right now in america this morning, a massive storm system moving toward the east coast, the death toll rising overnight after a tornado outbreak spreads into kentucky from the midwest. what's so unusual about the storms this season so far, and the shift climate scientists are now documenting. breaking overnight a first in the nation abortion restriction that so called abortion trafficking law just signed by one governor and what will change new details in the growing mystery surrounding the fatal stabbing of a well respected tech executive in san francisco, attacked on the sidewalk what surveillance video reveals as police respond to accusations that crime is out of control. ice climber crushed to

death after this massive column of ice crashes to the ground, her split second decision that saved another climbers life. the new list of the nation's busiest airports in a surprise at the top of the rankings for travelers looking for ways to avoid delays and later, sweet revenge cake decorator at costco getting the last laugh. news in new york. this is america this morning. good thursday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg. happy thursday. i'm really in an alley. we want to begin this morning with the massive storm system on the move right now, after yet another tornado outbreak. the radar shows a line of severe weather stretching from the deep south all the way to western new york . at least six deaths have been reported in just the last 24 hours. this morning, the severe weather marching across the country turning more deadly. the mayor of louisville, kentucky, says at least one person died after a tornado hit the area.

extensive damage reported, including this home with a new listing. sign out front split in half by a fallen tree. we did not hear that tree fall ever did . nearly a dozen tornadoes have been reported over a 48 hour period spawned by a long cold front stretching from the gulf of mexico to lake erie in southeast missouri. a tornado packing 130 mile per hour winds hit bollinger county, killing at least five people. the national weather service says the tornado was apparently on the ground for 15 minutes traveling about 20 miles. miles. you can hear something just a roaring coming. in here. trees are popping everything like get lincoln and his wife took shelter in their bathtub before the twister tore apart their home thinking. thank you. my good lord. please help us. my wife's praying for save the house. everything like that. and basically he did. you guys made it? we sure do. at least 68 people have been killed by tornadoes in the u. s this year, only two shy of what we see on average for an entire year, and

scientists say the us is seeing a shift in tornado activity. a recent study found the frequency of tornadoes in the area known as tornado alley from texas to nebraska has decreased in recent decades, while the number of tornadoes has increased in the southeast from louisiana to alabama. the study suggests the shift east is due to changes in atmospheric patterns and climate. meanwhile parts of the upper plains and midwest have been dealing with heavy snow. it's so cold in minnesota twins home opener had to be postponed breaking overnight. idaho's governor has signed a law that makes it illegal for adults to help pregnant minors. get abortion care out of state without parental consent. it is the first state to create a new crime called abortion trafficking conviction carries a sentence of 2 to 5 years in prison. opponents including the a c l u, are vowing to challenge the law and court washington in a major development in the january 6th investigation. former vice president mike pence says he will not appeal an order forcing him to testify in the

trump special counsel case. abc is justin finch is here to explain what that order from a federal judge could mean justin good morning. andrew good morning. it appears pence, is now set to testify after a federal judge rejected trump's attorneys efforts to stop it claiming executive privilege. this morning, former vice president mike pence, appearing poised to provide documents and testimony in the justice department special counsel probe into january 6th. that mob scouring the capital four pence as former president donald trump pressured him. trump's attorneys fought to block pence's compliance with the special counsel's subpoena, arguing executive privilege. pence at first openly resisting . i will fight the subpoena from biden's d. o. j telling abc s jonathan karl last month. i'm going to stand firm on the constitution of the united states will let the courts sort that out of office. saying he

will not appeal the judge's ruling and will comply with this subpoena as required by law that could position pence as a star witness in the special counsel investigation into alleged efforts by trump and allies to overturn the 2020 election results. pence questioned by abc s david nero. did you ever point blank say to the president? i will not do this. i will not intervene. we lost this election. i did david many times fast forward to this week trump arrayed on 34 felony counts in connection to a hush money payments scheme involving adult film actress stormy daniels just before the 2016 election. trump now the focus of a series of crucial inquiries. georgia grand jury election interference probe and two in new york state, one alleging fraud if the trump organization and the other investigating money laundering at his truth, social platform

and that's repents, his testimony could be weeks away. trump's lawyers try again to block it. pence's team says he will comply with the court's decisions. andrew justin, thank you and we're following new unrest at a major holy site in jerusalem. israeli police again fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at the asked a mosque. palestinian officials say at least six people were injured. israeli officials say worshippers were praying peacefully, but rioters tries to cause trouble. the mosque is sacred in both islam and judaism . the clashes come as ramadan and passover coincide for the first time in 30 years and new tensions on the korean peninsula . overnight north korea accused the u. s of pushing tensions to the brink of nuclear war. it comes a day after the expansion of u. s military drills with south korean forces in response , north korea is now threatening unspecified offensive action. a civil rights investigation has now been opened into the fatal police shooting of a teenager in

washington, d. c by u s park. police police say the 17 year old was sleeping behind the wheel of a parked car before the chaos erupted. and we want to warn you. this video is disturbing. the body camera video shows two unidentified park police officers approaching a car they say was stolen car was running and they say 17 year old delanoe martin was asleep behind the wheel. the other officers nearby. our local police warned the federal officers about going into that car takes somebody just don't get caught inside of that car park officers enter martin wakes up, a struggle ensues and the team drives off. show me one officer falls into the street, but the other is in the back seat as the teen speeds away, then the fatal shots. stop stop shoot! the officer fired six times. the teen's mother is demanding the officer be arrested time and time again, i

said, and i try to get my head wrapped around this and i can't i don't sleep. i don't eat the car eventually crashed. the officers survived and within giving cpr to martin police acknowledged the team did not have a gun on him. but they say one was found inside the car. the police union insists the shooting was justified. martin's mother, not buying it, justice need to be circumcised. my son. she's still be here. both officers are now on administrative leave. in addition to the civil rights investigation, we are told local police are also investigating victims and families of the worst mass shooting in texas history have now settled their case with the federal government. the justice department has agreed to a tentative $144 million settlement in connection with the sutherland springs church massacre in 2017. 26 people were killed. the shooter was a former air force airmen with a violent

past. his name had not been entered into a background check system, which would have prevented him from buying a weapon. in utah, a hiker has been crushed to death beneath a massive column of ice after pushing a fellow climber out of the way, and authorities say three people were scaling of frozen waterfall when the ice column fell. the sheriff's office is 40 year old margaret o'neill died after shoving a young climber out of the columns way. probably saving her life arose at the scene now pays tribute to o'neill. well his travel season ramps up, new figures show five of the world's top 10 busiest airports are in the u. s. atlanta is the busiest by number of passengers, followed by dallas fort worth. denver's airport moved up to third place, followed by chicago's o'hare l a x was number six. experts say if you're looking to avoid delays, try to avoid layovers at busy airports, especially where the weather is unpredictable. good advice. it is time now for a look at your thursday weather.

good morning. severe thunderstorms are possible today into this evening from new york city, d c. down to charlotte could be some travel delays with heavy downpours, gusty winds and hail, and there's that storm zone here today from new york city southward. meantime much cooler across the great lakes. that snowstorm is still winding down into the u. p of michigan. now, here in the southeast and into texas, we've got rounds of downpours expected for the next several days. this is not good news for the masters golf tournament in augusta, georgia. accuweather meteorologist kevin costner in. candidate in the race for president for the democrats. also, i had the mystery surrounding the fatal stabbing of a prominent tech executive and later at chipotle chicken bowl ignites a fierce legal battle in the fast food

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sawyer interview tonight on abc. welcome back. robert f. kennedy jr says he will challenge president biden in the 2024 race for the white house. kennedy has filed a statement of candidacy with the federal election commission. the former environmental lawyer is a long time anti vaccine activist now to the growing mystery surrounding the fatal stabbing of a well known executive in the tech industry. it's raising more concerned about crime in big cities like san francisco. here's a b cs derek dennis. this morning more questions around the stabbing death of bob lee, known as a genius in the tech industry. the founder of cash app and the chief product officer at cryptocurrency startup mobile coin, the 43 year old was apparently attacked around 2:30 a.m. tuesday while walking down the street in san francisco rincon hill neighborhood, an area described as residential and typically quiet. a local reporter says he viewed nearby surveillance video of the sidewalk not yet made public. it seems to lift his shirt up as he approaches a car

that has stopped in the corner. uh with its flashers on the car , then drives away. he falls to the ground. he gets up again and then walked back on main, the way he came, but on the other side of the street and falls down, collapsed and died a short time later, lee had moved his family to miami but was in the bay area on business actually lived right where he got killed and i used to walk there all the time at night, and, uh, i did start slowly playing watching my safe. elon musk offered condolences while commenting about crime tweeting many people i know have been severely assaulted. violent crime in san francisco is horrific, and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately. san francisco's homicide rate is up averaging five murders per month. in the last year, 58 at all compared to three murders per month in 2019, but that rate is still far lower than other big cities. as for bob lee, his friends are remembering not just his love for technology, but his

love for his family. his dedication to his kids was first and foremost that bob was father of the year. in a statement overnight, san francisco police said the investigation is still in its early stages, so they cannot comment on the evidence they have or the circumstances. they're asking neighbors for any surveillance video from that night. andrew brannan. alright derek. thank you. for that a california dermatologist has been indicted accused of trying to poison her husband. prosecutors say, emily, you was caught on video putting drano in her now estranged husband's lemonade. he set up a camera in the kitchen after tasting something strange in his drinks . you faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. the fbi and the pentagon are investigating a training exercise mix up inside of boston hotel officials say agents barged into a room, then handcuffed and interrogated adult to airlines pilot who had been sleeping. they thought the pilot was a role player in the exercise, but they got the wrong room now apologizerit.mi up. a d

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murdoch could be compelled to come here is sort of the exact opposite in a way of what they had hoped for. fox news is being sued by dominion voting systems , which claims the network damaged its business by allowing some of its most popular stars to claim the company's voting presid electn. the trial is set for april 17th in delaware. murdoch and his son, who is ceo are not listed as live witnesses by fox. but the judge says if dominions subpoenas the murdochs to testify in person, he will not stop them from doing so. box itself had made plenty of arguments in court that separate from fox news that box corporation that parent company , which is what rupert murdoch runs shouldn't be involved in this lawsuit at all. lawyers for fox have argued murdoch should not have to travel to delaware to testify, pointing to the deposition he already gave in that deposition. dominion lawyers asked murdoch if he was aware that fox news hosts endorsed the false election claims, and murdoch replied, yes , they endorsed. what can you

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>> building a better bay area. moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> a top tech executive killed in the streets of san francisco. how bob lee is being remembered as the search for his killer continues. >> leaders in the tech industry now voicing their thoughts about crime in the city, many pointing the finger at mayor london read and city officials. >> security is a concern for some celebrating the holiday of passover. jewish communities in the city en garde, in light of a rise in anti-semitism. >> who else was part of this -- >> people living in san jose now demanding an independent investigation after a drug smuggling operation was discovered within the police association. >> a lot to get to on this thursday. drew: good morning. start off very nicely with cloud -- with clear skies,

clouds thickening is the day goes on.