good morning, america. church massacre in texas. >> we have six ambulances en route. >> a gunman in tactical gear armed with an assault rifle storming in during the service, opening fire, killing at least 26 in one of the worst mass shootings ever. >> that church is my family and there's so many that are gone. >> the victims in this small tight-knit town as young as 5 years old, one of them, the pastor's 14-year-old daughter. now one of the men who helped finally stop the gunman is here exclusively on "gma." also this morning new details about the shooter. a 26-year-old former service member and father discharged from the military for domestic violence. his family reveals more about his past as president trump calls the killer deranged. >> mental health is your problem here. this isn't a guns situation.

>> reaction now coming in to those comments as the devastated community mourns the victims in this latest mass shooting. a special edition of "good morning america" starts now. and good morning, america. here we are again. another week, another mass shooting in america. we have seen them in offices and schools, we've seen them in concerts and movie theaters, walmarts and starbucks. this time the killer and his gun entered a small church in a small town in texas. >> you are looking live at the first baptist church in sutherland springs where worshippers were gunned down as you know during a sunday morning service. much like this one that was recorded in the church last week. the pastor was out of town yesterday with his wife. but their 14-year-old daughter was one of the victims. the few images we have of the church show just how small it is, really nowhere to hide.

>> tiny church. here is what we know right now, at least 26 people killed. 20 injured. the shooter who died after a car chase was 26 years old and served in the air force but was court-martialed for assaulting his wife and child and discharged for bad conduct. that was in 2014. one of the questions given that record how did he buy a gun? >> that is the big question. >> president trump has ordered the flag to be flown at half-staff until thursday night to honor the victims. our team is on the ground with breaking developments overnight. amy robach starts us off in sutherland springs. good morning, amy. >> reporter: good morning to you, robin. this town about a 30-minute drive from san antonio is in complete shock and mourning today. this community is a close-knit small community where everyone knows everyone and they are all dealing with an unthinkable loss of life. nearly every person in this town of about 600 knows someone who was either killed or injured in yesterday's horrific attack at

the first baptist church. >> all available personnel. >> reporter: this morning 26 killed and 20 others wounded in what is now the deadliest shooting in texas history. >> we have six ambulances en route. >> reporter: according to investigators around 11:20 a.m. local time the attacker identified by authorities as 26-year-old devin patrick kelley parked his car at this gas station before walking across the street to first baptist church in sutherland springs, texas. >> he had a face mask on so i don't know -- i couldn't like identify him or anything and he had what looked like body armor or a vest on. >> reporter: opening fire outside the church during a morning worship session. >> he was just shooting the church from the outside. he was going from the face of the church around to the side and kept just unloading. >> reporter: witnesses living nearby say he unloaded at least three clips before making his way inside. >> he opens the church and goes in and i kept hearing gunshots, probably two or three clips he unloaded inside. >> reporter: you can see how

small it is from these photos. barely any space to hide. the youngest killed just 5 years old. the oldest, 72. >> as he exited the church a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. >> reporter: the armed resident jumping in fellow neighbor johnnie langendorff's truck and the two chasing after the suspect who plfled the scene by car until the gunman crashed over ten miles away at the wilson/guadeloupe county line. >> it was crashed and found deceased in the vehicle. at this time we don't know if it was self-inflicted or shot by a local resident. multiple weapons in the vehicle. >> reporter: officials not yet ready to discuss a motive. atf and fbi on the scene assisting local law enforcement combing through a small 400-people tight-knit community now in tears. >> it's another senseless act by a cowardly [ bleep ] is all i can tell you. there is to reason for it but that's the world we live in today. >> just thinking about my own kids.

it could have been us. >> reporter: in a town with two gas stations, a community center and post office the first baptist church is truly the heart of this community and now as you can see behind me it has been turned into an ongoing crime scene where local and federal authorities are trying to figure out why the gunman chose this out-of-the way sleepy town where neighbors help one another where no one locks their doors and chose a place of worship to commit his heinous act of violence. so many questions and so much heart break here, robin. >> moments ago i spoke exclusively with johnnie langendorff, the hero who helped chase down the shooter. i asked him to tell me what happened the moment he spotted the gunman. >> i had parked at the intersection where i had seen the shooter come out from the church and a gentleman, the neighbor of the church had come out yielding a rifle and the two

men started exchanging gunfire. from there -- from there the shooter jumped into his vehicle where he had the door open and the engine running ready to go and fled the scene. at that time the neighbor with the rifle came to my truck and he just -- he opened my door and said, he just shot up the church and got in. and he said, he said, chase him and so that's what i did. i just chased him. >> tell us about the high-speed chase. how fast were you going and was any gunfire exchanged during the pursuit? >> no, ma'am. thankfully there was no gunfire exchanged but i was doing around 90, 95 going down 539 northbound while i was on the phone with dispatch trying to lead them to where he was. or the direction he was going because it seemed everybody had headed up to the church and i'm not sure if anybody really realized he had left and gone that direction so -- >> so you were on the phone telling them where you were and how were you able to keep so

calm, johnnie? >> it's just one of those things. it was act now, ask questions later kind of deal. it wasn't, you know, i didn't -- it wasn't something that i needed to freak out about. you know, the situation was in a sense under control so and as long as i'm behind the wheel i'm perfectly fine. >> we're glad that you are fine and tell us what happened at the end of the chase. how did it end? >> the gentleman seemed to lose control of his vehicle and he kind of started veering all over the place until he took out -- he took out one road sign and then from there he hit the guardrail and then hit the ditch and at that moment i stopped -- i stopped probably 25 yards from him within a safe distance to where the gentleman who was riding with me could get his rifle on him using my truck for protection and still have a clear shot but also be at a safe

enough distance to where if he came out with a pistol or something it wasn't -- it wouldn't be as accurate. >> johnnie, did you ever see the shooter? did you see any signs of life in the truck after it crashed? >> no, ma'am, i sure did not. once we stopped, the gentleman got out, mounted his rifle on my hood and the shooter did not get out of his vehicle after that. >> johnnie, i have to ask you again, how did you have the presence of mind to be able to do this? a neighbor jumps in with a rifle. you're chasing someone who has just shot up a church. just try and help us understand where your presence of mind and how you were able to do that. >> the gentleman who got into my truck, he had just said, all he really got out was he just shot up the church, follow him and, you know, that's enough for me to do anything. >> what can you tell people about that small town? >> from what i've learned, just

in the last 24 hours it's a great little community. there's definitely a lot of love and definitely a lot of care here. so many people are pitching in, especially not just here but from all over the state of texas and i'm not sure about other places yet, but i know our bigger cities in texas and stuff are all stepping up to help everybody and, you know, try and make this uneasy situation as easy as possible for the families and everyone involved and it's great to see everybody coming together and helping everybody out. >> well, i hope that you and everyone in that town, i hope you feel the love and the support and the many prayers, johnnie. >> yes, ma'am. >> we continue to think of the many families affected. >> we do. we're learning much more about them and the victims. children, parents and grandparents gathered together in worship remembered at a candlelight vigil outside the church overnight. and our senior national correspondent matt gutman is on

the scene with their stories. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, george. this morning, at least 15 victims remain hospitalized. some of them in critical condition and it's almost impossible to comprehend the cataclysm that befell this small town. you're pretty much looking at it. a stop light, a post office. two gas stations and when you think about the numbers here, the equivalent of 10% of the entire community killed or wounded in that church. 14-year-old annabelle renee pomeroy was the youngest daughter of the pastor of the first baptist church, her father pastor frank pomeroy telling abc news that his daughter was one very beautiful, special child. pomeroy seen here in a recent clip was out of town at the time of the shooting, he was racing back from a trip to oklahoma to tend to all the victims telling abc news all of those hurt and killed were his close friends. >> and god may your will be done. >> reporter: in a town whose population could fit in a

banquet hall everybody knew somebody who perished. >> everybody knows everybody. they went to school together, church, everybody knows everybody. >> reporter: congregants telling abc news entire families in this tiny texas town of a single stop light were mowed down. so many of them were young. the youngest victims, 5-year-old brother and sister brooke and ryland ward. their mother killed. ryeland is fighting for his life in a local hospital this morning. and several members of the youth group also believed to be killed. you were in the youth group and there are 12, 13, 14 of you. >> yeah. and i know all of them. >> now five of them are gone. >> yeah. i know. it's heartbreaking. that church is my family. and there's so many that are gone.

it hurts so much. >> reporter: and we learned this morning that among the other victims killed was 51-year-old richard rodriguez. just a stone's throw from that church hundreds gathered at this candlelight vigil. ♪ sharing words of comfort and embraces. among them governor greg abbott. officials announced that 26 people were shot dead. 20 injured. about 100 people attend church each sunday which means roughly half of the people in the church were killed or wounded. the victims ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old. >> grab your loved ones. grab your family. even if you're enemies, take them close to you and love them. >> reporter: now forensic teams have been working that church all night long and the names of many of the victims have still not been identified. but a pastor here in this community told us that the source of strength here will actually be the community's small size. they will come together,

sustained by their faith. robin. >> that we pray for. all right, matt, thank you. a clear picture of the gunman is now emerging, a 26-year-old father who received a bad conduct discharge from the air force. investigators searching his home and social media accounts for clues about his past and motive. our senior justice correspondent pierre thomas is in washington with more on what they've learned. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: robin, good morning. overnight police continue to look for ties between the suspect and the church. including if he had family members that attended. but the picture emerging is of a man with a troubled past whose simmering anger about religion exploded in a massacre at a house of worship. this suspect identified to abc news as devin kelley, 26, seen here in this facebook photo. a former member of the u.s. air force. a man who appeared at this texas church armed to the teeth and %-pe which was a ruger ar assault-type rifle. there were multiple weapons in the vehicle. >> reporter: kelley posting a

picture of an assault rifle on his facebook page. he was dressed in black wearing a bulletproof vest shooting innocent victims at close range in that tiny church. based on these images from inside the church taken two weeks ago, you can see the parishioners had nowhere to hide and little chance of escape. overnight the fbi and local police descending on kelley's home in new braunfels, texas, outside of san antonio. neighbors expressing shock. >> not a clue. i mean, no indication to me. i mean just regular old people. >> reporter: those who lived near kelley said he liked to shoot his guns including at odd times. >> we hear a lot of gunfire and a lot of times at night. and i mean we're out in the country. it's fine to shoot your guns but not at 10:00, 11:00 at night. >> reporter: kelley here in his linked in photo appears to have anger issues after serving a year in prison for an assault on his spouse and 11-month-old child kelley received a bad conduct discharge from the air force in 2014. a family member telling abc news

last night that the former volunteer at vacation bible school is now an atheist who doesn't like church and a former classmate tells abc news he hated religious people. and that social media post from yesterday showed he was in a bad place. >> pierre, there are so many questions. with his conviction and with his discharge from the military, how in the world was he able to buy a gun? >> reporter: robin, in theory someone with a domestic violence conviction should have been banned from buying a gun. but sources tell abc news that kelley's domestic violence conviction may not have been entered into the fbi national data base for gun background checks. if that's true, authorities will want to know why, robin. >> all right, pierre. >> that database has not been well funded. the president ordered the white house flag to be thrown at half staff and he weighed in on the texas shooting overnight, sounding his familiar statement that mental health is to blame, not guns. our senior white house correspondent cecilia vega is with him in tokyo. good morning, cecilia.

>> reporter: george, good morning to you. he called that shooting an act of evil but today he said it is not the time to talk gun control. ♪ the deadly church shooting in texas overshadowing president trump's tokyo tour. >> so sad, sutherland springs, texas, such a beautiful, wonderful area with incredible people. who would ever think a thing like this could happen? >> reporter: a joint press conference with japan's prime minister, the president offered his condolences while calling the shooting a mental health problem at the highest level. >> mental health is your problem here. this was a -- based on preliminary reports very deranged individual, but this isn't a guns situation. i mean, we could go into it but it's a little bit soon to go into it. >> reporter: too soon to talk gun control. he said the same thing in the wake of last month's las vegas massacre. despite his immediate call for changes in immigration policy in the wake of last week's truck

rampage in new york city. what he is willing to talk about here on this five-country asian tour, north korea. president trump not ruling out military action while declaring pyongyang a threat to the civilized world. >> the era of strategic patience is over. some people said that my rhetoric is very strong but look what's happened with very weak rhetoric over the last 25 years, look where we are right now. >> reporter: and we have a new abc news/"washington post" poll to tell you about this morning. take a look at these numbers. an overwhelming majority of americans say they do not trust president trump to handle north korea. that number is 67%. as for the job that he is doing, 37% approve, 59% disapprove, robin and george, he still enjoys strong support, overwhelming support from his base. >> cecilia, thanks very much.

too soon to talk about yesterday's killing. las vegas was five weeks ago. is that too soon? >> also said it was too soon to talk policy but was able to talk policy quickly after what happened in new york city. much more on the shooting just ahead. for now we turn to those dangerous tornadoes tearing through the midwest. ginger is tracking the system. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, robin. at least eight reported tornadoes including this major wedge tornado in portland, indiana. you can see the images there and the damage it left behind in jay county, indiana. eight people in ohio were injured thanks to storms that blew through there. what happens after this coming up in just a moment but first we have to get to the select cities brought to you by carmax.

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back here on "gma," and you're looking live at the first baptist church in sutherland springs, texas, now the scene as you know of one of the deadliest mass shootings ever and the worst in that state's history. the gunman entered the church, opened fire, killed at least 26 people, injured 20 and last night we saw the san antonio spurs and phoenix suns holding a moment of silence to remember the victims. in just a moment we'll talk to the governor of texas. >> san antonio is so close to what happened there. but first we'll go back to amy on the ground there sutherland springs. good morning again, amy. >> reporter: robin, good morning. just a few moments ago i spoke with one of the residents in sutherland springs and her home sits directly across from the first baptist church and recounted in chilling detail about what happened when gunshots rang out around 11:30

a.m. >> how many shots did you hear? >> it was kind of in chunks. t they were in pretty quick succession and i thought thank god it stopped and before i could finish the thought it started again. >> this name who doesn't want to be named, you say he was a hero? >> he he had a semiautomatic weapon, he took two stances. the gunman drove off. >> unimaginable, horrific aftermath. can you tell me what happened? >> that's something i will never forget. because he stopped and he drove off and i kind of stood like, okay, we're outside and directing the first responders, go after him. the next one came up immediately. and i'm looking at the church, you know, across a small road, more narrow than this, expecting people to come out and nobody's coming out.

>> reporter: kathlyn reiterated to me how close knit this community is. everyone truly knows everyone. she says she knows personally of two families who lost three generations of family members in yesterday's horrific attack. robin, back to you. >> all right, amy. >> let's bring in the governor, governor greg abbott. thanks for joining us. the victims and families are at the top of all of our minds. have you had a chance to speak to them and how is the community coping? >> i did. after making my public remarks yesterday, i went over to the community center in sutherland springs where all the family members of the victims were located and they were gathered in a very large room and candidly, george, the toughest thing that i had to do as governor was to give them some comments at the time. you could feel the weight of the room as i began to speak. but we talked about what they wanted to hear the most and what permeates their lives the most and that is the ability to

connect with god at a time like this and then after that i had the ability in that community center to give them hugs, shake hair hands and to share stories and then we immediately left there and went to a candlelight vigil where once again we had an outdoor prayer service with candlelights and i got to tell you there is one overriding thing that i took away from the people of sutherland springs as well as the surrounding communities who were there who knew everybody in that very small town and that is this is an area of the state of texas like so many parts of our state where people rely upon god more than anything else and believe me they were relying upon god last night. the only thing they wanted to talk about was prayer to god, connecting with god, looking to god for healing and for grace and i could see in their faces they were feeling it. these are strong and resilient

people who understand that they have been through probably the most consequential challenge they may ever face in their lives but you could tell they were a community that was coming together. >> it was a powerful show of faith. what more do we know about the shooter and why he targeted the church at this time? >> you know, george, there's a lot of public comment overnight and this morning about why this particular church was targeted. i want you to know that as you might imagine law enforcement is very aggressively looking into this. i do believe that you will in a day or two learn that there was perhaps a connection with this particular church, something that has not been confirmed or nailed down yet and hence cannot be talked about but i think what i want to convey to you is i don't think this was just a random act of violence. it was two things, one is a very

deranged individual who i understand long before he was dishonorably discharged from the united states military was demonstrating some mental illness challenges, but also i think there was a particular reason why this particular location was targeted. >> yeah, there's been some talk perhaps his in-laws had attended the church. can you add anything on that? >> well, i'm going to leave it at that. listen, it's very important that law enforcement have the ability to make the contacts they need to make in order to follow up and tie all the loose ends of this investigation up so i'm not going to comment on that further. >> he was able to buy a gun despite being convicted of domestic violence charges. how is that possible? >> well, there seems to be some confusion about that. i will tell you this and that is we were able to look into state records, and it's my understanding that he applied for a legal permit to carry a gun in the state of texas and was denied that permit and then it was after that that he was

able to obtain this gun. now i know there is a part of the federal law that says it is a violation of federal law to knowingly sell a gun to someone that they know had been dishonorably discharged. the gun seller in this case, there is no evidence that that gun seller had any awareness that the individual had been dishonorably discharged but it looks like the federal law attempted at least to prohibit the sale of guns to people who have been dishonorably discharged. >> so you agree he should have never been able to buy a gun, correct? >> well, that's precisely it seems to me what the federal law says. there's confusion as i point out in the law about a prohibition about selling a gun to someone you know was dishonorably discharged. but i don't know if there is a gap or not whether or not that information was reported by the federal military up to the chain of command to make sure that this was information that would be accessible to the federal authorities who allowed him to

be able to buy that gun. >> finally do we know how he died? did he shoot himself or did he die in the crash? was he shot by somebody else? >> here's what we do know and that is he was shot by someone else as you probably have heard and reported on. that shot did hit him. he then dropped his gun, got into his car, drove away. he was chased as he drove away and later crashed. what we don't know is whether or not it was the shot where the local community citizen shot him that led to his demise or whether or not it was a self-inflicted wound. that will be information that we hope to be able to learn more about and get out to the public later on today. >> governor abbott, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> and we're going to stay on this story all morning but coming up you talked to donna brazile on your show yesterday and coming up the fallout from her book about hillary clinton, joe biden that's rocking the democratic party. we'll talk about that and the

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from washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, the explosive charges in this new book are rocking the democratic party and re-opening old wounds from that bitter democratic primary and now the book's author, donna brazile, the former head of the dnc is coming out swinging against her critics. >> for those telling me to shut up they told hillary that a couple of months ago. you know what i tell them, go to hell. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with george, donna brazile, the former head of the dnc, tells her side of the story. the latest stunning revelation, she considered replacing hillary clinton. >> i was under tremendous pressure after secretary clinton fainted to have a, quote/unquote plan b. >> reporter: after this moment just two months before election day, brazile considered putting joe biden at the top of the ticket. again and again i thought about joe biden she writes but adds i could not make good on that threat to replace her. >> i didn't want a plan b. plan a was great for me. i supported hillary and i wanted her to win. >> reporter: shocked more than top 100 clinton aides write it is particularly troubling and

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it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we are back now with the first american woman to win the new york city marathon in 40 years. shalane flanagan completed the race in just under 2:27 and george and i had a chance to speak with her just moments ago. so, congratulations. has it sunk in? >> no, i think i'm on a high, an adrenaline rush. i'm sure tomorrow it'll come down but i didn't sleep last night. life is good. >> the endorphins are still kicking in. >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. >> you also ran the boston marathon the year of the bombing and i know this week's attack

was on your mind as well. >> yes, you know, it's amazing how things work out. in 2014 meb keflezighi won the boston marathon for our nation and to heal the city of boston and i felt like when i saw the events unfold this past week, i thought this is the moment that americans need, something to feel good about and i was thinking about the importance of what i was doing in those final miles and thinking about i really want to bring a smile to new yorkers' faces today and i'm so happy i could. >> when you crossed that finish line like that, something that -- and first of all, thank you for thinking that in the final miles of everything that's gone on here but this is a moment that you've been dreaming about all your life. how was it when it finally came true? >> i've been dreaming of a moment like this since i was a little girl. i mean, all athletes have these dreams and these visions and it's what motivates us to get out the door to train hard and i visualized a moment like this so

i was trying to soak it up but was also running terrified that i was going to get caught but it was one of those like i couldn't believe it. it really is a dream sensation and definitely a pinch me kind of moment. >> when did you know you had it? >> not till i broke that tape. you never know. i never turned around but, you know, i was just thinking, oh, just don't let this slip through your fingers. this is the moment you've been dreaming of. >> so where do you go from here because you kind of danced around a little bit like this could be toward the end of your career. >> yes. >> so where are you with this? >> i'm 36. i love what i do. i'm very passionate about running. but there are other things in my life that i love and, you know -- >> cooking in cooking. >> i was here about a year ago with my cookbook "run fast, eat slow." and so, yeah, there's other ways i want to contribute to the sport and i want to teach young women and how to eat well and how to stake care of themselves and so, yeah, i have other passions that i think are

starting to bubble up. >> you've got two foster daughters at home. are they runners? >> yes, they're sprinters, yes, so they were very excited about yesterday which was incredible. >> runs in the family. >> yes, yes. >> mom, dad, all that. >> yes. >> you talked about eating well but we heard after you won yesterday when you were asked what's the first thing you wanted to do, you said you wanted a doughnut. do we happen to have just in case -- >> oh, no. >> just in case -- >> oh, here we are. >> oh, my gosh. you guys are the best. thank you. >> thanks. >> oh, my gosh. >> did you have a doughnut after? >> i didn't. i had some new york pizza. >> you're making us feel better. >> this is awesome. >> left over from halloween. >> this cream-filled one is calling my name. that's awesome. thank you. >> thank you so much. you did bring us much joy and -- >> thank you. >> how about a second cookbook. >> it's coming out next august. >> there you go "run fast, cook fast, eat slow," so, yes. >> thank you so much. >> thank you.

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>> luke can teach us lessons about dealing with loss. good morning, america. thank you for joining us on this monday morning. we are following the latest developments on that tragic church shooting in texas. >> the gunman had been convicted of domestic violence and was still able to walk into that church with an assault rifle. killed 26, injured 20 before he died after a car chase. amy robach is on the scene in sutherland springs, texas. good morning, amy. >> reporter: george, good morning. it is truly heartbreaking to imagine what the people of this small town are waking up to this morning. just a few hundred people call sutherland springs home. and every person in this town has been personally devastated by what happened inside their beloved first baptist church. sad proof that this can happen anywhere to anyone. this morning, residents of this tight-knit community waking up to what is now the deadliest shooting in lone star state

history with 26 killed, 20 wounded. >> all available personnel. >> we have six ambulances in route. >> reporter: according to authorities on sunday at 11:20 a.m. local time the attacker identified by authorities as 26-year-old devin patrick kelley parked his car at this gas station before walking across the street to first baptist church in sutherland springs, texas. kelley reportedly wearing a mask and first opening fire outside the building. >> he was going from the face of the church to the side and kept unloading clip after clip. >> reporter: witnesses living nearby say kelley unloaded at least three clips before making his way inside the church where the 11:00 a.m. worship service was under way. photos taken at an earlier date show just how small the sanctuary is, barely any space to hide. >> he opens the church and goes in and i kept hearing gunshots. >> reporter: in the wake of the carnage, half of the 100-person congregation left dead or wounded.

kelley fleeing the scene by car. >> as he exited the church a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. >> that local resident and johnnie langendorff chasing the gunman for ten miles until he drove off the road and crashed. according to law enforcement kelley found dead in his vehicle from gunshot wounds. one of those heroes speaking out to robin exclusively this morning. >> just try to help us understand where your presence of mind and how you were able to do that. >> there was really no thought behind it. it was just -- it was just act to do what i thought was the right thing. the gentleman who got into my truck, he had just said all he really got out was he just shot up the church, follow him and, you know, that's enough for me to do anything. >> reporter: and we are just learning that more than a dozen of those shot inside the first baptist church were, in fact, children. a horrific thing to think about and among those killed we know that the pastor's youngest daughter, 14-year-old annabelle pomeroy, was shot and killed. her father was out of town at the time. pastor frank says everyone inside that church who was shot,

who was wounded, who was killed were his close personal friends. truly an unthinkable loss, george. >> so sad and so senseless. thanks very much. george, investigators are looking also into the background of the gunman searching for clues about what may have sparked the rampage. let's go back to pierre thomas in washington. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: robin, good morning. authorities have not given us a clear motive yet but the clues we're gathering from interviews and our own reporting point to devin kelley as a man who hated organized religion and as a man who was angry and at times violent discharged from the air force in 2014 after serving a year in prison for assaulting his wife and 11-month-old baby. police are looking into whether he has he ties to a militia. they also want to know if family members occasionally attended the church. with the number of mass shootings rising authorities want to know why, why so many innocent people were killed including children in what should have been a peaceful, happy day in that tiny church, george. >> of course, there could be no

real explanation. pierre, thanks very much. president trump has already responded to that attack in texas. he was in japan overnight. first stop on his trip to asia and said this is about mental health, not guns. i want to go to cecilia vega in tokyo with the latest. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: hey, george, good morning to you. five countries, 13 days, his longest foreign trip to date. white house aides here say that the number one priority on this trip is north korea and today the president said he does not plan to tone down his rhetoric. he also has plans on this trip to meet with russia's vladimir putin to ask him to turn up the pressure on pyongyang. he will also in addition to putin meet with china's xi jinping who consolidated power in his communist party and the president seemed annoyed with reporters when they questioned him on air force one on the way over here and asked if he was at a disadvantage against xi's new power.

the president fired back and said we are coming in with tremendous strength. it's a grueling schedule but has found some down time. he hit the link, the golf course with japan's prime minister shinzo abe and signed hats that said donald and shinzo make alliance greater and found some time to feed koy fish out here. one spoonful at a time until it seemed they got tired with that and dumped the entire box into the water. it was a pretty funny moment, george. we now head to seoul, south korea and i have a plane to catch. we're leaving in just a couple of hours. >> stay safe. thanks very much. when we come back, in the wake of all these recent deadly attacks how do you talk to your kids an how do they cope? also country music superstar luke bryan opening up in a very personal interview about his family and how his father helped guide his career after tragedy. come on back. ♪ ♪

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is crucial to keeping our community safe and our firefighters safe. together, we're building a better california. welcome back to "gma." we have now had three deadly massacres in this country in just over a month and so many families are trying to figure out how to talk to their children about it. >> i know. as adults we're grappling with it as well but i can only imagine when you have children and joining us now is ericka souter the editor of mom.me and our good friend, psychiatrist, dr. janet taylor, is with us as well. many readers prefer not to have this discussion with their children but how can you not when probably they already know? >> the natural inclination to shield them from these frightening, terrifying things that are happening but a lot of parents tell us that their kids as early as 5 or 6 years old are picking up the information on playgrounds, from older siblings

or social media or media, so it's important that if your kid does know something, find out what they know and dispel any misinformation that little kids can have and ensure that they're going to be safe. that it will be okay. >> dr. taylor, what advice do you have for how parents should start this conversation. >> as ericka said, you want to check in with them at an age appropriate level. use open-ended questions like how and what to ask them if they want to talk and to foster a conversation about their safety and what to do if they don't feel safe. >> janet, you and ericka are both mothers and so, ericka, i ask you what conversation, what have you told your child? >> well, you know, i've had to talk to my 9-year-old about both incidents. in fact, the attack in lower manhattan is right in our backyard. we live down there and he was at school at the time and he didn't do a full lockdown but a drill and pulled all the kids from the playground and made sure none were outside. when i picked him up, there were helicopters swirling, police around, he wondered what was

going on. i had to tell him what i knew which wasn't a lot at that point but something very bad happened. people were hurt but caught the bad guy and he asked, well, why did he do this. i didn't know at the time and that's okay. we don't have to have all the answers and kids don't need to know every single detail we know but need to be reassured the bad guy was caught and the police are there to help and protect us. >> once they stop asking questions, you can move on. dr. taylor, what makes this so difficult is it's happening in places that are supposed to be safe. it's happening in church, on a bike path, in school. >> yeah, i mean we all feel threatened. we're living in a volatile uncertain world and certainly in the united states so the same anxiety we feel ourselves our children feel. i have older children and they live in new york, i'm living in florida now. i called them in a panic like don't go to chamber street. so the fact is we have to manage our stress, understand that overall most of us are safe but really do what we can to give support to other people. give support to ourself, ask for help. >> do we let our kids know we're

feeling that anxiety, feeling that stress? >> you absolutely have to because, number one, kids need to be able to understand that if they feel a certain way, it's not bad to be upset. it's not bad to be angry, but what's most important as you express it so it doesn't come out in ways that hurt other people. we have to stop hurting other people. >> you both know that children are so resilient but, ericka, what do you do if you see that your child is showing some ill effects, signs from all that's happening? >> right, well, parents shouldn't be afraid to ask for extra help especially if your child is extra anxious. perhaps if they don't want to go to school or are uneast so around crowds. there are pediatricians to help and maybe your church pastor can step in and help. these are great resources for parents and they should really use them. >> thank you both very much. let's go upstairs to ginger. >> here we are with a crowd of folks including people that just ran the marathon and i've got to tell you it was rather mild but let me warn you, we are about to drop 20 some degrees along the

east coast and that's just by today. by the weekend we're talking about single digits and teens making their way into the midwest. chicago, only 21 as we go through friday and right here into pennsylvania, new york and new jersey. whoo. anybody happy about it? a couple of people? okay. all right. that is the big picture. good monday morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. a dry cold front will bring increasing sunshine today that will leave us with a clear and much colder night ahead and the storm is coming for wednesday and thursday. today's temperatures coolest along the coast in san francisco. 56 to 59. 60 to 62 arp the bay. 62 to 64 inland. so fog in the central valley. we'll keep an eye on that. our deepest valleys in the 30s to mid-40s tonight. my now to something i've really been looking forward to sharing, my interview with luke bryan, the country megastar is the

focus of our new country music special that airs tonight. we talked in depth about his family, the tragedy that almost derailed his career and what his father told him that set luke on the road to chasing his dreams. here's a preview. >> home for me is when you're able to build your dream home and your dream farm and you're able to share it with till, bo, tate and caroline and all their friends. ♪ bo is -- >> oh, my gosh. i was sitting right there and i was like, no way. >> we made eggs. you know what these are called? delicious. bo gets things on his brain and it's almost like you need a stun gun to scramble his computer.

>> i want to put these somewhere so -- in the house so i can watch them hatch. >> buddy, the second you pick them up and remove them from the momma hen they're not going to hatch. >> tate is me. he likes to be in the background and that's exactly how i am. i don't want to be front and center. >> i was set to move to nashville when i was 19. i had it all in line and had an apartment. just before i moved to nashville my brother was killed in a car accident so that totally derailed and postponed my nashville plans. my dad could tell that i was one foot in the door, one foot out the door and he said, this life will always be here. he was really, really adamant about me chasing my dreams just based on what we had dealt with with my brother, we had seen how fragile life was and you've got to go try things.

so getting to nashville was pretty liberating. i was on music row every day writing songs. people at capitol kept hearing them and next thing you know i'm getting a record deal from capitol records. it was april 6th, 2007 and i get to play the grand ole opry for the first time. that night little did i know would be my sister and i would be our last photo together and she passed away a month later. that's been one thing about my family and our loss, just when we started picking up the pieces with my brother, then my sister, we lose my sister and i just watched my mother and our whole family just go back to square one and i know a lot of people out there that have dealt with loss. you have to honor their

memory by living and you have to -- you have to be a positive light for people. >> but you've had your tough days. >> oh, you do. i mean, there's so many aspects of -- i mean when i'm out, you know, when i'm playing with my boys and i'm like, god, why isn't my sister here to be and why isn't my brother. he would be out here mowing these fields and he would be filling up the fish feeders and then me and him would be, you know, sharing a beer as the sun goes down and i guess it just sucks that you have to imagine that's what we would be doing but you have to feel good and knowing that that's what we'd be doing. >> do you notice we're talking about your brother and sister and for the first time -- >> the dag gum sun came out. >> that's so true. it was a gloomy day and overcast and as soon as he started talking about his brother and

his sister, the sun came out and his brother-in-law also passed away and so to have to raise -- not have to, to want to raise his sister's three children which they're doing but he was just so incredibly open and discussing that and talking about how you honor them by living and also, you know, he has some young fans would come up and say hey, i lost a sibling, how do you deal with that, so he shares with them. >> a lot of hard won wisdom there. >> yeah and thank goodness for his daddy. >> i love that. his dad said go get it. this life is here. >> because he was working on the farm with his dad and his dad knew, you know, as a parent you know what's really in your child's heart and to follow your dream which he has done. what you see is what you get. what you see on tour is what you see at home. and as his wife said that's good and bad. no, it's great. it's great and you can see "living every day" and he is, luke bryan, that's tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern here on abc. but for now how about a little "pop news." >> i would love to, robin roberts. good morning to you both and

good morning to you. we'll begin with movie news. "their thor" maybe not surprisingly hammered the competition this weekend. single-handedly turning around the fall movie slump with a whopping $121 million at the box office. >> whoa! >> no kidding. but are we surprised? we all saw it. it's fantastic. it is great. >> chris was on the show. the gang was here. they brought in the fourth largest opening of 2017 and helped make "thor: ragnarok" only the ninth film to cross the $100 million mark in the month of november which is notoriously tough. this is an even bigger feat considering this is the slowest box office in october in a decade and "thor: ragnarok" brought in more than $300 million overseas. that doesn't even count toward this. >> you know, guys, i think it was michael playing him for halloween that really -- strahan -- >> i do believe. i believe. the hair.

the dark into blonde that onto only michael could do. yes, robin. also in "pop news," not sure if you heard about this. this made me smile. shawn diddley combs is no more. he now has a new name and before we let him tell you what it is, the man originally known as puff daddy explains the reason why he decided to once again change his name. here you go. >> i decided to change my name again. i just -- i'm just not who i am before. i'm something different. so my new name is love, aka brother love. >> there you have it. >> definitely in on the joke. >> definitely. >> he seems like he's in a great mood. no word on where he was. that's an undisclosed location. we do know when he sent that out it was his birthday. he is celebrating. hopefully he'll remember he changed his name. he also sent a shoutout to his mom and dad and says he will not

answer by the way to any of his previous names or monikers. write these down. puff, puff daddy, puffy, shawn john. >> p. diddy. >> p. diddy, just plain diddy, king combs, i forgot about that one, and for one week in 2011, a beautiful week, he was swag. >> is it love or brother love? >> it's brother love to you. >> brother love. >> so brother love we say to you from us here at "good morning america," happy birthday. >> happy birthday. >> and no more diddy. and then finally in "pop news" this morning, all right, all right, all right. the people of lawrenceburg, kentucky, will not go without thanksgiving dinner this year thanks in part to an oscar winning actor, i bet you can guess who i'm talking about with a very big heart. mr. matthew mcconaughey. 4500 frozen turkeys passed out over the weekend and one of the people doing it was matthew. spending his 48th birthday as well doing community service. meeting the people of the rural kentucky town. the oscar winner is the spokesman for wild turkey distillery and joined 250 other volunteers.

helping the community get ready for the holiday that is coming way too soon. no, he was not passing out wild turkey. just the turkey. >> i'm glad a camera wasn't on george. did the little head nod, okay. thank you there, lara. >> you're welcome. coming up we'll head upstairs. can you feel the love tonight. elton john's surprise performance brought so many people to their feet. and fresh off their world series win, they're the champs, and alex bregman is here live. some astros fans outside as well. so that and a whole lot more when we come back. ♪ thunder

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aeroteam is here every morning for you on abc 7 mornings. hope to ♪ope to great to have you with us on this monday morning and it is a very special one here in times square. you never know who is hanging around here in the studio backstage. that is a world series champ and the first american woman to win the new york city marathon in 40 years together. alex bregman, alex and shalane like that. and i understand we have at least a dozen marathoners here with us this morning. [ cheers and applause ] stand up. wow! >> you got two introduce them.

>> the equivalent of what is the equivalent of "good morning america," "good morning, ukraine." i'm not kidding. we will like to say hello to the morning show from ukraine. >> so how are we doing? >> are we doing okay? >> oh, yes. >> he ran the marathon in three hours -- >> tom walking around with a micropho microphone. >> he ran with the time 3:25. >> excellent. excellent. [ applause ] >> we welcome you. >> he is not producer. he is editor in chief but like a small team from ukraine from the morning show? what is the true name -- >> it's called "breakfast with one plus one." >> "one plus one." [ applause ] >> the name of the channel so "breakfast with one plus one." >> the pain channel in ukraine. >> take the last half hour, we're fine. >> we'll talk about something i'm curious about. i don't know this about you two. i know you very well.

do you prefer on a plane the seat or the i'm or the window. >> window, window. >> this is interesting. always have. >> i did not write this. according to psychologists interviewed -- >> never a good sign. >> your choice of seats taste a lot about your personality. they claim that people who prefer the window seat like to be in control. they can be a little fussy and prefer to be on their own. >> gosh. >> aisle passengers on the other hand -- >> you never said if you were an aisle or window is there of course, i'm an aisle. >> oh, no, no. okay. >> i am an aisle but not for these reasons. they tend to be more sociable. okay, check, more accommodating. times and usually like to go to the restroom more often. >> there's your reason right there. >> 100%. are you guys more -- who is a window? who is a window just to be proud? there you go. and aisle like me? aisle girl? i will trade you any time. >> who changed your answer based upon what you just heard here?

come on. >> you guys need your sleep. it's totally understandable. i feel so bad being like, hi. i'm that person. so that's how i got it. >> now to a story that will put hope -- that we hope will put i a big smile on your face. a student the morehouse college looking for some extra credit ended up going viral and the video he made for his biology class is more than 600,000 views on youtube. nearly 150,000 retweets. want to take a little bit of a look before we talk to him. here it is. ♪ the dna starts to unwind ♪ the rna reads the other side ♪ myosis is the key to making lives ♪ ♪mitosis copies cells about to die if my genes go left unread all my cells are dead if my good evenings go left unread all my cells are dead the ♪ . >> come on. [ applause ] >> that was something.

>> the rapping star's name is tash julien turner and joining us from morehead college along with his biology professor dwann davenport. thank you both. the good doctor says, hey, come on, some extra credit. how did you come up with this idea? >> how did -- well, i was sitting in my bed actually after a football game. but i was listening to xo tour life and i remember that she had asigned an extra credit assignment where i could make a music video out of anything and all my cells are dead just kept repeating in my head and so i scrambled to check my notes to make sure it had something to do with biology and i started writing lyrics that were parallel to the song so i could remember it better and called up a few teammates and made a video and it just blew up from there. >> professor, what did you think when you first heard about this?

>> i can't hear. >> sorry, what did you think when you first heard about the video? professor davenport? >> oh, when i first heard about the video, i actually heard about it before i even checked my e-mail to see that he turned it in and i received a text message with a link and so i clicked on it and i was like, oh, this is catchy. okay, this is nice. this is nice and i saw all the likes and all the retweets and i was like, wait, this is my student. wait a minute, this is julien. oh, my goodness. okay, okay, so it was -- i was so excited but i mean, i didn't expect anything less. he is an excellent student. already doing well in the class, minus extra credit. he's an anti-athlete. he's on the football team. he's amazing so -- again, i did not expect that. [ applause ] >> love that.

but, professor, professor, you didn't answer the big question. did he get the extra credit? >> of course, he got the extra credit. [ applause ] >> it's time to share. let's hear some more. >> come on, julien. >> say what. >> let's hear some more. you ready to rap. >> oh, yeah. you guys want to sing with us? [ cheers and applause ] >> sure. two, one, two, three ♪ from the dna starts to unwind ♪ ♪ the rna reads the other side ♪ myosis is the key to making life ♪ ♪ my toast 'tis cells about to die ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah. >> oh. oh, hey, hey. >> dr. davenport, it's wonderful to see how you encourage your students to do what they do and

is it true -- julien, you're not even a biology major. what's your main? >> i don't know. i'm actually a marketing major. >> marketing. >> i can see that. >> exercise my skills. >> a plus. >> you're well on your way to that. and, dr. davenport, he's a true morehouseman, right? >> yes, a true morehouseman. >> that's right. all right. >> that's great. >> julien, dr. davenport, thank you very, very much. >> i love it. >> all the best to you. [ applause ] >> okay, thank you. >> studying bio this year. >> scary. >> wait. what a great way to learn. >> i think duck would actually like bio for a moment. that's a catchy tune, wasn't it? he's gait. coming up here on "gma," astros world series champion alex bregman here live so come on back.

not many people know the loss that you've gone through. you tragically lost your brother. you lose your sister. >> it's a constant struggle. ♪ it is so tough. >> announcer: how did this superstar pull through an unimaginable year, heartbreak, love, sacrifice, from tragedy, triumph. just two nights before the cma award, luke bryan "living every day" tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central on abc. welcome back on a monday morning from "good morning america" and i love this story. the "lion king" news cal is celebrating 0 years of making magic on stage and tony winning composer elton john celebrated it with a surprise performance, i can't imagine being here, along side the broadway cast. ♪ the circle the fishingle ♪ in the circle of life

>> i got chills and i'm not even there. this was during sunday night's special performance of the show. alumni honoring that double decade accomplishment and it's now a perfect time to turn over to our "gma" moment of the morning and wanted to bring you one of our viewers. this is carson, and he's in missouri going down the slide. look at that hair. that is static electricity, he his the ground and he gets grounded, right? that little smile made us smile as well. so please do send your "gma" good morning. we are waking up to mostly cloudy sky but increasing sunshine. 50s at the coast. low to mid 60s for the rest of us. 30s and 40 all that weather brought to you by aarp. we have one of the marathon runners from honduras. well, colorado too. >> thank you, ginger. time to celebrate the houston astros and their

incredible world series victory. who could forget that unbelievable walkoff hit in the tenth inning of the game five. well, that hero, he's here this morning and we're playing his walk-up song, tom petty's "won't back down." come on out. astros third baseman, alex bregman. ♪ won't back down you can stand me up at the gates of hell but ♪ >> how are you. >> very happy for you, alex. >> thank you. it's crazy. good morning, america. >> good morning, america. >> i know. >> oh. all hail. >> no. >> oh, my gosh, tell us about, you know, the game is on the line. game five, very, very crucial. you get that hit. >> it's something that you dream about as a kid. you're playing baseball in the backyard with your little brother and your dad and you put yourself in those moments and then the best part about the whole thing is seeing just your teammates rush the field and the smiles on their faces, seeing

how happy they are. it's just special. special, special day. >> yeah, it was a total team effort throughout the series, throughout the whole season like that, going to the game seven and, you know, just this is only your second year, right? you kind of made it look easy. >> no, it was -- yeah, like you said a complete team effort all year long and i think the world series really showed what our team was all about, just we had so much adversity, we had our whole starting pitching staff go down at one point during the season and we just found a way to battle through it and we got down in game two with arguably one of the best closers in baseball on the mound, jansen and marwin hits a homer to tie up the game and facing kershaw in game five and down two more and altuve ties it so had to have been one of the best world series ever. >> it was highly eptsz takening and got to say houston strong, love that you all wore that patch and i know it was more than just wearing that.

it was just the spirit of the city that you all carried with you throughout. >> yeah, it was super, super special to us to have that patch on our uniform and, you know, we -- when the hurricane hit, we were on the road for probably 20, 20 -- we were -- 20 games or so and we kind of got -- we got messages from back in houston and it was tough for us not being able to be there and help the people out and we thought that we had to play for them the rest of the year and we felt them with us the rest of the year. they were the people of houston were there for us. >> yeah, you know, i grew up in the new orleans area and when the saints won after katrina and the same feeling you have of giving to that city of just, you know, going through some really hard times and just gives them some hope like that. you gave us some hope. you were on "saturday night live" with some teammates this weekend, "snl." >> i know, crazy. >> come on. >> yep. >> leslie jones. gave -- what was that about.

>> leslie jones, hilarious. oh, my god. like just kind of like "good morning america," i watched it all the time. met miley cyrus. life has been crazy. >> it's a young team and you alluded to could -- this could happen again and again and again winning it all. >> yeah, now it's tough. you see how the giants won one -- they say the even years like every other year because we did play a month later than every other team so not as much of a break, not as much of an off-season but got to figure out the right recipe to keep coming back like the yankees did and win a ton of them. >> well, you and joy the ride and congratulations to the entire team and just, it was exhilarating to watch. >> thank you. >> just a little baby. [ applause ] looked mighty at home on "snl." he's enjoying all the trappings and deservedly so.

coming up our own martha raddatz is here with the cast of the incredible miniseries based on her book, "the long road home." so come on back to "good morning america." alex bregman. your "gma" moment brought to you by the frame from samsung, the most beautiful tv you've never seen.

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and we are back with my friend and colleague, martha raddatz, of course, she's a chief global affairs anchor at abc. i'm not used to seeing you at 8:30. you just launched a new miniseries based on her book "the long road home" and it tells the story of the black sunday ambush in baghdad that claimed the lives of eight americans and wounded more than 65. let's take a look. >> what are your order, sir? >> we launch. now. >> sir, the crusaders still have to complete -- >> there's no time. it could take an hour. it could take several until

they're back on the target. our guys don't have that long. we launch. the crusader loader who was killed, mitchell, you find out his first name and where he was from. >> yes, sir. >> great to have martha here. please welcome kate bosworth, michael kelly and jon beavers. you say writing this book and now this series has been one of the most profound experiences you've had. >> it really is mostly because i tayed in touch with a lot of the families and the real soldiers, a couple of them over there. all these years, 13 years and that to me is what has made this so important and also, you know, they're 1% and to allow the 99% of us who don't understand these stories who don't understand the cost of war in many ways has been really profound for me.

>> how much did you know about the story before you did the movie? >> you know, i -- i was quite young, you know, when this happened and so for me it was really important to understand it in a deeper way and i feel like for many people in america, to have the hindsight and look back on it and to honor the soldiers that went through this and the families, it was a very powerful experience, i think for all of us. >> kind of hard to believe how long it's been. >> i know. you remember it. i mean, we did -- it started on abc new really. telling this story on "nightline." >> "nightline," yeah, a long time ago. michael, in fact, it was one of the interviews martha did that convinced you to do the part. >> yeah, yeah, i had read -- it didn't really work out with my schedule to do the project when i was first offered it. i read the first four episodes that night. i could not put it down, page turner. i was like, let me google this gary virginia less ski guy and as soon as i did i came up on

some great journalistic work. no, but it was the interview -- >> i kind of like this guy. there's gary. >> and to hear this man talk about his men, to talk about his wife and call her the ultimate hero which is what the show does so well, it tells you both the women at home and the men on the field, it was just -- like i was like, oh, man, i get this guy. i don't know if i can play him but i get him. it was like he's this incredible man and i showed it to my wife and she was like you got to do it. i figured if they thought i was the right man to play the role that i had to do everything i could to do it to the best of my ability. >> kate, you play gina, an army wife. i heard and it he will me if this is true, her son was very excited. >> he was very excited. i play gina and she had just given birthdays before troy deployed and so america is now 14 -- 13 years old -- >> i know she's too embarrassed.

>> when gina first told merrick that kate boss wart was playing -- wait, isn't she like a supermodel to which gene that said, what's your point? >> there you go. >> she's such a beautiful woman and she is so lovely and i'm so honored to have, you know, played her really. she is an incredible woman. >> and, john, we're joined by the man you played eric bourquin. >> bourquin. >> a little intimidating. >> oh, man. he's still intimidating and i'm proud to call him -- >> try to look tough there. >> it's intimidating to take on the role of a person who is still alive and in this case, standing over our shoulder and teaching us rifle training and how to move through, you know an urban environment and basically critiquing everything i'm doing live in realtime but in addition to that he was extremely generous as were all the guys from 2 five cav. >> band of bourquins right

there. >> yeah. >> eric, you're here with aaron fowler. you're both consultants. what is it like to see yourselves portrayed in a film? >> it's surreal. it's really, really surreal seeing all of your friends dressed up like they were, you know, almost 15 years ago and running around doing the things you did. it's crazy. >> well, it is a gripping series, you guys did such a good job serving our country. thank you for that. [ applause ] and "the long road home" debuts tomorrow on my name is jamir dixon and i'm a locafor pg&e.rk fieldman most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg&e. my truck is something new... it's an 811 truck. when you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our

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good morning bay area. let's get up and get going. >> good morning. it is 8:58. meteorologist mike nicco has a look at your day ahead. >> hi. we will start with current temperatures. still 38 in gilroy. it has to be wrong. maybe there's is frozen. we will have temperatures in the mid to upper 50s along the coast into san francisco. 60 to 46 for the rest of us. tonight another cold one. tomorrow high clouds and sunshine a little warmer and then rain wednesday night. we go to the peninsula where we had an earlier sig alert accident involving a google bus that has just been cleared. northbound 101 after willow. check out the backup. it is nasty 280 not much better. now time for live with kelly and ryan. we'll see you again at 11:00 a.m. for the abc 7 mid day news.

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