good morning, america. what really happened to flight 370? six days in, confusion reigns. the most promising lead yet from these satellite images dashed overnight as a scary new theory emerges. did the plane keep flying for more than four hours to a mysterious location? could it have been hijacked? our own reporter on the search from the air this morning as the u.s. navy races to help. breaking overnight. deadly crash in austin. big movie tech festival. two people killed and at least 23 are injured at south by southwest. what caused a driver to crash through barricades and right into a crowd? developing now. rescue workers searching the rubble in new york city after a powerful blast leveled two buildings in a heartbeat. at least seven dead, more than 60 injured. look at the astonishing before

and after. we're live at the scene. after 11 straight victories, the "jeopardy" mastermind who made waves with polarizing strategies finally stumped and off the show, but he's here live. ♪ >> good morning, america. and good morning, america. robin off today. this malaysian flight mystery continues to deepen. most of us went to bed with these images in mind right here. that's a satellite photo from china said to be debris from the flight. the malaysian officials say this morning there is nothing there at all. now, a new theory emerging overnight about where the plane could be. possibility that it could have flown for hours, several hours. officials now knocking that down, too. every lead that comes up seems to evaporate. >> so many theories.

and now u.s. investigators are on the scene. they're focussing on those missing nine minutes after the transponder was turned off but the plane kept on flying. >> so let's get right to it. officials wrapped up the latest press conference a short time ago. and abc's bob woodruff is on the scene in kuala lumpur again right now. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, george. there have been so many theories about this story. today a very interesting one came out. a report maybe there was data shared indicating that the engines were still operating for four hours more than when it disappeared. in fact, it may even flew 2,000 miles away, but that story today, the malaysian officials absolutely deny it. this morning malaysian officials knocked down reports that malaysia air flight 370 could have flown for more than four hours after it vanished from the radar insisting the last it heard from the plane was a transmission at 1:07 this morning just before it disappeared. >> those reports are inaccurate. >> reporter: not only that but the one seeming glimmer of hope dashed overnight. these three chinese satellite

images, which appear to show large pieces of floating debris, just 140 miles east from where the plane disappeared, and about 240 miles from where an oil rig worker said he saw a plane on fire in the sky, no debris was found in either place. >> we deployed our assets but found nothing. we have contacted the chinese embassy who notified us this afternoon that images were released by mistake and did not show any debris from mh370. >> reporter: officials say their focus remains the south china sea. no word if they'll expand it which covers an area of 27,000 nautical square miles, the size of indiana and spanning a distance greater than chicago to atlanta. all of this highlighting how difficult this search is. for abc news, gloria riviera this morning joined a search party desperate for any clue. >> we just banked hard right. i thought the wind would touch the ocean surface because the captain wanted to check out

something they saw. it was that big. turned out to be a fisherman's box. >> reporter: those search and rescue teams are saying not only are they just looking for debris, they also have this great hope that maybe hopefully they'll be able to find some of those people still alive. george? >> much more work to be done. >> indeed. all right. as bhengsed, there are new questions about flight 370's final moments in those key nine minutes of no communication, but the plane still showing up on the radar. abc's david kerley is live in washington with the latest on this, good morning to you, david. >> reporter: lara, we learned this morning that u.s. aviation investigators have now seen all the radar data the malaysians have. but there's still this mystery that led to a discussion of possible theories because of these missing nine minutes. something happened to this 777's ability to report to the ground. was that because of a massive electrical failure? was the crew incapacitated because of a lack of oxygen or did the crew actually turn off the equipment? all questions raised by the missing nine minutes.

we know the plane took off from kuala lumpur at 12:41 a.m. 40 minutes later, the 777's jet liner's transponder, its signaling device sent its last bit of information, location and altitude of 35,000 feet. then the transponder goes silent but for another nine minutes, radar continues to see the plane moving until 1:30 a.m. when it disappears. the malaysian military says 45 minutes later, its radar tapes show something way over here on the other side of the malaysian peninsula. but they admit they have no idea what it is. as the general said it's very difficult for us to say for sure that it is the aircraft. among the u.s. investigators, part of the team from the ntsb, the faa and boeing is a radar expert who got a first look at that radar data. there have been plenty of questions about the split search on both sides of the malaysian peninsula. the malaysians say today they were told by the u.s. investigators who now looked at

this radar data that were grounds to search on both sides, including the malacca straits, george. >> okay, david. let's analyze this all with our aviation consultant, stephen ganyard. bottom line six days in, no progress. >> no progress, george. we know absolutely nothing since 49 minutes after the aircraft took off. everything else is a guess, it's supposition. they're false leads. >> our reporter raising the question, what if it didn't crash? how serious do you take that possibility? this plane could have flown for hours and actually landed somewhere safely. >> it's possible. at this point anything is possible. we have to continue to look at anything. so we know that it was going to go to beijing. we know it had at least seven hours of fuel on board. took a string on a map and went to beijing and drew that arc out there, that's where that airplane could be. seven hours, it could be in somalia, in yemen, it could be in india. >> and it would be able to land undetected? >> it's possible. remember that part of the world is very remote. there's not radars in every place. we know the radar transponder

which threw out all this data was turned off or perhaps electrical failure but no longer any data coming from this airplane. >> you have to take hijacking seriously. what's the single most important thing for investigators to do right now? >> right now we need to get facts. and i think the most encouraging thing that we heard today was that the faa and the ntsb are finally being brought into the investigation. we finally have professionals involved in this mishap investigation and they did not dissuade the malaysians from thinking that perhaps that airplane did take that turn west. >> what can they do that the malaysians can't? >> they're true professionals they'll be able to analyze in scientific ways that the malaysians don't have the capability of doing. they've done so many investigates that they can look at, bring in and new capabilities and new techniques. the air france 447, they brought in new technologies there, a search pattern, all sorts of science that can be applied here that has yet to be applied. >> you've been doing this a long time. have you ever seen a mystery like this? >> this is baffling. five days in and i can tell you

if we were having a drink in a bar i could not give you an idea what had might have happened. everything is on the table at this point. >> thanks very much. to josh -- we're going to go to lara right now. >> thank you so much, george. we want to bring you breaking news on the fatal crash overnight at south by southwest, it's a festival in austin, texas, a man and a woman killed. 23 others injured when a suspected drunk driver fleeing arrest crashed through barricades and abc's john muller has the latest. john, this is so senseless. >> senseless, tragic, it was horrible. the carnage was over in less than a minute. the alleged drunk driver plowing the wrong way down a one-way street filled with people leaving a concert. a man and a woman killed instantly. and this morning, some of those critically injured are still fighting for their lives. >> just came straight through the crowd. people went everywhere. it was really, really terrible. >> i know i saw at least a dozen people lying injured in the street. >> unfortunate. very sad. >> reporter: this morning, the normally bustling south by southwest scene in downtown

austin turned deadly when a suspected drunk driver fleeing cops crashed through the barricades into a crowd of people killing two, injuring at least 23 others. five of them critically. >> people went up in the air. the guy nearest to me went sort of face down into the ground and people gathered around him very quickly and he was clearly hurt and he was bleeding on his face. >> reporter: according to police, a man in a small toyota evaded a police stop at a nearby gas station. then drove the wrong way down the street. plowing through the barricade hitting pedestrians striking a taxi, a van and then attempted to run from the scene. but police caught up to him and shocked him with a stun gun. >> he was the sole male occupant driver. and he has been taken into custody and he will be charged. we will direct file. >> reporter: the aftermath, painful. victims laying on the street, some receiving cpr from strangers who rushed to their aid.

police have not released the name of the driver but say they will charge him with capital murder. and it could have been even worse, the street was packed full of concertgoers just a few minutes earlier. officials had managed to thin out that foot traffic that was actually in the street because it was a fire lane. george? >> that festival is so packed, as you said. could have been so much worse. thank you, john. >> thank you, guys. we turn now to the latest on that horrific explosion that took down two apartment buildings here in manhattan. rescuers combing through the rubble found more bodies overnight. the death toll at least seven. more than 60 injured. and abc's ryan smith is on the scene. good morning, ryan. >> reporter: good morning, george. as you can see over my shoulder the scene still very much active in east harlem. smoke continuing to billow from the buildings as crews pouring water clearing massive amounts of debris from the scene in hopes of finding those still missing. this morning, dozens of manhattan residents are waking up without a home. a devastating explosion leveling these two five-story buildings on wednesday.

>> get back. get back. >> reporter: killing at least seven, including a public safety officer and a dental hygienist and injuring 64 people, among them, two fbi agents. >> we have two five-story buildings totally collapse. >> reporter: dozens remain in hospitals or shelters while a handful are still missing. >> there will be a thorough search to try to find or locate each individual. >> reporter: residents say they remember smelling what they call unbearable gas tuesday night. alerting energy company con edison the next morning, 9:13 a.m. 15 minutes later, the large blast erupted. >> oh, oh. get off the sidewalk. >> pulling people out of the [ bleep ] building. >> reporter: the wall started coming down. i was so scared. i didn't know what to do. i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: two construction workers running to the scene to help. rescuing a young boy from the rubble. >> he was just saying help. we just grabbed him and brought him down to the cops and we just ran back. >> reporter: the blast so

strong, flying debris held up the commuter train service for hours. overnight, the red cross setting up in this nearby elementary school. helping the displaced with food, emotional support and finding a place to stay. >> no one thinks disaster will happen to them and when it does, there is a sense of shock. >> reporter: while heavy equipment trucks move in to clear debris, many residents left wondering when, if ever, they can go home. and search efforts remain all the more difficult last night by whipping wind, dropping temperatures, even a sinkhole that opened up right in front of the building temporarily. that halted efforts for just a little bit of time last night but as of now, speaking of the displaced, the red cross just telling us that at least 60 residents are being housed in a temporary shelter nearby. george. >> okay, ryan, thanks. what a scary day it was here in new york. now to josh. >> all right, george. we begin here with some dramatic new video overnight. a tanker truck carrying gasoline crashed and exploded on a busy highway in newark, new jersey.

police say the driver may have been cut off by another vehicle just before the crash. you can see it shut down the highway. even disrupted, in fact, nearby amtrak and commuter rail service. no word yet on the extent of the driver's injuries. also new information overnight about that massive recall by general motors which is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation. gm has revealed it may have known about faulty ignition switches in compact cars as far back as 2001. that's three years earlier than first thought. those faulty switches are blamed now for causing crashes that killed at least 12 people. and a new push this morning to change the prison sentences handed down to drug offenders. today attorney general eric holder will endorse a plan to shorten sentences for most low-level drug offenders by an average of 11 months. holder says it will reduce prison overcrowding and create a more fair justice system. some 70% of drug traffickers would be affected by the new guidelines. some tough questions are expected on capitol hill today

as lawmakers investigate the rising number of severe head injuries in professional and especially youth sports from soccer to professional football. the nfl is sending a top executive to answer questions today. the commissioner of the nhl will also attend the hearing. speaking of hard hits, take a look at this. a sky driver in florida admits he is lucky to be alive after wind blew him into those power lines. he somehow cut his way out of his gear, dropped to the ground. walked away with just minor burns inspiring the question once again why jump out of a perfectly good airplane. >> agreed. also this morning amazon is being sued accused of cheating customers on free shipping. at issue the company's prime membership program that provides free two-day shipping. now two lawsuits claim that amazon inflated prices to cover the cost of that shipping so it wasn't really free in the end. amazon has yet to respond to the claims. and finally, and of great interest to my producer.

when you pay extra for a large beer instead of a small one, you are right to think you'll be getting more beer. not so. at least according to one lawsuit filed by some hockey fans in idaho. they say that centurylink arena in boise duped them into believing a $7 beer is bigger than a $4 beer. logic, people. this is science. unassailable. when in reality they say the cups hold the same amount. >> no. >> the large cup is taller but also skinnier. no comment from the arena yet. >> busted. >> why are you passing that concern off to your producer? >> because ken nealand, he searches for truth. okay? he hunts down -- he hunts the big -- >> a patriot. >> he is a big-game hunter. he wants answers, george. and kenny will get them for you.

>> now we will be pouring it back and forth in bars. >> no, we won't. >> thank you, josh. so many questions about this next story. a new investigation into the popular health company herbalife. the company announced it is under investigation by the federal trade commission. in the aftermath of one hedge fund investor calling it a pyramid scheme and abc's rebecca jarvis is here to explain it all. rebecca. >> reporter: hi, lara. there are billions of dollars at stake here. a lot of ego. investors bet huge amounts of money on the success and failure of herbalife and now this morning after over a year of bitter public battles between top wall street titans, regulators are investigating herbalife. questioning how the nutrition company runs its business. herbalife known to many for its total control weight loss supplements making headlines this morning after announcing it's under investigation by the federal trade commission. >> is the company operating as a pyramid scheme and making more money through recruitment or selling the product legitimately.

>> reporter: it markets various energy snack, vitamin supplements and skin care products made $4.8 billion in sales last year with 3 million distributors in more than 90 countries. now it's up to investigators to determine whether any of that was earned through unfair or deceptive acts or practices. herbalife says it welcomes the inquiry and is confident that herbalife is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. but not everyone agrees. a hot topic for epic billionaire battles on cable news between hedge fund titans bill ackman and carl icahn. >> let's move on. >> ackman calling herbalife a pyramid scheme and lobbying regulators and members of congress to investigate and placing a $1 billion short sale bet that herbalife's stock will drop and the company will fail. and drop, it did, after news of the investigation hit wall street. shares of herbalife stock

plunging yesterday after the stock was briefly halted at one point down as much as 16%. they ended lower by more than 7%. so what happens next? you can bet the stock will be volatile. experts say the investigation could last as long as a year and typically in cases like this if the ftc finds anything wrong at the company, it recovers money that was lost by the affected consumers, lara. >> all right. rebecca. thank you. we want to get right to ginger zee for the latest on the weather. ginger. >> the cleveland, ohio, area is where i wanted to start. it represents so many people and what we went through the last couple of days. this is just 24 hours. so you're in the 50s. and drop 50 degrees. actually 60s here in cleveland. it's snowing and also this is what happened on the ohio turnpike. at least three dead. just huge accidents both sides closed for really hours yesterday. it was a complete mess and this is still going on. i want to bring you now to maine, farmington, maine, it is north of portland and seeing some of that blowing snow so it's not just the snow,

remember, it is that wind at 40 to 60 miles per hour, some places got somewhere around a foot and a half of snow and now it'll blow around and the highways and side roads still going to be a mess. look what it feels like. poor people outside. i keep looking at them. the windchill is 4, 9 below for pittsburgh. 25, nashville. atlanta even with some freeze just north of them. the local forecast coming up in just 30 seconds. first the windchill forecast brought to you by royal caribbean international. good thursday morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist

mike nicco. bay area microclimate forecast sunny today without the pesky wins. still warmer than average. record highs this weekend. the transition to cooler weather next week may smashing some rain. as far as today's temperatures, how about upper 60s along the coast. into san francisco, low to mid 70s for the rest of us. a few clouds are possible along the coast and around the bay tonight, with temperatures in the 40s mainly. accuweather seven-day forecast, 70s and 80s this weekend. >> the best news i have for you, everybody hold on one more day. we can get through this and then it gets better through the weekend. >> allegedly. >> thank you for that, ginger. coming up on "gma," dramatic day in the trial of oscar pistorius. the gut-churning crime scene photos, the blade runner covering his eyes in court. also, caught on camera. new details on that wild high-speed chase after a carjacker stole a mom's vehicle. her little boy still in the backseat. >> terrifying to watch. the latest on the new jersey teen who sued her own parents, why she's now moving back home.

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look at this wild police chase caught on camera. carjacked a minivan from a mom. her 4-year-old was trapped in the backseat. we're going to have all the details ahead. the boy is okay. reunited with mom. we'll have all that coming up in a little bit as we say good morning. robin off. sara haines here. >> that video just so terrifying. we'll get into that. then the latest on the trial of oscar pistorius. shocking crime scene photos and the blade runner covering his head and face in court. also ahead here, the latest on the teen who sued her parents for her private school tuition didn't work out so well. she's now going back home, so

that's going to be interesting. also interesting, one of the great runs has finally come to an end. one of the great champions of our time ginger zee is with them in social square. >> right over here, "jeopardy" with arthur chu. you've gotten to know his face of the i feel even more stupid standing next to you, arthur. you have sent in questions to try to stump arthur. give it a pull. the social slot machine. number one, the whole category is very exciting. the category is renn reaissance. bought celly was buried here in 1510. >> the cyst ten chapel. >> and the answer -- >> okay. >> i don't know. judges? sorry, florence, italy. wrong city. >> chu-chu train. >> that is question one. you get to do more, arthur.

don't worry. >> we've got to come back later. thank you, ginger. right now the latest from the oscar pistorius trial. another gruesome day in the courtroom and abc's matt gutman is on the scene in pretoria, south africa. good morning, matt. >> reporter: that's right. for the first time in court we saw those gut-churning crime scene photos. from where i was sitting a few benches behind oscar pistorius i saw him writhing in his seat then when pictures of his girlfriend's bloody face flashed by on a screen a few feet from his face he became physically ill. this morning for the first time those grisly crime scene photos. his blood smeared prosthetic legs and blood pooled on the bathroom floor where he shot his lover saying he shoot she was an intruder facing murder charges for killing reeva steenkamp, and covering his eyes when the pictures were shown. when a picture of steenkamp's

bloody face passed by he started heaving and covering his face with those papers. a mock-up still in court. pistorius says he smashed through that door with a cricket bat once he realized his mistake. and that bat so closely scrutinized that even the judge wanted a closer look. on wednesday a prosecution witness dropped what seemed a bombshell. >> marks on the door is actually consistent with him not having his legs on and i suspect similar to the location he was when he fired the shot. >> seeming to have caught pistorius in a bold lie. but the defense put the police colonel under a witt othering assault. >> he must have had his legs on when he used the cricket bat. >> that's your version. >> that's your version. >> my findings. >> would that follow? >> no. >> reporter: alleged key evidence including that door was mishandled. at times pistorius passed notes to his lawyer and craned his neck to see that door.

that's the door that the prosecution presented today in which oscar pistorius used that cricket bat to smash through it. but if you look closely you can see the four bullet holes. teen camp was hit by three of those four bullets. pathologists say the 29-year-old model died nearly instantly. the only person that knows exactly what happened that night is in the courtroom oscar pistorius. we're told he will testify in the trial. it's very likely he will be the first defense witness called. sources tell us they want him to set the tone for the rest of the trial. george. >> okay, matt gutman, thanks. let's talk to dan abrams right now about this. we heard from matt likely to testify. but oscar pistorius, is he in any shape to testify? >> he better be. when you're talking about a defense that focuses not on did he do it, but why did he do it? what was going on in his head? he becomes an absolutely critical witness and the devil is going to be in the details. remember, he's already provided an account in connection with

his bail application of what he says happened. so he's got to stay consistent with that. my point being this is not going to be easy testimony for him and as a result he better be ready. >> he's barely able to hold it together in the courtroom. some suggest he may have some posttraumatic stress syndrome. >> his lawyers are certainly going to take him through everything. they'll take him through a mock direct examination, cross-examination, make sure he's ready but to some degree they don't have a choice in a case like this. yes, they could present -- leave the case to the judge. he doesn't have to testify. but because of the facts, because of the type of defense you're talking about here, they've got to figure out a way to get him in shape to testify. >> is the decision affected by the fact it is a judge, not a jury? >> it could be. i don't know that in this case it makes that much of a difference because of the defense but judge versus jury definitely will impact almost every decision being made by the defense and prosecution. but i think in this case they have to. >> so far has the defense made

any headway. >> the best thick they've gotten the fact his ex-girlfriend testified he was often concerned about possibly intruders, that he would jump up sometimes worried that someone was coming into the house. that's exactly what he is saying happened here. so having someone who is now testified, this is the type of behavior he's exhibited before. i think it's very helpful to him. i think this whole attack on the police is helpful to them, but isn't going to make or break the case. >> okay, dan abrams, thanks very much. george, let's get to the carjacking and high-speed chase in colorado. a denver area mom horrified as a man races off in her suv with her 4-year-old son in the backseat. the video you're about to see is from our station in denver, kmgh. you can hear the reaction from the anchors as they watch it unfold. abc's clayton sandell has the story. >> he just passed moo he. >> reporter: the race to stop this stolen suv crisscrossing denver kicks into overdrive when

police realize the suspect has a passenger. >> we do believe that the 4-year-old is still in the vehicle. >> reporter: 4-year-old allen was in his mom's car. she ran inside for coffee leaving the engine running. "when i came back out the car wasn't there anymore." she says. little allen still in the backseat as the suspect, 28-year-old ryan stone, makes his next move. all on live tv. >> uh-oh. he's stopping. he'stoing. looks like he's carjacking that person right there. putting that person out of the -- >> oh, my god. >> reporter: stone leaves the boy behind but speeds on sometimes going the wrong way. >> he is now coming up to a busy area right here. >> reporter: here he clips and seriously injures a state trooper who was trying to puncture the car's tires. the trooper was lucky. he's expected to fully recover. >> he just ran into somebody. you saw him right there. >> in danger unknowingly.

>> oh. >> uh-oh. oh. let him go. >> okay. >> oh, my goodness. >> oh. >> that -- >> third automobile today. >> one hour and half a dozen crashes later -- >> oh. oh! >> oh, my goodness. >> we just saw that collision. >> reporter: -- stone finally gives up. allen with his teddy bear and now reunited with family is okay. >> what happened in the car? >> we flew. >> reporter: "we flew," he says. police say they're letting mom off the hook. the family's high-speed trauma punishment enough. for "good morning america," clayton sandell, abc news, denver. >> mom and that little boy so lucky. if that's not proof to never leave your car running for even a nanosecond. >> three different carjackings in the same day. incredible video there. let's go to ginger with the weather. >> good bumps the whole time. not just because it's cold.

some news on this roller coaster. here we go on the way up, click, click, click but there's got to be a down. that's why we only did a three-day forecast because in new york saturday we're in the 50s then the downhill. dallas in the 30s, this morning in texas and you go up into the 70s so things are on the improving side but watch this as we look in the southwest, the mild air already in place and actually in california a little bit of a better day because slightly less wind, los angeles, 71. having the santa ana. fire danger. now it's moved east with all this wind especially for the mid-atlantic and northeast the next couple of hours, that's going to be a big issue so keep good morning. i'm mike nicco. expect a lot of sunshine and calmer conditions today. mid to upper 60s at the coast. low to mid 70s inland. above-average once again. it will be even warmer this weekend in your accuweather se morning menu" is brought to you

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a new twist in the case that hit home for a lot of parents. an 18-year-old new jersey honorroll student who sued her parents trying to get financial support even though she moved out of their home. while the high schooler now back in the home and abc's mara schiavocampo is here with the story, mara, this is like grounding to a new level. >> yeah, indeed it is. she's back, lara after a judge rejected the teen's request, the family finally reunited. making the announcement representative said they never wanted this attention and hoping this is the end of the legal and emotional drama. this morning, 18-year-old rachel canning is once again waking up under her parents' roof. >> as far as my client is concerned, ancient history. it's done. >> reporter: the new jersey honor school and cheerleader reunited with her family tuesday night. the reunion the cannings' lawyers said not contingent on

any financial or other categories. >> i give credit to the parents and young lady to realize this was the right result and something that just got out of hand. >> reporter: so out of hand, the fight landed in front of a judge. the high school senior suing her parents for financial support including her private high school tuition living expenses and future college tuition alleging they kicked her out of the house when she turned 18. >> i believe she is a vulnerable young woman and her parents aren't taking care of her. >> reporter: but the cannings countered their daughter left of her own accord because she didn't want to follow their rules. >> college education, that comes with living under our roof. >> we gave her the ultimatum of breaking up and she didn't want to give up her boyfriend. >> reporter: she was staying with the parents of a friend who was paying the estimated $13,000 in legal fees. the judge ultimately denied her request for financial support last week fearing a dangerous precedent would be set.

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dorado. again, epic do-overs. i just want to say -- >> josh elliott with the what is -- >> can i say this, arthur chu, one of the great champions in the program. the fact he willing to do this live on the air and as mentioned hasn't been studying as one does during the run of the show, arthur chu, a standing ovation. i want to say i wanted to you stay on that program, as entertaining to watch as i've ever seen. >> looking forward to talking to arthur. news on jennifer aniston, opening up sharing her secrets to health and happiness and the one food she loves so much that she says she'd even eat it off the floor. >> okay. that might be the talker of the morning. another one, though, a new ruling could mean no more new dads in the delivery room. why mothers could have the right

now to keep them out so ywe wan to hear you what think on goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! should moms be allowed to ban dads from the delivery room? yes or no? >> i would imagine it would depend on how much mom and dad like each other. >> stems on the situation. and then i'm excited to share this story with you. story about two servicemen and one dog who brought them together, changed their lives in the most special way. >> i cannot wait for that one. news first from josh. we're following several breaking stories right now. first in texas where an alleged drunk driver fleeing police drove into a crowd of people at the south by southwest festival in austin killing two people outside of a bar injuring nearly two dozen others. five people suffered critical injuries in the crash. also breaking right now, search crews here in manhattan have confirmed a seventh person

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children and their families to a special screening of "the muppets most wanted" movie. kermit said while he may not be a marine, as he factually accurately points out he is, in fact, marine life so that would -- it is a great thing to be able to gave back to all those families as we remember it's the families who serve, not just the servicemen and women. >> yeah, great to see kermit next to all those medals. >> yes and we'll be able to give back a little more with the muppets. they're here friday. >> and "pop news" coming up with sara haines today. first some weather from ginger. >> ah. that's how we're all feeling out here. i've been out here -- i've been out here for 30 seconds and i'm already tearing up. f-l-o-r-i-d-a. >> florida. >> warmer than we are. but we're not starting there but in the windy washington, d.c. where the capital did have lights out for awhile. this morning, it is very cold. the windchills throughout the

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star turns on "gma." >> in military island, that's right. it was our '80s week. >> that was so great. >> yes. >> i mean peter gabriel probably would have worked with it more than idina menzel -- >> "let it go." >> pop us. >> jennifer aniston has revealed her secrets to happiness and it turns out she's a huge fan of nachos. she says she loves the mexican snack so much that if she dropped it on the floor she'd eat it anyway. she also sold "self" magazine videos of puppies never fail to make her smile and huge sucker for singing contests on tv and you can read more on "self" magazine. i'd never eat a nacho that hit the floor and i do a lot of things. >> churchier than i started. >> how many nachos do you think she eats. >> based on that. >> she seats two and she's satisfied. >> a couple of smart ones. >> what would you eat if you

dropped it on the floor? what do you love that much? >> dry cereal because it's not going to pick anything up. >> the five-second rule. >> you know what -- >> wait till you have kids. you'll eat a lot. it is time to break out your thigh high boots. the biggest rom come is heading to broadway made famous by julia robs and richard gere re-created on the stage with garry marshall helming the new adaptation. >> wow. >> so quotable too. we love a celebrity in "pop news" and we're excited to introduce a feline getting a mega-amount of felines. jarvis. the cross-eyed cat. jarvis is named after the glasses wearing rock star jarvis crocker and harry potter's sidekick. he was abandoned as a kitten but now has a happy home after being adopted by a shelter volunteer in california. jarvis, we're very pleased to

meet you and take a look over there in social square powered by samsung, jarvis' owner sent us a picture of him saying good morning. >> oh. good morning, jarvis. >> the woman that adopted him had adopted 300 but never kept one until jarvis. >> fostered 300. not at the same time. that would be weird. >> we call that burying the lead. >> really. >> thank you, sara. we move on to that the legal fight over fathers in the delivery room. a new jersey judge banned one dad from the delivery room because the mom did not want him there. a controversial ruling and abc's reena ninan has the story. >> reporter: dads in delivery rooms, a pretty common fixture these days seen in the movie "knocked up." >> give her the epidural. >> reporter: now a nuj judge ruled expectant moms have the legal right to keep dads out. laura's client estranged from his baby girl's mother didn't want to miss his daughter's first moment. he went to court. >> his main concern was seeing

his daughter when she was born and being able to bond with her. >> reporter: the judge went one step further ruling in favor of the mom's right to privacy in the delivery room. noting the mom is not required to tell the father she's going into labor, not required to allow him into the delivery room. >> in this case clearly applies to unmarried couples. how it extends to married couples, i don't know. >> reporter: for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >> okay, we wanted you to weigh in. we asked in our flash poll whether moms should be allowed to ban dads from the delivery room? here are the results. 55% say yes and 45% say no. let's get some perspective. dan abrams back. our chief legal affairs anchor along with dr. jennifer ashton. the legal side. >> banning them from the delivery room is the easy call here. it's her call as to what she wants to do in the delivery room. the harder -- >> even if they're married. >> even if they were married i think you could make an argument.

you could be totally estranged and not in the best interest of the child to have a problem in the delivery room. so that seems to me to be the easier call. the tougher call and the reason i was troubled by this decision is the judge didn't seem to need to get that child into the hands of the dad quickly. meaning he's basically say, yes, he'll be able to visit at the hospital, et cetera, with a dad who wants to be part of the process who's saying i want to know when the labor is, i want to be there, i think the judge should have created the situation the minute that child is born dad is going to have a right to bond with that child, to be with the child and i think there's an argument to be made dad should have been informed -- there should have been an effort to say she should use any reasonable means to inform the father that she's have the baby so i think the judge here went a little too far and also i think extended some of the constitutional principles into a case that's really just a family law case. >> let's get dr. jennifer ashton's take. doc, what do you think?

>> most stories have medical and legal angles and, boy, this one is definitely a doozy. in this country, we tend to deliver babies in a medical environment. so my perspective here is purely medical. the concern is the pregnant woman and her fetus, those are my two patients and my concern will always be first and foremost about their safety and i've definitely been involved in deliveries where the dad's behavior has compromised patient care. either they faint or they make a scene and then it takes the eyes off of two patients. it happens. >> good point. i don't think we want to ban dads for fainting. good point. thank you both. all right, guys. yeah, it's a good point. we turn now to -- ? surprise i made a good point. >> i didn't realize the jury was out. the "jeopardy" champion who won close to $300,000 of course, the answer is, who is arthur

chu? the great one. the daily double seeking trigger buzzer fingering fellow is here now to tell us how he became one of the biggest, one of the most controversial winners in the game's history but first let's take a look back at his amazing run. >> last night the reign of arthur chu as the mastermind "jeopardy" champion ended. >> it's going to cost you 6400 dropping you to zero. >> reporter: as one of the most successful runs in "jeopardy" history ended. an 11-game winning streak which chu raked in close to 300 thousand how. >> arthur's game. >> reporter: from the beginning this polarizing contestant stirred controversy with his unorthodox strategy. >> who is dr. mo rchreau. >> reporter: the tactics are simple. number one, what are daily doubles? go to the higher numbers hunting for those money makers. tactic number two, what is the

forrest bounce. >> my regards -- >> named after a former contestant it means bouncing from category to category hoping to throw off opponents. and tactic number three, what is the buzzer system? real easy important one. get buzzed in first. >> arthur? >> but after a few missteps -- >> what is the two pen in i opera. >> no. >> reporter: even this most extraordinary thing had to come to an end. >> david chu -- arthur chu. arthur, it was compulsively watchable. >> thank you. >> and for really the reasons we just stated. this unconventional strategy of yours but this is something that you actually did a lot of research into. >> right, right. i spent a lot of time -- well, it wasn't a lot of time because i had 30 days between being called and know i would be on the show. there is a huge community of "jeopardy" fan, past "jeopardy" champions that talk about this stuff just sitting around and

discuss the games as they come on every night and immerse yourself in the culture and find out about strategies like that, you know and put together the pieces. >> it sort of paid off, almost 300 granldz. how did your family reacty. >> my mom was really happy. she was there watching all my games. she lives in l.a. i called my wife and said i have some disappointing news, some bad news. i'm going to have to take another day off work and fly out here again and she was -- actually got her for a second. she almost fainted. >> have you thought about how you'll spend the money? >> i've thought about it. the main thing is, you know, don't want to do anything crazy or stupid. i have been strategic and want to in the future. we do want to go to china. she's never been and want to see relatives i haven't seen for a very long time and, you know, maybe start thinking about buying a house in the future. >> there you go. >> i do want -- we are, in fact, will be joined by another great

"jeopardy" champion. he had a message for you. so do we have it? >> hi, arthur, this is he, ken, jennings, i just wanted to say you have nothing to be ashamed of. congratulations. you were on the show for a long time. you were on the show for -- you were on the show for how many games? for 11 games? you were on the show for 11 games. 11! i do 11 like before lunch. >> i wonder as i walk back into the social square. somebody like ken jennings, he loomed for you. i know that was a guy that motivated you as you were pushing along. we're going to walk him in. i know you've been -- it is not easy taking these questions live he here. what do you say we give that another pull. >> it's "gma" "jeopardy" time. all right. meanwhile, viewers, not something you can study. >> playwrights.

this irish born playwright is the only one to win an oscar and nobel prize for literature. i need the answer in athe form of a question. >> who is george bernard shaw? >> who is george bernard shaw. >> the quick answer. >> ah. [ applause ] >> the one, the only. >> and you are back. >> arthur, seriously, congratulations. >> thank you for playing in social square. >> thank you so much again and congratulations to the chu-chu train. now it's time for "deals & steals" and it's kid centric. tory johnson is selling products all made in america. these will fly. go to our website goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! for the promo codes and links you'll need to get these bargains, must get to it. voila. >> so a classic the kinnects company based in pennsylvania have all these sets. you can make cool things like this or whatever it is that you dream of making starting with an 800-piece set, a 50-piece set on

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carolina radziwill is our twitter mirror. the housewives. >> also this brand-new production of "les miserables" back on broadway and the cast is here this morning for a very special live performance. the most popular musical of all time. >> i was there at the sound check. >> i might sing. i know this is a programming note. i might. >> this is a good one. >> oh, yes, i'm thrilled to share this with all of you. this is a story of healing from wounds of war especially the psychological wounds, a terrific organization called the warrior canine connection helps do this by bringing together wounded soldiers and man's best friend and i recently sat down with two soldiers whose lives were changed by one very special dog.

justin lansford and his girlfriend love doting on their golden retriever but there's much more to this four-legged friend. what does he mean to you. >> the less i use my chair, my wheelchair, the more i need his help in small tasks and the more he's there, it's been very comforting to know that. >> reporter: can you tell me about your injury? how it happened? >> i was a paratrooper in the 82nd airborne and we were in eastern afghanistan and 2012 we struck an ied and it ripped my truck completely. i had to have my right leg amputated. >> reporter: he was introduced to the warrior canine connection. what are some things you couldn't do before gabe. >> there were things more significantly different. i have a prosthetic lubricant.

he'll run and grab my spray so i can put my leg on. >> what a good boy. from there it just kind of snowballed helping me with one thing to the next. he can help me to and from the ground. i can use him as kind of a brace and i can lean on him to get on to and off of the ground. >> reporter: gabe is always at the ready and it begins from the minute justin comes home. how does he help you get in and out? >> well, he can open the door. come here, gabe. here. get the door. good boy. good boy. >> good boy, gabe. every day. >> good boy. >> anything you need. >> everything i need. >> reporter: at 2 years old he's been working with him as a service dog for five months. he isn't the first life he has touched. >> dismount patrol in afghanistan/pakistan border i see a kid, 15 years old. suicide bomber.

knew what it was. >> reporter: what do you remember from that moment? >> i just remember a big, you know, loud noise, you know, big flash and i remember landing. >> to help with his posttraumatic disorder his doctors suggest he work with a puppy named gabe a candidate for the warrior canine connection. >> it was hard to go back into public without being on edge that it made others uncomfortable. >> in training gabe, it really helped heal you. >> i ended up going with gabe on the metro. >> could you have done that without gabe? >> not a chance. and, you know, it's funny so we went on the metro, we went to a grocery store, by the time i got done with the grocery store i remember sitting there and talking to a couple people that i was with and myself more or less myself like i just did that. >> we're involving the service members in the process of training the dogs and through that process, they're teaching the dog that the world is a safe

place to incorporate that same notion that the world truly is a safe place in the civilian world. >> reporter: spencer hasn't seen gabe since he finished training and become gabe's service dog but this day he traveled from maryland to colorado. the two met who had never met sharing such a special bond. >> look at you. look at you. so handsome. >> reporter: it's pretty remarkable to think that one dog could have such an impact on two lives. >> i owe everything to gabe. i mean, i would jump in front of a bus for gabe in a heartbeat, you know, and i know he would do the same for me. i know he would do the same for justin so that's the kind of connection you have. >> i never had a chance to say thank you to spencer for working with gabe and getting gabe to a point where he could work and help me and being able to see spencer face to face has been awesome.

>> i want to say thank you to both of those men for letting us into their lives and spencer was really sad to leave gabe but he knows they're a family now and they will forever be bonded by gabe and what he's done for both of their lives. this program is unbelievable. they have a new litter of puppies coming out. you can go to their website and look at the puppies and support them in any way you can. >> that's good. thanks for bringing us that story. just incredible. that's all on goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! i hope my dogs were watching. >> yeah. >> they can get me my notes. let's get a final check of the weather with ginger in our social square. >> we're actually outdoors. including a good friend, one of my old students i used to teach at my alma mater. this is ellen. she works at wcti in where -- >> new bern, north carolina. >> let's get right to your forecast. we have pictures from all over from that storm and, of course, it is now just leaving new

england. but there's darien, illinois and jay peak resort. what do you do with a not and a half of snow or two feet in just 18 hours? you ski. yeah, you do but then you warm right up. indianapolis right in the mid-50s by saturday. little rock is also going on the way up. 68 for your kickoff of the weekend. oh, that's a brisk wind out here, isn' good morning. i'm mike nicco. expect a lot of sunshine and calmer conditions today. mid to upper 60s at the coast. low to mid 70s inland. above-average once again. it will be even warmer this weekend in your accuweather seven-day forecast. >> all that weather is brought to you by miracle whip and now we have a question for you. do you ever feel like you just want to look a little bit younger? maybe you look too old for your age. "gma" wants to help. a couple of lucky viewers will lose ten years in just 60 minutes. you fill out the nomination form on our website,

goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! tell us why someone you know or yourself should be winding back the hands of time. i know i'm going to need it after standing out here. all of us will. josh. >> hi there, ginger. we're just swapping old basketball stories. by we i mean myself and ramon rodriguez here in the social square. he is certainly enjoying life in a fast lane figurative and literal -- now, he is going to be in that new movie "need for speed" playing a mechanic. an expert on engines, drives a beast literally and trying to make sure certain mustang makes it to a finish line. we had aaron paul here yesterday, ramon, good enough to be here. i want to get everybody involved. a lot of people with questions. if you can pull that slot machine arm for the first one. >> here we go. >> your first question of the morning, what kind of training did you go through to prepare for the movie role because,

again, all these stunts live. not a lot of cgi. >> not a lot of cgi and, you know, coming from new york city born and raised i was on the train a lot, you know, riding mta so i did get to have cool stunt driving training and learned to manipulate some cars and stunts, 360s and reverse 180s and spent some time with the beast. >> you were driving the big truck. >> i got to drive the big truck, it was the beast and got to do some stunts in it which was pretty exciting. >> refueling scene. >> a big scene where i have to drive 70 miles an hour. aaron has to pull up in the mustang and maintain 70 miles an hour while my buddy climbs out of the car. >> seeing it right now. >> exactly. there it is. >> and literally we're performing -- we're doing this driving on the freeway at 70 miles an hour. very dramatic. >> to assure people -- everybody is safe. filming it all but aaron said yesterday don't do this at home.

you should not try to fuel like this if you're trying to get to work on time and you're late and you think this might be a proper way, it is not. don't do it. you can feel the camaraderie between you, aaron, and everybody -- >> there were serious bromances going on. a lot of love. we got along. a lot of good chemistry. >> i want to ask you also great new series "gang related". >> it comes out may 20th on fox. 9:00. and, you know, it's a tense drama, man. very heavy, dark show but looking forward to that coming up. >> a lot of tough choices to be made as worlds collapse. >> lapd. the guy is a detective and raised by this gang in l.a. torn on his loyalty. which gang to belong to. >> good to meet you. "need for speed" opens nationwide tomorrow. coming up still here, real housewives star

best-selling author carole radziwill star of "real housewives of new york city" knows a thing or two about ga dating. in this chip she talks about her greatest breakup. >> you read about famous couples and break up and they're all like we love each other but going our separate ways. >> yeah. >> it's all like jen and brad hugging on the beach and three

months later they're getting divorced. >> is that how it was for you. >> not how it was at all. >> so she puts her romantic experience to expert use in a new novel called "the widow's guide to sex and dating". and carole radziwill is joining us now. welcome to "good morning america." >> thank you. >> great to see you again. >> thank you. >> your first book very different than this. >> what remains is your memoir based on the death of your husband and now you move to fiction. >> yeah. which was easier? >> you know, when i was writing the memoir, i thought it would be so much easier to write fiction because you could make it up but actually fiction is a lot harder because you're only limited by your imagination so that's daunting and you can always second-guess yourself, i can make this better, more interesting but i loved doing it and, you know, i loved creating the characters and so it was -- >> i have to tell you i just kept dipping back and forth. knowing a little bit i kept thinking, is this fiction or is this not? are these just -- >> no, you know, it really is

fiction obviously. i was a young widow and people identify clair with me and that's great. i think i'm a little bit of all of the cashes but most writers write about what they know and your observations and experiences but also your imagination. >> it's juicy. it's definitely you got a little flavor. "real housewives" flavor and men and of all she dates one got my wheels churning. >> which one? >> movie star named jack sounded an awful lot like someone you dated last name rhymes with george clooney. how close to reality? >> it's, you know -- i was trying to create a character that all women would fantasize about and jack huxley is a charismatic, charming, handsome very complicated character and when -- >> any scoop, any intel? >> when you're creating any kind of character like that there will always be a little george

clooney in there whether you kissed him or not. >> well, you have. we're not worthy. >> in the eisenhower administration it was so long ago but, yeah. >> it's a great read and i know very busy with the "housewives" in the next episode you have an episode. >> i scream and i think the audience will see a different side of me. one women maybes a ridiculous accusation, a kind of scandalous about my career and colleague -- >> who is that? >> that i respect. have deep respect for and, yeah, sometimes you got to hit crazy with crazy and, you know, you grin and bear it and you rely on the audience to figure out, you know, why she's saying exactly what she does and i think she maybes it pretty easy. >> because you don't use your voice at that level very often it's very effective. we know you're not kidding around. >> no, no, i think it was very real emotion, probably the most real emotion you'll see on reality. it was like, you know, it was like taking a bullet so i was not -- i was not happy.

>> fighting fire with pyre. >> crazy with crazy. >> carole radziwill, the book is really fun, congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> it is called "the widow's guide to sex and dating" and it is in stores right now. and coming up here on "good morning america," we have the cast of "les mis" performing live. don't go anywhere.

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good morning. i'm kristen sze. tours to alcatraz island will resume this morning after high winds and rough waters canceled tours yesterday. >> definitely no white caps out there today. look how calm it is everywhere. we're less than 5, 6 miles per hour. that will be the same for the better part of the day. we'll get local breezes but they won't be anything like yesterday. temperatures will run in the mid to low 70s except at the coast of san francisco. upper 60s. accuweather seven-day forecast, near record highs this weekend. and we have a sigalert in east palo alto eastbound side of highway 84, lanes blocked out here due to a car fire. all lanes are blocked at university avenue. your drive on to the dumbarton

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