good morning, america. president trump one-on-one. a combative new interview overnight, saying he doesn't trust some people in his white house, but he does trust kim jong-un. >> i get along with him really well. >> despite his human rights record. >> i mean, i'm not a baby. >> and what he says about the russia investigation, mocking brett kavanaugh's accuser, and why is he calling his defense secretary a democrat? this as the crisis deepens over that missing "washington post" columnist. last seen in this surveillance footage, reportedly killed by a saudi hit squad. now president trump vowing, quote, severe punishment if he was murdered. how saudi arabia is threatening to retaliate. the president and first lady heading to the storm zone this morning, touring the devastation as desperation grows. dozens still missing in that

town that was completely wiped out. the race against time to find survivors. search for a killer. the mystery after this model crashes into oncoming traffic. doctors later discovered she had been shot. now police poring over this footage for clues. ♪ baby love breaking royal baby news as duchess meghan and prince harry touch down in australia, the big announcement, they're expecting. when the duchess is due, and what the royal family is saying this morning. and we do say good morning, america. hope everybody had a great weekend and it's great to have cecilia vega here with us. how about that exciting news? >> hey. who knew? she's pregnant. the royals just touched down in australia for a 16-day trip. this footage had some speculating a baby announcement might be coming.

you can see meghan there holding these purple folders.orge and wa folders. that's what it means. we begin with the latest from president trump, continuing his midterm pr blitz with a combative interview sounding off on his defense secretary, his relationship with putin and his attacks on christine blasey ford during that contentious supreme court battle. our senior national correspondent terry moran starts us off from washington. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. all of a sudden, it seems donald trump is everywhere. holding interview after interview, a torrent of words aimed at rallying the republican troops before those midterm elections, but this interview with "60 minutes," it was a doozy. with donald trump's approval ratings on the rise, the president is taking a victory lap in a fiery new interview. >> there has been no administration in the history of our country, and i say this openly and proudly, that in its first two years -- >> and modestly.

>> it's not even that. it's a fact. tax cuts, regulation cuts, the biggest regulation cuts in history. nobody has been able to do what i have been able to do. remember that. when you look at taxes, you look at regulations, you look at making deals with other countries, nobody has been able to do anything like this. actually, most people didn't even try because they knew they didn't have the ability to do it. but it's a very deceptive world. the other thing i have really learned is i never knew how dishonest the media was. i really mean it. i'm not saying that as a sound bite. i never knew how dishonest -- >> i'm going to change the subject again. >> but no. even the way you asked me a question like about separation, when i say obama did it, you don't want to talk about it. >> i disagree. i don't want to have that fight with you. >> that's okay. in the meantime, i'm president and you're not. >> reporter: but president trump's approach on other issues has come at a cost, dividing the country. >> how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. i don't remember. >> reporter: including his

mocking of christine blasey ford just days before justice brett kavanaugh was confirmed. >> had i not made that speech, we would not have won. i was just saying she didn't seem to know anything. >> do you think you treated her with great respect? >> i think so, yeah. i did. >> but you seem to be saying that she lied. >> you know what? i'm not going to get into it because we won. it doesn't matter. we won. >> reporter: the wide-ranging conversation turned to his lack of trust for some in his own administration, but his positive feelings for world leaders like kim jong-un. >> i get along with him really well. i have a good energy with him. i have a good chemistry with him. look at the horrible threats that were made. no more threats. no more threats. >> he presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation, reports that he had his half-brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions, is this a guy that you love? >> i know all these things. i'm not a baby.

i know those things. >> i know, but why do you like that guy? >> look. i like him. i get along with him, okay? >> reporter: the president also addressed his relationship with vladimir putin. >> i think i'm very tough with him personally. i had a meeting with him, the two of us. it was a very tough meeting and it was a very good meeting. >> do you agree that vladimir putin is involved in assassinations, in poisonings? >> probably he is. yeah, probably. i mean, i don't -- >> probably? >> probably, but i rely on them. it's not in our country. >> reporter: and as far as the russian attack on the 2016 election -- >> they meddled, but i think china meddled too. china is a bigger problem. >> this is amazing. you're diverting the whole russian thing. >> i'm not doing anything. >> you are. you are. >> i'm saying russia, but i'm also saying china. >> reporter: and as the mueller investigation grinds on, the president won't say if he will shut down the probe. >> i don't pledge anything, but i will tell you i have no intention of doing that. i think it's a very unfair investigation because there was no collusion of any kind. >> reporter: calling the investigation a witch hunt. >> do you really think i would

call russia to help me with an election? give me a break. they wouldn't be able to help me at all. call russia, so ridiculous. >> reporter: and with reports of chaos in the west wing, president trump acknowledges he is not completely thrilled with his current cabinet lineup. asked if defense secretary james mattis might be the next official to leave? >> i don't know. he hasn't told me that. it could be that he is. i think he is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth, but general mattis is a good guy. we get along very well. he may leave. i mean, at some point, everybody leaves. everybody -- people leave. that's washington. >> reporter: in trump's washington they leave with a little more frequency, but as you see there, this is a president right now in washington and out on the campaign trails firing on all cylinders. >> yeah, he's ready for battle. and he was pressed on climate change in the wake of the dire u.n. report last week. >> reporter: he was and that's interesting. he once called climate change a hoax.

he now accepts that it's happening, but he says he is not sure it's caused by man-made emissions. he doesn't want to do anything that might harm the u.s. economy to abate it and he said it might reverse itself of its own accord. >> he is not going to do anything about it. terry moran, thanks very much. robin? george, as you know in that interview, president trump also addressed the crisis over that missing "the washington post" columnist who vanished nearly two weeks. it was claimed he was killed by a saudi hit squad. our senior foreign correspondent, ian pannell, is on the scene with the latest. good morning, ian. >> reporter: we're outside the saudi consulate in istanbul where the washington post reporter went missing 13 days ago now. we're told there was a key conversation last night between the saudi king and the turkish president agreeing to work together on an investigation, and we just heard in the last two hours that perhaps turkish investigators will be allowed into the consulate today to carry out a thorough investigation into what really

happened. turkish security sources claim they have taped evidence that the "post" reporter was held, interrogated and killed by saudi operatives. last seen here walking into the saudi consulate 13 days ago. this mystery growing amid turkish claims a squad of saudis landed here the day the reporter vanished, checking into this hotel just a few hundred yards from the consulate. their vans then seen outside the back as khashoggi entered the front. they departed the country the same day. under pressure to respond to khashoggi's disappearance and alleged murder, president trump now taking a tougher stance in that interview with cbs news. >> there is something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. so we're going to have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it, and there will be severe punishment. >> reporter: the saudi government has repeatedly denied any involvement, but it has now escalated a war of words. in a statement saying, if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action.

issuing this threat, the kingdom's economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy, a reference to saudi oil and its influence on gas prices. overnight, more giant companies pulling out of an upcoming saudi investment conference. so far, treasury secretary steve mnuchin hasn't canceled his plans to attend. larry kudlow, director of the u.s. national economic council, telling george -- >> mr. mnuchin will make up his mind as the week progresses and as new information surfaces. >> reporter: so no easing of the pressure on the saudi government from any side at the moment and despite that earlier belligerent statement, it appeared they wrote back late into the evening yesterday, issuing a statement, essentially thanking the administration for not jumping to conclusions so far. but still, far more questions than answers in this case. robin? >> so many more questions to be

answered. and there is a lot more pressure on the saudis today because a lot of major business leaders are now pulling out of that investment conference that steve mnuchin so far is still going to. >> we'll see what happens with that. president trump and the first lady are heading storm zone this g to see michael firsthd.ofurcane at 1peere killed. dozens are still missing and hundreds of thousands of customers remain without power. abc's rob marciano has been on the ground since the very beginning. he has the latest from panama city. good morning, rob. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. here we are, now day five of the hurricane michael aftermath, and scenes will look the same 50 days from now. the destruction is so expansive. thousands of homes destroyed, but look at this. commercial properties, hundreds of them like this one made out of brick, completely flattened. it's like a bomb went off here. the toll that it's taken o put

words. this morning, parts of the florida panhandle likened to a war zone as the search for dozens of unaccounted intensifies. one family learning of the fate of their relatives when looking online at an interactive map, finding this, the word help spelled out with timber. >> i contacted emergency services and they went out there to do a welfare check. >> reporter: some residents visibly frustrated, feeling no hope is on the horizon. >> it's been very traumatic. i just -- i can't hardly eat, and i can't hardly sleep. it's unthinkable. >> reporter: michael left thousands homeless. the big problem, basic communication. text alerts go out letting people know where they can find food and water, but many without cell service or power to charge their phones. cars here lining up outside a fema distribution point. army soldiers giving out cases of water and other supplies.

>> people have been smiling. some people were even crying, you know, that they are getting some help and that people are out here to actually help them. >> reporter: nearly 300 people in mexico beach listed as not evacuating. now 46 are considered missing. abc's will carr is in mexico beach. >> crews have pushed into this marshland, they are looking at cars and boats, and when they clear those, they smack those green stickers on them as they continue to look for the people that are missing. >> reporter: one power company promising to have 95% of its customers back online in less than ten days. >> this is game day. this is the super bowl. you think about all the things we had. subtropical storm alberto. tropical storm gordon. those were all training grounds for us this year. >> reporter: and these guys are working their tails off to meet that goal. the issue is you need a proper building to hook that power up to, so a lot of folks will have to make repairs to their homes in order to accept that power once it gets back online and that includes the schools, robin, all of which in bay county are closed until further notice.

>> all right, rob. ginger is just back from the storm zone following her reporting. i couldn't help but watch you as you were watching rob in his report. you were there when the storm made landfall. how was this different than any storm you have covered in the past, ginger? >> the damage, robin, looked so much like when i was in katrina in mississippi. it looked so similar what happened afterward, but the storms are all unique, and that is something to remember even as a person who is so experienced in chasing storms as this thing made its way up, it had a steering factor which florence and harvey didn't have so it was moving quickly. wind shear didn't have a chance to cut it down, so that's how fast it was. when the eye wall came on sure, we were in mexico beach, we were in that eye wall and that's where you get that damage. i saw someone driving and i thought, who could that be? not what you want to do. you can see the building we survived in on the left, this is what it looked like after the debris here. not one window, not one door was shattered in our building. it was made for a hurricane and boy, did it last. everybody? >> i was just with family,

ginger, and we said the same thing, so much like katrina. the aftermath looks so much like katrina there. >> the way the sand covered the road. the ocean had come up so far. i anticipate we'll hear from a 14-foot or 15-foot storm surge where we were. now to that aspiring young model crashing her car, and then when she was brought to the hospital doctors discovered she had been shot in the neck. police analyzing this surveillance video for clues. abc's steve osunsami has the latest. >> we just have so many unanswered questions. >> reporter: kelsey quayle had moved from california to atlanta to pursue a modeling career, and this morning her family wants someone to explain how and why she was killed. >> please, please come forward and please let us know if anybody saw anything. i just want to know who did this. it's ridiculous. she didn't deserve this. >> reporter: the 28-year-old was killed after she was shot in the neck last monday while driving south of atlanta. police believe the gunshot wound caused her to crash her car. no one even knew she had been

shot until she got to the hospital. surveillance video from a gas station near the crash shows several angles, but does not show the shooting. just moments before police say quayle's mazda came to a stop, you see her steering into oncoming traffic before crashing into two other cars. >> she was the sweetest person and this just doesn't make sense. >> it seems to us to be random at this time. we have not been advised of any information in reference to anybody shooting in the area. >> reporter: right now, investigators believe that this was a random shooting and say she wasn't even targeted it doesn't look like. they're looking to talk with anyone who was driving that night, robin, who may have seen something before the crash. >> and hopefully someone will come forward with some news there. all right, steve, thank you very much. we do have good news to share with you this morning. royal baby news. duchess meghan and prince harry have just announced that they are expecting their first child. james longman is tvere details. good morning, james. >> reporter: good morning,

robin, that's right. barely a few hours here in australia, and already bombshell royal news. duchess meghan is expecting a child and everyone here is delighted. it's the news the world was waiting for. duchess meghan, seen here today in australia, clutching a binder in front of her, is pregnant. this morning, kensington palace announcing the duke and duchess of sussex will welcome a child in the spring. the couple breaking the news to family and friends at harry's cousin, eugenie's, wedding this weekend where eyebrows were raised when meghan wore this blue coat and never seemed to take it off throughout the proceedings. the queen, william and charles all able to congratulate them before they flew off to australia. her mother doria said to be delighted and excited to welcome her first grandchild. the royal couple married in may, were asked about their plans for children during their engagement interview with the bbc. >> not currently, no.

no, of course, you know, i think one step at a time, and hopefully we'll start a family in the near future. >> reporter: and of course, a new royal generation expands. princes george and louis and princess charlotte excited to have a new playmate, who will now be seventh in line for the throne. the announcement at the beginning of their commonwealth tour, a touching parallel to charles and diana's first trip here more than 25 years ago with william. william brought his young family here four years ago where george wowed the crowd. there is some concern because zika virus has been found on the pacific islands and generally doctors say pregnant women shouldn't visit there, but this will go as planned and the baby euoria. >> thank you, james. >> very excited for them. let's turn back to ginger though w heavy snow and heavy rain. i can't even say it, ginger. i'm not ready for it. >> it feels wrong, doesn't it, but it is not wrong. in denver, colorado, that

blowing snow and actually nearly 60,000 people at the peak of the storm in nebraska were out of power. that's the type of snow and cold we're talking about. but it's a powerful front that to the south is not going to bring just cooler weather but floods, flash flooding in some areas. you can see up to a half a foot of rain, and then up in the northeast here, if you have flights tonight, you should watch out for this. your local weather in 30 seconds. first, the select cities sponsored by carmax. the select cities sponsored by carmax.

so cecilia, you said you can't even say it. guess who can? clayton's son. loving the snow. clayton sandell from abc. >> they're ready for it, i'm not. coming up, hillary clinton under fire for what she said about monica lewinsky and her relationship with president clinton. the backlash this morning. and the woman now being called cornerstone caroline accusing a child of groping her. what surveillance video actually reveals. s.

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go on the right shoulder until 3:00 this afternoon. hopefully that won't remain in place that entire time. westbound highway 4 to the maze, 42 minutes. 12 minutes across the bay bridge. >> alexis, thank you. meteorologist mike nicco has a

it's still breezy be bone-dry air. relative humidity is in the 10% to 15% range. that's why we have the high fire danger through noon today. look at the microclimates. mid-40s around san ramon. you can see the winds gusting to 40 miles per hour in the east bay hills. gusty through the morning hours. sunny all day on the water. mass transit mild this morning but warm this afternoon. it'll be a little cooler next two days but still above average. >> mike, thank you. coming up on "gma," a young

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officially filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning. the company will immediately close more than 140 stores. the ceo for the 125-year-old company says he hopes to reorganize and keep the brand alive. >> that's really sad. i remember the sears catalog. and some good news for the u.s. women's soccer team. they beat jamaica, 6-0. with that win, they officially qualified for the world cup next year in france. they will try to defend their title and remember what happened in 2015? that was so incredibly exciting. >> such a fun win. >> that was. let's turn to that backlash growing over hillary clinton's latest comments about monica lewinsky. she is defending her husband in a new interview saying there was no abuse of power in his affair with the then-intern. abc's linsey davis is here with the story. linsey, she is also pushing back have resigned. >> reporter: that she is. good morning, cecilia. it happened 23 years ago, but because of the me too movement,

d not have stepped down from the presidency, pointing out that there was an investigati that monica lewinsky, who was 22 years old at the time, was an adult. >> reporter: this morning, hillary clinton is speaking out about whether her husband, former president bill clinton, should have stepped down over his affair with then-white house intern, monica lewinsky. >> absolutely not. >> reporter: in a television interview, the former first lady defending her husband. >> it wasn't an abuse of power? >> no. no. >> there are people who look at the incidents of the '90s and they say a president of the united states cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern. >> she was an adult. >> reporter: clinton then turning the tables, calling out president trump. >> let me ask you this. where is the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made? in which he dismisses, denies and ridicules. >> reporter: clinton famously

stood by her husband after he was impeached for lying about his affair with lewinsky 20 years ago. the me too movement now causing a re-examination of lewinsky's relationship with the former president. the former intern turned anti-bullying activist calling her relationship with clinton an abuse of power. last month, lewinsky stormed off the stage after she was asked if she received an apology. >> i'm so sorry. i'm not going to be able to do this. >> reporter: the uproar comes in the wake of an interview with the former president taking a sharp tone saying he did not plan to apologize privately to lewinsky because he had already done so publicly. >> i never talked to her. i dealt with it 20 years ago plus, and the american people, two-thirds of them stayed with me. >> reporter: but on "the late show with stephen colbert," clinton tried cleaning up his comments. >> it wasn't my finest hour, but the important thing is that was

a very painful thing that happened 20 years ago, and i apologized to my family, to monica lewinsky and her family, to the american people. i meant it then. i meant it now. >> reporter: senator gillibrand says the former president should have stepped down at the time. the president announced a tour right after the midterm elections. it's described as an up close and personal event with the couple, and i imagine they might get more of these questions. >> george? we move on now to the new outrage over big game hunting. an idaho fish and game commissioner is facing pressure to resign after sharing these photos of a hunting trip to africa. paula faris is here with that. good morning, paula. >> reporter: after many calls to resign, they are coming from within the hunting community, including several idaho game

commissioners. they say it goes against everything taught in hunter education. trophy hunting is usually legal, but it's always highly controversial. [ chanting ] and this morning, the target is idaho fish and game commissioner blake fischer after sharing these trophy photos in an e-mail he shared with more than 100 friends and colleagues. abc news obtained that e-mail in which he shows himself and his wife posing with at least 14 animals they say they killed in namibia last month. here he is posing with a giraffe writing, look at me and the rifle compared to it. it is all i can do to hold the head up. and then this picture with a leopard saying, i shot a leopard. super cool, super lucky. but it is this photo of him smiling, holding up the bodies of a family of baboons, including a baby right there in the front, that's raising the most ire writing, i shot a whole family of baboons. several former commissioners have called for fischer to resign.

one sending fischer this e-mail obtained by abc news saying, my reaction to the photo and accompanying text of you smiling and holding a family of primates you killed, dismays and disappoints me. trevey alleges he violated the code of ethics. he said, i'm sure what i did with legal, however, legal does not make it right. steve alder says fischer's actions send the wrong signals. >> he should have been fired immediately. the governor should have canned him. it's just doing a lot of damage for hunting. >> reporter: the outrage, instantaneous. comedian and animal rights activist, ricky gervais calling him a pathetic expletive. as for fischer who has held his post for four years, he tells an idaho newspaper he was surprised at the reaction to his trip,

apologizing for sending the photos, but not for hunting saying, i didn't do anything illegal. i didn't do anything unethical. i didn't do anything immoral. idaho's fish and game statute says we're supposed to manage all animals for idaho, and any surplus of animals we have we manage through hunting, fishing and trapping and africa does the same thing. idaho's education manual says, refrain from taking graphic photographs of the kill and vividly describing the kill within earshot of non-hunters. i grew up in michigan. it's a hunting community. it's so rare to see this sort of outrage from within the hunting community, but sportsmanlike behavior, that's the foundatio >> and that was not the case here. >> nope. >> paula, thank you so much. coming up, we have that woman now being called cornerstone caroline after accusing a young boy of groping her. what happened when she saw the surveillance video for herself,

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we're back now with that firestorm over a new york woman who called police on a little boy claiming he groped her. the incident was caught on camera and it got millions of views. eva pilgrim is here with more, and eva, once the accuser saw that video, well, that story took a quick turn, didn't it? >> reporter: yeah. that's right, robin. it's the viral video that has been viewed more than 7 million

times, shaming a woman that people say made a ridiculous claim that some argue was based on race. a white woman apparently calling police on a 9-year-old black boy accusing him of sexual assault. this woman now doing an about-face this morning with a message to that child. >> i was just sexually assaulted by a child. >> reporter: this white woman claiming to be on the phone with 911 after she says this 9-year-old black boy grabbed her inside a brooklyn convenience store. >> that's right. the son grabbed my [ bleep ]. >> reporter: gut-wrenching cries can be heard from the young boy and his sister. >> i'm going to stay right here. i'm going to stay right here. >> don't cry, little man. >> reporter: the hashtag, cornerstone caroline now lighting up the internet after the man who recorded it, jason littlejohn posted it on facebook encouraging it to go viral.

surveillance video from inside the store clearly shows the boy's hands in plain sight, and his bookbag grazing her backside. the woman since identified as teresa klein claiming she called authorities because the boy's mother was aggressive. >> i felt someone grab my [ bleep ]. i said, don't touch my [ bleep ]. the woman flew at me. claimed she was a police officer. threatened to arrest me. >> she did not claim that. >> and i called 911. >> reporter: klein returning to the store two days later. >> you really did view the security camera footage? >> reporter: watching it for herself, saying she was wrong. >> young man, i don't know your name, but i'm sorry. >> the young mother and the boy have not yet been identified, but we're told by someone close to them that they are looking for a lawyer to help them figure out how they should handle the false accusations. this boy is 9 years old. you can't forget that.

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good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. the president, one-on-one in a combative interview, saying he trusts the leader of north korea more than some people inside his own white house, weighing in on the russia investigation and mocking brett kavanaugh's accuser. and why is he calling his defense secretary a democrat? royal baby. the prince and duchess are expecting. the couple revealing their big news overnight just hours after touching down in australia. the couple breaking the news to their family at the royal wedding this weekend. #metoo one year later. where the movement is now, and where it's headed. alyssa milano is here live. new overnight, ariana grande and pete davidson split. reportedly calling off their engagement just four months after announcing it.s rning. new this morning, an exclusive sneak peek of "the conners" as that family returns to tv without roseanne.

and are you ready for melissa mccarthy? she is here live, so you better buckle up. good morning, america. what a way to start the week. melissa mccarthy. a different role for her. i saw it last night. >> i have only seen the trailer, but it is something. >> oscar buzz. >> i'm excited about that. another thing we're excited about, of course, we have the latest on the royal baby news. prince harry, meghan markle, and the sussex as in the duke and duchess, those are the top trends on twitter right now. didn't take long. >> how many of those tweets are from our producers? >> sure. we're going to start off with the latest from president trump continuing his midterm p.r. blitz with a combative

interview, sounding off on his relationship with general mattis talking about his relationship with vladimir putin and his attacks on christine blasey ford. i want to go back to terry moran in washington. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. right now as you know, the republican party is president trump's party. a personalized form of power and he knows it, hurling himself into the midterms to motivate his voters with a relentless series of rallies and interviews and appearances, including this fiery interview on "60 minutes." the wide-ranging conversation turned at one point to the president's lack of trust for some in his own administration, but his positive feelings for world leaders like kim jong-un. >> i get along with him really well. i have a good energy with him. i have a good chemistry with him. look at the horrible threats that were made. no more threats. no more threats. >> he presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation, reports that he had his half brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions. this is a guy you love?

>> i know these things. i'm not a baby. i know all these things. >> i know but why do you love that guy? >> look. look. i like -- i get along with him, okay? >> reporter: the president promised a tougher stance against saudi arabia if they are found to be responsible for the disappearance and alleged murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. >> there is something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. we're going to have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it, and there will be severe punishment. >> how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where was the place? i don't remember. >> reporter: and president trump credited this rally in mississippi where he mocked christine blasey ford as the turning point in the confirmation of justice brett kavanaugh. >> had i not made that speech, i would not have won. i was saying she didn't seem to know anything. >> do you think you treated her with great respect? >> i think so, yeah. i did. >> you seem to be saying that she lied. >> you know what? i'm not going to get into it because we won. it doesn't matter. we won. >> reporter: and that is the president's main message to his voters in the midterms.

winning on the court and the economy, and the democrats disagree of course. it's the president with the bully pulpit, and he is using it. >> he's going to do it straight through to the election. terry, thanks very much. george, now to the big news all over the world that duchess meghan and prince harry are expecting a baby. the new addition to the royal family is due this spring. let's go back to james longman in australia where the couple is right now. good morning again, james. >> reporter: hi, robin. yeah, that's right. we are in stunning sydney, and the world is going crazy. this tour hasn't even begun yet and already we have massive news. meghan is pregnant. finally after weeks of media speculation, kensington palace confirmed the news everyone was waiting for just six months after their fairy tale wedding. meghan and harry are pregnant with their first child. baby sussex is due next april. meghan is, quote, in good

health, 12 weeks along. kensin sydney for the start of their 16-day royal tour. the couple making no secret they had hoped to start a family after their engagement. >> children? >> not currently, no. no, of course, you know. one step at a time, and hopefully we'll start a family in the near future.one step at hopefully we'll start a family in the near future., one step at a time, and hopefully we'll start a family in the near future. >> reporter: a royal play mate for prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis, princess diana's fourth grandchild. prince harry sharing how much his mother would have loved the grandchild. >> it's days like today when i really miss having her around and miss being able to share the happy news. >> reporter: and i'm sure diana would be jumping up and down with joy just like the tens of thousands of people who will be lining the streets in this part of the world to see the happy couple.

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[ applause ] welcome back to "gma." welcome our monday morning audience that we have with us. [ applause ] >> news coming in this monday morning about the new royal baby. we want to go to victoria murphy.

she joins us with the news everyone is talking about this morning. victoria, thank you for joining us. let's talk about how harry and meghan let everyone know. >> reporter: good morning. yes, such exciting news this morning, of course, the news we have all been hoping for, and harry and meghan were very keen to share that happy news with their family members. they did so, we understand, at that big family wedding that was held here on friday. princess eugenie's wedding, that's prince harry's cousin. we understand that is where they took the opportunity to tell several members of the royal family about their happy news. >> so the baby is going to be seventh in line for the throne. will he or she be called prince or princess? >> reporter: very good question. yes, this baby will be seventh in line to the throne afterobout thispr or princess or an hrh, his or her royal highness unless the queen steps in. it will be up to harry and meghan to decide if that's what they want for their children.

>> wliam wanted to keep their mom, princess diana, apart of their lives and a part of their families' lives. do we have any idea how harry might do that? >> reporter: i think that's very interesting. of course, a big milestone like this in william and harry's life, we always do think of princess diana. of course this would be her becoming a grandmother once again and we know that harry would be keen to have her involved to invoke her memory, and i think he will do that with his children. he's spoken a lot about his upbringing, about his mother being incredibly fun, incredibly hands on, taking him to see things and see charity things and opening his eyes to the normal life outside the palace world and that's something he will be very keen to carry on as well. >> this is a long tour. when do you think harry and meghan will talk about this? >> reporter: oh my goodness. i hope they're going to talk about it straight away. i think when we see them come out -- they have the official engagements in sydney, and they

will do a walkabout, meet the crowds in sydney oprah house and that's what everybody will be asking them about. i think they will be very happy to chat about it and say how excited they are. >> i'm sure you are right about that. victoria, thanks very much. >> that's so exciting. [ applause ] >> good that the official announcement came out so no one could speculate. the official announcement so we know it's true. >> good at keeping secrets until then. >> that coat gave it away to me. meghan looks like she is hiding something, but i'm not going to say anything. seriously, i was like, maybe there's some good news and there's great news. >> we haven't properly introduced you. adrienne bankert here for "pop news." i love my royal weddings. george, thank you. we have less happy news. a celebrity split. ariana grande and "snl" star pete davidson are calling it quits now, breaking off their engagement. the couple ended their whirlwind romance which what is allegedly a mutual decision. they became engaged a few weeks after they starting dating.

sources close to them tell "people" magazine they felt it was way too much, and they felt the timing wasn't right. it's always better to be safe rather than sorry. we wish them very well. >> wish them well. >> very well. [ applause ] okay. let's go to something that might put a smile on everybody's face in here. imagine drake channeling his inner fanboy over the weekend. when adele attended his concert at the staples center on friday, this is what adele posted. oiii champagne papi blew my mind tonight. best production i have ever seen hands down, and way up there with one of my favorite shows of all time. huge love. the rapper felt the love and responded online with another oii, don't get me gassed right now. what is this oii? i love the woman and she came to the show. thank god nobody told me. i would have been shook. we have to wait for them to get in the studio together. that could be happening. a little "hot line bling." and finally, a special tribute honoring the 25th anniversary of "jurassic park". take a look. dancing dinosaurs.

atllpua sme people's faces. they are performing with the iowa state university marching band during halftime of the west virginia game saturday. nashing their teeth, swinging their tails to john williams classic theme song and if you listen closely you'll remember it from the movie. ♪ >> all i see are dinosaurs. >> a lot less scary on the field. [ applause ] >> 25 years? 25 years since justin timberlake inju -- jurassic park" >> how does time go by this fast? 25 years since the first "jurassic park" movie. a classic. i'll have to go home and watch it. >>. thank you. >> no problem. enjoy your monday. the me too movement, it was exactly one year ago today that alyssa milano sent out the tweet that helped ignite a firestorm. she will join us live in a moment but first, a look at how me too has grown since that tweet seen around the world. >> reporter: it's been a year

since the #metoo movement went viral after a tweet from actress alyssa milano, encouraging women who have been harassed or sexually assaulted to speak out. the hashtag being used more than 19 million times. the conversation about a typically taboo topic sweeping the nation, ultimately uprooting many in high-powered positions. me too traces its origins back a decade when tarana burke created it to help sexual assault survivors in underprivileged communities. >> to be able to say something as simple as me too but have it be as impactful as it is to add to this choir of voices also saying it, that's how you build community, and community is important in healing. >> reporter: it has been a year, and it's great to have alyssa milano here with us. good morning. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. >> one year ago today you sent that tweet out and i was just looking at it this morning. it's a simple tweet. you just reminded us of what me too really is and was in that

movement. >> my philosophy was if i could put it out there and people didn't have to tell their stories or name their predators, but just stand in solidarity so we could get a real good glimpse of the numbers, but i never expected that when i woke up seven hours later that 53,000 people would have replied. >> here we are a year later. who would have ever imagined all the things that have happened in the past year. where do you think we are? where is the movement? >> well, i think we have come a long way obviously. i think as women we're not only speaking out and using our voices, but also standing in solidarity with each other, which i think is the most beautiful thing, but i think we still have a long way to go. i think that we're really teaching these lessons to children way too late. we're teaching them in high school, and to me, these lessons of acceptance and equality, we have to teach them at a much younger age for it to really just be part of who they are, and then to expect them to act

with respect and mutual respect in college i think is too late, and then people go into these jobs right out of college and you still have that sort of fraternity/sorority mentality, and there is no bridge to that. to me, it's all about education and legislation. >> one of the key moments i think when we look back at this past year will be the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearing. we all saw you right there in the room. >> i was there with tarana burke who started the me too movement ten years ago. >> what was it like being in there? >> it was intense and i really ran the gamut of emotions sitting in there. even more intense was the day before, i went to the senate hart building with sexual survivors and we went to all the republican senators' offices and we told our stories with their constituents of our sexual abuses. none of them came out of their

office. so that, to me, was the most heartbreaking moment, but it also made me realize how much more work we have yet to do. >> one of the arguments that has come out in the wake of that -- we hear it from the president, we hear it from his family, is that boys, they're concerned about boys. they say boys have been wrongfully accused and that stains a person's life. you have a daughter and you have a son. >> i don't know why their concern isn't that boys could also be hurt and molested and sexually assaulted. i'm of course concerned for boys, but i'm not concerned for them in the way that i think the president is concerned for men, right? i think that any time something is progressing in a direction that might leave the power away or lead the power away from sort of the white man, they like to use fear tactics, and the way in which to do that is to say, you know, i think men have it very hard right now. and women have had it hard for

generations, and there are going to be false claims, but we have to define what that process looks like of investigation, of giving everyone a fair shot because, you know, it's only 2% to 8% that are falsely accused and then only 70% to 80% of women come forward with their sexual abuses. so this is all -- this is all gray area and new territory that we have never faced before, and really we're defining boundaries right now. >> covered a lot of ground in this last year, and got a long ways to go. thank you for being here with us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> it's always great to talk to you. >> thank you. over to you, ginger. >> thank you, cecilia. time for your "gma" moment. this time it comes to us from a 6-month-old. does everybody remember the first time they ate mango? yeah, me too. that's little remy rose. she is 6 months old and she is just face in it, and we thought that wa was so, so much fun.

hopefully that gave you a little giggle now to the young activist who sparked a gun safety movement after the mass shooting at marjory stone douglas high school in florida, students helped lead the march against gun violence in washington and now they're out with a new book called "glimmer of hope." welcome to all of you. thanks for coming in. you worked on this book with

many of your classmates from marjory stoneman douglas. of course, you survived one of those moments where everything changes in an instant. so just, how are you doing now? >> i don't know. it goes on a day-to-day basis. i don't really have a general sense of how i am. also the work we do is rather hectic on a day-to-day basis. we all have to be in our own moments every time something comes up. >> has that helped pouring immediately all of that energy into the movement? >> i think it did. personally for me it definitely did. >> matt, you write about how the funerals that you had to go to in the days after the shooting are just etched in your mind. >> yes. i mean, it's impossible to see someone younger than you that you know, in an open casket. >> you actually left the high school? >> i had gone to high school in 2016. i graduated and my brother and sister were still students during the shooting, and i had been to several of the funerals, and i felt helpless in the immediate aftermath when we didn't know how many people had

died or what was -- what had actually happened, and it wasn't until i went to joaquin oliver's funeral where i saw someone i knew younger than me in a casket and i knew i had to do something. i had to keep fighting for him and for his family and for my community and for people all around the country that deal with this trauma every single day. >> and you guys have been out there every single day. delaney, we all remember that march on washington. when you look back at that, and you look at the people you met, what moment stands out to you? >> i mean, it's kind of hard to really just pick one moment from a day like that because it was so life-changing and incredible, but for me the best moments were the ones where i really just got to feel the unity that was there, feel all of this connection and all of this power of young people together. it wasn't meeting the celebrities. it wasn't giving my speech. i blacked out during all of that. i don't remember any of it. >> literally blacked out? >> it's just gone. it's a blank in my memory. the moments where we were looking over the crowd and saw together just -- for something that they cared about, that is

what motivated us, and that was what i really took away from that. >> and to know it was happening not only there but in schools all across the country. i know my girls went out and marched that day. >> we were watching them in australia the night before. we were, like, it started without us? it was a whole thing. >> over 80 omar -- marches around the world. >> and it has not stopped yet, but, you know, along with the power of that movement, and you have also had to learn how to deal with the criticism that comes with being in the public eye. has that been difficult? >> no one who has experienced this should be in the public eye. it's incredibly traumatizing, generally speaking. >> what do you say to your critics? >> i mean, there are so many different things to say. it's not so much a retaliation as it is a conversation. we have this way of learning from people that criticize us, the way of taking away their perspectives and really just broadening our message and broadening our goals, but most of the time this criticism comes from perception and miscommunication and not realizing what we stand for,

not realizing that we're not trying to take away the second amendment. we're trying to make it safer. we're trying to create legislation that makes it safer for citizens in our country to live, day by day, for people to go to church and all of those things. it is very much people don't necessarily know what it is that we stand for, and when we have those conversations and we get to actually communicate with them face-to-face, we end up reaching common ground. >> part of that conversation is getting people to vote. >> of course. i mean, if young people show up at this election in 2018 and any election in the future, young people determine the winner every single time. we are the largest voting block in this country and we show up about 1 in 5 normally. the polls are in our direction. the feelings and emotions all arnold the country are in our direction. we are hyping up this generation to actually make history on november 6th. >> i know you're going to be working for the next three weeks. thank you for coming in today. >> thank you. >> the book is out tomorrow, and the authors are donating all of their proceeds to the march for our lives foundation. we'll be right back.

good morning, north bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> good morning. i'm matt keller from abc 7 mornings. electric scooters are back on san francisco streets. new video shows people unloading scoot network scooters from a truck outside embarcadero station overnight. skip scooters is also rolling out hundreds of scooters. they're allowed to operate under a permit program. all right. taking a look at the roads. we have got a lot of red showing up at this point. including a sig alert in the south bay. a crash blocking two lanes. two right lanes are down just before state route 87. that means that will likely be there for at least the next 30 minutes. here's southbound 101 in san rafael. a little heavier north of here in the novato area. expect delays there as well. matt? >> thanks,

we still have critical fire conditions in the areas in red until noon. so high fire danger continues. anything could develop quickly and spread fast because we still have 35-mile-per-hour winds in places like the east bay hills. so gusty for the morning. otherwise, it's going to be a great day if you like sunshine, warm, and dry air. in fact, i have that just about all seven days, matt. >> all right. thanks, mike. we'll haves update in about 30 minutes and always on our news app and

abc7news.com. [ applause ] all right. a quick shoutout. mississippi's in the house over here. [ cheers and applause ] mississippi, you know, got to do that. and are they in for a treat because our next guest, you know her from movies like "bridesmaids," "ghost busters." she is back on the big screen like you have never seen her before. please welcome the always lovely and very talented melissa mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ]

one fell swoop. >> i didn't think i was going to go down, and i kept thinking, like. >> you handled it very well. >> it was a terror zone. oh god. i'm going over. >> no, no, no, no. you make us so doggone happy. what does that feel like to know you bring such joy to people? >> i don't know. that's a -- that's delightful to hear. i always wonder, like, how irritated people are with me. i probably chat too much. >> just the opposite. >> it's a good day at work if it works out and you get to, you know, do this weird thing that people get to watch. so it's not bad. >> and i'm so happy for you because i know as an actor, you also want -- you don't want to be pigeon-holed and just seen in one type of role. this movie, y'all, i saw it last night, it is so good and it was wonderful to see you playing this serious role. what was it like for you? >> it was fantastic. i know it is tonally something kind of different that i'm not known for. i have done many, many years

way, way, way off broadway, i did years of dramatic plays, but for me, i still kind of fall in love with the character. i fall in love with the story, and the process for me and playing lee israel was just finding her quirks and ticks, which there are many. she is not an easy person by any stretch but i still kind of became really enamored with her early on and it was really fun to play. i loved the script. i loved working with our director, and the whole thing was -- we shot it in 28 days in manhattan. >> you did? >> which is crazy. for a movie it sounds like have gone insane and i'm making up numbers. yeah. >> but i also -- the transformation when you see you on camera on the big screen, and you said that was part of what drew you to this, the transformation that you had to have in playing lee. she was exactly who she was and would in the change for anybody. she didn't care. she didn't need someone to like her. she didn't even, i don't think,

really want people to like her. she wanted her work and her writing acknowledged and i think that's a really good thing to be reminded of today when i think so many people kind of look to others to reflect how they should feel about themselves, even though she made things a little bit more difficult for her because she was pretty caustic and prickly. >> she is salty. >> she was salty. super salty, guys. >> she is. >> that pretzel got dunked twice. >> it did. it did. it did. >> i kept thinking, it's a defense mechanism. we all do these things. we all have our weird ways to kind of overcome our insecurities and -- >> sure. >> and to protect ourselves. and lee's was very effective. she could really shut out the world. it's one of those -- i told melissa backstage. i love saying that, i was talking to melissa backstage. >> right before our concert

tour, before our record dropped, if that's still what the kids are saying. i don't know. >> we'll ask the kids back there. it was a type of movie because it was based on a true story, i was trying to find all i could about the character you were playing. >> which is tricky to do. i felt a little disappointed in myself that i didn't know who she was. >> yeah. >> i was in -- i lived in new york during this time period, and i thought, i should have known her. then to find out the fbi got involved and she was kwibltconv and the forgery, i thought why don't i know this story. but it was -- the research was slim almost to none because true to lee's form, she did not want people in her business. >> no, and, you know, that's why -- >> it's not there really. >> it really isn't. and speaking of transformations, let's go to your high school photo, shall we? >> oh god. >> oh. >> look at her. [ applause ] >> woo. wow. >> what was the inspiration behind the hair style of that? >> guys, when i got that, i was literally, like, this is it.

i have finally figured it out, and i kind of look cross eyed in that picture. i'm like, am i cross-eyed? so much attention went to that and i thought it was so edgy and now that i'm looking at it, i'm, like, that is such a dorky version of edgy, but -- >> you pull it off. >> i mean, come on, guys. one side shaved. it's called asymmetrical. duh. i was from illinois. we didn't do that. >> halloween is coming up. i can only imagine -- first of all, loved seeing ben, her husband, was in this film. i always look for him to see when he'll pop up. >> he was cast first. >> he was cast first? >> he was cast first in the movie and then i wormed my way in. that's what he gets for showing me the script. >> it's so much fun to see what he is going to be, and y'all work so well together. igioween is coming up and you >> we go out. i'm in the midst of making a cactus costume.

my oldest daughter viv is going to be a cactus. it's super cute. it's like a green sweat suit top and bottom, and it has pipe cleaners on it. the prickly things. it's a cactus, guys. then my little one is going as the big bad wolfette. >> wolfette? >> wolfette, not wolf, because her best friend is going as little red riding hood. i know. isn't it cute? >> what about you and ben? >> his spirit animal is bob ross. truly. truly. we watch a lot of bob ross at our house. that's how fun we are. sitting around watching him paint. >> woo! >> i know. it's a party at our house. he is going as bob ross, and then i think i'm going as his friend, squirrel. if you don't know, bob rossnd

like, and we spoke to our like, and we spoke to our friend squirrel last night. there is a squirrel they befriended. so i think i'm going as the squirrel. once again, super cool. >> super cool. all right. all right. so there you have it. so if you show up at their house, you know what you can expect when you open up. >> a giant squirrel giving you kit kats. it's me. [ applause ] >> i want to talk more about the film and so we're going to bring your brilliant co-star out here with you, richard e. grant. you should see them on screen together. but you will see them on "gma" together when we come back. you saw how i did that? [ applause ]

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how thrilling to be forging pieces of paper that go where? libraries. >> i am selling to collectors. >> how much are you getting for them? >> i don't know why i told you. it's a waste of a secret. i should have gone out there and gotten a rock and told the rock because i would get a better response. >> who else have you told about this? >> you're not the only one without friends. [ applause ] >> melissa mccarthy, richard e. grant, in the new movie, "can you ever

you just sdi't we met on friday afternoon. we were supposed to start shooting and did that monday. it was, like, god, i hope this works out. >> yeah. and as you can imagine, she is a nightmare to work with. >> yes. yes. >> imagine going to work every day with this person. >> we know her as the funny one. >> yeah. >> in the film, you are hysterical. it's a dark humor. now when you are working with somebody who is known to be so hilarious, is there more pressure to deliver the humorous lines, richard? >> there is, and i buckled on a daily basis. >> that's not true. nothing buckles this one. look at me, like, this one. >> what was it like between takes? >> depending on -- there were some scenes that were really difficult and, you know, you have to keep your concentration, but for the rest of it, it was, you know, it became kind of silly and i think sometimes they were, like, okay, and we're

shooting, because we're both very chatty, and lots to talk about. >> yes. very, very chatty. >> what do people want -- what do you want them to know about this film, and your character in particular? you play -- your character's name is jack. >> yeah. >> and you're her sidekick. we saw you in the clip. you are kindred souls in a lot of ways. >> expectedly. you would never expect the characters to kind of need each other, and i think they just needed someone -- someone to see them. they were both so lonely and desperate, and then what a strange kind of fun pair to come together. >> it was. how was it for you, richard? >> well, he is a con man so he goes out and he is always making some kind of deal with somebody. out of desperation, he colludes with melissa's character. they have this sort of love/hate relationship all the way through. >> off the screen, it's love/love. didn't you attend -- you had an anniversary, you andmonth.

>> 13-month -- 13-year anniversary. [ applause ] >> we gave ourselves the gift of richard e. grant. he came over and ben made and i hamburgers. >> yes. >> it was a great anniversary. >> you have been married more than 30 years, so what is your marital advice? >> we began a conversation in 1983 and we're still talking and we're still in the same bed. [ applause ] >> still got it. this is a man of few words. i like him. >> not really. >> we're not seeing the real richard? >> no. i think he's got a bet going. he said before, i'm not going to say a word. you have to say everything. so i'm, like -- >> well, you ought to see this film. melissa, always great to see you. my love to you, your mom, your family. thank you, richard.

and "can you ever forgive me?" is in theaters on friday. ginger? thank you. returning to abc tomorrow night in a brand-new show. we have an exclusive sneak peek of "the conners." take a look. >> the flow should be from the refrigerator to the stove to the sink, therefore the coffee maker which needs milk from the fridge, coffee canister next to the stove next to the sink should be in the geometric heart of the triangle which is right here. >> where do we plug it in? >> yeah, yeah. >> you can see "the conners" tomorrow night.

all all right, cecilia. we'll head over to you. >> thanks, ginger. now to jimmy kimmel heading back to his roots in brooklyn for a week of shows, but right here "nightline's" juju chang paid a visit to him on the set. he is such a fun guy. >> he is such a hoot and he is bringing his signature sarcasm and shenanigans, mixing in a little "a" list celebrities and rock stars and topping it all off with sharp social commentary, and poof, it's "jimmy kimmel live" east coast edition. >> the one idea i had for the set is we're going to have a little pizza place on the set. >> that's brilliant. >> reporter: jimmy kimmel took us on a sneak peek of the set with strictly brooklyn vibes. he grew up in new york until his family moved west when he was 9. >> when i lived in vegas, people thought of me from brooklyn. my accent was mocked by my classmates.

>> reporter: "the new yorker" in him is returning for a fourth time in a week of shows in brooklyn. >> we start off with adam sandler and eminem. we have john krasinski, and st. vincent. cardi b. will be on the show. >> just a few small names. >> reporter: of course, the president often stars in his monologues as the butt of his jokes. >> there are plenty of trump fans out there, trump supporters who may or may not be your fans but their opinion is, you're a comedian. why get political? >> i'm a comedian, and the reason i get political is because i talk about the news of the day and we have a president who now domi every da >> reporter: kimmel garnered a lot of attention last year when he spoke out emotionally about his son's heart defect and lobbied to save the affordable care act. >> if your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it

shouldn't matter how much money you make. >> we had a life-threatening situation at a time when congress was just about to vote on a lot of other people's life-threatening situations. i mean, i hear from so many people every single day who say, thank you for speaking about this. this saved my life or my brother's life or my wife or my child. it is so important to us. >> reporter: and as for his life-saving inspiration, he tells us his son, billy, is about to turn 18 months and doing great. just like every other kid he is running around and bumping his head into things. >> that great. >> that's great. >> you can see him right here on abc at 11:35 eastern on "nightline." coming up, from "the notebook," to "a walk to remember," nicholas sparks is here w

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behind beloved books like "the notebook," and "a walk to remember." now he's done it again. his new romance, "every breath," please welcome nicholas back. [ applause ] >> thanks for having >> i told him -- i'm almost to the end, and so i don't -- i'm, like, i want to talk to you, but i don't want to spoil the ending. >> right. >> but what i do know is that it is based on a real phenomenon. kindred spirits. a mailbox in north carolina, it really exists. >> it does. it's a mailbox and it's on a deserted island, and they don't allow a development on it and you go there, you walk down. there's nothing but sand and dunes and there's a mailbox and a bench in the middle of nowhere. >> people put anonymous letters in this mailbox. >> they put letters in there, recipes. they write stories. i have gone there. i have written things and leave mine anonymous. i say, i wonder if anyone will figure out i wrote this. it's neat. it has been around since 1983

and it's like the original blog. >> yeah, it is. it is like the original blog. >> right? [ applause ] >> one sentence, how would you describe the book? >> it is a -- an intensely romantic story that explores the question how long can true love really last? >> that's well put. >> yeah. >> that's well put. >> right? it's similar to some of my other books in that it's a two-part story. so we see this couple and they meet and i tried to make these characters different than i have made my other characters. and then of course, what happens in the aftermath? and that's part two, and that's always fun for me to explore. >> but you're in this book. >> how about that? >> you put yourself in the book. >> right? i love that, right? i'm there in the prologue and epilogue, little old nicholas sparks. >> what was that like for you? [ applause ] >> i'm a big fan of, like, kurt

vonnegut, right? where authors insert themselves into the stories, and i think that's fun depending on the story, and i said, you know what? i try to give readers something new, so let me do that here as well. >> i don't know how you do it. all these books, there is a common theme in most of them, but there is something unique. i can't ask you. do you have a favorite? is that -- >> oh, boy. i think i'm most known for "the notebook." that's my first book, right? [ applause ] and the funny thing about this is if i say, oh, i love "the notebo notebook" they say me too. that basically means for the last 22 years, i have been going downhill. >> you have not been going downhill. >> i can say there are some books i don't know that i could have written early in my career. things like "safe haven" or "the longest ride" or "see me." they were more complex stories and i had to kind of mature as a writer. but how can you not like "the notebook."

>> we have, like, 15 seconds left. what would be your advice to people that are looking for love? >> okay. first off, i write novels. let's start with that. i think if there is an aspirational quality to my books, it's that both of the characters have empathy, and i think that's the key to any great relationship. >> empathy. it is. nicholas, thank you so much in sharing your talents and i cannot wait to read the ending of the book. >> thanks. >> i'm right there. i'm right there. "every breath" is out tomorrow. everyone is going home with a copy. [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back. copy. [ cheers and appla

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good morning. i'm matt keller from abc 7 mornings. here's mike nicco with your forecast. mike? >> thanks, matt. have you noticed how bone dry the air is? plus, it's still a little breezy. that's why we have the high fire danger until noon. you can see the winds gusting to 35 miles per hour in the east bay hills. if you're on the beach or the bay, warm sunshine. look at these temperatures. mid-70s to mid-80s. even san francisco at 80. 88 in santa rosa, the warm spot. it stays warmer than average through the weekend. ai lek says? >> slower than average through the oakland area due to a crash on 980 at the 580 split there. it was blocking two lanes. down to just one lane now. residual delays remain. on to 24, highway 13 and 580 slower than average as well. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. the left-hand side has cleared out. still heavy through the middle, the right-hand side, and metering lights are still on. >> time now for "live

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