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right now in america this morning crackdown on tiktok, an entire state decides to ban the social media app, citing privacy concerns due to the apps, chinese owner reaction from legal experts will montana's controversial move spread to other states? a new bombshell in the case of that 21 year old airman charged with leaking classified pentagon documents, the new allegations that he was caught before it was still allowed to keep his military job and his security clearance. a near catastrophic chase. that's the claim from prince harry and duchess megan spokesperson describing being chased by paparazzi through new york but now conflicting accounts as a new witness emerges. miracle in the jungle weeks after a plane
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crash in a remote area for children, including a baby, a orge neededer patients later wha judge is now ordering tiger woods, ex girlfriend to do. abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good thursday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg. good morning. i'm rian and ali. we want to begin with the new crackdown on tiktok government spanning lawmakers from using the app due to privacy concerns because tiktok is owned by a chinese company. but now an entire state montana is banning the app within its borders. question this morning is can they really do it? here's a b cs injury, fergie. this morning, montana's governor has signed a bill to ban tiktok, the first state to do so before 19 has passed the house. that is all mr speaker. the law said to take effect next january, aims to punish the
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chinese owned app and the app stores that offer it an entity violates this law. when there was the operation of tiktok by the company or users, or if the entity offers the option to download the tiktok mobile application by a mobile application store. penalties won't apply to people using the app. lawmakers say it's all about security. tiktok is a national security threat. this apps steals information and data from users and its ability to share that data with the chinese communist party is unacceptable . chinese owner bite dance has denied stealing data or spreading propaganda experts say this law will face serious legal challenges with the first amendment. there are rules and those rules say that you can't just ban speech. because you're worried it's bad, no matter how bad you're saying it is tiktok agrees, saying it hopes to reassure montanans they can continue using tiktok to express themselves earn a living and fine community. it's with all respect to montana, not
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necessarily the role of montana to protect the national security of the united states of america , so and particularly this would be a problem if you have a patchwork of 50 different laws across 50 different states purporting to regulate nationals. security in different ways that doesn't help national security. another challenge how montana will enforce this law. those details remain unclear. andrew rhiannon, andrea thank you. president biden has arrived in japan for the g seven summit after insisting the u. s government will not default on its debt. biden says he'll be in close contact with the white house as negotiators try to reach a deal to raise the debt limit. republicans are pushing for spending cuts. new information about the 21 year old accused of leaking highly sensitive pentagon documents. prosecutors say he was allowed okay? to keep his security clearance at a military base even though he had been caught mishandling classified documents multiple times before abc s justin finch has the details on
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this this morning, just in good morning. rhiannon. good morning, the government releasing those new details as it aims to bolster his case to keep jack to share a behind bars ahead of his federal trial to share his lawyers are fighting back, though seeking his free trial release with the least possible restrictions. this morning, stunning new information about the air national guardsman accused of leaking some of the country's most sensitive secrets online, the department of justice, presenting a federal judge with a series of red flags about the 21 year old who had high level top secret clearance , the doj says to share it was reported as recently as february by a superior for looking at classified materials beyond his primary duties. prosecutors noting at least two other warnings trump superiors last september and october. telling to share a to no longer take notes on classified intelligence information and to cease and
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desist on any deep dives into classified intel house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul telling cnn individual should never been given that kind of access, and after the warnings he should have been taken off that job. federal prosecutors also including messages posted on the online chat forum discord where many of the records were found. one message allegedly from teixeira, saying he had information on ukraine, israel, palestine, syria, iran, china and more. this was a deliberate criminal act more than one month after to share his arrest. the government says it now believes the leak is more widespread and involves more classified national defense information than previously known. the revelations come as a federal judge decides whether to keep two share a in custody or release him before his trial and to share his lawyers are rebutting the government's case
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that if released, he would be a public danger and a flight risk . they've asked for his release into his father's custody to share up is due back in court tomorrow. rhiannon justin thank you for that new cyber security concerns for the washington d. c. metro system and inspector general report. says the former contractor for the metro was able to gain access to critical and sensitive network data from his computer in russia. a security team detected the abnormal activity in january, and officials say they immediately cut off his access, chaotic scene on capitol hill last night after house republicans blocked a vote to expel congressman jorge santos, gop lawmakers instead. voted to refer the issue to the ethics committee. santos who faces a string of criminal charges, was heckled by democrats who called on him to resign. you gotta go, man. come on. how's your ethics? how's your ethics play going there, aren't you? aren't you? an ethics to amc? come on. look i can't. i can't continue to
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address you guys because there's a deranged member here. congressman jamal bowman also gotshouting match with republican marjorie taylor green over santos and then president biden. he's embarrassing, embarrassing y'all. biden him. it's small him. santos recently pleaded not guilty to embezzlement and unemployment fraud. not a prince harry and duchess megan markle allegedly being aggressively chased through new york city by paparazzi. more witnesses are now speaking out about what really happened tuesday night. this morning. conflicting accounts over what a spokesperson for prince harry and duchess megan has described as a near catastrophic car chase involving the paparazzi. the spokesperson says the couple was pursued by highly aggressive photographers in new york, who drove up on the sidewalk and drove the wrong way down a one
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way street. as the couple left the theater, it became pretty aggressive paparazzi had access to the garage from where they were entering, and they were being kind of manhandled by the bodyguards does excuse me. after heading to a police precinct for safety harry and meghan, along with her mother in a security guard killed a taxi to elude photographers. suit held me but the cab driver stopped short of calling it a chase left. we've made a made a right, they work with us as you were being tailed. we were being tailored. york's mayor also expressed skepticism about the chase lasting two hours. as the couple spokesperson clean i would find it hard to believe that there was a two hour high speed chase . but if it's 10 minutes 10 minutes chase is extremely dangerous, but the mayor did call the paparazzi reckless and irresponsible, connecting the episode to the crash that killed harry's mother, princess diana, who at the time was being chased
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by the paparazzi. this all happening tuesday night after the couple attended a ceremony honoring megan and one day after a main was reportedly arrested. outside the couple's home in california, apparently caught by private security lurking on their property. prince harry has been outspoken about the security of his family and his pointed to similarities between his wife's treatment in the treatment of his mother. while it's easy to say, well, it's far fetched to imagine the worst case scenario happening. that is exactly what did happen to princess down and you can completely understand where harry being scared, being scared of things like history, repeating themselves comes from um, in a situation like that. the nypd says the event did not even register as an incident with them until the couple released that statement. as for that taxi ride the couple took. the driver says the fair was $17. they paid him 50, which is $33 tip. overseas flooding in northern italy is blamed for at least nine deaths. 25,000 people
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have evacuated their homes. some areas got 20 inches of rain in just 36 hours. at least one bridge even collapsed and hundreds of mudslides have been reported. time now for a look at your thursday forecast. wildfires in western canada are affecting the us creating smoky sunsets across the midwest and even into the northeast and looking at the radar, rain and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon across the southeast and parts of the midwest. the same goes for the rockies and the southwest, where flash flooding is a concern and checking today's high temperatures. freeze warnings are posted in the northeast before things warm up to the sixties eighties from the plains to the gulf coast. 83 kansas city 88 in dallas, 96 in phoenix. the jungle weeks after a plane crash. four children are reportedly found alive first the
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m a backstage in vegas with garth brooks this morning on good morning america. we're back with a new legal battle stemming from a wedding night tragedy in south carolina. the bride killed in a crash. now the groom is going to court. this morning, the husband of the bride killed on her wedding night in an alleged drunk driving crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and the local bars who allegedly served her. this case is about keeping the public and keeping all of us safe from drunk driving, keeping the community safe and doing what we can to combat drunk driving hutchinson and samantha miller, we're leaving their wedding reception and folly beach, south carolina last month
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when police say 25 year old jamie lee komarovsky hit the golf cart carrying the couple, samantha was killed the groom and to other family members were badly injured. police say komarovsky was driving 65 in a 25 mile per hour zone with a blood alcohol level, more than three times the legal limit. the new lawsuit claims komarovsky, who worked at a local restaurant was bar hopping with co workers and the bars continue to serve her despite her being visibly intoxicated. the suit also accuses her boss of organizing the bar hop knowing that excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages would be purchased. there's a responsibility to act responsibly. in that role as employer and supervisor, and we felt that that was not done here and that it was breached. people recently gathered at a vigil for samantha miller. as for eric hutchinson, who is now out of the hospital. his lawyer says he is getting the support he needs . you go from the happiest moment of your life to unfathomable tragedy. he's got a wonderful tight knit family,
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both on his side and from his late wife's side. and so he is fortunate to have a really, really great support system. one bar named in the lawsuit denies any gathering involving komarovsky, her lawyer is asking people not to rush to judgment. the next court hearing is in june. really tragic story. now some happy news for children have reportedly been found alive two weeks after a plane they were in crashed in the jungle of colombia. their plane went down may 1st killing their mother and two pilots, officials say search dogs helped find the children who range from 13 to just 11 months old. they reportedly survived on fruit. colombia's president called the news a joy for the country. miracles start to finish their okay. coming up the drug shortage affecting cancer patients why doctors are now sounding the alarm. also ahead. we hear from the boy he used his slingshot to save his sister from an alleged kidnapper. from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures
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new images of the titanic after more than a century at the bottom of the ocean, scientists use special underwater cameras to capture these digital three d scans involving exceptional clarity. the hope is that these full size images can provide new details about what happened the night titanic sink. doctors are sounding the alarm on near record high drug shortages across the country. hundreds of medications are currently in short supply, including cancer drugs, it's leading to delayed treatment for thousands. patients the shortages are blamed on supply chain issues and the troubled generic drug industry. the problem is that most of these are now generic drugs where there's a very small profit margin only manufactured by one or two companies. and so there's not really incentive to sort of, you know, update the manufacturing sites to have redundancy in the production. so if an issue arises, there's really no fallback. the white house now has a team looking for long term solutions. we turned
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out of michigan and we're hearing from the boy police say , helped save his sister from being kidnapped. and it was all thanks to a slingshot. this morning. a 13 year old is describing how we used a slingshot to fend off a would be kidnapper. shot at a young man came out of the woods near owen's house in michigan and attempted to abduct his younger sister unheard, his sister's screams from his bedroom. her mouth was closed and used hunger on his chest. right sister kicked him, and then he starts running after her from his bedroom window. owen used his slingshot to fire a rock and then a marble hitting the suspect in the head and chest was mad. you started seen. hit him again. he starts running away later found the suspect at a nearby gas station. investigators say the injuries from the slingshot were critical to identifying him because obviously he had injuries from
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getting hit with a slingshot to see that and the pop into action that quickly is extraordinary, and he should be commended for it. extraordinary indeed, the suspect by the way, is 17 and is being charged as an adult for attempted kidnapping in sports. the miami heat. we're scorching after halftime last night, they scored 46 points in the third quarter and ended up taking game one from the celtics on the road . 1 23 to 1 16. now fans watching on youtube tv like me were furious. a technical glitch prevented all of us from seeing the exciting end there. w that's what matters. tiger woods has won a legal victory over his ex girlfriend. judges ruled erica herman must abide by a nondisclosure agreement and resolve her lawsuits against woods through arbitration. herman accuses woods of sexual harassment coming up the criminal case involving the ruby slippers from the wizard of oz. plus is working from home morally wrong. elon musk ignites a debate.
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backstage in vegas with garth brooks this morning on good morning america. voice. time to check the pulse in a minnesota man may soon be clicking his heels in prison after being charged with stealing the ruby slippers from the wizard of oz. martin is accused of stealing the shoes from a museum near his home. back in 2005. they were recovered during an fbi raid five years ago. but martin was just indicted slippers are one of four remaining pairs worn by judy garland. they're worth more than $3 million. next the new debate over working from home it comes after elon musk said during an interview that remote working is morally wrong because not everyone can do it. you're gonna make the people who make your food that gets delivered
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that they can't work from home that you know the people that they come fix your house. they can't work from home. but you can productivity issue, but it's also a moral issue. must acknowledge there are exceptions . comments are getting mixed reaction. one person on twitter said working from home should be the exception, not the norm. others say it depends on the job, adding some people work from home long before the pandemic next to concern for people going into the office in manhattan. there's a new study out, it warns new york city is sinking by 1 to 2 millimeters a year and it's mostly because of the weight of all those skyscrapers warren. eventually the city could sink. hello the surrounding waters. next a name change for the winner mobile, myers says the famous promotional vehicle will now be called the frank mobile and his crew members will now be called frankfurters instead of hot dogs, oscar meyer says it's all to promote its beef. franks. critics claim the company is being too politically. correct kind, always called the franks kind, always called the franks anyway. go
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attack on all of us. >> we have to try every mechanism possible for justice. reggie: community leaders continuing to demand justice after the san francisco da declined to file charges in the shooting of --. >> plus the search for a suspected killer in haywood. police say he is armed and dangerous. reggie: a multimillion dollar settlement between walgreens and san francisco. the city blaming the pharmacy for the ongoing drug crisis. >> we have a lot to get to but we are going to start with the weather and spencer. spencer: good morning. the gang's all here the weather is nice and calm this morning. a morning much like yesterday morning with patches of fog and coastal drizzle but not as widespread as yesterday.
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