>> have a great day. making news in america this morning, a call for unity. >> i am asking you to choose greatness. >> president trump addressing the nation asking congress to come together. a sea of women in white making a statement in a deeply divided chamber. the surprising moments from the state of the union. what's next for the president's border wall and why our analyst says the speech was against the president's character. also this morning, urgent manhunt. several people shot, one fatally in separate shootings along the same stretch of highway outside chicago. is a serial shooter on the loose? new fallout. the backlash after liam neeson admitted he once went looking to kill a black man. red carpet event as at his movie

premiere canceled. fans outraged. the exclusive interview. why he insists he's not a racist. plus, super fast first class, boeing's new plane to bring back the supersonic business jet reaching a thousand miles per hour. feat of strength. the amazing moment this handstanding strong man pulls a truck without using his legs. and from snacks to soul mates how a new app called refrigerdating uses your fridge to help you find love online. good wednesday morning, everyone. a busy wednesday. we begin with president trump declaring the state of the union is strong while calling for unity and bipartisanship. >> as he faced a divided congress for the first time, the president doubled down his push for a border wall and warned about the risk of partisan investigations callingdera t ps

credit for avoiding a war with north korea and announced his second summit with kim jong-un will be later this month in et abc's mona kosar abdi has the biggest moments from the speech and the reaction this morning. mona, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, janai. good morning, kenneth. the president went into his second state of the union address with a low 37% approval rating largely due to that partial government shutdown, and with his speech, he gave no indication of avoiding another. to period chants of "usa," the president began his second state of the union address. >> that sounds so good. >> reporter: largely sticking to script for an hour and a half the president delivered his message to a divided congress with his greatest political adversary nancy pelosi over his shoulder. >> together we can break decades of political stalemate. >> reporter: pelosi and many other democratic female lawmakers sporting white as an ode to the suffrage movement,

several even erupting in cheer when president trump celebrated the amount of women in congress. the president also garnering collective applause for his call to end revenge politics. >> we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution. >> reporter: but the conciliatory tone quickly dwindled soon after trump took aim at the special counsel's russia investigation. >> if there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. >> reporter: and any hopes of new-found unity came to a halt as trump maintained his hard line immigration stance in the face of another possible shutdown. >> simply put, walls work and walls save lives. [ applause ] >> reporter: offering the democratic rebuttal was former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams. >> the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states. >> reporter: but as she

criticized the president, she too hoped to find common ground. and president trump also claims that he wants people to come into the u.s. in the largest numbers ever legally, but we found out that the president actually set the lowest cap in history for the refugee assistance program. janai, kenneth. >> and, mona, all this just nine days out from the february 15th deadline and another possible looming government shutdown. mona, thank you. and the president covered a wide range of issues with congress agreeing on some of his points while others left the house chamber divided. >> we asked our team of political analysts for their thoughts on some key moments. >> we must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or a pointless destruction. >> there's no question that tonight the president reached across the aisle. >> this guy gave a bipartisan speech tonight. >> walls work and walls save lives. [ applause ] >> i disagree with the governor

on this. i think the immigration issue, the way the president defined it, didn't allow the democrats a lot of breathing room in this. >> there are ways that he can work with democrats, but he cannot just do it with simple words. [ chanting "usa" ] >> the women in white stole the show. >> they clapped for each other. they high-fived. they shouted "usa," but it was not really disrespectful. it was just fun. i think that even he took it that way. >> and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. >> do you think it was wise for him to call these investigations ridiculous? >> i don't think that's what he was talking about. he was saying, listen, if you decide that you want to hold investigations that he believes are over the line or ridiculous, that that's going to affect bipartisanship. >> members of congress, the state of our union is strong.

[ applause ] >> he did a good job tonight. the president gets an "a" from me tonight because he did what he had to do and in some respects it was against character. >> our thanks there to our incredible powerhouse political team working some late hours in the past few hours, and we have more analysis on the issues plus a fact check on the president's speech right now on abcnews.com. now to virginia governor ralph northam and word this morning that he's not resigning any time soon despite widespread condemnation over a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page. one of northam's closest friends, a republican state senator, tells abc news that he thinks northam can withstand the pressure to quit. meanwhile, the democratic party of virginia is evaluating the sexual assault allegation against lieutenant governor justin firefax saying the claim should be taken with, quote, profound gravity. fairfax strongly denies the

allegation. an urgent manhunt is under way near chicago after two shootings on a highway which have some people fearing a serial shooter could be on the loose. the first shooting on interstate 57 left three people including 2 boys wounded. just hours later and a few miles away a postal worker was shot and killed while driving into work. 55-year-old tamara clayton's daughter says her mom didn't have an enemy in the world. >> i wanted her to see me get married. i wanted her to see me start a family. she is my absolute best friend and i lost that because someone decided to just take it away from me. >> police have not made any arrests. at this point they say the shootings appear to be unrelated but state police are promising to increase patrols on chicago area highways. a disturbing discovery in a wealthy new york city suburb. a woman's body was found stuffed into a suitcase along a road in greenwich, connecticut. police say she was between 18 and 30 years old and her hands and feet were bound. the medical examiner is trying to determine her identity and how she died. investigators believe she was

killed somewhere else. health officials in washington state say they figured out how the current measles outbreak began. they say a person from a foreign country was the first to contract the disease then that person came in contact with a large group of unvaccinated children. officials say those kids then went to public places infecting others. at least 50 cases are confirmed. more than 100 other people are being monitored. turning to the weather now, a dangerous ice storm is threatening parts of the midwest and great lakes making for a treacherous morning commute. let's take a look at your wednesday forecast. looking at the radar you see the storm in the upper midwest. a quarter inch of ice is possible across parts of the great lakes and northern illinois today. the morning commute in chicago will be slick, and minneapolis gets more snow. meanwhile, some ski resorts in california's sierra nevada are trying to dig out. they got up to 117 inches of snow since saturday. as for today's temperatures,

l.a. and phoenix won't break 60. minneapolis will top out at 24. chicago and detroit, 36 and high 40s in the northeast. coming up, the new effort to build a plane that can fly 1,000 miles per hour. but first new trouble for senator elizabeth warren as she prepares to launch her presidential campaign. and later, they're being called real-life lassies. how two dogs hel

have you given yourself a deadline? i'm serious about that. have you given yourself a deadline? >> and the serious answer is really soon. >> that's former congressman beto o'rourke teasing a possible run for the white house. he told oprah during the taping

of a tv special that he'll make a decision by the end of the month on whether he will run, and his family will play a key role. the 46-year-old democrat gained national attention when he ran against senator ted cruz. a new revelation this morning about presidential hopeful elizabeth warren. "the washington post" is reporting that senator warren listed her race as american indian on a texas state bar registration card in 1986. overnight warren's spokeswoman repeated her acknowledgement that she is not a citizen of any tribe and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. she says warren is sorry that she was not more mindful of that earlier in her career. alabama's attorney general has decided not to bring charges against a police officer who mistakenly shot and killed a man at a shopping mall thanksgiving night. he says the officer acted reasonably while responding to an earlier shooting at the mall. authorities say the officer saw the 21-year-old victim carrying a gun and assumed he was the shooter. the victim's family is outraged.

no charges will be filed. >> if that was your child, would you consider this justice? you shoot my child three times and y'all call that justice. >> where in alabama it's still cool to kill a black man. >> the family has called for protests and last night outside the town hall in hoover, protesters burned flags on which they had written black lives don't matter. and a major safety recall this morning. more than 660,000 dodge pickup trucks are being recalled because their steering could fail. the recall includes ram trucks from 2013 through 2017 and medium duty trucks from the same period. we have the full list of vehicles affected on our website, atmfans.com. flying faster than the speed of sound is making a comeback. boeing is now backing a start-up company's plan for the as-2 aircraft, which would carry business travelers at 1,000 miles per hour. it's scheduled to make its first flight in 2023.

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man, and the backlash has now affected his movie premiere. this morning, fallout is growing after liam neeson's startling admission that 40 years ago he sought to carry out revenge after a friend told him she was sexually assaulted by a black man. >> there were some nights i went out deliberately into black areas in the city looking to be set upon so that i could unleash physical violence. >> reporter: hours after his appearance on "good morning america," the red carpet and photo opportunities kicking off the new york premiere for neeson's latest movie were canceled as his story set off a debate across social media. >> i'd never felt this feeling before, which was a primal urge to lash out. >> reporter: neeson first admitted the revenge plot during an interview promoting his new movie. >> i went up and down areas with a cosh hoping some black

[ bleep ] would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know, so that i could kill him. >> and it really shocked me, this primal urge i had. it shocked me, and it hurt me. >> reporter: the actor then saying -- >> i'm not racist. this was nearly 40 years ago. if she'd have said an irish or a scot or a brit or a lithuanian, i would -- i know i would have had the same effect. >> reporter: observers are now considering what's next for neeson as some praise his honesty while others are sharply critical of his actions. >> i think he doesn't -- he hasn't had a chance to really consider the impact his words have on black fans, on black people, but i'm not sure if he's so remorseful of telling the story or of the actual action of wanting to exact revenge, exact violence on a black person. >> reporter: neeson saying his hope now is that this will encourage more frank conversations about race. >> we all pretend we're all kind of, you know, politically correct.

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with humira, remission is possible. good morning bay area. this is abc 7 mornings. hi there. good morning. it is wednesday, february 6th. thanks for joining us. >> it's not snowing. >> but it's cool. >> and there's ice. i had to scrape this morning. it's 26 at my house. >> really? >> i had a lot of frost on my windshield. >> 26 degrees? >> yeah. i wasn't going to wait for the car to warm up and defrost it. i got the ice scraper out. yu may call it a credit card. i have one from my minnesota days. 32 in -- santa rosa, 31. ukiah 32. everybody else in the mid to upper 30s. parts of the peninsula. on our way to total sunshine and low to mid-50s. any black ice out there.

we'll keep an eye on it. >> i don't have any reports obl. a lot of green on the maps. you want to take it -- if you travel westbound state route 92, we had a problem where the roadway opened up. a big pothole. they have the two right lanes shut down speen hesperian and industrial as well as the ramps in that area. they're hoping to have it done by 6:00 a.m. even at this early hour, as you try to get to the san mateo bridge toll plaza. a close eye on that today. bay bridge toll plaza not looking good. >> alexis, thanks. a cold morning across the bay area. still a concern in the mountains. >> matt keller live in the santa cruz mountains with tips for drivers this morning. matt? >> reporter: good morning, reggie and jessica. 24 hours ago when we were

standing in the summit, snow was falling down on us, there was snow sticking on the ground this morning. really just a bunch of wet spot from the melted snow. this morning, the biggest concern, ice on the roads. cruz hado say about it in tweet. that was f lasted. keep in mind, we may have ice on the roadways tonight and into the morning. my photographer ian drove highway 17 from santa cruz over the summit into redwood estates. the roads were wet but not icy at that time. but that can change with the temperatures. black ice forms making it hard to detect. they had tips for driving on black ice. drivers on highway 17 know what often pops up around lexington reservoir into los gatos. if you hit black ice, remain calm and do as little as possible. don't break and keep the wheels straight. if you feel the back end of your car sliding gently turn the

wheel in that direction. we have more tips for driving on black ice. reporting live in the santa cruz mountains. matt keller. >> people like matt. he did a good job and they saw mt. diablo covered in white. they had to close roads to snowiest areas because of the icy conditions. >> 4:30. hopefully you're not playing hookey today. let's check our weather and traffic. let's start with mike. >> thanks very much, jessica. let's talk more about what's going on with live doppler 7. looks quiet until you head to the monterey bay and the peninsula and into the salinas valley. rain and high elevation snow that will stay away from all of us. look how clean the air is. visibility is going to be absolutely gorgeous this afternoon. so if you like to hike on