her word, not mine,ith us for " morning america" and have a great day. right now on "america this morning," breaking news, a rocket attack apparently targeting u.s. troops in iraq. at least ten rockets hitting air base. the details coming in. a major announcement about covid vaccines, the new time line. when all american adults can get one and how the white house is hoping to prioritize teachers. plus, the push for a new vaccine holiday. breaking overnight, the former white house doctor who rose to fame during the trump administration now accused of drinking and taking sleep medication on the job. his response overnight. new details about this horrifying crash. at least 13 people killed. more than two dozen people crammed inside that ford suv. what investigators are now revealing. dog collar dangers.

new claims that a flea and tick collar to be to blame for dozens of dog deaths. meghan reducing her staff to tears. a different kind of pizza topping. it's colorful and very controversial. the loopy idea. ♪ like a big pizza pie, that's amore ♪ good wednesday morning. i'm mona kosar abdi. >> i'm will reeve. kenneth is off. we begin with breaking news. several rockets have hit an air base in iraq that's hosting members of the u.s. military. >> there was no immediate word on any injuries. the air base is located in western iraq near the syrian border. it's the second largest air base built by the u.s. the u.s. commander says troops took shelter during the attack and the rockets were fired by pro-iranian militants. ian pannell is in mosul, iraq. we spoke to him on the phone

moments ago. >> reporter: your forces are coming under fire from iran-backed forces on the ground. meanwhile, iraqis preparing to receive pope francis in the coming days. that also will raise questions about whether or not he's able to visit but i think the ball is now firmly in the court of the white house, the biden administration. how do they now respond? do they ramp up the military response what? kind of action will deter these attacks because i can tell you these militias on the ground are pretty adamant they don't want u.s. forces in iraq any longer and they're determined to attack them until they leave. >> the same air base was hit with rockets in january of last year. the pentagon just declassified video of that attack. iran said it bombed that air base then in retaliation for an american-led strike that killed an iranian general. and last week the biden administration carried out an air strike in syria.

we'll bring you more information as we get it. the pandemic and president biden's new promise about covid vaccines. he says there should be enough shots for every american adult by the end of may. this was we learn more good news. covid-related hospital admission have reduced by nearly 50%. the encourage signs promising texas and mississippi to lift the mask mandates. abc's ike ejiochi has the latest from washington. ike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it goes against president biden's push for all americans to wear masks through his first 100 days in office. some state leaders are saying numbers are plummeting while health experts say it simply isn't the time to relax. this morning, a surprising rollback. >> it is now time to open texas 100%. >> reporter: texas governor greg abbott making the announcement ending the statewide mask mandate and declaring texas businesses can fully re-open next week. the daily case average increased 3.4% from a week ago.

now, despite the rise at least 11 states have either recently loosened restrictions or plank to in the coming week. this morning, new unpublished studies found the brazilian variant more contagious and may be able to reinfect people who had covid. >> i remain concerned about a shift. >> reporter: the declaration forcing houston methodist the leading texas hospital to put out a statement against the order asking all texans to keep wearing your masks. >> now is not the time to let up. i've asked the country to wear masks for my first 100 days in office. now is not the time to let our guard down. >> reporter: while states are actively battling covid restrictions, there's big news on the vaccine front. >> this country will have enough vaccine supply, i'll say it again, for every adult in america by the end of may. that's progress. >> reporter: president biden utilizing the defense production act announcing a historic partnership between rival pharmaceutical companies johnson & johnson and merck in order to produce more

vaccines earlier than expected. >> it's going to add considerably to our capabilities both near and in the long term. >> reporter: the president also pushing to re-open schools. the first lady who is a teacher herself getting involved. jill biden along with education secretary miguel cardona will visit schools in connecticut and pennsylvania. now, the president also announcing that pre-k through 12 teachers, staff and child care workers be prioritized for the vaccine. he says he wants all educators to be vaccinated before the end of the month. mona. >> ike, thank you. some doctors say we need a vaccine holiday. they want the biden administration to establish a one-time federal holiday to give people more time to get their shots and to raise awareness. former white house doctor ronny jackson is responding to a blistering new report about his service during the obama and trump administrations. dr. jackson is now a texas congressman. he claims a new pentagon watch dog report first revealed by cnn is a political hit job. it reportedly found that jackson

took ambien on duty and drank alcohol, which he denies. it also details an incident in which jackson allegedly made denigrating comments about a female subordinate. abc news has not verified those claims. jackson says democrats are attacking him because he supported president trump. we are learning more about the deadly crash in california that involved an suv carrying 25 people. a new investigation has now been launched. this morning federal investigators are looking into whether human smuggling played a role in this deadly crash in southern california involving an suv packed with people. the crash only ten miles from the mexico border on a highway cutting through farmland. the maroon ford expedition ending up wrapped around this big rig. according to investigators that ford suv was carrying 25 people and 13 did not survive. >> some of the victims were ejected from the vehicle. there were some walking wounded the hie.ledveout of

>> reporte say appears the suv drove into the path of the tractor trailer. the local hospital treating patients they could. >> we're a secondary level hospital and knew i had to get with neurology and a whole bunch of other specialties and made calls to usd to get up in the air fairly quickly. >> reporter: it's ford's largest suv meant to seat eight people but investigators say the middle and backseats were removed allowing 25 to cram inside. >> the fire department had to cut the right front seat out of the vehicle to help extricate people from the vehicle and on examining that after they've done that, we do see that there are not seats in the rest of the vehicle. >> reporter: ten of the people who died were mexican. the biden administration is facing pressure to acknowledge what some are calling a crisis at the southern border. our cameras caur moment agents took several families into custody in texas. these children were with their parents but new estimates predict nearly 120,000

unaccompanied children will arrive at the border this year. that's far more than the previous record. president biden's embattled pick to head the office of management and budget has now withdrawn her nomination. neera tanden was under fire for previous tweets attacking republicans. president biden says tanden will now join his administration in a different role. fbi director christopher wray says the attack on the u.s. capitol in january was an october of domestic terrorism. in his first appearance before congress since the attack, wray said the fbi is focusing on the growing threat of homegrown extremists and he denied claims that the antifa movement was behind the attack. >> we have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to antifa in connection with the 6th. that doesn't mean we're not looking and we'll continue loo look but at the moment we have not seen that. a large and growing number of the people that we have arrested so far in the -- in connection with the 6th are what we would

call militia violent extremism. >> wray defended how the fbi handled intelligence before the capitol attack saying it was shared with capitol police and other law enforcement. hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern kentucky because of a potential dam failure. flooding from heavy rain is threatening the dam in the small city of jackson. a medical center and nursing home were among the places evacuated. let's take a look now at your wednesday forecast. no rain is expected today in the flooded areas of kentucky, west virginia and tennessee, but new video shows the scale of the disaster. a camper van was swept away by the fast-moving waters of the kentucky river in lexington. okg t rar, soutrn california and parts of the southwest will see rain today and up to 6 inches of mountain snow. it will be the first rain in los angeles since january. checking high temperatures, 60 in l.a. and things are warming up in the northeast. 59, d.c.

coming up, a baby falls from the 12th story of a building and survives. also ahead, the controversy surrounding amazon's new app logo and whether it resembles hitler's face. and is dr. seuss being canceled? the ba

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back now with a miracle catch by a deliveryman in vietnam. i toddler falling from the 12th floor balcony of this building that's 150 feet. but the driver managed to get in position to catch the girl before she hit the ground. she suffered only a hip injury. she is okay. new york governor andrew

cuomo is losing allies as he faces sexual harassment allegations from three women. more democrats are calling for cuomo to resign and state lawmakers are preparing to pass a bill that would limit his broad powers to set policy during the pandemic. the governor has not appeared in public for one week. new reaction this morning to top publishing several dr. seuss children's books because of concerns about racially insensitive images. megan tevrizian has more. >> reporter: this morning, six dr. seuss children's books will no longer be published because of what are called racist and insensitive images. the company saying the decision comes after months of discussion saying these books portray people in ways that are hurt ful and wrong. >> it will lead to an acknowledgement that, yes, there are children's books that are both racist and sexist. >> reporter: depictions in the books show asians with lines for eyes and africans wearing grass skirts. one of the books, "if i ran the zoo" includes a

drawing of a white man with a gun standing on a cage propped up on the heads of what appear to be three asian men and includes dark silhouettes and what looks like a theriot typical depiction of an eastern man on a camel. >> they need to put it in the trash can. this country is not built for that anymore. >> reporter: the announcement coming on the author's birthday and on read across america day which promotes child literacy. president biden did not include dr. seuss on the national reading list. critics lashing out saying this is liberal cancel culture run amuck. >> the post modernists almost academic left are not satisfied until almost every single piece of literature, film or pop culture is eliminated if there might be one thing that could be found potentially wrong. >> reporter: theodore seuss geisel, the man who wrote under the pen dr. seuss died in 1991, yet he remains so popular

last year "forbes" listed him as the second highest deceased celebrity behind only michael jackson. his books like "the lorax" and "the sneetches" touched on environmentalism and tolleri tollerism. in recent years his books drew criticism. >> i don't support the banning of books. we have to think about how we use books in ways that are meaningful and ways that are helpful for all children. >> reporter: those six books taken out of publication are now selling out at stores and many are being resold online at huge markups. will, mona. >> megan, thank you. amazon has changed its new app logo after critics say it resembled hitler. the company has now tweaked the image so it's folded, not rigid. coming up, dr. oz saves a man's life at the airport. hear the role his daughter played. but first new claims a popular flea collar for dogs is linked to hundreds of deaths.

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for continued registration. the claims are reported by the midwest center for investigative reporting. duchess meghan markle is denying claims she bullied members of her staff and the claims are made in "the times of london" and focused on her time at kensington where she is accused of emotional cruelty and reducing staff to tears. her spokesperson called the report a smear campaign. we turn now to dr. oz saving someone's life at the airport but he is giving the real credit to his own daughter. this morning, dr. oz to the rescue helping save a man's life at newark airport in new jersey. >> when someone suddenly collapses their heart becomes like a bag of worms and they're out within three to five seconds. >> reporter: the tv personality and heart surgeon had just arrived from florida with his family when a man in his 60s collapsed at baggage claim. dr. oz telling tmz it was his daughter who alerted him to the emergency. >> she about five seconds later yelled daddy, daddy, come quick so my first instinct is she must

have dropped my suitcase. >> dr. oz jumping into action joining an officer already on the scene performing cpr until more help arrived. how did you know it was dr. oz? >> well, first, i didn't recognize him. one of the police officers kind of like pointed at him and i said, yeah, that's the doctor who's helping us. he said, yeah, i know, it's dr. oz. >> reporter: unable to find a pulse the doctor asked for a defibrillator. >> these machines are automatic. they'll diagnose if the person is dead. if the person is dead they'll shock them. if they're not dead they won't shock them. it pretty quickly figured out what i discerned there was no pulse. it shocked him. >> reporter: and it worked. the man was taken to the hospital alert. >> you have the power to save a life. >> reporter: this isn't the first time dr. oz has been in the right place at the right time. in 2013 he helped a tourist in new york hit by a cab and just days before that he helped a man who had collapsed while running. as for that man at newark airport, he is recovering in the hospital. coming up, the tasty new idea for a pizza topping. but first an unlikely

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this is abc7 news. knew at 5:10, rockets target an iraqi military base that hosts american troops what. we know this morning. >> and the bay area businesses welcoming customers back indoors in three counties today. and the president laying out app encouraging new vaccine time line when he says there will be enough shots for every adult in america. well hey, it's me. i'm finally going to get my vaccine. i'm so excited. >> she donate ad million dollars to help fund vaccine research. now dolly parton is getting the shot. her musical message. >> well good morning, dolly. good morning everybody. it is wednesday march 3rd. >> i'm going to say hello, dolly. all right? mike nicco, how's it look outside today. >> she didn't even the flinch. >> no. >> she is so strong. i mean, yeah. needles, i'm like. pretty quiet on live doppler 7. don't need the umbrella today.