sunrise. "good morning america" starts right now. good morning, america. breaking news for our viewers in the west. billy graham has died. one of america's most influential religious leader. he passed away at the age of 99. his influence on the white house. how he affected millions of lives never again. the teen survivors of that florida school massacre march on the state's capitol in morning, face-to-face with their lawmakers, demanding action on gun control, as president trump signals some change ahead of a meeting today with those affected by gun violence. taking a bullet for her students, the hero teacher who helped save lives as the gunman closed in. now speaking about those terrifying moments. >> then he came to my room and shot about four or five shots into my room breaking the glass of my door. >> how she shielded those teenagers she calls her kids.

her story only on "gma." dallas mavericks under fire. a new report alleges sexual misconduct and now owner mark cuban is taking action saying he's embarrassed and has no tolerance. the new investigation this morning. and gold. team usa skiing their way to the top of the podium and how lindsey vonn pulled off an incredible comeback. we do say good morning, america. let's take a look again at the big winners. first usa cross country skiers to ever win olympic gold. >> the women's hockey team going for gold tonight against canada. third consecutive matchup. by first, breaking news this morning. billy graham has passed away

this morning at the age of 99. one of the most inimportant spiritual figures of our time. here's a look back at his influence. >> thousands of you god has been speaking to. >> reporter: more than hoof century billy graham has brought the god to millions. his influence reached every corner of the globe, all the way to the white house. a long way from the north carolina dairy farm. graham found his calling at the age of 16. >> i went back night after night, one night i began to realize there was an emptiness in my life. soon he was filling revival tents himself, expanding into radio and television. years before it was the law he insisted his audience not be segregated. >> it makes no difference.

>> reporter: he became a fixture in the white house, a friend of the presidents. he vowed for kennedy. he stuck with nixon through watergate. >> presidents need comfort. faith gives and billy graham was a great dispenser of comfort for me, for barbara and my family. >> and he just talked to me, never at me, never in a condemn that toir way. it was amazing. >> reporter: george w. bush even credited graham for even quit drinking and turning his life around. >> god loves you. >> reporter: all the while graham preached, with crusades around america and around the world. even at the height of his frame graham lived a simple life in north carolina with his wife

ruth, for 64 years. at the time of his final crusade in 2005 he told us he look forward to the day he'll meet god in heaven. >> i'll say, why did you choose me? i came from a farm and i never dreamed of preaching to people. >> reporter: president trump has sent this message on twitter this morning, he said the great billy graham is dead. there was nobody like him. he will be missed by christians and all religions. a very special man. he had a huge influence. >> remember those crusades. >> definitely nobody like him. now, to that march for action on gun control. survivors of that high school shooting are taking action. meeting with lawmakers in

florida's capital this morning. students all across florida staging walkouts in and abc's dan harris is in tallahassee with the teens getting ready for their rally. good morning, dan. >> reporter: michael, good morning. coming to you from a civic center where the kids spent the night on cots eating breakfast behind me right now as you might be able to see. soon they're going to walk over to the state capitol where they have a long series of meetings with everybody from the speaker of the house to the attorney general, to the governor. when you talk to these kids, their passion, pain, idealism, it's all palpable, but it is already running head first into hard legislative realities here in this gun-friendly state. 100 young people carrying sleeping bags and pillows as they boarded buses on an extraordinary lobbying mission. just days after surviving one of america's worst school shootings. >> the first busload of parkland students have arrived and they're being greeted by a very large, enthusiastic and sympathetic crowd of local high school students. >> we're fighting for our

friends we lost and for the future of kids we're going to have. >> reporter: while on the road from parkland to tallahassee, these young activists received some tough news. >> the motion is not adopted. >> reporter: florida legislators voted against even considering a ban on semiautomatic rifles, some parkland students were in the gallery for the vote reacting with tears. >> the next step on someone with an assault rifle here in florida is going to be on them. >> reporter: as you know, today, lawmakers voted against even considering a ban on semiautomatic rifles. what is your reaction to that? >> it was a big punch in the gut because the -- it'll be a week tomorrow since this happened and already there's another roadblock in front of us. >> this is something that i think applies to everyone around the country. we don't -- we're not focusing on the students. this we saw happen at the pulse, las vegas, this has been an issue long present in our country. >> has it been tough on you

psychologically to go from surviving one of the worst school shootings in american history to diving into what is really a tough political fight where you're taking some criticism. >> i mean, it is a way of grieving i guess and i'm doing it for the two friends i lost because i know this is what they would have wanted. >> we experienced it firsthand. we were the ones who were locked in closets for hours not knowing if we were going to be okay like maybe we're not necessarily activists on the politics side but we know the impacts it could have on anyone's life. >> we're still waiting to wake up. i know for me this is the way that we're grieving. >> how confident are you really that your school will be the last shooting? >> we have an energy that's far from being over. we're going to keep fighting. >> we have the whole world backing us and supporting us. >> reporter: these kids are well aware, though, that they do have detractors among pro-gun activists who call them tools of

the liberal left, but on the ground they received an enormous outpouring of support. for example, when they arrived here at the civic center overnight, went to their cots to go to bed they found goody bags filled with snacks and homemade cards and notes from local teachers and students. michael. >> and, dan, it's possible that florida might step in on a state level if congress doesn't step up but has change on a state level worked in something like this in the past? >> reporter: so, this is tricky and a little bit controversial any time you talk about gun control legislation but it appears from the numbers that states with tougher gun laws do have lower levels of gun violence. for example, in connecticut, after sandy hook they passed some tough, new laws and gun violence did go down. critics say, though, that may be because the overall crime rate went down. >> and dan, i guess the sad commentary on our politics these

days, but these students we've seen all over the last week now getting smeared online. >> reporter: yeah, so these kids are well aware of the trolling that has been directed toward them. in some darker corners of the internet, there are charges that these kids are actually actors, or quote/unquote crisis actors. these kids deny that. they're not super defensive about it and think it's absurd and even their senator, republican marco rubio, came forward to say it's flatly false. overall, when the kids look at their social media feeds, which they do quite frequently, they see an outpouring of support which gladdens them. >> and they are going to keep working. president trump is now signaling his support for some modest new measures strengthening background checks, a first step towards stopping those bump stocks. that can turn rifles into machine guns. jon karl joins us now and the president is going to hear directly from some of those affected by gun violence today. >> reporter: he will have a listening session, george, with students, parents, teachers, including some of those affected by some of the worst mass shootings in america including

columbine, parkland and newtown. one week after the parkland school shooting and the growing calls for action -- >> president trump, please do something. >> reporter: we need them to take action and we want to see some progress. >> reporter: the president made a surprise announcement. >> moments ago, i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. >> reporter: the president is directing the justice department to draft regulations banning so-called bump stocks. an accessory used in the las vegas massacre last october. but bump stocks were not used in parkland. overnight, the president signaled his support for another modest gun proposal from capitol hill tweeting, whether we are republican or democrat, we must now focus on strengthening background checks. meanwhile, white house press secretary sarah sanders

is now walking back the president's tweet that suggested the fbi failed to stop the florida shooter because, quote, they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. the president doesn't really think that the fbi failed to stop the parkland shooter because it was too involved with the russia investigation, does he? >> i think he was speaking not necessarily that that is the cause, i think we all have to be aware that the cause of this is that of a deranged individual. >> did he mistweet when he said that, because he's pretty direct. he says this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion -- >> i think he's making the point we would like our fbi agencies to not be focused on something that is clearly a hoax in terms of investigating the trump campaign and its -- george, new report about sexual misconduct rocking the dallas mavericks. the team now launching an investigation and abc's linsey

davis is here with much more on all this. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: the dallas mavericks trending in the news not for their basketball prowess but alleged behavior off the court. a scathing report in "sports illustrated" describes a work culture that one former employee called a real-life animal house. >> inside, taking it to the basket, it's tied! >> reporter: the dallas mavericks, one of the most lucrative franchises in the nba. >> for three. >> reporter: led by charismatic billionaire owner ceo mark cuban known for his business acumen and sharp tongue on abc's "shark tank." >> there is no market at all that you have right now for retail. >> reporter: but, according to "sports illustrated" this morning, the team that made cuban a household name, they are under fire for more than a dozen current and former employees that told the magazine the hostile work environment was an open secret where they experienced sexual harassment to domestic violence. after interviewing the employees, the magazine says a pattern emerged of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior,

alleged public fondling by the team president, domestic assault by a high profile member of the only staff, unsupportive intimidating responses from superiors and an employee who openly watched pornography at his desk. a half dozen of the female former employees told "s.i." they were forced to look for careers outside the sports world because the work environment at the mavericks left them feeling vulnerable and devalued. mark cuban told "sports illustrated" this is all new to me. based off what i've read here we just fired our hr person. i don't have any tolerance for what i read. it's wrong. it's abhorrent. cuban went on to say he was involved in the basketball operations but other than getting the finances and reports he says he was not involved in the day-to-day side at all. i was supposed to be made aware if anything like this was going on but obviously i was not. he's quoted as saying that, when the me too movement emerged, he said do we have a problem. he said he was told they did not. >> that's why that person has been fired. >> thank you, linsey.

now to the winter games and lindsey vonn's remarkable comeback winning a bronze medal in the downhill in what may be the last time she does that race and just this morning, team usa winning another gold medal and amy in pyeongchang. who has it all for us. good morning, amy. >> good morning to you. yeah, it was an incredible and a history-making moment on the cross-country course here. team usa's jesse diggins and kikkan randall winning gold in women's olympic cross-country earning the top spot on that podium by just 0.019 of a second and then, yes, lindsey vonn, one of team usa biggest stars, earning her third olympic medal in what was most likely her final olympic run in her signature event. >> and down goes vonn one last time in the olympic downhill. >> reporter: lindsey vonn racing in what she says is her last olympic downhill competition, earning bronze for team usa. the 33-year-old making history as the oldest female alpine skiing medalist ever at the

winter games. >> vonn takes the final jump to the finish line. >> reporter: the star skier sidelined in sochi with a knee injury racing not only for herself but to honor her late grandfather, his initials handwritten on the side of her helmet. >> i wanted to win so much because of him, but i still think i made him proud. >> reporter: a tough night on the ice for the united states. >> here we go. she needs this. >> reporter: bradie tennell kicking off the ladies' short program with an unexpected tumble. >> wow, shocking error. >> reporter: and mirai nagasu looking to repeat the triple axel she nailed in the team event last week. the third woman ever to land the move in olympic competition. >> she's setting up right here. nice curve. >> reporter: but on wednesday, nagasu unable to complete the tricky move still bouncing back

to finish her routine. >> we are headed for overtime. >> reporter: medal hopes dashed for the american men's hockey team. >> cannot score. >> reporter: after they were beaten by the czech republic during this dramatic shoot-out in overtime. >> the czech republic wins, they will advance. >> reporter: but one american team still poised to take home the gold, women's hockey. the united states hoping to end a 20-year gold medal drought preparing to face off against their fiercest rival to the north, team canada. >> are you guys ready for redemption? >> it's tough to put into words what you -- we literally have been training four years for this one game. >> but mentally, are you ready to win gold? what do you say to yourselves? >> we played this game thousands of times in our head. i think we're very confident going into thursday. >> now, the rivalry between the u.s. and canada's women's hockey team spans decades. the u.s. will play for that gold medal for the third straight

olympics. it's been 20 years since they've won that coveted medal and beat canada back in the 1998 games, the nagano games, but canada has won every gold medal since, guys, so so many hockey fans waiting for this. i got a ticket and so i'm going to be in the stands. i cannot wait. >> i'm so envious. >> you're so fired up. >> oh, that hockey team is so great. let's get to the flooding leading to water rescues. rob. >> over 3 inches of rainfall in north dallas, this woman had to be rescued from her car and the waters rose up quickly. prompting the fire department to get out there quickly. another round of rain and ice, with an ice storm warning up now northwest of dallas, several rounds coming through friday, another half a foot of rain over these soaked areas, flooding is going to continue to be an

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you get to decide what kind of king you're going to be. >> welcome back to "gma." "black panther" taking over the box office blowing past predictions taking in $404 million worldwide and all of that in just four days. >> uh-huh. >> and everybody wants a piece of it. everybody wants in, including the atlanta airport tweeting, this photo, a nonstop flight to wakanda riding, the bags are packed. #wakandaforever. >> it was shot in atlanta so it's going to be a short flight but everybody is getting on that. love that. also right now survivors of that high school shooting in florida are taking their "never again" fight to the state capitol this morning holding a

big rally to push for gun control and meeting with lawmakers. and they're getting a lot of support from some big names. george and amal clooney were the first to pledge $500,000, then oprah and steven spielberg followed, that same amount, to help them take their cause to washington. and this afternoon, president trump will hold a listening session with teachers and students impacted by school shootings. and we're hearing from one of those heroic teachers. stacey lippel, a teacher, was grazed by a bullet as she pulled her kids to safety. abc's adrienne bankert spoke with her in parkland. good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: good morning to you, too. stacey lippel is being called a hero after her actions that took place during the shooting that happened at douglas high one week ago today, a title she's not comfortable with and says as teachers they often feel they didn't do enough. but what she did do is save lives, ushering students into her classroom and shielding them with her body.

just one week ago, valentine's day, creative writing in stacey lippel's class was writing love letters when the fire alarm went off. as students filed into the hallway, she heard gunfire. the killing had begun. >> i was about two feet away from my door and all of a sudden, i heard gunshots in the stairwell 20 feet from my room, and kids were screaming and then running back towards me and towards the end of the hallway, so i just went in this very strange autopilot mode, where i pivoted on my feet, unlocked my door and the kids just started pouring in my room. i don't know how many, but i was putting them and getting them in and shouting at them to get in the room and, then i suddenly saw the shooter, 20 feet from me standing at the end of the hallway actively shooting down the hallway, just a barrage of bullets and i'm staring at him thinking, why is the police here? he's in full metal garb, helmet, face mask, bulletproof armor, shooting this rifle that i've never seen before.

i don't know when i decided it was the right time to close the door. i grabbed the handle with both hands, and that's when i got nicked or grazed or whatever you call it. >> a bullet hit your arm. >> yes, as i'm closing my door, i'm shouting at my next-door neighbor mr. beigel to close the door. he would just keep it open a little longer. he's all about the kids, you know, but he couldn't see the shooter. i had a good visual of him, which is why i yelled at him to shut his door now. >> reporter: 35-year-old teacher scott beigel was among the 17 murdered on marjorie stoneman douglas' campus. >> i heard him shoot a barrage of bullets into mr. beigel's room and then he came to my room and shot about four or five shots into my room breaking the glass of my door. there is a rectangular piece of glass and heard him continuously shooting down the hallway and i never really knew when he left because we just thought he was still there. >> once you were inside the classroom you were with your students. >> yes. >> covering them, kind of like a

mother hen. >> yes, clutching -- i think i left fingerprints in one girl, giving eye contact to other kids who were shaking and freaking out and mouthing it's okay, it's okay. it was so quiet and then i hear helicopters outside far, far in the distance, it seemed to me. police officers far, far in the distance. kids were screaming in the hallway for help. we're trained not to let anybody in the room and i would say a good 45 minutes went by, maybe an hour, and when we heard the s.w.a.t. team come on the floor, but i still didn't trust that it was them because they were bang on the door, police, let us in, no one got out and then they just let themselves in and got us out and on the way out, that's when i saw mr. beigel laying on the ground and i saw my students laying on the ground. i lost two students and other bodies and carnage everywhere. it was the most awful sight i've ever seen. it's like from a movie. >> how are you dealing having seen this and it being very, very real? >> it's awful. you know, i've never had to deal

with anything like this before. i'm a stoic person to begin with. i'm not the most emotional person and so, when i sit and think and i pause about my two beloved students who were killed from that class, it's hard to live with because i loved them so much. like they were my kids. i've known meadow since she was a tenth grader and took my class because she wanted to have me again, my creative writing class, and joaquin was like a son and called me mom and it's a heartbreaking -- >> what are you holding on to center you and keep you moving forward and waking up every day with hope? >> well, just that i survived and we survived and we have to move on. you can't sit there and cower. you still have a life and left on the planet for a reason. let's do what we're supposed to do and if we're not sure what that is we'll figure it out but we're alive. >> and we're all thankful that she's alive. her kids, as well who attend

school here and because stacey knew where the danger was and knew where her kids were. clear across campus. she didn't worry about them even in the midst of shooting but tell us joaquin mentioning calling her mom, wrote a children's book in her class, and she plans on getting it published. >> that would be some kind of a tribute. it's hard to imagine going back into that classroom but the students and teachers are preparing for it. >> yes, not into that particular building. right now, there are talks to have that building completely demolished, but in terms of returning back staff will return and the kids go back to normal class schedule next week but stacey as told her students wherever we are no matter where the classroom is, it will be home. >> adrienne bankert, thanks very much. >> we heard that from the principal. adrienne, let me ask you. you have spent quite a few days with those students and about to go back to school. just give us your impression of these young people.

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back now with that bombshell report about usa swimming. alleging decades of sexual abuse affecting nearly 600 victims. many under the age of 18 years. the investigation by the southern california news group is now raising serious questions, and abc's paula faris is here and, paula, they're saying they didn't do nearly enough. >> not nearly enough. good morning. this report is claiming usa swimming executives and board members did little or in some cases nothing about predatory swim coaches. it even describes a culture where the abuse of underage swimmers was common and even accepted. >> has done it again. >> reporter: it's one of the most dominant olympic sports with athletes like michael phelps and katie ledecky basking in gold but it's possibly bigger than any of its success.

according to a report from the southern california news group, published in the "orange county register," the usa swimming organization failed to properly address claims of sexual abuse made by hundreds of alleged victims over the course of two decades. the report claims that since 1997, at least 252 coaches and officials affiliated with usa swimming have been arrested, prosecuted for misconduct with swimmers. >> it was abuse for a decade. i will say at no point was sean and my relationship consensual. >> reporter: former world champ and 2012 olympic team usa member ariana kukors says she was sexually abused as a teenager by a former u.s. national team coach sean hutchison. kukors said he began grooming her for a sexual relationship when she was just 13 and sexually assaulted her at 16. they first had intercourse when she was 18 and continued to have a sexual relationship until she

was 24. >> all of it started when i was 13 and so every level that we got to was not something shocking. i didn't have any sexual experience. every step that he took me to along the way was a step that he was preparing me for, whether texting about it ahead of time and, you know, asking for pictures. >> reporter: but hutchison says these allegations are false telling abc news he denies having a sexual or romantic relationship before she was old enough to legally make those decisions for herself and claims prior to that, he did nothing to groom her. usa swimming became aware of rumors of an inappropriate relationship between hutchison and kukors in 2010 when she was 21 but kukors says she lied about their encounters when asked by investigators. >> i'm just so hopeful that we can bring change to this. i hope the right conversations can start taking place and i'm struggling so hard to be right here and it's costing me

everything, to sit in this room right now and rip myself open. >> so raw and emotional. usa swimming tells abc news this is the first time that they learned about these allegations while kukors was a minor and said both parties denied the relationship and the investigation provided no basis to conclude a code of conduct violation occurred but so many victim, almost 600, the youngest age 3. >> all right. thank you, paula. we'll bring in abc news contributor christine brennan, she's joining us from the olympics there in south korea. always good to spend a little time with you, christine. we know what you said after the scandal with gymnastics. you said, quote, probably the darkest stain in u.s. olympic history. what's your reaction to this report? >> oh, robin. this is the one-two punch then, isn't it? to have these two sports,

gymnastics and swimming, and such popular sports and americans cheering about them and to hear this, i think this is absolutely horrible and as bad, maybe even worse than gymnastics. >> with gymnastic after larry nassar we saw the entire board with usa gymnastics resign so what do you expect here, christine? >> well, i think they should all resign, as well. there's a new leader there at the usa swimming as there at usa gymnastics but they have to. this story is so massive as paula was saying, close to 600 alleged allegations against swimmers, young swimmers as young as 3. that's even more than the gymnastics story, which horrified us for more than a week last month, and so i absolutely think, robin, they should all go. whether they will or not but there's going to be a lot of pressure put on them. there has to be at this point. >> gymnastic, now swimming. two major sports with the olympics. do you think that others will be implicated? >> i think we would have to be

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lawmakers in florida's capitol to demand action on gun control and want to go back to dan harris in tallahassee. hey, dan. >> reporter: george, good morning. one week after surviving one of the worst school shootings in modern american history, 100 students from the douglas high school in parkland, florida, are here in the state capitol of tallahassee. they spent the night at the civic center sleeping on cots, they're eating breakfast and soon will walk over to the capitol where they will meet the speaker of the house to the attorney general to the governor himself and have specific legislative demands. they want to beef up school safety and beef up background checks to make it harder with people with mental health to get firearms and make it harder if not impossible for people to get hands on ar-15s, the semiautomatic rifle that was used in their school. even before they come here, though, they've received a setback. yesterday, legislators voted against even considering a bill that would have banned semiautomatic rifles so the idealism of these students

running head-long into hard legislative realities. george. an uphill fight. breaking news. billy graham has died at the age of 99. one of the most important spiritual figures of our time. speaking to more than 00 million people during his life. his influence stretched all the way to the white house. he met with every president, from harry truman to barack obama, and a key figure in reviving the evangelical movement. he drew huge crowds from budapest to beijing. for now let's go to amy for the latest on the olympics. >> it was a historic day in the olympics. kikkan randall and jesse diggins becomes the first americans ever to medal in women's olympic cross-country. and then, yes, skiing superstar lindsey vonn racing in what was her last olympic downhill

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[ cheers and applause ] all right. back here on "gma." wonderful to have everybody with us on this wednesday morning and it's wonderful. hello, everybody. how are you? i was just taken by the front row from mississippi, from the hub city. >> oh, you should have seen them dancing. oh, you should have seen this whole place, tom had this place going. [ cheers and applause ] >> and he's got a suit on today.

thank you, tom. >> the best part -- [ applause ] these two were busting a move to ♪ sexy and i know it >> do we have it on tape? >> no, but there is another commercial break coming. >> encore. >> yes. but "pop news." >> yes, let's do it. hi, everybody, good morning to you. tom, got to give it to you, looking great today. and good morning to you. we begin with queen elizabeth. she's never wavered in her fashion sense but that didn't stop her from checking out the shows in london. her majesty making her fashion week debut on tuesday sitting next to the grand dame of all things stylish, "vogue" editor in chief anna wintour at the richard quinn's fashion show and after which she presented richard with the inaugural queen elizabeth award for british design. 28-year-old quinn known for his eccentric and structural pieces favored by the likes of lady gaga and the queen. >> wow.

>> inaugural award. who knew the queen and lady gaga share a little something. also in "pop news" this morning, do not mess with the u.s. curling team. you thought it was all just pushing, sweeping, but you can only push to a point, or they'll sweep you right under the carpet. actress kirstie alley found that out the hard way when she declared she didn't mean to be mean but watching curling is boring. but guess what? the curling didn't appreciate that comment. >> neither did they back here. >> they tweeted back to alley, who starred in the "look who's talking movies" writing, we're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater. what! drop the curling thing, drop the stone. >> you know you have to set some tea on that. >> they have a point. she knows it.

she backed down and she wrote, i'll give it another chance. my son loves watching team usa and they responded, we knew you'd come around. allow us or our good friends at hollywood curl to show you and your son the ropes sometime and maybe they'll even try watching "veronica's closet," so it will all work out. watch a couple movies do a little curling. >> no, i appreciate -- i don't think you need to be doping for curling. >> okay. >> but i think it's really hard. those stones weigh a lot. >> you're pushing them. >> i appreciate it. i think it's amazing. >> it takes a lot of work. u.s. curling team, i'm not messing with you. kirstie found out the hard way. i'm not going there. and now, how about a lost and founding father story. a lock of hair believed to have come from the head of george washington discovered in an envelope labeled washington's hair, written in 18th century cursive, tucked inside a book in the library of union college, another clue here, that book a 1793 almanac that belonged to

eliza hamilton's father, and thanks to lin-manuel miranda that we all know this, the right-hand man to general washington but it may have to remain hair-say. scientists say dna testing -- thank you very much. try the meat loaf. scientists say that dna testing could destroy the centuries' old follicle altogether and just don't want to take the chance at this time hoping that science will improve and they'll be able to save the follicle. here's a fun fact for you. contrary to popular belief, george washington did not wear a wig. i found out his hair was all -- that was all his in all those paintings and he was a redhead and powdered his hair white because that was the look in the time of the 1700s when he was -- he was just working it, people. work it. >> that's a lot of work. >> you know what i'm thinking too, nobody looked in that book for a long time. >> no. >> george washington's hair. >> that's a clue. i'll keep you posted on that.

>> lara, thank you. great "pop news" as always. we go now to our "gma" cover story. we are learning new details about jennifer aniston and justin thoreau's split and the factors that could have led to it. abc's eva pilgrim is here with all of that. good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning. this felt like it came out of nowhere. we were so happy for jen, thinking she finally found true love. there was no word of trouble. but now that the two are done, the long-distance relationship turned marriage was reportedly a struggle even in the beginning. it was the valentine's day breakup we never expected. this morning, new details emerging about what possibly led to jennifer aniston's split with justin theroux. the new issue of "people" magazine reporting that the two's clashing lives and personalities may have doomed the marriage. aniston mostly in l.a., theroux 2400 miles away in new

york. >> she loves the l.a. life because she can hide here more. in new york, you're much more public, and she couldn't get used to that lifestyle and justin loves new york. >> reporter: sources telling "people" that time apart didn't help strengthen their bond and that theroux always acted more like a single guy. he went out with his single friends and sometimes would have very little contact with jen for days. the couple reportedly facing hurdles from the beginning. "people" magazine saying early in their relationship, the two wanted to have a baby hoping to start a family together. >> unfortunately having a baby just did not work out for them, and while they were sad and disappointed, of course, it's not something that consumed them. >> reporter: "people" says the couple went to therapy, trying to make it work, and that for months aniston was still hoping they could work things out, until last week when justin took a private plane from new york to l.a. the two deciding to jointly drop their bombshell announcement together.

>> jen and justin didn't just suddenly give up on their marriage. they tried for months to make it work. she also has a great life. she has wonderful friends, a ton of projects in the works and she's staying busy. >> just makes you a little sad for her. jen said before she isn't a fan of dating fining it awkward and unpleasant but she still seems to be a big believer in falling in love and finding someone to spend her life with. that new issue of "people" hits stands today. >> thank you so much. now, over to rob. >> good morning, guys. again, your "gma" moment. check this out. we take you to toronto, canada, so good morning, north america. this 7-year-old noah in his backyard doing a spinning lacrosse-style slam into the net. this is what they do in canada. get the hose out and make a rink in the backyard that has since melted they told me so it's more of a grass hockey sort of thing but gets you in mood for the olympics. the women play canada tonight. usa, usa, usa! here's a look at your usa

good morning i'm "abc 7 news" meteorologist mike nicco. partly cloudy today. random showers and a week arctic cold front. clearing out, we'll see more stars, breezy tonight and more storms brewing into next week. temperatures today about 53 to 58. upper 30s to mid 40s my accuweather seven-day forecast we're going to turn now to the late great rocker chris cornell, the soundgarden front man died in may of last year from an apparent suicide. now this morning his wife vicky is speaking on camera for the first time since the tragedy, giving us a glimpse into the man behind the music and what happened that fateful night. ♪ black old sun won't you come

♪ and wash away the rain >> reporter: his powerhouse voice inspiring a generation but to his wife of 13 years chris cornell was so much more. we just know him as this rock legend. tell us a little more about the type of father and husband he was. >> the kids were his everything. as soon as he got offstage he was a regular dad. he was just all in. >> reporter: but the proud father of three also battling private demons. for years struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. vicky says he sought treatment and by 2003 he was sober. but it wouldn't end there. >> approximately a year before he died, he was prescribed a benzodiazepine to help him sleep. he had torn his shoulder. he complained that, you know, that the pain in the shoulder was waking him up. in retrospect i learned, it's not supposed to be given to anybody who's in recovery.

if you have to give it, they have to be closely monitored and it should not be given for more than two to three weeks, so he relapsed in a seven-day period, he took 20-something pills and in a nine-day period, 33. >> reporter: in march, chris reaching out to a close colleague for help writing in an e-mail, would love to talk, had relapse. >> he had really delayed speech. he was forgetful and there were moments where i thought there was like some confusion. ♪ >> reporter: less than two months later he would play his final show. >> he was off pitch. he forgot words. he walked offstage. chris cornell doesn't do those kind of things. he's not that kind of a rock star. >> people must have been wondering what's going on here. hours later chris passed away. >> my children woke up and that was probably the most tragic thing you could ever go through. >> reporter: the medical report ruling the cause of chris' death asphyxiation.

an apparent suicide in his system, seven different drugs that report saying drugs were not a contributing factor. vicky and many in the medical community say there's more to the story. >> he wanted to be there for his family, for his children, he loved his life. he would never have ever left this world. >> and you believe it was the addiction that led him to do what he did that night in taking his life. >> i don't think that he could make any decisions because of the level of impairment. >> reporter: the events of that night still weigh on vicky. >> people saying, can't blame yourself. i'm trying not to. but there were signs. >> you can't blame yourself, vicky. you relapse after cancer. i had a relapse and nobody questioned it. why is it when you have an addiction, which is an illness, why is it any different? >> you think addiction is a

choice, and it's not a choice. >> what is your message about addiction? >> it's in all of our houses. it's in rich, poor, it has no racial boundaries. >> it doesn't discriminate. >> no, it does not. and i think that if there was e less stigma around it, more people would speak up. there's just so much labeling that comes with it and my husband was the furthest thing from a rock star junkie. he just wasn't. he was the best husband, the greatest father. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah >> reporter: just three months after his death, toni, his youngest daughter on stage with one republic at our summer concert series, a moving tribute to her dad and his good friend lincoln park's chester bennington, who also took his

own life soon after chris' death. that's your girl. that's your daughter. to be able to get that presence, where does she get that from? >> from her daddy. ♪ hallelujah >> both chris' manager and agent tells us that just days before his death chris sounded truly excited for the future. as for vicky, she is now an advocate for addiction awareness working with the addiction policy forum. joining us now is dr. nora volkow from the national institute on drug abuse. this is a very necessary conversation. i know that you have spoken with vicky and as we heard from her she really believes her husband's relapse led him to not make the best decisions. i know you never treated chris, but what are your thoughts? >> she described it. she says when her husband was

not himself he appeared confused at times. and he was forgetful and when you're intoxicated with drugs, you change your mental state. there are certain drugs that are particularly risk in that respect. they generate confusion. they impair your cognition. they lead you to inhibited acts and people may do impulsive behaviors that they wouldn't have done had they not been under the influence of these drugs and this gets accentuated when you mix drugs. it is likely had he not been under the influences of these drugs he had never done such an act that cost him his life. >> you talk about all these medications, doctor, should physicians be aware if a patient has had addiction to drugs and alcohol as well? >> absolutely. it's their responsibility.

and in fact, doctors should ask their patients whether they had a history of drug taking in their family or in themselves, because that's going to determine also what medications they can give them or not, and if they give them medication that may put them at higher risk. they have to be observed very, very carefully, and the other issue is that, different from other diseases like diabetes or cancer where you have it in your medical record, the information regarding you being treated for a substance disorder is not in the medical record. so you as a doctor if you don't ask the question you may not know your patient is addicted to drugs and you may give them a drug that leads them to relapse. >> that's an interesting point. i was talking to you in the commercial break and so many of us here not looking at anyone in particular, we have had this in our family, addiction and dealing with relapses, and things are going so much better for that person now but it really does affect the entire

family, addiction, and the signs that you look for for relapse, what signs should we look for? >> well, you know, it affects the family and can destroy it but it is the family that can support the person that's addicted. so the family has to be very alert of signs and symptoms of someone becoming addicted and very importantly of signs and symptoms when someone has relapsed because it is difficult to face the fact, it's very painful to see someone addicted. it's very devastating. you deceive yourself into believing the person is okay. >> i don't understand why we get upset with the person when we relapse. we were guilty of the same thing and i was like, why do we do that? it is a disease like any other and it can come back. >> because there's a misunderstanding of what it does to your brain. people actually look at your actions and the basis of their own experiences. so i am able to control my intake of wine for example. but drugs affect the brain in ways that impair that capacity to actually exert control over

your desires and emotions leading you to be very automatic and repetitive, it's like driving a car without brakes. you may brake all you want and the persons that are addicted realize they have to stop but if you don't have brakes, how do you do it? it's the equivalent. >> thank you so much for this conversation. >> you're welcome. >> it's so necessary and we have to eliminate the stigma and talk about addiction more and how it affects all families. >> and we need to treat it. >> and we do. we'll be right back. thank you.

good morning north bay. let's get up and gt going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> good morning i'm reggie aqui it is 8:27 a special event is going to be held in san jose to honor those who helped coyote creek flood victims. marking one year devastating several neighborhoods. 14,000 people displaced and the flood losses estimated at $73 million. >> trouble spots out there. hump day commute. wed an earlier accident southbound on 101 near highway 12 in santa rosa, cleared, both north and southbound continue to be slow. a new problem in oakland. westbound 580. and it is

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about 30 minutes and covered on the app and abc7news.com. force fore [ applause ] got to say welcome back to "gma," everybody. great to have you with us on this hump day. wednesday morning. thank you all so much. >> and as we wait for george to come back upstairs he was down for that special report about the breaking news, billy graham dying at the age of 99. really an influential figure transforming religious life here in america. so we will have much as george said we'll have much more on "world news tonight with david muir" and continue on with "gma" and have an incredible 14-year-old taylor richardson who was just 9 when she launched a go fund me page to raise money for space camp. now she is on a new mission to

send hundreds of young girls to see "a wrinkle in time." raising $20,000 and counting. taylor and her mother latonya, they're joining us from florida to talk all about it. we can tell that you want to be an astronaut one day. we can tell by what you're wearing there. congratulations on what you're doing and just tell us why you decided to do something like this. >> well, i wanted to do the wrinkle in time campaign because in my opinion representation matters and i wanted all girl, especially girls of color to know they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up and also can struggle and have flaws and still be successful in life. >> you've done similar things in the past, haven't you? raising money, tell us about that. >> well, i did start a hidden figures campaign to send over a thousand girls there and i did that because i didn't know about the story with the hidden figures and katherine johnson

and i feel like that history needed to be shared with the rest of the world so i started my campaign. >> good for you. >> latonya, you must be a proud mom but your daughter, she's accomplished so much at a young age. did you always know she'd make such a big difference? >> well, i've always felt that taylor was going to make a difference. at the age of 9 she went to space camp and being the only black girl at space camp, she came home and said, mom, we need to do something about this. so she's been very active and advocating for s.t.e.m. since she was 9 years old. [ applause ] >> yes. we heard taylor's mom mention space camp and see the outfit so, taylor, this is obviously a passion and i understand it started at a young age inspired by a book. >> yeah, i was inspired by mae jemison's autobiography, the first african-american female

astronaut who went into space and after reading about her struggles with racism, being a girl also, if she can do it, so can i. >> yes, ma'am. [ applause ] >> hey, latonya, what is your secret? >> oh, gosh. a village. i'm a single mom and we just have so many people helping us here. not just in jacksonville but all over. and the quote is true. it takes a village and we have a very strong village here in jacksonville helping taylor. >> taylor, i can see on your face you had an answer to that, as well. >> me? >> yes. >> yeah, well, i did. i just was thinking about all the people who helped me along the way because i was bullied when i was younger and i didn't really have many friends my age so it was always adults helping me coming over to the house with my homework and putting

groceries in the refrigerator and always supporting me when i was little so i guess it does take a village to raise a child. >> that's awesome. and, taylor, what is your young message for all the other young girls out there who have these dreams and aspirations? >> i just would say, never be limited by the people's limited imaginations which my idol said but always work hard and get an education and just be the warrior you truly are. >> you're living proof of that, sweetheart and i tell you what, because of all your hard work, we are going to have you visit us here in new york city at "gma" and we're going to have you meet one of the women with "a wrinkle in time." >> oh, my gosh. >> are you serious? >> yeah, we are. >> oh, my gosh. >> we love surprises here. that's how we roll so we'll have a lot of surprises when you and your mom come up and visit us real soon but bless your heart, both of you.

>> thank you very much. >> thank you, thank you. exciting. we have an olympian on top of the world, the first american to medal in the men's single luge. please welcome chris mazdzer. >> yes! [ applause ] >> oh, man. [ cheers and applause ] >> oh, my god. >> congratulations. >> nice to meet you. robin, robin. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> good morning, america. >> wow. >> first of all we got to say congratulations. you're a historymaker. you're the first -- >> it still hasn't sunk in yet. i don't think it has, no.

i just love the sport of luge. i love what i do and that hasn't changed at all so it hasn't set in. it truly hasn't. >> how do you become a luger when you're little? >> it's easy. i mean you start to put sledding -- like luge is ultimate sledding so it's very easy transition. go to your sledding hill. you take your flexible flyer and go as fast as you can down the hill and then you move to the luge track. >> on your back going down. >> i know. [ applause ] >> yeah, it's easy. >> you have been so cool in recognizing all that came before you. all the men and women who were in the sport and you to be the first one in men's luge but have been very respectful of your predecessors. >> it's taken generations, this isn't just like i started out and a couple of years later i have this. there's 33 other men who have gone through this for the u.s. and that's -- that takes lives. like i started when i was 8. i'm 29 now. that's 21 years so there's 33 people have given their lives

so -- it's a full commitment and it feels really good to come back and be like we finally -- we have it. >> what's the hardest thing about going down the track. >> the ice is pretty hard. the ice is pretty hard. the hardest part is staying relaxed. when you come out and know you're an inch away from the wall. if you tense up that will send the slide into a skid so you have to be completely relaxed when you know you're out of control. that's the hardest part. >> you must meditate or something. [ applause ] >> i don't know. that is -- luge is kind of like my meditation. it's a minute where it's 100% focus where you don't hear or feel anything else so when you're going down it is kind of like a meditation. >> so the internet has a massive crush on you. i don't know if you guys -- you have to go online. you're everywhere. we wanted to know what's something we don't know about you but we should?

>> well, i would say i'm always up for a challenge. i really like challenge, whatever that is. >> i think we know that. >> i guess so. >> that's pretty amazing. >> you have a challenge for some people. >> yeah, absolutely. so, i have been a mentor for kids through this nonprofit called classroom for champions. [ applause ] >> what makes this so special, typically athletes will go to a school and talk in front of kids and our message will stick for a couple of days or weeks but if we're not there to reiterate it kind of gets lost. this allows us to become involved with classes and every month we're doing a video on perseverance or diversity and we're talking about these great topics and we always challenge the kids. whether that's not to help out with their community or if it's just to talk about how they persevered so they can grow and

i always give a challenge and right now i have a challenge for people where i'm matching or i hope to match -- i donated $5,000 from this medal's winning and trying to get other people to match that. and i try to get in this program a couple of years ago but i couldn't because they didn't have the funding and i feel this is a way that i can make a difference in kids' lives and i want to spread that however i can so my challenge is to see if people can match that. we've already raised about $30,000. >> how do we do it? >> yeah. you go to classroomchampions.org and it's right there. >> please. [ applause ] >> we have our champion right here, we'll see you in 2022 by the way back at the olympics again. enjoy and let it soak in. coming up, the great brooke shields is here live. we'll be right back.

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how about this? you look like you're melting out here. where you from. >> birmingham. >> i think we set records there. temps in the 80s. check out dozens of records as a matter of fact. just up the road from birmingham, memphis, tennessee. home of graceland and beautiful. daffodil flowers blooming again today. more records expected. 70s in atlanta and maybe 80 in

raleigh. maybe 80 in d.c., maybe 70 again in boston. don't get used to it. it's still february. good morning i'm abc 7 meteorologist mike nicco. a random shower. temperatures in the 50s, another front tomorrow, with the snow don't get shy on me now. look at these beautiful bows. a bedazzled bow. how old you are. >> 9. >> beautiful 9. how old you are. >> 8. >> 8 and 9. i love it. beautiful stuff. this weathercast is brought to you by boost high protein. love some of that too. michael, back up to you. >> rob, thank you so much. i'm here with someone, she does it all. brooke shields. [ applause ] author, model. business woman and actress who's had roles on at least five different shows. that's just in the last past year.

five different shows including the adult swim cartoon, "mr. pickles." love having you here. >> thank you. >> you're one busy woman. how do you juggle it all? how do you keep it all going? >> first of all, you know, it's funny. it's feast or famine so you're either doing nothing or you're on four shows. i mean, you know, i'd like to say it's always like that but i think i was born a multitasker. it's amazing for me. i cannot not work. so just being on "mr. pickles" which is animated or "the middle" or "jane the virgin" or designing a line for qvc. i go where the water is warm and i keep treading. i'm swimming and treading. >> but you're not treading. you're like swimming olympic type swimming and doing great at everything. >> thank you. >> one thing it's "mr. pickles," a cartoon about a dog. >> it's a bad dog. >> you didn't quite understand it when you first showed it to your girls.

>> when you first do it, notice she's rather well endowed. clearly typecasting and there too. so when they showed me they said, you want to play it. i said, oh, great, a cartoon, this is fabulous, my kids can watch it and i didn't see the entire -- the whole -- all the graphics so he's a bad dog and, you know, i saw it and i was done and i didn't see it fully. i just saw my bit and mommy is on a cartoon and i show it and i press play and all of a sudden i was like, oh, my god. so, for adults. >> we did find a morning show friendly clip. >> perfect. >> that we'll show right now. here is mr. pickles. >> son, it's time i teach you how to fight. stand up for yourself like a man. >> no. >> okay, sorry. >> violence isn't the answer. i'm sure if i drive tommy over

there, we can work this out peacefully. >> but every time you drive my truck, it gets damaged. why don't you get your old bike from the barn, huh? >> ugh. we're here. >> looking at that clip i would say do you think your character is the moral center of the show. >> she's the voice of reason within and she also is not fully aware of mr. pickles' antics but she does all the work in the house and does all the cooking and cleaning and does everything so she is sort of a very modern woman and she finds her voice and she's funny too but she definitely -- you don't want to pass her and she is the moral character. >> and another character, "the middle," rita. >> there is no moral character. >> there is no moral character there. >> no. [ applause ] >> oh. you're back. you're back in the final -- the final season of the show. >> it's the final season. >> a lot of people are sad about that. >> i'll miss the mullet.

>> this is their last episode and so happy they asked me back. rita has a lot of kids and she just keeps having kids. i don't know how and they start in diapers at about 8 years old and they -- we sort of find a different side to her by the end. she's not -- kind of had to reconcile her nastiness but you sort of see how she got to the way she got and it's funny. >> i will tell you this, you are an incredible actress because you are the nicest person. [ applause ] you really are. you really are. i love it when you're here. and season three of "mr. pickles" premieres this sunday on adult swim. brooke shields, everybody. coming up, from "star wars" to annihilation oscar isaac is here.

[ cheers and applause ] back now with one of our favorites, actor oscar isaac starring in an incredible sci-fi thriller called "annihilation" opposite natalie portman taking on another brand-new role, father. congratulations. >> thank you. >> and thinking about you, 2017 was quite a year for you. not only fatherhood but also marriage and also this little movie. i don't know if you heard it. it's called "star wars." >> yeah. [ applause ] >> that little thing. >> "the last jedi" you played poe. how has that been for you? >> huge thing to be a part of. it's funny because just like anything we always find a way to complain about something after a while because we adapt and so it starts to feel like a job but then when little kids come to visit or you

just see their eyes go so wide when you're there and that just reminds you how special it is. >> you're an action figure. >> yeah. yeah. >> your son is going to really -- that ups your cool factor. >> i know, i know. >> and for the rest of us it's pretty cool on the new cover of "gq" magazine. my man is on fire. >> that was a fun shoot. >> really was. and we notice that there's like a theater vibe to it and theater near and dear to your heart and just worked on "hamlet." >> that was in the summer and thank you very much. did that at the public theater downtown and very intense production like basically four hours with two intermissions and that was really intense because my son had just been born very shortly before we started rehearsals, so to kind of do that at night and to be home in the day. >> changing diapers? a tale of two cities, i like to say. want to show everybody your latest project, though, because

it is a nail-biter. let's take a look. "annihilation." >> i don't know where it was or what it was. >> how is that possible? you must be able to tell me something. you vanished off the face of earth for 12 months. i deserve a better explanation than no explanation. >> it doesn't matter. >> yes, it does matter. trust me. it does matter. >> yes. >> how is it working with the wonderful natalie portman. >> amazing. she is an incredible person. not just what she does on screen but off screen. just a really inspirational figure. the film was directed and written by alec garland and did "ex machina" together. pretty wild sci-fi movie. this is his follow-up to that and it's just a very -- you saw it. it's thrilling and horrifying and makes you think a lot and has so many layers to it. >> yeah i can't get that night

of sleep back. it was really fantastic and it's great to see you. please come back. >> thank you. >> congrats on "star wars." and a family now. adorable. congrats on the baby. "annihilation" is breathtaking in theaters friday. don't go anywhere. we'll be right back on "good morning america."

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