america this morning winter storms hitting both coasts. the biggest snowfall totals of the season in parts of the northeast, just in time for the morning commute and in the west , the potential for seven more feet in some areas and emergency now declared in southern california due to people stranded. also developing right now a cyberattack targeting the u. s marshal service, a source saying the witness protection program is not affected. what we're learning. overnight crowds gathering at the supreme court ahead of today's high stakes arguments on whether millions of americans can have some of their student loan debt, forgiven the debate on both sides. new testimony at the alex murdoch trial, claiming there were two shooters and a major decision from the judge plus the governor

who supports banning drag shows in certain public places, is asked to respond to an old yearbook photo that appears to show him in drag. and later new research on the one thing that could help improve the quality of your sleep literally overnight. from york. this is america this morning. good tuesday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg from g in for rhiannon. we begin with significant winter storms hitting both the east and west coast here in the northeast, the snow has been falling overnight . more than six inches could fall north of new york city into new england, making for a slick morning commute and in the west and emergency has been declared in part of california, where people have been stranded by several feet of snow. york city finally turned into a winter wonderland overnight, seeing its biggest snowfall of the season but still only a few inches expected before it's over. being from upstate new york. this is nothing. yeah some grocery store

shelves left empty even as the storms. biggest impacts are farther north. up to seven inches of snow could fall in parts of upstate new york, new jersey and new england, making the morning commute treacherous . a lot of little pieces of glass to this woman is warning drivers near boston after a sheet of ice recently flew off another vehicle slamming through her windshield. i hope anybody listening, you know, clean that ice off your car. it's just you know, i'm lucky to be alive. the same system hammering the northeast producer tornado outbreak through kansas and oklahoma tornado packing 110 mile per hour winds slamming norman, oklahoma and family they actually rode out the storm inside their home. look at it is completely shifted off the foundation. the roof defense. trash is everywhere if you can believe it. they survived. they are now living in a hotel storms destructive path began in california, with record rainfall, triggering several mudslides. authorities now declaring an emergency in san

bernardino county, where more than six ft of snow fell in the higher elevations, trapping people in their homes and vacation rentals and a rescue was being planned with nearly 600 elementary and middle school students stranded at a camp. they were supposed to come home last friday, they weren't able to stock up on their supplies for food. before this hit. a blizzard warning is in effect for this year to of adam mountains. they could see another seven ft of snow. we'll check your forecast in just a few minutes. the us marshal services suffered a ransomware attack that's being called a major security breach. officials say hackers compromised the marshal system this month gaining access to sensitive law enforcement information, including data on employees and investigations. they say a single section of a server was targeted and no witness protection program files were affected. but abc s luke barr says right now, investigators don't know exactly what's missing. already sort of sealed their system and right now they're just peeling back the layers of what's missing. who

else had access to that material ? who else had access to that server? whether it was a nation state or a criminal group, and then they're going to see what action needs to be taken? analysis a cure their systems but to potentially take action against whoever did this officials did not say if a ransom was paid to unlock the system. but the government has previously warned companies against paying hackers. the biden administration is giving federal agencies 30 days to make sure their employees don't have tiktok on their government issued phones. some departments have already banned the chinese owned app due to security concerns. federal contractors will also be banned from using tiktok the big case at the supreme court today affecting 40 million people with student loans. some of them gathered outside the court overnight as the justices prepared to hear oral arguments today on whether president biden student debt relief plan is legal. abc s faith booby he has more faith. good morning. a good morning, andrew. the biden administration already approved student loans

for 16 million borrowers to be wiped in part or in full before the legal challenges halted the program. the plan remains in limbo until the justices decide this case overnight. a group of demonstrators braving the winter cold and rain outside the u. s. supreme court, camping out for front row seats inside the courtroom when oral arguments begin today on president biden's ambitious student loan forgiveness plan. college freshman ibrahim mudassar speak in directly to the justices can help 40 million other people. in the united states and jump start their path to freedom as well. progressive congressional democrats firing up the crowd. the president has the authority to cancel student debt period. lawyers for two individual borrowers and six republican led states sets argue that the plan president biden announced last august. to cancel billions of dollars in student loans for more than 40 million americans is the gross overreach of his executive powers. we're going to

fight to defend the rule of law and defend the constitution. the plan is a key biden campaign promise and would cancel up to $10,000 in student loans for individuals earning less than $125,000 a year 20,000 if they were recipients of pell grants job, i had no legal authority whatsoever illegal. it's also unfair to the folks who paid for their college who didn't go to college administration is making our case in the supreme court, and i'm confident the legal authority to carry their plan is there. the latest quinnipiac poll shows a majority of americans support the student loan forgiveness plan? it is a lingering looming cloud of worry and anxiety for soul. many americans and andrew. the justices are expected to release their decision by june. now student loan repayments remain on hold until their ruling comes down. andrew faith thank you in the aftermath of the toxic train derailment in ohio transportation secretary pete buttigieg is now calling for all major rail companies to join a

voluntary whistleblower program. it allows employees to confidential you confidentially . report dangerous situations, but buddha judge says no major freight company currently participates in the program, including norfolk southern, which is responsible for the ohio derailment. norfolk southern says it already operates a similar program on its own. now to the explosive new legal filing in the case against fox news channel stemming from false claims about the 2020 election chairman rupert murdoch is now acknowledging some of the network's most famous stars endorsed false claims about election fraud. this morning. one legal expert calls the statements made by fox news boss rupert murdoch. strong evidence that people at fox knew they were endorsing false claims about a stolen election in 2020 question that it looks bad. murdoch saying a new court filings about the election falsehoods i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in indsight, adding any executives who allowed election lies to be broadcast should be

reprimanded. or maybe got rid of you're really not supposed to say things that are either that you know that are false or that are recklessly indifferent to the truth and at a certain point maybe you can't stick your head in the sand. murdoch made the remarks during a deposition. fox news has been sued by dominion voting systems for $1.6 billion , claiming the network heard its business by allowing some hosts and former president trump lawyers claim the company's voting machines rigged the election. in the new court filing, murdoch acknowledges trump's baseless claims of a stolen election were promoted by fox hosts including lou dobbs, sean hannity, janine pirro. maria bartiromo, can you tell us about the interest on the other side of this dominion software? well obviously, they have invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to steal those dominion lawyers asked murdoch if he was aware that the host

endorsed the false claims, and he replied, yes, they endorsed, but murdoch denied fox itself promoted the election lies. the network responded to the filing , saying it was simply covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting president. we do want there to be room to be sincerely wrong, sometimes even negligently. wrong but you know you weren't malicious. on the other hand, there's a point at which you start to destroy the fabric of democracy, especially around allegations of, you know, vote changing. previous court filings show fox stars, including tucker carlson and laura ingram, privately doubted the trump team's claims. fox has tried to get this case dismissed on first amendment grounds. but for now, a trial is set for april. tennessee's governor is facing questions about his past as he supports a bill that would ban drag shows in certain places. governor bill lee is expected to sign the bill, which would ban drag shows on public property or in a place where minors are present. he was

confronted yesterday about an old yearbook photo posted online appearing to show him in drag. abc news has not verified the photo league did not deny it was him, but said the bill is aimed banning sexualized entertainment in front of kids, he said. it would be quote ridiculous to conflate that with a yearbook photo time now for a look at your tuesday forecast. moin wter, making a rar appearance mor ro northeast right here ineyo.g 1 to 3 inches of snow in the big apple a little bit more in boston and through tonight, north and west of those cities, we could see more than six inches of snow. meantime today is going to be a very mild day south of new york 62 in d c, but only in the thirties from new york city northward. now the next couple of days will be snowy in the west. watch out on those mountain passes treacherous accuweather meteorologist kevin costner in.

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island alive. good morning america, the morning global event. newly released video shows the moment a house exploded in new jersey the blast lifting the house off its foundation. six firefighters were inside investigating the gas leak. all of them survived. big decision at the alex murdoch trial. the judge is allowing jurors to visit the crime scene where the ones prominent lawyer allegedly murdered his wife and son to cover up financial crimes. it comes as a defense tries to make the case that there were two shooters this

morning. a south carolina jury is one step closer to deciding alec murdoch's fate. the disgraced former attorney accused of killing his wife and son. defense rests your honor defense resting its case after calling to crime scene experts to testify about the possibility that there were two shooters. my opinion is the totality of the evidence is more suggestive of a two shooter scenario, one expert claiming there would have been no time for a single shooter to kill murdoch's son. paul then grabbed the second weapon and kill maggie murdock because he says blowback from the first shotgun blast would have slowed him down. what we call back spattering or back motion and the person holding that gun would they be subject to being covered in that material? yes very forceful way. yes prosecutors point out. that expert never wrote up a report on his findings or sources defense yesterday, also calling murdock's brother to the stand, and i promise you no. mother or father and uncle. should ever have to see and do what i did

that day. john marvin murdoch painting alec as a good dad, describing his emotional state at the scene after the murders. promise you words. don't do it. justice i would have to create a new word to describe how distraught he was. and now the jury will see that crime scene for themselves. the judge granting the defense's request to visit murdoch's property where the feed room is compared to where maggie's body was. compared to where the quail panzar where the dog houses. i mean, you just can't really appreciate the spatial issues without actually seeing them. prosecutors will call witnesses for rebuttal today, the jury's trip to the crime scene. meanwhile it's planned for tomorrow. closing arguments could soon follow. police in massachusetts say a sweet potato helped them find a killer. they say deliveries. hampton shot a man 12 years ago on cape cod. investigators say they found a sweet potato at the scene, and they now confirm it contained his dna. they say the potato was apparently used to silence the

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the size wise all take cezanne at night. now with the arrest of the florida man who has been dubbed sedition panda. the fbi identified jesse robinson as the january 6th rioters seen wearing a panda costume. he faces felony charges, including assaulting police, a school bus driver near dayton, ohio, was being praised after saving a student's life. security footage captured the moment april wise yanked 1/7 grader back onto the bus, just as he was about to step into the path of an oncoming car, whose driver, apparently ignoring the flashing lights. he's one of my quickest students and try to hurry up and get off the bus. it was just mother instincts kicked in. i was like, i gotta make

sure that child is okay. wise was honored for her actions. and she says she was just doing her job. we turn now to a different kind of close call. woman's car was stolen with her child inside , and police say when they tried to find the vehicle using the tracking system that came with her car. they were stunned at what happened. abc is lionel moise explains. this morning. volkswagen's vehicle tracking service is under fire after a car jacking in illinois, where police say a pregnant mother was attacked in her driveway. it is possible she was targeted from a previous stops. she made it a nearby town. officials say the woman took one of her kids inside, and when she went back for her two year old son, a white bmw pulled up. she says. a man got out, knocked her down, ran her over and stole her car. her son still inside just makes me scared and frightened. it was very sad. i wish i could do something quickly find the car detectives call the emergency number for carnet support services, the third party

tracking company volkswagen users, but detectives say they were stunned when the company insisted on being paid $150 before revealing the car's location, saying the free trial period had expired volkswagen, calling it a serious breach of procedure, saying in previous cases, carnet provided services during emergency situations and saying we are addressing the situation with the parties involved very shaken up over this, rightfully so this was an unbelievably traumatic event that they went through in this case, officials say the dispatcher only gave the car's gps location. 30 minutes later, after a detective had paid with a credit card. thankfully by then, police had already found the little boy abandoned in a nearby parking lot. he was okay . his mom needed several erie bones and other injuries, but her pregnancy does not appear to be affected. as for the suspect, he remains on the loose. andrew andrew. alright thank you, lionel coming up a prank involving peanut butter that you

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how residents -- >> snow is piling up i sierra forcing highways to shut down, aching at a challenge for anyone trying to go to and from the mountains. reggie: do not put the umbrellas away yet. there is more rain in the forecast. good morning on this tuesday, february 28. lisa: you can pushing into the bay area. we will have embedded thunderstorms and heavy downpours in the north bay. further south some heavier showers south of mill valley and looking at san rafael right here in san francisco