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making news in america this morning, terror arrest in the san bernardino attack. a friend of the shooter facing a judge already. shooting. new this morning, staffers for bernie sanders accused of accessing confidential data from hillary clinton's campaign. the fallout overnight. a staffer fired. the details just in. courtside collision. lebron james bowling over fans in the stand. famous athlete's wife put on a stretcher. tweet. fans out in full force. a huge turnout from coast to coast to see "the force awakens." >> explosive, sad, scary, just on edge. i cried.
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>> the wait is finally over. good morning. good friday morning. i'm richard bacon. >> and i'm reena ninan. we begin with that arrest in connection with the san bernardino rampage. enrique marquez is being held right now at a detention center in downtown los angeles. >> among the charges against him providing material support to terrorists. those terrorists are syed farook and his wife tashfeen malik. the couple responsible for this month month's attack. abc's stephanie ramos with the details. >> reporter: more than two weeks after the terror attack in san bernardino, 24-year-old enrique marquez, a childhood friend of shooter syed farook is now behind bars. marquez arriving with the fbi late thursday at this federal courthouse in riverside, california, to face serious terror charges. authorities say four years ago
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rifles used in the shooting. marquez himself called 911 after the shooting spree identifying farook as the killer use ing his gun and the fbi raided marquez's apartment soon after the two opened fire killing 14 people at the inland regional center. investigators say the two initially planned attacking a southern california community college and wanted to target drivers in rush hour traffic on a california freeway by using pipe bombs and shooting drivers dating back to 2011 that never happened. >> he has provided them with a lot of detail about the weapons, about possibly other attacks planned, about conversations in particular with farook. >> reporter: weeks before the shooting, friends say marquez dropped hints of an impending attack. >> he would just, you know, talk about how there's so many sleeper cells and when it happens it'll be big. >> reporter: president obama will make a trip to san bernardino today to meet with
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>> we prevailed over much greater threats than this. >> i appreciate him coming and talking to the families and this is going to go a long way towards healing. >> reporter: stephanie ramos, abc news, washington. a terrorism-related arrest in pennsylvania as well. the fbi arrested a 19-year-old in harrisburg on charges that he used dozens of twitter accounts to advocate violence against america and to assist people who wanted to travel to fight for isis. he also allegedly posted information on u.s. military members, agents say the teen was unemployed and lived with his parents. well, breaking overnight one day before the next democratic debate there's new scrutiny on the campaign of bernie sanders. >> theres. we learned that the democratic national committee suspended its campaign access to its voter database following a software error that allowed at least one of sanders' staff members to review hillary clinton's private campaign data. that staff member has now been
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>> sanders may have a chance to xhintsz at tomorrow night's democratic debate in new hampshire. the stage there all set. hillary clinton goes into the debate well ahead of sanders and martin o'malley in recent national polls but sanders leads clinton among granite state voters. that debate will be hosted by abc's david muir and martha raddatz tomorrow night 8 p.m. eastern, 7:00 central. >> on the republican side vladimir putin is offering some praise for donald trump. the russian leader yesterday calling the republican front-runner a talented, very colorful person and the absolute leader of the presidential race. trump saying in response it's always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond. well, drug company executivemartin shkreli is free on bond after his arrest for securities fraud, the man who sparked outrage by raising the
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4,000%. now he's sparked a criminal investigation and linsey davis explains. >> reporter: the 32-year-old known as the bad boy of pharmaceuticals infamous for increasing the price of a life-saving drug from $13.50 to $750 a tablet arrested on un unrelated security fraud charges. >> shkreli essentially ran his companies like a ponzi scheme. >> reporter: according to the indictment martin shkreli started a hedge fund and got millions from investors allegedly and when he lost their money he took money from new investors to pay off old ones then took retrophin public. it acquired old drugs and sold them for higher prices and according to investigators, he and the company's attorney, evan greebel used that company's investors. >> the two could use rhett fro fin for his personal pig by >> reporter: when we interviewed back in september. >> one of the headlines said you
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>> reporter: he assured us he would cut the cost of daraprim. >> i'm not a greedy person. >> reporter: he cut it to the equivalent of $375 a pill, still a $2 thousand 2 ,000% increase. he posted hours of video. hating me. >> that devil may care attitude not as apparent as he left the arraignment. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> thank you, linsey. quite a story. yet another cabinet secretary is admitting to using a private e-mail account on the job. but a state department spokesman says secretary john kerry followed all the government e-mail rules and the messages are preserved. meanwhile, getting our first look at the e-mails defense secretary ash carter sent from his private account. most deal with administrative matters like waiting for someone else outside his hotel or who pays for dinner. the senate armed services
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look at the e-mails he sent from his personal account. well, new details about that los angeles community where weeks. the l.a. school board will relocate students in porter ranch, the board also authorized its legal taff to sue the southern california gas company for its cost. the methane has been leaking from a natural gas storage site in elise so canyon and it won't be stopped until spring, 1800 families have already moved to temporary housing. beijing bracing for its second red smog alert ever. it put restrictions on motor vehicles and closes schools. the pollution is expected to be more than 20 times the level considered safe. and even more than what beijing experienced earlier this month during its first ever red alert. well, the unreleptszing rain in the northwest is causing serious trouble in newport, oregon. shifting ground has damaged four homes, a sinkhole opened up in a
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firefighters responding to the sinkhole found an active landslide. the residents of eight homes are evacuated. well, taking a look at the radar, you see the storms sweeping off the pacific dumping heavy rain and snow in the northwest. up to a foot of snow expected in parts of washington. still ahead, the supermodel under investigation for being questioned by authorities. king james slamming into the crowd. a direct hit from lebron, the wife of a famous athlete taken away on a stretcher. plus, "star wars" fans finally getting a chance to see "the force awakens," the long
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around the world. pope francis approved the final miracle needed to make mother teresa a saint. the pope agreeing she cured a man dying from a brain infection. the beloved nun died in 1997. her canonization could happen next september. the fbi and u.s. marshals joined the search for ethan couch. the teen spared jail time in a fatal drunk driving crash by his affluenza defense. his probation officer has been unable to get in touch with him. they're tracking his cars, credit cards and passport. authorities fear he may have fled the country. gillette wants to shave a rival. the coating on dollar shave club's razors is too close to its own. online shaving clubs have cut into its dominance. part of procter & gamble which
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even before it opened edopenedsters "star wars: the force awakens" says it broke records. "the force awakens" had generated more than $100 million in advance sales as of midday yesterday. fandango sold tickets for 2016. that's impressive. i don't know what i'm doing in 2016. listen, when we come back, yesterday we showed you the video of that video there. now hear from the hero, the deputy who jumped on to a moving truck. he talks about what happened. special delivery. an nba player delivers his own baby using his headphones to help. i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. once-daily breo prevents asthma
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a close call for a kansas highway patrol trooper and his trainee after they pulled over a car. it wide sideswipes the car. the truck stopped after nearly swiping out those troopers. now for a look at morning road conditions, no driving hazards for most of the country. some rain, all along the west coast and in the east from virginia south through to florida. a bit of snow on the i-15 in the cascades and along the great lakes. >> flying, airport delays possible in san francisco.
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don't know what provoked a deadly road rage rampage. jeremy hardy is accused of shooting along interstate 40. >> two died. no other injuries when cops pulled him over, they say he surrendered without a fight but he was so drunk he couldn't be booked right away. an israeli supermodel won't be going to any exotic locales soon. bar refaeli did not declare millions of dollars in expensive gifts she got for her work. she may have lied about whether she is still a resident of israel. she is free on bail but can't leave the country. we're hearing for the first time from the hero deputy who saved the driver of a semi. we showed you this video yesterday. it's amazing. sergeant todd volk crossed traffic jumped on to that moving truck you can see there like something out of "indiana jones." the driver was having a diabetic episode because of low blood sugar.
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why did he do it? >> been asking myself that quite a bit and have had other people asking me that but it was just spur of the moment, knew what we needed to do, felt comfortable doing it in my head so did it. >> comfortable. paramedics arrived shortly after volk's heroic action and says the driver is okay now. an nba player turned delivery room nurse when his fiancee went into labor. shumpert of the cavaliers helped deliver his daughter. his mom said it only two pushes to deliver the baby. he used a pair of headphones to tie the umbilical cord. everyone is fine this morning. impressive. who knew? extra use of headphones. shumpert's most famous teammate lebron james apologizing for a scary
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he crushed into a woman sitting courtside. she's the wife of star golfer jason day who posted a pregame picture online. >> afterward james tweeted, okay. my apologies. i hope you guys come back to another game soon. love l.j. she was taken out on a stretcher to applause and brought to a hospital where it's believed she stayed overnight. james said she told him she was treated. >> just recently gave birth to a child not too long ago. >> i do think -- first of all, it's horrifying to watch just the sheer size of him, eclipsing her. something quite charming about the applause as she leaves. best wishes to her. for last night's other sports action we get our highlights from -- >> espn. i love these guys at espn. >> he's stan. i'm neil. we're big at murphy's on merchant street. >> we got the rams and buccaneers.
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rams, questions whether or not they'll stay in st. louis. could be moving out here to los angeles. todd gurley moving into the end zone, gurley a thousand yards on the season. just fought his way in there. joins eric dickerson and jerome bettis with a thousand yards in the rookie season. rams up 21-16, tay vong austin on the end around. austin with a pair of touchdowns. ten on the season. done it all kinds of way. rams win it 31-23 over the bucs. when it happened across the street, the ground shook. we thought there was an earthquake. right there, kobe bryant, yeah, going up on a thursday. >> that's not -- >> that's not still going. >> let that one go.
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>> james harden's beard was too much. the rockets won. all right. that's what you need to know at least from sports. >> that's all we're going to tell you. >> now back to you. >> i'll miss you guys. thank you. up next in "the pulse," the long wait is over, "star wars" fans giving their first reaction to the movie. plus, hello and good-bye. adele quickly sells out, the outrageous cost for her tickets popping up online. i must have called a thousand times give extra. get extra. the holidays bring many challenges to the feet. by day they must stay warm. but by night, beautiful, smoother
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what else could top the friday "pulse" but "the force awakens." the excruciating wait for legions of fans is over. >> it opened last night across the country. fans finally getting a chance to see it. >> we've heard from the star, we've heard from the critics and
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talk to the super fans who couldn't wait. >> i'm like real pumped for this. i've been waiting for this for the longest time. >> it's going to be epic. >> we're excited to see what happens to luke skywalker. >> what i'm most excited about is the fact that there's two more movies coming out so how are they going to set up the next two movies. >> do you have an alias? sgl >> la-bringh. tarik. >> great piece by brian. >> i think technically there was a spoiler in there but i won't point out what it was. i think technically there was. if you missed it it's over. the moment passed. >> reaction to ticket sales on movieticket.com says nearly all of the advanced sales for this weekend, 93% were for "star wars," not surprised there. >> if you want to say hello to adele during her north american concert tour it's going to cost
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thursday and they were gone in minutes. all 56 performances, nearly a million tickets. fans complained of technical glitches on ticketmaster.com. >> then they started showing up on resale sites for as much as $48,000. you might have better luck if you created a profile ahead of time and used the ticket master app or used that phone to call ticket master. maybe the most unique way we've seen to celebrate the holiday season, a german manufacturer programmed one of its drone for a flight plan and mounted l.e.d. lights. >> santa and his reindeer, we also see presents being delivered to homes. >> and who needs a real tree when you can have one painted in the air and beautifully photographed. >> some images took as long as ten minutes to shoot. >> yeah. >> at last, some positive pr for drones. >> this is pretty good. >> look, that's pretty good. i think they've been in need of
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checking our top stories, enrique marquez, a friend of san bernardino gunman syed farook is in custody facing terror charges. he purchased the assault rifles used in this month's attack. bernie sanders' campaign has had its access to a voter database suspended by the national democratic committee. that follows a member of sanders' staff reviewing hillary clinton's private campaign details. president obama will give his final news conference of the year this afternoon. he'll meet tonight in california with families in san bernardino before flying to hawaii to begin his family vacation. looking at today's weather, heavy rain on the west coast, flooding to the north, quite a bit of snow around the great lakes and getting colder in the south and in the northeast. and finally from us, the republican debate provided a lot of material for late night comics.
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good material, strong material, especially the sparring between donald trump and jeb bush which is also my favorite. expressions. here we go. your "friday funnies." >> watching jeb trying to take on donald is trying to watch fights. >> you're never going to be president of the united states by insulting your way -- >> let's see, i'm at 42, you're the 3. >> doesn't matter. >> but on the other hand. >> they're rapists. he's not a war hero. you got to see this guy, oh, i don't know what i said, i don't remember. loser. totally incompetent jerk. total lightweight. >> there you go. >> you said september 30th isis -- talking, jeb. >> i'm talking right now. >> you can go back. >> after that trump was like, are you as turned on as i am?
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>> one of my friends was watching trump and jeb fighting last night. he said he e-mailed and said it reminded me him of a pair of guests we had fighting earlier this year. look. it's -- >> kermit and miss pig by. pretty spot-on. >> if you started all -- you're moving over further and further, pretty soon you'll be off the end. >> and then he took his lunch money and pulled his underwear up to his neck. at one point jeb was so desperate he tried to steal trump trump's face. >> you're going back across the pond. >> thank you very much. i loved working with you, reena. also, just news here is just so sensational. >> you love it, don't you? >> fascinating and i love -- >> you feel in your element with american politics for some reason. >> just watching the -- trump's facial expresses.
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