right now on "america this morning," the breaking news. another woman comes forward accusing new york governor andrew cuomo of harassment. the new allegations and new calls for cuomo to resign. a new deal to get kids back to class. the billions of dollars being spent, plus, the new warning, why coronavirus cases are on the rise for the first time in weeks. is a new crisis looming at the southern border? the dramatic increase in children trying to cross the border without their parents and what the biden administration now plans to do with them. extreme weather. new video of the flooding crisis in kentucky while the northeast braces for below zero windchills and parts of texas and mississippi remain without water. not what they were fishing for. the big scare for these two fishermen floating away.

and later, scientific proof that when it comes to relationships, we often talk way too much. good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with a scandal surrounding new york governor andrew cuomo. >> he was already facing sexual harassment allegations from two former staffers. now a new accuser is stepping forward claiming the governor made an inappropriate advance. >> even cuomo's past supporters are now wondering if his political career is over. this morning calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign are growing louder as a third woman accuses him of unwanted sexual advances. "the new york times" reports anna ruch claims the governor asked to kiss her at a wedding in 2019 moments after they met. ruch, who worked on the biden campaign, says cuomo placed his hand on her bare lower back telling "the times," quote, i promptly removed his hand with

my hand. according to the report, ruch's friend snapped this picture where the governor allegedly placed his hands on her cheeks adding, he asked if he could kiss her loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. the 33-year-old telling "the times" i turned my head away and didn't have words in that moment. this morning new york lawmaker kathleen rice is the first democrat in congress to demand cuomo step down tweeting, quote, the time has come, the governor must resign. hours earlier new york attorney general letitia james announced her investigation into previous allegations of sexual harassment against the governor. 25-year-old charlotte bennett says cuomo made unwanted advances toward her last spring. >> she alleges that the governor asked her direct questions about her sex life, whether or not she was monogamous in her relationships, whether or not she had ever slept with an older man. >> reporter: and back in december, cuomo denied accusations from a former aide who claimed cuomo gave her an unwanted kiss. cuomo has denied the allegations but said in a statement, quote,

i acknowledge some of the things i have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. to the extent anyone felt that way, i'm truly sorry about that. cuomo's national profile soared during the covid crisis holding daily media briefings for months. >> we will do it because we are new york tough. >> reporter: but he has not been seen in public since last wednesday. his brother, cnn host, chris cuomo briefly addressed the allegations last night. >> obviously i'm aware of what's going on with my brother, and obviously i cannot cover it because he is my brother. >> the attorney general says that she has read ruch's allegations and will now decide whether to include them in her office's investigation of cuomo. turning to the pandemic, a new deal to get kids back in the classroom. california is spending billions to re-open schools, but it comes amid a new concern across the country, covid cases are rising for the first time in weeks. this morning, a new step toward getting millions of kids back in the classroom. california is setting aside $2 46 billion in extra funding for schools in the state

if they return to in-person learning by march 31st. the agreement does not require schools to return to in-person learning, instead only providing an incentive. >> by providing real resources, do it. >> reporter: of the 6 million students who attend public school in california, a tracking site finds only 11% are currently attending in-person classes. >> and that's it. >> reporter: a sticking point with unions before re-opening is whether all teachers should be vaccinated first. this vaccination site specifically for educators is now open at sofi stadium, home of the los angeles rams. >> it's a very important layer because getting the shot means that i may not end up in the hospital or worse. >> reporter: but many teachers are reluctant to step into a classroom including hector perez ramon who is waiting for his second vaccine dose. >> vaccines is definitely one of them, having access to it, but we want to make sure that l.a. county is out of the purple tier and also, thirdly, mitigation

factors at the schools, at the physical schools such as social distancing, such as ventilation systems. >> reporter: and now a california teachers union president is being called a hypocrite after this video surfaced claiming to show matt meyer dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at private school for in-person learning even though meyer has claimed it's unsafe to open schools. >> children do not keep their masks on. >> reporter: this morning meyer tells "the mercury news" there are no public options for kids his daughter's age adding there are major differences in running a small preschool and a 10,000 student public school district. across the country, teachers in new jersey will be eligible for vacci vaccinations in two weeks. >> assuming things go the direction they're going, that we will be in school in september, and i will be very surprised and disappointed if we're not. >> reporter: meanwhile, a new warning from doctors, covid infections in the u.s. are now on the rise, up 2% last week after six weeks of declines. >> with the prevalence of these more transmissible variants, i

think we can expect probably a larger baseline of infections from now until we reach herd immunity, and then on top a lot of states are loosening restrictions and when more people are gathering, you're going to have more infections, so it's a little too early to let our guard down. >> the rise in cases and deaths comes as more states ease restrictions and also as more people travel. the tsa screened more than a million people at airports in the last three fridays. senate democrats are racing to pass the covid relief bill by march 14th when unemployment benefits expire. but bipartisan talks appear to be stalled. republican susan collins says she's increasingly convinced democrats are not interested in finding a compromise. she says a $10 minimum wage could pass if democrats are willing to negotiate. more u.s. border patrol agents are heading to the southern border amid a dramatic surge in the number of migrants hoping to cross into the u.s. from mexico. president biden late yesterday spoke with mexico's president. abc's ike ejiochi joins us with the details.

good morning, ike. >> reporter: good morning, mona. the extra border patrol agents ae being sent just as the biden administration faces criticism this morning, new concern about a looming crisis on the southern border with agents apprehending up to 300 migrant children crossing every day without their parents. government facilities running out of beds, but the homeland security secretary denies it's a crisis. >> i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing. >> reporter: critics say the biden administration is housing migrant children in the same tent cities democrats criticized during the trump administration. but the white house fighting back saying it's trying to reunite the kids with their families or place them in foster care, a process they say takes time. >> it takes times to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established. >> reporter: more migrants are flocking to the u.s. because of the trump administration policies being rolled back. but also because of recent hurricanes that devastated parts of central america destroying crops.

abc's matt gutman is on the border. >> many of these tarps and behind this concertina wire are about 700 migrants. they are just some of the 25,000 migrants that have been waiting some for up to two years for their chance to have their cases heard in the u.s. >> reporter: president biden late monday holding a virtual meeting with mexico's president agreeing to cooperate on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, but a joint declaration after the call made no mention of any specific immigration policy changes. as for those migrants hoping for a new life in america, this message from the biden administration. >> we are not saying don't come. we are saying don't come now because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible. >> reporter: now, before his call with mexico's leader, president biden discussed the issue of sharing covid vaccines with mexico, but right now the white house is not elaborating. kenneth. >> ike ejiochi there in

washington, thank you. breaking overnight, the biden administration is set to announce sanctions against russia triggered by the kremlin's poisoning of putin critic alexei navalny. the sanctions are expected to target russian officials for using a chemical weapon. navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent. he is now serving time in prison. more than two weeks after a winter storm crippled the south, many people across texas and mississippi remain without safe drinking water. some people in jackson, virgi mississippi, have gone three weeks without water and in texas, nearly 400,000 people still cannot rely on the tap. meanwhile, new fallout from the power crisis. the largest power cooperative in texas is filing for bankruptcy, and the head of the public utility commission has resigned. time now for a look at your tuesday weather. new video shows cars submerged in eastern kentucky, and the region could see more wet weather today. they've received at least six inches of rain. one official called it one of the biggest flash floods the state has ever seen.

the other big story is the arctic air hitting the northeast with winds up to 50 miles per hour. windchills in new england will drop below zero, but temperatures rebound tomorrow. checking today's highs, it will feel like spring in the middle of the country. 40 near the great lakes, 84 in miami. 79 phoenix. 58, albuquerque. coming up, the very first hotel in space. we'll show you. also ahead, the angry alligator lurking in the garage and the very difficult extraction effort. but first the big bust involving nike sneakers and a top nike executive's son.

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rescuers were able to row out there in time and get them back to shore. u.s. marshals are expanding their search for the mit grad accused of murdering a yale student. 29-year-old qinxuan pan is accused of killing kevin jiang in connecticut. pan was last seen in georgia. a $10,000 reward is now being offered in the case. police say the motive may have stemmed from a road rage incident. amazon is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a senior manager. charlotte newman accuses the company of a pattern of discrimination based on race and gender. she claims amazon hires people of color in lower positions than white workers with similar qualifications. amazon insists it does not tolerate discrimination. the top executive for nike in north america has resigned after a report linked ann hubert's teenage son to a massive sneaker reselling business. bloomberg reports joe hubert used his mother's credit card to buy shoes then flipped them online for a profit. new plans have been released

for a high-flying hotel. a california company wants to build the first hotel in space. plans call for construction to begin in low earth orbit in 2025. the hotel would open two years years later with restaurants, a spa and a room for 400 people. no word on the cost. a florida couple got the scare of a lifetime. a seven-foot gator lurking in their garage. it wandered into their garage in ft. myers sometime over the weekend. thankfully the homeowner gave his wife a heads-up. >> he was hissing, and i startled him a little bit, so he backed up, and i immediately closed the door. my husband said there's a gator in the garage. i thought he was kidding. when i opened the door, it was literally on the other side of the door, yeah. >> wildlife officials eventually removed the angry gator. coming up, scientific evidence that we all talk too much. we'll explain. but first lady gaga's dog-walker speaks out for the first time since being robbed. what he's revealing about the singer's dogs, plus the rising number of dog thefts across the country.

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back now with that huge fireball that made its way across the sky over england. take a look. authorities took nearly 1,000 calls from witnesses. experts say it was likely traveling 30,000 miles per hour. breaking, overnight, hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last week have been freed. their boarding school in the rom

middle of the night. officials in nigeria say the girls were released this morning. no word if a ransom was paid. back in this country, a mother's moment of emotional relief was caught on camera. priscilla maxwell's 13-year-old son jalen who has cerebral palsy was missing since friday. but yesterday she got a call saying he was safe, and it came during an interview with our philadelphia station. >> they found my baby. oh, my god. >> jalen was found inside an abandoned home. the first public statement from lady gaga's dog-walker since last week's attack when he was shot and the singer's dogs were stolen. the case is part of a growing trend with more dogs being stolen. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning, lady gaga's dog-walker, ryan fischer, posting photos of himself from his hospital bed on instagram writing, i am still in recovery from a very close brush call with death adding, the

gratitude for all the love i feel from around this planet is immense and intense. fischer recounting the horrifying moments seen in this video obtained by tmz. >> help me. >> reporter: he was shot in the chest by robbers who stole two of lady gaga's three french bulldogs. fischer says gaga's third frenchie who got away was his guardian angel laying by his side while he was bleeding on the ground. lady gaga, who is in rome filming a movie, offered a $500,000 reward for the dogs' safe return. on friday night an unidentified woman returned the dogs to a los angeles police station, but police say they're still searching for the suspects. french bulldogs have become targets for thieves because of their popularity and high price tag. >> brody. >> hi, brod. >> reporter: a woman in the san francisco area has now been reunited with her missing bulldog, which was found 600 miles away in tijuana, mexico. debbie campbell says brody wandered out of her house last month, and she was losing hope until she got a call from a man

in mexico who thought he had her dog. >> when he video called us to show us that he had the dog, that took my breath away when i saw my dog laying on his couch. >> reporter: benjamin gonzalez purchased brody in mexico three weeks ago for $1,000 not knowing he had been stolen until his family back in the bay area saw pictures of brody on social media. within 24 hours debbie's son went to pick him up and bring him home. as for the lady gaga case, police have not revealed any details about the woman who turned in the dogs, and it's still unclear if she received any reward money. kenneth, mona. >> megan, thank you. in sports nfl superstar j.j. watt is heading west. he signed a two-year deal with the arizona cardinals worth a reported $31 million. watt spent ten seasons with houston. coming up, a change coming to reese's peanut butter cups. also ahead, the remarkable story of two sisters separated years ago. they're back together by chance

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now at 5:00 a sign of progress in the fight against covid-19. the three counties heading towards the red tier in reopening today. please hear me clearly. we stand to completely lose the hard earned ground we have gained. >> words of caution from the cdc that now is not the time to relax restrictions. and billion dollars in spending to get california kids back in the classroom. the deal the governor reached with lawmakers. dr. seuss decision on the iconic author's birthday. we are learning why six of his books are now getting pulled from publishing. good morning, it is tuesday march 2nd. >> first mike nicco and a look at the forecast. hey mike. >> good morning reggieness kumasi, jobina. thanks for joining us on this m spring. starting off quiet and look at the winds, light but blowing off shore and that is bringing us pretty quiet conditions as we