friday. ♪ making news in america this morning, the democrats take power in the house and vote to re-open the government but the white house not budging. the new negotiations today plus overnight the freshman congresswoman seen on video appearing to call the president an expletive. breaking overnight, will kevin hart host the oscars after all? what he told ellen about those anti-gay tweets and what she did. two terrifying crashes on american roadways. new details about the man who led police on this 100-mile chase running down a man on a scooter and what we're learning

about this fiery crash that left seven people dead including several children. plus, a new set back for scientist neil degrasse tyson as he faces sexual misconduct claims. in medical news, do substitutes like sweet'n low help you lose weight? the research. the app most effective for finding love no matter what age you are. good friday morning, everyone. we begin with the newly empowered democrats taking immediate action to end the government shutdown. >> but the bills approved last night are already doomed in the senate because they don't include money for the president's border wall and the president issuing no signs of dropping his demand posting this "game of thrones"-style image emblazoned with the phrase the wall is coming. >> today he is hosting another round of talks at the white house in hopes of

hammering out a deal and zachary kiesch has the latest from washington. good morning, zachary. >> reporter: good morning, marcus. attention will be on that 11:00 a.m. meeting this morning between the president and congressional leaders. this is one that the president asked for. what will come from it? nobody really knows at this point. both sides flexed their muscles yesterday and really reiterated there is little room for negotiation. surrounded by friends and family the newly minted congress wasted no time. >> the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn. >> reporter: the 116th house now led by democrats approving two bills thursday that would effectively end the shutdown. the democratic package includes a measure to extend funding to the department of homeland security at current levels with $1.3 billion for border security until february the 8th. but it includes no money for president trump's number one campaign promise, a physical border wall with mexico. >> the fact is, a wall is an immorality. it's not who we are as a nation. >> reporter: trump says he'll veto the bill and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell

has pledged to block the measures from a vote. >> the senate will not take up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing this chamber and getting a presidential signature. >> reporter: the president's demand for $5.6 billion in physical funding has shut down the government for 14 days. now republican senators susan collins and cory gardner both up for re-election in 2020 appear to be breaking with the president. perhaps feeling a little left out from all the attention on the hill, trump made a surprise appearance in the briefing room thursday to underscore his demands. >> without a wall you cannot have border security. >> reporter: as democrats outline their priorities in the house including protecting robert mueller's investigation and obamacare, new video surfacing overnight appears to show freshman congresswoman rashida tlaib of michigan calling for president trump's impeachment while calling him an

expletive. that's according to several reporters in the room and this video tweeted by john levin of the rap. >> we're gonna impeach the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the president faces a new reality. this is effectively the first time in his political life that he can be effectively be told no. janai and marcus. >> it continues into another day. appreciate it. a developing story near houston overnight, a man is now in custody after the murders of three children. police on a wellness check at this apartment complex found the victims, all of them younger than 5. they say they also found a woman with a gunshot wound to the head. later a man called 911 and was arrested after confessing. police say he has a long criminal history but no word on a motive. we turn now to the wild police chase stretching over 100 miles of southern california. the drama playing out on live tv. that suspect finally taken into custody after hitting a man on a scooter. police who know the suspect say he's a veteran who suffers from ptsd. what started as an attempt to pull over this car with a busted

back window turned into this wild and violent chase. the driver identified overnight as karl flores speeding away from officers. a news helicopter capturing the moment he hits the man on this scooter not even trying to stop or swerve around him. the collision smashing his windshield. >> pulled up on the side, bam. yes, and he spins him out. >> reporter: the car badly damaged after officers tried four pit maneuvers. flores repeatedly escaping for three hours until finally running out of gas near camp pendleton. >> during that time he was belligerent to the officers on scene. he did not comply with the commands ordering him out of the vehicle. >> reporter: the pursuit ending after flores took a bean bag round to the face and a k-9 officer moved in grabbing him. a friend of flores says he's a troubled veteran. >> this person is a ptsd veteran. he served. he was in afghanistan and iraq.

we have tried to get help with the v.a. but with it being so backed up and such a long wait list, it's hard to get treatment for any of our veterans. >> reporter: this morning flores facing a slew of charges including felony hit-and-run. >> when is enough going to be enough? these people are, like i said, constantly putting their lives on the line for us and what are we doing to return the help? >> despite taking a direct hit, we're told the rider on the scooter suffered no serious injuries. we learned overnight that children are among seven people killed in this fiery crash near gainesville, florida. two tractor trailers, a van and a car collided on interstate 75 and the vehicles burst into flames as diesel fuel spilled onto the highway. several other people were injured, some of them critically. some breaking news overnight involving the oscars. kevin hart could be back as host of the show. hart withdrew his name because of an uproar over his past tweets including homophobic jokes. but in a new interview released overnight ellen degeneres

revealed she called the academy and asked them to bring hart back as host. she says the academy agreed. hart says he stepped down last month even though he apologized for the ten-year-old jokes several times in the past. >> i said i would much rather step down and apologize again while stepping down. once again i'm sorry if these words hurt. i'm sorry. but either my apology is accepted or it isn't. either i can move forward or i can't. but you can't grow as a person without mistakes. >> everything that you just said, i just have to say -- >> as to whether hart will agree to return as host, he says he's thinking about it. time now for a look at your weather for this friday morning. good morning. that same storm bringing snow to oklahoma moves east and brings some heavy rain from northern florida to the carolinas. we're watching for the risk of flooding as the storm system

pushes its way to the east.re sothyells anoranges avy in th even up into the carolinas we'll get that heavy rain. drier then for the weekend and speaking of the weekend, the west coast a pattern change here. soaking rain pushing into the coast of california, even southern california. i'm meteorologist melissa constanzer. well, coming up, a new battle in the breakfast wars. how mcdonald's is taking on dunkin'. but first the big news from the el chapo trial including what the notorious drug lord did with a laundry cart in prison and how much money he allegedly spent bribing government officials. plus, new trouble for

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new revelations this morning about notorious mexican drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman as his trial resumes in new york. one of his alleged associates testified his drug cartel spent $1 million per month to bribe mexican officials including a security guard for former mexico president vicente fox. the prosecution's witness also testified that the cartel used submarines to bring drugs into the united states. also they used private planes and he revealed el chapo once escaped from prison inside a laundry cart. >> a new york mother of two is charged with attempted murder accused of trying to kill her estranged husband with antifreeze. investigators say renee burke entered her ex-husband's home several times pouring the poison into wine and soda bottles but the couple's 4-year-old son told the baby-sitter he saw what his mother had done. that's when the father installed surveillance cameras and turned video over to police. and officials in las vegas have released this security video hoping to find the woman

seen running over and killing the owner of a nail salon. they say krystal whipple took off in a stolen car after failing to pay for a $35 manicure. that's when the owner made the fatal decision to chase her down and jump in front of the car. scientist neil degrasse tyson is now off the air as he faces sexual misconduct allegations. "variety" reports that the national geographic channel has pulled tyson's show "star talk" as the claims are investigated. reports emerged in november that two women accused him of inappropriate behavior. another woman claimed he raped her when they were grad students in the '80s. he denies those allegations. in business news, mcdonald's is taking on dunkin' in the breakfast wars by getting into the doughnut fries game. published reports say doughnut sticks will soon be added to mcdonald's breakfast menu. they'll be similar to the doughnut fries offered by dunkin' since last november. they plan to market them to breakfast customers while

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truck they say was driven by the gunman who killed 7-year-old jazmine barnes. >> we're not going to stop looking for you, and it'll be so much easier for everybody if you would just turn yourself in. >> reporter: jazmine's mother laporsha washington says was driving to a grocery store in west houston with her four daughters when the truck pulled up next to them. the driver started shooting. >> hello. >> reporter: killing jazmine and killing her mother. >> he intentionally killed my child for no reason. >> reporter: washington now home from the hospital says the shooting was unprovoked. she believes it was a hate crime. her children watching their sister die, one of them left shell-shocked. >> she hasn't dropped a tear and it scares me. it scares me because i don't know what's going on in her head. >> reporter: the family describes the suspect as a skinny white man with blue eyes and a black hoodie. police say they believe he's in his 40s with a beard. they're now looking into whether

this case could be connected to other shootings as they search for the killer. >> we're continuing to proceed with different strategies to try to find this coward of a killer. >> reporter: marci gonzalez, abc news. and authorities have identified the teenager who died after falling off of a chair lift at a ski resort in pennsylvania this week. the 17-year-old death's was ruled an accident. police are investigating whether a problem with the seat bar played a role. just last week in montana there was another mishap on a chair lift. skiers were left dangling 100 feet off the ground during a snowstorm after their chair lift broke down. ski lift falls have killed five people in the u.s. since 2004 but a ski resort trade group says chair lifts are safer than elevators. in medical news those sugar substitutes we've always thought are less fattening than sugar probably aren't. in the most comprehensive study yet on artificial sweeteners, researchers in europe found they aren't any better or any worse than real sugar in preventing obesity and they found no

obvious health benefits for most people, but they admit more research needed. netflix and a defiant teenager are being credited for saving a family in delaware. this is what is left of their home after a fire broke out early wednesday. luckily the 13-year-old boy who lives there was disobeying his mom's orders to go to bed. he was watching a movie on netflix when he smelled smoke and that's when he yelled for his mother and told her to wake up. >> if he was not awake, i don't know the outcome, because as soon as i had found out, it was about four minutes and my kitchen in was in flame. >> then i saw smoke in my hallway then i saw the fire and then when i saw that, i started yelling for my mom because she was asleep at the time. if netflix wasn't there i probably would have went to sleep. >> he didn't get grounded this time. >> thank goodness. the boy says he was watching a superhero movie when the flames broke out and it's believed the fire was caused by an

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some of those new year's resolutions are to find love. >> maybe i'll find love. the british army is seeking the very qualities that we love to hate about the younger generation. >> a new recruiting campaign rolled out posters seeking snowflakes for their compassion, selfie addicts for their confidence and phone zombies for their focus to name a few. they're taking negative stereotypes about millennials and turning them into strong points. >> the army says the campaign shows that young people who feel undervalued have the potential to do meaningful work. what do you think? >> what's that mean? >> what? you're young. >> you're young. i am young, tenderoni, i don't know, fine. next a really long distance phone call from the international space station. >> a dutch astronaut accidentally dialed 911 from the space station. it turns out he was tryi call a different number and he left out a digit or something and anyways, the outside line ended up reaching some other

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good morning. it is friday. you made it. 4:27 a.m. >> it is friday, january 4th. you are never more than 7 minutes away from the accuweather forecast. not quite as bad as yesterday. >> not as bad as yesterday. we are 24 hours away from rain. we will jump into that. fairfield, 32. frost there. possibility of frost around clear lake, danville, livermore, 33. the rest of us in the mid-30s to low 40s. san francisco, 46 degrees. this afternoon, even more cloudiness than we had yesterday. temperatures about the same. a 55 to 59 degrees. we'll take a look at fog that's forming in your accuweather

12-hour planner. how about traffic, alexis. so far so good. i'm expecting a friday light commute. i don't think we will be back at full force until monday. here is a very quiet golden gate bridge. no delays on 101 coming in from marin county. same story if you're leaving the city. westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze, 17 minutes. you're in the green. eight minutes across the bay bridge. we never did get the metering lights on yesterday. we will see if that happens today. san francisco to sfo in the green at 9 minutes. why do i have a feeling if they did not go to work yesterday, they're not going today. >> i bet you're right. one-third of employees called out sick on christmas and new year's day. >> amy hollyfield is live at the bart station with how service was affected. amy. >> reporter: hi, reggie. this is one of the stations impacted on new year's morning.

that's the night or the morning where bart extends its hours because of all of the festivities. so i want was really lllthat morning. the big issue was christmas eve. according to an article in the san francisco chronicle, more than a third of station agent train operators and transportation supervisors called in sick. this left a lot of work to bart police. many of them had to handle closing duties for stations. one director said this is a great concern given the kneeled for safety and customer service. here is how the union responded to the issue. this is a quote from the union president who says sometimes you can only be cursed at or beat on so much before you need a personal health day. bart officials will be independenting this furth inspecting this further. passengers are starting to

arrive. we will check in with them and get reaction to how they feel about this news article. amy hollyfield, abc 7 new. thank you, amy. happening told, a procession will take place to honor the fallen newman police officer gunned down during a traffic stop hours after christmas day. corporal ronil singh's body will travel to newman 8:30 this morning. the suspect, paulo mendoza, previously identified by an alias, has been charged with murder. that happened murder. four others were charged with aiding mendoza. their bail is set at $100,000 each. president trump called the family to offer condolences. because he is an undocumented immigrant, he is pushing for border wall funding. the white house released the statement.

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