making news in america this morning, a bombshell in the race for the white house. former new york mayor michael bloomberg taking a major step toward running for president. what this means for the race and how elizabeth warren is responding this morning. also breaking overnight, our first look at the explosive new book titled "a warning" describing a midnight self-massacre in washington with several white house officials planning to do it together and why it was scrapped. this morning, nike fights back after a champion runner described as the fastest girl in

the america claims she suffered emotional and physical abuse while training with the company. allegedly forced to lose so much weight her body broke down. a texas man on trial for murder. he claims he was sleepwalking when he shot his wife. but did the jury buy it? plus, the boat racing crash caught on camera. we hear from the driver. and a holiday music favorite. ♪ i simply should go ♪ text me when you get home >> gets a redo. reaction to the new song released overnight. good friday morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. we do begin with that bombshell in the race for president. >> former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is taking a major step toward entering the race. he's expected to file paperwork ahead of a deadline today and overnight the other candidates already responding. >> the big question now is what impact could bloomberg have on this race? abc's andrea fujii has more. andrea, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,

kenneth and janai. michael bloomberg has not confirmed he's running however abc news has learned that today he will file to run in at least one state's presidential primary. aides say he is keeping his options open. meanwhile, experts say it's a sign he's not happy with the current democratic field. this morning former new york city mayor michael bloomberg sending a jolt through the presidential race. abc news has confirmed the billionaire plans to file paperwork today just before the approaching deadline. >> this is the biggest step yet he has made toward becoming a candidate. >> reporter: bloomberg, an outspoken critic of president trump spoke to msnbc in august questioning the strength of the democratic candidates. >> i think a lot of the pandering on some of the more liberal things, wouldn't want it. the public does not want revolutionary change.

it wants evolutionary change. >> reporter: overnight a top bloomberg adviser tweeted in part, we now need to finish the job and ensure trump is defeated but mike is increasingly concerned that the current field is not positioned to do that. if he runs he would offer a new choice to democrats. originally a lifelong democrat bloomberg has changed party affiliations over the years running for new york city mayor in 2001 as a republican and becoming an independent and last year reregistering as a democrat. >> there are a number of moderates in the race already that are trying to position themselves as an alternative to those progressives so he could add another name to that pile and really divide up that vote. >> reporter: both bernie sanders and elizabeth warren have made an issue of going after billionaires like bloomberg with a wealth tax and inheritance tax. >> it's not enough just to have somebody come in, anybody, and say that they're buying this election. >> reporter: though it's relatively late in the game, the latest poll found that 50% of democratic voters said while they might favor someone, they were willing to switch their opinion later.

janai. >> we'll watch to see the reaction to another new york city billionaire. andrea, thank you. meanwhile, we're getting our first hook at the new book about the trump administration called "a warning." the author is identified only as a senior administration official. according to "the washington post," the book details a plan by several white house officials last year to resign in what they called a midnight self-massacre to protest president trump's fitness for office. but they reportedly rejected the idea because it would cause too much chaos. the author goes on to describe the president, quote, like a 12-year-old in an air traffic control power pushing the buttons indiscriminately imdifferent tohe planes skidding across the runway. the white house has called the author a coward and says the book is a work of fiction. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is expected to be a no show on capitol hill today, subpoenaed by the house intelligence committee to answer

questions in the impeachment investigation. a senior adviser to mulvaney also refused to testify. one year after being fired by president trump, former attorney general jeff sessions announced he's running for his old senate seat in alabama. despite their rocky past sessions had nothing but praise for the president during a campaign video and on fox news last night. >> when i left president trump's cabinet, did i write a tell all book? no. did i go on cnn and attack the president? nope. have i said a cross word about our president? not one time. >> he has your strong support. do you have his strong support? >> well, i hope so. i think he will respect my work. i was there for the trump agenda every day. i was in the senate, no doubt about it. i was the first republican -- first senator to endorse him. >> "the new york times" reports president trump recently made it clear that he would not support sessions. a worker at a buffalo wild wings restaurant near boston died after what's being called a chemical incident in the kitchen. at least eight other employees

and two customers have been hospitalized. the fire department says the worker inhaled fumes from a strong chemical cleaning substance called super 8 which has a high concentration of chlorine. we turn to the tears and heartbreak in mexico. funerals begin for the american victims of a highway ambush and for the first time we saw the young boy who helped saved lives of so many family members. abc's marci gonzalez explains why this is tack is called a case of mistaken identity. >> reporter: hundreds in tears at the first funeral for members of an american family murdered in mexico. donna ray langford and her two young sons' caskets carried out. her older son serving as a pallbearer after walking 14 miles to get help for his family after the attack. relatives sharing new video of the aftermath of that massacre. >> they shot down from the top. >> reporter: and now questioning whether all nine victims were targeted by a drug cartel. the family caravanning to kendra miller's wedding monday when

they were ambushed. the bride-to-be telling abc's tom llamas she believes the three women and six children were gunned down to spark a new battle in an ongoing war between drug gangs. >> so you're saying your family was used as pawns. >> yes. the chihuahua cartel used our three women and all the children as a provocation to start a war between them and the sonora. >> reporter: military and police now guarding the family's mormon compound in northwest mexico as they try to track down the killers. and still no suspects have been named and mexican officials maintain their belief that drug traffickers likely mistook them for rivals because of the type of vehicles they were traveling in. marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. all right, turning to the weather, millions of americans are bracing for bitter cold today. some could see record low temperatures. let's take a look at your friday forecast.

well, good morning to you. talking about cold weather for your friday. get ready for it where accuweather real feels in the teens to the 20s across the north east, especially north of the new york city area. look at these hues of blue, deep shades of blue signify temperatures that could feel like actually 0 to 10 degrees during the day. now, we do get some relief as we head into your sunday. it's turning warmer before the next blast of cold comes in. for accuweather, i'm meteorologist chris nallan. coming up, saluting change. the marines do something they haven't done in 200 years to prepare for the rain. but first returning to paradise one year after a wildfire destroyed the town killing 85 people. we look at the rebuilding effort. the number one that surprised us the most. it's happened again. another deadly plane crash into a house. how a father and baby

we, the jury find the defendant, raymond g. lazarine, guilty. >> a jury has convicted a texas man who says he was sleepwalking when he shot his wife. raymond lazarine claimed his actions were involuntary because of a medical condition that causes him to sleepwalk, but jurors didn't buy it. they convicted him of murder. he could now face life in prison. now to the people rebuilding paradise on the anniversary of the most destructive wildfire in california's history. the camp fire raced through the town of paradise one year ago today. most of the 14,000 homes have not been rebuilt. crews have removed nearly 4 million tons of debris, twice the amount removed from the world trade center after 9/11. one woman decided to return to

the area. they're now living in a motor home. >> any time you're faced with a tragedy what are your choices? you either get up and move forward, or you just completely give up, and i think for the town of paradise and for all of us that lived here we couldn't give up. this is our home. >> local officials are asking people to pause for 85 seconds beginning at 11:08 this morning. one second for every person who died in the fire last year. e-cigarettemaker juul is halting sales of its popular mint flavored products. they're facing intense scrutiny. a survey found mint flavored products are the top choice among teenagers. the owners of sears and kmarts is closing more stores, 96 locations will close early next year including 51 sears and in other retail news, the ceo of gap is stepping down after years of declining sales. the marines are ending their 200-year ban on umbrellas.

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back now with the fiery plane crash outside los angeles. the pilot was killed when the single engine aircraft slammed into a home. a neighbor says the man in that house ran and grabbed his 18-month-old son and raced him to safety. just last week three people died in two separate tragedies involving small planes crashing into homes. one was in new jersey. the other one in georgia. we turn now to a star athlete's explosive new claim

against nike. >> mary cain says the program forced her to lose weight and nearly drove here to suicide. now nike is responding. overnight nike firing back denying serious allegations from a champion runner once dubbed the fastest girl in america. >> i was emotionally and physically abused. >> reporter: at just 17 mary cain was blowing away the competition winning a gold medal at the 2014 world junior championships and two national titles. >> mary cain. the women here almost twice her age left in her wake. >> reporter: she became the youngest american track athlete to make a world championship team and was signed with nike's famed training program but now cain is coming forming the coach, alberto salazar and others emotionally

and physically abused her. >> i was weighed in front of teammates. i was told i was five pounds too heavy. cain claims she was constantly told to lose weight. she says because of the alleged treatment, she suffered five broken bones, didn't have a period for three years and had suicidal thoughts. >> i usually cut my legs because i hated them for not running faster for not doing better. >> reporter: nike shut down its oregon project last month after the u.s. doping agency suspended coach salazar saying an investigation found multiple anti-doping rule violations. this morning, nike is denying cain's allegations saying, these are deeply troubling allegations which have not been raised by mary or her parents before, adding mary was seeking to rejoin the oregon project and alberto's team as recently as april of this year and had not raised these concerns as part of that process. cain says she's still training

in hopes to make the olympics in tokyo next summer. you can hear more from her coming up on "good morning america." louisiana senator john kennedy is refusing to back down from a blistering attack he launched against house speaker nancy pelosi. if you missed it, here's what he said at a rally in louisiana while standing next to president trump. >> speaker nancy pelosi is trying to impeach him. [ audience boos ] i don't mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb. >> supporters are hailing senator kennedy but many others on both sides are calling his remarks disrespectful but kennedy is standing by his comments. >> i didn't mean it as disrespectful. i didn't mean them as disrespectful at all. if people think they're disrespectful, this is america. you're entitled to your opinion. >> we the people of the united states -- >> so far speaker pelosi hasn't commented. but other democrats are coming to her defense saying she's

too smart and too tough to let kennedy's remarks affect her. the driver of a racing boat is speaking out after this. two boats flipped over during this race. look at that in key west, florida. four people are on the boats. all of them survived. the driver explained how he and his passenger got out alive. >> the first thing we did was unlatch our five-point harness and try to come through the bottom hatch of the boat which at that point is right side up so we could escape. seemed like it lasted minutes but in reality it was only a matter of seconds from the time that we impacted to the time we escaped from the bottom. >> really incredible how those boats both flipped over like that. remarkably the worst injury suffered by anyone on the boats was an ankle sprain. in sport the raiders won the thriller against the chargers. oakland's winning touchdown run came with one minute left in the game. they won it, 26-24.

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i'm here. >> real tv. >> we still have an issue with fog. we have less than a quarter mile visibility in petaluma, napa, 1 in santa rosa, 2 in season martin. this will spread throughout the morning commute. wouldn't be surprised if another dense fog advisory is issued. temperatures in the mid 40s to low 50s. because of the fog, the sun will spend a lot of its energy trying to get rid of that fog. still a nice day with mid to upper 60s around the bay. some places like livermore, antio antioch, morgan hill and santa rosa the upper 70s. look at those 50s along the coast. let's talk about that commute with jobina. >> we want to start off with a sigalert in santa rosa. very foggy in the area. it's a head-on crash, this is specifically westbound 12 before llano. we understand the roadway should

be opening back up in about 30 minutes but also hearing that it looks like someone may be stuck inside one of the cars involved here. there's debris all over the roadway. want to take a live look at the san mateo bridge. we have a fog advisory here. also at the golden gate bridge and carquinez bridge. now developing news, the family of one of the men killed in that deadly shooting at an airbnb is planning to file a lawsuit. >> it comes as airbnb says it will pay for the victims funerals and counseling for the families. lauren martinez joins us live in the newsroom with that. >> according to the "san francisco chronicle," parents of one of the victims say that aibnb allowed dangerous party conditions that ultimately led to their son's death. now ramon hill sr. and cynthia taylor plan to file the suit today in contra costa superior

court. they're claiming airbnb did not screen the people who rented out the orinda house properly and allowed drugs and alcohol. the suit claims the rental company and the owners of the home were negligent in the wrongful death of their son, ramon hill jr. also airbnb says they will pay for funi iaerals and counseling the victims. they said we have set aside funds to support the victims loved ones with funeral expenses and counseling services and we have been in contact with those representing mr. hill's family in this regard. ramon hill jr. was one of five people gunned down at the house party off lucille way on halloween night. lauren martinez, abc7 news. time is 4:30. if you're just joining us, a quick update of weather and traffic where you live. here is mike. >> let's talk about that fog once again. what we're dealing with out there. you know, if y