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good morning, america. high-stakes shootdown. u.s. fighter jets intercept an unidentified object over alaska. officials say it was the size of a small car. now, the race is on to recover the wreckage. the urgent questions this morning. where did it come from, and who sent it as crews prepare to pull the so-called bust from the bottom of the atlantic ocean. more documents found. former president trump's team turns over new documents found at mar-a-lago as a search by the fbi uncovers classified material at former vice president pence's home.
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race against time. five days after the devastating earthquake ravaging turkey and syria, hope is fading for those missing in the rubble as rescuers tirelessly search around the clock finding a lucky few survivors as desperately needed aid from the u.s. and around the world arrives and the death toll surpasses 24,000. state of emergency, gas deliveries shut down after a pipeline leak is discovered in california causing a run at a gas station in nevada. the governor pleading with drivers not to panic buy gas. collision on the tarmac. an american airlines plane collides with a shuttle bus on the taxiway at l.a.x. four riders are injured. we have the latest. explosive testimony in the double murder trial of alex murdaugh. what the family's former housekeeper revealed on the stand. what she saw at the home on the
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day after the murders and what maggie murdaugh told her before she was killed. demand for justice. a 14-year-old girl dies by suicide after video of a brutal beating by classmates in school is posted online. now her grief-stricken father is demanding accountability as outrage grows in the community. super bowl security. law enforcement on high alert on the ground and in the air. what officials say keeps them up at night as they work to protect 100,000 at the big game. ♪ you better get moving ♪ the road to the big game. the eagles and chiefs with their final preps. ♪ tell me more, tell me more ♪ we have a sneak peek at some of the ads that we'll be watching and talking about as gronk gets ready for the first live super bowl commercial ever. he kicks it around with our will reeve.
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good morning, america. so great to have you joining us on this saturday morning. we start with former president trump's legal team after a search of his mar-a-lago home turns over more classified material to federal investigators as the fbi searches the home of former vice president mike pence. the five-hour investigation yielding one document with classified markings. another unidentified object shot down by american fighter jets, this time over alaska. it comes less than a week after american planes took down that chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. >> now the race is on to recover the wreckage as u.s. officials try to determine what it was that was flying over american airspace in northeastern alaska. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks joins us now from the north lawn. maryalice, good morning. so, what are you learning about the search and the big question, who sent this thing? >> reporter: whit, good morning. we know that military planes and helicopters have been deployed to that icy arctic
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debris field hoping to learn more soon. u.s. officials telling us they still do not know where this balloon came from, who owns it, or what it's capable of. still, president biden ordered it be shot down. this morning, the search is on for the wreckage of an unidentified object the u.s. military shot out of the sky above alaska. the white house saying this object was flying at 40,000 feet, a safety threat to civilian aircraft. president biden giving the order to shoot it down. >> out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. >> reporter: pentagon and white house officials admitting the order to shoot it down came before they knew much about it like where it was from or what it was capable of. >> we do not know who owns it, whether it's state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don't know. >> reporter: one senior official describing is as cylindrical
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and silverish gray. others describing it as roughly the size of a car, much smaller than the spy balloon that flew across the u.s. last week and this object not maneuverable. it's said to be right near the alaskan/canadian border. >> this may have come down on ice floe or into snow covered tundra in alaska, so it will be a very different recovery operation. >> reporter: the white house saying the new object was first detected thursday evening. fighter jets sent up at least twice to scope it out. those pilots and u.s. intelligence determining the object was unmanned. the president briefed thursday giving the order to shoot it down friday morning. an f-22 fighter jet taking the shot at 1:45 p.m., less than a week after the u.s. military brought down that suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of the carolinas. >> do you have anything to say about the object shot down? >> success. >> reporter: the move to shoot down this object coming the same day the military announced they have located the massive
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technology bay from the chinese spy balloon at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. now, the white house emphasizing that this object was much lower at about 40,000 feet than that other suspected chinese spy balloon, that this object could have been a threat to civilian aircraft and that that was a big part of the decision to bring it down. officials though adding that they did not have any indications that it was a threat to anyone on the ground. janai. >> but a potential threat nonetheless. thank you so much. we turn to the latest on those classified documents. the fbi searching former vice president mike pence's home. abc's em nguyen joins us now from washington with the new disclosure from former president trump's team. em, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, janai. yeah, the discovery, this new discovery of classified material at mar-a-lago comes after multiple searches of the estate last year by both trump's legal team and federal agents. now, investigators on this case, some of them signaling mounting frustration at the former president.
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this morning, more material marked classified at a former president trump's mar-a-lago home turned over to federal investigators. sources say trump's legal team was searching through additional boxes in mid-january amid the justice department's ongoing efforts to verify the former president no longer has any classified records in his possession. abc news learning trump's team then provided agents an additional folder with classified markings, as well as a laptop that belonged to a current trump aide, which apparently had electronic copies of some classified papers. this even after the government has recovered hundreds of classified documents from trump's florida estate throughout 2022. pence previously telling our david muir he didn't take any classified records with him after leaving office. >> did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? >> i did not. >> do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving the white house? >> well, there would be no reason to have classified
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documents, particularly if they were in an unprotected area. >> reporter: friday's planned search in response to pence's team finding a small number of classified documents at his home last month after they say they proactively searched following some classified documents being found in president biden's delaware home from his time at the white house as vice president and then senator. pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel looking into and overseeing the probes into former president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, as well as his role in the january 6th attack. now, how this could further complicate the relationship between the two heading into 2024 remains to be seen. whit. >> all right, em nguyen, thank you. we move overseas now and the urgent race against time in turkey and syria. the search for survivors in the wake of that devastating earthquake now complicated by aftershocks. the death toll surpassing 24,000, and it's still expected to grow.
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abc's marcus moore is in turkey following the massive rescue effort. marcus, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. the search effort continues here in the hard hit city of adiyaman where many of the buildings have been destroyed or partly damaged, and we're getting a glimpse of the lives impacted. there's a children's book here. i see a backpack. there's even more books and clothing here. just the damage is unimaginable, and this morning, so many people are holding on to hope for those still trapped in the rubble. this morning, survival against all odds as the death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit turkey and syria has now surpassed 24,000. a 16-year-old girl rescued today. her life saved after spending 119 hours buried under the rubble of her apartment building carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance. rescuers embracing. her cousins relieved. rescuers not giving up, drilling and cutting through collapsed buildings. excavators moving away debris.
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[ speaking non-english ] "we pulled him out alive," this rescuer says. this dramatic drone footage showing officials lowering a stretcher into the rubble as they rescue a survivor trapped by pounds of rubble and debris for 108 hours and carried away and taken into an ambulance. in hatay, a man and woman rescued after four days to cheers and chants of the crowd around. and heavy machinery lifting concrete floors that gave way at this building. dozens of rescuers combing through the debris lifting giant pieces of rock with their hands searching for anyone underneath. conditions bleak amidst freezing temperatures and aftershocks, and we are now learning of the extreme lengths needed to survive. i spoke with adnan, a 17-year-old boy rescued in gaziantep after being trapped in frigid gloom for nearly 96 hours forced to eat flowers and drink his own urine to survive. did you fear that you might not
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make it out alive? >> i was -- felt i would be under the rubble, but luckily and after all those workers, which i thank them again, they came and saved me. >> reporter: adnan, one of the lucky ones here because searchers tell us this morning that five days after the earthquake that the chances they will find someone alive in the rubble in the city and across this region, those chances are slim, but as we saw this morning, there are people still being pulled out of the rubble alive, and right now, eva, there are more than 120,000 searchers participating in the rescue effort here in turkey and in syria. >> people just hoping for more miracles. marcus moore, thank you so much. well, now to the war in ukraine. the white house confirming that president biden will travel to poland to mark one year since the russian invasion on february 24th. that news comes as russian forces begin a new major assault. abc's tom soufi burridge joins us now from ukraine. good morning to you, tom.
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>> reporter: yeah, good morning, eva. fierce fighting now in eastern ukraine as russia ramps up its offensive around the town of kreminna, lyman and bakhmut. they're sending waves of soldiers at ukrainian soldiers in those areas. uk officials saying russia has been making tactical gains but taking heavy losses. so far no major breakthrough for russian forces, but we are clearly now into a difficult period for ukraine in this war. overnight russia launching a fresh wave of lethal attack drones after a barrage of russian missiles and drones hit ukrainian power stations. and this morning, in an exclusive interview, one of ukraine's top generals confirming to me that the u.s. is supplying coordinates to the ukrainians for key russian targets inside occupied parts of ukraine. the general saying ukrainian commanders are in constant contact with u.s. military
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colleagues, and that support will be vital for ukraine in the coming weeks and months. overnight the white house confirming president biden will travel to poland just before the one-year anniversary of the war in two weeks' time in a show of support for ukraine and the nato alliance. janai. >> all right, tom, thank you. back here in this country now to that state of emergency in nevada. a pipeline leak in california shutting down a major gas supplier to the area. abc's zohreen shah has the latest from l.a. zohreen, as drivers there are being urged not to panic buy. >> reporter: that's right. drivers are extremely worried. they want to make sure they have enough fuel in their tank. you can see a long line of cars at one station right here, and now nevada's governor has warned against panic buying. all this comes after a pipeline spill forced people to rush to gas stations in the las vegas
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valley. the governor has issued an emergency declaration to help lift restrictions on trucking and other delivery methods to bring fuel into the region. officials are saying it has not impacted the fuel supply but impacted the way fuel comes into the southern part of nevada. drivers for their part, they don't know when this problem will be fixed and some are saying they would wait an hour right now to fill up gas if they had to. eva. >> zohreen shah for us, thank you. more dramatic testimony in the alex murdaugh trial. a former housekeeper, a woman who had known the family for years revealing private conversations before the murders and what she was asked to do after. explosive testimony from alex murdaugh's housekeeper, one of the last to see his wife magli go alive speaking about their private conversations. >> you and maggie were very close. >> we were. >> reporter: blanca turrubiate-simpson had worked for the familiar for over a
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decade telling the jury the morning after the murders some things samed off. pots from dinner in the fridge with lids on and a set of maggie murdaugh's pajamas laid out neatly on the floor. >> she wouldn't -- she wouldn't lay her clothes out like that, not in the middle of the door like that. it just didn't look right to me. >> she's almost implying that it was staged, that everything was abnormal in terms of where the clothes were, how they were folded, et cetera. another little piece that is not helpful for alex murdaugh. >> reporter: she also testified that alex called her the day after the murders. >> all i remember is when he said that they were dead, i dropped the phone. >> reporter: saying that alex told her to go clean the house. she said maggie was worried about money being demanded of her family in a lawsuit. >> leading up to the murders, was she anxious about anything? >> reporter: and suspicious her husband wasn't being honest with her.
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>> i object. >> reporter: the defense then calling for a mistrial. the jury leaving the courtroom. the defense and prosecution battling about how to bring up this conversation. the defense objecting on the basis of hearsay. but the judge agreeing with the prosecution saying her testimony is admissible. >> she was concerned about the amount of money that they were requesting on that lawsuit. 30 million is what she told me. >> we are now three weeks into this trial, so how longer will it go? the state telling the court they expect to wrap up mid next week. the defense would then start their side. janai. >> all right, whit. all right, let's shift gears and talk about super bowl eve and in glendale, arizona, where the game will be played in state farm stadium, security is on high alert both on the ground and in the skies. our kayna whitworth is right there in arizona. kayna, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. the nfl's chief security officer told me they've been conducting what they call tabletop
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exercises for nearly two years. and she says each time they learn something about how to better protect this event with a huge focus on cybersecurity and airspace defense. a bird's-eye view of state farm stadium and surrounding areas with customs and border protection, air and marine operations. they're also constantly sending video from their vantage point to authorities on the ground. >> if you're up here and you notice a problem and you're sending in that video to those command centers, roughly how quickly can they respond? >> that's going to be within seconds. for aircraft for us alone, we'll respond in seconds. be able to push the video downlink down and send it to command centers and them decipher it. >> when an officer is approaching the scene and put our cameras on it, we're now able to give them true situational awareness. >> reporter: in the command center they have access to 1,700 cameras.
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800 alone around the stadium. so on super bowl sunday, if something happens, they'll have eyes on it instantly. over 40 state, federal, local, and tribal agencies have been preparing. >> it's that unknown that keeps you up at night, but we're prepared for any unknown that comes in. >> reporter: while they have no credible threats right now, authorities tell me they're trying to strike that balance between making people feel safe and making people feel welcome. also, security officials from the next two super bowls, las vegas and new orleans, are actually here right now learning how to better protect their events, as well, eva. >> kayna whitworth, thanks. time for a check of the weather and meteorologist dani beckstrom from our new york station, wabc, and you were saying you're a pink crayon. >> we got the whole box. >> between janai and i. good to be here with you guys this morning. we want to start in the southeast where some wet weather will put a damper on weekend plans. this storm system pulling in
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gulf moisture and spreading it up into the mid-atlantic and we're also picking up gusty winds, 40 plus miles per hour for a lot of the state of georgia. we're looking at rainfall totals between one and three inches. i want to zoom in there for northern florida. you see the yellows and oranges where we could see isolated spots of four plus inches that could help the drought there, the dry season there, but could see damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. on the other side of the country, i know a lot of people fee cussed here, the valley of theson living up to its name. temperatures tomorrow, mid-
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that 75 and sunny in phoenix tomorrow tonight sound ter rbl, right? >> we're all a bit jealous. >> dani, thank you so much. we'll check back in with you shortly. both teams are going through their final preparations for super bowl lvii. history is being made even before kickoff with a lot of excitement happening off the feel so let's go to abc's super bowl mvp. will reeve. that's what the writers are calling you this morning obviously there in phoenix. god morning, will. >> reporter: good morning, janai. you just read what's written, huh? happy to be nominated for super bowl mvp. we'll see who wins the real one on sunday. over 50 million americans are expected to place a wager on the big game, and i think anecdotally each one of them is here. there is a buzz in arizona that's palpable and befitting this big game between such elite teams. number one seeds facing off in the super bowl.
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>> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles. >> reporter: this morning, finally it's super bowl weekend. >> we're going to root for the chiefs. >> reporter: chiefs nation fired up filling the valley of the sun with football fever. kansas city making its third super bowl appearance in four seasons led by superstar quarterback patrick mahomes, who this week won nfl mvp for the second time in his career. >> you dream about it as a little kid when you're watching super bowl parties with your dad and your mom. to be able to play in this game is special, and you appreciate it every single time. >> reporter: for the eagles it's jalen hurts, this season, a breakout. this qb matchup is the first ever in super bowl history between black quarterbacks. also making history, the kelce brother, big bro jason is a center and travels is a tight end. they're the first to face each other in the super bowl. each of them already has a ring. a deserving star of the whole super bowl show has been the kelces' mom, donna.
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hundreds of thousands of fans so eager for her to do the pregame coin toss or be an ho honorary captain, they signed a petition. she demurred but she might have another grandchild on the way. jason's bringing her pregnant wife with him just in case. between all the action on the field all eyes will be on the stage at halftime for rihanna. her first live performance in five years coming at the apple music halftime show. ♪ you need ♪ a whole bunch of story lines and a whole bunch of excitement here in arizona. we'll have much more on the super bowl coming up for you the rest of the morning. we are excited. >> thanks, will. we'll be right back. it may just be an elevator. here goes nothing. but for a young homeowner becoming their parents, it's a learning opportunity. come on in. [ chuckles ] the more, the merrier. paris, huh? bonjour! we got any out-of-towners in the elevator? tom. it is not easy. 10th floor, huh? must be a heck of a view. okay, see how everyone else is facing this way?
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on multiple charges, including drug manufacturing and active illegal narcotics manufacturing lab was also found inside that house. explosion happened on 22nd avenue near noriega street and outer sunset. let's get a check of the forecast of meteorologists. lisa arjun alright, zack. good morning to you. it's a soggy start for your saturday for some of you an area of low pressure sinking to the south. we've had rain around sears point, novato, marin would through hercules and highway 80 southern marin on the side, as well as san leandro in san ramon . we're looking at partly cloudy skies this afternoon with highs in the fifties. thank you and thank you for joining us. the news continues right now with news continues right now with good morning america. ♪ ♪ whether someone is across the neighborhood, across the street, or across the room, you have the power to make them feel right at home. ♪ ♪ ritz. a taste of welcome. business can happen anytime, anywhere.
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♪ we're beautiful like ♪ we're beautiful like diamonds in the sky ♪ ♪ shine bright like a diamond ♪ ♪ shine bright like a diamond ♪ welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. the day before the big game, rihanna's halftime show is one of the many things fans are looking forward to. coming up, will reeve has a sneak peek at another fan favorite. the much anticipated super bowl commercials, and janai is wanting to get -- >> i am on will. i'm so excited for rihanna. so excited. let's take a look at some of the stories we're following on this saturday morning. happening right now, a runway collision at l.a.x. sending four people to the hospital overnight. the los angeles fire department responding after an american
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airlines plane and a shuttle bus collided. officials say the plane was being towed when it swiped the bus. no passengers were on the aircraft at the time. also right now, another deadly attack on civilians in the middle east. a driver plowing his car into a crowded bus stop in east jerusalem. two israelis including a 6-year-old child were killed. at least five others injured. the driver was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. and a major announcement from tiger woods. the golf great says he will return to the links next week for the genesis invitational outside los angeles. it'll be his first time competing in an official event since he failed to make the cut at st. andrews back in july. woods was in the los angeles area for the genesis invitational when he was seriously injured in a car crash in 2021. >> all right. we do start this half hour with a story causing outrage around the country, a 14-year-old girl died by suicide after a video of classmates beating her in the school
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hallway was posted online. now her father is demanding justice and accountability. our reena roy is here with that story. reena, good morning. >> reporter: janai, good morning to you, that's right. adriana's family had to say their final good-byes at her funeral yesterday, and as they grieve, they also want answers and accountability from the school. a warning the video you're about to watch is disturbing. outrage growing in this new jersey community. students demanding justice for adriana. the 14-year-old's heartbroken father, michael kuch, said she died by suicide last week. >> adriana was the most happy, beautiful young lady in the world. >> reporter: adriana dying just two days after this alleged attack, seen in disturbing cell phone video posted online. the high school freshman punched, kicked and dragged by fellow classmates. she was also hit with a water bottle. kuch says it was a tragic case
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of meaningless bullying that continued online after. >> getting hit in the face with a water bottle didn't hurt adriana. what hurt adriana was the embarrassment and humiliation. they just kept coming at her. >> reporter: the ocean county prosecutor's office says four students are facing charges including aggravated assault and harassment. the central regional school district telling parents in a statement, it's committed to the students to make sure they are safe and learning in their classes. but kuch says if the incident were taken more seriously by the school, he's convinced this would have been very different. >> blacks out, and they don't call an ambulance. they take her to the nurse's office. >> reporter: about one in high school students across the country reported being bullied on school property in the last year. >> bullying is one of the greatest dangers that kids face when they walk into a school that prevents them from learning and from feeling safe. >> reporter: for adriana and her family, it became too late to take action.
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olivia o'dea, another student at that same high school, says she also faced severe bullying just last year. >> i was walking my way to my next class, and i was struck from behind. i didn't see it coming. no one broke it up. >> reporter: her mother rachel suing the school district for negligence, saying they never properly addressed the situation. adriana's case propelling her to start a change.org demanding accountability. >> after the incident with my daughter, i -- so many emotions are running through my body. i had to channel them into something. >> and we have reached out to the school for comment on that case. we are still waiting to hear back, and a reminder, if you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, free, confidential help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, call or text the national lifeline at 988. >> an important resource, truly an upsetting story. our thoughts to her family. reena, thank you.
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we do want to turn now and get another check of the weather and dani beckstrom is back with us from our new york affiliate wabc. good morning once again. >> i know something we're missing in new york city, snow, so i wantto show you some. >> some of us are okay with that. >> some of you who maybe lived too long in l.a. in my opinion. okay. in caribou, maine, they picked up seven inches yesterday. this was the morning commute. it felt like a completely different season here in new york city yesterday where we tied a daily high temperature record of 61 degrees. that record was set back in 2001 but not just new york city. check out all the temperature records from yesterday. wilmington, 80 degrees, very summerlike. baltimore tied it at 66. bridgeport, connecticut, 62. 60 degrees yesterday in boston and doesn't look like we're
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we are back now with a chilling murder case investigated for 25 years, whit, you have been reporting on this case that has just come to a
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dramatic conclusion. >> it really is an unprecedented murder case. julie jensen appeared to be living the american dream. a beautiful family and idyllic life in suburban wisconsin. then in 1998 she was found dead in her bedroom just weeks before christmas and long hidden secrets began to emerge including a letter from julie herself. >> i pray i'm wrong and nothing happens. >> towards the end of november 1998, julie jensen writes the letter. she describes how she fears for her life, that she has a suspicion that her husband wants her dead. >> if anything happens to me, he would be my first suspect. >> she went on to explain that she felt that he had never forgiven her for the affair she had had and that no one should think she would commit suicide because she would never leave her boys. >> i would never take my life because of my kids. they are everything to me.
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>> she also included a photo of a post-it note that had seemingly a shopping list on it of things that were very suspicious. >> listed on that post-it note, drug supply, razor blades and syringe. could this be a kill list? >> this list was in my husband's business daily planner, not meant for me to see. i don't know what it means. >> she folds it up and she puts it in an envelope, and she gives it to her neighbors. >> she said, if anything happens, just give it to the police. >> and she did that a week and a half before she died. >> mark is charged with first degree intentional homicide. >> prosecutors are preparing for a pretrial hearing interviewing co-workers of mark jensen. one of them just happens to ask, have you talked to ed clue? >> ed clue was a co-worker of mark jensen.
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in the fall of 1998, they were at a convention out of town in st. louis. and one night over drinks, they were sort of commiserating about their unhappy marriages. >> he talked about how he hated his wife, and then he talked about poisons, you know, they're undetectable in a normal autopsy. >> mark jensen had told him you'd feed her benadryl and mix it with another drug that would crystallize you from the inside out which is what antifreeze does. >> did it ever occur to you to pick up the phone and call julie and know warn her? >> i didn't know julie but how would she have perceived a call from a stranger that she never knew? hey, julie, i was in st. louis drinking with your husband, and he wants you dead. thinking back if maybe i had said that, maybe he would have gotten rid of me. i was his loose end, i was his problem. >> you were afraid of him? >> i was afraid of him, yes. >> what did you think he would do to you? >> i don't know.
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i mean, if he's capable of killing his wife, you know, he could kill me and my children or my wife. >> so this case took some incredible twists and turns. there was a trial, a conviction, then that conviction was overturned, and if you want to see how it all played out in the end, "20/20: the kill list" is streaming right now on hulu. >> that interview though chilling. >> quite a story, and there were several witnesses, also people that mark jensen ran into behind bars that he shared details of what he had done with. it really is an extraordinary case 25 years in the making. that's streaming on hulu right now, so hope you'll check it out. coming up here on "gma," a preview of the star-studded super bowl ads and the 9-year-old football fan who got a special invitation to the super bowl from chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes. vit super bowl from chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes. anc? ♪ ♪ we're the ones getting it done. we're managing type 2 diabetes and heart risk.
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welcome back. about 100 million people are expected to watch the super bowl, and many of those are tuning in just for the ads. this year more star-studded than ever, let's go back to will reeve who talked to one of those big names. hey, will. >> reporter: hey there, good morning. the super bowl experience, let's face it, is about big branding like in this locker room, and there are a lot of big celebrities who are tied to these brands who show up in these ads that everybody loves including a guy who's no longer in the nfl locker room but still getting his kicks, rob gronkowski kicking with a lot on the line live in a commrcial. in between all the action on the field between the chiefs and the eagles, not to mention on the stage at halftime with rihanna, there's another part of the super bowl that gets hundreds of millions of fans fired up, the commercials.
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>> i got it, i got it. i got it. i got it. >> reporter: big budget showstopping ads are a big game staple often featuring bold-faced names like jack harlow and sir elton john, john travolta in this t-mobile spot. ♪ tell me more ♪ ♪ tell me more ♪ >> reporter: and alicia silverstone brings the '90s nostalgia with her icon role in "clueless" for rakuten. the cost of a 30-second commercial in this year's super bowl, a record $7 million. how about this number, 10 million, that's how much is collectively on the line sunday night in bonus bets for users of sports betting app fanduel. when former nfl great rob gronkowski attempts his kick of destiny -- >> it's the first live super bowl commercial ever, and it's fanduel's first commercial ever in the super bowl, and the whole project is the kick of destiny and if i make a 25-yard kick, live during a commercial in the third quarter, fanduel is giving out $10 million in bonus bets to everyone that places a bet on their app for the super
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bowl, so i'm going for it. this is for america. >> reporter: i visited gronk at an undisclosed location outside phoenix where he'll attempt that kick live in front of millions with millions on the line on sunday. did you consult with any of your kicker friends from the nfl on what to do? >> yes, i did, adam vinatieri was actually there. he's a great one. he's actually the best of all time, and the one tip that he gave me that makes a lot of sense, actually kind of three tips here in one, is keep the toe pointed, and make sure i follow through all the way and also keep my head down. >> okay. so toe pointed, follow-through, head down. >> yes. >> you seem to be enjoying retirement. >> yes. >> forever? >> yes, forever, man. forever. >> speaking of second retirements, your former teammate and future teammate as an analyst, tom brady, just went through his second round. >> that is what he did, he followed my footsteps and
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retired twice just like me, so i appreciate that, tom. he has seven super bowl rings. i only have four, so at least we're tied with the amount of retirements we have. >> reporter: only four super bowl rings for gronk. that's still pretty good, and he and brady are in the double retirement club, and it sounds like it is permanent for brady. he submitted his paperwork to the nfl and nflpa yesterday, so brady is officially retired, guys, but they will be teammates as analysts. >> okay, will, we have to talk about what happened with your kick, though, i want to see this. >> hmm. ah, well, okay, guys, i don't know why i submit myself to this humiliation, but i did. that miss was brutal. it was embarrassing. i was ashamed, so i basically demanded a redo in front of all the crew for this commercial, in front of gronk. you got to take a look because i need redemption. >> you got the power. just relax. >> okay, second try, but maybe
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