making news in america this wednesday morning, take two, the trump administration's plan to repeal and replace obamacare possibly in trouble this morning. the big sticking point that's turning away some republicans and how many more nos before the new plan is dead. we're live in washington. overnight president trump responds to hillary clinton after she blamed russia and fbi director james comey for her election loss. new video showing the moment a plane hits power lines before crashing onto a road. how the pilot saved lives and the people who cheated death in the cars below. and an officer jumps into a pond and pulls a child to safety. we have some new video of that dramatic rescue.

a good wednesday morning. we begin with another busy day on capitol hill. lawmakers are set to vote on a trillion dollar spending plan to fund the government and they're still battling over a bill to replace obamacare. >> oh, yes, they are. republicans are struggling to find common ground on how to cover people with pre-existing conditions, but for now they still don't have enough votes to push the bill through. abc's kenneth moton joins us now from washington with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kendis and diane. the white house is hoping for a health care vote before the house goes on a week-long recess tomorrow. today president trump making another play on health care. >> how is health care coming, folks? how is it doing? all right. we moving along? i think it's time now, right? >> reporter: the president more like a coach in front of lawmakers while honoring the u.s. air force academy football team. by our count two noes can tank the new house gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare. >> we're excited about this policy. we're making very good progress with our members.

>> reporter: at issue, pre-existing conditions. states would be allowed to opt out of covering them. a move that satisfies the hard-line freedom caucus but not moderates like influence republican representative fred upton. >> this amendment torpedoes that and i told the leadership i cannot support this bill with this provision in it. >> reporter: upton now working on an amendment to provide a billion dollars over five years to help people with pre-existing conditions pay premiums. the spending bill to keep the government running expected to pass. now, there's a dispute over who won in negotiations. >> no money for the border w and one more note from the white house, this photo of a rabbi and steve bannon seems to have accidentally exposed bannon's extensive list of goals that includes items like defund sanctuary cities with checkmarks next to policies the president has already addressed. well, the president responded overnight to hillary clinton's first comments about what she believes cost her the election. clinton said she took absolute responsibility for losing her campaign.

but she then went on to blame fbi director james comey for his letter saying agents were looking into the possible new information about her personal server as well as russian interference. >> i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were implying to vote for me but got scared off. you know, if the election had been on october 27th, i'd be your president, and it wasn't. i'm now being back to an activist citizen and part of the resistance. >> well, overnight president trump writing fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. the phony trump/russia story was an excuse used by the democrats as justification for losing the election. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign?

and breaking overnight at least three u.s. service members have been injured in a suicide bombing in afghanistan. that blast hit a nato coalition convoy during morning rush hour in kabul. at least eight civilians were killed. dozens more injured. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack but in recent weeks, the taliban has increased attacks across the country. and this breaking news from the heartland overnight, we're getting new information about two chicago police officers shot and wounded. both officers are hospitalized in stable condition at this hour. a manhunt is under way for the suspects. chicago's police superintendent says the officers were conducting an investigation when suspects in two cars pulled up and opened fire. top airline executives can expect another grilling on capitol hill when they face a senate committee tomorrow. that hearing will follow their appearance before a house panel to address recent customer service failures including the forced removal of a doctor from a united airlines flight. united's ceo called that, quote, a mistake of epic proportions. the house committee's chairman

spoke to the executives in pretty stark terms. >> if we don't see meaningful results that improve customer service the next time this committee meets to address the issue, i can assure you you won't like the outcome. >> the hearing took place as another violent incident on board a plane came to light. this time between two passengers. the flight -- this fight happened before a flight from tokyo to los angeles took off. that man in red was putted off the plane and arrested. now for a look at your weather. missouri is bracing for another round of heavy rain and more record flooding. that has already killed at least five people across the state. swollen rivers are threatening nearly 2,000 homes. it's already washed out hundreds of roads and have even forced amtrak to cancel service across the state. the latest radar shows a massive system stretching across 700 miles, blanketing nearly the entire central third of the u.s. with heavy rain, severe storms. they're even bringing the threat of some tornadoes.

still ahead, the legroom getting smaller on one of the country's biggest airlines. >> and some dramatic new video shows a plane crashing and hitting cars as it lands on a road. >> it's probably the closest i've come to really thinking like, oh, this is the end. >> hear from the drivers who walked away and what the pilot says happened. plus, the duke and duchess taking the paparazzi to trial. how much the royals want after magazines published topless photos of kate middleton.

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spot where police shot and killed a man last summer. the community learning the officers will not face charges and the department of justice is considered to make that official as soon as today. no charges will be filed against two officers in the shooting death of alton sterling. you will recall police approached sterling outside a store after a 911 call about a man making threats with a gun and then cell phone videos of his struggle with officers quickly spread on social media after that shooting. police report at the time said sterling ling was reaching for a gun in his pants pocket. a police officer in a suburb of dallas has been fired following the shooting death of a teenager. 15-year-old jordan edwards was killed over the weekend when officer roy oliver opened fire into a car edwards was in. originally police said that car was aggressively backing down a street toward officers. but after inspecting body cam footage, they now say the car was actually driving away from officers. the sheriff's department is now conducting a criminal investigation. and a former police officer

has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the fatal shooting of a man in south carolina. video of that shooting called showed walter scott was running away when michael slager shot him during a traffic stop in 2015. but for nearly two years slager claimed he was simply defending himself. he is now facing life in prison. scott's family is speaking out about slager's admission. >> today is rare. the gardners, the blands, the wright family, they didn't get this type of justice we got today. >> the case marks a rare conviction for a police officer involved in an on-duty killing and also concludes both state and federal cases against slager. some staggering numbers this morning. the nation's airlines collected a whopping $4.2 billion in baggage fees last year. that's a 10% increase from 2015. but not everything was higher. fees for changing a reservation fell by 4% to just under $3 billion. some american airlines

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check out this fire completely engulfing a wooden pallet facility near los angeles overnight. one witness who was driving on a nearby highway said she could feel the heat inside her car. now, thankfully firefighters were able to knock down the fire in under an hour and no one was injured. morning road conditions now and the threat of flooding stretches across nearly the

entire central third of the u.s. with wet roads again for much of florida but dry roads pretty much everywhere else. >> if you're flying airport delays are possible in houston, new orleans, dallas and memphis. and now to that dramatic video capturing the moment a small plane crashed nosediving right into traffic. >> yeah, watch as that plane clipped power lines, hits a traffic light and erupts as you can see there into a ball of flames as it crashes into several cars. the pilot told investigators he was losing power after just taking off from a nearby airport and trying to land in a portion of highway that was clear of cars. one witness says she could feel the heat as well from this fireball inside her vehicle. >> i just said, get down, and before i knew it, i could feel the heat on my face and, i don't know, that's probably the closest i've come to thinking this is the end. >> unbelievably police say no serious injuries. a pilot and his passenger walked away from that crash. we're going to have much more

on this coming up on "good morning america." >> incredible video. and this morning, we're seeing more incredible video of a police body cam as that officer saved a little boy in kansas. the officer spots that 4-year-old next to a pond as the kid falls in. the officer then races over and quickly pulls that boy out of the pond. turns out the boy is autistic and one of his parents were searching for him. the boy and that parent were reunited. and a trial is now under way in france over some topless photos of the duchess of cambridge. the royal family is suing the french magazine "closer" and its photographers for publishing pictures of kate taken in 2012 with telephoto lenses as she sunbathed with prince william on the patio of a secluded french villa. the magazine insists they didn't cross any lines. in the statement, william said the photos reminded them of the harassment that led to the death of his mother. football coach nick saban is going to continue rolling with his university of alabama crimson tide. a new contract extension again

makes him the highest paid college football coach. the contract will keep saban with the tide through the 2024 season and could pay him at least $65 million over the next eight years. saban has led alabama to four national titles. he's pretty good. police, in the meantime, in boston say criminal charges could be filed against red sox fans who allegedly used some racial taunts against adam jones of the orioles. this as jones stepped to the plate last night, fans in fenway, well, they gave him a standing ovation. >> the sustained applause was in sharp contrast to monday night's game. that's when jones says fans used racial slurs and even threw a bag of peanuts at him. and to the nhl, playoffs and the predators and the rangers were the big winners last night. >> yeah, and we get some nba action right now postseason from our friends at espn. >> good morning, america. and as always, utica, nicole briscoe, john anderson. >> quite the match-up between

thomas and john wall. john wall, very impressive, 40 points. it's just that thomas was just a bit more on the impressive scale. higher up. he scored 9 in overtime because, yes, this game required that. he scored 20 in the fourth. added altogether with, you know, all the quarters, 53. >> that's a lot. >> celtics win, 129-119. let's go to the west. steph curry. somehow rudy gobert got a bad switch. oh, my goodness. steph put him on skates and turned him around and, again, it looked kind of like barry sanders that one time, warriors up 15. early third quarter, warriors and the lead is now just nine but in transition, draymond green to steph. nobody had 53 for the warriors. they didn't need that many. steph had 22, a little tweak there, a little hobble. they won it 106-94 and lead the jazz 1-0. >> that's routine maintenance.

>> that's what he called it was routine maintenance. >> you know what i learned? >> what? >> the warriors are more rested. >> if you need to guard john wall, you should have fast shoes. good morning, america. >> it's the shoes. >> it's the shoes. we learn so much. in the meantime, must be the shoes here because at last night's game at yankee stadium yankee slugger aaron judge taking batting practice here and -- >> it is gone. so much so that he actually did some damage with that home run. the ball traveled more than 450 feet and it landed in a 50-inch television inside the dining facility. now during the actual game he also hit two more home runs in the win over toronto. >> that's pretty good. that tv did not stand a shot at all. >> i don't think the yankees will mind paying for that one. >> yeah. up next in "the pulse," labor of love. the dedicated teacher finishing her while while in labor. one couple's struggle on an escalator or their commitment to the escalator more so is going viral. and on our facebook page,

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online. second grade teacher jennifer pope was working on a lesson plan just before delivering her fourth child. >> whoops. >> we do mean just. >> just, exactly. her husband brought the plan to pope's substitute who was waiting outside. less than an hour later their new daughter arrived. pope says she hopes the photo shows women can have careers while being moms. i'd say so. >> oh, wow. most people when they say that don't mean it quite like that. >> literally exclamation. animals are just like us. >> sometimes they do things just for the thrill of it which could maybe explain the behavior of this prairie dog inside a zoo near boston. so, that's a real alligator sleeping, but for some reason the prairie dog decides, well, let's have some fun. jumps on the alligator's snout and, well, the alligator as you can see, doesn't like that very much. >> no, not at all. he actually managed to get away. clean getaway i would say. very lucky.

>> all right, now to a couple on an endless journey seemingly anyway on an escalator trying to go down. as you can see, they picked the wrong escalator for that. this happened in a busy shopping center, but they seemed pretty committed to this walk. >> yeah, they kept going and going and going. at one point they appear to top to take a break, of course, this embarrassing moment was captured on video. the couple did eventually realize it was the wrong way. it's late it's an all nighter when are we even going to sleep?

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the way around. we do have a crash towards the santa cruz mountains and we'll talk more about that in ten. a large group of students are locked inside of a university building. >> this is a protest to get administrators to meet a list of demands. matt keller a live for us at uc santa cruz? >> quiet here on the santa cruz campus but the protest is still going on, and they have the entrance barricaded with chairs, garbage cans and the door is locked and 100 to 200 s are locked in here, and they said the university was not listening to them, and they locked themselves in the university yesterday afternoon, university yesterday afternoon, and they

red, green and black. >> we gave the chancellor a very simple list of demands that will uplift and confirm the humanity of the black people. >> the dean responded to the list last month with an explanation of what we are able to do and not able to do. >> the spokesperson for uc santa cruz says as lost as it's a peaceful protest, they will let it unfold. >> thank you, matt. we expect another big crowd in the east bay for what could be a second night of heated school meetings. there's a flight over whether a large district should be split into two. a group of parents that live in an affluent

are wanting a smaller district that they say is more responsive to students. opponents say it's basically economic segregation and they are concerned it would impact special needs programs. and then having its turn in the sierra lamar murder charges. they are trying to convince the jury the dna evidence from a car ties him to her death, and the defense says she ran away from home and is still