at the white house in honor of barbara bush. making news in america this morning, the tributes overtight to former first lady barbara bush. the public good-bye planned for the matriarch of an american dynasty. we look back at her life, her love, her legacy. also breaking overnight, the woman killed after an apparent midair explosion on a southwest airlines flight is identified. the mother of two was nearly sucked out of the window. passengers describe the horrifying moments. >> when the masks dropped down, i thought, okay, this might be it. this might be it. >> the search for what went wrong and the similar incident just two years ago. secret meeting revealed. the cia director's one-on-one meeting with kim jong-un and how it could set the stage for a trump summit next month. those stories, plus google responds to a study claiming thousands of phone apps are

tracking your children. and the growing debate at the ballpark. is baseball season too long? a good wednesday morning to you. we begin with the death of former first lady barbara bush. she's being called a force of nature, famous for her candor and unpretentious charm. >> yeah, mrs. bush passed away at her home in houston at age 92 surrounded by her family members. her son, the former president, george w. bush called his mother a woman unlike any other saying she kept them on their toes and kept them laughing until the end. >> abc's janai norman is in washington where president trump paid tribute to mrs. bush ordering flags lowered to half-staff overnight. janai, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and as you can imagine, so many people expressing condolences to the bush family on social media, and her husband, former president george h.w. bush, is said to be heartbroken. the two of them married longer

than any other presidential couple in american history. she was an american icon, matriarch of a political dynasty. >> i hated it when anyone criticized my brilliant husband, and i was furious when they criticized my son. >> reporter: one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president, barbara bush was fiercely loyal and quick-witted. >> and speaking of glamour, i want you to look at me very carefully. >> reporter: and humble, at times even more popular than her husband. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> reporter: as first lady, famous for her candor known for telling it like it is and using her position to promote literacy. in recent years barbara bush had been hospitalized numerous times while battling congestive heart failure. a family spokesman saying the 92-year-old was in failing health and deided not to seek additional medical treatment. former president george w. bush releasing a statement saying in part, my dear mother has passed on.

we are sad but our souls are settled because we know hers was. his father, former president george h.w. bush, said to be brokenhearted after losing his wife of 73 years. in a statement, his chief of staff revealing he held her hand all day and was at her side when she left this good earth. and former president george h.w. bush also said to be stoic but staying strong during this time and, diane and kendis, on saturday a private service is planned for about 1,500 guests including several former presidents and first ladies. >> we'll all be watching that service, indeed. janai, thank you. and we're going to have much more on mrs. bush's life in just a few minutes including her response when she was criticized for being old-fashioned. right now we turn to the engine explosion on a southwest airlines flight. the woman who was killed and nearly sucked out of that plane has been identified as jennifer reardon, a bank executive and mother of two from albuquerque, new mexico. passengers are now describing the moment when the window

she was sitting next to shattered. >> all of us thought this might be it. >> reporter: this morning a terrifying first account from the deadly midair explosion. >> shortly after takeoff, we heard a loud noise, and the plane started shaking like nothing i've ever experienced before. it sounded like the plane was coming apart. >> reporter: the southwest flight from new york's laguardia airport to dallas when it suddenly had to be diverted to philadelphia. it's believed the plane's engine exploded shattering a window in the 14th row. jennifer reardon was sitting in the seat next to that window. witnesses say she was nearly sucked out of the plane. peggy phillips, a retired registered nurse, rushed to riordan's aid. >> the window had broken and the suction, negative pressure had pulled her outside the plane partially. these two wonderful men, the emt and a passenger, managed to get her back inside the plane and we lay her down and we started cpr. >> reporter: phillips says she performed cpr on riordan for 20 minutes until the plane made the

emergency landing, but the mother of two was pronounced dead at a hospital. >> if you can possibly imagine going through the window of an airplane at about 600 miles an hour and hitting either the fuselage or the wing with your body, with your face, then i think i can probably tell you that there was significant trauma to the body. >> reporter: another passenger, marty martinez, started streaming live on facebook after the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. he later wrote on facebook, i literally bought wi-fi as the plane was going down because i wanted to be able to reach the people i loved thinking these were my final moments on earth. as part of the investigation, the ntsb is focusing on the engine to determine why it came apart. the head of the agency says a piece of the engine was found 70 miles away from the airport. >> it's very unusual, and so we are taking this event extremely seriously. this should not happen, and we

want to find out why it happened so that we can make sure that the preventive measures are put in place. >> reporter: southwest's ceo says the airline's entire fleet will undergo intense inspections and overnight southwest airlines paid tribute to the tragedy changing its logo on twitter from the normally colorful heart to a gray one. and the ntsb is also looking at a similar incident in 2016 when a southwest flight to orlando had to make an emergency landing after a piece of the engine punctured a hole above the wing. abc news has confirmed a top level secret meeting between the u.s. and north korea. the cia director mike pompeo met kim jong-un over easter weekend. the highest level contact between the two countries since 2000. it was part of an effort to lay the groundwork for president trump's possible summit with kim as early as next month. well, the president says five locations have been discussed as possible venues for the talks. now, we are told that he's ruled out north korea and china and it's unlikely that kim would

agree to meet in the u.s. so that leaves south korea or somewhere in europe as contenders. in the meantime, the white house is trying to clear up some confusion about a statement made by u.n. ambassador nikki haley which triggered a public spat. the president's economic adviser larry kudlow has now apologized for claiming haley was confused when she said the u.s. planned new sanctions on russia. haley responded to kudlow again publicly saying, with all due respect, i don't get confused. president trump reportedly stopped those sanctions from being imposed on russia. the white house says the sanctions are being reviewed. cooler temperatures today are expected to help fire crews in northwest oklahoma battle wildfires that are being described as epic and historic. two people have been killed and more than 50 homes and buildings have been damaged or destroyed. about 625 square miles have burned so far. and those flames are moving fast. in one case officials say a fire spread across eight miles in just three hours.

and time now for a look at your weather forecast for this wednesday morning. good morning. as far as the fires are concerned, still parched conditions with red flag warnings throughout all of new mexico going into texas, oklahoma, even leaning into portions of kansas. then the winds posing problems particularly for colorado just east of the denver area going into nebraska and kansas. in addition to that, we will have some beneficial rain that will slide through denver and at least slow down the fires just a touch and then too much precipitation in the north central part of the country, 6 to 12 inches in some areas along i-90. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. coming up, the headline about president trump and his taxes this morning. also ahead, caught on camera, the terrifying moment when ice comes crashing through a driver's windshield. and stormy daniels' big reveal. what this sketch has to do with her alleged affair with president trump.

we're back now with video of a close call in vermont. a chunk of ice flew off a truck crashing into a driver's windshield. amazingly, that driver was not injured, but he says if someone had been sitting in his passenger seat, that may have been a different story. well, starbucks says it will close more than 8,000 stores across the country for several hours next month to train employees about racial bias. it's in response to the arrest of two black men for trespassing at a philadelphia store as they waited for their friend. now, starbucks calls the incident regrettable and says the manager never intended for them to be arrested. her call to 911, though, has now been released. >> hi, i have two gentlemen in my cafe that are refusing to make a purchase or leave. >> the manager who has now left the company reportedly told a

local news website that a corporate policy for starbucks in that area bans loitering and management has discretion to enforce the policy. i should point out the one-day closure will cost starbucks 12 million dpz. the governor of missouri is refusing to step down despite new calls from lawmakers in his own party to resign because of a deepening ethics scandal. governor eric greitens is facing a possible second felony charge for allegedly misusing charity donor lists for political fund-raising. now, this comes amid a sex scandal in which he is accused of abuse and invasion of privacy. he denies the accusations and is vowing to stay in office. if you haven't filed your federal income taxes yet, don't panic. yesterday was the tax deadline, as you know, but after major crash on its website the irs is now giving everyone another day to file pushing the deadline to midnight tonight, and if you need more time, you're not alone. the white house says because of the complexity of his return, president trump has filed a

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believe in something larger than yourself. >> we spoke overnight to abc's cokie roberts who covered the bush white house and shared her thoughts on mrs. bush. >> barbara bush became an american icon and it was amazing how many people adored her. the whole world likes barb. another time i interviewed her was in 1999 when george w. bush was running for president and it was the first interview with laura and barbara bush together. and laura bush was terrified. this was her very formidable mother-in-law that she was going to be interviewed with and at various times during the conversation barbara bush would say, laura, don't answer that.

it will just get you in trouble. if any of us should get this trouble it will be me so it was very amusing but barbara bush came in as someone who seemed much more down to earth but was not as scripted, was very funny and people were happy about that. >> cokie roberts talking about her longtime friend there mrs. bush and often quoted a line from the movie "ferris bueller's day off" saying life moves pretty fast and if you don't stop and look around you'll miss it. later this half hour we'll look back at the bushes' remarkable love story. president trump reacting to a new immigration ruling. neil gorsuch joi liberals striking down a law ailed at deporting immigrants convicted of certain crimes. the justices ruled the law as being too vague. president trump tweeted the court decision means congress must close loopholes that block

the removal of dangerous criminal aliens including aggravated felons. this is a public safety crisis that can only be fixed by congress. pretty hefty reyard being offered for identifying the man who attacked stormy daniels. daniels and her attorney released a sketch of the man she says told her to stay quiet about her alleged affair with the president. now, daniels was clear about the reason she's now speaking out. >> i'm tired of being threatened and intimidating me and trying to say that you'll ruin my life and take my, you know, all my money and my house and whatever, i'm sorry. i'm done. i'm done being bullied. >> daniels denied her story is a publicity stunt saying that she hid the details for years because she was intimidated. google is promising action after a new report about phone apps illegally tracking children. the report found 57% of the most popular android apps use the by kids may be tracking them

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time to check "the pulse" starting with an oscar winning director's warning about fake news. >> so at first jordan peele's video looks like a normal address from the former president, barack obama, but take a look. >> we're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time even if they would never say those things. >> looks believable enough. looks like 44 and sounded like obama. but then the truth is revealed. president trump is a total and complete dip [ bleep ]. now, you see, i would never say these things. at least not in a public address but someone else would. someone like jordan peele. this is a dangerous time. moving forward, we need to be more vigilant with what we trust

from the internet. >> peele said he wanted to make the psa to show how fake videos are becoming harder to recognize. >> creepy. the weather has made this a rough start to the baseball season and that is sparking debate over whether that season is just too long. anthony rizzo of the cubs says he's willing to take a pay cut for a shorter season. he says baseball should start later in the year and the league should schedule more doubleheaders to avoid weather delays and postponements. >> a major sports website has been conducting a survey asking how many games you have to watch to be a true fan and the chicago white sox actually had a game just about two weeks ago that had less than a thousand people there in the stands. >> it's cold out there. >> pretty pitiful. next to a neighborhood in southern california, under siege. >> residents of victorville are fighting what appears to be a losing battle against tumbleweeds. city workers have been scooping them up by the chuckful. >> so the problem isn't isolated to california. an entire house in utah was virtually buried under

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. good morning. thanks for joining us on wednesday, april 18. reggie is off this morning. i'm matt keller filling in. >> we have alexis smith tracking the roads. >> we didn't get the red memo. >> no, we did not. >> obviously not. >> we're wearing blue together. >> i don't know what happened to you three. good morning everybody. let's take a look at what's going on. it's really quiet this morning. look at that. it's quiet this morning. tonight we've got mainly light showers, a slight chance of thunder and the snow level under 30 feet. let me get you out the door. drier and mostly cloudy. temperatures milder, mid to upper 40s. we'll take a look at your accuweather 12-hour planner in

less than three minutes. road work at 4:27 in the morning. usually that's all we have going on. no major incidents. we've got heavy traffic on northbound 880. various lanes scheduled to be closed until 6:00. yesterday they got this wrapped up right after 5:00 a.m. keeping a close eye on this. i would definitely stick to international or 580 for an alternate. other than that, pretty quiet. a live look at golden gate bridge, no issues coming in from the north bay. a funeral for former first lady barbara bush will take place this weekend. >> here is a picture from the white house this morning, flags flies in half staff in her honor. janay norman is live in washington, d.c. with more. good morning, janay. >> reporter: good morning. as you can imagine, so many people expressing condolences to the bush family. her husband, h.w. bush is said

to be heartbroken. married longer than any other couple in presidential history. >> she was an american icon, might arc of a political dynasty. >> i hated it when anyone criticized my brilliant husband and i'm furious when they criticize my son. >> one of only two first ladies who is also the mother of a president, barbara bush was fiercely loyal and quit witted. >> speaking of glamour, i want you all to look at me very carefully. >> and humble. at times even more popular than her husband. as first lady, famous for her candor, known for telling it like it is and using her position to promote literacy. >> she understood that, as first lady, she had a pulpit and she used it and continues to use it even after her passing. >> reporter: in recent years, barbara bush had been hospitalized numerous times while battling congestive heart failure. a family spokesman saying the

92-year-old was in failing health and decided not to seek additional medical treatment. former president george w. bush releasing a statement saying in part, my dear mother has passed on. we are sat but our souls are settled because we know hers was. his father, former president george h.w. bush said to be broken hearted after losing his wife of 73 years. in a statement his chief of staff revealing he held her hand all day and was at her side when she left this good earth. >> former president george h.w. bush is said to be stoic a strong. a private service is set for 1500 guests including several former presidents and first ladies. it's 4:30. if you're just joining us, let's get a quick update on weather and traffic. >> we'll start with