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good morning, america. high alert. the largest security effort ever for an inauguration. washington, d.c. now a fortress as new arrests are made in the assault on the capitol building. the close call for vice president pence that day. why this officer is being hailed a hero as more tell their harrowing stories. >> it looked like a medieval battle scene. plus, did some members of congress help out the rioters? and will this man get the pardon from the president that he wants? what his lawyer is saying this morning. president trump planning his farewell. what he wants for his sendoff ahead of a looming impeachment trial as the biden administration moves forward with its transition.
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the priorities on the agenda. vaccine outrage. accusations that the trump administration lied about the supply. >> this is deception on a national scale. >> hospitals forced to cancel appointments. president-elect biden's plan to deliver more doses even as he warns of more dark days ahead. on the move, the blizzard that buried parts of the midwest causing crashes and spinouts, now heading east with up to a foot of snow. our weather team tracking its path. and soaring jackpots. a combined billion and a half dollars up for grabs. no megamillions winner overnight. the look ahead to tonight's powerball drawing and the expert advice if you're holding the lucky ticket. hey, good morning. t-minus four days until the inauguration of president-elect joe biden and we begin with a
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sweeping security crackdown in washington, d.c. the national mall temporarily shut down closed to the public for at least a week. and four bridges connecting d.c. to virginia also closed. >> the fbi is now warning about the potential threat of improvised explosive devices being used in upcoming protests saying the danger posed to law enforcement officers and the general public is, quote, substantial. >> intelligence officials also warning the siege at the capitol emboldened extremists and could be part of an ongoing trend of radical domestic groups exploiting lawful gatherings. abc's kenneth moton is in washington with more on what's being done to combat the threat. kenneth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. from the white house to the capitol, this is what we're seeing, barricades, fences, law enforcement everywhere especially downtown in d.c. the u.s. secret service is running the show here, but the
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agency also says in every state it's pursuing leads on potential threads as it works to fortify washington, d.c. this morning, we're just days away from the largest security effort ever to protect an inauguration. the nation's capitol a fortress. checkpoints in place and barricades down, armed members of the national guard on duty. the fbi is worried about the substantial threat of improvised explosive devices on inauguration day and the ongoing threat to political leaders. authorities also concerned that january 6th attack on the capitol has emboldened domestic extremists. >> i don't know if anyone has raised their hand to say we are coming, we will be there, but we are preparing as if they are. >> reporter: security tight days before the big event and it's only going to get tighter. the city's mayor and federal officials telling us there's a major responsibility to get this right. several states also on high alert, especially the battleground states from the november election like michigan and wisconsin. this as we learn about the close call for vice president mike pence.
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"the washington post" reports secret service rushed pence out of the senate chamber one minute before pro-trump rioters reached the second floor. the mob led away from the chamber by a lone officer now hailed as a hero. and now house speaker nancy pelosi is ordering an immediate review of capitol security, including whether any members of congress gave rioters building tours the day before. >> if it is found that members of congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime, there may have to be actions taken beyond congress. >> reporter: as arrests continue authorities are also concerned about the large number of pro-trump rioters with ties to law enforcement and/or the military. suspect jacob chansley who allegedly left a note on pence's desk that read, it's only a matter of time, justice is coming, served in the military. prosecutors accusing air force veteran larry brock of carrying zip ties to take hostages.
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one of two rocky mount, virginia police officers arrested jacob fracker is also a corporal in the virginia national guard. new video shows the violence at the capitol. a police officer shoved, punched and yelled at by a rioter and this moment, d.c. officer michael fanone beaten by the angry mob. >> it looked like a medieval battle scene. some of the most brutal combative's ever encountered. >> help! >> reporter: another d.c. officer, daniel hodges, thought he was going to die. >> this doorway. overnight police releasing a photo of the man that pinned hodges. >> that many people yelling in the tunnel is extremely loud, you know. it was just a sensory overload but all i knew was that no one was getting by me. >> reporter: backup is now here, 25,000 national guard troops are expected by inauguration day and they have been told they could use deadly force if necessary.
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at least ten states have activated national guards in their capital cities. eva? >> kenneth, that video hard to watch. thank you for that report. now to the presidential transition. president trump planning a farewell event while how to presidency as well as the senate will be handling an impeachment trial. abc's rachel scott is in washington with this story. good morning to you, rachel. >> reporter: before president-elect joe biden even takes the oath of office, president trump is planning on leaving washington. and sources tell us this morning he's requesting a large send-off. with just four days left in office, president trump is now planning a grand departure refusing to attend joe biden's inauguration, something that hasn't happened in more than 150 years. sources tell us before biden is sworn in, the president wants his own farewell, a red carpet and military band waiting as he boards air force one for the final time headed to mar-a-lago.
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inside the white house, aides are packing up their desks, moving trucks spotted outside as the president refuses to concede an election he lost. >> what you get is what it is. >> reporter: the president did meet with my pillow ceo mike lindell in the oval office on friday. "the washington post" capturing this image of his notes appearing to detail drastic actions like martial law and an insurrection act. lindell confirming the meeting saying he presented president trump with an entire packet containing repeatedly false theories regarding election hacking. white house sources tell abc news say nothing lindell presented would be taken seriously or acted on by officials. meanwhile, the nation still reeling from a deadly riot on the u.s. capitol is now preparing for an inauguration and an impeachment trial. >> that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the house of representatives. so urgent was the matter,
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they're now taking this to trial. >> reporter: that trial in the senate could be playing out during biden's first 100 days in office. >> we have to multitask, which means as with anyone, we have a lot of priorities, and we need to see them through. >> reporter: one of those priorities, getting congress to pass a nearly $2 trillion covid relief package, which includes $1,400 in direct payments to most americans. and this morning the timing of an impeachment trial is still up in the air but it could start on the same day of the inauguration. we know in the house ten republicans voted to impeach president trump but in the senate, at least 17 would need to break from their party in order to convict trump and at this point not a single senate republican has said they plan to do just that. dan? >> could be a long shot. rachel, thank you very much. let's talk more about the politics and the security here as we head into the inauguration with congressman adam kinzinger, a republican from illinois who voted to impeach president trump. congressman, thanks for coming
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on this morning. i know you were barricaded and apparently armed inside the capitol building on january 6th. days later you turned around and voted to impeach donald trump and i know now several of your colleagues are so worried about their safety that they bought bulletproof vests. are you dealing with credible threats to your life? >> yeah, you know what, there's always credible threats. i actually think the bigger threats are the ones that aren't written, the ones that aren't sent, the ones that are unknown. there's no doubt what you saw on january 6th shows me that people are taking politics now to the violent realm obviously, and there's always lone wolf concerns out there. so, yeah, i'm dealing with threats but i'm not fearful. i just will take the appropriate precautions. >> there is a report, before the riot, congressional leaders were not told that the police had actually requested backup. so given all the failures that we saw, you know, coming fully into the light on january 6th, are you convinced that security will be tight enough for the inaugural on wednesday?
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>> i am, yeah. if you look at how everything is being put up around d.c. and i mean the difficulty getting in even for members of congress and, of course, the men and women of the guard and the police forces there, i think we'll be safe. i think they're taking appropriate precautions and sadly 25,000 troops, it seems like overkill, but given the threat i'd much rather be in a place of overkill than have underpredicted what the real threat is. >> a few moments ago we heard nancy pelosi talking about the fact that members of congress may have helped the rioters. there is an investigation going on right now into these apparently suspicious tours given at the capitol the day before the riot. do you believe it's possible that some of your colleagues could be implicated here? >> look, i think it's quite possible. i don't -- i hope it's not probable. you know, they could have just been giving tours, but i think we have an obligation to find this out and people need to be held accountable for this. look, we have members of
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congress, at least we know this, even without giving tours tweeting things that morning like today is 1776, talking about taking the hill back by force. all these kind -- we have one member of congress tweeting the location of members of congress, and then when the speaker of the house left the chamber, and she knew that she was communicating to a larger crowd outside. so there are a lot of questions that need answered, and certainly i hope it's not the case, but we have to make sure that, you know, anybody that aided and abetted this insurrection needs to be held accountable. >> let me ask a policy question. i know you're in the house and the trial would take place in the senate. but there are a lot of questions about can you have a senate trial and also a major push to push through biden's first 100-day agenda including pandemic relief. do you think washington -- i guess it's not safe to say walk and chew gum because that's actually pretty easy, but can washington multitask in this way? >> yeah, i think it's going to be difficult, honestly.
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that's why i initially thought bringing up impeachment wasn't wise even though i would vote for it because i think it's a completely impeachable offense, but wntesng tt le is i tnktki. what the presi inrrti, ich is impeachable. so i think the senate is going to have to try to do both while getting some big bipartisan accomplishment through. >> this incoming administration facing massive unprecedented challenges. congressman kinzinger, thanks very much for your time this saturday morning. please stay safe. we appreciate it again. one quick programming note. you can see the abc news documentary "24 hours: assault on the capitol, an inside look at the siege" right now streaming on hulu. whit, over to you. dan, we move to the pandemic and an awful new milestone. the coronavirus claiming more than 2 million lives around the world. as cases surge here in the u.s. with more than 392,000 deaths, there is growing outrage among some governors who are saying they're not getting an increase
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in vaccine doses like they thought they'd been promised by the federal government. abc's trevor ault is at a vaccination site in new york city with the latest. trevor, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. even with megasites like this one now offering shots 24/7, we are still lagging far behind where we hoped to be with this vaccine rollout. the federal government was aiming to have 20 million first doses administered by the new year. we are still more than 7 million people behind that goal, more than two weeks later. this morning, americans' demand for vaccines is now greatly outpacing our available supply with millions hanging in the balance. >> i don't want to die of covid. it's that simple. i don't want to die of covid. >> reporter: multiple states now scaling back distribution plans they just ramped up. several governors accusing the trump administration of lying to them that 20 million more doses were about to become available. >> this is deception on a national scale.
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their empty promises are literally playing with people's lives. >> reporter: this week health and human services secretary alex azar had said the federal government was releasing the entire supply to states rather than holding second doses in reserve, but those second doses had already been shipping out for weeks. pfizer now saying in a statement "operation warp speed" has asked us to start shipping second doses only recently, adding they are working to ensure americans receive their first and second doses of the vaccine on time. but because of shortages new york's mt. sinai hospital canceling appointments friday through tuesday, and in texas, grandmother pat jones described her hunt for a shot as a 24-hour operation. >> as soon as you try to get into the site to register, it either crashed because of lo u thots. >> reporter: zohreen shah is in hard hit los angeles. >> california lags behind almost the entire country when it comes
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to vaccine distribution. only five states are doing worse. officials hoping that megasites like this one at dodger stadium will try to get shots into arms a lot faster. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden aiming to rapidly ramp up the manufacturing process saying he'll utilize fema and the defense production act to try to produce 100 million doses in 100 days, but he still warned we are in the midst of a dark winter. >> the honest truth is this, things will get worse before they get better. >> reporter: and part of the fuel for this dark winter ahead is that uk variant of the virus that's more contagious, it's now been detected in more than a dozen states, and the cdc is warning it could become the dominant strain in the u.s. by march. just another reason so many people say they cannot wait to get a vaccine. eva. ulfor , you. joinings now from chicago is dr. julia morita,
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the executive vice president of the robert wood johnson foundation and member of president-elect biden's task force on covid. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, eva. nice to see you. >> we heard trevor talk about this. the cdc is warning the highly contagious uk variant could become the predominant variant in the u.s. by march. how concerning is this, and what is the incoming administration's plans to deal with it? >> so the cdc report that was issued yesterday was looking at the one particular variant, the uk variant. there have been other variants that have been detected throughout the world and in the united states. what that model actually did was project out what -- how common or how prevalent would the virus strain be, and when would it be the predominant strain, and what they found is that it could be predominant as soon as in march. i think the key thing to focus in on is that there are things we know about this strain -- smte tt 's easier toy tc mas certain is how now and still treatments are affected by this variant and how the prevention
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vaccines, will they work as well and that work is being done right now to look into that. what we do know is that wearing masks, washing your hands, keeping socially distant from friends and family and then following isolation and quarantine recommendations from public health, those things all work as well as getting vaccinated and so those measures are critical right now and we need to continue to do those things. >> those same measures we keep hearing about. i also want to talk about, there's been some confusion about whether or not there are vaccines left in this federal reserve that can still be administered. do you know, are there more vaccine doses that can be distributed to the states or are we out of reserves at this point? >> so it's been an interesting week in terms of this information coming out. there was this false sense that there was a large stockpile of vaccine that was being held in reserve and that it was going to be released. however, the thing i would keep in mind is that, you know, we know that there's been 30
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million doses that have been distributed to states and locals and that of those, only about 11 million have actually been administered. so there's still another 19 million doses that remain that can be tapped into and, meanwhile, the manufacturers are producing additional vaccine. so i think the focus really should be on in terms of how do we make sure the vaccines that are distributed already are getting administered and the president-elect's american rescue plan outlines his plans, his administration's plans for how to make that happen. >> dr. morita, thank you so much for being on. and no question, this is a complicated process getting those vaccines into people's arms. so many people wanting them. thank you so much again. >> dan? >> incredible amount of urgency right now. let's check the weather now, rob marciano with a winter storm moving from the midwest into the east. rob, what's happening? >> hey, well, this thing started out on the west coast and has been with us all week long and still a very powerful system that's only expanding. these are some pictures out of iowa yesterday.
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blizzard conditions and that car completely covered in snow and stranded. you go into parts of southern minnesota, blizzard conditions there as well with wind whipped snow, over eight inches of snow being reported there and lincoln, nebraska, snow and ice and tractor trailers skidding off the highways. so dangerous weather conditions there. we're getting snow all the way down outside of nashville. winter weather advisories and a pretty good plume of moisture in the east coast. if you live anywhere in philly up through boston you're experiencing heavy rain in the last 12 hours, high winds across parts of the new england coast and there's the snow north of albany especially. we could see upwards of a foot in some spots and the high elevations and cold gusty winds coming behind it, 30 to 50 miles good saturday morning. unseasonably warm conditions today, tomorrow and including martin luther king on monday with records possible and then looking at increasing wind starting sunday night into tuesday evening.
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highs today from the upper 60s for our friends in oakland and san mateo and how about 70 in vallejo and 71 in san jose and the record heat in southern california and the winds are blowing. talk more about that in the next half hour. whit, over to you. >> we got the rain in new york city. not good for dan's toupee. droops down the side. the whole thing wilts. puts that double-sided tape to the test there. rob, we'll talk to you soon. thank you so much. big money still up for grabs here, those two giant lottery jackpots just keep growing and janai has all the details on that. janai, good morning. >> good morning. so overnight that $750 million jackpot goes through another drawing without a winner. the massive megamillions prize now growing to $850 million. that is the second largest jackpot in game history and you still have a chance to win when the next megamillions drawing happens this tuesday, but tonight, you could win big. americans are lining up for the powerball drawing. that's just hours away.
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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. >> i'm liz kreutz. one person detained. found chemicals commonly used to make bombs. a person living in an rv was
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detained last night. nearby residents remain evacuated. police say it was an isolated incident. officials were not able to give more information saying it's too early in the investigation. all right. let's get over to lisa argen for a check of the weather now. hey, lisa. >> a glassy looking day this morning. pretty calm out there. some fog in the 94th bay and 45 in san jose and 53 downtown and walnut creek nice and sunny and about 15 degrees above average today. 42 in napa and we're looking at mainly 60s and 70s today. some high clouds and even warmer tomorrow with an off shore flow. liz? >> lisa, thank you. thanks for joining us. the news
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♪ i'm still, i'm still jenny from the block ♪ ♪ used to have a little now i have a lot no matter where i did, we from the bronx, new york ♪ welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. almost one year after that unforgettable super bowl halftime performance. j. lo doing it again. coming up in "pop news" j. lo's new music video and inspiring words of wisdom. >> i love me some j.lo. >> i love me some too. she doesn't age. she's definitely goals. let's take a look at some other big stories we're following. happening right now the coronavirus claiming more than 2 million lives around the world as cases surge in the u.s. some governors are expressing outrage over the distribution of vaccines with the demand outpacing supplies. america logging 3 million new coronavirus cases since the
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start of the year with more than 100,000 cases every day since november 3rd. >> also happening right now, police in colorado are investigating denver broncos linebacker von miller. the broncos have issued a statement saying, we are aware of an investigation involving von miller and are in the process of gathering more information. charges have not been filed, and authorities have not established whether these unspecified accusations against miller have merit. and billionaire bill gates has a new title. he is now the largest farmland owner in the united states according to the land report. gates owns about 242,000 acres of farmland and nearly 27,000 acres of other land across 19 states. we start this half hour with the roundup of the rioters at the capitol. new arrests, plus the search for more suspects as we're learning about the close call for vice president mike pence. abc's andrew dymburt joins us with more from washington.
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good morning, andrew. >> reporter: and good morning, eva. we are learning chilling new details about last week's violent capitol siege including how close this mob got to vice president mike pence. pence had to run for cover with secret service just moments before the capitol was breached and as more suspects are charged for their role in these violent and deadly demonstrations, the nationwide manhunt for those who haven't been caught just yet is expanding. this morning, a dragnet from coast to coast, the department of justice now opening nearly 300 investigations related to the attack on capitol hill. >> a great bulk of those were misdemeanor cases but as the investigation continues, as the days and weeks progress, we're looking at more significant federal felony charges. >> reporter: federal law enforcement officials dropping the hammer down on some of the more visible alleged rioters including this horn-helmed face-painted spear-wielding man jacob chansley self-described as
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the qanon shaman for his ties to the right wing conspiracy platform. his attorney telling abc he felt like he was answering the call of president trump. >> he walked down constitution avenue and entered the capitol. he was there at the invitation of and request of our president. >> reporter: chansley allegedly leaving a note for vice president mike pence saying, it's only a matter of time, justice is coming. chansley's attorney reaching out to the white house about a possible presidential pardon. >> so when my client says to me, you know, look, i can't believe that he's -- i can't believe that he's turning his back on me and all of the others who were with me, and, when he suggests, give the president a chance to do the honorable thing and to pardon those of us that did nothing more than what he told us to do, you know what, we're going to do just that.stager, a pro-trump rioter from arkansas who investigators say beat an
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officer with an american flag. >> i think that's really the height of hypocrisy. that was beating an mpd officer with a flagpole and at the other end of that flagpole was attached the american flag. >> reporter: another officer injured, michael fanone, engulfed by this crowd outside the capitol. the officer says he was tased half a dozen times by rioters and suffered a mild heart attack that day. the sprawling investigation crossing multiple states and jurisdictions. prosecutors charging texas realtor jennifer ryan, who the fbi says traveled from texas to washington on a private jet and joined the angry pro-trump mob. according to court documents ryan posted her movements throughout that fateful day including this photo where she posed in front of a broken window at the capitol and threatened to come after news studios next. >> this is really a big deal inside the department of justice and so expect to see a lot of arrests in the coming weeks. >> reporter: meanwhile, for anyone who participated in the violence and desecration, a blunt warning from federal investigators. >> you might want to consider
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turning yourself in instead of wondering when we're going to come knocking on your door, because we will. >> reporter: as for the man who was photographed sitting down at house speaker nancy pelosi's desk during this riot, richard barnett, overnight a federal judge halting a plan to release barnett and put him on house arrest. the government noted wheenred ti carrying a stun device. dan? >> andrew dymburt, thank you very much. we're going to turn now to a surprise move by the national rifle association. the powerful lobbying group has filed for bankruptcy months after new york's attorney general sued the organization for what she alleges are questionable expenditures. abc's deidre bolton is here and on the story. deidre, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. so this suit is one of the biggest legal threats that the gun rights group has ever faced since its founding in new york in 1871. the new york a.g. is seeking to
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dissolve the nra for alleged corruption, misappropriation of funds, in fact, in the past letitia james has called the nra a, quote, terrorist organization. on the nra website wayne lapierre has his say he cites, a, quote, corrupt political regulatory government in new york and says, quote, we're dumping new york and pursuing plans to reincorporate in texas. in the past they have been credited or criticized with great sway in d.c., beating back repeated attempts for stricter laws in the wake of mass shootings such as the 2012 sandy hook school massacre in connecticut. at the heart of this new york state suit, money. the new york a.g. accuses wayne lapierre and three other leaders of fleecing the organization by diverting millions of the group's money for personal use. so the state says there are $64 million in losses, and each of the leaders needs to pay full restitution and penalties. on the website the nra says, quote, it's in its strongest
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financial condition in years. more specifically is not insolvent. so the group says within the next six months, it's going to reincorporate as a nonprofit in texas while leaving its headquarters in fairfax, virginia. whit? >> all right. deidre, thank you. let's get a check of the weather now and rob marciano. rob, a bit of a weather mixed bag depending where you are in the country. >> yeah. this time of year we can often get storminess in the east and in response to that some heat and fire conditions in the west. this is a fire out of thousand oaks, california, which was -- the forward progress was stopped but it was certainly a scary night with some brief evacuations there. this in response also or the effect of some record-breaking heat. camarillo, not too far from there. 94 degrees, san diego, 88. that's a january all-time record. but look at l.a.x. and burbank into the 90s. heat today again, winds gust to 60 miles per hour. low levels of humidity. so critical fire danger today. the winds will die down this afternoon but another storm
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coming in. this one will go more into canada. at least the core of it. heavy surf, 20-foot waves across parts of california. maybe 50-footers across the north shores of hawaii and then another wind event coming monday into tuesday potentially 50 hi, everyone. as we get into the weekend, it will stay very mild out there with perhaps some records arriving tomorrow into the holiday. near 70 today in san jose. this weather report has been sponsored by subaru crosstrek. rain about to come to an end in new york city. good news for dan's toupee. >> we're always happy the toupee is not flying. >> it's plastic so it's weather resistant. >> water repellant, nice. >> beaver pelt. >> thanks, rob. coming up on "good morning america," family members of the man fatally shot by police are speaking out. what they want from authorities. then talking to your children about the capitol hill riots. how to turn this into a teachable moment. .
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texas, fatally shot by police, patrick warren's family is speaking out for the first time about their call for help that turned deadly. and now they want the officer to be fired and charged. a ring doorbell camera captures the chaos and soon a family's heartache when the killeen, texas, police officer called to the home first used his stun device, then shot 52-year-old patrick warren sr. who family members said was in a mental crisis. >> my father was outside, and he was praising to the sky, you know, he was saying different things like hallelujah, but he was super loud. we couldn't get him inside and we're like, okay, something is going on. >> reporter: family members tell abc news after they called the city's mental health hotline, a lone police officer now identified as reynaldo contreras arrived at the scene. >> we had no idea they were sending out a police officer. >> reporter: in the video you can see contreras walk into the house.
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moments later he comes back out then warren comes out of his house, walks towards the officer waving his arms in the air. he appears unarmed. you can hear family members urging police not to shoot. >> hey, do not shoot him. do not shoot him. >> reporter: family and friends come into view as warren and the officer are moving away from the house. the shaky cell phone video captures what happens next. the sounds of the stun device followed by gunshots. >> hey, dad, sit down. sit down. sit down, please! no, i told you don't use a gun. >> reporter: the officer shot warren three times as his mother, wife and sons watched from the porch. >> this is one of the worst police officer involved shootings that i've ever seen. >> reporter: the family's attorney said the situation last sunday should not have ended this way. >> he showed up alone. he showed up untrained. he showed up hostile. all those things made for a deadly sort of cocktail, and
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this result could have completely been avoided. >> reporter: the department says officer contreras, a five-year veteran, has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation. >> i try to think of things to just keep busy so i don't know cuss on that it's hard to grieve when there's still an officer walking the streets that killed my father. >> local and state law enforcement officials in texas tell abc news the investigation is ongoing. according to the family's attorney, they are asking for that body camera footage to be released from the shooting. we are told the footage will not be released as evidence until it's been turned over to the bell county d.a. and the prosecutor's office. well, coming up on "good morning america," helping your kids understand the riots at the capitol. that's ahead in our "weekend download." he day, you could be missing out on amazing things. sunosi can help you stay awake for them. once daily sunosi improves wakefulness in adults with excessive daytime sleepiness due to obstructive sleep apnea.
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♪ in today's "weekend download," those frightening images from the capitol are difficult to process, especially for children. so with more now on how to talk to your kids about the violence that played out on our tvs is child psychologist and parenting expert reena patel. reena, good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i think many adults even are having a hard time making sense of what happened, what we saw. how do we explain this violence and the vandalism to our kids? >> it is important to have a conversation, a dialogue and just check in. first and foremost, we want to make sure if your child did witness images or hear conversations or anything that you make sure they feel safe. oftentimes children personalize what they have seen and so safety comes to mind and so you want to reassure them.
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find a safe place where they can talk to you about any concerns, any fears. it's also important to make sure that you are mindful of their developmental age. you want to make sure that you don't overdivulge information they weren't even thinking about. so first ask them what they saw, what they perceived, how they felt about it. that's really important. >> that is an important point. i've been surprised with how much my young kids have absorbed in all of this. but it's also important to talk about this because within the violent mob we saw a lot of symbols of hate and racism. how do we address those complicated issues? >> state the facts as simple as can be but address. validate what they saw. they are very cognizant of what it was. even teens are able to know that there was clearly a double standard. so talk about hate is never the option. talk about also using this as a teachable moment that, yes, you
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as of right now no permanent events at the state capitol through wednesday, but the fbi set up a command post in preparation. the fbi is working with the washington, d.c.'s headquarters to investigate and identify anyone who took part in the ina instit mayaveomo. day with a weekend packed with virtual events. stanford university will hold 20 documentary showings, musical performances and discussions from now through monday. events are free and preregistration is required. and on monday, san francisco's museum of the african will hold online events starting at noon. those will include story telling, story telling, poetry and more. lisa, it feels like spring or summer right now. >> i know. very unusual. not what we want for january but our seven-day outlook is looking better and more seasonal. we look live right now. sunny, mild san francisco and 46
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good morning, america. it's our second hour. happening right now, the nation's capital readying for the inauguration amid serious security concerns. the fbi worried about the threat of improvised explosive devices on january 20th. what we're learning with just days to go until the inauguration. the trump administration's final days. president trump refusing to attend president-elect biden's inauguration. sources telling us about trump's big plans for his own sendoff as the nation prepares for another impeachment trial. the latest as the transition of power nears. hrush archemyan, the 33-year-old makeup artist to celebrity clients like the

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