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breaking news this morning, andrea is here. millions of americans will feel the effects. high winds and rough surf rakes across florida. some of the nation's biggest cities in the cross hair. is the phone tapping scandal spreading new details? the battle begins. will it be experience or youth? the jaw-clenching end to game one of the nba finals. the day we celebrate delicious fried balls of doughs. national doughnut day. something to warm our hearts on such a gloomy day at least. >> friday and doughnut day. >> good news and bad news.
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hey, we'll take it. okay, well, good friday morning to you. millions living along the east coast face the threat of major flooding. >> raleigh, north carolina, new york city, boston, in the storm's bull's-eye. >> seeing the damage it has caused in florida. surveillance cameras caught this 200-year-old tree crashing down on st. petersburg area restaurant. more than a dozen terrors touched down in the state yesterday including this one near palm beach. up to 5 inches of rain have fallen in southern georgia already. it's moving up the coast and rain falling from georgia to canada. the next vulnerable area is the outer banks. reporter john camp is there. >> reporter: a fireworks display canceled and a warning from the coast guard issued to boaters. stay off the water. for many here who have seen other more serious storms roll through, the threat posed by andrea may not seem like much of a threat at all. >> we got hit where we had to evacuate the island then we
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were, you know, no power for several days, no hot water for two weeks. >> reporter: but while there's almost no chance of andrea being remembered like that, we are expecting it to pick up with the very real risk of flooding in much of southeastern, north carolina. i'm jon camp for abc news in wrightsville beach, north carolina. thank you, jon. the forecast from another member of the extreme weather team, accuweather's jim dickey? >> we continue to track andrea, made landfall in florida thursday evening. continues to spin its way off the north. soaking rainfall as it rolls its way up the eastern seaboard by 8:00 a.m. this morning. it will be over eastern south south carolina, then interacting with the storm moving out of the ohio valley so rain comes down in bucks up the eastern seaboard through the day. many spots multiple inches by tonight. john and diana, back to you. >> all right, jim, thank you. keep it here for "good morning america." sam champion is in the thick of it this morning again. he will have the latest on
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"gma." moving on now to other developing story, new information about another supersecret government surveillance program. >> monitoring activities online apparently going on for years and abc's devin dwyer joins us with the details. >> reporter: good morning. the whistle-blower who exposed the top secret program to "the new york post" says it was a massive violation of privacy. the government can watch your ideas form as you type. it's for electronic information, top secret documents leaked to "the washington post" revealed for the first time that the national security agency can tap directly into the servers of nine major internet companies. able to see everything from google e-mails to facebook photos to apple ichats. >> it is sweeping, it is not what i would expect out of the united states. >> reporter: the classified program code named prism began in 2007 during the bush administration and has been repeatedly renewed by congress.
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officials say it does not target anyone inside the u.s., only focusing on suspected foreign terrorists overseas. >> we've got to examine ways to be able to get things that can prevent plots from hatching and americans from being killed. >> reporter: a separately to "guardian" newspaper verified by the obama administration says they were covertly collecting phone calls from every american. they call it a critical tool. >> within the last few years there was a domestic case that was thwarted because of their ability to do this. >> reporter: news of the program has reignited debate about domestic spry spying and striking a balance between privacy an security. >> i think they revoked my privacy rights by doing that. >> if it prevents me from getting blown imi'm all for it. >> reporter: the obama administration officials say all of this is legal approved by
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special intelligence court and there are extensive safeguards if place here. as for those nine internet companies involved, five of them flatly deny any knowledge of the prism program. diana and john? >> all right, devin, what are we are hearing from top u.s. aggressive officials? >> reporter: this a rare e-mail james clappard say they could tip off america's enemies to what we're doing, make it harder for the u.s. to track them and says the leaks give a misleading impression and that the government is not listening in to americans' phone calls or snooping in their online accounts. john and diana. >> all right, devin, thank you in washington for us this morning. well, president obama wakes up this morning in california where later today he'll begin historic summit with china's president much the two met at the white house 16 months ago. among the most -- the issues almost certain to come up in their conversation is cybersecurity, china's reported high-tech spying is considered a top threat by the obama
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administration. and north korea's disputes with its neighbor south korea is also likely to be on the agenda. just this morning the north proposed new talks with south very in an effort to mend recently strained relations, the hope is to have those on sunday. so far no confirmation from seoul that they will happen. all right, queen elizabeth's husband having exploratory surgery today at a london hospital. buckingham palace saying the operation was planned several days ago after prince philip had tests on his abdomen. he attended a garden party yesterday and turns 92 on monday. he's expected to leave the hospital in two weeks. russian president vladimir putin and his wife are getting a divorce. in a rare public appearance together the couple went to the ballet and then they announced to a reporter their marriage was over. just two months shy of their 30th anniversary. putin and his wife acknowledged they hardly saw each other because of their work and say it is a mutual decision. a major milestone on capitol hill today for congressman john dingell. the michigan democrat is now the
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longest servest member in congress' history. he is 86 years old beat the record previously held by late senator robert byrd. a look at the weather across the nation, aside from all the rain that andrea is dumping along the east coast look for scattered showers in the midwest around minneapolis, choug chicago, des moines and st. louis. thunderstorms in the northern rockies. 90s from sacramento to boise, 109 in phoenix. 60s in the midwest, 66 for new york. 77 in baltimore and 80s across the west. all right, well, still ahead why it's a critical morning in the economy. an important report just hours away. plus, new details from that building collapse in philadelphia. what we're learning about who was inside. and where to get your free treat on this national doughnut day.
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we are just hours away from the all important release of the may jobs report. investors have been waiting for this all week. it is likely to show that about 169,000 jobs were created last month. that would be enough to appease wall street and enough to keep the unemployment rate at 7.5%. employers have added an average of 196,000 jobs a month this year. there is well above the 120,000 needed to keep the unemployment rate from going up. now, despite the concern about the jobs report, wall street rallied yesterday staging a 200-point turnaround. it's now back above 15,000. a new sign the economy is recovery. most of us earned back most of t
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the money lost in the housing bust and stands at a record high of $70 trillion. a saudi prince suing "forbes" for underestimating his wealth. they ranked alwaleed bin talal at $20 billion. he says he's worth 30 billion and claims "forbes" deliberately squeezed him out of the top ten. like we said, we hate it when that happens. >> i really do. >> trying to make him look bad. >> not cool, "forbes." this happens to be the happiest day of the year especially for john. it is officially national doughnut day created in the 1930s to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers in world war 1. dunkin' donut, krispy kreme and tim hortons will give them away for free. some with a purchase of a drink so check your specific store. >> i don't think i'll have
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another for awhile. i had three this morning and are having a doughnut coma. >> this is from the doughnut planet. gourmet doughnut overdosing on them, carrot cake and all kinds of different flavors you don't find at dunkin' donuts. >> now the crew can tear into it. >> yes. >> we've had our fill. when we come back, game one of the nba finals, it's in the books, plus could the fastest man on earth be slowing down? usain bolt's surprising loss. and they're going to need more than a skimmer to clean out this swimming pool. how did the suv end up in the drink? coming right back with that. [ male announcer ] technology. it's pretty amazing. because it saves things. [ cellphone beeps ] like your marriage. [ boys laughing ] sanity. [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] and time. oh, and money. technology saves lots of money.
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jersey. a live look at the wicked weather outside already. and it is expecd to get a whole lot worse throughout the entire day and the night. all right, andrea is putting a big damper on the morning commute flooding roads from georgia to maine. a wet ride from amarillo to albuquerque just south of denver, as well. slick times in the northern rockies and upper midwest. if you're flying, airport delays are possible for virtually all of the east coast from atlanta all the way up to boston. all right, well, the first lawsuit filed in connection with that deadly building collapse in philadelphia. it claims it violated safety standards. >> people in the neighborhood had been warning it was in danger of falling down and abc's ron claiborne is there. >> reporter: rescue teams completed their search. they had found no one not since a 61-year-old woman was brought out injured but alive. >> john just felt to see if he could field a person under the pile. she moved. she just wanted to get out of the hole. he held her hand.
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he gave her water because we had access to her but as soon as we cleared an area she tried to walk out on her own. >> reporter: rescue teams used dogs, motion detectors, even sonar, and tracking cell phone signals to owners. among the six dead, ann brian, a 24-year-old arts student shopping at the thrift shop that was crushed. myra plekam who was rescued was lucky, trapped 13 hours. others survived in collapsed buildings far longer. in the 2010 haiti earthquake, a child survived eight days buried in rubble. earlier this year, a woman lived 17 days in the wreckage of the garment factory collapse in bangladesh. experts point to the rule of threes as the keys to survive. you can't go more than three minutes without air, more than three days without water, three weeks without food. here in philadelphia, the big question was, why the collapse happened in the first place. >> there was no block. no bracing. nothing holding it up. it was just kind of standing there blowing in the breeze.
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>> reporter: and we learned the demolition had not been inspected by the city. it didn't have to be. it is not required. with no survivors left to be found, what was left of the collapsed building is being taken down by hand, considered the slower but safer way. ron claiborne, abc news, philadelphia. pretrial hearings continue in florida today for the murder case against george zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a judge may decide whether a 911 recording of the scuffle moments before martin was killed should be admissible. yesterday the judge denied a defense request to let some witnesses testify confidentially because they fear retaliation. connecticut lawmakers are putting aside up to $50 million to pay for a new school to replace the scene of last year's massacre, sandy hook elementary where 20 children and 6 adults were killed. it will be torn down and replaced by a new building. the money was approved by legislators yesterday. justin bieber has joined the list of high-profile celebrities willing to pluck down a quarter million dollars for a trip into space. the biebs will travel aboard
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richard branson's virgin galactic spaceship responding to a congratulatory tweet justin bieber said let's shoot a music video in space. a close call for a san diego woman after she drove her suv into a neighbor's pool. there it is. police think she stepped on the gas instead of the brake driving through her own garage, two fences before landing in the water. she's okay, just embarrassed of the that's a long way to accident al a aally to do that. big comeback in the nba finals. here's espn. hi, i'm hakem dermish with your "sportscenter" update. we begin with game one of the nba finals. lebron james looking to get some revenge. first in the '07 finals. under two minutes, heat down. bad mistake by green. allen makes all three free
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throws. lebron james to chris bosh, no. heat, 5 for 8, five turnovers. lebron did have a triple-double but tony parker outdid him in the fourth. 13 seconds left. leaner, got it. tony parker, 21 points in the game, 10 in the fourth quarter, spurs go on to win 92-88. game two is sunday in miami. turning to hockey. the blackhawks in game four of the western conference finals. first period, no score. working the puck around the back of the net. kyle clifford to slava voynov, beats corey crawford. kings up. niklas hjalmarsson tips it into the zone. bryan bickell sends it by jonathan quick all tied at one. second period, still tied at one. jeff carter into the zone, sends a puck in front for dustin penner and they take a 2-1 lead. hjalmarsson's shot deflected. check out patrick kane.
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kane with the equalizer. third period, michal handzus to marian hossa for the game winner as the blackhawks win, 3-2 and take a 3-1 series lied. that's your "sportscenter" update. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. one more sports note. spiptsing great usain bolt says that losing a race is a good thing. >> really. there he was running fourth from the top of the screen, starts well but he's edged at the line by justin gatlin of the u.s. gatlin's margin of victory, 0.01 seconds. police find something strange in a car. how you can tell the government's tapping your phone in the funnies. he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪
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time to check "the pulse." we start with a unique take on the government's surveillance story. >> take a look at this picture from "the huffing post" online. a combination shot of president obama and george w. bush. is that not freaky or what? the name of the banner headline, george w. obama, all references to similarities in the program overseen by both presidents. that's creepy. i can't even look at it. i don't know who it is. woo! >> both exactly the same. of course, the entire controversy right now providing funny material for the late night comics. >> take a listen to a sample of what they said last night. >> it's been a rough couple of weeks for obama. this comes on the heel of the irs scandal and before that there was benghazi, even the cra crackheads of toronto are like, rough week, hey. there you go, barry. >> i'm conflicted here, folks. on the one hand this proves obama is a tyrannical despot who ignores all the rules.
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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning at 4:28. it's friday. it's friday. i say it ties because i know you love the way it sounds. >> it's friday! >> we will find out more about the heat. >> we look at cloud cover this morning. there is a lot of cloud cover. temperatures in the 50's. when we look at the forecast today some areas are going to warm 40 to 45 degrees. you can see how low the clouds are. we can barely see the top of the bay bridge. 86 from petaluma to 99 in brentwood inland. around the bay from 70 in san francisco and 85 around mountain view. the coast will be 65 to 68.
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>> we have quiet conditions as we head along 24 in lafayette we have a stalled car on the eastbound side as pleasanton hill road. but we have clear conditions with stop speed in both directions. in san jose, this is another area with construction projects but it looks like traffic is moving smoothly on 101 toward sunnyvale and 280 in the northbound direction toward cupertino. we will go outside and look at the toll plaza with clear conditions and everyone is sleeping in. you can see no crashes to report but we have construction in the westbound direction blocking a lane and eastbound three lanes are blocked until 6:30. >> commuters could be sleeping in but president obama is waking up in the bay area ready to give a major speech on health care at a whirlwind flight of fundraising with silicon valley movers and shakers. matt keller is at the san jose
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fairmont hotel where the event is taking place. matt? >> we are down the street from the fairmont hotel where the president is saying overnight and you can see there is a big security presence. no cars are allowed to stop on park avenue. police have south market street block off. president obama spent last night at two fundraisers leaving portrero valley after 9:00 last night at microsystems co-founder and guests paid $2,400 to attend and there was a reception at a palo alto home of a founder of flip board. >> about education, about the challenges in congress to get things through, about compromise and, of course, keeping optimistic about america and the dream. >> a lot of people lined the road to get a look at president as the motorcade drove by. he was back in san jose at

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