"good morning america" next. making news in america this morning, the manafort sentencing shocker. president trump's former campaign chairman gets less than four years in prison. far less than sentencing guidelines. the explanation from the judge. the outrage from democrats and the question this morning, will the president pardon manafort? new avalanche buries cars on this highway in colorado. the warning today about the historic threat. with several feet of additional snow on the way. lack of sleep and your brain. results from an eye-opening experiment. >> like a trance. >> like a trance. >> how missing just one hour of sleep can take a toll on your reflexes and alertness. plus, a man strand the at sea after his kayak overturns. >> i'm getting really tired. >> i know you're tired.

you're doing a good job. >> how new technology saved his life. breaking news in the nfl. the blockbuster trade reportedly in the works. >> if you've always dreamed of getting paid to do nothing at all, there's now a dream job just for you. good friday morning. we begin with the surprisingly light sentence for president trump's former campaign chairman, that's not sitting well with some democrats? a judge gave paul manafort less than four years in prison for defrauding banks and the government, much less time than the special counsel robert mueller had asked for. >> but what's next for manafort remains unclear a including whether he'll receive a presidential pardon. abc's serena marshall has the latest from washington. serena, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in addressing the court sentencs just the first of two for the one-time trump campaign chairman. he faced decades in prison,

instead president trump's former campaign chairman sentenced to fewer than four years. addressing the court paul manafort begged the judge for compassion saying to say that i've been humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement and this is an ordeal i am responsible for. the man would ran the president's campaign during a crucial period in 2016 -- >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. >> reporter: -- faced the most prison time of anyone charged by special counsel robert mueller. a maximum of 19 to 24 years. but judge t.s. ellis called those guidelines excessive and saying bus for those convictions and hiding millions of dollars from the irs, manafort has lived an otherwise blameless life. democrats blasting the verdict. >> the american people would be justified in feeling that there has been some miscarriage of justice in the leniency of this sentence. >> reporter: this is just the first of two of his sentencing hearings. next wednesday manafort faces up

to ten years in prison on separate charges. leaving the court his lawyer pointing out neither sentence related to russia. >> there is absolutely no evidence that paul manafort was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia. >> reporter: the house intelligence chair adam schiff tweeting repeating the president's mantra of no collusion was no accident. it was a deliberate appeal for a pardon. >> back in november, president trump voiced sympathy for manafort. at the time said a potential presidential pardon wasn't off the table. kenneth, janai. >> manafort could face another ten years when he's sentenceness that separate case next week. serena marshall, thank you. there's new controversy surrounding president trump's former fixer michael cohen. he's accused of lying to congress last week when he testified that he never asked for a presidential pardon. cohen's attorney has now acknowledged that cohen's legal team did look into the possibility of a pardon back when cohen had i joint defense agreement with the president but he insists cohen's testimony

last week was correct because cohen never asked for a pardon himself. republicans are now asking the justice department to investigate. a sheriff's deputy in illinois is being honored after losing his life in a deadly standoff with a suspect. police say deputy jacob keltner was shot while serving an arrest warrant. a long procession of police vehicles escorted his body to the coroner's office. he is i 13-year veteran who leaves behind a wife and two children. that gunman jumped out a third story window. hours laters he was arrested after a standoff on a snowy highway. he now faces first degree murder charges. the top u.s. general in the middle east says isis fighters are conducting a calculated retreat and his comments followed these scenes in syria where large groups of isis militants were seen retu surrendering.

>> what we are seeing now is not the surrender of isis as an organization, but a calculated decision to preserve the safety of their families and preservation of their capabilities in going to ground and remote areas and waiting for the right time to resurge. >> his claim before a house committee is in sharp contrast to president trump's assertion that isis has been defeated. we turn to the historic avalanche danger in the colorado rockies. snow slides shut down parts of two highways prompting a rare warning for drivers. the avalanche danger is now considered extreme. this morning, a winter storm triggering dangerous avalanches in the colorado rockies. a snow slide burying three cars west of denver. highway crews releasing these photos after rescuing the drivers and passengers. the debris from the avalanche 15 feet deep and 100 yards wide. earlier avalanches trapped a tow truck in vail pass and shut down

part of interstate 70. >> been doing my business for about 30 years and i have never seen it like this. >> reporter: those two slides happening naturally. but crews have also been deliberately triggering avalanches hoping to reduce the risk. >> the colorado avalanche information center says we're seeing historic activity. >> reporter: authorities are now describing the danger as extreme or hi in nine of ten back country zones including vail, aspen and breckenridge. not just colorado dealing with massive snow amounts. >> officials declaring historic conditions and warning people to stay away from prone areas and here in california, we have so much snow that some ski areas will stay open through july. >> reporter: authorities fear more scenes like this one, a wall of snow crashing down onto cars earlier this week. including this the goldman family's vehicle. >> i don't see how you could see it as anything other than miraculous we survived that the way we did. >> 2,000 avalanches reported this season and more heavy snow

is expected in the rockies. let's take a look at your friday forecast. good morning. another storm out west leading to more rain, showers and mountain snows. that leading to more of an avalanche threat across the colorado rockies. perhaps even some damaging winds in the higher elevations of arizona and new mexico. that storm moves into the plains bringing blizzard conditions from the dakotas into northern wisconsin. we're talking 6 to 12 inches of snow there on the south side of the storm. severe storms in the same areas where we're still trying to clean up from the severe weather last weekend. i'm accuweather meteorologist adam del rosso. coming up, the new push to stop stores from going cashless. but first as we prepare to move the clocks forward this weekend, we show you how missing just one hour of sleep affects your brain. later the questions being

we're back with this man in a wheelchair turning heads on a highway in south africa after grabbing onto the back of a truck to hitch a ride. he hit speeds up to 50 miles per hour. people on social media claimed they spotted him doing this before one day earlier. a fired police officer is now facing at least 25 years in a florida prison for the shooting death of a black man stranded on the highway. officer newman raja was in plain clothes driving an unmarked van and did not identify himself when he confronted corey jones. raja claims he pulled a gun and was justified returning fire. turns out jones was on the phone with roadside assistance and the

entire incident was recorded. we turn the clocks forward this weekend and that means we lose an hour of sleep making driving more dangerous. aaa says morning commutes in the dark combined with drowsy driving add to the risk on the road. in fact, missing one hour of sleep takes a toll on your brain. our gio benitez tested his driving skills after missing sleep the night before. experts measured his alertness by tracking his brain waves. >> reporter: here's what stunned me. in those 30 minutes of driving i experienced about 30 episodes of what experts call microsleep when the brain goes offline for one to three seconds essentially even though i appeared awake my brain would briefly go into sleep mode. >> the frequency with which it was occurring was really to me very dramatic. >> do you think it made any difference at all that i even got two hours of fragmented sleep? >> i think it would have been pretty similar if you hadn't slept at all. >> i take naps via microsleep.

researchers found people who sleep six hours a night function just as poorly as those who stay awake for two straight days. >> how are we doing right now? gas prices are on the rise. the average price nationwide jumped 17 cents in the last month. analysts predict the average price will approach $3 a gallon by summer. philadelphia has become the first city to ban cashless stores in response to companies like amazon that want to open retail stores that accept payment only by credit card. critics say refusing cash payments discriminates against low income people and senior citizens, similar bans have been proposed in new york and new jersey. attention, "star wars" fan, the wait is nearly over. our parent company disney is offering a first look at the new star wars galley's edge attraction opening ahead of schedule on may 31st at disney land and in late summer in florida. the two main ride also involve

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milerom shore. but some new technology saved his life. >> hey, i'm out here in my kayak. i flipped over. >> reporter: a 911 call captured the fear in mike bochniarz's voice. >> can you please send the coast guard? >> reporter: he was clinging to his capsized kayak struggling to stay afloat in the gulf of mexico off the coast of tampa. the water just a chilly 56 degrees. >> i had a whistle but i was so cold i couldn't even blow my whistle. >> reporter: the dispatcher mackenzie espinoza helped keep him calm. >> i'm getting really tire. >>ed i know you're tired. >> reporter: as bochniarz held his phone above his head in the water rescuers dperately sf me just drifting out there and nobody ever finding me again. >> reporter: the 911 center then used new technology to find bochniarz even while he drifted farther from shore. 23 minutes later particular medics finally found him and pulled him to safety. >> that was his life line right

then. >> reporter: this new technology called rapidsos gives dispatchers a nearly exact location for someone calling 911 as long as the caller is using apple's ios 12 or android's version 4.0 and up. >> i'm going to cry. >> espinoza and bochniarz both fought back tears as they met for the first time since that fateful phone call. >> it's very easy for me to hug him and hold his hand because he is a member of my family now. >> the rapidsos technology has been online since last fall and authorities across the country say it has already saved several lives. a bus driver is being hailed a hero for saving the life of a second grader. 8-year-old allen lovergreen was choking and needed help. his older brother shouted for the driver. she came rushing down the aisle and performed the heimlich maneuver. >> in my head i was thinking was i going to die? i need help. is somebody going to tell someone? >> he just made a noise and i asked are you choking and then i alerted the bus driver and she just came running down the

aisle. >> the last three thrusts were pretty hard and when the objectr learned the life-saving technique during first aid training but never thought she'd use it. a man released from jail just last month for breaking into taylor swift's new york town house is in custody and charged with doing it again. police say roger alvarado climbed to a second floor patio and smashed a window to get into the pop star's home. he served six months for breaking into swift's home last april when police found him sleeping in her bed after using her shower. two months before that he allegedly broke her door with a shovel. a 1991 episode of "the simpsons" featuring michael jackson's voice is being pulled from circulation. the show's executives reportedly made the decision after watching the hbo documentary "leaving neverland" in which two men say they were molested by jackson when they were boys. "the simpsons'" executive producer tells "the wall street

journal" he found the documentary convincing. in sports two big headlines from the nfl. the broncos are reportedly trading quarterback case keenum to the redskins. picks in next year's draft. and there's some confusion over whether steelers wide receiver antonio brown is heading to buffalo. a report overnight claimed the deal was close to being done. but brown calls the report fake news. up next in "the pulse," the job that pays you to do nothing all day. also ahead, the man who won a $273 million lottery jackpot. will he give any of that money to the good samaritan who found his ticket? plus a very unusual place to unwind.

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nour friday "pulse" begins with a new multimillionaire who is giving thanks to a convenience store clerk who safegu winning lottery ticket. michael weirsky and that clerk were reunited last night in new jersey. >> weirsky bought a mega millions ticket at the store that wound up being worth $273 million but weirsky had left the ticket on the counter at the store. when he went back the next day, he never imagined the ticket would still be there but it was. the cashier had kept it pretty safe for him. >> just the way that i was brought up. something is not yours. you try to find the owner of it, and that ticket was purchased by him, and it was his belonging, so we made sure it got back to him. >> and i don't want to get emotional on camera but i can'td >> very happy for you. i'm very happy for you. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> we better be friends. when he was asked if he'll ge

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what their patients need. good morning. it's friday, march 8th. yea. in my head, the weather is supposed to be better today. have i been listening? >> i think so. you have been listening. i appreciate that. hopefully everybody else will be listening. in the next 30 seconds. and mainly dry. there's a few radar returns. mid to upper 30s in clear lake, cloverdale and ukiah and los gatos. the rest in the mid to upper 40s. here's a look at temperatures this afternoon. once again, cooler than average by up to 10 degrees as we are stuck in the mid-50s with a little bit of a breeze. it will be kind of a biting cold from time to time. all right. we'll take a look at radar and

the 12-hour planner next. here's alexis. >> we started off with two separate crashes on what is normally the lighter side of the san mateo bridge. eastbound 92 before you get to the toll plaza. we had a crash briefly blocking all lanes. we had a second crash behind it. everything back open. as you can see, the traffic coming toward us is moving the same way. no issues from hayward to foster city. drive times, mostly friday light. although we are stop and go. westbound 580 into dublin. going to take you about 31 minutes. dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 16. northbound 85 between highway 101 and cupertino. should take you about 16 minutes. in the south bay, police caught a man accused of peeping into people's homes while he was naked. >> matt keller is live for us in san jose. >> reporter: good morning. san joss police looking for more

information on the case and the suspect after he was taken here to jail after his arrest. take a look at the suspect. his name is mark veregge. he's from mendocino. how did they get him? he was caught on a surveillance camera. between february 15th and march 5th. he committed several acts of indi incei indecent exposure. both times the suspect knocked on the door, looked through a window and fled the scene. the third time, he was caught on camera wearing a dress as he approached a home. he knocked on the front door. our media partner the mercury news says he's in jail on $50,000 bail last night. reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> matt, thank you. it's 4:29. if you're just waking up, good morning. here's what's happening with your weather and mike nicco. >> as promised, a few areas of light rain.

middle field road heading into east palo alto. campus drive across the dumbarton bridge. towards warm springs boulevard and 680 and 880 through milpitas. broader picture shows just near evergreen neighborhood and san jose and then look at some of the snow falling up on hamilton and possibly the higher peaks of santa cruz. where the future computer models show them to be. that's where they'll stay the next couple of hours. if you have to drive through the santa cruz mountains or the south bay, you can see a little sheen on 87 just south of mineta san jose international. most of us waking up partly cloudy and cooler, 36 to 46. by noon, low 50s. mid-50s at 4:00. grab a coat if you're headed out this evening. not the umbrella. mid to upper 40s. hey, alexis. >> taking aidge toll