good morning, america. stunning report. "the new york times" citing unnamed sources reporting donald trump allegedly discussed removing acting attorney general jeffrey rosen in order to execute a plan to overturn the election while he was still in office. the witnesses that could now be called as the date is set for trump's impeachment trial. emergency relief. president biden's executive orders. >> we're in a national emergency. we need to act like we're in a national emergency. >> his program to help feed hard-hit families and the efforts to ramp up vaccine distribution. can he deliver? as we get alarming news about that highly contagious uk variant. white house deputy press secretary karine jean-pierre joins us live.

winter blast. storms from coast to coast, heavy snow in the forecast. who will get hit and the bone-chilling temperatures for the northeast. our weather team tracking it all. breaking news, remembering larry king. the tv and radio host passing away at the age of 87. the legendary broadcaster conducting tens of thousands of interviews with everyone from actors to comedians to presidents. >> you still like this job? >> this is the best job on earth. >> the highlights from an outstanding career. and billion dollar ticket. a winner overnight in the megamillions drawing. where that ticket was sold. are you america's newest billionaire? good morning. president trump may have left office, but he is still making headlines this morning. >> the latest news. a "new york times" report that says trump is reportedly being

accused of discussing plans th jtice deptmt ofcial to overt election. also overnight, we are learning of the start date for former president trump's impeachment trial over the insurrection at the capitol. abc's alex presha is on capitol hill with the very latest. alex, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, guys. "the new york times" says this news left top justice department officials in stunned silence. now, the doj isn't commenting, but a source familiar tells abc news that there is currently no plan from the doj to push back against any aspect of the report. this morning, the date is set. senate majority leader chuck schumer saying former president trump's second impeachment trial will begin the week of february 8th, more than one month after that violent insurrection on the capitol. and new overnight, the former president is now being accused of discussing a plan with a justice department official to overturn the election while he

was still in office. in a stunning report by "the new york times," citing unnamed sources, trump allegedly discussed removing acting attorney general jeffrey rosen in order to execute a plan to pressure georgia officials to flip the state's presidential election results. the man who allegedly worked on the plan according to "the times," lawyer jeffrey clark. the report claims trump mulled over whether to fire the acting ag and replace him with clark because rosen refused trump's request to use the doj to overturn the election. according to "the times," trump decided against firing rosen only after top justice officials threatened mass resignations. in the report clark says this account is inaccurate. trump declined to comment. but this report may impact his upcoming impeachment trial. democrats could even call rosen and clark as witnesses. >> it will be soon. i don't think it will be long, but we must do it. that's our responsibility, to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi says she'll send over the article of impeachment on monday.

according to the constitution, the senate trial will begin at 1:00 p.m. the next day. senators will still be sworn in as jurors on tuesday, but both sides are going to be given two weeks to prepare, something minority leader mitch mcconnell had lobbied for on behalf of the trump team. this also helps democrats as the senate can use the time to work on other business like biden's cabinet confirmations. two have been confirmed so far or his $1.9 trillion economic rescue package. meanwhile, the dragnet around those rioters on capitol hill continues to close. scott fairland, the new jersey man seen allegedly punching a capitol police officer arrested friday. and then the new court documents show tties h aarsenal stockpiled. the fbi saying that agents discovered it during a raid of his nashville home. eva? >> alex, thank you for that report. now to president biden focusing on the economy during his second full day in office saying, we cannot and will not let people go hungry. the president also ready to ramp up testing and distribution of

covid-19 shots along with a 2 -- almost $2 trillion economic stimulus package. abc's andrew dymburt joins us with more. good morning, andrew. >> reporter: good morning, eva. these are just some of president biden's major legislative pushes in his first couple of days in office and his covid-19 proposal, if it passes, it would be one of the largest and most expensive economic relief deals in u.s. history. with a burst of executive orders -- >> the first one is the economic relief related to covid-19. >> reporter: -- president joe biden's battle plan takes shape signing more than 30 actions in his first three days in office, biden is blazing the trail for his agenda highlighted by the dire situation for millions of americans reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. >> we're in a national emergency. we need to act like we're in a national emergency. so we've got to move with everything we've got, and we've got to do it together. >> reporter: he's asking americans to mask up for 100 days, his first 100 days in

office, and is launching a covid-19 pandemic board to boost testing with the goal of making 100 million shots available in those first 100 days. >> we want to set our own markers and markers for the american public so that they know we're meeting our goal. if we surpass that, that's great. >> reporter: the 46th president of the united states is also making clear what he wants from congress. with both chambers in the democrats' control, biden is calling for another sweeping economic stimulus package in the range of $2 trillion. it would include another round of direct stimulus payments to most americans, this time to the tune of $1,400. >> $600, which was already passed, is simply not enough. >> reporter: he's also calling for extended employment benefits, more money for small businesses and $160 billion for vaccine distribution and testing. >> we have the tools to get this virus under control and our economy back on track. >> reporter: so far president biden has signed two actions including a food assistance program to help feed hard hit

families and an order requiring federal contractors to pay their workers a new minimum wage of $15 an hour. with the stroke of a pen, biden also undoing several trump era initiatives like halting the controversial keystone pipeline, and after championing unity during his inaugural address, republicans seizing those trump rollbacks as partisan politics. >> this is literally going down the wish list of the far left and checking all them off. >> reporter: and the white house also says it's hopeful that the senate impeachment trial of president trump will not delay any more senate confirmation hearings for some of joe biden's cabinet picks or stall those covid-19 relief negotiations. dan? >> so many open questions. thank you very much. let's turn now to the pandemic. in the first three weeks of 2021 more than 4.5 million cases have been reported in the united states with nearly 64,000

confirmed covid-related deaths. but there is a positive sign with hospitalizations in 24 states down more than 10% from last week. abc's adrienne bankert is at the javits center right here in new york city with the latest. adrienne, good morning to you. >> reporter: yes, good morning to you, dan. that certainly is some good news, something to smile about on the positive side, but there's a lot of anxiety surrounding those eager to get a vaccine if they can even get an appointment. this morning, there are some new concerns over global access to the coronavirus vaccines as uk prime minister boris johnson says the uk variant of covid-19 could be even more deadly. >> it appears that there is some evidence that the new variant may be associated with a higher degree of mortality. >> reporter: that data is preliminary, and experts are h e ill appears an to work against, but it's hitting close to home. new jersey is the latest state to confirm new cases of the mutation. here in the u.s., january is on

track to become the worst month for both daily cases and reported deaths. >> i'd be lying if i said that it was okay. it's been a very hard year, especially the last few months as things continue to ramp up, emotionally. >> reporter: but getting the vaccine is still a waiting game. >> we have so many people that are lined up. you got to get into the local area and find out what's going on here. what's wrong? let's try and fix it. >> reporter: this six flags in california turned into a vaccination site with a goal of treating at least 4,000 people a day. in florida, dina's appointment for her 86-year-old mother was canceled. she was told that doctors simply ran out of the vaccine. >> i started crying. i said, i'm going to have to go through this whole process again. >> for me to not get this vaccine in time to continue to work and feel safe, it's very disappointing. >> reporter: city and state leaders are frustrated desperately trying to meet the demand.

>> we need more vaccine, and we need it now. >> we can't give you a vaccine shot if we don't have the vaccines, can we? >> reporter: government officials tell abc news that help is on the way. they're receiving about 10 million doses a week between pfizer and moderna, and that's not including the potential approval of that single dose vaccine from johnson & johnson. and, remember, right now the only vaccine available requires two doses. the cdc has issued new guidance saying that you can wait up to six weeks between those doses and as a last resort you can actually switch brands. whit? >> very important as a last resort, as you said, adrienne there, thank you so much. joining us now is white house deputy press secretary karine jean-pierre. karine, thank you so much for being with us for the first time in your new role. we do appreciate it. and we have a lot to cover so i want to jump right to it and the pandemic here. governors across the country, they're begging for more vaccine. we've heard president biden promise to invoke the defense production act to help speed up the rollout. but what specifically will the

administration do right away to increase the supply of vaccines? >> it's such a good question, and thank you so much for having me. look, the president understands that there is no time to waste, and he has taken action. he took action on day one, which is what he promised the american people during the campaign, during the transition and has been very honest about the challenges ahead, and so what he has done on day one, he signed 15 executive orders, executive actions, and one of them -- and many of them is dealing with covid on day one, and then he signed many others the last two days, almost 30, more than 30. and so many of them deal with covid, making sure that taking action on wearing masks, the hundred day -- asking folks to wear a mask for a hundred days. taking action on vaccines, taking action on the economy, on equity, on climate. and so we are dealing with multiple crises, and those are the ways that we need to move forward. but vaccine distribution, as your last story just laid out,

is so critical. it's so important, and that is part of the american rescue plan that he has, that he's put forward to congress to make sure we get on top of that as well. >> you laid out a number -- >> you know, when you think about -- yeah. >> forgive me. i'm sorry. there's a bit of a delay there. you laid out a few things, but we're focused on the supply. i do want to transition to this, though, because biden has promised 100 million shots in his first 100 days. that may have been ambitious a month ago, but many health experts argue that that's still not good enough, especially as new variants spread across the country. will the president pledge to increase that goal? >> so here's the thing, i mean, when we first laid out that plan, people said it was ambitious. people said it was, you know, it was a difficult thing to do, and if you look back in history, no other country in the world has ever done this, tried to do 100 million vaccines in a hundred days. so this is unprecedented within

itself, and not only do we have to do that and we're saying that we're going to do that and we will is that we have a harder lift, which is now we have to go into the communities. when the trump administration started, they were -- they did it in the hospitals and nursing homes where there was majority of the population. now we have to go out there and meet people where they are. so this is already a big haul that we're trying to do, and we're going to get there and so -- and we have promised the american people. you were asking me about, you know, getting vaccines out there. yes, you know, he signed the dpa and that went into action yesterday, and we want to make sure that we have the materials so that the vaccines can get out there. so that is another way that we're trying to move as an administration that the president is leading on. so there are many ways that we have seen in the past week that president biden has taken covid very seriously and understands

that we cannot waste any more time, and as a government we need to act now. >> i do have to move to another important question here. leaders in the senate agreed to delay the impeachment trial of former president trump for about two weeks. is that enough time to install president biden's cabinet picks, and, more importantly, to most struggling americans out there pass his massive covid relief bill? >> so, as you just said, the president's priority is making sure that we take care of the american people. he leaves impeachment to the legislative branch. that is -- they will decide that. they will decide how quickly to move with that and how swiftly, whatever it is that they want to do on that side. his focus is making sure that the other priorities that you just mentioned are done, and here's the thing, there's a precedent here. you know, congress is able to walk and chew gum at the same time, and we saw two of our cabinet nominees get confirmed this week, so we're really excited about that. more to come next week. so that is moving.

but we have to get to work for the american people, and that's what this president did on day one, day two and day three and will continue to do that because we are in multiple crises that we have to deal with right now. we can't wait two weeks from now. we can't wait three months from now. we have to deal with all of this right now. >> but do you think you can get it done, the covid relief bill, before the impeachment trial? >> well, we're going to try to do the best that we can, right? we are listening. we are talking to people. and here's the thing, the recovery -- the plan that we have put forth to congress, it wasn't, you know, the number that we put, the plan -- it wasn't taken out of the blue sky, right? this is something that we looked at the scope of the problem, and we put together a plan that addresses the moment that we're in, and this is not a partisan issue, right? this is not -- you know, speeding up vaccine is not a partisan issue. getting kids back to school is not a partisan issue.

you know, we've heard mitch mcconnell last month talk about how getting vaccine is incredibly urgent. marco rubio, senator rubio, sent a letter to the president saying $2,000 -- giving the american people $2,000 incredibly important. senator hawley said the same, $2,000 is needed. so we have heard from many people, from bernie sanders to the commerce, the chamber of commerce, and they are -- they have supported this plan. so there is bipartisan support, and we just have to continue to move. >> karine jean-pierre, thank you for your time this morning. we do appreciate it. dan, over to you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> whit, thank you. breaking news, a family member has confirmed to us that television and radio host larry king has passed away at the age of 87. the cause of death is unknown. his production company has posted on twitter that king always believed his interview subjects as the true stars of his programs.

amy robach takes a look back now at larry king's legacy. >> thank you. and instead of good-bye, how about so long? >> reporter: larry king was the reigning king of the television interview. since he first sat down behind the cnn desk in 1985. >> good evening. my name is larry king and this is the premiere edition of "larry king live." >> reporter: he took on all comers from hollywood's biggest stars. >> they didn't cancel you. you canceled them. >> you're not aware of this? >> reporter: to decades of world leaders. >> first you still like this job. >> this is the best job on earth. i mean, it's an extraordinary privilege. >> reporter: but it was his signature dry wit and unflappability that brought some of his most memorable moments including his now infamous interview with marlon brando. ♪ got a date with an angel ♪ >> you're off key. >> reporter: when he signed off after 25 years and more than 50,000 interviews --

>> good evening. and welcome to the last "larry king live." it's hard to say that. >> reporter: born in brooklyn, he started in radio before becoming a fixture on american tv where he set a guinness world record for longest running show in the same time slot on the same network. >> the guinness book of world records determined you logged more hours on national radio than any other talk show host and that between radio and tv you've interviewed over 30,000 people. >> that's probably right. they really stick you on these things. >> reporter: off screen he became notorious for his many i dos marrying eight times to seven women. his final and longest marriage to shaun king amid a legendary broadcasting career, king battling a number of health issue, a heart attack, lung and prostate cancer, even a near fatal stroke that left him in a coma for two weeks in 2019. >> i'm on the mend and for someone 86 to have gone through

all the things i've gone through, i can't believe i'm around. >> reporter: king's family says he was hospitalized just days after christmas passing away overnight at the age of 87. >> our thanks to amy robach. larry king a towering figure in this business and an influence on so many of us. eva, over to you. >> let's check in with rob marciano. >> hey, good morning, eva. getting more active in the winter weather department. here is lake-effect snow across rochester. eight inches falling and saw some skidding of trucks and such. windchills are well below where they have been the past few days. not just this morning but tomorrow morning as well might be even colder and this sets the stage for the potential of seeing some snow with one of several storms coming into the west coast. here's one coming into southern california. they do need the rain. they'll get a little today. intermountain west, moisture into minneapolis and des moines and ahead of it the big chunk will bring energy across parts

of texas for severe weather you can see gets itself t santa cruz this morning, chilly, but this afternoon in the 50s. a lot of sunshine on the way. patchy fog to start for some of our inland valleys, but with the sunshine today it's our only dry day. we will see breaks before we get into the very heavy rain coming mid week. but overall, we've got a pretty wet week ahead. look for numbers in the upper 50s today for fremont. sunny in san jose. the accuweather seven-day fo i didn't win the powerball. i know you guys didn't either. back to you. all right, now to the billion dollar winner scoring the second largest jackpot in megamillions history. abc's zohreen shah has more. >> reporter: this morning, one american is $1 billion richer. the winning megamillions jackpot ticket sold in michigan, the third largest prize in lotto

history. >> our first winning number tonight is 42. >> reporter: those magic 42, 26, 60, 50, 4 and the mega ball, 24. now the search is on for the winner of a prize that has steadily grown since the last winning ticket was sold in september and whoever the winner is, they're joining a very exclusive club with someone in a small maryland town. that person won powerball this week and are now also worth over $731 million. the store that sold that winning ticket, coney market, is getting a lot of recognition. >> it's been crazy. i never thought in a million years that would ever happen to us, especially in this small town. >> reporter: but the big winner might not. maryland is one of the few states where winners can keep their identity a secret, leading to a lot of speculation. still, the man who sold that powerball ticket is getting a piece of the action, $100,000 and says he's going to share that money with his employees. >> my employees are going to benefit from it. i'm going to give them some of

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who is lenin? >> that is correct. welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. in a very rare and tense moment, two "jeopardy!" contestants had to face off in a winner take all one question tiebreaker round after they both finished final jeopardy in a tie. in the end three-day champ brian chang buzzed in first with the correct answer. pretty intense. kind of like our hometown trivia, right? >> not recently. >> stakes are just as high, yeah. let's take a look at some of the other big stories we're following this morning. happening right now, alarming news about the highly contagious coronavirus variant from the uk. as states here in the u.s. struggle to meet the vaccine demand, early evidence showing that uk variant, which has been spreading through the united states, could be more deadly. this as january is on track to

become the deadliest month on record for americans. also right now, three grand jurors in the breonna taylor case have filed a petition calling for the impeachment of kentucky attorney general daniel cameron claiming he withheld information. their attorney claims cameron -- and i'm quoting here -- knowingly and intentionally lied to the public about what information was presented to the grand jury to, quote, satisfy his political ambitions. and talk about bringing down the house. a slam dunk, watch this. look at that during a high school basketball game. >> whoa. >> that's in birmingham, alabama. causes the whole board to come crashing onto the court. fortunately no one was hurt. the two teams say that they'll play the final four minutes of the game next thursday. >> so was it a monster dunk or poor engineering? >> maybe a little bit of both. >> maybe a little bit of both. we're going to start this half hour with the alarming number showing how covid

cases are affecting american children and the concerns about long-term effects. abc's janai norman has more. >> reporter: this morning, growing concern for parents and pediatricians as a record number of kids are contracting covid-19. a new report showing 211,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus the week of january 14th, more than any other week since the pandemic began. and already this month cases in kids surging by 18% to more than 2.5 million. >> the trends that we're seeing in children really do mirror the trends that we're seeing in communities. >> reporter: severe illness for children is still rare, and doctors admit there's still so much they don't know about the long-term effects of the virus. that's an uncertainty 13-year-old maggie flannery lives with. her entire family got covid last spring, and while her parents and two older brothers all quickly recovered, maggie is still dealing with symptoms, what's being called long covid nearly a year later. >> i was scared because they kept telling me that i was going

to get better. >> ten months after these first initial symptoms, what is it like for you now? how do you feel? >> very lightheaded. my appetite has definitely decreased. >> yeah. and your chest. >> and my chest pain is always there, and i like have trouble taking a deep breath. >> reporter: now doctors fear that as covid cases continue to rise, there will also be an uptick in multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare but serious complication that causes inflammation in children with covid. >> the last thing we want is for children to be ill with other things in the midst of this. so it's very important to get back to your pediatrician. if you haven't had your regular checkup, make sure you get that appointment scheduled. >> reporter: and the concern sy

infection. doctors say cases usually show up about three to six weeks later and they're preparing for that now following the holiday surge in covid cases. eva? >> janai, thank you for that report. let's bring in governor jared polis from colorado. i want to get your reaction to janai's report on how covid is affecting children. with the highest number of covid cases among children being reported since the pandemic began, will that be affecting your policy specifically about schools? >> well, it comes as no surprise. i think we learned one thing about covid over the last is that it can affect everybody in unpredictable ways. certainly the highest fatality rate, the highest hospitalization rates are older people over the age of 70, over the age of 60. in fact, if you're over the age of 70, you have about a 500 times likelihood of dying from coronavirus than if you're in your 20s. that being said we've lost young people here in colorado as well as across the united states and the world. we lost an 18-year-old just in the last week to covid. >> i know teachers aren't slated to get vaccines in your state until march 1st.

is that a potential plan to move that up to deal with this since we are hearing more about kids getting covid? >> we certainly hope we get more vaccine that allows it to happen sooner. currently colorado is in the phase where everybody over 70 is eligible. we are about a third or more through that population of people over 70 and, yes, we hope to complete that by the end of february. if the vaccine quantities increase coming to our state, we hope to be able to complete that sooner and move on to additional people. >> and speaking of the vaccine, you've been pretty vocal that you need more vaccines for people. there are reports that some seniors are waiting weeks to get their vaccine. kind of level with us right now. where does that situation stand? >> yeah, just to put it in perspective, the vaccines are going out pro rata based on population to every state in the country. a state like colorado, which has about 5.7 million people, is only getting about 83,000 vaccines next week, and so that would be the same proportion for any other state, and you can

just do the simple math. it'll take quite a while till you reach everybody at that rate. so we really have to pick up the pace and i'm hopeful the biden administration will really lean on the vaccine manufacturers to accelerate the delivery of the vaccine. >> and you mentioned the biden administration. what do you need from them? >> yeah, well, so far they're taking a few steps that help a bit. it affects the reimbursement for the work that we do with the national guard, shipping vaccines and testing and some additional reimbursement for testing. so that will help. i think the most important thing right now to actually end the pandemic is to accelerate the delivery of the vaccine. that means leaning on pfizer and moderna to get more out quicker and hopefully moving soon to approve additional weapons in our arsenal like the johnson & johnson and astrazeneca vaccines. >> governor, wishing you the best of luck as you try to get that vaccine distributed in your state. thank you for your time. whit? >> everybody eager to get that supply up and running. and more across the country. we do turn to the weather. rob marciano with more on that, rob, good morning once again. >> hey, good morning, whit.

we go to your home state where the action is going to be for really the rest of this week as these storms go coast to coast, this igrpel. this is the indication of a cold core low that is sneaking into southern california. here's utah. brighton ski resort seeing over a foot of snow. a bit of a slow start for the intermountain west but you're about to catch up here as we go through time. this storm coming into the northwest and dropping down into the southwest. locally ten inches of snow at the higher elevations as this gets into parts of the four corners, the san juans as well. and then another behind that and then another one comes in wednesday into thursday. that one is really going to slam the sierras, could several feet of snow there, maybe four to seven inches of rain across los angeles. we do need the rain here. too much obviously at one time is not a good thing so we'll be watching this and a lot will go to the east coast as well where we here have a chance for snow especially good morning clear here in

the south bay and we do have fog in our north and east bay valleys. temperatures are cooler and will look for a sunny but cool afternoon. clouds increase totototototototo don't want to forget our friends in chicago. they have a good chance of seeing maybe half a foot of snow here in the coming days. this weathercast sponsored by voltaren. back to you in the other studio. >> i'm just looking at the word graupel that you used before. >> yeah. >> i thought it was something you use to fix things around the house, but it's soft hail or snow pellets. >> oh, you did a little googling. i'm impressed. >> worked the google on the internet machine. >> i'm trying to sneak meteorologists. >> yeah, amazing. >> you impress me, dan. >> we'll talk high thin cirrus clouds after the break. thank you, robert. appreciate it. coming up on "gma," mask mandate. how president biden's new executive order will affect your travel plans. and remembering hammerin' hank aaron who the baseball great credited for helping him chase his dreams. >> he did it! chase his dreams.

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welcome back to "gma" and the changes in travel coming to planes, trains and buses. president biden mandating masks for interstate travelers in a

nationwide approach towards beating the pandemic, and abc's gio benitez joins us from newark liberty airport with what all that means for you as you're traveling out there. gio, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning to you. yeah, u.s. airlines have banned more than 3,000 people for not wearing a mask, but these were policies that the companies had to come up with on their own. now the feds are stepping in, and that means violators could face some serious consequences. this morning, new travel rules are on the way following president biden's wide-ranging executive order. for the first time since the pandemic began, the federal government will mandate mask wearing on planes, trains, buses and at airports. >> it's been 273 days since our union afacwa called for a national mask mandate for passengers and crew. >> reporter: taylor garland is with america's largest flight attendants union, which has been begging for such a measure. why is it so important to have a

federal mask mandate? >> there is a difference when we are able to say to passengers, this is a federal law, or this is a federal mandate. it carries much more weight than the airline's policy. it has escalated into physical altercations between passengers and flight attendants. >> reporter: the calls for a federal mandate intensified after incidents like these were caught on camera. >> this is insane. absolutely insane. so we don't even have a choice anymore. >> reporter: some passengers refusing to comply with airline mask rules saying it wasn't the law. >> i'm just being told this is the law, but it's not the law. >> this is what american follows. if you do not wear a mask, we're going to ask you to come off the aircraft. >> reporter: now word the order will restrict who can come into the country, saying all international passengers must first produce a negative covid test before flying into the u.s. now, we don't know just yet when these new policies will be put

into effect or how they will be enforced. meanwhile, in other airline news, united's ceo scott kirby saying this week that he wants united and other companies to mandate vaccines for all employees, that is, if they can figure out all of the logistical challenges. clearly a lot going on in the travel space right now, guys. >> a lot of changes too. gio, thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up here on "good morning america," tributes pour in as we remember baseball legend hank aaron. morning america," tributes pour in as we remember baseball legend hank aaron. apnea and yd during the 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. sunosi worked for up to nine hours at 12 weeks in a clinical study. sunosi does not treat the cause of osa or take the place of your cpap. continue to use any treatments or devices as prescribed by your doctor. don't take sunosi if you've taken an maoi in the last 14 days.

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back now on "gma" as we celebrate the life of civil rights legend, humanitarian and hall of famer hank aaron. fans, players and even

presidents among those remembering the baseball great for his work on and off the field. abc's elwyn lopez has more. >> high fly to the deep left center field. buckner goes back to the fence. it is gone! >> reporter: a nation mourning the loss of home run king hank aaron, a man who was far more than a sports legend. growing up in mobile, alabama, during the great depression. as a young boy, the american icon taught himself how to play baseball during the great depression. he hit bottle caps with sticks and made bats out of tree limbs. >> my uncle helped me chase my dream. i remember i combed his hair, and he said if you comb it 100 times, i will throw 100 baseballs to you. >> reporter: and those throws got him into the negro leagues. the legend speaking with our alex presha last year. >> i played with some ball players that knew how to play the game, and they taught me an awful lot, and i took it upon myself to learn all that i

could. >> reporter: then on to the majors with the braves. breaking babe ruth's home run record in 1974. >> a black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. >> reporter: but aaron acknowledged it was an uphill battle dogged by racist hate mail and death threats. >> i received so many letters. the ones that i opened started out by being very hateful and spiteful. >> reporter: through it all becoming an advocate for civil rights and co-founding the hank aaron chasing the dream foundation. now an outpouring of support from former presidents jimmy carter and barack obama to fellow hall-of-famers. but the legacy he leaves behind is far from over. take a look at where we're standing. this is an empty parking lot. it used to be the stadium where he made history. now all that's left is this outfield wall where he hit that 715th home run still standing

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