♪ good morning, america. as we kick off 2020 we've got your guide to the year ahead. an impeached president trump now preparing for a high-stakes trial as candidates kick their campaigns into high gear. breaking down everything you need to know as we start the new year. also this morning, how to get financially fit for a debt-free decade from the snowball method to budgeting like a boss, the tips you can try right now. new apps for a new you from health to self-help, the easy tools to use right on your phone to stay on track this new year. military mom on a mission. how these battle buddies are helping families that are missing their loved ones during the holidays.

is simple gifts. ♪ bring me a higher love how to start 2020 off on a high note. the best places to travel without breaking the bank. the secret to avoiding crazy crowds. plus, the hidden gem right here in the u.s. a special new year's edition of "gma" starts now. ♪ ♪ good morning, america. and a very happy new year to you. thank you so much for joining us on this first day of 2020. can't believe it is 2020. [ cheers and applause ] we want to let you know we are on tape this morning so all of our staff and all of us could be home with our families. we hope that you're enjoying your holiday too and thanks to our wonderful audience for being here. [ cheers and applause ] >> 2020. as you wake up on this new

year's morning, we have some great tips to help you start the year off right mentally physically and financially. and of course, we're talking football. yep. it is a new year's day of college football games that get under way very soon here. the one and only, jesse palmer will join us. [ cheers and applause ] >> so good to see him backstage. he's forever a member of our family. >> completely. that's coming up. first we have the morning's top headlines we want to get to from diane macedo. diane, happy new year. >> thank you. happy new year to you. we begin here with the world ushering in 2020. the biggest party was right here in times square when more than a million packed what's known as the crossroads of the world. now it's the aftermath. workers are picking up tons of confetti. they have their hands full. over in seattle presumably less cleanup where they had to cancel the fireworks because of severe weather. other cities, 2020 came in right on schedule. abc's, kenneth moton has more.

>> happy new year! >> reporter: overnight, millions of people gathering in times square to ring in the new year and watch the world's most famous ball drop. thousands of officers were patrolling new york city keeping the crowds safe with heavy weapons teams, units in the air, police dogs and for the first time drones. from new york to hollywood, to miami and to new orleans, the party included performances from some of the hottest artists of the year. ♪ special, special >> reporter: post malone. ♪ >> reporter: the jonas brothers. ♪ ♪ all right all right >> reporter: bts. ♪ i heard you cry aloud >> reporter: green day. and alanis morissette with the cast of broadway's "jagged little pill" taking the stage and bringing the party from coast to coast.

displays from all over the world. dubai, thailand, australia, france celebrating the new year and the end of the decade. ♪ for "good morning america," kenneth moton, abc news, new york. now to the escalating crisis in iraq. the u.s. embassy in baghdad under siege again. angry protesters threw rocks and set fire to the american flag. u.s. marines fired teargas to disperse the crowd after protesters tried to storm the embassy. in the meantime, secretary of defense mark esper ordered 750 soldiers deployed there immediately starting from retaliation. the fda reportedly is set to ban

all flavored e-cigarette except menthol banned. president trump said the government will announce a new strategy to tackle underage vaping soon. overseas, a security scare and rare display of anger from pope francis. the pontiff was greeting visitors in st. peter's square when a woman grabbed his hand and wouldn't release it. a visibly annoyed pope francis slapped the woman's hand and told her to let go of him. his securi happy new year to you. starting out with cloud cover and patchy fog. temperatures today on the mild side. the new year bringing in dry conditions. next chance of rain looking marginal. and it's going to come in late friday into saturday. 62 today in fremont. look for 63 in san jose. santa rosa a mild 64. the accuweather seven-day forecast, maybe some rain friday night. t those are your headlines. back to you in the studio and again happy new year to you all.

>> okay, diane, thanks so much. we have your guide to 2020. everything you need to know as we start the new year from politics to your wallet and even some sports but first, we are going to begin with this crucial moment for our country. president trump heads into this new year as only the third president ever to be impeached and he is anxious to get his trial in the senate under way. let's bring in our powerhouse political team, mary bruce and jon karl. happy new year to you both. >> happy new year. >> happy new year, cecilia. >> i'll ask you to get your crystal balls out and bring us to the trial in the senate. a lot want to know is the outcome predetermined? what's going to happen? >> well, it certainly does seem highly unlikely the president will be removed from office but the big x factor, how do we get to that point? what does this process look like? we know speaker pelosi took a bit of a risk before we closed out for the holiday saying she's not going to be sending over those articles of impeachment to

the senate for consideration. we're in a bit of impeachment purgatory right now. she wants to see what the trial will look like when they come back and gavel back into session and they're essentially at an impasse. democrats want to hear from these key witnesses. the president said he wants top aides to testify. democrats are calling the president's bluff. but republicans, they want a quick trial. they don't want any witnesses and, you know, mitch mcconnell said, hey, if speaker pelosi doesn't want a trial in the senate that's fine by me. >> and the one thing donald trump wants out of this, he wants to have a trial because he wants to be able to point to the senate and say that he was exonerated. this is vindication because he looks at this as most people do and say there's no way that he gets removed from office and, you know, it's probably less than a majority. it takes two-thirds to remove him from office. you won't get anywhere near that.

you might not even get all the democrats. he actually wants to see this trial. >> and so basically the one thing we know is certain we're going to see a fair amount of jockeying, a fair amount of in-fighting and it will get pretty nasty. >> so hanging over this impeachment is this other thing where we will deal with in 2020. it's the 2020 presidential election is out there on the horizon. when is this democratic field going to start to shrink? >> well, i mean it's already shrunk a little bit, cecilia. we started out with 476 candidates and now at somewhere over a dozen roughly, roughly. you know, look, we're going to be voting soon. we have the iowa caucuses on february 3rd. eight days later, the new hampshire primary. an abc debate somewhere in the middle there in new hampshire. and the field was doing a good job of winnowing and then -- >> we're adding now. going to take one away. >> yeah. we got to add a billionaire, add

a former governor of massachusetts. but, look, it's now, you know, after a primary campaign that seems like it's already been going on for several years, we get down to the voters actually having a say. >> and it does seem like there's still a ton of wiggle room out there, though, from the polling we have seen so even though we'll start seeing a lot of voting lapping soon that doesn't mean this seemingly ever growing field is really going to start narrowing. you could have several more months before we get clarity. >> what you're saying 2020 is going to be as relaxing and zen as 2019 for us on the political beat. >> pretty much. >> happy new year. i wish you amazing 2020. thank you very much. lara, over to you talking money. we're going to kick off a focus on how you can have a debt-free decade and get back those finances, get them in shape. our chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis is here now to help us with that and i love how

you've broken this down simply. what type of goals should we be setting right now for 2020? >> the whole idea here, lara, and happy new year. >> happy new year. >> is to have a truly happy new year of financial freedom. make 2020 your year and that begins with paying down debt so think about all your goals. if you have debt that is going to eat into every single one of your financial goals. so start there. build an emergency savings, start some short-term investments and think about that nest egg. most are 401(k)s. start think about that. if you're not doing that and not contributing that's leaving money on the table when there is a match from your company. >> i know it seems daunting but you have to start sometime so start throwing it -- you know, just putting a little bit away. it will add up. you ke this great bullet point list and hopefully everybody has jotted those down. number one, pay down debt. it seems so hard. >> yes, it can be so daunting.

>> please give us advice. >> lara, there are two ways that we know people can be effective paying down their debt. one is called the snowball method and with that snowball method you're going to start paying off the smallest debt and then work your way up to the largest debt. you're still making the minimum payments so you're not paying those extra fees. >> but you can cross them off your list. >> exactly. >> i feel psychologically -- >> you psychologically know you're chipping away. the other option and this is the option that will save you the most money if you stick to it, the avalanche method, where you look at your debts from the highest rate down to the lowest and usually the highest will be your credit card debt. you pay off the highest interest rate first and then work your way down. >> okay, i love that. snowball and avalanche. >> both timely. >> final words of wisdom from you because you always give us great advice. >> number one, look at the credit report because someone might have opened a credit in your name over the last year. it's always important, you can

do that for free at annual credit report.com and automize. i love the idea that you're going to sign up for automatic payments on everything. you won't pay extra fees and delete emails. this is the time of year to unsubscribe. maybe you've subscribed to a lot of retailers this year and getting emails constantly with deals. unsubscribe. >> that's a great idea. go to the bottom of the email hit unsubscribe. thank you very much, rebecca. great advice. over to ginger now who is with one of our nearest and dearest, mr. jesse palmer. >> we're so happy to have jesse back. the espn college football analyst watching college football games, it's one of the best ways to spend new year's day. >> the most wonderful time of the year. >> got just a couple of hours. >> great match-ups. you're watching so much. can we start and love the names of them. i'm going to say -- i don't know a lot about football. the citrus bowl. >> and a great match-up between

alabama and michigan. how about that? two of the most storied college football programs ever and this is a great game, alabama is a team that's always playing for national championships, first year, though, they're not in the college football playoffs so, what's their motivation? have nfl prospects that will skip the game. one who won't is jerry jeudy and michigan's got a great defense and they're led by shea patterson at quarterback who's had a great season. it's going to be good. >> go blue, roll tide. i knew that. >> you know all about college football. >> outback bowl. >> minnesota and auburn. one of those classic s.e.c. versus big ten bowl games. i love watching minnesota on offense, they're led by tanner morgan at quarterback. he is accurate. throws to an outstanding receiving corps led by tyler johnson, but he's facing off against a good auburn defense led by derick brown who is a game wrecker. he is big, athletic.

physical. he's going to be a top ten pick in the nfl draft this year and will have his eyes set on tanner morgan, watch out. this is going to be a great classic match-up, i think. >> now who is going to be watching the sugar bowl? yeah? okay. [ applause ] >> of course, and the sugar bowl if you're a fan of defensive football and love physical smashmouth football i think you'll love baylor versus georgia. how about the baylor bears, right? two years ago baylor only won one game. now here they are playing in the sugar bowl. their head coach matt rhule has done an outstanding job. their defense, they fly around the football. georgia has a great defense too. a lot of speed and nfl talent. difficult for jake fromm to score points. i don't know if it will be a barn burner, but if you love great defensive football, the sugar bowl is for you. >> we should do rose bowl. >> listen, legendary broadcaster keith jackson called it the

granddaddy of them all and there's the rose bowl parade and there's the tournament of roses but also a great match-up on the feel between oregon and wisconsin. oregon is a fun offense to watch, they score points. justin herbert has a cannon for an arm and then for wisconsin there have been -- they love to run the football and jonathan taylor, number 23, at the bottom of your screen, will go down as one of the greatest statistical running backs in college football. contrasting offense in this one. this one is must watch tv. >> thank you, mr. jesse palmer. >> you can watch all the games starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. cecilia, lara, what are you watching? >> i just want to say, jesse, penn state should have been in the rose bowl. i'm just going to say it out loud. i'm saying it out loud. we'll discuss later. >> you saved me because i had no football contributions. we will move to military

moms on a mission to help those who miss their loved ones. >> they have come up with a special way to help families feel close even when they are thousands of miles apart and our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz has more on the story. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. every year during this holiday season, in fact, all year long, tens of thousands of service members are deployed around the world. family and friends send loads of gifts and cards to their loved ones but two new york moms have found a unique way to help military families at home and abroad stay connected. it was 2006, the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan were raging. >> never thought i'd be a military mother ever. it's what he always warranted -- wanted and i was if complete denial. >> he went in to the marines right out of high school and, gosh, we tried to talk him out of it. >> reporter: but there was no

stopping vicki and lisa's sons from serving. >> it was terrifying. you know, to be talking to him through skype and all of a sudden he would say got to go. something's happening. click. >> you don't want to have a pity party but on the other it's hard to put a smile on some days. >> reporter: it was christmas during vicki's son's first deployment but he wasn't thinking about his holiday but he was thinking about how lonely it would be for his girlfriend ashley back home so asked his mom to send her a box of presents from him. >> it was when i talked to my son that i realized that the gift went both ways, because i could hear the smile in his voice and he's like, mom, i was able to make ashley so happy. >> reporter: keeping that personal connection despite the miles inspired the marine corps mom to expand the idea and link up with lisa. her soon to be battle buddy. >> once we started getting responses back that's when we realized we were in it for good.

>> and not just christmas? >> mother's day and father's day we did also. >> reporter: their charity, full circle home has now helped more than 21,000 service members send gifts and personal love notes to those they call their heroes back home. >> all right, we got our first box done. >> reporter: the gifts are small, a scented candle, body lotion, a memory bracelet but always meaningful. a reminder their deployed service members are thinking of them and know how hard it can be. >> when you're dealing with a deployment you worry about your soldier and you worry your kids and you worry about everyone else. and then something comes in the mail for you and you go, wow. it was just wonderful. >> it's not just the loved ones of those troops who are deployed. vicki and lisa also deliver gifts to the families and care givers of our service members recovering from wounds at walter reed. great work they're doing.

back to you, guys. >> all right, such a special story. more that, thank you so much. coming up, the apps to download right now to keep you on track with those new year's resolutions. and the hot spots to hit in 2020 without breaking the bank. how to score a great deal on the bahamas and the beach you can visit right in the midwest. what? we'll tell you about. plus, black widow is back. the movie is about to hit the box office and blow you away in 2020. >> hi, i'm lieutenant jennifer cunningham and currently serving in djibouti, africa. i want to wish a happy holidays to everyone, family and friends back home in west branch, michigan. i love and miss you. i hope to see you soon. >> hi sergeant first class anthony nolak. i want to wish friends and family back home happy holidays.

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happy new year to you. starting out with mostly cloudy conditions. here's live doppler 7. not seeing rain in the north bay. but we could see a few sprinkles from a weak weather system that will stay far north of the bay area. 44 in san jose. 50 in san francisco. looking at more mild temperatures out towards napa, 43. a little bit of fog in our east bay, low to mid 40s. milder from 3 to 7 degrees warmer this morning. we'll hold on to the cloud cover. it will be mild above average in the 60s for oakland and richmond. 62 in palo alto. maybe some rain late friday. kumasi? >> thanks. we'll have another abc7 news

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jen ashton, though, who said she's going to dress up like top gun. >> that's something to look forward to and this too. we want to wish you a happy new year. we hope you're having a wonderful one. we just want to let you know to be totally transparent, we are taping this morning so we could all celebrate with ours. >> our entire staff is home. happy new year to you all. >> january 1st, this is all about new beginnings and making resolutions for the next year but the tough part, you always find this out later. sticking to them. >> i'm so good at making them. >> becky worley has some solutions to keep us all on track. good morning, becky. >> good morning, cecilia. happy new year. you are so right, setting a new year's resolution, easy, keep it, hard. what if we took some of the cognitive science techniques that app makers use to keep us coming back to our social feeds,

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yourself a message on the lock screen wallpaper for your phone. i pick this thing up an average of 45 times a day so every lock screen view reminds me of my goal which is ironically to use my phone less so, you know, good luck with your resolutions. [ applause ] >> how is that going for you? >> one down. great tip, becky. thank you so much. happy new year. >> happy new year. the top places to travel. foodies, you will want to pay attention. also coming up, it's the year of star-studded sequels from "bad boys" to bond, your guide to 2020's biggest blockbusters coming up on "gma." oming up on "gma." ♪ ♪ ♪

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destination to the public to choose so we are going to poll people online to choose the 20th destination. >> that's great. i want to talk about one of your main picks, bahamas, easy for us to get to. why do you love it so much. >> everybody knows one of the worst hurricanes in human history hit the bahamas recently. that has led to a pr disaster because people assume wrongly that the entire chain of islands is closed, not the case. these are 700 islands. over 100,000 square miles. >> and they could really use the business. >> and it's going to be cheap this year because people don't know to go there. >> not only that but just been refurbished. i was just there and you can't believe the work that's been done. highly recommend we all get on that. >> definitely, definitely. >> where else? >> you've got a favorite spot, domestically which kind of surprised me. indiana has surprise hidden gems. >> indiana. >> indianapolis is such a fun

city. >> indianapolis is turning 200 this year. >> happy birthday, indy. >> it's a culturally rich city, incredible culinary scene. interesting history. there is a woman named madam walker, she was the first black female millionairess and her center is re-opening and a netflix series starring octavia spencer. we think a lot of people will want to go there and the newest national park is in indiana. >> just a ton -- great live music.food. highly recommend it. >> i went to college in the northwest of indiana, the dunes. if you want to go abroad and off the beaten path, tell us. >> well, in italy there is a region called amelia romano. if you're a foodie, this is you want to go there. the city of parma, parmesan

cheese, and an amazing place to go peru, not the inca trail. millions do that. instead there is a place called the indian villages, the incredible rainbow mountain. it's just an amazing place to go. cheaper and less expensive. >> that one place, the bucket list trip. >> the pole, the north and south pole.d >> i did not see that coming. [ applause ] >> of course, ginger -- >> because of our climate changing, we are seeing that area of the world drastically changing so, if you've ever wanted to see it, now is the time. there are dozens of new boats going there and new routes because the ice is melting. you want to go with an eco-conscious company but, wow, what an incredible adventure. >> that's great advice. i am actually sold. i never thought i would say i would like to go to the poles. >> plans are being made. >> hopefully all of you are inspired, too.

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and issa rae seek connection while probing the past in "the photograph." >> i'm not trying to be practical. i want to be with you. >> reporter: will smith and martin lawrence bond again in "bad boys for life." "mulan" seeks to stir the soul via a live action of the disney classic. elisabeth moss seems haunted by "the invisible man." daniel craig is 007 one final time in "no time to die." magical creatures grapple in pixar's "onward." "scoob" tells the origin story with plenty of canine punch lines. >> gary. >> reporter: "sponge on the run" finds its highly absorbent hero searching for his pet snail gary. >> gary! >> reporter: tiffany haddish and rose byrne face off with the formidable salma hayek in "like a boss." >> baby, i own you. >> reporter: "the way back," ben

affleck plays a man with a drinking problem who coaches a basketball team with a losing problem, while "fantasy island" puts a horror film spin and rinse on the 1970s show, and ryan reynolds finds himself inside a violent video game in "free guy." yes, the past is never dead. it's not even past. 34 years after tom cruise felt the need for speed, "top gun: maverick" is riding to the danger zone. 36 years after director ivan reitman's "ghostbusters," his son, jason, is dusting off "ghostbusters: afterlife" and 32 years after harrison ford posed with his black lab puppy he's side by side with buck for "call of the wild." will 2020 be a moviegoer's best friend? that's not counting all the

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good morning. i'm kumasi aaron from abc7 mornings. happening today, a vigil will be held in oakland to mark the 11th anniversary in the death of oscar grant. the vigil will be held from noon to 4:00 at the fruitvale b.a.r.t. station. that's where a b.a.r.t. police officer shot and killed the hayward man back in 2009. the former b.a.r.t. officer said he meant to use his taser to subdue grant and not the service revolver that killed him. he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison. he was released in 2011. here's meteorologist lisa argen with our look at the forecast for today. >> kumasi, check it out. pretty shot from mount tam, just a sliver of sunlight there.

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