the many questions left unanswered by the manhattan d. a. breaking overnight damage reports coming in from the midwest, another outbreak of severe weather and reported tornadoes, people injured and new images and what to expect later today, a rising star in the tech world under arrest charged in a massive fraud how a 31 year old ceo allegedly conned a major investment bank into buying her company. handing her

millions in profits. plus results from a high stakes election that could be crucial in the fight over banning abortion. tiger woods gets personal discussing his future and later how jimmy buffett is proving there is a lot of money to be made in margaritaville new york. this is america this morning. good wednesday morning , everyone i'm andrew denberg. happy wednesday. i'm really in an alley. we want to begin this morning with donald trump fighting back after becoming the first former u. s president ever to face criminal charges, was arraigned on 34 felony counts involving hush money payments, and he wasted no time addressing his supporters when he returned home to florida. abc is morga norwood has the latest now she's outside the courthouse where trump pleaded not guilty. morning. good morning. we're gonna good morning. trump was defiant last night after his arraignment targeting the

district attorney, the judge, even the judges family. this morning. former president trump reacting for the first time to the dozens of felonies he faces charges an insult to the country . the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it not guilty to 34 felonies after being indicted by a manhattan grand jury. prosecutors allege trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified new york business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election, catch and kill scheme that is a scheme to buy and suppress negative information. according to the indictment, trump orchestrated a scheme with his former lawyer, michael cohen, and former national inquirer publisher david pecker to pay hush money to at least three people. alluding porn actress stormy daniels. everybody said, this is not really an indictment. there's nothing here. my lawyers

came to me and they said there's nothing here. they're not even misdemeano in w , but ch can upgdedo felonyf 'so ot , s tax or campaign violations.e prosecutor would try and prosecute something that thin as this and prosecute a violation of federal election laws. when they're state prosecutors. i don't think we're gonna get to direct in this case is going to fall on the law before we get there, the district attorney saying he's bringing the case now because of new evidence, but he did not elaborate. legal experts called that a strategic move, not putting out all that factual narrative. it protects the prosecution from revealing too much is harder to attack the narrative when it's not in the indictment. the court proceedings, a historic first for sitting or former american president concluded in just under one hour reporter in the

courtroom, says trump's legal team did most of the talking. he was not dominating in the courtroom. he was not yelling out. he was reserved. he was calm, and he only answered when it appeared that perhaps he had to. as directly spoken to by the judge. judge one. marchand did not place a gag order on the case, but he did advise trump to refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence. last night, trump targeted d a brag judge bershawn and marchand's wife. i have a trump hating judge. with the trump hating wife and family, and trump attacked other legal cases against him, including the investigation into the election interference in georgia and the justice department investigation into his handling of classified documents. and now this massive election interference at a scale never seen before in our country. beginning with the radical left. george soros backed prosecutor alvin bragg of new york. who campaigned on the

fact that he would get. president trump. i gotta get him. i'm going to get him. trump's next court date isn't due until december, but we're looking at next year for a potential trial. andrew that'll be right when the 2024 campaign starts to heat up, andrew thank you, and senator mitt romney, one of trump's biggest critics, is criticizing the manhattan d a. romney saying, i believe the new york prosecutor has stretched to reach a felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda. the prosecutors overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents will have more on the trump indictment. later, this half hour expert looks at the charges and what comes next breaking overnight. liberals will now take majority control of the wisconsin supreme court for the first time in 15 years. milwaukee judge janet protege with defeated her conservative opponent who was supported by anti abortion groups. the race attracted record turnout as the court is expected to decide a

lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban. also new overnight , chicago has elected a new mayor, county commissioner brandon johnson, a progressive, supported by the teachers union defeated the former head of schools, paul vallas, had a runoff. johnson will succeed at lori lightfoot, who lost re election amid concern about crime not far from chicago. right now, officials are responding to multiple injuries outside peoria after a possible tornado. widespread damage has been reported. in the city of lewiston's illinois. earlier tornado hit northern illinois, badlydamaging a gas station in the city of kelowna. two people were trapped in the rubble. they were later rescued. meanwhile in chicago debris was flying off a building under construction winds were expected to hit 70 mph. more than three million people were under tornado watches overnight and parts of missouri, illinois and iowa. this tornado was spotted near knoxville, iowa. we'll check today's forecast in just a few moments. we are now hearing from the police officers who were first on the scene of last week's school shooting in

nashville. they killed the shooter within four minutes, no doubt saving lives, one officer says. when they arrived, the smell of gunpowder was in the air. this morning, one week after that deadly shooting at a christian elementary school in nashville, the three hero police officers who took down the shooter are describing those harrowing moments not knowing what i was walking into. i went through that door with purpose kept walking towards the gun sound of gunfire shell casings on the ground bullet holes on the door. detective sergeant jeff mathis, detective michael collazo and officer rex engelberg, where the first three law enforcement officers through the front door of the covenant school. once we start hearing the first shots, that's when everything kind of kicked into overdrive for us. we had to push past the victim. because we continue to hear more shots being fired. all of us stepped over a victim. um i to this day. don't know how i did that. morally. um, but training is

what kicked in within proceeded continually to with the sounds of gunfire. the shooter had already killed 39 year olds and three staff members when the officers opened fire, killing the 28 year old shooter. some of the responding officers had never met each other before, but they formed a team and put their own lives on the line. with little hesitation. they was so in tune to trying to get in. and take this threat down that they don't think about their own safety took an oath on june 4th 2012. to serve and protect this community. my family sometimes comes second. it has two thanks for their service. police say they found more weapons, ammunition, even a suicide note at the shooter's home, but there's still no word on a motive. a developing story now from the middle east violence erupting at a sacred site in jerusalem, police and palestinian worshippers clashed inside the alaska mosque. 14 people were injured when israeli authorities fired stun grenades and rubber bullets on people

described as agitators and later in response to rockets being fired. israel struck hamas targets in gaza. it is time now for a look at your wednesday weather. second day of this severe weather outbreak is already underway. severe storms will roll through the midwest and ohio valley and great lakes through today and tonight all forms of severe weather possible and especially in the lower great lakes, a high risk for severe wind, meantime, to the north and west of these thunderstorms is a blizzard going on in the upper midwest, heavy snow and wind and life threatening travel conditions, strong winds all across the upper midwest and great lakes through tonight, gusting up to 60 accuweather meteorologist kevin costner in. major settlement involving claims linking baby powder to cancer, had the young ceo and rising star in the financial

world arrested in $175 million fraud case what we're learning about her student financial aid company and later the couples who just so happened to plan their weddings at the courthous% on the same day, donald

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because when we come together, hope and joy will shine. ♪ ♪ morning? anything can happen this morning on good morning america. we're back, with johnson and johnson agreeing to pay nearly $9 billion to settle lawsuits claiming it's baby powder and other talc products cause cancer. the company is offering to make the payouts over the next two decades re filing for bankruptcy. a bankruptcy court must now approved the settlement. johnson and johnson did not admit any wrongdoing, insisting it's talk products are safe. a stunning fall from grace for a young and promising text are behind a student financial aid company she has now charged in a massive fraud. here's a b cs derek dennis. this morning. charlie

jarvis, founder of the financial and non profit frank could be facing up to 100 years in prison , accused of defrauding jpmorgan chase out of millions kind of represented that as a name because it just meant honest. federal investigators alleged frank was a fraud, they say 31 year old jarvis, who made the prestigious forbes magazine 30 under 30 list didn't scam students but scammed the bank by falsely and dramatically inflating the number of customers of her company, claiming 4.25 million customers or users when the real number was under 300,000. they say they made up figures allowed service to fraudulently induced jpmorgan chase to acquire frank for 175 million allegedly earnings of $45 million payday. these are very serious charges if you read the government's charges. and he read the government's statement . they basically say she's a con artist. frank was designed to help prospective students signed up for financial aid faster and

easier using an online platform . when it comes to transparency . it's oftentimes really challenging to get to see things in real time, allegedly went to a third party vendor to falsify her user data needed for the jpmorgan buyout. they were conned. and they bought the con ah, and then realized after that, that she doesn't have what she claimed she had previously defended her data and denies the charges, faces several counts of bank and wire fraud and securities fraud. a judge freed her on $2 million bond with restricted travel. andrew rhiannon derek thank you, a star of the legendary tv show mash has died. judi farrell played nurse able and was once married to mash costar mike farrell. who played b j. hunnicutt judi farrell recently suffered a stroke. she was 84 thoughts with her friends and family coming up next tiger woods is speaking out about his future. but first, a closer look at the charges against former president trump

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you want just the bare bones of the accusations had that at this early stage d a brag has handled this kind of case before he didn't find clearly any legal obligation to be clear about what that other crime is. it wasn't played in the indictment . i suspect that that is something that will have to be disclosed down the road and some of the new evidence of the d a claims he has in this case, but we have to wait. until trial to hear some of that. i don't think we'll have to wait that long. the prosecutor can surprise you at the trial with evidence that that you weren't expecting or anticipating. but instead that has to be turned over well in advance of trial, so i think we're going to find out what that is, if anything in the months to come and the big question, what's next? we expect trump's lawyers to file a motion to dismiss he may not even be back in court until december. they're going to be important questions here. for example, if this was a misdemeanor falsification of business records, so we're talking about a two year statute of limitations. it's a felony, and so that makes it a five year statute of limitations. this is conduct that apparently happened back in 2016. the statute of limitations is going to be a big

issue. they're going to be other issues regarding venue. um the trump team might try to move this trial to a different place that has basically different politics or different media coverage. and lance you worked on the manhattan d a s office and curious want to get your insights. critics say this case is against trump is all political. and when you consider millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent on this untested legal case. is it really worth bringing it forward for any reason other than politics? the question here is going to be, would they have gone after a high profile democrat in this situation, but the manhattan district attorney's office has in the past had no problem prosecuting of high profile high ranking democrats in the past, with the serious prosecutions and lancelot is being made about the judge. in this case. what can you tell us? is there any history there between the president and the judge? in this case? i've had personal experience with judge russian. um i had a trial where he was. it was a bench trial. so he decided all the facts in the

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>> happening now as you wake up here at 5:00, a top tech executive found dead as other leaders share their condolences online. >> a coalition of south bay groups now demanding answers in an explosive drug draft picks involving executive director. the san jose police officers association. >> and former president trump remaining defiant this morning after that historic appearance in new york city court. what he told a crowd of supporters shortly after. >> first came the rain, then came the mosquitoes. what local experts are recommending to keep the bites at bay. mosquitoes. now i thought we moved past that. not here in california. >> i didn't know we had those. >> nothing like florida. >> i thought i left that behind. >> for good reason. [laughter] >> good morning, everybody. >> we start things off with drew

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