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good morning, america. calls for a justice department investigation. senate majority leader chuck schumer making the demand after a "new york times" report detailing donald trump's alleged attempt to overturn the election as trump heads toward his second impeachment trial. one of the house members who will prosecute him, congressman eric swalw alarming spread. the concerns about the new covid-19 variants seen across the country. the struggles to get vaccination appointments. >> the fact of the matter is, what good is a vaccine if it doesn't get into people's arms? >> as several governors now urge the federal government to step up distribution. plus, dr. jha here to answer your questions about those variants. the tributes to larry king.
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>> good evening whose six-decade career landed him in the guinness book of world records. people. >> his broadcasting highlights and his lasting legacy. hazardous weather from coast to coast. three different storm systems setting up a turbulent week ahead. our weather team tracking this extremely active weather pattern already causing accidents. and championship sunday. the showdowns that will determine who will go to the super bowl. is patrick mahomes 100%? live mnibrady do it again? the next stage in donald trump's
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unprecedented second impeachment is a formal one. the house sends to the senate the accusation against trump. the single article of impeachment accuses trump of inciting the insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 6th, that step is expected tomorrow with the trial starting two weeks later. >> now in a moment, we'll speak live with one of the nine democratic members of congress who will prosecute the former president, california's eric swalwell right there, is a former district attorney in that state, and we'll ask him about the scope of the case and potential witnesses. meanwhile overnight in what may be a sign of the battles to come within the republican party, the arizona gop voted to censure three big-name republicans for failing to show enough loyalty to the former president. those republicans include the governor of arizona, doug ducey, former senator jeff flake and cindy mccain the widow of john mccain. she notably endorsed joe biden for president.
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we begin our coverage right here this morning with abc's rachel scott who's at the u.s. senate where that second impeachment trial will be held. rachel, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, good morning. the senate is now barrelling toward that impeachment trial. the article will be handed over to the senate tomorrow, but as former president donald trump prepares his defense, new reporting may only damage his case. this morning, as the house prepares to der veliatars e thae justice department to investigate former president donald trump. senator chuck schumer outraged over this "new york times" report. detailing another attempt to overturn the election. trump's alleged plot to remove the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and replace him with a trump loyalist who, according to "the new york times," could try to help toss out votes in georgia. >> manipulate the department of justice, which is supposed to be the independent legal watchdog for country, is just appalling. >> schumer calling it unconsconable and overnight,
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another report from "the wall street journal" saying trump also tried to push the justice department to file its own lawsuit against the states directly in the supreme court, something that his appointees trump's team didn't address those specific allegations. he's now headed towards his second impeachment trial. charged with incitement of insurrection after telling his supporters to march to the capitol. >> we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: what happened next was chaos. mobs storming the building from all sides. five dead. some saying they felt called to action by trump. >> i thought i was following my president, i thought i was following what we were called to do. >> reporter: now federal prosecutors charging a texas man who posted this selfie after
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breaking into the capitol. authorities say his name is garret miller, threatened to kill congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> i thought i was going to die. i did not know if i was going to make it to the end of that day alive. >> reporter: so let's lay out that timeline. you'll see that article of impeachment tomorrow. be handed over the senate. on tuesday, senators will be sworn in as jurors but the trial won't start for another two weeks. we're looking at the week of february 8th, this is a delay that both sides agreed to. february 8th, and this is a delay that both sides agreed to. republicans say this gives former president donald trump more time to prepare his case, whit. >> rachel scott at the capitol for us. thank you. joining us now is one of the nine house members that will prosecute former president donald trump in his second impeachment trial. representative eric swalwell of california, congressman, good morning to you. we just mentioned those reports from "the new york times" former president trump allegedly trying to remove the acting attorney general in an effort to overturn the election.
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how much will that factor into your case and your strategy? >> it's such critical evidence, whit. it goes to his motive to stay in power, his intent to do that to call his supporters to radicalize his supporters at all costs, and it also shows that the january 6th rally, well, that's were invited, inflamed, incited. it was not a heat of passion crime that this was a big lie that had been propagated by the president. this was not a slip of the tongue. he knew exactly what he was doing and the outcome was deadly. >> so on that, you've said that this wasn't a crime of passion, are you suggesting that president trump's actions were premeditated in some way? >> well, the evidence will show that for months he had told his supporters that the election was stolen from him, he called them his cavalry, he said coming there on the 6th would be wild, and while they assembled, and he
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knew attacks on the statehouse, his supporters when called show up armed, they bring the maga hats and the militia gear, and the maga gear. he had foreknowledge of what they would do if they were summoned. he even suggested that he would go up there with them. yes, he knew exactly what he was doing. >> now, if we hear from witnesses in the trial, who would you like to see testify and could that include former president trump? >> well, the senate sets the rules on witnesses. i'm not going to reveal our witness list just yet. but unlike any trial that has ever occurred any time in history, the jurors here are witnesses. the jurors here are victims. the jurors here ran for their lives, told their family members they didn't know if they would be coming home. desks ransacked by these terrorists, and other parts of
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the capitol desecrated. >> but what about the president and some of his family members? >> well, you know, look, i'll leave that to our impeachment team. we're still getting ready for the case -- we're ready, but we're waiting to see what the senate rules will allow. the president's words are well, well known and his posts, his retweeting, at one time he re-tweeted over the summer the best democrat is a dead democrat. he has called for violence for so often. it's also important what he didn't do. once this attack happened, hours passed before he intervened. and called for it to stop. >> president biden has called unity, repeatedly. many republicans say this impeachment will accomplish the exact opposite. how much do you worry this will only further divide this country? >> we absolutely need unity in our country, but unity also means that as president biden said at his
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inaugural, enough of us are able to come together for all of us. unity doesn't mean the inciter in chief. who commanded them to do so. we need to have accountability. we need to deter a future president from doing this. and we need to disqualify the r moacho led to these disdain events being in motion. that's unity, having an accounting and having justice before we have peace. >> on the topic of unity, some house republicans joined democrats to vote for impeachment. in the senate you need 17 republicans to get onboard to get a conviction. how likely is that to happen? >> you know, we don't look at it that way. we need two-thirds of the chamber to get a conviction. but we're not breaking it down, democrats or republicans. we think these are american citizens, who were attacked by their own citizens, by their own president who incited them. so we hope that they take their oath seriously, the oath that the president didn't take. we believe we can secure a conviction here. >> congressman swalwell, thank you for your time this morning. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thank you.
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>> eva, over to you. now to the pandemic, the efforts to vaccinate the nation appearing to make some headway, the u.s. passing the milestone 20 million covid vaccine doses administered. "operation warp speed" initially setting that goal in 2020. that didn't happen. this morning, there are still frustrations over getting the vaccine and distribution. abc's trevor ault joins us with the latest. good morning to you, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, eva. you know, it has been a grueling stretch since thanksgiving with just about every coronavirus metric skyrocketing. this week, the holiday surge finally starting to cool off, we did see cases, hospitalizations, and deaths begin to fall but they are still at woringly hi-- worringly high levels. this morning, coronavirus trends nationwide starting to dip in the right direction. but several states are still seeing the virus spread at an alarming rates.
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in california, a dozen mortuaries were too busy to take her father's body. she was shaken by the hospital rooms packed with people just like her father. >> these are people that are working to sustain their family and they're here in the icu units with ventilators and tubes up their noses because they can't breathe. >> reporter: and we fight to contain the virus, it continues to mutate and spread. the uk variant of covid-19 now detected in at least 13 states and overnight, the university of michigan halting all athletic activities for 14 days following positive tests for that uk mutation, and scientists in ohio saying that a u.s. variant has been circulating since may, and researchers in california say a newly identified strain has been found in more than a third of the cases in los angeles. >> we need to vaccinate enough people to reach herd immunity before the viral variants mutate and are able to invade vaccine-induced immunity.
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>> reporter: many areas still fighting through a stunted vaccine rollout, some sites seeing hours-long wait times. this couple have struggled to even get an appointment. only to see that appointment canceled. >> the fact of the matter is, what good is vaccine if it doesn't get into people's arms? >> reporter: multiple states say they're churning through their available doses and several governors are now urging the federal government to step up distribution. >> this shouldn't be the hunger games like it was with ppe, right, that was ridiculous. and we all had to play that game. >> reporter: now local news outlets are reporting wealthier zip codes like some in miami-dade or dallas counti, are also some of the most a disproportionately large amount of the vaccine. many of the people lucky enough to get the shot are trying to urge others to follow their lead. 70-year-old shirley kemp received her first dose this week in florida. she hopes to inspire other seniors to sign up, too. >> get up, it's for you. nion.
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>> and the biden administration is sticking with its goal to manufacture 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days, though some questions as to whether even that will be enough. regardless, the u.s. will have to pick up the pace of administering these shots if life is going to return to normal this year. dan? >> that's so crucial. trevor, thank you so much. let's bring in political analyst, matthew dowd, who will be part of today's powerhouse roundtable on "this week" later this morning. good morning. we now have a new president who's vowing to put us on a wartime footing, to defeat this virus, how is he doing thus far, this early into his term, and do you think his progress on the virus is how he's judged ultimately by the american people? >> good morning, dan. i think so far the biden administration, the president is doing just exactly what they need to do, but for the first time in months we're actually watching a leader do it by
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science and data and knowledge, as now opposed to by assumptions or conspiracies. or other fictional information. i think so far he's doing well. i think the virus and how he handles covid is table stakes for the president. president biden has to deal with this in order to get to the point where he can deal with the other issues, so what he wants is basically to handle this in such a way that two years from now we're not talking about covid-19. this issue is related to the economy, justice issues, global international relations, he has to handle this in order for his presidency to be able to deal with a whole bunch of other issues. >> right now, he's pushing a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package as you know. early signs indicate he may not get much republican support. do you think you should try to ram it through in a partisan way rather than bipartisan, or do you think he should try to reach a compromise? >> well, to me the first thing out of the box for our president
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that wants to bring the country together and heal a bunch of the divides, is not to have a partisan vote. and so i know he believes this, he was in the senate for 40-some-odd-plus years. i think he would like a bipartisan vote on this, even if it means slightly less than that. i think in the end, the compromise is what the america public wants. don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and so i think over the next few weeks, the president i'm sure will meet with mitch mcconnell and they'll come up with something they can get least get five or six or seven or eight or nine or ten republican votes on. consensus and compromise is something that the american public wants not bitter partisanship. >> matt, thank you very much. great to see you on a sunday morning. don't forget, you can see more of matt later this morning on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. he'll be on the powerhouse round table. also on the show, george goes one-on-one with senators amy klobuchar and rand paul. about the upcoming impeachment trial. plus, the new surgeon general nominee, dr. vivek murthy.
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discusses the biden administration's covid-19 response plan. that's all coming up later this morning right here on abc on "this week." dan, time now for a check of the weather, and rob marciano tracking the threat of multiple storm systems across the country. rob, good morning to you. >> getting very active, some winter weather not just in one spot, but across the country. this is lincoln, nebraska, along i-80. caused some accidents, fatalities as well. minneapolis saw a couple of inches of snow, so this will only increase as we go through time. storms coming into the west now, developing through the inner mountain west, storm one gets into texas, later on today, and tonight severe weather. i think the game in kansas city should be mostly dry, but rain will be right on the doorstep in the fourth quarter. then this system gets into the sn fealy seng ft m storm number two coming into the west, this one is stronger.
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san francisco to los angeles, seeing some rain, wind, snow in the higher elevations. this one has more potency and longer legs to get into the midsection of the country on wednesday and northeast thursday. another one behind that. good saturday morning, showers, scattered downpours and wind question conditions tonight two a dusting of snow. wind advisories from 7:00 through 10:00 monday morning. northwest winds could gust along the coast and down along the peninsula. highs in the low 50, rain and wind, the accuweather 7-day forecast. more rain on tuesday a. level 3 guys, i know that right now we're going to spend some time giving larry king his tribute. i got to work with him at cnn. on a personal note it was an honor to work with him.
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there will be no one like him going forward. that's for sure. >> yeah, definitely. he was most definitely a broadcasting legend. in his 60-year career, larry king interviewed just about everybody. this morning, tributes are pouring in for king following his death at age 87. abc's chris connelly joins us now from los angeles with more. good morning to you, chris. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, eva. you know, a preeminent interviewer on tv and radio for decades. larry king used innate curiosity and a conversational style to entertain and enlight. -- enlighten. >> this is the premiere edition of "larry king live." >> reporter: thousands of notables talked with larry king. >> you put your own makeup on today. >> i did. but i wanted to look exactly like you. >> reporter: who spent 63 years on the air waves and whose hour-long interview show was a primetime staple on cnn. >> good evening. >> reporter: for a quarter >> i've seen evil and good.
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i've seen bad things and nice things. >> reporter: from newsmakers to show business figures. >> why are you here? why did you come to this program? i'm glad you came. >> because you asked me to come. i haven't seen you in a long time. >> reporter: world leaders and the wonderfully well known. >> i don't know how we got anything done. because everybody was laughing so hard. >> reporter: in an era before the internet and social media, "larry king live" reflected and occasionally sparked the national conversation, during some sensational sagas like the o.j. simpson trial. >> listened to the witnesses there. >> reporter: he preferred guests with passion, humor. >> see, i told you it's low to the floor. >> i'm low to the floor. >> reporter: with his voice and suspenders and taking viewers' calls, his questioning could illicit some memorable reaction. >> we may never have known this, how close you came to dying. she said three times close. >> yes, when i was shot.
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>> were you aware that you were that close? >> no. had no time. >> reporter: some of his interview subjects and peers taking to social media following news of his death to pay tribute to a beloved icon. bill clinton, he gave a direct line to the american people. and worked hard to get the truth for them. with questions that were direct but fair. ryan seacrest, truly an american treasure. oprah winfrey, it was always a treat to sit at your table and hear your stories. thank you, larry king. born in brooklyn in 1933, he made his reputation on radio, captivating listeners coast to coast with free-flowing conversations, from politics to paranormal phenomenons. >> after each show, he would say, that was great. the first thing he said. because he really loved it. >> reporter: millions grateful for his decades of talk. sthangs to what he discovered back in 1957. >> i learned that day if you're
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honest with the audience, you can't go wrong. >> his family released a statement saying to us he was dad, he was the man who lovely obsessed over our daily schedules and our well-being, and took such immense pride in our accomplishments. truly a man in full. guys? >> i mean, we use this language a lot, but in this case it's definitely deserved, a legend. chris, thank you so much for your reporting this morning. really appreciate it. coming up on the show -- why the new coronavirus variants make the vaccination even more crucial right now. dr. ashish jha of brown university will be here to answer key questions on the pandemic coming up. and this morning's mega mystery. who holds the one winning ticket the that billion dollar megamillions drawing? championship sunday for nfl fans. we're live with espn's adam schefter ahead of today's games that will send two teams to super bowl lv. >> i'll do some analysis for you. >> can't wait.
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♪ what if i trip, what if i -- what if i fall ♪ welcome back to "gma" on a sunday morning. that is justin bieber performing at the 2020 amas. this is from last november, he's with shawn mendes there. coming up in "pop news," what the star reportedly shared on instagram that has bieber fans hoping that there is more music to come soon. >> exciting. let's take a look at some of the other big stories we're following right now. happening right now, we're one day away from the next crucial step in donald trump's second impeachment. on monday the house is expected to send one article of impeachment to the senate accusing trump of inciting the insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. this as the senate majority leader is now calling for an investigation into the former
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president following a "new york times" report detailing donald trump's alleged to overturn the election. the u.s. state department condemning the more than 3,000 reported arrests after violent clashes between anti-government protesters and heavily armed police in russia. tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets just days after a kremlin critic alexei navalny returned to moscow and was taken into custody. tuesday will mark one year since a tragic helicopter crash claimed nine lives including today, espn will will look back at his career and legacy, airing specials and his last game throughout the day, culminating in a one-hour primetime special "sportscenter presents" kobe, the legend, the legacy" at 9:00 eastern. >> that should be good. we start this half-hour breaking down the latest coronavirus headlines.
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joining us this morning is dr. ashish jha, the dean of the brown university school of public health. thank you so much for being with us. let's start with this new variant of covid-19 from the uk, some british officials warning it could be up to 30% more deadly, but scientists are stressing more research is needed about that. explain this to us. what does the sign here actually tell us? >> yes, good morning, and thank you for having me on. in terms of the uk variant, it's clearly more contagious. i don't think there's any question about that. the question that has come up is in the last few days, is it also more deadly if you get infected with it? there is some preliminary evidence that it may be. alternatively it could be that the variant hit the uk when their hospitals were overwhelmed, and we know when hospitals get overwhelmed, mortality rates tend to rise. we have to sort out, is it the virus? is it the hospitals? that still needs to be sorted out. it's still a deadly disease. and clearly more contagious. >> those numbers aren't quite clear quite yet. so we're seeing multiple new
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variants now. not just the uk one. there's one from south africa, some homegrown ones as well, how concerning is this? does it add urgency to step up the vaccine effort? before this virus can make any more changes that we see. >> yeah, absolutely, i think it ups the urgency to get people vaccinated. look, the best way to stop new variants from coming out is to control the pandemic, and anything we can do to control the infections, we've got to really try our best to control these things and the vaccine is our best tool right now. >> there are reports that the current vaccines aren't as effective against these new variants. so i'm curious, at this point can we tweak the vaccines to make them more effective? is there something that we can do to tackle those new variants in a more strategic way? >> yeah, so, all of the evidence
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right now says that the current vaccines work great, certainly against the uk variant, and mostly all of the others, but there's some question about the south african variant, if it may be partially resistant. i'm not convinced of that. the nightmare scenario that we do get a virus that's resistant to the vaccine where we can tweak it and get a better version, but right now, all the evidence says the vaccine works against all these variants. >> i know the question people keep asking me, when we will go back to normal. >> do you have any sense we need to be doing with these vaccine rates to get back to this normal, widespread immunity? >> yeah, absolutely. so, we've got to keep pushing, obviously he had a botched rollout. i think it's picking up pace now, we're getting to a point where we've got to be vaccinating millions of people every day, that would be the ideal.
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if we continue that pace, i do think late spring into summer, life will feel dramatically better. i don't know when we'll exactly hit the herd immunity threshold. but it will get much, much better as we get into the later part of the spring and summer. >> late spring, summer, light at the end of the tunnel. dr. jha, thank you so much for that encouraging word this morning. >> i just started making a bunch of plans. >> fill out the calendar. the quote dramatically better. >> we just need to know when it's going to end. >> we want to turn now to the weather, rob marciano, severe weather in some parts of country. >> winter will come to an end, days are getting longer. right now, the coldest time of the year we're seeing that in southern california, the ski resort there, snow levels are down low, around 2,000 feet, winter storm warnings up. another storm's coming in. the storm number three we spoke of in the last half-hour, this one is very strong.
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it's going to be a several-day event, and it will jestamney to really atmospheric moisture coming in. more coming in over the weekend. we could see in some spots nine or ten inches of rainfall. they do need the rain here. not that much all at one time. especially with the burn scars, and folks that live near those areas are being told to . good sunday morning. sunday is starting out cold, dry, fog in the north bay. but we will end on a rainy and windy this weather report has been sponsored by walgreens. we're in the throes of winter. but it will be over soon. >> that's what i've been lecturing. i've got a california and a south carolina person on the set here and they're complaining about winter. i'm like, it's just a few more
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weeks. >> we'll get through it. >> thank you, rob. >> this is cold therapy. coming up on "gma" -- america's newest billionaire, who will come forward to claim a giant jackpot? and then, those super bowl commercials, getting some major starpower. that's ahead in "pop news." commercials. getting some major starpower. that's ahead in "pop news." narrow it to all the non-sports dads who love watching sports... in the rain. with kids who can catch “almost” everything. especially a cold. that brings us to you. you're the one we made mywalgreens for. an easier way to save, shop, and perhaps catch a break. introducing mywalgreens. join and get 30 minute pickup at walgreens.com no matter what sometimes keeps you up, nature made helps you win the night. our melatonin gummies are scientifically developed
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welcome back to "gma" on a sunday morning. where america's waiting to see the nation's newest billionaire, a lottery winner who may be a little camera shy right now, understandably, but that could change at any minute and abc's elwyn lopez is in novi, michigan, where the winning megamillions ticket was sold. elwyn, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. it's the billion dollar mystery here in michigan. we're here at the kroger where the winner got or h ithe map
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>> and tonight's winning numbers -- >> reporter: this morning, a mega mystery in this suburb outside of detroit. who's the winner of the mega millions jackpot? >> so ecstatic that it was somebody in our area. we could have been right there. >> reporter: the lucky winner beating the odds of less than 1 in 300 million. their dreams coming true after buying a ticket at this grocery store here in novi. tell me why it's so important for novi? >> i think just in general, in any city, saying having that ticket bought means more hustle and bustle into my city. it's the luck of the draw, and we got lucky. >> reporter: after more than four months without a megamillions winner, the jackpot growing to the third largest in u.s. history. here in michigan, the big winner won't remain a mystery forever. >> they don't have the option to remain anonymous. they do have to make their identity known. >> reporter: the lump sum cash option, nearly $740 million. neighbors in this city of 60,000 people hoping that some of that will go back into their community.
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>> hopefully they'll be ready to help some people in the area. we just had it hard. >> reporter: and guys, that mystery winner could come forward as early as tomorrow but has up to a year to claim that billion-dollar ticket. dan? >> got to get your lawyers. that's step number one after you find that you have gotten the winning ticket number. >> everybody forgets that when you win, you can do it quietly. >> jump up and down for a few minutes, get your lawyer and then go public. i think that's how it works. coming up on "gma" -- the nfl conference championships. we'll preview the big matchups. espn's adam schefter joins us right after this break. espn's adam schefter joins us just ahead.
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championships. a trip to super bowl lv is on the line. joining us with some insight is espn's adam schefter. adam, good morning to you. let's jump right in here, all eyes of course on chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes now that he's out of the concussion protoc protocol, but is there still reason to be concerned about his health and performance here? >> good morning, whit. i'd say this, the concussion right now doesn't seem to be as problematic and worrisome as the foot injury that he suffered last week against the cleveland browns in which he was limping around later in game. he's cleared through concussion protocol. hi seems to be doing okay on that end. the question will be how much movement withis they know they won't know how he'll respond until there's an actual pass rush at him. that will be something to watch later today, whit. >> the entire offense follows
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around mahomes, so what can we expect from the matchup between the chiefs and the bills in this game? >> look, we know the chiefs are trying to repeat as super bowl champions, but this is the buffalo bills here trying to get back to super bowl and win the first super bowl in franchise history. the last time they went to the super bowl and had a chance to win was back in tampa, where the super bowl is this year, during the persian gulf war that year. this year, a different set of circumstances. buffalo has played exceptionally well. they will have a chance to beat kansas city, and can only imagine what it will be like if they pull the upset against kansas city today. >> we did love seeing those teary-eyed bills fans after that big game. i want to ask you about the other one. tampa bay versus green bay with the homefield advantage, tom brady hoping to earn his tenth trip to the super bowl, what could stop him? >> look, what could stop him is the hottest player in football today, the player who's going to win the most valuable player in my mind and that's aaron rodgers. tom brady is trying to write his history by going to the tenth super bowl of his career, but
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aaron rodgers is trying to get back to the super bowl for the first time in ten years. you got a clash of the all-time greatest quarterback with a quarterback who will go down as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, who's playing better than anybody in the league this year including the two quarterbacks in the afc championship game, patrick mahomes and josh allen. aaron rodgers will be performing at a different level today, and he will have to go up against the g.o.a.t. tom brady. should be a tremendous quarterback matchup. >> adam, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, whit. >> all right, we'll talk soon. stick around here, "pop news" is next. talk soon. stick around here, "pop news" is next. 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. so, if you haven't tried botox® for your chronic migraine, ...check with your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if samples are available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after jeion ...causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing,
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>> i'm out. i can't. okay, the super bowl is just two weeks away and we're getting a taste of the tv ads that some people prefer even over the game. last week, doritos unveiled its first teaser featuring jimmy kimmel and mindy kaling talking about flat matthew, now in a second spot we're getting some answers. >> mom, why is that dog flying a kite? and why does the kite look like matthew mcconaughey? >> a little help. >> so what kind of trouble is matthew mcconaughey in? we'll wait for the super bowl sundnd jti bieber fans like what they're hearing. the singer reportedly sharing an update, finishing an album, stay tuned. bieber just released his latest single. while his album came out last spring, his fans are waiting for more. usually he takes years before he
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completes projects, and his wife is making her own headlines revealing that she's been taking prenatal vitamins for years. fans hoping it's a sign the couple is ready to start a family, and they may have to keep waiting. hailey explains, it's the best way to keep her hair healthy and shiny. all right, you'll see it here, the deliveryman met his match. check out the action caught on a doorbell camera in connecticut. a deliveryman was trying to drop off some packages. he dropped the packages just fine, scared by two wild turkeys. the territorial turkeys not giving up until they chase the van off the street. looks like they have a thing for motor vehicles. trying to prove they're not chicken. and finally, yesterday we told you about those bernie sanders memes going viral, showing him all bundled up at the inauguration. i did some wishing out loud, saying we need to see bernie with us, ask and you shall receive.
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check it out. there's bernie. thanks to our graphics team. >> that's right. is that six feet apart though? >> he looks socially distanced. >> he does. dan, i just want to say, you had it coming. >> that was a good one. >> wow, i felt the burn on that one. >> thanks for watching, everybody. stay tuned for george. good morning, everybody. i'm liz kreutz. this fight against the coronavirus is finally seeing good news, 23,000 newly diagnosed covid cases were diagnosed.
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the seven-day positivity rate dropped to 8.5%. it's a good indicator to measure the spread of the virus. the weekly average for cases across the country is now back below pre-thanksgiving level. in the north bay, fire survivors are getting a free tree to plant on their property thanks, to a little leftover holiday magic. they let them to be ou lost a tree in sonoma, lake, mendocina or napa county is eligible to pick up a tree at arm my ag supply in fulton. as we prepare for rain, there is some fresh snow on the ground in the sierra. a winter weather advisory goes into effect today. the area is expected to get slammed with snow in the coming bo000ee wil get four-to-seven inches of snow. sundays maybe even more than that, lisa. >> we will measure in feet by
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the end of the week. in the mountains, here's a look at live doppler 7. a little light ra sin approaching the north bay. this is a level one, it's cold, numbers in the 30s in morgan hill, mount tam, clouding over, but we're dry. the rain arrives at noon/1:00 there. we have fog this morning. this system will bring gusty winds with a wind advisory and lowering snow levels. you can expect a tenth to a third of an inch through today. >> liz, thank
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