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>> breaking overnight, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken arrives in ukraine as a top general sounds the alarm about russian forces gaining ground, capturing more territory near ukraine's second largest city. >> another scare at church? >> calm down and just get next to your child and go slowly. >> a teen gunman tries to enter this church during a first communion service just days after a man at a different church pointed a gun. at this pastor. the new push to protect places of worship. >> new video just in another line of deadly storms sweeping the south. what to expect today. president biden set to announce major new tariffs on china, including on cheaper electric cars. >> the debate over the impact on u.s. consumers. >> she's being called the miracle baby, weighing only 1 pound one ounce at birth. her long struggle to finally go home and later mopping up never felt so good. >> or so expensive. the new $700 floor cleaner from abc news.

>> this is america this morning. >> good tuesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you i'm rhiannon ally. we want to begin with former president trump's criminal trial. his former fixer michael cohen is preparing for day two on the stand. >> it comes as we learn about security concerns at the courthouse. a lawyer for stormy daniels says daniels wore a bulletproof vest to court when she testified last week, fearing for her safety. but today, it's once again cohen's turn in the spotlight. >> do you have any messages for donald trump today? >> michael cohen returns to the stand this morning at former president trump's hush money trial, after telling the jury yesterday how he silenced women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with trump. >> it has to be a game changer for both sides, because he's the one who really lays out the elements, or he's trying to lay out the elements, to that, the prosecutor needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. >> trump is charged with falsifying business records linked to a $130,000 payment to actress stormy daniels,

prosecutors say the payment, made days before the 2016 election, was to prevent voters from hearing daniels story about their alleged affair, which trump denies. >> you've got no evidence and i'm innocent. on the stand yesterday, cohen testified about a scheme with national enquirer publisher david pecker, who agreed to publish positive stories about trump and stop negative ones from coming out, telling the jury that as the 2016 campaign got underway, trump warned him be prepared. >> there's going to be a lot of women coming forward. cohen testified that when he learned that stormy daniels was trying to sell her story, he felt it would be catastrophic for the campaign, saying trump agreed. he said to me, this is a disaster. a total disaster. women will hate me. guys may think it's cool, but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign. cohen says trump ordered him to make sure the story didn't get out, testifying trump wanted to kill the story because of how it would affect his campaign, not his family, as the defense has argued. cohen said he wired the $130,000 to daniels. >> cohen fronted the money. he

said he fully expected to be paid back, and he took out a home equity line of credit. he said to his own wife wouldn't find out. he told the jury she would not understand if $130,000 went missing from their joint bank account, prosecutors say trump did reimburse cohen and illegally falsified business records to cover it all up by making it look like a legal expense, experts say the ultimate test for cohen will be during the defense's cross-examination. >> cohen has spent time in prison for lying to congress and has admitted to lying on trump's behalf. >> he's basically lying for money, right? that's his boss. so the way you were willing to lie for him when you get a paycheck, well, now the hatred that you have, you're willing to lie against him again here today. that's the kind of spin you got to put on it. >> cohen today is expected to be questioned about those financial documents at the heart of the case before he's cross-examined. >> breaking overnight deadly storms hitting the deep south. this reported tornado was spotted in sulfur, louisiana. at least two deaths in the state are being blamed on the storms.

thousands of people lost power, and to the north, a funnel cloud was also spotted near this golf course in branson, missouri. meanwhile a lightning strike knocked out power on a runway at houston's hobby airport, reports. repairs took several hours, causing delays and even some cancellations. we will check your forecast coming up in just a few moments. the port of baltimore is one step closer to fully reopening after a controlled explosion brought down the largest remaining section of that bridge that collapsed back in march. >> explosives were used to cut through the steel, sending pieces flying off that cargo ship. it's been stuck for seven weeks now. after crashing into the bridge, causing it to collapse. the ship's crew has remained on board. they're critical for repair efforts. they hope to move the dolly back to port this week. >> another terrifying moment at a church service is raising questions about security. this time, an armed teenager disrupted a first communion just days after a pastor at another

church had a gun pointed at him. this morning, churches around the country taking new steps to keep their congregations safe. after several recent security scares, including a 16 year old gunman disrupting this mass at a louisiana church that this sacrament, a live stream, captured the terrifying moment saturday at saint mary magdalene catholic church in abbeville. a man approaches the priest during a first holy communion ceremony. moments later, people get up from their seats and look toward the back of the church as clergy crouch behind the altar to calm down and just get next to your child and go slowly. while the suspect never appears in the video, the church says when he opened a back door, parishioners confronted him and called police. the church now plans to keep uniformed officers at all future masses in god they chose. >> jesus. >> days earlier, a gunman interrupted this mass in pennsylvania, pointing a gun at

the pastor. the gun jamming before the man was tackled by parishioners. that man is now charged with killing his cousin. the body found at his home nearby. >> we're sitting there with my mom and they started shooting back in february, a woman opened fire at joel osteen's megachurch in texas. >> she was killed by off-duty officers. now more churches are looking to beef up security. some are holding regular training programs, which more people are reportedly attending. new federal funding has been approved to help increase security for places of worship, and some police forces are now training how to respond. specifically to a church shooting. back to that incident in louisiana, that 16 year old suspect is now undergoing a mental health evaluation and breaking overnight. >> secretary of state antony blinken has arrived in ukraine looking to reassure leaders there that the u.s. has their back. blinken's unannounced visit to kyiv follows congressional approval last month of a long delayed $60 billion in aid for ukraine, and

it comes as russia scores significant progress on the battlefield, capturing new territory near ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv. a top ukrainian general says his forces are stretched thin now to a big economic decision from president biden announcing major new tariffs on china, especially on electric cars. but is this really good for the u.s. consumer? abc's perry russom has more. perry. good morning. >> andrew good morning to you. the president announcing new tariffs on chinese goods today. it comes as a new poll shows him slipping behind former president trump in five battleground states. this morning. president biden set to impose new tariffs on chinese goods, including a quadrupling of tariffs on electric vehicles made in china from 25 to 100. the administration argues these taxes will level the playing field and protect american businesses, specifically carmakers like this chinese made electric car called the seagull sells for just $12,000 in china,

experts here praising its build quality if introduced to the u.s. market, analysts say it could leave companies like tesla and the big three automakers racing to play catch up with relatively modest investments they most likely could, and it could become a competitive threat here, electric sales have struggled in the u.s. tesla produced 46,000 more cars last year than they were able to sell, and is now renting parking lots for unsold cars. other u.s. automakers like ford have scaled back production, citing slow demand. but not all industry observers are praising the tariffs, one critic writing instead of just de facto banning the competition from giving americans access to affordable hot new evs, the u.s. should instead try making affordable, hot new evs itself. >> i think it's a clarion call to the industry. it says this is the benchmark, this is what we have to look at. >> and this comes as a new poll shows biden trailing trump among registered voters in michigan, home to the big three automakers. and the war in gaza

is also hurting biden's standing among michigan's large arab american population. brianna. >> all right, perry, thank you for that. we have a new look at an emergency evacuation of a delta airlines jet. images from our station in seattle show flames erupting below the cockpit. last week, emergency slides were deployed to get the passengers out safely. the fire started after the plane was already connected to the terminal's electrical network. >> time now for your tuesday weather. the same system that spawned a reported tornado in louisiana also brought heavy rain and golf ball sized hail. southeast of san antonio. some damage and minor flooding was reported, but no injuries overnight. that system was moving to the east. it brings a severe storms to florida. this morning and heavy rain to georgia and the carolinas. checking today's high temperatures, 50s and 60s in the midwest and nearly 80 in new york and boston. 70s on the west coast, triple digits in south texas >> coming up, the new wave of

home burglaries in the suburbs. >> also ahead, pageant problems at miss usa. two winners giving up their crowns in recent days. now their mothers explain why. >> and later a very rare

the first time, their own mothers speak out on why on good morning america, police across the country are reporting a rash of break ins by south american burglars targeting upscale homes . >> authorities held a town hall in a detroit suburb last night where county officials have seen burglaries amounting to $1 million in stolen goods per week. the thieves are highly skilled, working in teams to stake out expensive houses and returning when no one's home. >> we're very concerned. like all of our neighbors, they've done pre-op surveillance we've seen here and across the country utilizing trail cameras, remote battery operated cameras,

trackers on cars and even drone units. >> police urge homeowners to set up security systems with hardwired cameras and keep some lights on. now to the troubles plaguing the miss usa pageant. >> two winners giving up their crowns in recent days and now we are hearing from their mothers for the first time since their resignations, the mothers of miss usa, noelle lavoy and miss teen usa umma sophia srivastava are speaking out about what prompted their daughters to give up the crowns they had worked so hard to achieve. >> they need to tell their own story because it's not right that they are silenced for the rest of their life. >> the beauty queens claim a toxic work environment is to blame. voight even mentioning bullying and harassment. but they are bound by contracts, which include confidentiality clauses. when voight posted her resignation online, the sentences appeared to begin with letters that spelled out i am silenced. both mothers spoke to

good morning america's erielle reshef. >> if your daughters were sitting here without an nda what would they say. >> they will the job of their dreams turned out to be a nightmare. >> yeah they definitely and what they wanted to achieve together to gather as because they have such similar backgrounds such as similar platform impacting young people with their books, with their experiences. >> voight claims she was made to feel unsafe at events, which she says culminated in being sexually harassed. in giving up her crown. she says she wanted to focus on her mental health. the miss usa organization responding, saying it respects voight's need to prioritize her mental health. as for srivastava , her miss teen usa runner up also declined the crown, telling the new york post i didn't feel like it was the right decision considering all the circumstances. no comment yet from the ceo of miss usa about

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