right now on america this morning call to action. the faa launches a safety review. after several terrifying close calls involving passenger planes near miss at jfk airport that could have been catastrophic and a sudden nose dive toward the ocean off hawaii. passengers now speaking out, but we're learning about the pilots and the new faa action. how many more the painted message at michigan state university after the deadly mass shooting on campus. the new details revealed about the suspected shooter, the victims and the survivors, including one student who was there 10 years ago at the sandy hook school, shooting her message this morning. a potential bombshell in the china spy balloon saga, a new report that the u. s had been tracking

the balloon from the time it launched from china days earlier than the white house had acknowledged. plus the tax ceo who allegedly stole money to buy a private jet. his employees later going unpaid is rated by the fbi. fight for justice. why a man who served decades in prison for a crime he did not commit is finally tasting freedom and later the rare video through the wreckage of the titanic being made public today for the first time. news in new york. this is america this morning. good wednesday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg. and i'm reena roy, infra rhiannon. we begin with new concerns about safety in the skies after a series of near misses and close calls involving passenger plane, the faa has announced a new safety review, saying it is a call to action to re examine procedures and protocols. it comes as we hear from passengers who feared for their lives during one of those recent close calls. this

morning, the faa is forming a team of experts to examine flight safety after several recent close calls involving commercial planes. in the past few months, there have been a series of very serious potential mishaps that could have caused terrible loss of life. a midair scare in december just recently came to light a united airlines plane departing maui took a nosedive plummeting more than 1400 ft. in about 20 seconds, coming within 775 ft of the pacific ocean. i knew with our kids in between us. you know, this could be it. passengers say they were praying for a miracle while others were screaming. remember looking now and then i really thought i saw just a glimpse of the ocean and i thought what's going on? it was like the tower of terror and just the land. i mean, i just felt like my stomach was my throat pilots regained altitude and flew on to san francisco united says the pilots are receiving additional training.

another recent close call was that new york's jfk airport, a delta plane, nearly colliding with an american airlines flight that was crossing an active runway. this could have been the worst aviation disaster in us history. the american airlines pilots are now complying with subpoenas from the ntsb after the initially declined three requests to be interviewed as part of the investigation, there is likely no cockpit recording from either of the american or united close calls. that's because both planes continued with their flight plans and the cockpit data recordings only last for two hours. airplane takes off and flies a long distance. it gets overwritten, and that data is lost. the faa is pushing for longer 25 our recorders so that even if an airplane is on a longer flight will be able to go back and look at the data figure out what went wrong. the faa says the new safety review will examine the u. s, aerospace systems, structure, culture and processes. the faa says it will hold a summit next month with industry leaders to discuss what actions need to be taken to improve safety. we're learning

more about the man, police say, went on a shooting rampage at michigan state university. the investigation coming as the buffalo supermarket shooter prepares to learn his fate today, just two of the recent mass shootings that have become all too familiar mhm overnight, a clearer picture emerging of the man accused of killing three students at michigan state university as victims. families are left shattered. you want to talk about a little angel? her name is ariel. she helps everybody. anybody at any time, authorities say. anthony dwayne mccrae died of a self inflicted gunshot wound hours after opening fire inside two buildings on campus, killing aerial. anderson, brian frazier. and alexandria, verner. we were just hoping that maybe she was hiding somewhere, detectives say a note found on mcrae listed other locations he wanted to attack. in michigan, colorado and new jersey investigators working to determine a motive

say mccrae had no connection to the victims or the university but had a history of mental illness. records show he served 18 months in prison for a weapons charge beginning in 2019 and his father tells reporters his son turned evil after the death of his mother in 2020. i don't think you ever get over something so traumatic or so tragic. michigan state student jackie matthews is from newtown, connecticut. she was in sixth grade when a gunman killed 20 students and six educators at sandy hook elementary. after the shots rang out monday night. she says she was once again a witness to carnage fact that the odds of me being in both of those places for two mass shootings is unfortunately, not . as unlikely as we think it is for other people as well. meanwhile the gunmen responsible for another mass shooting faces

sentencing today. peyton genderen, a self professed white supremacists is expected to get life in prison after pleading guilty to killing 10 people last year at the top supermarket in buffalo, new york genderen is the first person in new york charged with domestic terrorism motivated by hate. former south carolina governor nikki haley is holding her first rally as a presidential candidate today. taking on her former boss, donald trump. haley served as trump's u. n ambassador. she's calling for a new generation of leadership. another south carolina politician, senator tim scott, could also joined the race. in the meantime, florida governor rhonda santis is keeping his plans under wraps for now. nikki haley announced her presidential run today. do you plan on following suit? wouldn't you like to know? as for hayley, a spokesman for trump super pac called her quote. just another career politician, a major development concerning that chinese spy balloon that flew across the u. s before being shot down over

the atlantic. the washington post reports. u. s officials had been tracking the balloons since it was first launched in china several days earlier than the white house has acknowledged. abc psychology is here with more good morning. good morning, rina . the white house says it's likely these objects are just balloons tied to some benign purpose and explanation that doesn't sit well with lawmakers. this morning. there's new information surrounding the chinese spy balloon. u s officials tell abc news the spy balloon, which was intended for surveillance may have been inadvertently blown over the u. s mainland by unusual weather conditions, according to the washington post, u. s military and intelligence agencies have been tracking the balloon for nearly a week, even watching it as it lifted off from its home base near china, eventually taking an unexpected northern turn towards alaska solution islands where it could have countered strong winds that pushed it further south. however another senior us officials casting doubt on the report

telling abc it sounds like the intelligence community is trying to save face. former national security advisor john bolton criticizing the administration on cnn. could they say with assurance that that payload under the balloon, which they described as equivalent to three busses? did not contain a nuclear weapon. meanwhile new dramatic cockpit audio from f 16 fighter pilots tracking that unidentified flying object over michigan's lake huron. missile was launched at the object and missed the second missile hit the object that wreckage still at the bottom of lake huron. the two other objects shot down over. alaska and canada have also yet to be retrieved. the white house says the objects could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose, an explanation that doesn't sit well with some lawmakers on capitol hill. the administration is saying we don't yet know what these last three objects are, and we don't want to characterize until we recover

them. but on the other hand, it wasn't a threat. both of those things can't be true. there's a lot of information to recover and the administration is on top of this and very, very good job. now u. s officials tell us norad is working to recalibrate their systems in order to identify threats like spy balloons, all while weeding out things like weather balloons and other similar objects. rina thanks today, china's government once again accused the us of flying balloons over its airspace claimed the us has denied rescue teams in turkey and syria are still listening for voices in the rubble nine days after the historic earthquake, two brothers were rescued from the rubble after being trapped for nearly 200 hours. the extent of the humanitarian crisis is hard to overestimate. abc is james longman is there what was a rescue operation has now turned into humanitarian crisis all across this country. tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands are living in camps like these, and many of them are syrian.

nato is sending 1000 shipping containers to turkey to provide shelter. turning to the weather . powerful winds blew over several trucks on this highway through the mojave desert. the wind is not expected to be as intense today. the same system brought las vegas its first ever recorded snow on valentine's day. let's take a look at your wednesday forecast. and active day of weather across the lower 48. we've got a departing storm in the upper lakes with snow and wind and a developing snowstorm in the colorado rockies. meantime tonight when the sun goes down, beware of severe thunderstorms between dallas little rock and memphis. even a few tornadoes can't be ruled out tonight and meantime, the snow that's happening today in denver will spread into the great lakes through tomorrow night 6 to 12 inches of snow likely north and west of chicago. accuweather meteorologist kevin costner in.

coming up in unwelcome surprise when it comes to the chocolates people got for valentine's day, but first growing concern about water contamination after that fiery train derailment in ohio erin brockovich tells us about the illness is being reported, and what alex murdered his sister in law is revealing at hi

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love me some pizza in the morning. this one could be the best. there was growing concern about contamination in ohio after a train derailment this month, residents have reported illnesses and thousands of local fish have died. the question now is the water safe. here is a b cs andrea fuji. this morning. growing concern about the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio, as is discovered, even more chemicals than were originally reported were on that train. what caused

it? a train derailed ashley mccullum, who shot this video of the february 3rd accident, says she's afraid to move back home. i've went in to try to air out. um i'm afraid there remove anything just because i don't know cross contamination. what chemicals are actually in there? you can smell it in the air. and even though this morning. when i took my kids to school, she was one of the nearly 5000 residents evacuated in the immediate aftermath and during the controlled explosion that followed the norfolk southern train was carrying hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen, the state's department of natural resources, reports nearly eight miles of waterways in the ohio river are contaminated. at least 3500 fish have died, and some residents say they're cats and chickens have died. the e p a monitoring air quality declared it safe to return home that the governor said yesterday. he's leery of the drinking water. i think that i would be drinking the bottled water. um and i would be continuing to, uh ah! find

what the tests were showing as far as the air brockovich who fought for clean water in her california town is demanding the government do more for residents . so now they're even more concerned because they were told it was safe to go back. they've been drinking the water now they're told you can't drink the water. the governor says he was told the train was not considered a highly hazardous material train. the railroad was not required to notify state officials about what the train was carrying. is absurd. and we need to look at this. congress needs to take a take a look. brockovich agrees. there has been no independent testing. yet things are dying, and this community just doesn't feel they're being seen there being heard. brockovich says questions remain as to the extent of the contamination, she says areas in neighboring pennsylvania could also be affected. andrew rina.

andrea thank you, alex murdock's sister in law has testified in his double murder trial. marian proctor was teary eyed as she spoke about her sister and nephew being murdered. she said she thought it was odd that murdoch right after the murders, was focused on clearing his son's name in a boat crash investigation instead of trying to find the killer. that was so strange because my number one goal was to find out who killed my sister and paul. you ever asked scared or afraid that the real the real killers were out there somewhere. i think everybody was afraid and well, it didn't seem to be afraid. procter also testified that her sister was happy in her marriage coming up the winner of the $2 billion powerball jackpot is revealed his surprising message chaos in court as a woman chaos in court as a woman attacks her own law ugh covid-19? and being overweight makes it more risky. i'm calling my doctor.

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moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. reggie: oh explosion in the sunset district. >> i was taken to the hospital. reggie: we are hearing from the only survivor in the home when it blew up. jobina: the victim of a robbery giving to those in need, even after her death. the donation from a baker that will save someone's life. >> she is the matriarch politics in california. >> senator feinstein has been an icon. jobina: after decades of service, senator feinstein is taking a step back from capitol hill. reggie: welcome to wednesday, february 15. sue hall is with us. it was freezing last night.