to morning, a rail disaster unfolding in europe. two trains colliding at high speeds. dozens of people are killed, the latest on the rescue efforts overnight. the director of the fbi speaks publicly for the first time about whether allowed league in china is to blame for the covid pandemic. his comments coming as a new congressional committee looks into threats posed by china. the new action coming today on tiktok. epic snowfall higher than the windows the once in a generation blizzard event in the west, making travel impossible, and that storm now set to move across the country, plus a major settlement stemming from the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant what his widow will now receive. sharks on the prowl. oh, god. what's

behind this feeding frenzy and later the best beach in the world. the new rankings are out. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good wednesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew. jim berg, fujian for rhiannon. we begin with breaking news. a train disaster in europe . dozens of people are killed. two trains collided north of athens, greece, igniting a massive fire. one of the trains was packed with hundreds of passengers. at least 36 people are confirmed dead. more than 80 injured abc s line i'm always has been following the rescue efforts. this morning, the death toll rising after a passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern greece . facebook live stream showing the fiery aftermath of the late night crash. emergency crews arriving to find debris scattered everywhere. train cars

toppled over and derailed a mangled mess of metals, some parts unrecognizable, officials say at one point more than 150, firefighters and 40 ambulances responded. nearby towns assisting hellenic train company says about 350 people were aboard the passenger train that departed from athens, adding firefighters and hellenic trained personnel rushed to the scene. participating in rescue operations and providing assistance. dozens of victims were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries. but officials say the severity of the collision has made it extremely difficult to free. people trapped cranes were brought in to help move the wreckage. many of the passengers on the train were college students returning from a long weekend. andrew andrew lionel. thank you. breaking overnight, three police officers have been shot in kansas city. authorities say the officers were trying to breach the door of a home while executing a warrant. when someone started shooting, we're told all three officers were

conscious when they arrived at the hospital, and they are expected to survive. no arrests were reported overnight. for the first time. the director of the fbi is speaking publicly about the claim that a lab leak in china could be to blame for the covid 19 pandemic. christopher raised comments came on the same day, a congressional committee met to discuss rising tensions with china and everything from taiwan to tiktok. a newly formed house committee dedicated to investigating potential threats from china held its highly anticipated first hearing last night. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. the witnesses included matthew pottinger and h. r mcmaster, both experts on china who served in the trump administration. when asked if he believes china will invade taiwan in the next 2 to 3 years, mcmaster warned of a dangerous period ahead. there's a time when he's election in 2024. is not going to be good. i think from the view of she jinping. the hearing came just hours after fbi director christopher rice spoke about

china's role in the origin of the covid 19 pandemic, saying covid most likely originated from a potential lab incident, and ray accused beijing of interfering with the global investigation. the fbi has folks agents professionals, analysts virologists microbiologists, etcetera who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like covid. and the concerns that in the wrong hands some bad guys hostile nation state of terrorist or criminal the threats that those could pose. so here you're talking about potential leak. from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to me has been doing its best. to try to thwart. and obviously the work here. pottinger was pressed on his opinion of the lab leak theory.

there is still a great deal of information that has yet to come out to hearing also addressing the chinese owned social media app tiktok, which pottinger said poses a serious national security risk. it gives the chinese communist party the ability to manipulate our. social discourse. the news, uh to censor and suppress, or to amplify what tens of millions of americans see and read. a separate house committee will vote today on a bill that would give president biden the power to ban tiktok in the u. s for the fifth time in recent weeks. there's been a near miss at a major u. s airport this time in boston. earlier jet pilot was told to wait monday, while a jet blue flight landed on an intersecting runway. but the lear jet took off anyway, forcing the jetblue pilot to take evasive action. there was a tremendous amount of activity going on in aviation. everyday 32,000 commercial flights, maybe 40,000 photo operations. it's

amazing that everything goes right 99% of the time, but when we have an error like this very often, it's a human error. and even though we had backup systems that operated here, the tower operator telling the others to go around, it's still too close. critics say all the close calls in recent weeks could be evidence of the airline industry struggling to keep up with post pandemic traffic. the faa is holding a safety summit later this month to address the concerns. a train derailment investigation is underway south of tampa, florida six cars came off the tracks yesterday, including a tanker carrying 30,000 gallons of propane officials say none of it is leaked businesses nearby were put on standby to evacuate. it comes just weeks after the toxic train derailment in eastern ohio . tracks at the site could be removed today so more contaminated soil can be removed and water monitoring wells have now been installed. supreme court appears skeptical about the future of president biden student loan forgiveness program during arguments yesterday, the

issue of fairness came up in regards to people who have already paid off their loans or never went to college. but one of the liberal justices also brought up the financial pain caused by the pandemic. abc s faith of booby is now here with more faith. good morning. good morning to you andrew during the lengthy supreme court hearing yesterday, the conservative majority questioning whether the president has the legal authority to forgive roughly $400 billion in federal student loans. this morning the fate of president biden's popular student loan forgiveness plan now squarely in the hands of the supreme court for more than three hours tuesday, the conservative justices casting doubt on whether president biden has the legal authority to wipe nearly half a trillion dollars in federal student loans with just a stroke of his pen. i think most casual observers would say if you're going to give up that much amount of money if you're going to affect the obligations of that many americans on a subject that's of great controversy. they would think that's something for congress to act on critics

calling the plan a scam an unfair giveaway that would overlook some americans like those who already paid back their loans, and there are the indirect costs like the fact that the president's student loan giveaway is likely to prolong. our current inflation crisis, according to the white house 26 million people already applied for relief and 16 million were approved before the two legal challenges halted the program. you go to school to get a well paying job, but you're also digging yourself a hole of enormous debt, and it's hard to crawl out of coney barrett and the three liberal justices zeroing in on the legal standing of six gop led states suing the biden administration, suggesting none would suffer direct harm. really we don't allow one person to step into another's shoes. and say, i think that that person suffered harm, even if the harm is very great protesters gathered outside the court as the conservative majority now appears poised to

crush the loan forgiveness plan. and white house sources tell abc news that they are confident they can win this case. a decision is expected by the end of june. but right now, the white house insists there is no plan b if they were to lose this case, andrew faith, thank you. chicago mayor lori lightfoot has lost her bid for a second term. lightfoot was blamed by many for a spike in crime. former school commissierff next month's b called a oncen a generationhether evt is slamming california this year, a nevada mountains are once again facing blizzard conditions. part of interstate eighties shut down some areas got three ft of snow in just 24 hours. there's no is so high, this ski resort had to close because of low visibility and the risk for avalanches. snow is higher than the windows and yosemite national park is also closed with snow 15 ft deep. the snowpack in some areas is nearly twice than normal level. let's

take a look at your wednesday forecast. month of march is coming in like a lion here in the southwest, a big storm in california, bringing flooding rains and mudslides and some heavy snow on the mountain passes, dangerous travel there. meantime, the energy from that california storm tomorrow and friday will slide east, bringing a snowstorm from the plains to the great lakes and severe thunderstorms on the southern side tomorrow and tomorrow night as severe weather outbreak is likely from northeast texas to the ohio valley, and tornadoes are likely accuweather meteorologist kevin costner. on the health benefits of walking the number of minutes you need each day, but first what? we're learning about the jury and alex murdoch double murder trial and their visit to the crime scene and later the high school coach who had enough of one of the parents

good morning america, the morning global event. the opioid crisis took center stage on capitol hill as the house homeland security committee highlighted illegal immigration at the southern border. much of the hearing focused on drug smuggling. a mother who lost her two sons defense and all slammed lawmakers and the white house for not doing more to stop the flow of drugs. if we had weapons aimed at our people with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our cities, you well know you would do something about it. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. this is a war. i like it. do something. the homeland security secretary says the u. s stopped more drugs the last two years and then the five years prior, but he called on congress to reform the

immigration system. it's a big day at the alex murdoch double murder trial, the jury will visit the location where the disgraced attorney allegedly killed his wife and son. it comes after a dramatic demonstration in court this morning. strict rules will be in place when jurors visit the site where alex murdoch is accused of murdering his wife, maggie and their son paul, while you are on your way you're not allowed to discuss the case with anyone, including your fellow jurors, and you're not allowed while there to ask any questions visie followed by closing arguments in the rebuttal case, the state risks in court yesterday, prosecutors attacked the defense's crime scene experts who claim there could have been two shooters can the defense include to the exclusion of all other possibilities to shooters absolutely not cast out on how the defense says paul murdoch was shot in a doorway. i think the theory is preposterous. in

my opinion, prosecutors also pushed back on the defensive suggestion that the bullets that killed maggie murdock were fired by a person at least one ft. shorter than alec, who's six, ft four. experts demonstrated how easily a shooter's posture can change a bullet's trajectory here. i'm six. six could have been a 5464 or in my opinion of 74, as i just demonstrated when prosecutors called a former law partner to testify about alex murdoch's ability to perform for a jury to defense fired back, accusing him of seeking revenge for the money murdoch stole from their firm. you are dead wrong if you think i've come in here and told this jury something because of money when we were talking about two people who were brutally murdered, then you're headed in the wrong direction. when the jury visits the crime scene, there won't be any discussion and no markings where the bodies were found. it's just a chance to view the area. coming up a settlement in the kobe bryant crash what his widow will now receive. also ahead. what's behind this

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was a shark feeding frenzy off the coast of venice, louisiana, soaking wet. a group of fishermen saying their boat was surrounded. all of a sudden we started experiencing, you know the schools of just frantic feeding sharks. they were devouring bait pods, and they erupted all around us and then up up under the boat. they were looking for yellow fin tuna and spotted a large part of other fish, but the sharks beat them to it is absolutely pandemonium . when these things show up, and they show up for months on end, and they devour everything in its way. mark hardisty says he's been fishing these waters for 15 years, he says. the shark population has exploded and they become more aggressive. he blames regulations that are protected these predators. they have started to devour. quite frankly, every game fish there is on the gulf, it seems, and

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