURCH. THEY’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE WHAT WE REFER TO AS EXTRAJUDICIAL COMMENTS. WHAT AN EXTRAJUDICIAL COMMENT IS THE COMMENT OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM, THAT’S AN ATTACK ON THE DEFENDANTS. AND SO GENERALLY, EVEN IF THERE’S A GAG ORDER IN PLACE OR NO GAG IN PLACE, THE PROSECUTION OPERATES THE SAME WAY. THE POTENTIAL GAG ORDER, HOWEVER, MAY SHUT

DOWN THE DEFENSE. >> NOW, HOW STRONG IS THE CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS GIVING NEW RULING BY JUDGE MCCARTHY, COUPLED WITH HIM DISMISSING SIX COUNTS IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE INDICTMENT? >> SO THINK WHILE THE STATE MAY HAVE TAKEN ON SOME WATER HERE, THEY MAY HAVE TAKEN SOME HEADS. I DON’T THINK IT’S GOING TO AFFECT THE OVERALL PROSECUTION ALL THAT MUCH BEYOND THEY MAY HAVE SOME TAINT FOR SOME OF THE JURORS. THE FACTS ARE GOING TO REMAIN THE SAME. THE EVIDENCE THAT THEY NEED TO BRING IN IS GOING TO REMAIN THE SAME. YOU

GOT TO REMEMBER THAT WITH REGARD TO THOSE DISMISSED COUNTS, THE JUDGE DIDN’T FIND THAT WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. WHAT HE FOUND WAS THAT THOSE COUNTS WERE INSUFFICIENTLY MEANING, THAT THE EVIDENCE WASN’T LAID OUT IN THE COUNT AS TO EXACTLY WHAT THE STATE HAD. THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT THAT EVIDENCE DOESN’T EXIST. AND THE OTHER THING HE SAID IN THAT ORDER THAT WAS IMPORTANT WAS HE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, LOOK THE RICO COUNT IS GOING TO STAY THERE. AND ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT MAY HAVE TALKED ABOUT, THOSE I GUESS THE SOLICITATION OF OFFICIALS TO VIOLATE THEIR OATH

OF OFFICE, ALL OF THAT EVIDENCE IS STILL COMING IN AND ARE OVERT ACTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY. SO IT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE STRATEGY. IT’S JUST GOING TO AFFECT JURY SELECTION. AND YOU MAY HAVE A FEW MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE TAINTED BY THIS SIDESHOW THAT WE JUST SAW. >> ALL RIGHT, CHRISTINE. AND WITH US. LET’S BRING IN THE BIG STORY TO THE REST OF OUR PANEL JOINING TODAY WITH CHRIS, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND SIRIUS XM HOST MIKE MUSE, ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER NEW YORK REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN KATKO AND DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST AND

PRESIDENT OF NEXT GEN AMERICA, CHRISTINA SIMPSON RAMIREZ. NOW, MIKE, I WANT TO START WITH YOU. THIS HUSH MONEY CASE IN NEW YORK DELAYED BY 30 DAYS FOLLOWING THAT REQUEST FROM PROSECUTORS, TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM WAS LOOKING TO PUSH IT BACK BY 90 DAYS. NOW TRUMP’S TO PUSH BACK ALL OF HIS LEGAL CASES. BUT DO AMERICANS WANT TO SEE OF THESE LEGAL MATTERS RESOLVED? >> OF COURSE, I THINK AMERICANS DO LIKE TO SEE THESE LEGAL MATTERS. I THINK WHAT WAS INTERESTING IN THAT CONVERSATION WITH HIM IN THAT CASE IN PARTICULAR IS THAT MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG’S

WAS MORE THAN TO ALLOW A DELAY IN THE CASE SO THAT THE DEFENSE COULD HAVE MORE TIME TO LOOK AT THE NEW DOCUMENTS THAT WERE BEING PREPARED. THAT’S ALSO TO AN ADVANTAGE FOR THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AS WELL, TO GIVE THEM MORE TIME TO PREPARE, IN PARTICULAR AS MORE EVIDENCE WAS ACTUALLY HANDED OVER TO THEM, TOO, AS WELL. SO I THINK WHAT THAT SHOWS BY THE MANHATTAN ATTORNEY WILLING TO ALLOW A DELAY IN THAT IT SHOWS THAT THEY ARE BEING AS FAIR AS POSSIBLE TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HIS IMMENSE TEAM TO ENSURE THAT BOTH

SIDES HAVE ADEQUATE TIME TO PREPARE. AND I THINK IT PRESUMPTIVELY PROHIBITS ANY IT LESSENS THE STRENGTH, AN APPEAL. IF IT WASN’T TO GO IN THE DIRECTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, THAT THEY CAN SAY THEY DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO PREPARE. SO I THINK IT WAS A GOOD STRATEGY ON BOTH SIDES. >> JOHN NOW TO GEORGIA FANI WILLIS IS STILL ON THIS CASE. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TRUMP AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS? I THINK YOUR PREVIOUS GUEST WAS ABSOLUTELY. THERE’S SOME SPECKLING AROUND THE EDGES, BUT SUBSTANTIVELY, I DON’T THINK MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE CASE ITSELF.

THE CORE OF THE CASE IS THE RICO CHARGE, AND THAT STILL STANDS, BECAUSE OF THAT, ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT’S RELEVANT AND EVERY WHICH WAY IS GOING TO COME IN. THEY JUST HAVE TO DO A MORE CAREFUL JOB AND JURY SELECTION . AND I THINK IT’S NOT GOING TO MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE OVERALL. AND DON’T FORGET, IT WAS THEY GET A CHOICE. THEY CAN EITHER KEEP THAT PROSECUTOR THEY HAD ON THERE FOR STEP AWAY. AND BY GETTING RID OF THE PROSECUTOR, THEY DIDN’T FIND WHO STAYS IN THE OFFICE STAYS. THAT MEANS IT DOESN’T GET TRANSFERRED

SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY MIGHT FIND SOMEBODY MORE FAVORABLE TO TRUMP AND MAYBE GET RID OF THE CASE. SO THIS CASE IS ON TRACK AND QUITE FRANKLY, IT’S AS STRONG AS EVER WAS THAT. YES, THEY JUST GOT TO WATCH FOR THE JURY SELECTION TO BE MINDFUL OF SOME OF THE ISSUES. >> NOW, CHRISTINA, WHAT DO THESE DEVELOPMENTS MEAN FOR TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN? >> WELL, I MEAN, TRUMP IS TRYING TO DELAY ALL OF THESE CASES BECAUSE SOME POLLS SHOW THAT 20 TO 25% OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS SAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT VOTE HIM IF HE WAS CONVICTED OF ONE

OF THESE CRIMES. AND THIS CASE IN GEORGIA IS THE ONE THAT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS FOR THE TRUMP FUTURE PRESIDENCY IF HE WERE EVEN TO BECOME PRESIDENT, BECAUSE IT IS A STATE BASED CASE. AND SO EVEN IF HE BECAME PRESIDENT, HE COULD NOT PARDON FROM THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THIS CASE IF FOUND GUILTY. SO BOTH THE QUESTION OF TRYING TO DELAY SO THAT HE CANNOT BE FOUND GUILTY BEFORE THE ELECTION, AS WELL AS TRYING TO NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AT A STATE LEVEL. >> NOW, CHRIS, YOU’VE TRIED RICO CASES ALL LEARNING ABOUT NATHAN REES RESIGNATION. >>

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR FUTURE CASES HE’S INVOLVED WITH? >> SO I THINK IT I MEAN, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON KIND OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS HERE. MEAN, NATHAN WADE IS MOSTLY A DEFENSE ATTORNEY HERE IN GEORGIA. AND SO I THINK TO SOME DEGREE, YOU’VE GOT SOME NAME RECOGNITION THERE. HIS NAME’S BEEN ALL OVER THE PRESS, BOTH ATLANTA AND NATIONALLY. SO GOOD. ON THE ONE HAND, I MEAN, WHAT DID P.T. BARNUM SAID ALONG ? THE LINES. NO PRESS IS IN BAD BREATH. JUST GET THE NAME, SMELL RIGHT, SHOW IT TO SOME DEGREE. THAT’S GOING TO HELP

HIM. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, I MEAN, FOR FOLKS THAT ARE ACTUALLY PAYING TO THIS CASE, IT DOES MAKE HIM LOOK BAD AND IT MAKES, YOU KNOW, THERE’S SOME REFERENCES TO HIM IN THE ORDER THAT SUGGESTS THAT HE WASN’T ENTIRELY WHICH MAY HURT HIS PRACTICE AS WELL. >> ALL RIGHT, MIKE. >> CRISTINA. OH, PLEASE, GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. IS THIS OR THE QUESTION YOU ASKED THERE, CHRIS? I THINK CHRIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. IT DOES COME DOWN TO A PR CAMPAIGN. BUT I THOUGHT IT VERY INTERESTING, THOUGH, WAS THE LETTER THAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS ACTUALLY

WROTE IN RESPONSE TO RECEIVING NATHAN WADE’S LETTER TO WEST. AT THE END OF LAST PARAGRAPH, SHE ABOUT HIS ABILITY, THE SKILL SET THAT ALLOWED THE GRAND JURY TO BE CONVENED AND FOR HIM TO CREATE AND TO GET ADVANCE THE CASE AWAY FROM THE GRAND JURY. >> AND SHE TALKED ABOUT ALL THE WINS THAT HE ACTUALLY HAD. AND I THINK THAT’S VERY INTERESTING TO KNOW. AS CHRIS MENTIONED FROM A PR PERSPECTIVE, IF NATHAN WADE IS ABLE TO SPIN THAT, ACCORDING TO SHOW THAT HIS SKILL THAT HE DOES HAVE SKILL SETS TO PROSECUTE A CASE AT THIS

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OF NEWS TODAY SO LET’S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT’S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> I BELIEVE I CAN COVER CONTENT. NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO GO TO JAIL FOR SMOKING WEED. AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS RECOGNIZE THAT FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SENT TO JAIL

FOR SIMPLE MARIJUANA POSSESSION. >> IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT, PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS HOSTED THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S FIRST EVER PUBLIC EVENT ON MARIJUANA REFORM WITH RAPPER FAT JOE. KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, WHO HAS TAKEN EXECUTIVE ACTION TO REFORM MARIJUANA LAWS IN HIS STATE, AND INDIVIDUALS WHO RECEIVE PARDONS PRIOR OFFENSES. NOW, THIS COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED HE DIRECTED HIS CABINET TO REVIEW THE FEDERAL CLASSIFICATION OF MARIJUANA AND SAID THAT HE’S, QUOTE, EXPUNGING THOUSANDS OF CONVICTIONS FOR MERE POSSESSION BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD BE JAILED FOR SIMPLY USING THE DRUG.

LET’S BRING BACK PANEL, MIKE, JOHN, CHRISTINA AND JOINING OUR PANEL, ABC NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND PEDIATRICIAN AT STANFORD’S CHILDREN’S HEALTH, DR. PATEL. NOW, CHRISTINA, WILL THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S SUPPORT OF MARIJUANA REFORM MOVE THE NEEDLE WITH VOTERS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER ONES FOR THE REELECTION CAMPAIGN? >> ABSOLUTELY. RIGHT NOW, WE’RE AT A HISTORIC HIGH WITH 70% OF ADULT AMERICANS SUPPORT THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A POPULAR POLICY WITH YOUNG PEOPLE? LEGALIZING MARIJUANA AND ESPECIALLY WITH COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HARMED BY THE WAR ON DRUGS. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT LEGALIZING ITS USE, IT’S ABOUT ADDRESSING

LONG TERM HARM THAT HAVE BEEN DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTING, ESPECIALLY AND BROWN COMMUNITIES. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FORMER SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER SITS ON THE BOARD OF A CANNABIS CORPORATION WHERE HE OVERSAW POLICY, WHERE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE SENT PRISON FOR SIMPLY SMOKING AND USING MARIJUANA. SO IT IS LONG OVERDUE, POPULAR. AND IT’S GOING TO MAKE MY JOB OF MOBILIZING VOTERS THIS ELECTION A LOT EASIER, I’LL TELL YOU THAT. >> NOW, JOHN BIDEN HAS USED HIS CLEMENCY POWERS TO PARDON SEVERAL PEOPLE CONVICTED NONVIOLENT CRIMES AND THE COMMUTE, THE SENTENCES OF DOZENS OF INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF NONVIOLENT

DRUG CRIMES. NOW, YOU’RE A FORMER PROSECUTOR WHERE YOU COME DOWN ON THIS. >> WELL, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE HOUSE IS TAKING A FLOATER. AND WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS GOING TO RESONATE WITH YOUNG ADULTS, LIKE CHRISTINE SAID, AND I THINK IT WILL TO SOME. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS, IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM, YOU DON’T GO TO PRISON FOR POSSESSING MARIJUANA AND YOU GO TO PRISON FOR POSSESSING INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE. THAT MEANS YOU’RE A DRUG DEALER. THAT’S A VERY BIG DIFFERENCE RIGHT. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS, THIS IS A POPULAR THING THAT

WITH RESPECT TO ADULTS, I’M JUST NOT SURE IT’S GOING TO RESONATE AND MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE IN THE CAMPAIGN. THINGS LIKE GAZA AND ISRAEL, THOSE ARE GOING. THE CONCERN ABOUT HIS AGE, THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT THAT, TOO. SO I THINK THIS WILL BE IN THE NEXT. >> BUT IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A GAME CHANGER. NOW, MIKE, ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE REFORM OF MARIJUANA LAWS, AFRICAN ARE ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING MARIJUANA POSSESSION LAWS AND NEARLY TIMES THE RATES OF WHITES. YET BOTH ETHNICITIES CONSUMED AT ROUGHLY THE SAME RATES. HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, V.P. HARRIS, TO SPEAK OUT ON THESE INEQUITIES? >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LOOK AT AN EQUITY IN HOW THIS EVEN POSITION AND THE CONVERSATION IS EVEN GOING RIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO, AS CHRISTINE WAS MENTIONING, THE IMPACT NEGATIVELY AND CRIMINALITY IS INVOLVED AGAINST BLACK AND BROWN. BUT YOU START HAVING THE DYNAMIC OF OPIOID USE, THEN IT BECOMES A HEALTH CARE ISSUE. RIGHT. I THINK WE HAVE TO GET THAT PERSPECTIVE, JOHN. YES, THEY ARE BEING ARRESTED FOR DRUG DEALING AND DRUG POSSESSION, BUT I CAN’T RECONCILE IS THAT THE PATCHWORK OF A SYSTEM THAT

WE HAVE STATES WHERE IN SOME STATES IT’S LEGAL TO USE AND TO SELL CANNABIS, OTHER STATES IT’S NOT LEGAL OR TO SELL CANNABIS. SO YOU HAVE SOME INDIVIDUALS TO SUPPORT SUPPORTING BLACK AND BROWN WHO ARE LOCKED UP IN PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTING WHERE YOU HAVE SOME INDIVIDUALS IN SOME STATES WHO ARE STILL MAKING OFF OF CANDIDATES, THEY’RE ABLE TO WALK AROUND AND FLIP FLOPS AND BOARD SHORTS . AND SO WE HAVE TO DO THAT. SO WITH THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW ABOUT THE CLASS IFICATION OF THE DRUG ITSELF WILL HELP TO BEGIN A NATIONAL LEGALIZATION LEVEL SO

THAT WE CAN GET RID OF THE AND THE INEQUITIES OF PRISON SENTENCING VERSUS, THOSE WHO ARE ACTUALLY MAKING MONEY OFF OF THE LEGAL SALE OF CANNABIS. >> YEAH. NOW FOR A MOMENT, MY PROSECUTOR AND LIKE I THINK MIKE’S RIGHT, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME UNIFORMITY. IF MARIJUANA IS LEGAL IN SOME STATES RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN’T EVEN USE BANKS BECAUSE FEDERALLY MARIJUANA’S STILL ILLEGAL. SO WE’VE GOT TO HAVE SOME OF STATE SYSTEM NATIONWIDE FOR MARIJUANA. AND I THINK THE WAY IT’S DRAWN PROBABLY THE RIGHT WAY TO GO. >> AND DIGITAL AD CAMPAIGNS NEEDED TO WEIGH DOWN

IS SAYING YOU CAN’T DO DIGITAL AD CAMPAIGNS BECAUSE THERE’S NOT FEDERAL. LOT OF ISSUES TO TALK ABOUT HERE, YOU GENTLEMEN. THAT’S RIGHT. BUT I WANT TO GET TO DR. PATEL RIGHT NOW. RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA THAT’S BEEN LEGALIZED, SEVERAL STATES. AND THERE’S ALSO PEOPLE WHO NEED IT FOR MEDICAL USE. DO YOU AGREE, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, WHEN SHE SAYS THAT PRISON ISN’T THE ANSWER, WHEN DEALING WITH MARIJUANA USE? >> I DO. I THINK THAT WE’RE DECADES AWAY FROM LOOKING AT MARIJUANA AS AS A RESTRICTED SUBSTANCE AND THE CRIMINALIZATION. I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE POPULAR THAT WE’RE HAVING

THE CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT. WE’RE BALANCING WHAT YOU MENTIONED, THE FACT THAT RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA LEGALIZED IN 24 STATES, 38 STATES ARE ALLOWED MEDICAL MARIJUANA. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE’RE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE POTENTIAL FOR RESEARCH AND ALL THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN THE FUTURE. AND BY MOVING AWAY FROM CRIMINALIZATION WE HAVE WE WILL POTENTIALLY UP RESEARCH DOLLARS AND MORE INTEREST IN THIS SPACE. >> WE’VE GOT TO BE REALISTIC PEDIATRICIAN HERE. I ALSO SEE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE USING CANNABIS. YOU KNOW, IN THAT AGE GROUP OF

19 TO 30, WE’RE IN AN ALL TIME HIGH. NO INTENDED OF CANNABIS USE. >> AND THERE’S A LOT OF UNKNOWNS IS EFFECTS ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM ON THE DEVELOPING BRAIN. WE ARE SEEING MORE AND MORE KIDS, ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN AND MIDWESTERN STATES USING DELTA EIGHT THC, WHICH IS REGULATED DIFFERENTLY. THE DELTA NINE, THC. SO THERE ARE SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS THAT WE INEVITABLY ARE GOING TO RUN INTO, BUT WE NEED TO BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION. AS MARIJUANA BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AND MORE ACCESSIBLE. >> IT’S ALSO A DEMOCRATIC ISSUE ,A DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN ISSUE, TOO. LET’S CONTINUE

TO TALK ABOUT JOHN BOEHNER. THERE ARE REPUBLICANS INVOLVED. AND THERE’S ALSO, TOO THERE’S NOT A YOUNG PERSON ISSUE. THIS IS A BIG ISSUE FOR ADULTS . WELL, AS WELL AS FOR FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN NEGATIVE IMPACTED BY THEIR LOVED ONES BEING LOCKED UP IN PRISON. >> SO THIS IS AN INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUE, TOO, AS WELL. IT’S A MASSIVE ISSUE AND SEVERAL QUESTIONS REMAINED UNANSWERED. MIKE, JOHN, CHRISTINE AND DR. PATEL, THANK YOU. COMING UP ON OUR LAST CALL, SOME OF THE BIGGEST STARS OF MOVIES, TV AND MUSIC HEADING TO THE ACP IMAGE AWARDS THIS WEEKEND AS

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NOW. >> YOU HEAR THAT BELL. TIME NOW OUR LAST CALL EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING FOR THE 55TH AND ACP AWARDS. THEY’RE COMING UP TOMORROW NIGHT CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN FILM, TELEVISION, MUSIC. AND SO MUCH MORE NOW HAS AN EMMY, GRAMMY AND GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER, QUEEN LATIFAH TO HOST THE PROGRAM FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW ON THE FILM CATEGORY THE COLOR PURPLE IS IN THE LEAD WITH 16 NOMINATIONS THIS YEAR AFTER THE MUSICAL REMAKE WAS SHUT OUT OF THE OSCARS, RECEIVING ONLY ONE NOMS. NOW, LET’S BRING BACK MY PANEL. MIKE, YOU GO TO THE SHOW. >>

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST AS A VIEWER THIS YEAR? >> JUST EXCITEMENT, THE FUN, THE ATMOSPHERE. BUT I’M REALLY EXCITED AS HOW THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDS IS INCLUDED OFFICIALLY IN THIS AWARDS SEASON. WE’VE ALWAYS KIND OF LEFT IT OVER THERE. AND IT’S OTHER POSITIONED, BUT IT IS DEAD SMACK IN THE MIDDLE NOW OF EMMY AWARD SEASON AS OF THE CONVERSATION. AND THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY AND PROUD OF HOW MUCH THE IMAGE AWARDS AS WELL. >> ALL RIGHT, CHRISTINA, WE’RE FRESH OFF A SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF USHER BEING

GIVEN THE NAACP PRESIDENTS AWARD? >> I JUST HOPE HE DOES THIS WITH HIS SHIRT OFF SO WE CAN ALL SEE THAT AGAIN. YOU KNOW, I THINK IT’S EXCITING TO SEE BLACK CULTURE CENTERED AND UPLIFTED, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THE RECOGNITION. WHAT WE DID SEE AT THE OSCARS IS BECAUSE BLACK COMMUNITY HAS BEEN ORGANIZING AND UPLIFTING THEIR OWN CULTURE, WHICH IS AMERICAN CULTURE POP AND LAUGHING WITH THE SHIRT OFF. >> I’M THAT GETS A LOT OF PEOPLE EXCITED. NOW, DR. PATEL THE COLOR PURPLE IS BELOVED AS A NOVEL ON BROADWAY AND NOW TWICE HAS A

FILM THAT HAS THE MOST NOMINATIONS. HOW DO YOU THINK IT’S GOING TO FARE? >> I THINK IT’S GOING TO HOLD UP STRONG. I’M ACTUALLY REALLY SURPRISED THAT IT WAS NOT NOMINATED MORE ANY OSCARS, CONSIDERING HOW INCREDIBLY WELL-MADE IT WAS. I’M ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE COLOR PURPLE AND AMERICAN FICTION BECAUSE I THINK BOTH OF THOSE ARE IN CREDIT FILMS. >> AND I JUST WANT TO THROW THIS OUT THERE. BUT I FEEL LIKE THE GOOD ACTION AND THRILLER MOVIES GET SNUBBED AT THE OSCARS. >> AND I SAW DENZEL WASHINGTON GET, THAT NOMINATION FOR OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR FOR

THE EQUALIZER THREE. AND I’M LIKE, YES, I LOVE THAT ACTION. >> AND COMEDIES ALWAYS GET LEFT OUT. WHEN WILL THEY GET? SOME LOVE THAT, JOHN. YOU GET THE LAST CALL. WHAT DO YOU SAY? >> WELL, IT’S THE FIRST FILM THAT WAS THE BEST CRITIQUE. CHRISTINE EVER HAD. >> SO KUDOS TO CHRISTINA THAT. LISTEN, ANYTIME HE CAN CELEBRATE AND HIGHLIGHT AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN. IT’S A GREAT THING FOR AMERICAN OR MAKE AMERICA BETTER. SO LET’S KEEP IT GOING AND MAKE IT BETTER AND STRONGER GOING FORWARD. >> ALL RIGHT. THAT IS OUR LAST CALL FOR

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