making news in america this thursday morning, terror in london. day one of the investigation and the man on a deadly rampage in the heart of the city. the british parliament on lockdown. the new details about the hero cop who saved the lives and the raids overnight. we're live in london. republicans are trying to shore up some last-minute support for the president's health care plan. this as the house prepares to vote today and the white house insists there is no plan b. new this morning police announce an arrest in the case of a woman who escaped the truck of her car, the man accused of kidnapping her. plus -- >> it was weird to spend five days thinking you're going to die alone. >> a woman stranded in the desert for days. hear how she got lost and the clues she left behind that helped save her life.

and good morning to all. we begin with some breaking news about that attack in the heart of london. police announced several arrests in the investigation. >> i want to show you some video that's just coming in right now, video of at least one of the six raids overnight in connection with the attack. police storming an apartment. this is the scene in birmingham. investigators say at least seven people have been taken into custody. >> and here's a live picture of london itself. you can see authorities are still blocking the entrance of the westminster bridge there. officials are scrambling to find clues as to what drove the lone suspect to plow his car through dozens of pedestrians on that bridge killing two pedestrians. he also fatally stabbed a police officer inside the gates of parliament. >> that officer has been identified as 48-year-old keith palmer. he was a husband and a father who was with the parliamentary protection service for 15 years.

parliament went back in session about an hour ago. it was put on lockdown during the attack and we start live with molly from london. >> reporter: new information coming out. police spoke just moments ago not identifying that attacker yet. no motivation given saying only that he was inspired by international terrorists. this morning the cleanup begins. investigators still on the scene as the sun rises over london. yesterday chaos as a knife-wielding terrorist went on a rampage using his car to mow down dozens of pedestrians on the city's famed westminster bridge. one woman falling into the water after being hit. she was later pulled from the river with severe injuries. >> there was bodies literally -- >> must have been about ten, ten bodies. >> at least 10, 12 bodies. >> reporter: the driver then crashing his vehicle into the gates outside parliament. >> i see that one car smashed through the wall and people started running all over. >> reporter: the attacker armed

with a knife ran to parliament where he fatally stabbed police officer keith palmer. one minister, tobias ellwood, his face bloodied performed mouth-to-mouth trying to save that officer. police later ending the rampage shooting the attacker. these images show one officer seeming to point his gun at the suspect with what appears to be a knife under the officer's foot. the suspect is loaded onto an ambulance but later died. the british parliament was on lockdown for several hours. >> this house is now suspended but please wait here. >> reporter: outside the bridge brought to a standstill as bystanders and first responders rushed to help the victims. britain's prime minister calling the attack sick and depraved. >> we will all move forward together never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart. >> reporter: and this morning that investigation continuing. those injured remain in the hospital and here in the city

life is back to normal and parliament is back in session. diane, kendis. >> and, molly, we've seen photos of the attacker. but right now what are we learning about that person? >> reporter: now, no identity yet. police do believe that he acted alone. last night, kendis, police said that he was inspired by islamist-related terrorism or it was islamist related. this morning they didn't say that. all they said, he was inspired by international terrorists. again, they have not given a motivation, but we should learn a lot more today from police about who this person is and what drove him to do this. >> all right. molly, thank you so much. we appreciate you being on with us this morning. and the state department is urging americans in london to avoid that area during the investigation. >> this morning we're hearing from some of the americans who went from being tourists to eyewitnesses. they had an aerial view of the attack from the nearby london eye, the ferris wheel. >> well, as soon as we got pretty high up like a quarter of the way up, we could see that something was going on on the

bridge. that's how we knew something was going on, and then more cops started coming and more sirens, so i knew something big happened. >> so far no reports of any americans injured in the attack. and president trump spoke with the prime minister there over the phone right after the attack offering both his condolences and the full support of the u.s. government. and police are increasing security at potential targets here in the u.s. including new york city. the department here says it has deployed heavily armed police units to the british consulate, the united nations and several other locations, but police say there is no specific credible threat. and experts say cars and trucks have become the weapon of choice for terrorists. they say they can document more than a dozen vehicle attacks including last summer's massacre in nice, france, and the deadly attack on a christmas market in berlin. they say it's the random nature of these vehicle attacks that makes them so dangerous. >> this method that he used is

one that isis has said to their followers to go out, get a car, get a knife, get a rock, throw people off from a tall building and go out and kill people where you are. it's an incredibly difficult situation to try to guard against because it's very unpredictable. you almost have to start looking at putting the barriers out a little further, increasing and expanding that layer of security outside of these targets. >> and security officials say they've adjusted their training to include preparing for these sort of attacks, but they admit there is no way to fully protect the public from them. the eiffel tower also turned off its lights overnight to pay tribute to the victims of the attack. three french teenagers were among the injured. both the french prime minister and president expressed their support for britain. in israel the tel aviv city hall was also lit up in the colors of the union jack. all right. well, still ahead, why the president says he feels somewhat vindicated for those wiretapping claims. and we are hours away from a major vote on capitol hill to

possibly replace obamacare. does the president have the support. we're live in washington with the late night negotiations. plus, reports of an entire city being evacuated after a weapons depot catches fire. the dramatic video coming in.

a live picture there of the capitol where a lot of action is expected in just a matter of hours. the first big congressional vote on president trump's administration hours away and seven years to the day after it was signed, the house can okay a plan to get rid of the affordable care act. >> there are some questions still over whether the gop's replacement measure has enough support. late night talks on capitol hill

may not have swayed some conservatives, or did they? abc's janai norman has the latest. >> reporter: it's do or die for the republicans' american health care act, the bill that could undo obamacare but appears to be already clinging to life support. >> the opposition is still strong. they don't have the votes to pass this. >> it's not going to pass as it stands right now unless they make major changes to it. >> reporter: the original version of the bill would leave 24 million fewer americans insured over the next decades and some older americans spending thousands of dollars more a year in premiums. >> despite the desperate last-minute so-called tweaks and modifications, trumpcare will still cause the american people to pay more for less care. >> reporter: with all democrats expected to vote no, republicans can only afford to lose 21 votes to pass the bill. but the numbers aren't quite on their side. >> did the house delay the vote? >> i think they're going to have to. they don't have the votes. >> reporter: some republicans have had a change of heart.

congressman lou barletta negotiated a yes vote in exchange for the president's promise to support one of his legislative priorities. >> and i knew if i held out long enough -- >> you'd get what they want. >> eventually they'd send the big guy in to close the deal. >> reporter: but the last count by abc news has at least 28 republicans saying they will oppose the bill as it stands, plus, a number of moderates and conservatives still on the fence threatening to land a major blow to president trump on his first big legislative push. >> there's plan a and plan a. we're going to get this done. >> reporter: it's already anticipated votes on the bill could go late into the evening and even if it passes, some republicans have said the bill would be dead on arrival in the senate, so, kendis and diane, an uphill battle either way. >> yes, and they're saying there is no plan b, so we will see what happens there in washington. >> we'll see. and president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, insists he did not work for the russian government.

the denial follows an associated press report saying manafort had a $10 million contract with a russian billionaire close to vladimir putin. manafort reportedly offered to push putin's agenda in other countries. the white house says the president was not aware of that connection. now, to the growing scandal on capitol hill involving surveillance after the presidential election. the republican chair of the house intelligence committee has revealed the government may have picked up private communications from president trump and his transition team. congressman devin nunes says the monitoring was legal but it may have been distributed improperly. democrats on the committee are furious that nunes shared that information with the white house and with reporters before sharing it with them. president trump says he feels, quote, somewhat vindicated by that revelation even though it does not back up his claim that trump tower was wiretapped. well, former vice president joe biden mocked president trump's wiretapping claims when he was asked by a reporter about the allegations. >> mr. vice president, did your

administration wiretap the trump tower? >> five or six times. no, are you serious? >> well, after the typical joe biden response there, a little sarcasm, biden called on president trump to apologize to former president obama for the wiretap claim. when we come back, a development in the case of a woman who escaped from a car trunk during a kidnapping. police have made an arrest and they are revealing some new details in the case. and a woman gets lost in the grand canyon for several days after her car runs out of gas. how she was finally located. n'ts get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase allergy relief delivers more complete relief. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. flonase is an allergy nasal spray that works even beyond the nose. so you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest.

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this as police announce at least seven arrests in anti-terror raids across england overnight. and this morning, some chilling new accounts are surfacing from people who saw all of it play out including the words from a journalist who watched the attack unfold from inside the parliament there. >> this guy had got his knife above his head. he was coming towards the policeman. it was difficult to tell at that second whether he was actually intending to attack, though, clearly as it transpired, that's what happened. at that point i ducked back into the room to share to my colleagues what was happening, there was an attack going on and we needed to let people know. i stuck my head back out and at that point i heard several gunshots and sounded to me like gunshots and that's what turned out to be the case and there were two people lying on the floor. police running everywhere. armed police shouting, clear the square, get out of here. >> not a typical day there in london. we're going to have the very latest on the attack with live

team coverage later on "good morning america." but we're going to stay in europe now and to the evacuation of an entire city in ukraine after several explosions overnight. reports quote ukrainian television saying a munitions depot at a military base blew up and a massive fire sweeping the country. listen to that. traffic jams are reported as residents flee the area. no word on casualties but local reports say sabotage is suspected. and back here at home, four people are dead including a police officer after a shooting spree in wisconsin. police say it started as a domestic dispute at a bank and then escalated into shootings at multiple locates. officers were in a standoff with the suspect for several hours at an apartment complex that ended with gunfire and a police officer killed. the suspect is now in custody. overnight police arrested and made an arrest in the kidnapping and robbery attempt in alabama. brittany diggs' escape from the trunk of a car captured on

surveillance video. police say the kidnapping was random and the suspect was released from prison two months ago on a drug charge. the victim used the light from her insulin pump to find the trunk's release latch and made her escape. a texas woman is now recovering from five days of being stranded in the arizona wilderness. authorities say she did everything right after everything went wrong. here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: amber vanhecke was sightseeing near the southern rim of the grand canyon when she says her gps instructed her to make a series of wrong turns leading her into increasingly rough terrain. >> i panicked. i drove around aimlessly. >> reporter: her car ran out of gas. she also had no cell phone signal. amber says she constructed various signs like this one near the road and this giant plea for help spelled out in 20 to 30-foot letters all throughout recording video diaries.

>> i just want to go home. >> it was weird to spend five days thinking you're going to die alone and come out and have no one know there was something wrong. >> reporter: after 119 hours, a rescue crew responding to that call first spotting her car and then that sign. linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> very smart on her part. amber was treated for exposure and dehydration and says she's feeling well and she's in good spirits and can also now mark riding in a helicopter off her bucket list so a look on the bright side. >> there you have it. we're going to move on to sports right now, and the u.s. has won its first world baseball classic. >> whoo-hoo. >> apparently that's a thing. they crushed puerto rico, 8-0 behind the dominant pitching of marcos stroman. >> the blue jays ace had a no-hitter going into the seventh inning. he was named mvp, and team usa celebrated after the game by planting their eagle statue

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and good morning on this thursday, march 23. a lot going on in the news, of course, as we talk about the terror attack and all of that but we also are celebrating national puppy day so there's something to look forward to this morning. there are puppies in the building. we'll show them tow to you a little bit later. >> i'll be the first one up there, ha ha. >> i've been watching them on the live stream already. >> already on the live stream so jump on there and watch. let's focus on weather right now. we'll talk about the puppies coming up. live doppler 7, bone dry, you'll need sunglasses today, an umbrella if you want to save yourself from the sunshine. mostly clear from the exploratorium at pier 15. much cooler this morning, look at that, 41 to 48, mid to upper 50s, kind of cool another lunch, temperatures warmer this afternoon, 56 to about 60 and

increasing and mid to upper 50s at 7:00. both commute times are dry. we will take that. and we're starting off fairly quiet this morning. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. chp issued a high wind advisory just about half an hour ago for the bay bridge. i drove across it, oh, an hour and a half ago, it wasn't too bad but maybe it has picked up just a little bit so something to be aware of. i don't think it's going to be a major issue here this morning and actually i wanted to stay on that traffic map for you. we don't have any rain on live doppler 7 this morning, maybe a couple areas with just a little bit of patchy fog. minor issue in richmond we'll check on next. developing news in the deadly london terror attack. right now, the west minister station is closed due to a police investigation. >> scotland yard has made at least eight arrests in six raids. abc news reporter molly hunter is live in london with the latest.

>> reporter: good morning. british prime minister teresa maye has announced there is at least one american victim. she also says the suspect was known here. >> we shall observe a minute's silence. >> reporter: this morning, parliament back in session, beginning the day with a moment of silence. flags flying at half-mast. yesterday, chaos as a knife-wilding terrorist went on a rampage, using his car to mow down dozens of pedestrians on the city's famed westmister bridge. one woman pulled from the river thames with severe injuries. >> there were body, at least ten. >> reporter: the driver then crashing his vehicle into the gates outside parliament. >> i see that one car smash through the wall and just people started running all over. >> reporter: the attacker, armed with a knife, ran to parliament where he fatally stabbed police officer keith palmer. one minister, tobias elwood, his

face bloodied, performed mouth-to-mouth, trying to save that officer. police later ending the am rage. these images show one officer seeming to point his gun at the suspect. the suspect is loaded on to an ambulance by later died. the british parliament was on lockdown for several hours. >> this house is now suspended but please wait here. >> reporter: outside, the bridge brought to a standstill as bystanders and first responders rushed to help the victims. britain's prime minister speaking this morning in front of parliament. >> this was an attack on free people everywhere. i would like to thank our friends and allies around the world who have made it clear that they stand with us at this time. >> reporter: and the investigation continues this morning. the attacker was british-born, investig