good morning, america. shot down. the chinese spy balloon popped by a u.s. fighter jet. what went into the decision to bring it down. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> now china's strong reaction overnight, plus the race to collect the fallen debris for the secrets it may hold. state of the union and beyond. president biden preparing to address the nation this week as new poll numbers reveal what americans think about him running again. plus, the big changes in store for the democratic primaries. speaking out. the wife of american volunteer medic peter reed, who was killed in ukraine, speaking only on "gma" this morning.

>> if there is a need, he saw it and reached out to help. >> his dedication to helping others, even in the last moments of his life. warning signs. new emails obtained by our affiliate show first grade teacher abby zwerner's struggles to manage the alleged misbehavior of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting her. the concerns she raised. dramatic rescue. the coast guard saving a man on board a yacht rolled by a giant wave, but the story taking a strange twist, ending in an arrest. near miss. the close call for a southwest airlines plane cleared for takeoff as a cargo plane was landing on the same runway. what the faa is saying this morning. unsafe to drink. abc news returning to jackson, mississippi. the new look at the water crisis with kids caught in the middle. has anything changed? ♪ you won't break my soul ♪ and music's biggest night. all eyes on beyonce.

28 grammys, but never the big one. could she finally win album of the year? plus, the star-studded lineup taking tonight's stage. and good morning, america. it's so great to have you with us on a sunday. we start with the downing of that chinese surveillance balloon. this morning, china's ministry of foreign affairs protesting the u.s. response and warning it reserves the right to take action. >> the response coming hours after a u.s. fighter jet shot one missile into the balloon immediately sending it plunging to the sea off the south carolina coast. >> and the race is now on in the search for debris fallen that has been scattered in the ocean. the u.s. in hopes of gathering any possible intelligence about the chinese device. so let's begin our coverage with abc's elwyn lopez there in myrtle beach, south carolina. elwyn, good morning.

>> reporter: yeah, janai, good morning. all eyes were on the skies. people across the country from montana to right here in myrtle beach catching a glimpse of that massive chinese balloon before it was shot down. now china says it has a right to respond. this morning, the race is on to collect the fallen debris of the chinese spy balloon after it was shot down by a u.s. fighter jet off the coast of south carolina. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> we have eyes on the balloon falling. >> reporter: a senior u.s. official saying the balloon was hit by a single f-22 firing an air-to-air missile roughly six nautical miles off the south carolina coast. the military operation ending a three-day spectacle as pentagon officials tracked the balloon's every movement since being spotted over montana flying at an altitude of nearly 60,000 feet. the massive balloon making its way across several sensitive military installations as it

flew over the continental u.s. seen in wyoming, kansas, and missouri before getting to the carolinas where it was shot down off myrtle beach. president biden saying he initially wanted to take down the balloon as soon as possible, but the pentagon advised otherwise, and the calculation was made to wait. >> without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. >> reporter: china blasting the decision calling it an excessive reaction, adding that it retains the right to respond further. >> the u.s. airspace was violated by this chinese spy balloon. if the u.s. is able to recover some of these sensors and determine that the chinese were in fact spying on sensitive areas within the u.s., it will put a chill on an already chilly relationship between the two countries. >> reporter: the pentagon saying the debris field now extends for

seven full miles of shallow water, that's about 47 feet deep. multiple u.s. navy and coast guard ships securing a perimeter and beginning a search mission. >> what the u.s. navy is looking for and what the coast guard is looking for is where is that payload. where is the metal part of the balloon that was underneath that balloon that holds the sensors? >> reporter: that metal part a large bay of technology running the size of three bus lengths, and not the first chinese balloon of its kind. this video from colombia possibly capturing a second suspected balloon recently spotted over south america. what pentagon officials say, because the water where the balloon crashed down is fairly shallow, they expect the recovery operations to be short. >> elwyn lopez for us, thank you. let's bring in britt clennett in hong kong, and maryalice parks at the white house for more on this. britt, let's start with you. china calling this a serious violation of international practice. so what are you learning about what a chinese response could look like? >> reporter: well, china likes

to talk about reciprocal action, so the question is really, whit, what they believe is reciprocal. if they get their hands on a u.s. surveillance system in the future, maybe they will make a big deal about intercepting it, but if china were to respond kind of militarily, that might be actually admitting that this balloon wasn't civilian. there's a fine line that it needs to walk here. it's important to note here despite the strongly worded response, which could also be geared at its domestic audience as well, all recent signs indicate that china wants to stabilize ties because it needs to focus on its battered economy, so in terms of retaliation, there might not be the appetite for a kind of statement response, whit. >> maryalice, let's bring you in on this because the biden administration has received a ton of criticism, especially from republicans. what calculations went into biden's decision on how to handle this? >> reporter: yeah, whit. the administration facing a lot of questions about why they didn't move to shoot this down over a week ago when they first spotted it over the pacific and

then over alaska, but it doesn't seem like the president was really engaged with the military over options until it re-entered u.s. airspace over idaho and montana days later. the white house is really leaning into this idea that he was listening to his military advisers, that he said shoot it down back on wednesday, but that they advised to wait until there wasn't a danger to people or anyone on the ground. they're also saying that they were able to learn a lot about the balloon by tracking it for all of these days, that that collection was valuable, and they're saying, look, at least we did something. that this has happened before, it's happening all over the world. it happened over the last administration, but we handled it. we shot it down, and we did something. of course, they admit that this time was really different. >> it's not just happening here in the u.s. britt, let's go back to you. what do we know about other balloons like this one that china is using around the world? >> reporter: well, according to u.s. officials, these kind of balloons have been tracked passing over the u.s. in recent years on multiple occasions, but it's not clear how frequently or what their purpose was.

they have been spotted all over other countries too, but china has a strategic interest and including the philippines and reportedly india too. now, it could be used for surveillance, intelligence, surveying missions. we don't really know, but china is sticking to its story that this is a civil balloon, but we have very little information on this. if this is the case, what company is involved, you know? why would it need to fly a gigantic balloon over other sovereign countries? >> and finally, maryalice, what are u.s. officials saying about where this leaves u.s. relations with china now? >> reporter: yeah, whit, it's remarkable to think that this was likely the first u.s. physical kinetic military action against china since the korean war, and it comes just as secretary of state blinken was supposed to be headed towards china, and we know that trip was going to be a big deal. it was going to be the first biden cabinet secretary to go to beijing. you know, i had talked to a senior administration official overnight, who told me that the approach to china will continue

to be one of calm, being resolute and practical to manage the competition between the two countries, so it doesn't veer into conflict. that's a lot of diplomatic speak when we know that this was a major diplomatic mess. i mean, the reality is that the u.s. was on the phone and meeting with china officials nonstop over the last few days trying to tell them that this was unacceptable, and it's really hard to see now how these two countries do anything constructive together going forward. >> a major setback and something to watch closely. maryalice, britt clennett, thank you so much. we appreciate it. and just a reminder, tune in to "this week" later this morning. jonathan karl will interview senate intelligence committee vice chair marco rubio about the chinese balloon. plus, transportation secretary pete buttigieg previews president biden's state of the union address on tuesday. eva? now to the record-shattering cold weather hitting parts of the northeast this weekend. danielle breezy from our nashville affiliate rn us with more. danielle, it has been very cold. >> reporter: that brutal cold yesterday in the northeast. take a look. we set new record lows in a lot

of spots, it was 33 below zero yesterday mornin in watertown, new york. 17 below in augusta, maine, 10 below in boston, the coldest it's been since 1957. if you think it's cold there, take a look at this video out of bryant park, in new york city, the fountain is frozen. that's how cold it was and set new record lows in laguardia as well as jfk. it was cold in the city. that being said, temperatures about 25 to 40 degrees warmer than this time yesterday and we're looking for a warm trend. we're going to talk more about it coming up. >> sounds good, danielle. we'll check back in with you soon. to politics now as president biden prepares for his state of the union address on tuesday, and the democratic party officially moves the first voting of the 2024 primary season from iowa to south carolina. abc's political director rick klein joins us now from washington. rick, good morning. so great to have you, as always. let's start with that 2024 primary lineup change. south carolina now will go first instead of iowa. what's the significance of this? >> yes, janai. for decades, we've seen iowa and

new hampshire kick off the primary process. on the democratic side, neither of those states might be part of the next round. iowa taken out of the system entirely after their debacle four years ago, and in new hampshire, they're being put into an almost impossible position where they may not be able to comply with these democratic rules because of their state law. the upshot is south carolina will go first, and two additional big, diverse states, georgia and michigan, will have an outsized role in the process, but bottom line, janai, is if there is a competitive democratic primary, and that is still a big if given biden's pending announcements, we could see uncharted territory across the board. >> we certainly remember how crucial south carolina was for him, rick. turning to the state of the union now, accomplishments that the administration will point out, the president will point out the jobs report which is proof of a healthy economy. what else can we expect him to hit on?

>> look at this as a soft launch for the biden re-election campaign. it comes as a politically perilous moment for the president. on national affairs obviously, tensions with china and russia, areas where he'll call for the country to come together, and yes, the economy is the big one, and the case that he's going to try to make is that things are getting better for americans, and that they will continue to feel it based on the accomplishments of the last couple of years, but this is a politically perilous moment for president biden to make a case like that. >> that is exactly what i want to ask you about. now, rick, the new abc news/"washington post" poll out this morning, it was done obviously before friday's jobs report, but as far as the economy is concerned, it doesn't look great for the president. >> yeah, really startling numbers. more than four in ten americans telling us that they're actually in a worse position financially than they were when president biden took office. that's a record over decades of us asking questions like this in the poll, and it feeds right into an approval rating for president biden that is significantly underwater. you see the numbers there. really, really tough for a president at t mencyo have a 53 disapproval, and, in fact, a clear majority of democrats are even saying outright they don't want to see him run for election

again, and, janai, just a sign of the times here, we asked people how they would feel if either trump or biden were re-elected, and you see about a third of the country say they would have an angry reaction to either of those. the numbers a little bit worse in the case of donald trump. >> oh, incredible to see how close those numbers are. rick, thank you so much. abc news will have full live coverage of the state of the union led by david muir and the powerhouse political team including, of course, rick klein. that all starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern tuesday night right here on abc. janai, overseas now to the war in ukraine, and new information that we're learning about the american volunteer medic killed in the bakhmut area, and we're hearing from his wife this morning only on "gma." abc's tom soufi burridge is in ukraine with more. >> reporter: this morning, tributes for pete reed, a 33-year-old american medic killed while evacuating civilians in eastern ukraine. his wife, alex, describing a man who dedicated his life to others. >> this type of work in ukraine is what he really loves doing.

it's what he's good at. it's what he's passionate about. >> reporter: pete reed dying when his ambulance was shelled in bakhmut, where there is fierce fighting. according to witnesses, the former marine even saved a colleague, shielding them from the blast. this was reed six years ago. >> hanging out with the iraqi special forces. >> reporter: working as a medic volunteer in syria and iraq in the history channel documentary series, "hunting isis." in ukraine, he was directing the humanitarian operation of global outreach doctors, saving countless lives in dangerous places. it's what he did. >> the idea of people getting hurt, like, weighed heavily on him, so i think it just came very naturally to him, like, if there's a need, he saw it and reached out to help. >> reporter: the situation in bakhmut where pete reed was killed deteriorating. reed's death speaks of the tragedy of the war in ukraine which seemingly has no end. >> this was not his first rodeo. he has worked in very difficult

situations, and we do our work. we keep it together. we provide the care, and at some point, we bawl our eyes out. >> reporter: this young american couple were to celebrate their first wedding anniversary in just weeks. >> he was very action-driven, action-oriented, but with a huge heart, and he was so compassionate. he just wanted to help people. >> reporter: and, guys, the situation in bakhmut for ukrainian forces does not look good this morning. uk officials saying ukrainian troops inside that besieged city are increasingly isolated as russia ups its offensive along several areas of the front line in eastern ukraine. eva? >> tom soufi burridge for us there in ukraine. thank you, tom. well, now to breaking news overnight, an off-duty nypd officer fighting for his life in the hospital this morning after he was shot during a robbery as he was trying to buy a car. abc's phil lipof is here with more. good morning, phil.

>> reporter: good morning, eva. this happened fast, and it was really scary. a five-year veteran of the nypd, as you said, fighting for his life after being shot during an attempted robbery. at a press conference overnight, we did learn the off-duty patrol officer was trying to buy a car in brooklyn around 7:00 p.m. details of the purchase had been arranged on social media, but when he arrived at the pre-arranged location, accompanied by a relative, the suspect pulled a gun. the officer drew his own weapon and then was struck by a bullet when the two exchanged gunfire. he was transported to a hospital. he's in critical condition. the suspect was able to get away. now, the identity of the officer has not been released, but new york city mayor eric adams says he has spoken to the family, and he promises to catch the person responsible. janai? >> just another example of gun violence in this country. phil, thank you. turning now to the faa, which is investigating a near-miss in texas when one plane was landing and another was cleared for takeoff on the same runway. abc's zohreen shah has what we know this morning. zohreen, a scary incident. >> reporter: good morning, janai. that's right. this was a very scary near-miss. a fedex cargo plane and

southwest plane came within mere feet of each other at the international airport in texas. just before 7:00 a.m. local time yesterday, just minutes before the cargo carrier landed, a controller cleared a southwest 737 passenger plane to depart from the same runway. the two planes came within feet of each other when the fedex plane was forced to pull up as it flew right over that southwest aircraft. experts say there was low visibility in the cargo's plane approach and says controllers are subject to mistakes, but there's a lot to uncover here including the rules of the tower controller, as well as training aspects. but the good news is no one was injured, and this is a strong example of how engaged flight crews can stop a tragedy. the faa is investigating the incident. whit? >> all right, zohreen, thank you. now to new details on the shooting of a schoolteacher in virginia allegedly by a 6-year-old student. they have to do with reports out about the teacher's earlier request for help about the students behavior in her classroom. abc's justin finch has more.

>> reporter: this morning, new emails obtained by our affiliate wvec through an open records request detailing first grade teacher abby zwerner's struggles to manage the alleged misbehavior of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting her last month. >> female victim. she's been shot in the abdomen as well as a through-and-through into the hand. >> reporter: on november 22nd, 2022, zwerner emails richneck elementary administrators saying, i do not feel comfortable with him returning to my classroom today, saying the boy stuck his middle finger up to a classmate and pushed another to the ground after bumping into him. former assistant principal ebony parker suggests zwerner set up a conference with the boy's father about his behavioral difficulties. five days later, zwerner follows up asking when the unnamed student would move to another teacher's roster. then principal brianna foster newton says it would have been after meeting with the boy's parents, who allegedly canceled.

that student remaining on zwerner's roster until the day she was shot in school, january 6th. her lawyer says administrators failed to take seriously several tips alleging the boy had a gun. >> three times school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school. >> reporter: but the newport news school district tells abc news, the former superintendent did say at least one administrator was told the boy might have a weapon. the attorney for the school's former principal says it was not her client. >> mrs. newton was, unfortunately, not one of the administrators who was informed by those in school that day who had this critical information. >> reporter: zwerner continues to recover from her wounds and is planning now to file suit. the boy's family did release a statement saying their son suffers with an acute disability and that usually one parent attends school with him, but neither did the day of that

shooting, an absence they say they will regret for the rest of their lives. guys? >> justin finch for us. thank you, justin. time for a check of the weather. let's go back to danielle breezy from our nashville affiliate wkrn. hey again, danielle. >> reporter: good morning, janai. i want to start you off with this awesome video. this is sea smoke. this developed in rhode island near little compton. you can see it's when cold air passes over warm water. it was 40 degrees, the water, the air temperature, 0. this is how it creates lake-effect snow. speaking of the great lakes, our next weathermaker will bring snow to northern michigan. rain, green bay and south into milwaukee. that same system is going to push east bringing some showers into pennsylvania, also it's going to bring some snow showers into northern new england as we head into tuesday. that's a loo

and here's an interesting stat. all of new england yesterday was below zero, guys. but at least we're going to thaw out. back to you. >> i knew it was cold. >> oh, my gosh. >> yes. >> it looked cold in new england. poor victor oquendo. >> yeah, but, danielle, thank you for that awesome picture straight out of little compton. all right. we're turning now to a young boy in pennsylvania who wants to send the message that you can achieve anything with hard work, and david did just that. the 9-year-old is the youngest student ever to graduate from reach cyber charter school in harrisburg. >> what? >> yeah. he's now off to college. david says that he realized that if he studied throughout the

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held the annual image awards nominees luncheon in century city. some of the honorees included w. m. e co chairman richard weitz and his daughter, demi, who will receive the prestigious dorothy parker award , both raised $37 million for charities across the country. now let's check in with meteorologist francis deng lawson for a look at our weather. good morning, francis morning, amanda. morning. everyone scattered cold showers throughout the day. i'll show you live doppler, seven and tintin missed throughout the day , but we could even see some lightning and even some heavy downpours. at times high today will be in the mid fifties with the showers too. tapering off this evening, amanda. alright, thanks, francis. and thank you for joining us. the news continues right now with good morning america.

♪ ♪ welcome back to "gma" on this sunday morning. bad bunny can make history at tonight's grammy awards if he wins album of the year. it would become the first exclusively spanish language record ever to take home the top prize of the night. coming up, we'll have a look at who is expected to win big, and the others who could make history as well. >> oh, good luck to everybody. it'll be a good night. >> all right. well, now let's take a look at some of the other big stories that we are following this sunday morning. happening right now, u.s. representative george santos is being accused of sexually harassing a prospective

congressional aide. in a letter sent to the house committee on ethics, the man who briefly worked in santos' office says the congressman invited him to karaoke and then inappropriately touched him last month. santos' lawyer declined to comment on the allegations. also right now, evacuation and shelter in place orders are still in effect in east palestine, ohio, after a train derailment that sparked a massive fire leading to air quality concerns. authorities saying 20 cars of the train were transporting hazardous materials and short-term exposure can irritate the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. lebron james is now 36 points away from breaking kareem abdul-jabbar's record and becoming the highest career scoring player in nba history. he actually has a chance to reach that goal this week. the lakers play the oklahoma city thunder on wednesday and milwaukee bucks on thursday. james has been averaging 32.2 points per game in the last five games he has played. so maybe we'll see it happen this week. >> one more good game.

get it done. yep. >> yes. >> we'll see. we start this half hour with the highly anticipated ruling by a judge in alex murdaugh's murder trial. the judge still weighing if and what of murdaugh's alleged financial crimes can be used as part of motive. the disgraced former attorney is accused in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. the prosecution claims he killed them to gain sympathy and distract as his alleged crimes were on the verge of being discovered. for more let's bring in attorney channa lloyd. thanks for being with us this morning. it seems like the judge is taking his time on this decision. he's been hearing multiple witnesses and their testimony. what's the thinking here? >> well, we have to make sure that he's conforming to the legal standard for 404-b evidence, which is what we're hearing. this is evidence of a prior bad crime. he has to make sure that it is logically connected to the current crime, and that it meets that standard, and it's not overly prejudicial to murdaugh before he can actually allow that evidence in.

>> why is this financial crime evidence such a big deal in this case? >> it's a big deal because it's at the center of the heart of the state's case. they're alleging that this sort of perfect financial storm was coming down on murdaugh, and that is what propelled him to commit these murders. >> we heard a ballistics expert testify last week that the state doesn't have either of these murder weapons. is that a major problem with this case? >> it's a problem, but not a major problem. obviously jurors always want to see the murder weapon. they want to be sure that you have the person who's committed these crimes before they ever, you know, commit them or find them guilty of a crime. so not having it is a little bit of a blow, however, there are circumstances where the evidence otherwise is so overwhelming that we can overcome that hurdle. >> i'm curious. do you think alex murdaugh will take the stand? >> you know, that's an interesting question. the defense obviously is not going to want him to take the

stand because that opens him up to far too much information. it can be very damaging to his case, especially in a case like this, however, when you have such circumstantial evidence, the jurors are going to want to hear his point of view. they're going to want to hear from him what happened. >> channa lloyd, always appreciate your insight. janai? >> we'll be watching every development in that. now to a dramatic rescue at sea caught on camera when a yacht was capsized by a monster wave. abc's phil lipof is here. phil, good morning. there are not only incredible images, but an unusual twist in this story. >> reporter: janai, good morning to you, and get ready for this story. this is a bizarre one. we've got one man,man, a coast guard rescue, a dead fish, aue, wildly popular '80s movie, and finally an arrest. this morning, stunning footage in the rough seas. the coast guard rescuing a man as this yacht is rolled by a giant wave. the remarkable rescue friday at the mouth of the columbia river as it flows into the pacific

ocean. notorious for 20 to 40-foot waves. that's petty officer first class branch walton dropped down from a chopper into the water, inching closer to the boat when the massive wave crashes. >> so i saw the wave coming. he pointed to it, i looked over. it was a little too late. i tried to duck underneath it. i didn't get hit as bad as the boat. >> reporter: amazingly the man on board, 35-year-old jericho labonte, saved and taken to the hospital with mild hypothermia. >> that was a phenomenal job done by that rescue swimmer. >> reporter: a story a police chief stacy kelly watching the rescue with no idea the man plucked from the water was the same man his department had been searching for. police alerted to this video wednesday. they say that's labonte there placing a dead fish on a porch. >> he put the dead fish on the porch, put stickers over the security camera. >> reporter: that house made famous in the '80s movie, "the goonies." >> i just saw the most amazing

thing in my entire life. >> first you got to do the truffle shuffle. >> reporter: two days later, that harrowing rescue, and police say they discovered the boat labonte was piloting was stolen. >> by the time we started putting all this together, he had already been rescued by the coast guard and transported to the hospital and medically cleared. >> reporter: hours later police moving in arresting labonte at a local warming shelter. did you guys follow all of that? the chief says labonte is wanted in british columbia on criminal charges from last fall. in custody now at the end of a bizarre 48 hours. petty officer walton who you saw there, how brave, how amazing. a recent graduate of the rescue swimming program. >> wow. >> he did that. >> "the goonies"? the truffle shuffle. that story had it all. >> the fish on the porch. >> okay. >> you walked away thinking about the truffle shuffle. >> of course. i love that movie. "the goonies" are the best. all right. thank you, phil. time now for the weather. let's go back to danielle breezy, and we are dreaming

about that warm-up, danielle. tell us more. >> reporter: i know. we all need that warmup, right, whit? i'm telling you. i want to start you off with some cold video though. take a look at this. this is actually inside a house in winslow, maine, okay? it looks like that window is fogged. right? you go to it. it's actually frosted over from the inside. that's how cold it was yesterday. now, yes, the northeast is going to warm up. new york city today, 47. by monday, 50. we'll be in the upper 40s in boston both today and tomorrow. we're watching our next weathermaker that develops in the middle of the country on tuesday bringing a lot of rain. by wednesday, it moves into tennessee, the deep south, and maybe even some thunderstorms that could be severe. we'll be watching that, and that pushes up and down the east coast bringing mostly rain to the east coast as we head into thursday. that's a

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they're just 10 to 12 years old carrying stacks of water half their size. this is the water the school largely depends on. it's bottled. for much of the year, nothing from the faucets is safe to drink. >> do we waste water? >> no. >> we do not wastewater. it's too precious. >> just seems like we're forgotten. we're just forgotten right here. >> reporter: what's happening at wilkins is happening all across jackson. more than 300 boil water notices have been issued in the last two years alone. that means entire weeks can go by without access to clean water from the city. glenda barner is a grandmother of seven. she often has to prepare meals for her entire family just using bottled water. she can go through three cases of water on just one meal. >> we shouldn't have to go through this. we really shouldn't, but, you know, what can we do? we rely on our officials to do what they need to do to fix it. >> reporter: mississippi received $429 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law to

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right next to harry styles, with all eyes on beyonce and her smash hit, "break my soul." ♪ you won't break my soul ♪ ♪ you won't break my soul ♪ queen bey's grammy reign racking up 28 career victories, first taking home gold with destiny's child for "say my name" in 2001. ♪ say my name, say my name ♪ ♪ when no one is around you say, baby, i love you ♪ >> reporter: now on her way to becoming the recording academy's winningest artist ever if she can nab four out of her nine nominations for "renaissance," which would certainly earn her applause and put beyonce one award past this guy, gaylord solti. ♪ but the album of the year award eluding the global superstar four times. tonight, beyonce again going head-to-head with adele, who picked up the top prize in 2017 for her album, "25." >> i'm very grateful and

gracious, but my artist of my life is beyonce. >> reporter: this year, bad bunny, brandi carlile, coldplay, harry styles, kendrick lamar, mary j. blige, and lizzo all rounding out the competitive category leaving the awards show not the same as it was. ♪ i don't want to talk about it ♪ ♪ the way that it was ♪ >> the grammys are peer-voted awards, and the people voting are producers and musicians. they've put a lot of effort into growing the votership, and bringing in new members and more diverse group of voting members. >> reporter: as for the live performances, dj khaled, friday, jay-z, john legend, and rick ross. guys, the question is still whether we will see beyonce on stage. here's hoping. tune in tomorrow on "gma" for a full recap. as you can see, i'm here with my friends. >> right. >> we're ready. we are ready. >> save that for your profile pic. yeah. we'll be right back with our "play of the day."

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we are back now with our "play of the day," and the pooch who deserves a round of a-paws. do you get it? yep. this is bobi, the pup that guinness world records just crowned world's oldest living does. as of today bobi is 30 years, 270 days and counting. he lives in portugal, and his family chocks up bobi's longevity to a healthy diet of human food, and a stress-free life in the country where he's allowed to roam free. never on a leash, and he moves slowly, and has trouble with his eyesight, but bobi enjoys hanging out with the family's other pets in the backyard. >> good for bobi. i like that. >> we love doggies. right? >> we do love dogs. >> we got our own dogs, right? got a few pictures up, don't we? wait for it. >> any excuse. >> very dramatic. look at that handsome dog. >> you said, my best friend, copper. >> he is my best friend. look at those eyes. >> oh, so cute. >> nala. she is the sweetest, isn't she?

>> that's your dog. >> yes. >> oh, and there's my walter. >> there he is. >> he has something on his face. >> uh-huh. >> walter, he doesn't require anything. >> he doesn't. >> all right, everybody. thanks so much for watching. we're always on goodmorningamerica.com. stay tuned for "this week." have a great day. day. eek." bill. a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc seven news. good morning. i'm a minidoka stelio. despite the rain, the lunar new year celebrations continue today as we wrap up the holiday weekend, the annual san francisco chinese new year parade made a lab

return saturday, welcoming the year of the rabbit. thousands lined the streets of downtown san francisco along the parade route that ended in chinatown. in fact, this parade dates back to the 18 sixties, and it's now the largest lunar new year parade outside of asia. and before the parade, people also celebrated the year of the rabbit at the community street fair in chinatown. many had their umbrellas open to stay dry . the street fair features more than 120 booths with lots of shopping and food, as well as plenty of entertainment for people of all ages of fun, just like getting to see people and you know all the fun food and just be around everybody in the community street fair will be open again today from nine am to five pm now let's check in with meteorologist francis ding lawson for look at our weather. good morning, francis. morning amanda. morning everyone cold. scattered showers throughout the day. here is live doppler seven and a salad radar image will zoom into a couple of spots. so there's some rain falling right now through parts of san francisco. the heavier rain is

the orange and the yellow, and earlier there was a lightning strike near milpitas. so lightning not out of the question today. four shots for you. san francisco on the top left walnut creek. some sunshine already poking through and then you see sfo in the bottom right and santa's a cloud cover on the bottom left so high today will be in the mid fifties cooler than average, with those scattered showers tapering off this evening, then we have a very clear and cold night ahead . tomorrow's temperatures will be quite cold when you wake up and take the kids to work, and then we have some dry days starting tomorrow. amanda alright, thanks, francis. and thank you for joining us coming up

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